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#OtD 26 Nov 1920 the Red Army attacked its allies, the Makhnovists in Ukraine, after the latter defeated the Whites. Russian troops attacked in Crimea and Huliaipole, and arrested and executed many. Rebel leader Nestor Makhno managed to escape. More: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/russian-revolution
#OtD 26 Nov 1864 council communist, Herman Gorter, was born. One of the great Dutch poets of the late-19th century, he became a renowned Marxist thinker opposing parliamentarism, and advocating for class struggle controlled by workers' councils https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9857/herman-gorter-is-born
#OTD in 1922. The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use 2-tone Technicolor. The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toll_of_the_Sea
#OTD in 1859
Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, an early example of mystery fiction, begins serialisation in All the Year Round.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_(novel)#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Year_Round
#OTD in 1893.
Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", published in The Strand Magazine, that Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on 4 May 1891.
#OTD in 1862.
Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell
#otd 2001 starb die #Komponistin Grete von Zieritz mit 102 Jahren. Hochgeehrt und erfolgreich zu Lebzeiten, ist ihr Name heute vergessen. Ein typisch weibliches Dilemma. Auch sie ist eine der Künstlerinnen, die auf meiner Liste für ein 2. #Frauenbuch stehen. #KenntIhr mein Buch "Frauengeschichten-Kulturgeschichten aus Kunst und Musik"?
#musik #kulturgeschichten #leiermann
https://www.shop.der-leiermann.com/produkt/frauengeschichten-kulturgeschichten-aus-kunst-und-musik/
Released 48 years ago today
"Anarchy in the U.K." the legendary debut single by the Sex Pistols
#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #sexpistols #anarchyintheuk #history #punkrockhistory #otd
#OtD 25 Nov 1981 US mercenaries to overthrow the left-wing government of the Seychelles with the backing of apartheid South African intelligence. After a short gun battle, the coup failed and the plotters hijacked a plane and fled to South Africa. More: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7911/seychelles-coup-attempt
#OtD 25 Nov 1904 highly acclaimed author and anarchist, Ba Jin, was born in Chengdu, China. He wrote prolifically for the radical press, as well as his novels, and suffered repression from the state Communist regime which denounced him as a "traitor" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9775/ba-jin-was-born
#OtD 25 Nov 1915 the "biggest funeral [Chicago] had ever seen" was held for IWW organizer and songwriter Joe Hill after he was murdered by the authorities of the state of Utah. He requested in a poetic will that his ashes be spread in a field of flowers. They were divided up and sent to IWW chapters around the country (but not in Utah) to be distributed.
Hear a rendition of his will here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkoMdhxk03k
Or learn more: https://local.sltrib.com/charts/joehill/impact.html
#OtD 25 Nov 1960 the three Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) were murdered for opposing US-backed Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo. The UN later set 25 Nov as International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9779/mirabal-sisters-assassinated
#OtD 25 Nov 1865 Mississippi passed a Black Code to reintroduce slavery after the civil war. They prevented Black people from renting land, required them to work for whites and barred them from changing jobs. Violators could be jailed & enslaved legally https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9774/mississippi-black-code
#OtD 25 Nov 1915 thousands in Chicago attended the funeral of martyred @iww union organiser and songwriter Joe Hill. He had been fitted up for a crime he did not commit and was executed. Learn more about his life and works in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/joe-hill-the-iww-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-workingclass-counterculture
#OtD 25 Nov 1940 a bomb exploded aboard the SS Patria planted by the Zionist paramilitary group Haganah, killing 267, mostly Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe. They were trying to stop Britain transporting the refugees from Palestine to Mauritius https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9777/ss-patria-sunk
