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Tag: Palestine

December 16, 2018December 9, 2019 Working Class History Podcast

E17-18: Anti-Zionism in Israel

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Double podcast episode on a people’s history of Zionism and opposition to it within Israel, in conversation with former members of Israeli socialist group Matzpen, Moshe Machover, Haim and Udi.
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On this day, 8 March 1917, thousands of housewives and women workers in St Petersburg, Russia defied union leaders' appeals for calm and took to the streets against high prices and hunger, thus igniting the February revolution (so-called because of the different calendar in use in Russia at the time). The following day, 200,000 workers joined them by striking, shouting slogans against the tsar and the war. Some military units began to join the workers, and by 15 March, tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate.
On this day, 7 March 1942, Lucy Parsons, anarchist, co-founder of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union and lifelong advocate for working people, the homeless, women, and African-Americans, died in a house fire.
On this day, 7 March 1860, up to 1000 striking women shoe workers took part in a Great Ladies Procession in Lynn, Massachusetts, amidst a blizzard and thick snow drifts. They were accompanied by 5000 striking men, who had walked out 2 weeks before demanding pay increases, and were joined a few days later by the women. Despite women's involvement in a dispute garnering it national publicity, and the support of Abraham Lincoln, the men failed to support the women's pay demands. They feared that the employers might not listen to them if they added women's demands as well. So the women ended up returning to work, and while some men did end up winning a 10% pay increase, for most workers the strike petered out and ended in defeat.
On this day, 6 March 1922, a wave of rent strikes in Veracruz, Mexico, was triggered when sex workers barricaded a street with their rented mattresses, chairs and other furniture, with the intention of starting a giant bonfire. Police quelled the action at the last minute, but news of the plan spread and sparked tenant organisation across the city.
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