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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! https://michaeldunnauthor.com https://www.historiumpress.com/michael-dunn

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Max Granger@_maxgranger wrote:
 
'they're US citizens!" "they entered the
country legally!"

that's cool, | don't fucking care. no one
deserves to be abducted by fascists
and put into a concentration camp

Max Granger@_maxgranger wrote: 'they're US citizens!" "they entered the country legally!" that's cool, | don't fucking care. no one deserves to be abducted by fascists and put into a concentration camp

07.03.2026 16:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Image of Victor Serge with the following quote:

For centuries justice has been nothing but terror organized to the advantage of the possessing classes. To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.
โ€” VICTORSERGE โ€”
DEC. 30,1890 - NOV. 17,1947

Image of Victor Serge with the following quote: For centuries justice has been nothing but terror organized to the advantage of the possessing classes. To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man. โ€” VICTORSERGE โ€” DEC. 30,1890 - NOV. 17,1947

07.03.2026 16:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I've got mine.
F*uck You!
Every crumb form himself!

07.03.2026 16:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And a media completely aligned with the oligarchs, owned by some of the most right wing oligarchs in the world. And a populace so economically desperate their ready to believe anything, no matter how implausible, if it promises relief

07.03.2026 16:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's not the ed system that's broken. It's capitalism that creates these. We've got great schools & teachers, but millions of kids who come to school hungry, in pain from untreated illnesses & injuries, from families having to choose btwn food & healthcare, entering K12 far behind their peers

07.03.2026 16:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Alabama Highway Patrol troopers, in gas masks, attack civil rights demonstrators with clubs outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965. Air is filled with smoke from the gas. By Federal Bureau of Investigation - http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/cost.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=258095

Alabama Highway Patrol troopers, in gas masks, attack civil rights demonstrators with clubs outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965. Air is filled with smoke from the gas. By Federal Bureau of Investigation - http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/cost.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=258095

Today in #LaborHistory 3/7/1965: #BloodySunday in Selma, #Alabama. #police attacked #civilrights marchers. Arrested over 3,000. Feb 26, police murdered activist and deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson. In response, organizers planned a march from Selma to Montgomery.

#PoliceBrutality #racism

07.03.2026 15:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
People fleeing police gunfire during the Ford Hunger March.

People fleeing police gunfire during the Ford Hunger March.

Today in #LaborHistory 3/7/1932: #Ford hunger #strike was attacked by #police, killing 5 & injuring 60. >3,000 #UAW members & supporters marched, with banners saying #TaxTheRich & Feed the Poor." Supported by Communist Party.

#communism #policebrutality #poverty #classwar

07.03.2026 15:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Image of Lucy Parsons, with the quote: "Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination."

Image of Lucy Parsons, with the quote: "Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination."

#WomensHistoryMonth 3/7/1942: #IWW cofounder Lucy Parsons died. #Anarchism. Born into #slavery. Husband Albert executed in #Haymarket affair.
โ€œI want every dirty, lousy tramp to arm himself...at palaces of the rich & shoot owners as they come out.โ€

07.03.2026 15:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Reuters Top News 
Rise in U.S. suicides highlights 
need for new depression drugs  

Yusuf @yusuf_VI replied:

We're depressed because we're
overworked, underpaid, can't 
afford our student debt, can't :
afford a doctor, can't afford a 
home, can't afford a family, while
people at the top take most of the
value of our labor for themselves.
We don't need better drugs. We
need a better economy.

Reuters Top News Rise in U.S. suicides highlights need for new depression drugs Yusuf @yusuf_VI replied: We're depressed because we're overworked, underpaid, can't afford our student debt, can't : afford a doctor, can't afford a home, can't afford a family, while people at the top take most of the value of our labor for themselves. We don't need better drugs. We need a better economy.

06.03.2026 15:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cartoon of a guy reading a purple book titled "How Capitalism Helps the Worker." Caption reads: all the pages are blank, wtf

Cartoon of a guy reading a purple book titled "How Capitalism Helps the Worker." Caption reads: all the pages are blank, wtf

06.03.2026 14:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Unemployed workers marching for jobs in the 1930s. Theyโ€™re carrying a banner that reads: โ€œWork or Riot, One or the Other.โ€

Unemployed workers marching for jobs in the 1930s. Theyโ€™re carrying a banner that reads: โ€œWork or Riot, One or the Other.โ€

Today in #LaborHistory 3/6/1930: 100,000 demonstrated for jobs in #NewYorkCity & battled #police in #Cleveland, 10,000 people battled police. Led to creation of #HUAC to fight #communism.
#workingclass #unemployment #policebrutality #greatdepression #riot

06.03.2026 14:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Partially overturned streetcar during the Winnipeg General Strike. By L.B. Foote - http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/photos/3044.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17911564

Partially overturned streetcar during the Winnipeg General Strike. By L.B. Foote - http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/photos/3044.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17911564

Today in #LaborHistory 3/6/1925: Miners #strike in Cape Breton, #Canada against British Empire Steel Corp. #police killed 1 miner. Part of Canadian Labour #Revolt (1918-1925) led by the #OneBigUnion, inspired by #IWW & by #Vancouver & #Winnipeg #GeneralStrike to replace #capitalism with #socialism.

