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#OtD 26 Mar 1969, the famous reclusive anarchist and working-class novelist, B. Traven, died. Famous for writing "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," he also wrote "The Death Ship," arguably one of the best books about workers in the shipping industry https://t.co/jwnm00VdQE https://t.co/64VZpuebHn

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#OtD 14 Mar 1883 Engels sent a wire to Friedrich Sorge saying simply "Marx died today!". Karl Marx died in London, aged 64. His magnum opus, Capital, is still the most devastating critique of capitalist political economy. Works by and about him here: https://t.co/FqEaNfJBSz https://t.co/LVm52VJfw7

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#OtD 6 Dec 1961 Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born psychiatrist, anti-colonialist philosopher, and revolutionary, died. His book, The Wretched of the Earth, became a manifesto anti-colonial movements and oppressed people around the world. Read it here: https://t.co/EU50QU50Zl https://t.co/Et6LVKkKmM

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The 1919 strike wave in the US was huge and arguably the last one which really challenged the capitalist system. For our favourite history of it, read Chapter 4 of Jeremy Brecher's excellent book, Strike! Get a copy in our online store here: https://t.co/FNO4VPJBgO https://t.co/m7iJm7u8Lo

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#OtD 21 Feb 1848, the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was published. Widely read by workers across the world, it remains one of the most influential texts ever written https://t.co/pV2XAHVhKw https://t.co/4csudV4hra

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#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers https://t.co/oBxXjTMX0q

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#OtD 11 Feb 1813, Harriet Jacobs, a Black woman who escaped slavery and went on to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was born in North Carolina. month Read more about her important autobiography, first published in 1861, here: https://t.co/xMhlOruOwo https://t.co/PTKODpITyR

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#OtD 16 Mar 1921, the Red Army under Leon Trotsky staged the bloody final assault on Kronstadt sailors after their revolt against the Bolsheviks, marking the brutal end to the last large scale left challenge to the regime for years. Learn more: https://t.co/V6RhqwKX51 https://t.co/eoGF38UOKN

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#OtD 11 Feb 1813, Harriet Jacobs, a Black woman who escaped slavery and went on to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was born in North Carolina. month Read more about her important autobiography, first published in 1861, here: https://t.co/xMhlOruOwo https://t.co/PTKODpITyR

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#OtD 27 Feb 1902 Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. Many of his works featured radical, working-class themes, including The Grapes of Wrath, and In Dubious Battle, about a fruit pickers' strike: https://t.co/dypfE3Yf79 https://t.co/lZD2HxjXWA

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