January 19
1969: Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
January 20
1932: El Salvador's government murders 30,000 peasants to end
uprising.
1996: International strike lends strength to struggle of Liverpool Dockers.
January 21
1876: James Larkin, founder of the Irish Transport and General
Workers Union, is born.
1946: In the largest strike in US history until that day, 750,000 steel workers walk out.
January 22
1905: Tsarist troops kill 500 and wound 3000 in St. Petersburg's Bloody Sunday in Russia.
January 25
1851: Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women's Rights convention in US.
1926: 16,000 textile workers strike in Passaic, New Jersey.
From Green Left Weekly, January 19, 2005.
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