May Day

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/1/2022
  

  We Overlooked May Day This Year – We Aren't Alone in the US

  Historian Peter Linebaugh explains that the international day of labor solidarity has always sat uneasily with American nationalism. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/1/19
  

  A Century Ago, May Day Brought Anarchist Bombs to Mailboxes—And Helped Transform American Politics

  by Katrina Gulliver

  On April 30, the Evening World ran an extra edition that, under the headline “NATION-WIDE TERRORIST PLOT,” described the “infernal machines” as part of a conspiracy.

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  4-30-15
  

  On May Day, Longshore Workers Stop Work to Protest Racist Police Brutality

  by Peter Cole

  The San Francisco Bay Area longshore union voted to stop work at all Bay Area ports in solidarity.

• SOURCE: Kansas City Star
  4-26-13
  

  Historian takes another look at the trial of Haymarket ‘anarchists’

  For anyone who observes May 1 from a labor history perspective, there’s a fresh take on the Haymarket Riots of 1886 and the trial that followed.Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of “The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age,” examines the litigation during which several “anarchists” were convicted and later hanged for their roles in a bombing that killed seven police officers in Chicago.For much of the more than 100 years since, said Messer-Kruse, the trial has been portrayed as a sham of justice likely perpetrated to suppress the burgeoning labor movement, which then included support of an eight-hour workday.But if the trial harmed the labor movement, Messer-Kruse said, at least some blame must go to the defense lawyers of the alleged anarchists....