On this day in 1886, the Great Southwest Railroad Strike began, involving more than 200,000 workers throughout the Southwestern United States.

The strike began when an agreement between the Knights of Labor and Union Pacific to give notice and investigate all firings was violated where a Knight named Charles A. Hall in Marshall, Texas was fired for attending a union meeting on company time. In response, te District Assembly #101 of the Knights called a strike.

Within a week, more than 200,000 workers were on strike throughout Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Texas, paralyzing railway lines with both inaction and sabotage.

At least nine people were killed in conflicts between police and crowds of striking workers. On April 9th in East St. Louis, eight deputies guarding a freight train shot into a crowd of strikers, killing six bystanders. The crowd responsed by setting the rail yards on fire.

After two months of protest, the strike was called off on May 4th without the workers winning their demands. The failure of the strike led directly to the collapse of the Knights of Labor and the rise of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

Hola Camaradas :fidel-salute-big: , Our Comrades In Texas are currently passing Through some Hard times :amerikkka: so if you had some Leftover Change or are a bourgeoisie Class Traitor here are some Mutual Aid programs that you could donate to :left-unity-3:

The State and Revolution :flag-su:

:lenin-shining: :unity: :kropotkin-shining:

The Conquest of Bread :ancom:

Remember, sort by new you :LIB:

Yesterday’s megathread :sad-boi:

Follow the ChapoChat twitter account :comrade-birdie:

THEORY; it’s good for what ails you (all kinds of tendencies inside!) :RIchard-D-Wolff:

COMMUNITY CALENDAR - AN EXPERIMENT IN PROMOTING USER ORGANIZING EFFORTS :af:

Join the fresh and beautiful batch of new comms:

!genzedong@hexbear.net :deng-salute:

!agitprop@hexbear.net :allende-rhetoric:

!paganism@hexbear.net :anarchist-occult:

!neurodiverse@hexbear.net :Care-Comrade:

:hammer-sickle: March Megathreads Teaser :hammer-sickle: :

  • Rosa Luxemburg :rosa:

  • International Women's Day :rose-fist:

  • Revolution in Grenada :hammer-sickle:

  • The Paris Commune the First Revolution :red-fist:

  • César Chávez :chavez-salute:

we need a comm for Labor related stuff

New Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/88869

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I went too mask off in a discord channel and got a liberal mad lmao

    but since I began posting, the chuds got scared away and the conversations have turned from questionable to openly making fun of biden and the democrats

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Lots of liberals are disillusioned potential comrades they're just afraid of talking shit about democrats from a left perspective for fear of being seen as a chud concern troll or told they're doing an enlightened centrism. I've been doing this at work a lot lately to decent effect since everyone knows I'm a self described communist (even if some of them probably think I'm doing a bit mocking right winger's framing of liberals).

        • lib_0000429384 [any]
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          4 years ago

          Lots of liberals are disillusioned potential comrades they’re just afraid of talking shit about democrats from a left perspective

          Absolutely this.

          It helps to call out chuds and libs in the same post/convo for everyone to see by framing it in a way that keeps everyone's attention.

          Ironically this can lead to being mistaken for similar enlightened centrism if they don't understand leftist ideology or are arguing in bad faith, but you can anticipate/mitigate up front for that, too.

          The main goal should always be to pull both chud and lib normies out of the conditioned "chud vs lib" framing, because neither of them really understand what leftism is (yet) and so can't even begin to factor it into their worldview without a guiding hand. I was once a chud and lib.

          Don't frighten or bore them, make them curious.

  • Penis123 [comrade/them,any]
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    4 years ago

    got a cute DM on twitter the other day and I think it just gave me a new copypasta. enjoy:

    Just saw you’re affiliated with Antifa. Jesus, you really are the epitome of a fucking pussy. Filled with a bunch of depressed incels, can’t fight, living an unfulfilled life, talks shit online to random strangers, and would never actually do anything in person. Fuck you death. Fuck Antifa. Let me know if you want me to drop a location for you to meet me. Bring some friends. You’ll need them.

  • cilantrofellow [any]
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    4 years ago

    Pro tip and I’m thinking of making an effort post on this but you and your loved ones (US) should go to a nearby vaccine distribution site and give your contact info. They will throw away doses if people miss their appointment (this is unfortunately common), so you are helping prevent that loss by being an arm even if you aren’t technically eligible. Not enough people know about this and being on standby can be more reliable than trying to sign up if you can be flexible.

    Edit: I can’t guarantee they’ll take your info every site will have different policies but it’s worth a try. More than anything it’s infuriating that there is no top down system to prevent loss right now. Do what you can to get shots in arms.

        • Melon [she/her,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I haven't checked out much of anything about him (other than how he doesn't think class reductionism is real), is there more from him that demonstrates that he's little more than a useful idiot for fascists or blatantly a Nazbol?

            • Melon [she/her,they/them]
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              4 years ago

              so he's an antisemite, uncritical Ba'athist stan, and holocaust denialist?

              I somewhat sympathize with pan-Arab folks though since many hop on that train out of the hopes of having some kind of powerful union that could permanently boot Western imperialism from the Middle East, even though that movement definitely attracts some incredibly racist and genocidal people.

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    4 years ago

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      4 years ago

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    • Alf [any]
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      2 years ago

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  • Rem [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Being horny in the morning is a form of privilege no I will not explain

  • 27fireflies [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    just joined after more than a year of lurking both on the original sub, MTC, and on here. will be proud to join the posting wars :sankara-salute:

  • FeverDream [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    story about my day from the end of last megathread:

    today i went to the prk and at the park a man had no mask on

    SO

    i said to the man "hey mister! 👋👋 DO YOU NEED A MASK I HAVE ONE FOR YOU" and i took off my mask and of course gave him a real gift

    can you believe he said "no no no who are you no get away" and that os when I licked the sidewalk and told him all the reasons why i am lonely. my roommate left canada after he released the black face photos of Trudeau to a hungry and salicious pit of media journalist pirahana mutantes.

    the ravine behind my home is filled with slithering unameable creatures why are they singing do you hear there murmurs it has a real melody after the first hour once you notice it comes from both the electrical sockets and the old unplugged ham radio left in the attic. theyre the ones that suggested i get outside and go to the park.

    so yes that man has a mask now

    :comfy: