On this day, 16 August 2012, police in South Africa massacred 34 wildcat-striking miners who were fighting for a pay increase at Marikana. This is a history of the strike wave and the repression: https://libcom.org/library/south-africa-partial-reemergence-workers-autonomy-mouvement-communiste-kolektivn%C4%9B-proti https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1189449531240195/?type=3