The best anthem for Workers’ Day is Hugh Masekela’s tale about apartheid’s migrant labor system

The best anthem for Workers’ Day is Hugh Masekela’s tale about apartheid’s migrant labor system

What is the ultimate song to celebrate Workers’ Day? Many will suggest “The Internationale” which had its roots as a poem written in the aftermath of the Paris Commune in 1871 by Eugène Pottier, a transport worker. Set to music a few years later, it became the anthem for the wider progressive movement. It served…