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Peter Riley

“It’s all just a little bit of history repeating” - Shirley Bassey

“Operation Wetback” 1954: a federal program to hunt down & deport “undocumented immigrants” from Mexico. Somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 million were rounded up & deported…. yet, many were documented migrants or US citizens.

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en.wikipedia.orgOperation Wetback - Wikipedia
#Bracero#migrantworkers#WorkingClassHistory
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Peter Riley

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#AFLCIO #IWW #LaborMovement #Organize
#SiouxFalls #Solidarity #unions
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Sioux Falls AFL-CIO"No Union For Fascists": Why The Sioux Falls AFL-CIO Banned White SupremacistsEditors Note: In May of 2018 the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO passed several amendments to thier Constitution. Among those changes were the words," No individual shall be eligible to serve as an Officer, member of The Executive Board or Committee, or other governing body, or any committee of, or as a delegate from, or as a representative, agent, or employee of this body who is a member of any Fascist or White Supremacist organization. Or who consistently pursues policies and/or activites directed toward the purposes of any Fascist or otherwise White Supremacist Ideology." 
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RuthSalter

Sharing this (justly) furious verse from Ewan Robertson's song of c. 1880s about the Highland Clearances, telling Patrick Sellar to burn in hell.

Sellar, a factor (property manager) for the aristocratic Sutherland family, oversaw the forced eviction of tenants to make way for sheep, which could make landowners more money.

From Scottish Studies 1964: 104-6, Gaelic as sung by Andrew Stewart; English John MacInnes; Scots Hamish Henderson.

Black text on a white backgrounds, reads: Gaelic: Ach nis, a Shellar, fhuair thu bàs ’S ma fhuair thu ceartas fhuair thu blàths An tcine leis ’n a loisg thu càch Gum faigh thu fhéin gu leòr dheth English: But now, Sellar, you are dead And if justice has been done you are warm! The fire with which you burnt others May you yourself have enough of it. Scots: Sellar, daith has ye in his grip; Ye needna think he’ll let ye slip. Justice ye’ve earned, and, by the Book, A warm assize ye winna jouk. The fires ye lit tae gut Strathnaver Ye’ll feel them noo—and roast forever. [From Scottish Studies 1964: 104-6, Gaelic verse as sung by Andrew Stewart; English trans. John MacInnes; Scots trans. Hamish Henderson.]
#FolkSong#Scotland#ScottishHistory
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

In the blunted night of the coal shed,
without a torch, my fingers dig
among the coal for the coal.
Hear it scutter into the bucket…

—Brian McCabe, “Coal”
published in BODY PARTS, @canongatebooks 1999

The 1984–85 UK miners’ strike was officially called off 40 years ago #OTD, 3 March, 1985. It remains the longest-running strike in British history without a positive outcome.

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Coal Brian McCabe In the blunted night of the coal shed, without a torch, my fingers dig among the coal for the coal. Hear it scutter into the bucket. Something else is gathered, uttered from a darker place where memory digs and throws its coal into a bucket – as if a ghost stuttered, spoke: My father clears his throat, curses the government: ‘Thirty years in Rosewell, in Bilston Glen, in Monktonhall – and what is there to show for it?’ And what is there to show for it? Flattened sites, non-places, absences surrounded by meaningless villages. The bars look like air-raid shelters. ‘If the shops need iron grilles here, they’ll need them everywhere. Like the miners of Monktonhall we’ll all know what siege means.’ I stumble from the dark into the dark of that night into this, to light a fire, to watch the flames rise and flare into eloquent tongues.
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Firestorm Books

In the early-20th century, strikes and union battles were common in industrial centers throughout the US. But nothing compared to the class warfare of the West Virginia Mine Wars.

To celebrate the release of "Black Coal and Red Bandanas," an illustrated history from PM Press, we're exciting to host a virtual evening with author Raymond Tyler and illustrator Summer McClinton. They'll be joined by Shaun Slifer and Kenzie New-Walker of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum!

Register for this free online event and find a copy of "Black Coal and Red Bandanas" at firestorm.coop/events/3342-the. Can't make the event but still want to listen in? Sign up and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience!

#WorkingClassHistory #ClassWar #CoalMiner #WestVirginia #MineWars #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

A promotional graphic for a virtual event hosted by Firestorm Books on February 23rd at 7pm ET. The image features the title "The West Virginia Mine Wars" above the cover of the book "Black Coal and Red Bandanas" over a historic photo of a coal mining community in Blair Mountain, WV.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

The Orgreave Stations
6 Feb, Glasgow – free (booking required)

To mark the 40th anniversary of the 1984/5 Miner’s Strike, poet William Hershaw & artist Les McConnell have used the Christian framework of “the Stations of the Cross” as an imaginative foundation to describe events leading up to the Battle of Orgreave.

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EventbriteThe Orgreave StationsThe GalGael Trust invites you to an evening with the Fife poet William Hershaw.
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Peter Riley

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On 27 December 1831, the #Christmasrebellion in #Jamaica escalated as 60,000 of the country's 300,000 enslaved people went on #strike and rose up against #slavery. It is known as the Christmas rebellion as it began with a strike on Christmas day, demanding wages and more #freetime

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