Calendar of Radical Events in History

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1946: Hawaii sugar plantation 79-day strike begins – breaking the power of the plantation owners
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1920: 500,000 Italian metal workers occupy their factories
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1903: 30,000 women from trades march in Chicago Labor Day parade
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1921: Mass arrests of IWW ordered by US Attorney General Palmer
1917: Mass arrests of IWWs ordered by U.S. Attorney General Palmer
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
1918: Palmer raids on all IWW halls and offices in US
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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
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
1932: 2 locked-our coal miners killed while picketing. Featherstone, England
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1965: UFW begins boycott of boycott
1911: National Confederation of Labor founded in Spain
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Attica Prison Uprising
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1797: Pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft dies
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
1918: Eugene Debs sentenced to 10 years for opposing the war
1936: IWW seamen strike to block arms shipment to Franco’s fascists, ISU scabs
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1971: Rebellion at Attica Prison; police kill 39 prisoners and hostages
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1849: Margaret Sanger 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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1873: Mexican revolutionary Ricardo Flores MagĂłn born
2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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2011: Occupy Wall Street Begins
1868: Working Women’s Association formed in U.S.
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
1889: Jane Addams founds Hull House, Chicago
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1978: Upton Sinclair born, socialist and author of The Jungle
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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1862: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation President Abraham Lincoln thewhich stated that enslaved people in states still in rebellion against the United States would be free on January 1, 1863
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
1786: Shay’s Rebellion, Springfield, Massachusetts
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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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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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
1883: English publication of Johann Most’s “Human of the Proletariat”
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2016: 150 million government workers strike against privatization and for higher minimum wage: India
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1903: 30,000 women from 26 trades march in Chicago Labor Day parade
1949: 500,000 steel workers 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
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1909: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn arrested in Missoula, Montana, free-speech fight
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
1946: 400,000 miners strike
1936: IWW strikes Weyerhaeuser and other Idaho lumber camps
ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1971 a four-day rebellion of over 1200 inmates at the Attica State Correctional Facility in bucolic upstate New York ended most horrifically...

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