Timeline of Anarchism in Northern Africa: Difference between revisions

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This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in Northern Africa that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

Pre-1900s

1170BCE: Egyptians rebel
206BCE: The Great Revolt of the Egyptians begins as anti-colonial sentiments and economic crisis hits Egyptian peasants and slaves. Eventually securing an expansion of human rights and economic aid for the farmers.

1900s

1919: The Kantara Soldiers' Council
1919: Egypt independence movement
1954: The Algerian Revolution begins.
1961: Putsch prevented in Algeria.
1962: Algerians successfully prevent the break out of a civil war.
1962: Algerian autogestion.
1977: Bread riots in Egypt.
1985: Numeiri dictatorship collapses in Sudan
1990: In Morocco, a general strike breaks out in protest of low wages and poor worker protections.
1992: Moroccan feminists
1999: The First Sahrawi Intifada begins, with Sahrawi's demanding an end to human rights abuses and the right for self-determination.

2000s

2001: The Black Spring occurs after the Algerian police kill an Amazigh teenager.
2006: Strike in Egypt
2008: General strike in Egypt
2009: Aminatou Haidar
2010: Arab Spring
- 2010: Tunisian Revolution

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 == See Also ==