On This Day: October 7
- 1714: People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
- 1763: King George III issues Proclamation recognizing “Indian” rights in British North America & closing certain land to settlement.
- 1879: Industrial Workers of the World member and musician Joe Hill was born in Gävle, Sweden.
- 1886: Slavery abolished in Cuba.
- 1903: The Structural Building Trades Alliance (SBTA) is founded.
- 1911: Zapatista revolutionaries conquer Axochiapan from government forces during the Mexican Revolution.
- 1921: State officials in Texas begin plans on a ban on parades by the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1922: Anarchist Lidio Ettorre is assaulted by Italian fascists, who then burned his house down.
- 1931: End of four week strike by coal miners in Estevan, Saskatchewan.
- 1931: French ndividualist anarchists André Colomer dies in Moscow. He was editor of Revue Anarchiste and started the weekly L'Insurgé.
- 1933: Anarchist and labor organizer Joseph Labadie dies in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1941: Anarchist James Ferdinand Morton Jr. dies in New York. He was a writer, a notable museum curator, an esperantist and a close friend of H. P. Lovecraft.
- 1942: United Mine Workers withdraw from CIO.
- 1944: Riots begin against Nazi occupation in several cities in the Netherlands.
- 1944: Sonderkommando prisoner revolt in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1946: Picketing members of the Conference of Studio Unions disrupted an outdoor shoot by holding up large reflectors that filled camera lenses with blinding sunlight.
- 1964: The North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee (NWHLRC) is founded in London.
- 1968: Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland.
- 1969: Sixteen hour wildcat strike by 3,700 Montreal police & firefighters.
- 1975: British Columbia government passes emergency measures back to work legislation for striking forest, railway, propane & food industry workers.
- 1977: Environmentalist activist and green anarchist Eric McDavid born in Foresthill, California.
- 1982: In Poland, the union Solidarity and all other labor organizations are banned by the government.
- 1985: Upholsterers’ Int’l Union of North America merges with United Steelworkers of America.
- 1985: Riots continue in areas of London including Peckham, Tottenham and Brixton.
- 1989: Over 40,000 march on Washington DC. demanding the US government to provide affordable housing for the homeless.
- 1998: General strikes in major Russian cities against low pay and unpaid wages.
- 1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being beaten in a homophobic attack.
- 2006: Respected Russian journalist and human rights activist, Anna Politkovskaya, is murdered in Moscow.
- 2011: The Egyptian Libertarian Socialist Movement held their first conference in Cairo.
- 2016: Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent.