International Workers’ Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago. The police were trying to disperse a public assembly during a general strike for the eight-hour workday, when an unidentified person threw a bomb at them. The police reacted by firing on the workers, killing dozens of demonstrators and several of their own officers.
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That’s from wiki, by the way. But today is may day, so may you spend it fighting capitalism!
Death to the bourgeoisie!
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