On This Day in Working Class History
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4 January 1917: Guyana wharf workers strike
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3 January 2018: Togo hospital strike
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2 January 1950: Smithfields market strike
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1 January 1974: UK three-day week
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31 December 1912: Wankie colliery strike
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30 December 1930: Ecuador Indigenous strike
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29 December 1968: Tokyo exams cancelled
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28 December 1962: SF dockers boycott apartheid cargo
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27 December 1831: Christmas rebellion escalates
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26 December 1904: Baku strike
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25 December 1522: Santo Domingo enslaved revolt
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24 December 1783: Christmas Eve mutinies
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22 December 1988: Chico Mendes assassinated
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21 December 2011: Yemenia Air strike
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20 December 2021: Ivory Coast dockers strike
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17 December 1906: Lodz lockout
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16 December 2011: Zhanaozen massacre
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15 December 1912: Peru union assembly
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14 December 2010: San Marino general strike
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13 December 1971: Ovambo strike
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12 December 1948: Batang Kali massacre
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11 December 1913: Leeds council workers strike
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10 December 1977: Palau hotel strike
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9 December 2010: Georgia prison strike
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8 December 1949: Indochina dockers boycott
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7 December 1959: Fiji oil strike
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6 December 1928: Banana massacre
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5 December 1961: Toei animators lockout
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4 December 1975: Getafe general strike
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3 December 1916: Australian Wobblies sentenced
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2 December 1984: Bhopal disaster
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1 December 1919: Trinidad and Tobago general strike
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30 November 1963: Brooklyn rent strike
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29 November 1830: Captain Swing riots
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28 November 2006: Aruba oil workers strike
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27 November 1981: Kortex strike
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26 November 1926: Britain miners strike ends
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25 November 1941: Three Schlurfs arrested
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24 November 1995: France pension strike
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23 November 1887: Thibodaux massacre
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22 November 1919: Bogalusa labour massacre
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21 November 1945: US auto workers strike
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20 November 1945: US miners strike
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19 November 1984: PEMEX disaster
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18 November 1998: Lufthansa Skychef strike
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17 November 1915: Glasgow rent strike women protest
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16 November 1984: Johannesburg rent strikers arrested
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15 November 2005: Tahiti social workers strike
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14 November 1973: Athens Polytechnic student strike
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13 November 1970: Jeon Tae-il suicide
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