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Pidjiguiti dock and maritime workers

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Pidjiguiti dock and maritime workers

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Colonial police kill striking workers at Pidjiguiti

đź“… 3 August 1959

Workers at Bissau’s Pidjiguiti docks struck over wages and faced lethal police repression. The massacre became a reference point in the struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. It exposed the...