May Day is our holiday. It it hasn’t been stripped of its meaning and commercialised by corporate interests. Indeed, the same spirit of struggle that emboldened the marchers in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, where May Day began over a century ago, inflames the spirit of the celebrations here in Melbourne and around the world. All of [...]
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided America Book Review : A great narrative history Green offers a narrative history of Chicago’s Haymarket bombing in 1886, the infamous trial that followed, and the hanging of subsequently determined innocent men. Chicago was then at the heart [...]
May Day in Cuba 2008, Photo by Bill Hackwell Why May Day? – Lest we Forget In Australia May Day means celebrations of International Workers’ Day, or even Labour Day. The idea for a “workers holiday” began here in 1856 with the 8 Hour Day (now cunningly transformed to Moomba, or Myers day) but the [...]
