May Day or Loyalty Day?
May 1st is International Workers Day, to commemorate the struggle for the eight hour day in 1886. During a strike and protest the Haymarket Massacre took place in Chicago when police fought strikers and many died. But did you know the US government tried to replace it with Loyalty Day?
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Below is from the Acknowledgements for my third book Before The Storm.
I started to write a biography of my dad when I was sixteen, up in my bedroom on the Dymchurch estate in Speke. I wrote about half a page. I knew my dad came from Ireland, and my brother died there. I wanted to write my dad as hero, not because he was, but because I somehow wanted to pay him back for making that journey across The Irish Sea. My dad was a worker, painter and decorator and my mum worked part time at Evans Medical all the time I was at school. What made me a writer was trying to change in fiction, what I couldn’t change in fact. I wanted to celebrate the lives of my dad, my mum, and my dead brother.
The thread that runs through the Liverpool Mysteries is the understanding that the only solution to the problems we face as working class communities. Will come from those communities, from people like my mum, my dad, my brother, my sisters, my aunties, my cousins – us – asserting our interests, our history, and ourselves to renew the broken society we have. Humanity and Solidarity expressed through action are the keys to our future, irrespective of colour, sexuality or nationality. For those who are looking I hope my writing not only expresses some of the pain and suffering we go through but also points to the collective solutions on offer.
I no longer live in Liverpool, so the choice will be yours. All I can say is that if I was still there I would be supporting Liverpool Community Independents Sam Gorst & Lucy Williams
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Jack Byrne 
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