oct 6, 1934 - austurian miners strike
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The Asturian miners' strike of 1934 was a major strike action, against the entry of the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right into the Spanish government on October 6, which took place in Asturias in northern Spain, that developed into a revolutionary uprising. It was crushed by the Spanish Navy and the Spanish Republican Army, the army using mainly Moorish colonial troops from Spanish Morocco. this again showed the willingness of people to kill and =be killed based on their political ideology. fransico franco led the entirety of the spanish forces and was brutal in his takedown of the strikers, with countless human rights violations taking place.
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