Parody of movie poster for Kill Bill, by Tarantino, with Uma Thurman in a yellow jump suit holding a sword, but the title is changed to "Kill Billionaires" and has a circle A at the bottom

Anthony Quinn, as Eufemio Zapata (standing), with Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952). By Unknown author - eBay, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128471494

Today in #LaborHistory 4/21/1915: #AnthonyQuinn was born. Mexican-American. #AcademyAward for Viva Zapata! 1952 & Lust for Life, 1956. #CivilRights activist. Raised funds for #Mexican American youth in Sleepy Lagoon trial. Supported 1963 March on #Washington & #indigenous #occupation of #Alcatraz

Illustration of the robbery of Société Générale Bank in Chantilly on 25 March 1912. By Le Petit Journal - This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID bpt6k717003q/f4, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3922545

Today in #LaborHistory 4/21/1913: Andre Soudy & Raymond Callemin of anarchist #BonnotGang executed. Callemin started paper "L'anarchie" with #author & #revolutionary #VictorSerge. #Anarchist Bonnot Gang funded their movement through robberies. Among first to use cars & automatic rifles in robberies.

Portrait of Mark Twain with thick gray moustache and unruly gray hair, with the quote: Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Today in #LaborHistory 4/21/1910: #MarkTwain died. #author, #antiimperialist, #feminist, supported #KnightsOfLabor #union. Supported #uprising against #Russian czar. Opposed #slavery, #racism. #books #writer #novels #fiction #literature

Friedrich Fröbel (Frederick Froebel), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. By C.W. Bardeen, publisher - Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-00127 (digital file from original print), uncompressed archival TIFF version (168 MiB), level color (pick white and black point), cropped and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4981802

Today in #LaborHistory 4/21/1782: Friedrich Froebel was born. Invented #kindergarten. Suppressed by Prussian govt. Among 1st to teach coeducation boys & girls. Inspired anarchist educators like #FranciscoFerrer & #ModernSchool movement. Read more michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...

Cartoon of a proud, grinning white dude saying, "I'm proud to be a self-made billionaire! He's surrounded by the following: Govt Subsidies (Image of Uncle Sam dumping out a bucket of cash) Inherited wealth (Image of a baby sleeping on sacks of cash) Tax Loopholes (image of a black hole with money coming out) Publicly funded infrastructure (image of freeway with cash raining on it.) Exploited workers

@ Clowns Against Child Poverty Continued posted an image of a soldier firing a Javelin missile from a shoulder launcher. Caption reads: “ Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is outrageous." - Sebastian Junger -

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social writes: Bill Gates claims Al will replace Doctors and Teachers within 10 years. I suggest we replace completely useless billionaires right now and free up $20tn for 'investment'.

Bill Gates claims Al will replace Doctors & Teachers within 10 years. I suggest we replace completely useless billionaires right now & free up $20tn for 'investment'.

Completely useless billionaires?

C'mon, they're all completely useless.

For a world without bosses, landlords, priests, or kings!

The Great Arab Revolt 1936, a car designed to remove sabotage nails from the road, with whisk brooms attached to the front bumper, just in front of the front wheels. By Whiting, John D, photographer - http://memory.loc.gov/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32821739

Today in #LaborHistory 4/19/1936: Arabs in Mandatory #Palestine began 6-month #GeneralStrike against #colonialism, #zionism & #immigration of #jews. #Solidarity actions occurred in Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut.

Patrick at the 2017 Camping World 500, looking to the side, with long hair, sunglasses, and a red and white racing jumpsuit. By Morrison_2001 - Camping World 500 @ Phoenix International Raceway, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68798014

Today in #LaborHistory 4/20/2008: #DanicaPatrick won #Indy 300 Japan, becoming first woman to win an Indy race. Also first woman to clinch a pole position in #NASCAR Cup Series. Also most starts, laps led, top-tens in the NASCAR Cup Series of any #women. #workingclass #womenssports #autoracing

Ludlow death car, filled with armed private cops and a mounted machine gun.

After #LudlowMassacre, armed miners fought natl guards & scabs. June 1914, anarchists planned #assassination of #Rockefeller, owner of Ludlow mine. Bomb exploded prematurely at anarchist #ModernSchool. Led to infiltration & disruption by #cops. Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...

Three women and a man surveying the ruins of the Ludlow Tent Colony in the aftermath of the massacre. Debris, stove pipes, bed frames, a barrel. By Bain News Service - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ggbain.15859.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10277066

Today in #LaborHistory 4/20/1914: Natl Guards opened fire w/machine guns & set fire to labor camp during #mining #strike in #Ludlow, #Colorado. Killed 5 miners, 2 #women, 12 #children. By strike's, they'd killed >75. Many "guards" were #vigilantes. Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/t...

Capitalists are the
parasites, not the working poor.

Capitalists do not sustain themselves through
labor. They sustain themselves
on the labor of others, whose wages
represent only a small fraction of the value
produced by their labor. Capitalists are the
parasites, not the working poor.

