CIRCLE WITH A DOT

#OtD 10 Feb 1987, a telephone box in Puerto Real, Spain was burned, leaving 14,000 phones out of service, in an act of sabotage by dock workers and their supporters, who were fighting against privatisation of the port. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8192/puerto-real-telephone-sabotage

#OtD 10 Feb 1920 physician, anarchist and novelist who was most famous for writing The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort was born. A member of the Committee of 100 group, he regularly broke into BBC newscasts to denounce nuclear weapons. Commemorated here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-shirt-of-the-month-joy-of-peace

#OtD 10 Feb 1938, Spanish anarchist miner Pedro Masera was sentenced to death and executed by Franco's forces during the civil war. In 2017 his granddaughter was finally able to get his body exhumed, to be properly reburied. This is a short biography: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/spanish-civil-war/book?sort_by=best-selling

#OtD 10 Feb 2025 Israeli authorities raided 2 branches of the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem. Even though censors approved all the books police claimed books contained "nationalist Palestinian themes" and arrested the owners. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/13570/palestinian-bookshops-raided

New Podcast! "10 February 1930: Il Popolo di Trieste bombing" on @Spreaker #antifa #history #italy
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/10-february-1930-il-popolo-di-trieste-bombing--69728385