This week in history

Issue 

May 12

1916: James Connolly is executed in Ireland.

May 13

1932: Hundreds of picketers force police and bailiffs to abandon an eviction in Surry Hills, Sydney.

1968: 10 million workers take part in a general strike in France.

May 14

1948: The state of Israel is declared.

May 15

1888: Australia's first journal entirely produced and printed by women, The Dawn, is published in Sydney.

May 17

1834: George Loveless, the last of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, is transported to Australia for the "crime" of forming a union.

May 19

1919: Malcolm X is born.

May 21

1969: Massive protests force the release of jailed unionist Clarrie O'Shea.

1998: The Indonesian democratic movement forces dictator Suharto to resign.

May 22

1963: The fight for community control of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal settlement in Gippsland begins.

May 23

2002: Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members are charged over an action at Skilled Engineering.

From Green Left Weekly, May 11, 2005.
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