this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

William Gunn Shepard, a reporter at the tragedy, would say that "I learned a new sound that day, a sound more horrible than description can picture – the thud of a speeding living body on a stone sidewalk"

Jesus Christ. Read the Wikipedia article about that fire. Those poor people.

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

[–] MaxVoltage 2 points 1 year ago

Based and unionpilled

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Only reason this French man learnt about this in the pre-Internet days was thanks to Rasputina and their song https://youtu.be/lkzll37266Y