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On This Day in Working Class History

On This Day in Working Class History

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Daily briefings of On This Day people's history anniversaries every day of the year. From the Working Class History team.
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  • 1 June 1981: Schlitz workers strike

    1 June 1981: Schlitz workers strike
    Jun 1 2026
    On this day, 1 June 1981, just over 700 production workers at the Schlitz Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, walked out on strike after contract negotiations broke down, when workers were offered far inferior settlements to Miller workers in the same town. Schlitz had been struggling financially since the late 1970s, partly due to a change to the recipe which was made to save money but was deeply unpopular. The workers kept up their walkout until the end of September until bosses retaliated by closing the plant, sacking all employees. The company was then sold.
    More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8098/schlitz-workers-strike

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  • 31 May 1989: CLR James dies

    31 May 1989: CLR James dies
    May 31 2026
    On this day, 31 May 1989, CLR James, Trinidadian Marxist and author of The Black Jacobins, the definitive history of the Haitian Revolution, as well as other texts on class, colonialism and cricket, died aged 88 in Brixton, London.
    As a young man he joined the movement against British colonialism, and later moved to England and became cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, forerunner to the Guardian newspaper.
    He lived in the US for a time, where alongside Raya Dunayevskaya and Grace Lee Boggs (pictured L-R), he formed the influential Johnson-Forest Tendency. Returning to Britain, he continued to write fiction and non-fiction, including a history of the Ghanaian revolution, until his death at home.
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  • 30 May 1968: Senegal general strike

    30 May 1968: Senegal general strike
    May 30 2026
    On this day, 30 May 1968 in Senegal at 6 PM, unions announced plans for an indefinite general strike to begin at midnight in protest at police brutality against a school and university student uprising. Despite police repression, workers held firm until 12 June when the government caved in and offered a 15% increase in wages.
    More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10319/senegal-general-strike

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