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Senator Bernie Sanders appeared at the “For the Workers, Not the Billionaires May Day Rally” labor rally in Philadelphia.

Activism / StudentNation / In the 1880s, labor leaders believed that the eight-hour day was one of the only demands that could unite all working people. Today, the four-day week could do the same.

In 1494, on his second expedition to the New World, Columbus explored the Caribbean island of Jamaica. In 1886, four police officers were killed when a bomb was thrown during a meeting of anarchists ...

In 1886, four police officers were killed when a bomb was thrown during a meeting of anarchists in Chicago's Haymarket Square protesting labor unrest. Four leaders of the demonstration ...

Two workers were killed. The anarchists called for a rally the next night at Haymarket Square to protest the deaths. Mayor Harrison had Bonfield and his men stand by, a block from the square.

Activists have organized May Day protests in Chicago and around the country to protest President Trump's policies, especially around immigration.

Workers were protesting for an eight-hour workday in Haymarket Square on that day when a bomb was thrown into a meeting of the radical unionists who raised their voice against police brutality.

The history of organized labor is long and brutal. The history of May Day, the holiday honoring the organized labor movement ...

The movement turned violent at Haymarket Square, leading to the deaths of several workers but eventually succeeded in establishing labour rights. In 1889, a global assembly of labour leaders in ...

May Day is known to some as a spring holiday within the pagan tradition, one associated with rebirth, maypole dances and a ...