The Incomplete and Wonderful History of May Day

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Dandelion Salad
Originally published May 1, 2016

The Laura Flanders Show on Apr 26, 2016

Author and professor Peter Linebaugh discusses his new book, The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day. Later in the show filmmaker Avi Lewis discusses worker-owned factories in Argentina, and Laura focuses on the intersectional feminism of 19th Century Anarchist Lucy Parsons.

Peter Linebaugh is professor emeritus at the University of Toledo, and the author of many books, including The Magna Carta Manifesto; Stop Thief, The Commons, Enclosures and Resistance, and his newest, The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day. Avi Lewis is a filmmaker known for The Take, co-directed by Naomi Klein, and This Changes Everything, a documentary on climate change and resistance, released in 2015.

From the archives:

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As Calls For Unions Grow, It is Worth Revisiting the Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Kenn Orphan

The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs

Historic Victory for U.S. Amazon Workers, by Betsey Piette + We Just Unionized Amazon!

The Brief Origins of May Day by Eric Chase

The War at Home: Part 2: Blacklist

Plutocracy I-V (must-see)

The War at Home: Part 1: Rebellion

The Haymarket Riot: “It is a Subterranean Fire” by Elizabeth Schulte

Who Was Lucy Parsons? by The Anti-Social Socialist

What Might A Cooperative Economy Look Like? by Pete Dolack

The Take (2004)

Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (must-see)