Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has posted a gloating video of the construction of a gallows complex where Palestinians convicted of terror offences – but not Jewish extremists accused of similar crimes – will be hanged. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Israel’s Ben-Gvir posts video of gallows site for hanging Palestinians

Far-right minister says those convicted in military courts of terror offences will be executed after passing of death penalty law that does not apply to Jewish extremists

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Today in #LaborHistory 8/22/1978: #Sandinistas captured National Palace, launching their #revolution. Red & black on their flags came from the anarchosyndicalists. Sandino spent much of the 1920s working with Mexican anarchosyndicalists, including the #IWW.

Today in #LaborHistory 8/22/1791: #ToussaintLouverture led >100,000 Haitian slaves in #revoltuion against France, making #Haiti world's 1st black republic. France demanded $21 billion (today’s dollars) in reparations in exchange for peace

No, it’s not the unhoused people sleeping on the sidewalk. Nor the single mom collecting welfare to keep her kids fed. Nor the undocumented immigrants, who actually contribute more in taxes than they take back in services. It's the rich who are leaches! www.commondreams.org/news/white-p...

Today in #LaborHistory 8/21/1920: 3-hr gunfight btwn striking #miners & guards. 6 died. #GeneralStrike threatened. 1 yr later, Battle of Blair Mountain, largest armed #insurrection since #CivilWar. >100 killed, incl 3 soldiers & 20 private #police. Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/t...

Today in #LaborHistory 8/21/1831: #NatTurner #revolt in Virginia. Killed >50 whites. In response, white mobs killed ~120 enslaved & free African Americans. New laws restricted #civilliberties for free blacks. Depicted by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1855 #novel “Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.”

Today in #LaborHistory 8/21/1752: French radical priest Jacques Roux was born in Charente, France. Fought for classless society & #abolition of private property in French Revolution. Depicted in Peter Weiss's play Marat/Sade.

Today in #LaborHistory 8/21/1680: #Pueblo #Indians captured Santa Fe from Spain. Drove 2,000 settlers out of province. Spain reconquered #NewMexico 12 yrs later. Depicted in #fiction by #indigenous #authors Clara Natonabah, Nolan Eskeets & Ariel Antone, James Lujan. Also by Willa Cather.

Class solidarity!!!

Not to mention the threat of growing up under authoritarianism and climate catastrophe.

Today in Labor History August 20, 1968: The Soviet Army invaded Prague with tanks and more than 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops ultimately crushing the "Prague Spring." #workingclass #LaborHistory #prague #uprising #rebellion #soviet #ussr #coldwar #tanks

Today in #LaborHistory 8/20/1619: African slaves landed in Virginia. However, chattel #slavery & indentured servitude for whites was common in the colonies since 1526. Concept of race didn’t take hold until Bacon’s #Rebellion 1876, when free & enslaved blacks & whites united against ruling class

Today in #LaborHistory 8/18/1936: #LGBTQ #poet #GarciaLorca was executed by fascist General Francisco #Franco during civil war against #fascism. Salvador #Dali, 1-time lover of Lorca, fawned over Franco & #Hitler leading to his ouster from #surrealism movement

Sorry but if we let people choose their own gender then what's next? Something else that's none of my business and won't harm me in the slightest? I mean where does it end?

Today in #LaborHistory 8/18/1977: Steve #Biko arrested in King William's Town, #SouthAfrica. Died from #police beating. Biko was 31, a #socialist anti-apartheid activist. Leading figure in South African Students' Organisation.

Today in #LaborHistory 8/18/1920: 19th Amendment to US #Constitution ratified guaranteeing #women right to vote. Enfranchised 26 million women just before 1920 #POTUS election. Prioritized reform agenda, incl Sheppard–Towner Maternity & Infancy Protection Act, the nation's 1st social security law.

Today in #LaborHistory 8/18/1823: Enslaved people in Demerara (Guyana) launched #uprising. The rebellion was largely nonviolent, but the authorities still brutally crushed it. They slaughtered hundreds of slaves and executed dozens more after the fighting ended.

Today in #LaborHistory 8/18/1812: #Luddite Corn Market #riot of #women & boys in Leeds, England. Huge food shortages & #inflation due to War of 1812 & Napoleonic wars. New #tech replacing workers. Charlotte Bronte’s #novel Shirley (1849) takes place during this #uprising.

Even though crime is at record low levels they must keep pretending it's a massive threat to you Because then you are worried that the thief is someone like you who might steal your phone Not the Banks, Supermarkets, Energy Companies... Who rob you every second of every day

Today in #LaborHistory 8/17/1985: Members of UFCW in Austin, Minnesota went on strike against Hormel, makers of #SPAM, after bosses slashed wages by nearly 25%. Attacked by #police, national guards, #communist party & their own union leadership, they ultimately lost the #strike.

The result of Centrism is Fascism. They do nothing to undo the changes that the Right Wing parties make. While they fight the Left Wing parties even harder than the Fascists because the Left Wing might make them pay more tax. Don't support the Centrist drivel.

Today in #LaborHistory 8/16/2012: South African #police fatally shot 34 miners; wounded 78 in Marikana #massacre, during 6-week #wildcat #strike at Lonmin platinum mine. It was the most lethal attack by South African security forces against #civilians since 1976 #Soweto #uprising. #apartheid #racism

Today in #LaborHistory 8/16/1973: 60-yr-old #UFW member, Juan de la Cruz was shot & killed by a #scab during 2nd grape #boycott. Another UFW #union striker, Nagi Daifallah, was killed two days before.