Labour revolt

Labour Revolts in France:
– Canut Revolts in Lyons were the first worker uprisings of the Industrial Revolution
– First revolt in November 1831, followed by revolts in 1834 and 1848
– Uprising in Paris in 1848 involved 100,000 insurgents in a battle
– Paris Commune in France (1871) marked the first assumption of power by the working class
– Controversial policies of the Commune led to a split between anarchists and Socialists

Labour Revolts in the United States:
– Early revolts included rebellions by slaves and servants
– 1712 incident in New York where 23 slaves killed nine whites
– Uprisings against the social system, like the Virginia uprising in 1676
– Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and the 1877 Shamokin Uprising
– Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 impacted labor legislation in the U.S.

Labour Revolts in Russia, Germany, and Eastern Europe:
– Revolution of 1905 led to the creation of the Saint Petersburg Soviet
– The Soviet model was repeated in the Russian and German Revolutions
– Eastern Bloc saw similar activities like the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
– Uprisings in East Germany in 1953 and Polish protests in 1970
– Some viewed these activities as Counter-Revolutionary

Labour Revolts in Great Britain:
– Red Clydeside period of labor and political militancy in Glasgow
– Raised the red flag in the Battle of George Square
– Asturian miners strike of 1934
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Labour Revolts in Spain:
– Asturian miners strike of 1934

Labour Revolts Elsewhere:
– Protests of 1968 seen as part of a revolutionary wave
– Motivated by students
– Gwangju massacre in South Korea in 1980
– Nghe-Tinh Revolt in French Indochina 1930–31
– Brazilian Anarchist Uprising 1917–18
– Saigon Commune in Vietnam 1945