#OtD 20 Jun 1967 boxing legend Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing the draft for the Vietnam war. Sentenced to five years prison and a $10,000 fine, he criticised the system where "the rich man's son went to college and the poor man's son went to war" https://t.co/5XXJMcFT5B https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9289/muhammad-ali-convicted?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 8 Jun 1926 Emily Hobhouse died in the UK. She had been a prominent opponent of World War I, and also campaigned against British concentration camps during the Boer War: one of the first historical uses of such camps https://t.co/mdktSVAbPY https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10818/emily-hobhouse-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 30 Apr 1963 a boycott was launched of buses in Bristol, England, by a group of West Indian workers in protest at the bar on Black and Asian workers working on buses in the city by bosses and the union. Months later they won https://t.co/VEqdbLVLxs https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10260/bristol-bus-boycott?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 8 Nov 1926 Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci was arrested by Mussolini's fascists during a crackdown on left-wing opposition in the country. Despite having parliamentary immunity, he was jailed until his health collapsed and he eventually died while still in partial custody

#OtD 10 Oct 1995 the first mass walkout of French public sector workers occurred against cuts to their pensions shutting transport, schools, universities and the post. Later, private sector workers joined, and by December they won https://libcom.org/history/french-pensions-strikes-1995

#OtD 10 Oct 1937, fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd https://libcom.org/history/liverpool-versus-oswald-mosley-1937

#OtD 3 Oct 1993, Katerina Gogou, Greek anarchist poet, author and actor died by suicide aged just 53. After the fall of the dictatorship, she was a key figure in the early Athens anarchist scene, and a vigourous proponent of trans and gay rights https://libcom.org/history/katerina-gogou-athens-anarchist-poetess-1940-1993

#OtD 24 Aug 1943 French philosopher and anti-fascist Simone Weil died. She opposed French colonialism, took part in factory occupations and joined the Durruti Column to fight Franco, besides working as an agricultural laborer and WWII resistance member.

#OtD 8 Aug 1879 Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary and leading figure of the peasant army which helped overthrow Porfirio Diaz in the 1910 Mexican revolution, was born. We have his biography as well as posters available here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/emiliano-zapata