Calendar of Radical Events in History

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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1905: First soviet, St. Petersburg
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1879: Puerto Rican labor organizer and anarcho-feminist Luisa Capetillo born
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1911: Joe Hill’s “The Preacher and the Slave” first appears in IWW Little Red Songbook
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1946: 400,000 miners strike
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1909: 150 Arrested In IWW Free Speech fight, Spokane, WA
1811: Weavers and knitters smash machines at Sutton and Ashfield, England
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1956: Hungarian Revolt crushed by Soviet troops in Budapest
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1855: Eugene Debs Born, Socialist Leader
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1918: Revolt in shipyards in Kiel & Hamburg and Creation of Workers’ Councils, Germany
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
2012: Tens of thousands join striking miners’ march in Madrid
1917: Bolshevik Revolution launched in Russia
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1935: Congress of Industrial Organizations founded
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1887: Haymarket martyrs executed
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1815: Elizabeth Cady Stanton born, early feminist
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1866: Voltairine de Cleyre Born
2011: 30,000 march across New York City protesting Nov. 15 eviction of Occupy from Zuccotti Park
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1915: IWW songwriter Joe Hill murdered by Utah authorities
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1909: NY female garment workers strike in “uprising of the 20,000”
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2021: 10 unions in general strike across India demand end to privatization and union-busting legislation and relief for impoverished workers
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2012: Bangladesh Garment Workers Strike to Protest Death of 123 in Fire
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1990: Bulgarian workers topple government in general strike
1985: 500,000 member Congress of South African Trade Unions forms
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1930: Mother Jones Dies: “Im not a lady, I’m a hell-raiser!”
1835: Birth of Mark Twain
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1955: Rosa Parks keeps her bus seat after a hard day’s work
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1859: John Brown hanged
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1946: General Strike in Oakland, CA
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1969: Chicago police kill Black Panther Fred Hampton
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1955: Anti-segregation bus boycott begins in Montgomery
Republic Windows workers seize factory to prevent shutdown – now they own it!
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1936: IWW strikes Weyerhaeuser and other Idaho lumber camps
1946: 400,000 miners strike
1911: Joe Hill’s “The Preacher and the Slave” first appears in IWW Little Red Songbook

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