May Day and the Haymarket Massacre | Rattling the Bars

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May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, is celebrated around the world by labor unions, socialist parties, and anarchists. May Day’s origins go back to the 1886 Haymarket Affair, when hundreds of thousands of US workers walked off the job, and 40,000 went on strike in Chicago for an eight-hour workday. Despite its origins, May Day is largely unknown in the US today. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rattling the Bars for a discussion on the history of May Day, and how the persecution of organizers in the wake of the Haymarket Massacre highlights the importance of extending solidarity from the labor movement to the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex.

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38 thoughts on “May Day and the Haymarket Massacre | Rattling the Bars”

  1. You call yourself a new network but you spend very little time on the Democrats Sponsored bioweapon release to violently seize power in a lab. Democrat paid for the making of the bioweapon. Off shored it manufacture because of legality issue. Put a Furon Cleavage in a Sars virus and release covid upon the world in Democrats mad pursuit of Trump and to enrich themselves. I would think with as little coverage as that has gotten it would be top story. After you do maybe you should focus on the Jan 6th false flag FBI/CIA/Democrat entrapment scheme we all know it to be……Ya think?

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  3. “Republican ghouls” Serious Max? Wasn’t it Democrat Joe Biden that just crushed the Railroad Workers rights? Don’t be such a simpleton. This is not a partisan problem.

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  6. Cameron does real News have any episodes on those exact companies/corporations who are exploiting prison industrial complex? Like Whole Foods you mentions.

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  11. Just another ugly ass truth for everything this trash nation represents! Just sweep the truth under a rug and teach nothing but lies! The truth? Shall set us free!!

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  19. I just worked in a sheltered workshop for a week jigging optical fiber guides and addressing mailers for no money at all. It was: "return to work" training in Canada

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  32. If we can eliminate discrimination against the formally incarcerated (at least) on the basis that the people who have the most to add to the conversation regarding how we can improve as a nation are the people that have experienced the worst of it. If their voices were heard, things would change in an instant.

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  35. There is a distinction between the ancient holiday, and the appropriation of the term/date "May Day".
    The ancient sacred holiday May Day is the true holiday.
    This discussion is without knowledge of May Day prior to the appropriation of May Day as a Labor Movement holiday.
    May Day is a celebration of Nature, it is a celebration of Spring. People came together, little girls wore flowers in their hair, and carried baskets of flower petals. Children sang and danced around The May Pole.
    You are referring to the Labor Movement's using May 1st as a day of recognition of Labor Rights.

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