Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/October/October 7

• 1879 – Industrial Workers of the World trade union militant Joe Hill (pictured) is born in Gävle, Sweden
• 1911 – Zapatista revolutionaries conquer Axochiapan, Morelos, from government forces during the Mexican Revolution
• 1933 – Anarchist and labor organizer Joseph Labadie (b. 1850) dies in Detroit, Michigan
• 1936 – Spanish Revolution: The Unified Levantine Council for Agricultural Export is established by the CNT and UGT to coordinate orange exports from Valencia to other European countries.
• 1977 – Environmentalist activist Eric McDavid is born
• 1988 – Canada: Poole's Land is founded in Tofino, Vancouver Island.