Taft-Hartley Act (1947) On this day in 1947, the Taft-Hartley Act became U.S. law after a heavily bipartisan vote, greatly restricting the legal rights of organizing workers during an...
Sanrizuka Struggle Begins (1966) On this day in 1966, the Japanese government announced the construction of an airport on farmland in rural Sanrizuka, without permission of displaced locals. The...
James Maxton (1885 - 1946) James Maxton, born on this day in 1885, was a socialist Scottish politician, pacifist, and leader of the Independent Labour Party, a dissident working class party to the...
Edward Snowden (1983 - ) Edward Snowden, born on this day in 1983, is an American whistleblower who leaked highly classified information from the NSA in 2013 when he was working as a CIA employee,...
Freedom Summer Murders (1964) On this day in 1964, civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were assassinated by white supremacists in Philadelphia, Mississippi....
Speckled Snake Speaks (1829) On this day in 1829, Speckled Snake, an indigenous man more than a century old, gave a speech to a council of chiefs on the genocidal nature of U.S. policy of...
Ezeiza Massacre (1973) On this day in 1973, anti-communist snipers fired on a huge crowd of Peronists gathered at Ezeiza International Airport to witness the return of Juan Perón. At least...
Adela Pankhurst (1885 - 1961) Adela Pankhurst, born on this day in 1885, was a British suffragette and pacifist who advocated for class-conscious feminism. Pankhurst founded the Communist Party of...
Juneteenth (1865) Juneteenth is a U.S. holiday commemorating black emanicipation and power that originates from Galveston, Texas, where, on this day in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger...
George Thompson (1804 - 1878) George Donisthorpe Thompson, born on this day in 1804, was a prominent British anti-slavery orator and liberal reformer who gave lecturing tours and worked for...
Mariya Kislyak Executed (1943) Mariya Kislyak was a Soviet partisan and leader of a Kharkov underground Komsomol cell, where she seduced and killed Nazi officers, actions for which she was...
Angelo Sbardellotto Executed (1932) Angelo Sbardellotto was an Italian anarchist executed by the state on this day in 1932 for plotting to assassinate Benito Mussolini. He refused to beg for...
Charleston Church Massacre (2015) On this day in 2015, the Charleston Church Massacre took place in Charleston, South Carolina when a white supremacist entered Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...
East German Uprising (1953) On this day in 1953, in what became an uprising of more than one million people, 300 East German construction workers protested at government buildings, demanding the...
Espionage Act (1917) The Espionage Act, passed on this day in 1917, is a federal U.S. law which has been used to suppress labor and political activism from American dissidents such as Eugene V....
Michael Prysner (1983 - ) Michael Prysner, born on this day in 1983, is an American veteran and anti-war activist who produces and co-writes The Empire Files with Abby Martin and co-hosted "Eyes...
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) Harriet Beecher Stowe, born on this day in 1811, was an American abolitionist and author, best known for her anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", published...
David Barsamian (1945 - ) David Barsamian, born on this day in 1945, is an Armenian-American radio broadcaster, writer, and the founder of Alternative Radio, a Colorado-based syndicated weekly...
Walter Rodney Assassinated (1980) Walter Rodney was a Guyanese public intellectual and Pan-African Marxist who was assassinated by the state on this day in 1980, at 38 years old. "If there is to...
Pentagon Papers Released (1971) On this day in 1971, the Pentagon Papers, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, were published by the New York Times, detailing secret information about the history of and...
