Russian bhumi-devi blesses collectivist workers (holtlaborlibrary.org) |
(occupytogether.org) |
Capitalism divides, Mayday unites (gawker) |
Of these nearly 200,000 actually went out on strike. About 42,000 won the eight-hour day. Another 150,000 got a shorter day than they had had before.
Future, past (anarkismo.net) |
At the factory gates of McCormick Harvester Co., where a strike meeting was being held on May 3, policemen swung their clubs and then fired into the running strikers....
(flag.blackened.net) |
Anger ran high through the Chicago labor movement. About 3,000 attended a protest meeting the next day at Haymarket Square.... More
Bangladeshi workers demonstrate for humane labor conditions after tragedy (ctvnews.ca) |
Lessons for May Day
OpenMediaBoston.org
Today is May Day. There are many Americans, including many on the
American left, who have a somewhat skewed view of the history of May 1st
as a workers' holiday. (There are even more Americans who have no idea
what May Day is at all, and a few old and cranky conservatives who know
the holiday as "Loyalty Day").
The idea is that it was called into being
by early socialists and anarchists in the United States on May 1st,
1886, and that it spread worldwide in remembrance of the anarchist
Haymarket Martyrs who were falsely persecuted for throwing bombs at the
original May Day protest in Chicago that year and later hanged for their
political beliefs.
That all has an element of truth to it, but according to Prof.
Priscilla Murolo -- a historian at Sarah Lawrence College and author of From The Folks Who Brought You The Weekend: A Short Illustrated History of Labor in the United States -- it's a bit more complicated than that. More
Uncle Sam: "I want you to stop being afraid" (adbusters.org) |
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