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We can make this program with you,

but not without you. Happy May Day, everybody. May 1st, a day where all around the world people

are paying tribute to the working class or where workers and unions, larger workers' movements,

peasant movements, people's movements are in the streets,

marching. A holiday, as I think most of you probably know, that was born in the struggle

for a shorter workday, the eight-hour workday, started here in the United States, but because of anti-communism,

which, as we've said on our show over and over again, became the unofficial religion of America,

of the United States of America after World War II. People in the United States,

including many workers, don't know that the origin of this holiday

celebrated all over the world. Has its origin in Chicago, has its origin in the United States.

And on May 1st, as a response to the American Federation of Labor's call for a nationwide strike. This is 1886. A nationwide strike

demanding a shorter work week. Many of the work days at that time were 16-hour shifts.

So people work 16 hours, maybe an hour to get home, an hour to get to work, six hours left to sleep.

And that was the condition of the working class in the United States and everywhere where

capitalism had taken root. And on May 2nd, the day after the strike started, the nationwide strike in Chicago,

there was a police attack on the workers.

The next day, there was a big protest.

And at that protest, a bomb went off that killed several policemen.

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