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#OtD 15 Jul 1954 the right-wing dictatorship of general Francisco Franco amended the 1933 vagrancy law to criminalise homosexuality. Over the next 25 years, around 5,000 LGBT+ people would be imprisoned and subjected to brutal sexual violence stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8682/f…

#OtD 15 Jul 1907 Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer, was publicly beheaded in her home village, Shanyin, at the age of 31 for her involvement in the Anqing Uprising, a plot to overthrow the Qing Dynasty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8678/q…

#OtD 15 Jul 1937 US seaman and Spanish civil war fighter Raymond Albert Steele was killed in action during the Brunete campaign. A member of the revolutionary @IWW union, Steele joined the Abraham ALBA of US volunteers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8680/r…

#OtD 15 Jul 2009 construction workers in South Africa building stadiums for the 2010 World Cup won their strike for a pay increase. 70,000 workers walked out more than a week earlier, claiming they would strike until 2011 if necessary. More info here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8687/w…

#OtD 15 Jul 2010 US socialist revolutionary and feminist poet Marilyn Jean Buck was released from prison, less than a month before her death at age 62. Buck had been sentenced to 80 years in prison for her part in bombing the US Senate in 1983.

#OtD 15 Jul 1381 John Ball, an English Lollard priest and one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt, was executed in St. Albans, England. Ball was well known for advocating social equality and preaching in English instead of Latin stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8675/j…

#OtD 15 Jul 1971 20-year-old Petra Schelm, who joined the Red Army Faction in 1970, was killed during a confrontation with the police in Hamburg – the first death in the battle of the RAF against the West German state. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-r…

#OtD 15 Jul 1969 Black Panthers Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver arrived in Algiers at the invitation of the Algerian government. Eldridge was wanted in the US after jumping bail following a clash with police in Oakland in 1968. Map and more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7763/c…

#OtD 15 Jul 1902 the Leckhampton Stalwarts led a march of 2,000 people to Leckhampton Hill, where they tore down a cottage built by the new quarry owner that blocked a right of way and filled in a pit where working people held a fair every Easter. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8677/t…

#OtD 15 Jul 1927 a mass strike broke out in Vienna, Austria after the acquittal of right-wing paramilitaries who killed a man and a child. Workers set fire to the Ministry of Justice and then were attacked by police. 89 were killed, some 600 injured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8679/j…

#OtD 15 Jul 1942 British military exploded an anthrax bomb on Gruinard island in Scotland. It was one of a series of biological warfare experiments carried out on the uninhabited island which had been requisitioned by the government during WWII stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8681/g…

#OtD 15 Jul 1976 Eva Schulze-Knabe, German artist, communist and resistance fighter, died aged 69. She was sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis in 1933/34 but survived the war, then jailed for life in 1942 but freed from prison in 1945 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8685/e…

#OtD 15 Jul 1885 the first issue of the strongly anti-religious Yiddish-language socialist newspaper 'Der Arbeter Fraynd' (The Workers' Friend) was published in London. When Saul Yanovsky became editor in 1891, it took a clear anarchist orientation. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8676/d…

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#OtD 16 Jul 1977 Rita Ward began a successful "lie-in" at Northampton General Hospital with support from the hospital workers there. She had been waiting 18 months for an operation and had been told she would need to wait another year or pay £500 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8791/n…

#OtD 16 Jul 1862 feminist, writer, and anti-racist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born. Wells' investigative journalism documented lynchings in the American south, and she was one of the founders of the NAACP stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8788/i…

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