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On this day in 1967, communist revolutionary Che Guevara was executed by CIA-assisted forces in Bolivia, where he had been attempting to foment revolution. His last words were "Shoot, you are only going to kill a man."
The Kirkby Rent Strike was a 14-month long rent strike initiated by 3,000 tenants on this day in 1972 in the town of Kirkby (outside Liverpool), against the Housing Finances Act.
On this day in 1912, Phoenix Mill workers in Little Falls, New York spontaneously walked off their job to demand a wage increase and a 54-hour work week. With IWW assistance, workers won their demands in January 1913.
Image: Little Falls textile strikers in front of the strike headquarters (Slovak Hall)
Nikolai Bukharin, born on this day in 1888, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist who, with Stalin, helped oust Leon Trotsky in 1927. His controversial trial and execution in 1938 alienated communist sympathizers in the West.