06.03.2026 14:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Youโ€™ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before

FORMICATION! (but totally safe to view at work)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/s...

05.03.2026 16:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sadistic statistics #2.....

Or, yet again, Why We Can Never Have Anything Nice

05.03.2026 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Extreme inequality and poverty

The richest 12 people have more wealth than half the planet.

But the problem is poor people?

www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...

05.03.2026 15:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The richest 3 people have more money than the poorest 4 billion.

But the problem (according to those richest people) is the poor people.

05.03.2026 00:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 249 ๐Ÿ” 84 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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30% of the world's refugees are Muslim.

While about 66% of the world's refugees are in Muslim countries.

With nearly 30% in the largest 7 Muslim countries alone.

05.03.2026 14:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 39 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
The worst capitalist brainwash is being proud of your own exploitation. Saying you've worked 80 hour weeks since you turned 17 isn't a flex, it's sad.

The worst capitalist brainwash is being proud of your own exploitation. Saying you've worked 80 hour weeks since you turned 17 isn't a flex, it's sad.

05.03.2026 14:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Monopoly dude in black top hat, bushy white mustache, holding a gun and sack of money. Reads: Remember kids: profits are the unpaid wages of the working class.

Monopoly dude in black top hat, bushy white mustache, holding a gun and sack of money. Reads: Remember kids: profits are the unpaid wages of the working class.

05.03.2026 14:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Molotov Moomin

05.03.2026 14:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Founding co-editor of La Raza Ruth Robinson (right) with Margarita Sanchez at the Belmont High School walkout, being arrested, during the 1968 student protests for education reform in LA. By Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photograph Collection - Los Angeles Public Library, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96471334

Founding co-editor of La Raza Ruth Robinson (right) with Margarita Sanchez at the Belmont High School walkout, being arrested, during the 1968 student protests for education reform in LA. By Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photograph Collection - Los Angeles Public Library, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96471334

Today in #LaborHistory 3/5/1968: 1st #Chicano #student walkout in East #LostAngeles occurred on this date over overcrowded classrooms & #racism in #LA Schools. Organizer Harry Gamboa Jr. placed on senate list of 100 Most Dangerous Subversives along with #BlackPanthers #AngelaDavis & #EldridgeCleaver

05.03.2026 14:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Front page of the Seattle Star, with headline that reads, โ€œ7 killed, 50 wounded, is toll of Sundayโ€™s I.W.W. battle.โ€

Front page of the Seattle Star, with headline that reads, โ€œ7 killed, 50 wounded, is toll of Sundayโ€™s I.W.W. battle.โ€

Today in #LaborHistory 3/5/1917: Members #IWW went on trial for the #Everett #Massacre (1916), even tho it was drunken #vigilantes who killed 12 IWW & 2 of their own. In โ€œUSAโ€ trilogy, #DosPassos mentions Everett as โ€œno place for the working man.โ€
#strike #union #police #FreeSpeech #novel #books

05.03.2026 14:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
U.S. soldiers wearing broad-brimmed hats, in a grassy field, with a cannon during the Moro campaign

U.S. soldiers wearing broad-brimmed hats, in a grassy field, with a cannon during the Moro campaign

Today in #LaborHistory 3/5/1906: US Army beat Moros in Battle of Bud Dajo, during Moro #Rebellion, #Philippines against US #imperialism. Overall, 6,000 U.S. & 20,000 Filipino soldiers died, but 1 million #civilians died from famine & disease during genocidal US #occupation.

05.03.2026 14:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Black and white portrait of Luxemburg wearing a white, long sleeve blouse. By Unknown author - Appeal to support the publication of โ€˜The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburgโ€™ in English, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2595244

Black and white portrait of Luxemburg wearing a white, long sleeve blouse. By Unknown author - Appeal to support the publication of โ€˜The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburgโ€™ in English, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2595244

Today in #LaborHistory 3/5/1871: #RosaLuxemburg was born. Founded #Spartacus League in 1916. #Uprising vs German #SocialDemocrats for #communism. Social Dems used #Freikorps, ultranationalist #WWI #veterans. Many had #PTSD. Many went onto to become #Nazis. They slaughtered 200. Executed Luxemburg.

05.03.2026 14:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
qasimrashid writes:

All yall defending the Iranian regime seem to
forget that their nationalist police murder
2000 people a year, the regime kills 70,000
people a year by denying them the basic
medicine they need to live, this year their
supreme leader cut aid to hungry civilians
and killed 600,000 innocent people, and
since 2001 they've waged imperialist wars
that have killed 4.6 Million people

How Do You Defend That?!?

