On This Day in Working Class History
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12 November 1956: Liverpool dockers boycott
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11 November 1918: Switzerland general strike
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10 November 1933: Hormel strike
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9 November 1962: Manila port strike
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8 November 2004: New Caledonia nickel strike
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7 November 1988: Brazil CSN strike
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6 November 1912: Grabow mill arson
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5 November 1811: Saint-Leu enslaved revolt
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4 November 1910: Champagne tax strike
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3 November 2017: Marshall Islands fish strike
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2 November 1917: Balfour declaration
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1 November 2008: Boeing workers win strike
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31 October 1979: Iran oil workers strike
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30 October 1919: Pennsylvania blind workers strike
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29 October 1831: Bristol reform riots
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28 October 1916: Conscription defeated in Australia
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27 October 1948: NYC brewery strike grows
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26 October 1983: Northwood and Pinner occupation
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25 October 1983: Hayes Cottage Hospital occupied
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24 October 1975: La Tondeña strike
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23 October 1913: Bristol University Suffragette arson
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22 October 1921: Castleconnell fisheries strike
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21 October 1935: St Vincent Labour rebellion
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20 October 1901: Rosario sugar strike
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19 October 1945: Chinese seamen deported
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18 October 1931: Braunschweig strike
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17 October 1950: Salt of the Earth strike
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16 October 1951: Spit and polish action
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15 October 1913: Indian miners protest indenture tax
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14 October 1976: One million strike in Canada
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13 October 1948: Ruppert brewery strike
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12 October 1919: Port Edgar mutiny
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11 October 1884: New Straitsville mine fire
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10 October 1947: West Africa railway strike
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9 October 1912: Little Falls textile strike
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8 October 1916: Standard Oil workers strike
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7 October 1988: Montenegro mass strike
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6 October 1995: Boeing machinists strike
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5 October 2001: Malawi health workers strike
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4 October 1945: Navy breaks oil strike
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3 October 2019: Ecuador Indigenous protests
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2 October 1915: Morozov mill strike
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1 October 2012: Estonia health workers strike
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1 October 2012: Estonia health workers strike
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30 September 1919: Daily Sketch workers censorship
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29 September 1909: Missoula free-speech fight
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28 September 1991: Shankar Guha Niyogi assassinated
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28 September 1991: Shankar Guha Niyogi assassinated
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27 September 1973: UFW wins strike
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26 September 1939: Ricky Tomlinson born
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