099 peasant strike
"Under feudal and semifeudal conditions peasants have collectively refused to continue to work on the properties of their landlords. The examples here are Russian. In 1861 peasants in the department of Kazan were influenced by Anton Petrov, a peasant political prophet, to begin a series of actions in which they would rely on themselves alone to improve their living conditions. These included peasant strikes. “The peasant communities met together in assemblies and began by deciding on collective abstention from all work on the landlords’ properties.”"...
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Jewish peasants block construction of statue of Gaius Caligula in Galilee, 40 CE
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Ecuadorians overthrow dictator (Glorious May Revolution), 1944
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Russians campaign for democracy and economic justice (Russian Revolution), 1905
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Sicily Socialist Fasci unite for workers' rights, Italy, 1893-1894
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