#OnThisDay 05/11/1984: The Pullman Railroad Strike began when 3,000 Pullman workers went on a wildcat strike. Many of the strikers belonged to the American Railroad Union (ARU) founded by Eugene Debs.

#OnThisDay 05/10/1937: The Transport Workers Union (TWU) joins the CIO as a national union. The union was founded by #communists in 1934 to organize #subway workers in New York City. A sit-down #strike of subway workers in January 1937 was the tipping point.

#OnThisDay 05/09/1945: Victory Day marked the surrender of #Nazi Germany to the #SovietUnion in WWII (known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). (image: 1945 #USSR postage stamp commemorating the day. Inscription 'Long live our victory!')

#OnThisDay 05/09/1800: John Brown was born. He was an #abolitionist who came to believe that #slavery would never be ended in the US through purely peaceful means. He formed an army of black & white people dedicated to ending slavery by any means necessary.

#OnThisDay On 05/08/1925: A. Philip Randolph & Milton P. Webster founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Representing the Pullman Porters, the Brotherhood was the first African-American labor #union to sign a collective bargaining agreement with a major US corporation.

#OnThisDay 05/07/1907: On 'Bloody Tuesday' during the San Francisco Streetcar Strike of 1907, police & strikebreakers opened fire on striking workers. The workers were striking for an 8-hour day and $3 daily wage.

David Gilbert's speech at the Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Twin Cities May Day event! youtu.be/XIm_gQMApJo?si…

#OnThisDay May 5, 6, and 7, 1991: The 'Mount Pleasant riot' broke out in the largely-Salvadoran & Central American immigrant neighborhood of Mount Pleasant in Washington D.C. after a rookie police officer shot an unarmed Salvadoran man in the chest. Read: buff.ly/3w3CPy3

#OnThisDay 05/05/1981: Irish #revolutionary #BobbySands died after 66 days on hunger strike. Sands led a hunger strike by Irish Republican prisoners to demand their recognition as prisoners of war with basic human rights. #Ireland #BobbySands #HungerStrike #Protest

#OnThisDay : May 5, 1818: Karl Marx was born. A philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary Marx is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker of the 19th century. #Marx #Germany #Theory #Socialism #Communism

#OnThisDay 05/04/1886: The Haymarket Incident. A day after police killed four striking workers, protesters gathered at Haymarket Square in #Chicago . One officer was killed and several were wounded. Martyrs of this day are remembered on May 1 for International Workers Day.

#OnThisDay 05/04/1919: Student demonstrations in Beijing, China gave rise to the May 4th Movement. These demonstrations sparked national protests and marked the upsurge of Chinese nationalism and Marxism, a shift towards political mobilization and a political shift to the left.