Timeline of Anarchism in North America

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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.

1100s

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.

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