Austin Usa info May 1st International Workers Day march
By Ed Dalton
The 5th consecutive May 1st International Workers Day march was carried out successfully in Austin this year, but it was not without struggle, sacrifice, and spilled blood. Three marchers were arrested
by the reactionary police and one member of the fascist group Texas Nomads SAR was seriously injured.
The Austin Police Department mobilized an unprecedented high number of police vehicles, foot police, and bicycle cops this year, all with a singular purpose: to prevent workers, militants, and revolutionaries from carrying out their unpermitted march. The police failed in spite of having even numbers with the marchers at times. Even as the march was routed by police back onto the sidewalks repeatedly, the masses were undeterred and joined in the procession anyway, swelling the ranks of the march as it went along against the tide of police. At one point the police commandeered a city bus in a failed attempt to blockade the Maoist-led march. Incendiary witnessed the police facing stiff resistance from the marchers when they tried to use their bicycles as weapons and road blocks.
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