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On this day in 1941, 700 workers from the aluminium company Alcan in Arvida, Québec went on a wildcat strike - more than 4,500 workers illegally occupied the factory the next day and had to be forced out with federal troops.
Image: Alcan facilities in Arvida, Saguenay (Quebec, Canada).
![Blas Roca Calderic being received by Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, May 26th, 1979 [Wikipedia]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Individuals/blasRoca.png)
Blas Roca Calederio, born on this day in 1908, was a leading Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.
Image: Blas Roca Calderic being received by Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, May 26th, 1979 [Wikipedia]
![Tonghua Steel workers gathered together on July 24th, 2009 [libcom.org]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/chineseWorkers2009.jpg)
On this day in 2009, a group of Chinese steel workers at Tonghua Iron and Steel Group rioted and beat their general manager to death after being informed that 25,000 workers would lose their jobs in a private takeover of the company.
Image: Tonghua Steel workers gathered together on July 24th, 2009 [libcom.org]
Nikolay Chernyshevsky, born on this day in 1828, was a Russian journalist, novelist, and socialist philosopher who authored the influential novel "What Is to Be Done?", an inspiration for the pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin.