On this day, 25 February 1913, silk mill workers in Paterson and Clifton, New Jersey went on strike demanding an eight-hour day and improved working conditions. The strike began as a walkout at the Doherty Mill over the introduction of the four-loom system – making workers work on four looms rather than two. It soon became a general strike under the leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union in which 25,000 workers participated, many of whom were immigrant women and children, from almost all of Paterson’s 300 mills and dye houses. On the very first day IWW organiser Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was arrested after giving a talk on uniting strikers across racial boundaries. During the course of the five-month strike, approximately 1,850 strikers were arrested. The workers also withstood police violence and an attempt by the American Federation of Labor to undermine the strike. In the end, while the strike was successful in preventing the introduction of the four-loom system at that time, it was unsuccessful in its other demands, and after the defeat IWW organisation in the area was largely broken. More information, sources and map on our Stories web app: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9732/1913-paterson-silk-strike-starts https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2218484405003364/?type=3

Wow, not all fascists are fucking pricks

Sounds like someone needs to talk to a bayonet

Hell is any world in which you even once have to read the words “not all fascists”.

Not all fascists are dead, but if we work hard enough we can change that!

Best comeback line ever.

When defending capitalism, capitalists insist that financial gain is the best motive for hard work and productivity.

When deciding who to hire to work for them, capitalists insist that financial gain is the worst motive.

Capitalism is pure hypocrisy. They're not even trying to hide it. They openly declare "we're allowed to only care about money but you aren't", and people still support them. People still think capitalism is freedom. People still think capitalism benefits everyone.

Companies: “Damn, our profits weren’t as high as we expected them to be and our investors will get upset, oh, what to do…? Oh! We can just lay-off a bunch of our employees and claim it was for budget reasons! That will free up some money for the investors! The employees can just find other jobs, it’s not our problem!”

Also companies: “How dare you walk away from a job without giving us notice that you’re quitting! How dare you only care about how much we’re paying you! Don’t you understand that we’re a FaMiLy?!”

Because axiology which defines the ethics is connected to ontology and epistemology which defines the overall philosophy of any society. We are living in the bourgeois society where their epistemology defines all this and they didn't define hoarding and starving as that. They define it as affordability and private property rights and inequality. And it has axiology which has set a higher price to steal to feed your family than hoarding with private property.

Proletarian ethical questions need proletarian philosophy but how could we make that philosophy dominate the thinking of the majority of people's consciousness??? 🤔🤔🤔

— Marx - Capital Vol 1 Ch.16

In case anyone missed it, The fucking Onion is now in the business of trying to protect your Actual civil rights

(and maybe challenging qualified immunity????)

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Subtle!

Well that’s an explicit vote against national autonomy if I’ve ever read one.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz—whose towering revolutionary work would advance the world-historical march of the long-oppressed and the suffering toward liberation—was born on this day, August 13th, in 1926.

Diego Rivera     Industrial Workers, from the “Detroit Industry” Murals, Detroit Institute of the Arts     1932

On this day, 24 July 2009, 3,000 steel workers in Tonghua, China rioted and beat an executive to death when threatened with privatisation and job losses. Jianlong Steel Holding Company official Chen Guojun, who earned over 3 million yuan the previous year, planned to take over the majority state-owned Tonghua Iron and Steel Group. He announced plans to cut the number of workers from 30,000 down to around 5,000, with those made redundant receiving around 200 yuan in compensation. The firm was still profitable, but the planned restructuring was aimed at increasing profits further amidst a global economic downturn. Outraged, the workers shut down production and rioted, beating Chen, blocking roads and smashing police cars to prevent police and ambulances from reaching him. The sale was subsequently scrapped. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2041805669337906/?type=3

Just so y'all know this is ethnic cleansing. And everyone’s quiet.

“Demolitions” is a dirty euphemism for ransacking and pillaging innocent peoples homes to expel them from the area or just indirectly murder them outright.

Death to Fascism 

“If fascism could be defeated in debate, I assure you that it would never have happened, neither in Germany, nor in Italy, nor anywhere else.” – Frank Frison, Holocaust survivor

Sound advice from one of the members of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion - Canadian antifa volunteers that fought against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War.