It’s the communist Christmas y’all. I am looking forward to a day of unity, marches, and workers getting together.
For most of the world it seems to be a day off (not looking at you, The Netherlands).
Enjoy!
Happy May Day Comrades…YES!
it’s “Loyalty Day” in the US
Today?!
Happy labor day comrades. Apart from Holland (cringe) where else in the world is it NOT considered a day off?
It’s an official holiday in Denmark, so this map isn’t correct
This weirdly says that Belgium has it on a different day which is not true
Yeah
Sweden definitely celebrates it as labor day, lots of marches and stuff
True, but officially?
I couldnt find it referenced as anything but labor day anywhere, but who knows I suppose!
Why is India and Sri Lanka not red? We do celebrate? It’s an actual holiday?
I think only informally.
It is formal though. The state recognizes it as a holiday.
Yeah, we celebrate May Day in America only informally.
In Canada, we get the day off, but not until September.
Another Canadian oof.
The US
Yeah, only informally at best.
Australia, for starters… which makes sense.
except for me, it has been 10 months since iast worked, I’m unemployed :(
It’s been over a year since I last worked.
“Worker” in this context doesn’t mean “currently employed”, it means “working class person”.
A working class person, a proletarian, is anyone who needs to sell their labour power to survive. As opposed to someone doesn’t need to work to survive, who can live off of profits from capital they own.
Yeah, if you’re not bourgeois or petit-bourgeois, then you are proletarian, afaik
ik ik, just kidding a little and venting, since im proletariat, im subjects to the wills of the market and have no employment consequently no money to my stuff and im surviving of my parents
I’m an intern, though not a full job. I vent about the same things too.
the actual labor day
And Labor Day is Fake May Day.
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Happy labor day, comrades! A shame people don’t celebrate May 1st in Canada (in Brazil the day is very celebrated).
In America, nobody knows about it.
Only holiday I celebrate.
I’m partial to Halloween…
I totally forgot to wear my May Day pin too 😞
DSA rose bleh
I kid, I kid!
It’s the Portuguese Carnation 😭
Ah, like the Carnation Revolution, which helped to end fascism in Portugal and end Portuguese colonialism in Africa!
The exact one! It’s subtle enough to feel safe to wear and it gets the message across.
Nice!
Workerpilled labourmaxxer
You in a union?
#UnionStrong
So glad to have the day off today (by coincidence) lol. I kinda want to read more about the Haymarket uprising in Chicago that started May Day, does anyone have any good articles or book suggestions on said topic? Thank you in advance!
This book was my intro to the Haymarket Affair.
There’s also this section of the autobiography of Mother Jones, and in general a lot of info from the IWW archive.
I didn’t know the IWW had an archive.
Fun fact: the leader’s wife (the wife of the leader who was executed) join the Communist Party USA but had her house burned down and the FBI swooped in and stole everything she was writing from the wreckage.
Lucy Parsons was a badass.
Also joined the CPUSA but had her house burned down and all her research taken!
I forgot to bring my Soviet Union flag to the demonstration :(. At least I bought a Palestine flag today
I too forgot
I have my soviet and China flag hanging in my room for this day o7
How long?
Yesterday
12:00 pm
You put it up there at the time that, well, this day started?
No the afternoon of today
My therapist said happy “May Day” to me.
She sent me a picture commemorating it for me.
a day to chill n be cool
And enjoy the fruits of our labor.
