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1893 United Kingdom Foundation of the Independent Labour Party following the Manningham Mills strike in Bradford.[more]

1918 Austria Strike in Wiener Neustadt against lowering of flour rations. The movement very quickly affects all the industrial territories of the Empire. Almost a million workers and employees stop work.

1929 Australia 600 union dock workers rushed the scab-filled Mareeba steamship in Port Adelaide. Scabs and police fought the workers, who retaliated with stones, injuring 30 scabs. One scab began shooting into the crowd but was not arrested.

1961 Belgium The general strike ends. The metal workers in Liege, in Hainaut and the gas companies resist the recovery and is often done to the song of the International. The sanctioned comrades are assiduously defended.

1974 Martinique Demonstrations in Fort-de-France with cries of “Down with the colonialist government” bringing together high school students, CET students and strikers from France-Antilles who have been fighting for more than 2 months against their predatory boss, Her

2003 United States of America General Electric decides to transfer $ 400 / year from the employer's share of health insurance contributions to each employee. 14,000 of them go on strike for 2 days in protest.

2011 Tunisia President Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia after street protests led by the UGTT brought down his government at the start of the Arab spring.

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