workingclasshistory:

On this day, 14 August 1889, the great London dock strike began when workers at West India Dock walked out and called on others to join them. Within two weeks, 130,000 were out, and dockers’ wives organised a rent strike for the duration of the stoppage. Australian dockers donated money to support their UK colleagues, and after four weeks the employers caved and agreed nearly all the workers’ demands. The dispute marked a turning point in British working class history, as disorganised casual workers like the dockers were inspired to organise themselves and start to win. This is a short history of the struggle: https://libcom.org/history/1889-the-great-london-dock-strike https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1187727991412349/?type=3

ex0skeletal-undead:

Artwork by Florian Bertmer

movieposters:

Hammer Films

rarecultcinema:

Happy Birthday to Me (1981) directed by J. Lee Thompson

the-last-girl-scout:

vintage

merelygifted:

It’s raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains | US news | The Guardian

Plastic was the furthest thing from Gregory Wetherbee’s mind when he began analyzing rainwater samples collected from the Rocky Mountains. “I guess I expected to see mostly soil and mineral particles,” said the US Geological Survey researcher. Instead, he found multicolored microscopic plastic fibers.

The discovery, published in a recent study (pdf) titled “It is raining plastic”, raises new questions about the amount of plastic waste permeating the air, water, and soil virtually everywhere on Earth.

“I think the most important result that we can share with the American public is that there’s more plastic out there than meets the eye,” said Wetherbee. “It’s in the rain, it’s in the snow. It’s a part of our environment now.”

Rainwater samples collected across Colorado and analyzed under a microscope contained a rainbow of plastic fibers, as well as beads and shards. The findings shocked Wetherbee, who had been collecting the samples in order to study nitrogen pollution.  …

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 14 August 1944, Italian resistance partisan Irma Bandiera, aka ‘Mimma’, was murdered by the Nazis. They had blinded her and tortured her for seven days, however she refused to give up the names of her comrades. Her body was then dumped in the street outside her parent’s house. Today there is a street named after her in her native Bologna.
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https://iww.org/