THE HAYMARKET RIOT

Today is May Day, a sort of international Labor Day, which commemorates the Haymarket Riot of 1886. From Wikipedia:

On May 1, 1886, labor unions organized a strike for an eight hour work day in Chicago, Illinois, United States. On May 3, a small riot occurred at the McCormick Harvester Plant in which there was a shooting and one fatality when police tangled with the rioters.

Violence escalated on May 4 when a protest meeting began in Haymarket Square. During this meeting to denounce the events of the previous days, the police began to disperse the crowd when someone threw a bomb, killing twelve people. Policeman Mathias J. Degan was killed almost instantly and seven other policemen later succumbed to injuries. Some of the speakers earlier in the day had been anarchists, and so the crime was presumed to have been committed by an anarchist, despite the fact that no evidence for such a link could be demonstrated.

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Here's the post I made for May Day last year.

¡Vive la revolución!

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