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September 28
September 28 is a 28th day of September.
The following events took place on September 28:
1573 -- Painter of Italian street life Caravaggio lives.
1864 -- Founding of the International Workingman's Association, first Communist International, London, England. (see 1964 below)
1868 -- France: Popular uprising is suppressed in Lyons. Michael Bakunin, freshly arrived on the 15th, is now forced to flee. He hid in Marseilles until October 24, 1870, then sailed back to Locarno (whence he came on September 9).
1901 -- Philippines: Guerrillas ambush US troops at Balangiga, killing 48 US soldiers.
1917 -- US: 166 Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World/IWW union activists) indicted for interfering with the war effort (the war to end all war!). The first move in an illegal but successful US government campaign to cripple the radical union movement.
1918 -- Canada: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is outlawed.
1920 -- Italy: DURING the month a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their workforces is taking place.
1937 -- Spain: With Augustin Souchy, Emma Goldman leaves Valencia for Barcelona, which comes under bombardment by Franco's forces a few days later.
1964 -- The Situationist International commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA) by releasing a postcard bearing a portrait of Marx saying:
- "On 28 September 1964, it will be exactly 100 years since we founded the Situationist International.
- "It's starting to take shape!"
The caption is a line from de Sade,
- "How can lawful pleasures be compared to those
- which embody not only much more piquant delights
- but also the priceless joy of breaking all social taboos
- & overturning all laws?"
1966 -- French surrealist André Breton dies. One of the founders of the Surrealist movement. Called the Pope of Surrealism (as well as "A Corpse") by his detractors.
1968 -- Edgard Leuenroth (1881-1968) dies. Important Brazilian anarchist militant.
1994 -- Bolivia: Indigenous people from around the globe meet to discuss bio-piracy, the theft of local botanical resources (such as medicines) by multinational corporations.
1996 -- England: The anarchist "Reclaim the Future" alliance threw its "weight" alongside sacked dockers & their trade union & socialist supporters.
2000 -- Czech Republic: 'Battle of Prague'...
2002 -- England: 250,000 protest the Bush-Blair war on Iraq, London.