Martin Seeger @masek@infosec.exchange writes I‘m not opposed to billionaires using rockets to visit space. It’s them coming back that irks me.

I‘m not opposed to billionaires using rockets to visit space. It’s them coming back that irks me.

Capitalists claim that CEOs deserve their high pay because of the high demands and hard work their jobs entail.

But how demanding can it be if you can simultaneously be CEO of multiple different companies (Musk is CEO of 5) and be on the boards of various philanthropies & foundations?

Black and white photo of Modestino Valentino, looking straight ahead, in a stiff collar and suit.

Today in #LaborHistory 4/19/1913: Modestino Valentino, a bystander, killed by company detectives during #IWW Patterson, N.J. Silk #Strike. During strike, 1,850 workers arrested, incl #ElizabethGurleyFlynn & #BigBillHaywood. #workingclass #union #police #policebrutality

Riot police of the Grand Rapids Police Department in 1911, with bell-shaped helmets and clubs. By Grand Rapids Daily News - https://origins.calvin.edu/2020/05/07/johannes-groen-and-grand-rapids-politics/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108239304

Today in #LaborHistory 4/19/1911: >6,000 #immigrants began furniture #strike, #GrandRapids, #Michigan. Worked six 10-hr days for <$2/day. Owner tried to drive truck full of #scabs thru a picket. Workers fought back with rocks & bricks. #Police beat people with clubs.

Bottle of Delysid, next to a box that reads: Physician's Sample.

Today in #LaborHistory 4/19/1943: #AlbertHoffman, inventor of #LSD, tested his 1st dose & went for a bike ride. This day is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. From that date forward, #workingclass people could finally afford to go on a trip. Hoffman later went on to isolate #psilicyben.

Jewish women and children forcibly removed from a bunker by Schutzstaffel (SS) units for deportation either to Majdanek or Treblinka extermination camps (1943). The are walking with their hands in the air, with Nazi soldiers aiming guns at them. By Unknown author (Franz Konrad confessed to taking some of the photographs, the rest was probably taken by photographers from Propaganda Kompanie nr 689.[1][2]) - Image:Warsaw-Ghetto-Josef-Bloesche-HRedit.jpg uploaded by United States Holocaust MuseumThis is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Restored version of Image:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 06.jpg with artifacts and scratches removed, levels adjusted, and image sharpened.., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17223940

Today in #LaborHistory 4/19/1943: #WarsawGhettoUprising began. 300,000 #Jews crowded ghettos. Used smuggled #MolotovCocktails, grenades, #guns & explosives. #Nazis crushed #insurrection on May 16. #workingclass #holocaust #antisemitism #poland #WorldWarII #genocide #resistance #fascism #antifascism

PEOPLE IN THE SIXTIES: I BETTER NOT SAY THAT OR THE GOVERNMENT WILL WIRETAP MY HOUSE PEOPLE TODAY: HEY WIRETAP, DO YOU HAVE A RECIPE FOR PANCAKES

Oldie but goodie!

SOLIDARITY!

Exactly. F*ck the bs that college educated, or service workers, teachers, nurses aren't working-class.

We all are. Everyone who works for wages. Who doesn't own the business. Who can't hire & fire people.

And we have the same interests, too. Defeating capitalism. Abolishing bosses.

SOLIDARITY!

Why pay CEOs at all? They're completely unnecessary. Purely parasitic. Let's get rid of them completely.

View of the destruction from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake at Post and Grant

Today in #LaborHistory 4/18/1906: #SanFrancisco #earthquake. Killed >3,000. Over 1/2 the population #homeless. #IWW bard, composer of “Big Rock Candy Mountains,” was there at the time, helping the firefighters & feeding the victims.

Read more on Haywire Mac: michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/16/t...

cartoon of a working-class man fishing on one side of a river. Across the river is a rich man in a suit and top hat, also fishing, but his line is hooking the poor man's bucket of fish. Caption: SAD REALITY

Antifascist women partisans in Italy marching with rifles

Today in #LaborHistory 4/18/1945: #GeneralStrike & #uprising in #Turin & other Italian cities against #Nazis. by 4/25 they ended #fascism in several cities. Fascism throughout the country would soon fall, too. #workingclass #LaborHistory

#WestVirginia Labor War began today in 1912. Incl battles of #Matewan & #BlairMountain, largest #insurrection since #CivilWar. Largest labor #uprising in US history. 15,000 miners fought 3,000 cops & vigilantes. 100 miners & 30 private #cops died. Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/t...

Mother Jones, in black dress, gray hair, speaks to an assembled crowd on a wooden stage in Montgomery, West Virginia in 1912 ahead of the Paint Creek Miners’ Strike.

Today in #LaborHistory 4/18/1912: #WestVirginia called out Natl Guard against thousands of striking coal #miners. Killed 50. Baldwin-Felts Detectives routinely murdered miners & evicted them from company towns. #MotherJones supported miners. #massacre #socialism #union #workingclass #coal