On this day, 17 April 1920, dockers in Dublin refused to load foodstuffs destined for England. The action helped relieve severe food shortages in Dublin, which had been dire since 1917 with many staple goods like butter, eggs and sugar almost unavailable while huge quantities of food were shipped to Britain.
Pictured: Irish dockers around that time
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On this day, 23 March 1894, revolutionary writer and advocate for women’s rights, Salvadora Carmen Medina Onrubia was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires. She started a relationship with a Uruguayan journalist called Natalio Félix Botana in 1915, and when he later became a powerful newspaper mogul, Salvadora used her new-found wealth to help the anarchist movement, working to free political prisoners, getting jobs for unemployed militants and distributing goods to poor women from her Rolls-Royce. She attempted to break famed anarchist assassin Simon Radowitzky out of prison, but after this failed she was able to use her influence to secure his release from the President. During the Spanish civil war she helped anti-fascist exiles and sent money to Republican orphans in Spain. More info in this short biography: https://ift.tt/2uBCAao https://ift.tt/2UNW076
On this day, 17 April 2014, Spanish machinist and civil war fighter Concha Perez Collado died aged 99. Prior to the civil war she took part in jail breaks, insurrectionary strikes, learned how to use bombs and pistols and helped set up a rationalist free school. With the outbreak of the revolution she joined the fighting at the front, until shamefully women were prohibited from fighting. During the May Days of 1937 she was wounded in an ambush by Communist Party forces, but she survived the war and indeed Franco, taking part in rebuilding the anarchist CNT union after his death, remaining active until the end. More info in this short biography: http://bit.ly/2Ivn5tl http://bit.ly/2KZeQYz
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