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This month in labour history

1-03-1921 16,000 people met in Kronstadt, Russia, which passed a 15-point resolution condemning the new Bolshevik dictatorship and calling for all power to the soviets and freedom of press and assembly for workers and peasants. [more]

2-03-1921 Conference marking the start of the non-violent revolt in Kronstadt (Crimea) and the Russian utimatum. The revolt will be crushed on April 19 by the Red Army under the command of Trotsky. [more]

3-03-1921 he first issue of the Kronstadt Izvestia, bulletin of rebel sailors, soldiers & workers of Kronstadt was published. [more]

7-03-1921 Bolshevik Red Army attacks Kronstadt Commune - workers and sailors who first started the Russian revolution hold out 12 days [more]

7-03-1917 Workers at the Putilov steel plant announce a strike. It is the beginning of what will become the February Revolution, leading to the fall of the Tsar. [more]

8-03-1917 There are mass rallies and meetings in Petrograd to mark International Women's Day. Women visit surrounding factories, bringing 50,000 workers out on strike. The February Revolution is under way. [more]

8-03-1921 Lenin decides on an International Women's Day, the date of which he fixes, 8 March, in memory of workers in St. Petersburg. [more]

9-03-1952 Alexandra Kollontai, Russian Marxist revolutionary, dies. [more]

10-03-1917 General strike in Petrograd. By telegram Nicolas II gives the order to "immediately put an end to the disorders in the capital". 150 die. [more]

28-03-1914 General strike in Saint Petersburg. 45,000 unemployed people and workers form rallies and sing revolutionary songs. [more]