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In 1989-1990
On May 8, 1932, Mahatma Gandhi started a 21-day hunger strike in protest against the British authorities in India . Ghandi was an Indian nationalist leader who fought India's Independence through a non-revolution . Ghandi started a new wave of civil disobedience against the British . He got arrested twice when he resorted the hunger strike . Gandhi dedicated himself to the rescinding of unfair social and economic aspects of the caste system . Then on January 30, while walking to where he said his evening prayers, he was attacked and killed by Nathuram Godse. Gandhi’s death echoed across the world as a terrible blow.
Flying Pickets and Sit-Ins
Unorganized workers in textile plants and coal mines . Where hammered by the recession but also inspired by Franklin Roosevelt’s promise to look after industrial workers . A series of desperate struggles against pay cuts and job losses is where it all began . To win they had to elect the most disruptive scheme , pushing pass the violence of strikebreakers , police and in some states the imposition of martial law . These schemes included the “Flying Squadrons” of pickets marching from town to town during the textile strike of 1934 , making workers want to walk out . This was incredibly important because these workers were often distributed in small production facilities . They also had little industrial muscle by themselves . A second key moment was a series of sit-ins by workers in ALL factories . This involved workers obstructing production simply by engaging a politic area of a plant and refusing to move . A highly effective tactic that was also less violent than the picket lines and was later used by civil rights and anti-Vietnam war campaigners.