On This Day in Working Class History

On this day, 3 March 1921, a workers' uprising began in Labin, Croatia, by a multinational group of around 2,000 miners. The miners were a mixture of Croatians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Poles, Czechs, Italians, Germans and Slovenians.  On March 1, Italian fascists attacked and badly beat Giovanni Pipano, a miners' union leader. When his colleagues found out they were furious, and called a meeting for...

Mini podcast about this day in history, 2 March 2016, when Honduran Indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in her home. Of Lenca descent, she co-founded the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), and was a leading participant in defending Lenca land from illegal logging and US military bases. She was also an advocate for LGBT+ and women's ri...

On this day, 1 March 1944, a series of coordinated general strikes took place across Nazi-occupied northern Italy. One estimate put the number of strikers at 1.2 million while an article in the New York Times claimed between three and six million. The strikes were superficially about economic issues with demands like a freeze on food prices, increases in wages and rations, and the payment of bonus...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

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Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on  patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: ...