June 1
1848: The first issue of Karl Marx's Neue Rheinische Zeitung is published.
June 2
1972: Unions ban the servicing of UTA aircraft in opposition to French nuclear tests.
June 4
1982: 26,000 textile workers begin a strike in the Export Processing Zone in Bataan, the Philippines.
1989: Tiananmen Square massacre, China.
June 5
1831: Tarerenoore, female resistance leader against European invasion in Tasmania, dies in custody.
1879: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is born.
June 6
1988: Two-million people strike against apartheid in South Africa.
1996: Environmentalists begin blockades in the Goolengook River area.
June 7
1997: Former editors of the student newspaper Rabelais lose their appeal over charges relation to publishing a shoplifting guide.
From Green Left Weekly, June 1, 2005.
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