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The English peasant's uprising of 1381 began in response to a tax levy, but was not only about money. It involved the right to move freely as well: the peasants also demanded that each labourer may... [Item of the Day]
The Mexican Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) started its uprising at the beginning of January 1994. It occupied some towns and ranches in the Chiapas highland. The beginning of the attacks... [Item of the Day]
Not the socialist ideal, but rotten meat triggered the mutiny of the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin on June 14, 1905. The leader of the mutineers, Grigori Vakulenchuk, died during the... [Item of the Day]
The peasant rising in 1946 in Telengana (in Hyderabad, South India) was directed against forced labour and feudal oppression. Later it developed into an agrarian liberation struggle to eliminate the... [Item of the Day]
Belgium and Holland were married in 1815 by order of the great European powers. Belgium was most discontented with this union. Following a popular rebellion, the Provisional Government proclaimed... [Item of the Day]
Exiled French citizens throw a party in the "Germania" meeting hall in New York. They commemorate the Paris Commune, the revolutionary democratic city government that came into being on March 18,... [Item of the Day]
A shortage of potatoes, the well-known main Dutch food, caused a bloody riot in Amsterdam towards the end of June 1917. It was called the "Aardappeloproer" (Potato Revolt), and it lasted a week.... [Item of the Day]
Since 13 May 1989, students demonstrating for democratic reforms had occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The government warned that it would not tolerate the "social chaos". After it had in vain... [Item of the Day]
In 1999 students in Tehran launched a campaign for political freedom. At first this centred on freedom of press, as the government had just closed a reformist newspaper. Some 200 students staged a... [Item of the Day]
The Sandinistas, named after the resistance leader Cesar Augusto Sandino, started their struggle in Nicaragua in 1962. In the seventies this culminated in a civil war against the government of... [Item of the Day]

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