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#OtD 23 Mar 1931 Indian revolutionary socialists Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru were executed by the British. While opposing British colonialism, they also advocated working-class revolution against both British and Indian capitalists

#OtD 1 Jan 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, not because he was anti-racist but to undermine Confederacy: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white & Black races" https://t.co/s6STHbJtVW

#OtD 1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here: https://t.co/E7oPZOr58a

#OtD 29 Dec 1890 the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota when US troops massacred over 200 Lakota men, women & children, many of them unarmed and fleeing. Learn more about Indigenous genocide and resistance in this book: https://t.co/YomPDwMR39

#OtD 13 Oct 1947 the Soviet military govt in East Germany introduced measures to fight "slackers", including piecework pay and bigger wage differentials. But workers resisted: they shared food and goods, and did slowdowns and sabotage https://t.co/kEcngpXiUR

#OtD 20 Sep 1763 Filipina revolutionary anti-colonial leader Gabriela Silang was executed by Spanish authorities. The previous week she attempted to besiege Vigan, but was forced back to Abra, where she was captured.

#OtD 19 Sep 1793 during the Haitian revolution, 600 British soldiers sent from Jamaica landed at Jérémie, Haiti. French property owners had made an agreement with Britain for Saint Domingue to become a British colony with slavery reinstated.

#OtD 26 Aug 2017 Chilean riot dog Negro Matapacos (Black Cop-Killer) died of old age. A Santiago stray, he defied teargas, barked at police and defended protesters in the 2011 student movement and subsequently. Commemorative posters & more here: https://t.co/3J9jZjn4fT

#OtD 21 Aug 1791 the Haitian revolution began as 100,000 enslaved people rose up and eventually overthrew both slavery and French rule, creating the world's first Black republic.

Read Black Jacobins!
https://t.co/JnHBLeQWcS

#OtD 25 Jun 1876 the Battle of the Little Bighorn began when Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes routed General Custer's army, killing Custer in the process. A full account of the battle is in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: https://t.co/ViImGYFMfT