May Day

Bringing In The May: The Heroes of Haymarket

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Sun, 04/30/2017 - 4:56pm

The following is a republication of a Beltaine Diary I wrote and published in 2015, with some small updates.


Bringing In The May:
The Heroes of Haymarket

by Sean McCullough
(thanatokephaloides)

One hundred and thirty-one years ago, history was made at the Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois.
This piece of history was so critically important to the lives of working men and women ever since that time that almost every nation on Earth, the United States of America alone excepted, celebrates its laboring population on the first of May.
I feel that we here at caucus99percent need to remember what happened on that fateful May evening in 1886, and the heroes who sacrificed their lives so that their fellow workers might have access to reasonable working and living conditions.
For more on this important story, please join me below the fold.

Hellraisers Journal: May Day in New York City! Unionists & Socialist Turn Out by Tens of Thousands!

Submitted by JayRaye on Mon, 05/02/2016 - 12:57pm

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday May 2, 1916
From The New York Times: Thousands March Singing Marseillaise

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Videos: May Day Demonstrations: France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Seattle

Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 2:15pm
Arise ye prisoner of starvation,
Arise ye wretched of the earth!
Internationale
-translated by Charles Kerr
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FRANCE
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79FzKvzb93E width:500 height:315]

Hellraisers Journal: New York May Day Parade to Be Led by Locked Out Garment Workers

Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 12:56pm

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Monday May 1, 1916
New York City - Locked Out Garment Workers to March up Fifth Avenue

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Garment Workers of New York City
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