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Today in Labour History

1381 United Kingdom The Great Peasants' Revolt broke out in the county of Essex. 100,000 landless peasants converge on London in mid-June

1887 Belgium Striking workers' wives express their anger in Saint-Vaast and Jolimont where the Régiment des Guides charges them, sabers drawn.

1915 United Kingdom Striking tram workers in London destroyed trams and attacked scabs in support of a war bonus. The employers sacked them all, but had to concede bonus anyway by August.

1917 France At 07:00 a thousand women at the Salmson factory in Issy strike and then demonstrate in front of other factories. At 15:30 3,500 strikers are at the Porte de Versailles and cross Paris demanding the end of the war.

1925 China British-led police in Shanghai massacred 12 workers and students supporting a strike at a Japanese-owned cotton mill. The working class responded with a massive strike until being broken the following year by Chinese nationalists.

1937 USA Memorial Day Massacre: Police gunned down 10 fleeing steelworkers who had been striking for fair wages and safer working conditions at the Republic Steel mill on Chicago’s Southeast Side. It was filmed with newsreel cameras.[more]

1968 France Deadlocked, the social crisis of May 68 leads to a political crisis, De Gaulle announces the dissolution of the National Assembly.

1968 Senegal Unions announced plans for an indefinite general strike in protest at police brutality against a student uprising. Despite police repression, workers held firm until the government caved in for a 15% increase in wages.

1969 Curacao A workers' uprising began which eventually brought down the government. A mass strike shut down the economy, and widespread rioting broke out against low pay and race discrimination.

1984 UK Miners leader Arthur Scargill, along with 81 other pickets, is arrested at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire.

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