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== 1800s ==
== 1800s ==
* 1868: The [[South Carolina Commune]] is created, attempting to create a racially-equal, socialist society on a large scale.
* 1892: [[Alexander Berkman]] and [[Emma Goldman]] try to kill Henry Clay Frick in retaliation for Frick's hiring of [[Pinkerton]] detectives to break up the [[Homestead Strike]], resulting in the deaths of seven steelworkers. Although badly wounded, Frick survives, and Berkman is arrested and eventually sentenced to 22 years in prison.
* 1892: [[Alexander Berkman]] and [[Emma Goldman]] try to kill Henry Clay Frick in retaliation for Frick's hiring of [[Pinkerton]] detectives to break up the [[Homestead Strike]], resulting in the deaths of seven steelworkers. Although badly wounded, Frick survives, and Berkman is arrested and eventually sentenced to 22 years in prison.


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* 1905: The [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] is founded at a conference of 200 anarchists, socialists and marxists in Chicago, USA.
* 1905: The [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] is founded at a conference of 200 anarchists, socialists and marxists in Chicago, USA.


=== 1910s ===
* 1919: The [[Seattle Uprising]] occurs in Seattle, Washington, USA as an attempted [[Anarcho-Syndicalism|anarcho-syndicalist]] revolution.
* 1919: The [[Seattle Uprising]] occurs in Seattle, Washington, USA as an attempted [[Anarcho-Syndicalism|anarcho-syndicalist]] revolution.


=== 1920s ===
=== 1930s ===
=== 1940s ===
=== 1950s ===
=== 1960s ===
* 1963: The [[1963 Birmingham Uprising|Birmingham Uprising]] occurs in Birmington, Alabama, USA.
* 1963: The [[1963 Birmingham Uprising|Birmingham Uprising]] occurs in Birmington, Alabama, USA.


=== 1970s ===
* 1979: Citizens across Maine, USA [[Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Protests|begin a campaign]] to close the Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.
* 1979: Citizens across Maine, USA [[Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Protests|begin a campaign]] to close the Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.


=== 1980s ===
=== 1990s ===
* 1990: The [[Oka Uprising]] occurs, as Mohawk warriors in Oka, Canada defend themselves police and white supremacists who are backing the destruction of sacred land for a golf course.
* 1990: The [[Oka Uprising]] occurs, as Mohawk warriors in Oka, Canada defend themselves police and white supremacists who are backing the destruction of sacred land for a golf course.
* 1994: The [[Zapatista Revolution]] begins, leading to the formation of [[Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities|MAREZ]] and the beginning of the [[Chiapas Conflict]].
* 1994: The [[Zapatista Revolution]] begins, leading to the formation of [[Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities|MAREZ]] and the beginning of the [[Chiapas Conflict]].

Revision as of 21:50, 15 May 2019

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This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in South America (a region encompassing the states of Canada, Greenland, USA and Mexico) that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

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1800s

  • 1868: The South Carolina Commune is created, attempting to create a racially-equal, socialist society on a large scale.
  • 1892: Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman try to kill Henry Clay Frick in retaliation for Frick's hiring of Pinkerton detectives to break up the Homestead Strike, resulting in the deaths of seven steelworkers. Although badly wounded, Frick survives, and Berkman is arrested and eventually sentenced to 22 years in prison.

1900s

  • 1905: The IWW is founded at a conference of 200 anarchists, socialists and marxists in Chicago, USA.
  • 1979: Citizens across Maine, USA begin a campaign to close the Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.

2000s

  • 2011: Cherán, Mexico becomes self-governing following a small revolution.
  • 2014: Citizens in South Portland, Maine of a port upgrade that could exploit tar sand oil.
  • 2015: Students in universities across Maine, USA win a disinvestment campaign against the coal industry.
  • 2017: Parkdale Rent Strike.
  • 2018: US Teachers' strike wave begins.

See Also

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