The Radical Importance of “May Day” for Posterity

Send us Fan MailWhat is May Day (International Workers Day May 1), why do we commemorate it, and what did it foreshadow? How did this event inspire socialist and a larger coalition with anarchists towards “One Big Union?” What were the resounding literary and labor imagination of an era of intense labor organization from such luminaries as Eugene Debs and why was Debs so radical? What was the larger meaning behind the 8 hour work day and what would it engender decades later legislatively?