IWOC Ireland

The union for incarcerated workers in Ireland. Abolition of the Prison System & Wage Slavery

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 11 Aug 1984 during the great miners' strike, 23,000 women marched in London against pit closures. Women Against Pit Closures played a crucial role in supporting the strike more info in our podcast: https://t.co/iC2aDrwe06

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 30 Jul 2006 Murray Bookchin died at age 85. Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist and founder of social ecology and libertarian municipalism. Read a remembrance here: https://t.co/xlgJRytR0A

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 25 Jul 1927 a two-day conference of about 20 anarchists from across the Iberian Peninsula began in Valencia, leading to the formation of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI), which played a major role alongside the CNT in the Spanish Civil War https://t.co/fGi3xGImiY

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 26 Jul 1956 21,000 workers on strike against job cuts at 13 BMC factories in the UK were joined by 12,000 Briggs Motors workers in Dagenham who walked out. Fascists who turned up to urge a return to work had their van trashed. Video included here: https://t.co/LFYfOeAzbt

[IWOC Ireland @IwocIreland]

Meet the Union behind No Sweat T-shirts!

Register here: https://t.co/xyZoIdSvAI

When: 6pm (BST), Monday 27 July
Where: Online
What: Meet the Union Behind Your T-shirt – a conversation with the TTCU

#webinar #workersrights #garmentindustry #ethicalfashion #tradeunion

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

New in our shop: Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance – Susan Simensky Bietila https://t.co/F72vEPqcW4

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 21 Jul 2001 Italian police in Genoa raided the Armando Diaz school and brutally beat the protesters staying there. The victims were then arrested and tortured by officers, who were never punished https://t.co/xeYZl5tf01

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 21 Jul 1978 a wildcat strike of thousands of US postal workers in several cities broke out for improvements to their contracts, lasting four days. Management fired 125 workers in revenge, though many were reinstated after years of campaigning https://t.co/ZvKvWOo0ZJ

[Siobhán McConville. Craigavon Two #JFTC2 @siobhan1916]

#JFTC2

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 22 Jul 1971 during a dispute between Ford management and the militant shop steward John Dillon in Liverpool, UK, the Angry Brigade blew up the home of Ford's managing director, William Batty, in Essex. Learn more about the group in our podcast: https://t.co/7CQgknPCeP

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 22 July 1886 the brewery workers' union fighting against working hours of 16-18 per day won all of its demands. They won free beer, a union shop, freedom to live anywhere (not just in the brewery itself), a 10-hour day, 6-day week. https://t.co/iqFRPyqZml

[CNT Vallès Oriental @CNTValles]

La CNT denuncia la violència immobiliària al barri de Bellavista de Les Franqueses del Vallès

Ahir vam denunciar la situació que pateix un militant del Sindicat Únic d'Indústria, Alimentació i Construcció de CNT i la seva família. Tota la informació aquí:
https://t.co/BIdlgelcPZ

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 22 Jul 1932 Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist militant and theorist, London ice cream seller, mechanic and member of the Naples section of the International Working Men's Association, died after six years of fascist house arrest at the age of 78 https://t.co/JHbc56mnaD

[IWW Ireland @IrelandIww]

Don’t wait for a better world, get organised and make one with your fellow workers today!

#EveryWorkerNeedsaUnion
#iwwcommunity
To join click on the following link: https://t.co/YpWEZUSNYA

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 21 Jul 1972 five union shop stewards were jailed for picketing a container depot in East London. The next day strikes broke out, with 250,000 taking industrial action and 90,000 on all-out strike. The "Pentonville Five" were released on the 26th https://t.co/TSh9IiStUQ

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

New in our shop: From Riot to Insurrection: The G8 Summit of 2001 & The Battle of Genoa – Tomas Rothaus https://t.co/OgfoFbGZt0

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 19 Jul 1984 the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland when Mary Manning was suspended for refusing to check out South African fruit. She and 11 others went on strike for three years until the govt banned SA goods https://t.co/OrT4hJRHdb

[IWW Ireland @IrelandIww]

Online Talk: [Register Here]

https://t.co/0wzSkFeIcP

[IWOC Ireland @IwocIreland]

Online Talk: [Register Here]

https://t.co/MbelS2TViX