Today in labor history, January 7, 1919: What would become known as “Tragic Week” begins in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when the military attack workers who are on strike at an ironworks plant and kill four people. Within days, a general strike brought the city to a halt and 200,000 people took to the streets in solidarity with the striking ironworkers. Police opened fired on the crowds and workers responded by burning factories, raiding armories, and forming militias. Estimates are that police killed 700 workers over the course of the week, wounded 2,000, and arrested 55,000 before martial law was declared.
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A Communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a Communist.--Mao Zedong
