What the records say
- When
- 1 May 1909 – 10 May 1909
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 34.00° S, 64.00° W
- Description
- 1909 general strike in Argentina
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Red Week (Argentina)
1909 general strike in Argentina
The Red Week was a general strike in Argentina, in May 1909. After police attacked an International Workers' Day demonstration, killing a number of the demonstrators, a coalition of the anarchist Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA) and socialist General Workers' Union (UGT) declared a general strike.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Buenos Aires (Argentina), la policía al mando de Ramón L. Falcón mata a tiros a unos 80 trabajadores en huelga organizada por la FORA (Federación Obrera…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page