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Working Class Historical Fiction from the not so gilded age. Labor History. Social justice. An injury to one is an injury to all!

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Header: 1910 photograph of breaker boys, by Lewis Hines. "Breaker Boys" worked 14-16 hours a day in coal mines. They were young boys, usually between the ages of 8 and 12 years old, employed in breaking stage of coal mining.

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The people who commit war crimes are, indeed, the leaders of the U.S. and Israel, as well as numerous other nations.

And they never do get punished, unless they happen to lose a war again the U.S. and Europe...Or get executed by their own citizens, like Mussolini and Ceaușescu.

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Today in Labor History March 11, 1850: French anarchist Clément Duval was born. His theory of individual reclamation, which justified theft, and other crimes, as both educational and legitimate ways to redistribute the wealth, influenced the Illegalists of the 1910s, including Jules Bonnot, of the Bonnot Gang. According to Paul Albert, "The story of Clement Duval was lifted and, shorn of all politics, turned into the bestseller Papillon."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #illegalism #prison #deportation #wealth #BonnotGang #papillon #individualism #novel #fiction #writer #author #books [@bookstadon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon )

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Today in Labor History March 11, 1919: Ukrainian Jewish anarchist Mollie Steimer was arrested in New York City and charged with inciting to riot, and sedition, and was eventually deported to Soviet Russia, where she met her lifelong partner Senya Fleshin. The two agitated for the rights of anarchist political prisoners in the USSR. The authorities there deported her again, this time to western Europe, where she and Fleshin organized aid for political prisoners. With the rise of the Nazis in Europe, she and Fleshin fled to Mexico, where they spent the rest of their lives working as photographers. She died in 1980.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #MollieSteimer #deportation #nazis #ukraine #jewish #riot #soviet #prison

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Report: California needs 1 million more affordable homes. California has just 25 available and affordable rental homes for every 100 households that are deemed “extremely low income” (meaning they make 30% or less of the area’s median income).

Most of California’s extremely-low income households are spending more than half their income on rent, putting them at greater risk of falling into homelessness. 

https://calmatters.org/newsletter/report-california-needs-1-million-more-affordable-homes/

#housing #poverty #homelessness
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Today in Labor History March 10, 1896: Nancy Clara Cunard was born in London into the Cunard shipping dynasty. She was a surrealist writer, model, anarchist and an anti-fascist and anti-racist activist. Her family disinherited her because of her relationship with Henry Crowder, a Black jazz pianist from the U.S. She helped refugees from the Spanish civil war, wrote extensively about fascist Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, and worked as a translator for the French resistance during World War II. She was also active in the anti-racist movement in the U.S.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #fascism #antifascism #anarchism #surrealism #nancycunard

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Today in Labor History March 10, 1906: Coal dust exploded at the Courrieres mine in France. 1,099 miners died. It was the second worst mining disaster of the 20th century. (1,549 miners died in the Benxihu accident in China, in 1946). As a result of the Courrieres disaster, 45,000 miners went on strike, protesting the ongoing unsafe working conditions. The authorities sent in the military, which quashed the strike.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #strike #workplacedeaths #UnsafeWorkplace #france