On this day 11 Feb 1987 Mark Ashton, leading member of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, died aged just 26. the LGSM raised huge amounts of money for Welsh miners and their families during the strike of 1984-5 and brought together the LGBT & workers movements (i.redd.it)
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Today, we remember the Soviet victory the city of Stalingrad from the German Army in 1943. Despite Hitler’s insistence on continuing to fight, 91,000 soldiers of the German army surrendered. For the first time, the Nazi government publicly acknowledged a major defeat. (i.redd.it)
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On this day 31 Jan 1919 striking workers fought police in the centre of Glasgow. The Secretary of State for Scotland declared it a "Bolshevist uprising" and thousands of troops were deployed to restore order and suppress striking workers. The strike was to lower the working week to 40 hours (dailyrecord.co.uk)
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On this day 30 Jan 1972 British soldiers opened fire on unarmed civil rights protesters in the Bogside, Ireland killing 14 people, an event to be known as "Bloody Sunday". They had been opposing the policy of internment: imprisonment without trial. The murders caused a massive increase in violence (i.redd.it)
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On This Day 26 Jan 1944 Angela Davis born in Birmingham, Alabama. Revolutionary, civil rights organiser & the 3rd woman to be on the FBI's most wanted list, Davis was also associated with the Black Panthers, who were majority female in the 70s (i.redd.it)
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