Huge crowd of Seattle shipyard workers leaving the shipyard after going on strike, 1919. By Webster & Stevens - http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/imlsmohai/id/11087/rec/16, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72402734

Today in #LaborHistory 2/6/1919: #Seattle #GeneralStrike began. 65,000 workers, many #IWW, participated. #WorkerCouncils took over most major services, incl food distribution & security.
#workingclass #union #afl #wageslavery

The success of the #Axis propaganda in rebranding a dictatorial authoritarian economic model as “democracy” and in rebranding democratic shop floor #WorkerCouncils as “authoritarian” barely needs to be stated: it completely captured the world hegemony over the course of the brutal #ColdWar.

Huge crowd of Seattle shipyard workers leaving the shipyard after going on strike, 1919. By Webster & Stevens - http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/imlsmohai/id/11087/rec/16, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72402734

Today in #LaborHistory 2/6/1919: #Seattle #GeneralStrike began. 65,000 workers, many #IWW, participated. #WorkerCouncils took over most major services, incl food distribution & security.

#workingclass #union #afl #wageslavery