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#OtD 4 Mar 1919 Canadian troops in the British Army awaiting demobilisation mutinied in Wales, looting the camp & improvising makeshift weapons. Events left 5 dead & 25 facing heavy prison sentences, but authorities accelerated their demobilisation https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10453/canadian-soldiers-riot-in-wales

#OtD 3 Mar 2013 Indigenous Yukpa activist Sabino Romero Izarra was murdered in Venezuela. The govt of Hugo Chavez and foreign corporations had escalated coal mining in Indigenous lands. He was one of 13 Yukpa to have been murdered in the area. More: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7942/sabino-romero-izarra-murdered

#OtD 3 Mar 1913 thousands of women marched in Washington DC demanding the right to vote were attacked by a mob while police stood by. African-American women joined the parade despite the racism of organisers who tried to exclude them https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10207/washington-dc-suffrage-parade

#OtD 3 Mar 1991 Rodney King was brutally beaten by police in Los Angeles. Despite it being caught on film (almost unheard of in those days), the officers were acquitted, and the city went up in flames in what were the biggest riots since 1968 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10218/rodney-king-beaten-by-police

#OtD 3 Mar 1914 Spanish resistance activist Maria Mombiola was born in Saragossa. Forced to flee after Franco's victory, she was interned in a concentration camp in France but managed to escape where she joined the underground resistance https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10208/maria-mombiola-born

#OtD 3 Mar 1985 after a year on strike and some of the most bitter class war in UK history the National Union of Mineworkers voted to end the stoppage. A turning point for the working class in Britain, this iconic strike came to define the decade https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10217/uk-miners'-strike-(1984-85)-ends

#OtD 3 Mar 1816 Juana Azurduy, a woman of Quechua descent from what now is Bolivia, led her anti-colonial military detachment, including a women's unit, to victory in battle against Spanish troops near El Villar. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10205/azurduy-army-defeats-spanish

#OtD 3 Mar 2000 former dictator Pinochet returned to Chile a free man after being released by Labour home secretary Jack Straw instead of being extradited to Spain on torture charges. He got a hero's welcome, while protesters were beaten by police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10219/pinochet-freed

#OtD 3 Mar 1970 during the First Quarter Storm uprising against the Marcos government, jeepney drivers in Manila went on strike and rallied in front of the US embassy. One student, Enrique Sta. Brigida, was subsequently tortured to death by police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11185/jeepney-drivers-strike

#OtD 3 Mar 1977 members of the Italian Communist Party attacked a student occupation in Turin. Students repelled the attack so the CP called the police, who then also attacked. The CP at the time was in an alliance with the right-wing Christian Democrats. https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/states-emergency-revolt-italy-1968-1978-robert-lumley

#OtD 3 Mar 1937 a strike at Holmes Foundry in Ontario, Canada, turned into a race riot. After a wildcat by Polish & Italian immigrant workers, bosses sent Canadian-born strikebreakers with clubs to attack and replace the strikers, who were sacked https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10212/holmes-foundry-riot

#OtD 3 Mar 1976 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spanish police killed 5 workers and injured another 100 during a general strike https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10215/vitoria-gasteiz-strike-massacre

#OtD 3 Mar 1921 the first issue of the Kronstadt Izvestia, bulletin of rebel sailors, soldiers and workers of Kronstadt who had risen up against the Bolshevik regime to defend the principles of the revolution, was published. Learn more here: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10210/kronstadt-izvestia-published

#OtD 3 Mar 1959 the Hola massacre took place in Kenya when the commander of a British concentration camp for Kenyan civilians had its 88 detainees severely beaten with clubs. 11 died and the 77 others sustained serious permanent injuries https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10214/hola-massacre

#OtD 3 Mar 1921 2,000 miners in Labin, Croatia started a workers' uprising due to a fascist Italian attack on a union militant. The following days saw a Republic formed that lasted until April when soldiers put it down https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-shirt-of-the-month-the-mine-is-ours

#OtD 3 Mar 1932 the right to free speech on Glasgow Green in Glasgow, Scotland, was won after over a decade of direct action. Up to 100,000 people at a time defied a ban, often arming themselves with sticks, hammers and bottles until authorities caved https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10211/glasgow-free-speech-fight-wins

#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10206/anarchist-exclusion-act

#OtD 2 Mar 1997 revolutionary @iww environmentalist Judi Bari died aged 47. She rioted against Vietnam war then organised wildcat strike in postal service & built links between loggers & environmentalists leading to her car being bombed in 1990 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9211/judi-bari-dies

#OtD 2 Mar 2016 Honduran Indigenous environmental activist of Lenca descent Berta Cáceres was assassinated in her home. She had been protesting against energy company DESA which is suspected of being responsible for the killing. More in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/who-killed-berta-caceres-nina-lakhani