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Today in Labor History July 14, 1791: Birmingham Riots against religious dissenters, the chemist and liberal political theorist Joseph Priestley, and supporters of the French Revolution. Priestly discovered oxygen and invented carbonated water. Just prior to the riots, he tried to form a society in support of universal suffrage. However, he had also published a pamphlet describing how to extract the most work out of the poor for the smallest investment. He also held religious ideas that conflicted with the orthodoxy of the Anglican Church. Throughout the 18th century, Birmingham was notorious for Church-and-King riots, stoked by the ruling elite. In 1751 and 1759, mobs attacked Quakers and Methodists. In 1780, there were the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots. One contemporary described the Birmingham rabble as the "bunting, beggarly, brass-making, brazen-faced, brazen-hearted, blackguard, bustling, booby Birmingham mob."

and while the West believed the fairy tale that #Socialism would take away your freedoms, #Capitalism confiscated your homes, stole your pensions, took your savings, sent your jobs overseas, took away your health care, broke up your education system, and put you in debt, leaving you with fascism, racism, xenophobia, and hatred.

I'm pro-union and pro-international workers associations for better conditions or anticapitalist antifascist activism, this government deliberately trying to gaslight workers at fault for something caused by bosses/ceos/governments internationally, riots are a language of the unheard and downtrodden.

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-14/qld

ABC News · CFMEU violence cost Queensland government $22 million on one job site, premier saysBy Lottie Twyford

Denver is not unlike a prison. Its inhabitants, too, have been sent there “to do time.” That which makes the position of the prisoner preferable, is the consolation that the State will feed him and that some day his time will expire. The majority of Denverites have no such cheerful outlook. Although arriving there with hopes of a speedy return, it’s usually imprisonment for life.

- Light and Shadows in the Life of an Avant-Guard by Emma Goldman

Workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 5 voted to authorize a strike at Safeway locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and the North Coast, citing unfair labor practices and “bad faith bargaining.” Workers have been without a contract since April.

#strike #unions #union #strikes #workersrights #socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics

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Times-Standard · Northern California Safeway workers vote to authorize strikeBy Robert Schaulis

Thousands of members voted nearly unanimously to authorize both an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) or an Economic strike, should either option become necessary. This show of solidarity demonstrates our collective strength and commitment to securing the fair agreement our members deserve.

#strike #unions #union #strikes #workersrights #socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics

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