#OtD 12 Mar 1951 300,000 workers staged a general strike in Barcelona to protest grievances with the Franco dictatorship. Troops were deployed and thousands arrested but the strike encouraged workers' struggles across the region https://t.co/dQeUGmQeRF https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8417/barcelona-general-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon