EVENT INFORMATION

3
Augustus
1959

Colonial police kill striking workers at Pidjiguiti

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📅 3 Augustus 1959 📍 Guinee-Bissau

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 connection between labour exploitation and coercive imperial authority; workers’ demands were political challenges to the institutions controlling their livelihoods.

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Pidjiguiti dock and maritime workers

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde