On this day in 1898, the Battle of Virden began when armed members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) surrounded a train full of strikebreakers and exchanged fire with company guards. 13 people were killed, dozens more wounded.
After a local chapter of the UMW began striking at a mine in Virden, Illinois, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company hired black strikebreakers from Birmingham, Alabama and shipped them to Virden by train.
The company hired armed detectives or security guards to accompany the strikebreakers, and an armed conflict broke out when armed miners surrounded the train as it arrived in town. A total of four detectives and seven striking mine workers were killed, with five guards, thirty miners, and an unrecorded number of strikebreakers wounded.
After this incident, Illinois Governor John Tanner ordered the National Guard to prevent any more strikebreakers from coming into the state by force. The next month, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company relented and allowed the unionization of its workers.
“When the last call comes for me to take my final rest, will the miners see that I get a resting place in the same clay that shelters the miners who gave up their lives on the hills of Virden, Illinois…They are responsible for Illinois being the best organized labor state in America.”
Mother Jones
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I was listening to an old Citations Needed episode about thought terminating enemy epithets and heard that the term “hand-picked successor” started being used to refer to Maduro since he was Chavez’s vice president. Now I’m going to start referring to K-dolf Hitler as Genocide Joe’s handpicked successor.
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Being a leftist is Plato’s Cave all the way down.
Watching Generation Kill cause I needed some mindless slop to lift to at home and man.
Besides everything else that’s been said about this fucking show, I’m pretty sure there’s not a single shot of any non-American shooting a rifle properly.
All competent enemy fire is either off screen or from a vehicle, but the second they are on camera, they are doing the squat and shooting over their heads.
Like literally just racist to the most basic elements of the show, the incidental battle footage is filled with incompetent less than humans getting mowed down without a real fight.
self conscious that i came off unserious on my PSL call like idk they wanted me to have more organizing experience or to ask more questions or have a firmer grounding in theory or ideas about praxis or something. they did give me a resource for a way to start getting involved soon though, maybe it’s in my head. sometimes worry my sensitive/anxious temperament would just make me a liability in an organizing context too though
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The fed: god inflation is so bad ugh we need to reduce the amount of money in circulation
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