2008: Disruption of Oil Land Auction
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 27 2017 19:14
An account of an environmental activists disruption of an auction for oil extraction rights in 2008.
1927: Austrian General Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 16 2017 21:23
In the Summer of 1927 the Austrian Social Democrats remained powerful despite their history of collaboration with the government. In response to the acquittal of the murderers of a worker and his 8 year old son Viennese workers came out in force, in a series of riots. Fearing a revolution the Social Democratic party called a general strike and used its powerful Socialist Republican Guard to police the workers and keep them off the streets.
This history of the event has been written by a pacifist and so views this betrayal as a positive development.
