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Hong Kong / China UN experts and international trade unions call for the immediate release of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung [HKLRM] 29-08-2026
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1907 Guatemala Luisa Moreno, labour organizer and immigrant rights activist, is born.[more]
1913 Ireland James Connolly is sentenced to three months in prison for incitement, as the Dublin strike continues.
1913 Ireland Two workers, John Byrne and James Nolan, are beaten by police in separate attacks, and both die of their wounds in hospital.[more]
1917 Australia First labour martyr Merv Flanagan shot and killed in Sydney during General Strike for yelling 'scab'. His murderer Reginald Wearne ( whose brother was a consevative MP) was never convicted.[more]
1920 Italy Alfa Romeo's 2,000 workers in Milan find their factory occupied by the military, the next day 400,000 workers occupy nearly 1,000 metallurgy factories across the country. Factory councils take control of production.
1965 Switzerland A section of the Allain glacier collapsed on the Mattmark Dam construction site. 88 dead (56 Italians), their poorly placed barracks buried under 3 metres of ice, rock, etc.
1965 Switzerland A glacial slide of the Allalin-glacier near Mattmark in the Valais buries and kills 88 mostly Italian construction workers under 500 000 m3 of ice.[more]
2007 Poland A Solidarnosc-led bus workers strike defeats the proposed privatisation of the service in the city of Kielce.[more]
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