Title: Five examples of civil disobedience to remember | Civil liberties - international | The Guardian
Headings: Five examples of civil disobedience to remember
Five examples of civil disobedience to remember
Richard Seymour
Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo's raid on Spanish supermarkets recalls protests from Gandhi's Salt March to the poll tax riots
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1. Salt March
2. Extremadura campaign
3. Flying pickets and sit-ins
4. Dismantling unwanted enterprises
5. Poll tax non-payment

Content: The government, faced with popular unrest, legalised the early occupations. Hundreds of thousands of peasants were re-settled. But it was not just a question of taking over the land. There was a debate about what should be done with it – whether it should be collectivised or allotted to individual owners. The seizures provided not just land and work, but also a democratic forum, a focus for arguments about the whole future development of the society. Or so it was until the nationalist forces of General Franco conquered the territory and slaughtered the peasants and their leftist leaders. 3. Flying pickets and sit-ins
The Great Depression sparked a wave of militancy that produced legal support for US workers for the first time. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Industrial struggles in the US historically had a pattern of near-insurgency, largely due to violent collusion between the government and employers, until the New Deal period.