But the recent nine-month strike at Mexico's national university revealed a new kind of leftist movement, one whose new foe is the global economy.
Ultimately, Amoskeag's experiment failed, and in 1922 Amoskeag employees unionized and conducted a nine-month strike which paralyzed the company.
Students, faculty members and workers of the national university, worn out by a nine-month strike, voted overwhelmingly on Thursday for a plan by its president to return to class, final results showed today.
Like the nine-month strike that devastated the national university in Mexico City, the conflict at the rural college erupted when the state authorities began a campaign to raise the academic level without increasing funds.
Students and workers opposed to a nine-month strike at the national university clashed today with strikers in a battle that left at least 37 people injured and 248 under arrest.
A nine-month strike by the Beloit, WI shop forces right at the beginning doomed the project.
They had been imprisoned since the federal police ended the nine-month strike in February, and their supporters staged constant protests demanding their freedom.
The students, who led a nine-month strike that ended Feb. 6, are demanding the release of about 30 protesters still in jail after the strike.
Officials said that 37 people were injured in the worst violence in the nine-month strike.
The protesters, who were demanding the release of students jailed when the police broke up a nine-month strike on Feb. 6, faced a barrage of public criticism.