May 4
1919: Despite losing one of their ranks to police gunfire, wharfies expel scabs in Fremantle on Bloody Sunday.
May 5
1818: Karl Marx is born.
1981: IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands dies in jail.
1993: 70,000 people march in Melbourne against Victorian
Premier Jeff Kennett's budget cuts and attacks on workers.
May 6
1999: Tommy Sheridan becomes the first Scottish Socialist Party member to be elected to the Scottish Parliament.
May 7
1968: Workers' and students' revolt begins in Paris.
May 8
1890: The Shearers' Union wins a closed shop at Jondaryan station in Queensland after 8 weeks of strike action.
1970: More than 200,000 people participate in Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations across Australia.
May 9
1960: The US Food and Drug Agency approves the sale of the birth control pill.
May 10
2004: 8000 people rally at Melbourne's county court in defence of militant union leader Craig Johnston.
From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, May 4, 2005.
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