This week in history

Issue 

May 4

1919: Despite losing one of their ranks to police gunfire, wharfies expel scabs in Fremantle on Bloody Sunday.

May 5

1818: Karl Marx is born.

1981: IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands dies in jail.

1993: 70,000 people march in Melbourne against Victorian

Premier Jeff Kennett's budget cuts and attacks on workers.

May 6

1999: Tommy Sheridan becomes the first Scottish Socialist Party member to be elected to the Scottish Parliament.

May 7

1968: Workers' and students' revolt begins in Paris.

May 8

1890: The Shearers' Union wins a closed shop at Jondaryan station in Queensland after 8 weeks of strike action.

1970: More than 200,000 people participate in Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations across Australia.

May 9

1960: The US Food and Drug Agency approves the sale of the birth control pill.

May 10

2004: 8000 people rally at Melbourne's county court in defence of militant union leader Craig Johnston.

From Green Left Weekly, May 4, 2005.
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