Calendar of Radical Events in History

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The International Workingmen’s Association is founded in London (1864)
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1883: English publication of Johann Most’s “Human of the Proletariat”
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
1949: 500,000 steel workers strike
1903: 30,000 women from 26 trades march in Chicago Labor Day parade
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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
1909: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn arrested in Missoula, Montana, free-speech fight
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1936: IWW strikes Weyerhaeuser and other Idaho lumber camps
1946: 400,000 miners strike
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
1934: 40,000 miners and iron workers strike, seizing towns near Gijon, Spain, 3,000 killed
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1845: First U.S. co-op store opens in Boston
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
Birth of Joe Hill in Gavle, Sweden
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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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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
1909: Education reformer Francisco Ferrer executed: Spanish Gov’t says free schools let to workers’ revolt
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
Worker Co-Op in Olympia
1883: International Working People’s Association founded in Pittsburgh, PA
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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
1950: “Salt of the Earth” strike in Silver City, New Mexico; strikers’ wives walk picket lines for 7 months during 14-month strike
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1927: IWW Colorado mine strike; first time all coal fields out
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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1887: Birth of John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World
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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1878: Anti-Socialist law passed in Germany
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1956: Hungarian Revolution begins; worker’s councils and militias demand a socialism controlled by the working class itself
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1940: 40-hour workweek law takes effect
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2011: Police evict Occupy Oakland, fracturing Iraq veteran’s skull; protestors take the site back the next day
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1905: First soviet, St. Petersburg
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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1879: Puerto Rican labor organizer and anarcho-feminist Luisa Capetillo born
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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1936: IWW strikes Weyerhaeuser and other Idaho lumber camps
1911: Joe Hill’s “The Preacher and the Slave” first appears in IWW Little Red Songbook
1946: 400,000 miners strike

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