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"We just need to march on Washington five to ten million strong, and refuse to leave until we get some action on our grievances."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2915350/posts?page=35#35
"A general strike would be impossible to ignore.  Millions of people showing up on the mall demanding change, coupled with millions of closed businesses..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2915350/posts?page=62#62
 
 
" This prompted the setting up of the short-lived Saint Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies, a largely Menshevik group led by Leon Trotsky, which organised strike action in over 200 factories.[7] By 26 October [O.S. 13 October] 1905, over 2 million workers were on strike and there were almost no active railways in all of Russia. Growing inter-ethnic confrontation throughout the Caucasus resulted in Armenian-Tatar massacres, heavily damaging the cities and the Baku oilfields."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1905

 

 "conservative", Comrade Useful Idiot? 
 
 
 

89 posted on 08/10/2012 6:41:43 PM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
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To: OldEarlGray


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90 posted on 08/10/2012 6:43:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Nope 2012)
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