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I spoke to Robert from the Upstream podcast about the history of Mayday International Workers Day.

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Thank you, comrades. We hope you enjoy this conversation. No one knows who throws the bomb.

No one knows who throws it and there's conflicting theories one way or the other.

But one cop was killed and some others were injured.

Then the police pull out their guns and they start shooting wildly into the crowd and each other.

It's possible that some armed workers might have fired on the police as well, but that's unclear.

What is clear, the police did admit that they shot each other. By the time the smoke had cleared, there were seven police dead and four workers dead. And the press then used this as an opportunity to condemn the strike as a whole. And to Chicago police use it as an opportunity to repress the

anarchist movement in the city? They started raiding, meeting places, and rounding up

anarchists in particular, and often without warrants. You're listening to Upstream. Upstream. Upstream.

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