We want more time, as Linton Kwesi Johnson sings. So, to all the Hamlets out there suffering from cursed spite, remember Shakespeare’s wise words, “let’s go together.” It’s May Day! The day of pleasure, the day of struggle. No matter what you call it, we live in murderous times. Call it expropriation, call it exploitation, combine them and you have X squared add extraction and you have X cubed, or the formula of capitalism. It is the widespread whisper, the secret thought, the unindicted accusation as more and more are shot, gassed, get sick, starve, drown, burn, or have to move out so that entrepreneuring gentry may move in. The tendency of capitalism is the global devaluation of labor, an abstraction covering over the four-fold murders of war, famine, pestilence, and neglect that characterize our neo-liberal, incarcerating, planet-wrecking times. Who? Whom? The army massacres the Lakotas. The Haymarket hangings were preparation for mass murder at Wounded Knee (1890). “The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.” Their last words, our prologue. Their hanging was judicial murder or state sponsored terror. Their names were August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel.
Who? Whom? The bosses hanged the workers. That struggle commenced on May 1 st 1886. We remember los martiros, that is the martyrs who were hanged for their support of the Eight Hour Day and the police riot at Haymarket, Chicago. It’s methodology therefore requires answers to two questions: Who? Whom? Murder is the crime, and help is the need. “M’aidez, m’aidez,” says the international distress signal. “Murther, murther, murther, murther …” shouted Free-born John Lilburne from prison. 'A remarkable performance.Image Source: The Haymarket Riot – Harper’s Weekly – Public Domain 'The definitive story of the legend' Irish Times 'The fullest factual account of Monroe's life and death we're likely to get' Evening Standard GODDESS, however, delivers new, fully documented yet exciting fact. Marilyn's tragic story is clouded by gossip-reporting more than almost any other. Drawing on more than 600 first-hand interviews, Anthony Summers offers the classic, definitive biography of a woman who captivated the world.
Her life was a contrast of public brilliance and private misery, her death a tragedy suffused by dark questions - about her relations with President John F. More than half a century after her death, Marilyn Monroe is arguably still one of the most famous people in the world. 'Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will' Guardian The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star's death - now a major Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Tapes
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