CIRCLE WITH A DOT

#OtD 24 Mar 1834 designer, artist and lifelong libertarian socialist activist, William Morris, was born. Learn more about his life in a biography by EP Thompson, and see some of his prints here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/william-morris

#OtD 24 Mar 1976 a US-backed right-wing coup took place in Argentina. The new military government stepped up Isabel Peron's war against radical workers and communists, murdering thousands and eliminating opponents: a move suggested by Henry Kissinger https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9673/argentina-right-wing-coup

Plewman was executed at Dachau in Sept 1944. She posthumously received the Croix Du Guerre and the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct. A street in Marseilles is named after her.2/2

#OtD 24 Mar 1912 Italian anarchist resistance fighter Augusta Farvo was born in Milan. Under fascism she was an active member of the Bruzzi-Malatesta anarchist partisan brigade, took part in the liberation and sheltered numerous partisans at her home https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9672/Augusta-Farvo-born

#OtD 23 Mar 1953 singer, songwriter & former Black Panther Yvette Marie Stevens, better known as Chaka Khan, was born in Chicago. Joined the BPP aged 14, spoke at rallies and worked on their free breakfast for schools program. Learn more about the BPP: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/black-panthers

#OtD 23 Mar 1931 Indian revolutionary socialists Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru were executed by the British. Opponents of British colonialism, they also advocated working-class revolution against both British and Indian capitalists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9583/singh,-thapar-and-rajguru-executed

#OtD 23 Mar 1944 the biggest attack on Nazi occupation forces by the Italian resistance took place on Via Rasella in Rome. About 12 partisans attacked an SS company, killing 30 and wounding 100. More about the attack in our podcast on the resistance: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

#OtD 23 Mar 1894 Salvadora Carmen Medina Onrubia de Botana was born in Buenos Aires. Active throughout her life, during the Spanish Civil War she was in the docks arranging leave for Spanish exiles and sending money to orphaned children https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9582/salvadora-carmen-medina-onrubia-born

#OtD 22 Mar 1622 the Powhatan uprising began when Native Americans attacked English colonies in Virginia, killing around 350 and kidnapping 20 women. The colonists retaliated brutally: Dr Pott ransomed back the women but made them his indentured servants https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-gord-hill

#OTD March 22 2020, the first month of Covid, on a walk in the Don valley, maintaining isolation#Toronto

#OtD 22 Mar 1986 thousands of striking workers in US military bases in the Philippines blockaded the gates of bases near Manila. Over 20,000 workers struck, and clashed with those attempting to cross the picket lines https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9499/filipino-us-military-strike

#OtD 22 Mar 1910 a "Robin Hood" gang of revolutionary bank robbers in Ukraine were illegally sentenced to death - they had not killed anyone, and so the death penalty should not have applied. 1 member had his sentenced commuted to hard labour. More: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/no-harmless-power-the-life-and-times-of-the-ukrainian-anarchist-nestor-makhno-charlie-allison

#OtD 22 Mar 2007 Hans Schmitz, lifelong German anarchist and antifascist, died. Jailed in 1937 for fighting Nazis in the streets, he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht but joined other former resistance members to sabotage war efforts https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9500/hans-schmitz-died

#OtD 22 Mar 1947 Communist Party ministers in the French govt voted in favour of military appropriation for its colonial war in Vietnam. The justification was to preserve the image of a united govt, along with socialists and republicans. More: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12674/french-vote-on-military-appropriation

#OtD 22 Mar 1974 Scottish workers in the East Killbride Rolls Royce factory refused to work on plane parts from Pinochet's Chile. They kept the refusal up for 4 years, leaving the engines outside to rust, before they went missing one night https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9498/rolls-royce-chilean-engine-boycott

#OtD 22 Mar 2009 prison riots began in Greece after the death of incarcerated prison activist Katerina Goulioni. Inmates at Thebes women's prison refused to return to cells and started fires while outside protesters clashed with police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9501/thebes-women's-prison-riot

https://song.link/y/ANfIasAZUqg21. März: Europäischer Tag der Alten Musik Alte Musik bedeutet vom Mittelalter bis zum Barock. Am 21.03.1685 nach julianischem Kalender wurde Johann Sebastian Bach in Eisenach geboren. Gustav Neidlinger, Bassbariton21.03.1910 - 26.12.1991#earlymusicday #altemusik #tagderaltenmusik #otd #greatvoicesofthepast @classicalmusic

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem. She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons

#OtD 21 Mar 1927 800,000 Shanghai workers began a general strike and a 5000-strong workers militia fought state forces. The working class controlled the city until the nationalist Kuomintang, who had been backed by the left, massacred many workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7858/shanghai-third-uprising

#OtD 21 Mar 1973 the Mental Patients Union was formed in London. They argued that like workers joining unions, mental health patients needed to organise as well, putting forward a list of 24 demands to improve their conditions https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9410/mental-patients-union-founded