127
years have passed since the Hay Market (Chicago) massacre and hanging
of trade union leaders August Spies, Adolph Fisher, Albert Parsons and
George Engel. It was on 11th November 1887 that these comrades were
hanged by the US colonialist rulers who wanted to protect the interests
of the capitalists and exploiters. When they were being marched to the
gallows they sang the Marseillaise, the international revolutionary
anthem of the period. Before being hanged August Spies stated: "The time
will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you
strangle today". How prophetic!
1st
May, the day of Chicago massacre in 1886, is observed /celebrated as
May Day, International Working Class Day, in memory of the workers
struggle and the martyrdom.
The working class world over will ever remember their great sacrifice.
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