Lambing Flat Riots (1860 - 1861) On this day in 1861, the worst violence of the Australian Lambing Flat Riots occurred when a mob of 3,000 white people attacked 2,000 Chinese miners and drove them...
Lambing Flat Riots (1860 - 1861) On this day in 1861, the worst violence of the Australian Lambing Flat Riots occurred when a mob of 3,000 white people attacked 2,000 Chinese miners and drove them...
Lambing Flat Riots (1860 - 1861)
Sun Jun 30, 1861
Image: An of-the-era white interpretation of what happened at the Burrangong goldfields, "Might versus Right", by Samuel Thomas Gill, c.1862-1863. Photograph: Samuel Thomas Gill/State Library of NSW [theguardian.com]
On this day in 1861, the worst violence of the Australian Lambing Flat Riots occurred when a mob of 3,000 white people attacked 2,000 Chinese miners and drove them off the Lambing Flat, destroying and looting their encampments.
The race riot came out of more than a decade of ethnic tensions between Chinese and European-born miners in Australia, tensions that became systematic violence the previous few years.
The violence was in part triggered in part by the Australian government rejecting a proposed restriction on Chinese immigration, as well as a false rumor that a new group of 1,500 Chinese people were en route to the area.
Despite the government's initial reject of an anti-Chinese immigration bill, the Lambing Flat Riots led the New South Wales government to pass the Chinese Immigration Act in November 1861, severely limiting the flow of Chinese people into the colony.
- Date: 1861-06-30
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.britannica.com.
- Tags: #Riots.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
Wait, how is worker on worker race hate part of the Working Class Calendar? This doesn't seem like a celebration of solidarity.
I agree and second this question.
From the looks of things all these posts are done by a bot, so it's just spat this up as if it's a worker solidarity thing.
Getting in contact with the community's mods might get more help/answers.
I'm only a mod in the community and the maintainer of the bot, not the upstream author of a people calendar, but I think that it's important to not idealize the working class. There have been a lot of defeats in our struggle, and also some very horrible and disgusting acts.
I think that it's good that we remember them, understanding the past can help us to understand our reality.
Marx defined Working Class as those employed by the Capitalist class (the value of their labor being expropriated as "profit"). I take it (seeing as this example is about individuals who are mining gold for themselves) that you're using a more general definition of "anyone who works".
In which case this place is really just about jobs? So this community is just for investigating anything that happens when someone's at work? Does that include unpaid labor (eg. unsuccessful goldminers), and modern things that happen in the work place?