This week in history

Issue 

April 6

1998: Patrick Stevedores launches its "war on the waterfront" by sacking its work force at night using security guards and dogs.

April 9

1981: IRA prisoner Bobby Sands is elected MP while on hunger strike.

April 10

1919: Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata is ambushed.

1993: South African Communist Party general secretary Chris Hani is assassinated.

April 11

1992: More than 200 people are arrested during protests at the Nurrungar US military base in Woomera.

April 12

1905: Koori woman and former bushranger Mary Ann Baker dies at age 70.

From Green Left Weekly, April 6, 2005.
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