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¡Bill Bachmann PRESENTE! We are saddened to report the passing of our comrade and former Black Rose/Rosa Negra militant Bill Bachmann, at the age of 81. Bill was a lifelong revolutionary who spent much of his career organizing in the NY Metro Area Postal Union - Local 10.

Join the Haymarket Book Club! 📚 Join in May and start your subscription with one or more of these www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club

Hunger strikers at Adelanto ICE prisons release their demands. #DueProcess4all #ShutDownAdelanto

Since 2016, Trump, rightwing media, & the coal industry have obsessively painted him as a friend of coal miners & their families—& he has stabbed them in the back over & over again. I speak w/ the indomitable @kimkelly.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com @therealnews.com therealnews.com/kim-kelly-co...

🎶 Who-oa! We're halfway theeere! 🎶 🚩🏴 Support anarchist labor organizers and help us meet our goal. chuffed.org/project/1765...

Your support gets you a sweet t-shirt with design by artist @landonsheely.bsky.social!

I am a fan of @long-haul-mag.bsky.social! I've been reading it cover to cover since the first issue came out last year, and I've been consistently impressed with both the depth of thinking and the level engagement with the actual lives of workers of all sorts. Also, it's always beautiful!

In issue 5, I particularly appreciated the interview with the longtime labor organizer Ellen David Friedman. Check it out here: longhaulmag.com/long-talk-fr...

Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff struck student protesters with his car. This is why.

Pitch in: send anarchist labor organizers to Labor Notes 2026! 🚩🏴 chuffed.org/project/1765...

#OtD 11 May 1972 the OPR-33, armed wing of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, kidnapped a shoe manufacturer whose workers were on strike. They ransomed him for $10 million which they used to publicise the crimes of the dictatorship stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8339...

#OtD 11 May 1894 the Pullman railroad strike began in Chicago after the firing of 3 workers. The biggest strike in US history to date, it was only eventually broken by federal government troops and the killing of at least 24 strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8336...

In Episode 2 of WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT PRAIRIELAND, we answer the question: was a shooter hiding in the woods? Was Benjamin Song seen right outside the woods and near the woods, concealed and lying in wait to ambush ICE officers?

WANT TO KNOW what really happened at Prairieland Detention Center last July 4th? The evidence in the Prairieland case has FINALLY been made public, so now you can see for yourself. And BIG SURPRISE - it's NOT what you heard from the government or on the news.

What’s a book you wish more anarchists would read? 📚

Anarchist trans prisoner Marius Mason is finally being released after seventeen of a twenty-two year sentence! To celebrate his release and help him land on his feet, we will give Marius $2 for every item sold at akpress.org in the month of May. You can also donate directly at supportmariusmason.org

We found this kitten on the street outside the store and named them May Day.

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May Day 2026: Honor our martyrs, fight for the living! Pictured: Chicago members and supporters of Black Rose/Rosa Negra stand with a banner in front of the gravesite of the Haymarket Martyrs 🚩🏴 See the May Day statement from Black Rose/Rosa Negra's Labor Committee below 👇

Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

From the article: "13 minors under the age of 6 years old were detained by ICE in Virginia during that same period." Even one is unacceptable.

According to an analysis of ICE data, obtained by VPM News through the Deportation Data Project's FOIA-released dataset, ICE has made nearly 11,000 arrests during the period between President Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration and early March '26 During all of 2024, ICE made 1,595 arrests in Virginia

May Day 2026 Statement from Black Rose Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation www.blackrosefed.org/statement-ma...

The sham of a trial, and the repression of people who had only published newspapers in the "land of the free," sparked the labor movement worldwide. It's the reason we still celebrate May Day, a hundred and forty years later.

As he stood on the gallows, he spoke words that proved prophetic: "There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!"

"Here you will tread upon a spark, but here, and there, and behind you, and in front of you, and everywhere, the flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out."

He told the court: "If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labor movement—the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery, the wage slaves, expect salvation—if this is your opinion, then hang us!

August Spies was one of the "moderate" anarchists, the editor of a newspaper whose title translated simply to Worker's Paper. He worked 12-16 hours a day on that newspaper, fighting for the eight hour day for everyone else. He kept a circle bomb on his desk in the office.

“Who were the pioneers of the eight-hour movement? Those martyrs who were strung from the gallows in Chicago on November 11, 1887, the much-lied-about and abused Anarchists.”– Lucy Parsons

You've probably heard a lot about general strikes. But how exactly do they work? And is America on the verge of one? Labor journalist @kimkelly.bsky.social explains.

#OtD 1 May 1886 300-500k workers went on strike and rallies were held across the US, with the cry: "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay." The strike led to the Chicago Haymarket Affair and the start of May Day itself. More in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

#OtD 1 May 1970 lesbians in the Gay Liberation Front took action at the congress of the biggest feminist organisation, which described them a "lavender menace" to the movt. They wore "lavender menace" t-shirts and demanded to be heard, successfully shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 1 May 1867 a general strike broke out for a maximum 8-hour working day in Chicago, Illinois. An 8-hour day had been brought in by law, but employers ignored it. After several days, state militia were deployed, and the strike was crushed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8119...

#OtD 29 Apr 1945 US troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. But some LGBT+ prisoners had to serve out their full sentences under the Nazi penal code. This law remained in force until 1968 in East Germany and 1969 in the West. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1007...

Newport News shipyard workers taken to hospital after suspected carbon monoxide exposure:

Aid agencies warn that time is running out to avoid an 'irreversible humanitarian catastrophe'.

This is a fundraiser from a very trusted grassroots network in Lebanon working on shelter, food and medicine aid. I know A LOT of people who are organizing with them rn. Please help them reach their goal and beyond. www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

Trump administration fires independent board overseeing the National Science Foundation:

While we have your attention about the safety of journalists in harm’s way… Say her name: Amal Khalii. She was killed by US-Israel this week. She is one of 14 Lebanese journalists killed, and among nearly 300 killed in the Middle East since 2024.

The email address they are having anti-trans activists send emails to in order to keep the panel is Daniel.Rauch@HMHN.org

The idea that Mutant mentioned reading that book on June 2020 and I thought "Huh, I guess I'll look for people who read this book in 2020" just blows their mind. Now I understand that guy who tried to explain binary searches to a cop must have felt.

The circle of death is: Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.

I hate that contract negotiations are not going better, but this is where we are. Today my colleagues and I @propublica.org are walking out. We need management to come to the table with more serious contract proposals that address our real concerns about discipline, job protections and fair wages.

Good morning! All day today my colleagues and I will be on STRIKE. You can help us send a message! Please do not visit ProPublica's website and tell management to give us a fair contract so we can get back to work: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

This is a clear statement of genocidal intent.

If you have any information at all on these plans, now is the time to share it. Reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04