The Haymarket Affair/Riot was the instigation for labor movements around the world to have May 1st, May day, to be commemorated for worker solidarity. They were demonstrating for an 8 hour work day.
In America, though, there is some non-holiday called Patriots Day due to anticommunism :deeper-sadness:
It's where also CPUSA got its start. Of course those early years were spent doing what leftists do best - factional bickering. Not that the later years have been better
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There was also the Pullman Strike, which started in Chicago and ended with Eugene Debs getting arrested.
And the 1968 Democratic Convention was there, the trial afterwards was covered by a recent Sorkin film.
The Haymarket Affair/Riot was the instigation for labor movements around the world to have May 1st, May day, to be commemorated for worker solidarity. They were demonstrating for an 8 hour work day.
In America, though, there is some non-holiday called Patriots Day due to anticommunism :deeper-sadness:
It's where also CPUSA got its start. Of course those early years were spent doing what leftists do best - factional bickering. Not that the later years have been better