May Day and International Workers’ Day commemorate the 1886 Chicago Haymarket affair and the fight for representation and rights for laborers worldwide — as well as the continuing efforts and struggle of the labor movement. …
Read More >By Stephen Preskill, author of Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice May Day in 1930 America was a dismal affair. In the first …
Read More >Though many in the Northern Hemisphere are more familiar with the traditional celebrations of the springtime season, people around the world also gather today to recognize the working class. May Day, sharing a …
Read More >by Fred B. Glass, author of From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of …
Read More >May Day, “International Worker’s Day,” is a curiously un-American holiday. Celebrated by labor groups and political parties outside the United States, it began in 1890 as a global day of solidarity to …
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