Today in Labor History March 20, 1922: The Red Army completed their defeat of the Iakov Fomin Mutiny. In March, 1920, Iakov Efimovich Fomin, formerly a Cossack commander within the Red Army, and inspired by the Kronstadt mutineers, led a mutiny against the Bolsheviks over food requisitioning for the Cossack troops. The mutineers’ slogan was, “Down with the requisitioning! Down with non-local Communists!” They had nearly 100% support among the local population of Veshenskaia, with many local peasants and anarchists joining the uprising. The mutiny developed into a 2-year guerilla uprising against Bolshevik terror and repression and for the power of worker-led soviets. They called on all citizens to rise up and establish “the true power of the whole laboring people.”

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Today in Labor History February 18, 1946: Sailors in the Royal Indian Navy mutinied in Bombay harbor. Their rebellion spread throughout the Provinces of British India. 20,000 sailors participated on 78 ships and 20 shore establishments. British troops and Royal Navy warships ultimately suppressed the mutiny. The Indian National Congress and Muslim League both condemned the mutiny, while the Communist Party of India supported the rebellion.

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“Labour MPs are talking mutiny over Starmer’s ties to Mandelson”

by Willem Moore in The Canary

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Unnamed Labour MP: “Consistent failures by Morgan #McSweeney have damaged our media operation and left the public unaware of much of what we’ve achieved in government.

The Mandelson saga has only made things worse, and if Keir doesn’t make changes soon, the PLP will.

We’ve had enough”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/02/03/mandelson-mcsweeney/

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Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.

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Today in Labor History January 20, 1872: Filipino soldiers staged a bloody revolt against Spanish rule known as the Cavite Mutiny. Around 200 locally recruited colonial troops and laborers rose up hoping that it would escalate into a national uprising. However, colonial government forces quickly put down the mutiny. They executed many of the participants and cracked down on the independence movement. Nevertheless, it marked the beginning of a movement that would eventually lead to the Philippine Revolution of 1896

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