Ahhh my bad. | just described the United
States Govt and the number of people it's
killed.

qasimrashid writes: All yall defending the Iranian regime seem to forget that their nationalist police murder 2000 people a year, the regime kills 70,000 people a year by denying them the basic medicine they need to live, this year their supreme leader cut aid to hungry civilians and killed 600,000 innocent people, and since 2001 they've waged imperialist wars that have killed 4.6 Million people How Do You Defend That?!? Ahhh my bad. | just described the United States Govt and the number of people it's killed.

04.03.2026 15:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Republican elephant logo. Reads: I think that about 5 guys should horde the majority of the stolen wealth and resources.

Below that, the Democrat donkey logo. Reads: Yeah? Well I think it should be 10 guys. And 5 women. And maybe one of them is black.

Posted by Guillotines for a Better america, who added: I'm sorry. Some of you are 100% right. the parties are not the same. They have some very clear differences. I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong.

Republican elephant logo. Reads: I think that about 5 guys should horde the majority of the stolen wealth and resources. Below that, the Democrat donkey logo. Reads: Yeah? Well I think it should be 10 guys. And 5 women. And maybe one of them is black. Posted by Guillotines for a Better america, who added: I'm sorry. Some of you are 100% right. the parties are not the same. They have some very clear differences. I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong.

04.03.2026 14:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Black and white image of men and boys packed like sardines in coal elevator, while two women in white bonnets look on. Reads: Ahhh the good old days before labor unions screwed everything up. 

Has a Labor 411 badge in lower left corner. Posted last year by Clowns Against child Poverty Continued

Black and white image of men and boys packed like sardines in coal elevator, while two women in white bonnets look on. Reads: Ahhh the good old days before labor unions screwed everything up. Has a Labor 411 badge in lower left corner. Posted last year by Clowns Against child Poverty Continued

04.03.2026 14:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
EAM-ELAS partisans: Men and women antifascist soldiers marching in uniform, with guns, through dry, rocky terrain. By Uploader: ฮฅฯ€ฮฟฯ…ฯฮณฮตฮฏฮฟ ฮ•ฮพฯ‰ฯ„ฮตฯฮนฮบฯŽฮฝPhotographer: Sjt. Johnson (see [3]) - ฮฆฯ‰ฯ„ฮฟฮณฯฮฑฯ†ฮนฮบฮฎ ฮญฮบฮธฮตฯƒฮท ฯ…ฯ€ฮทฯฮตฯƒฮฏฮฑฯ‚ ฮ”ฮนฯ€ฮปฯ‰ฮผฮฑฯ„ฮนฮบฮฟฯ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮ™ฯƒฯ„ฮฟฯฮนฮบฮฟฯ ฮ‘ฯฯ‡ฮตฮฏฮฟฯ…. Photo exhibition of the Diplomatic and Historical Archive Department, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26282553

EAM-ELAS partisans: Men and women antifascist soldiers marching in uniform, with guns, through dry, rocky terrain. By Uploader: ฮฅฯ€ฮฟฯ…ฯฮณฮตฮฏฮฟ ฮ•ฮพฯ‰ฯ„ฮตฯฮนฮบฯŽฮฝPhotographer: Sjt. Johnson (see [3]) - ฮฆฯ‰ฯ„ฮฟฮณฯฮฑฯ†ฮนฮบฮฎ ฮญฮบฮธฮตฯƒฮท ฯ…ฯ€ฮทฯฮตฯƒฮฏฮฑฯ‚ ฮ”ฮนฯ€ฮปฯ‰ฮผฮฑฯ„ฮนฮบฮฟฯ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮ™ฯƒฯ„ฮฟฯฮนฮบฮฟฯ ฮ‘ฯฯ‡ฮตฮฏฮฟฯ…. Photo exhibition of the Diplomatic and Historical Archive Department, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26282553

Today in #LaborHistory 3/4/1943: Battle of Fardykambos began. #Greek #antifascist #Resistance vs Royal #Italian Army. Greeks forced surrender of entire Italian battalion. Communist National Liberation Front was largest contingent in the Resistance.

#workingclass #greece #communism #fascism

04.03.2026 14:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Herbert and Marianne Baum (circled) before they married, in a photo with many other people. By KJVD photo from 1926/27 with Herbert Baum and Marianne Cohn circled in white. Olga Benario is circled in gray. - https://libcom.org/files/TheHerbertBaumGroupBlog.pdf, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71722557

Herbert and Marianne Baum (circled) before they married, in a photo with many other people. By KJVD photo from 1926/27 with Herbert Baum and Marianne Cohn circled in white. Olga Benario is circled in gray. - https://libcom.org/files/TheHerbertBaumGroupBlog.pdf, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71722557

Today in #LaborHistory 3/4/1943: 9 members of Baum Group executed by #Nazis for setting fire to an anti-communist exhibition. The #antifascist group was made up of young communist #Jews.

#workingclass #fascism #antifascism #antifa #baumgroup #jewish #communism

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