Now out free for everyone! A preview teaser of our latest Fireside Chat, about the radical history of the weekend, and how the working class created this much loved holiday. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, like Spotify, or go to our website: workingclasshistory.com/podc…

#OtD 26 Oct 1983 the Northwood and Pinner hospital in the UK was occupied by its workers in protest at its proposed closure. They then ran the hospital themselves collectively and eventually won, and it stayed open for a further 25 years stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 26 Oct 1977 8000 cotton workers in Kanpur, India, surrounded their factory, locking the bosses inside after their wages were not paid. They then placed gas cylinders on the roof and threatened to start blowing things up. After 54 hours they won stories.workingclasshistory.…

New daily podcast: 26 October 1983: Northwood and Pinner occupation www.​spreaker.​com/episode/26-october-1983-northwood-and-pinner-occupation--75508541

#OtD 25 Oct 1882 German anarchist Johann Most was released from Clerkenwell Prison in London after spending a year and a half there doing forced labour for praising the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Russian revolutionaries stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 25 Oct 1983 the US invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada, ostensibly to protect US citizens but really to assert its dominance over the region. More information, sources and map: stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 25 Oct 1929 Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and an editor of La Protesta, Emilio López Arango was assassinated in Buenos Aires. The main suspect was Severino Di Giovanni, an Italian anarchist whose bombings had been criticised in La Protesta stories.workingclasshistory.…

New daily podcast: 25 October 1983: Hayes Cottage Hospital occupied www.​spreaker.​com/episode/25-october-1983-hayes-cottage-hospital-occupied--75508536

#OtD 25 Oct 1983 the Hayes Cottage Hospital in England was occupied by its workers in protest at its proposed closure the following week. The workers then ran the hospital themselves until the government caved in. It remained open until the 90s stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 24 Oct 1924 Italian anarchist Ernesto Bonomini was tried for killing a leading Italian fascist to avenge the victims of fascism. After his 8 year sentence, he traveled to Spain to join the revolution and continue to fight against fascism stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 24 Oct 1975 90% of women in Iceland went on general strike for equality with men. Working women stayed home, and house workers refused to cook, clean and look after children. Today Iceland has the lowest gender inequality in the world stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 24 Oct 1940 the 40-hour work week came into effect in America under Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the result of decades of militant working-class struggle and organisation stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 24 Oct 2007 up to 35,000 sex workers were on strike in Bolivia in protest against police harassment. The women, who had organised a union, also refused to undertake mandatory STD testing until police stopped their harassment stories.workingclasshistory.…

New daily podcast: 24 October 1975: La Tondeña strike www.​spreaker.​com/episode/24-october-1975-la-tondena-strike--75508534

#OtD 23 Oct 2009 a public park in Madrid was made to remember Maria Luz Nájera, a left-wing student killed by police during a protest against the fascist murder of a bricklayer in 1977. Neighbours and relatives spent 11 years campaigning for the space stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 23 Oct 1956 a spontaneous nationwide revolt broke out across Hungary which saw thousands organise themselves into workers' councils and militias demanding not a transition to capitalism but rather a socialism controlled by the working class itself stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 23 Oct 1901 a general strike broke out in Rosario, Argentina, in response to the police killing of anarchist migrant worker Cosme Budislavich during a sugar refinery strike stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 23 Oct 1903 English anarchist-communist John Turner was arrested after his lecture in NYC. He was the first person deported from the US for violation of the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Act. After prison, he made bail and was sent home to England stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 23 Oct 1850 the first National Women's Rights Convention in the US took place in Massachusetts, to win equal rights. The speakers included women's rights and anti-slavery activists like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 23 Oct 1874 German left communist Otto Rühle was born. Chairman of the Dresden Workers and Soldiers Council in the German Revolution and later KAPD delegate to the Comintern, he also wrote the famous pamphlet 'The Revolution Is Not a Party Affair' stories.workingclasshistory.…

#OtD 23 Oct 1948 the United Brewery Workers union claimed most of its wildcat striking members in NYC would return to work the next day, supposedly to keep up the morale of bosses. The strike continued while police ensured the safe transport of beer stories.workingclasshistory.…