#OtD 11 Mar 1922 Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek-French libertarian socialist, philosopher, social critic, psychoanalyst, and co-founder of Socialisme ou Barbarie, was born https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8332/cornelius-castoriadis-born
#OtD 10 Mar 1896 surrealist writer, model, anarchist and anti-racist Nancy Cunard was born in London. Active in promoting Black writers, opposing the invasion of Ethiopia, helping Spanish anti-fascist refugees and working with the French resistance. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8214/nancy-cunard
#OtD 10 Mar 1972 the Day of the Galician Working Class took place for the first time, when Francoist police fired upon a union protest, injuring around 50 people. The day is still celebrated annually, calling for social and labour improvements https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8221/galican-working-class
#OtD 10 Mar 2005 Chris Pallis, better known as Maurice Brinton died. He was a neurologist and libertarian socialist, a member of Solidarity, and a writer of such works as his classic, "The Bolsheviks and Workers Control" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12528/maurice-brinton-dies
#OtD 10 Mar 1919 Leo Jogiches, Polish-German communist, key figure of the Spartacus League & KPD, and lover of Rosa Luxemburg, was murdered while trying to investigate the assassinations of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8216/leo-jogiches-murdered
#OtD 10 Mar 1952 Fulgencio Batista led a coup in Cuba. Backed by the US, business, his government killed thousands in anti-Communist purges. He was eventually overthrown by the revolution in 1959 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8220/fulgencio-batista-coup
#OtD 10 Mar 1906 the Catastrophe de Courrières occured in France. It was a mining disaster killing 1,060 workers and sparked 45,000 miners going on a 55 day strike, which was eventually crushed by the French Army https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8215/catastrophe-de-courri%C3%A8res
#OtD 10 Mar 1925 Korean anarchists Kim Joann, Choung Shin, and others helped organize communes among refugees in Manchuria, north-east China. Four years later they would establish an anarchist society based on "no rule," freedom, and mutual aid. https://libcom.org/history/anarchism-korea-independence-transnationalism-question-national-development-1919-1984
#OtD 10 Mar 1958 a general strike began in Eritrea, which had been given to Ethiopia by the UN and UK. Unions were banned, and Amharic language was imposed in schools. Ethiopian troops fired on strikers, which spurred support for independence. More: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7724/eritrea-general-strike
#OtD 10 Mar 2011 Dichello Distributors in Orange, CT, locked out @Teamsters when they rejected health and pension cuts. Workers picketed and jeered at scab replacements. In April workers accepted a new deal with health and pension benefits restored https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7725/dichello-distributors-lockout
#OtD 10 Mar 1923 CNT union activist Salvador Seguí was assassinated on the street in Barcelona. Francesc Comes was wounded and died days later. The killing was by gunmen of the "Sindicatos Libres", an extreme right-wing Catholic nationalist "union" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8219/assassination-of-salvador-seguí
#OtD 10 Mar 1920 the El Bordo mine fire occurred in Pachuca, Mexico, killing dozens. The US company sealed the mine claiming 10 miners inside had died. But later 87 bodies were found, many burned after they were shut in. 7 miraculously survived https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8217/el-bordo-fire
#OtD 10 Mar 1939 Spanish anarchist film maker Armand Guerra died. He produced reports on social cinema in French unions and produced documentaries for the CNT during the Spanish Revolution. He died of an aneurysm in Paris shortly after the war was lost. http://libcom.org/history/armand-guerra-1886-1939-movie-maker-pioneer-militant-moviemaking
#OtD 9 Mar 1916 Pancho Villa, a leader in the Mexican Revolution and ally of Emiliano Zapata, led a raid on Columbus, New Mexico. It was in opposition to US support for Venustiano Carranza, who opposed land redistribution https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10924/pancho-villa-columbus-raid
#OtD 9 Mar 1991 mass demonstrations against Slobodan Milosevic and his government's control of the news spark a week of protest and a ends with the release of political prisoners and a removal of several lower ranking politicians.
#OtD 9 Mar 1907 legendary anarchist and birth control advocate Emma Goldman was barred from addressing any meetings in public halls in Columbus, Ohio. More info in this timeline of her life: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10921/goldman-barred-from-chicago
#OtD 9 Mar 1914 women battled police in Glasgow during Emmeline Pankhurst's speaking tour of Scotland. They used jiu-jitsu and barbed wire concealed in flower bouquets, and one woman fired blanks from a revolver https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10923/glasgow-suffragettes-fight-police
#OtD 9 Mar 1906 mine workers in Lethbridge Canada went on strike against poverty wages. They were met with scabs, private detectives, and the police. Although they won a small wage increase the company refused to recognize the union https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7996/canadian-coal-strike
#OtD 9 Mar 1910 the Westmoreland County Coal Strike began in PA, where 15,000 miners, mostly Slovak migrants, shut down 65 mines for over a year. Police violence & hardship eventually forced them to give in https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10922/westmoreland-county-coal-strike
#OtD 9 Mar 1879 anarchist Carlo Tresca was born in Sulmona Italy, after emigrating to the US he became a prominent organiser of @iww union. Involved in strikes across the US, he opposed fascism, Stalinism and the mafia, which eventually assassinated him https://libcom.org/history/carlo-tresca-1879-1943
