Defiant Cuba celebrates May Day
Defiant Cuba celebrates May Day. An AFP report (“Communist Cuba celebrates Worker's Day, four days late”), datelined May 5, 2023, said: “Cuba finally celebrated May Day on Friday, four days…
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May Day in Havana: International Solidarity to Resist the U.S. Blockade
This year’s May Day celebration in Cuba was interrupted by severe storms that knocked out electricity in much of the country. Authorities had no choice but to postpone the traditional…
Informal sector must lay claims to deprived rights On May Day
In 1889 an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day in support of workers in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886). May Day commemorates…
An exposure of labor and violence: A May Day article
Violence against labor is as old as capital dominating labor. The tool – violence – is older than the rise of capitalism. Capitalism has sharpened the tool: made it more…
It is necessary to establish the dignity of labor
The labor from which capital is formed is the surplus labor of the worker, and from labor itself the process of capital formation continues unabated. But it is suitable for…
May Day 2022 – Oppose imperialist wars
Today is May 1, 2022, the May Day. It’s workers’ day, working people’s day, working people’s international solidarity day. All divisive, sectarian, supremacist ideology and politics is opposed by the…
May Day— Need for wider unity of workers
Workers in India Feel Increasing Need for Unity in the Middle of Increasing Unemployment, Inflation and Privatization This year May Day is being observed at a time of increasing need…
IAPI holds May Day vigil for slain Indian farmers
Activists came together on the international workers’ day outside the Indian Visa and Passport Application Center in Surrey, to remember more than 300 farmers who have laid down their lives…
The Dawn of Labor: Commemorating May Day
In 1889, Clara Zetkin wrote: “Wherever busy folk are drudging under the yoke of capitalism, the organised working men and women will demonstrate on May Day for the idea of…
Let May Day Herald Growing Unity of Workers and Farmers
In the course of the farmers’ movement the need for improving unity with workers has been emphasized several times. This was taken forward on April 29 in a joint online…
May-Day Thoughts: Let the Dignity of Labour be the Basis of Development
Corona attacks us again. This time intensity is much higher than last year. As a result of the previous sudden lockdown, millions of workers, porters, drivers of rickshaw auto…
May 1: Glints at Bangladesh labor’s struggle | Farooque Chowdhury
Today is May Day – a day for the labor to celebrate, a day to vow for carrying forward its political struggle for emancipation of humanity, a day to reiterate…
Unless unions educate workers politically, labor will find itself more powerless than ever before: Timir Basu focuses on labor in India
Labor around the world is facing a hostile situation to the extent and intensity unprecedented in labor’s history. At the same time, labor in the Global South and Global North…
A fully automated society is science fiction: Michael Yates focuses on US labor
May Day is one of the most important days to the exploited people. Michael D. Yates, director of Monthly Review Press and former Associate Editor of Monthly Review magazine, focuses…
Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Samman and the International Workers Day | Jayashubha
Lal Bahadur Shastri had given the slogan ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ (Hail the Soldier, Hail the Farmer). This was in recognition of their contribution for national security and food security…
An American Babushka in Moscow: May Day in the Former Soviet Union
When I first came to Russia I was thrilled by any artifact of the Soviet Union, by every Red Star I saw atop a building, by every hammer and sickle…
Commemorating the First Martyrs of labour history of the world: Kashmir weavers’ agitation of 1865
Every year, the world commemorates the victims of Haymarket affair that took place on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, by observing May 1st as International Workers’ Day…
May Day 2018: Exploitation, NO! Expropriation, NO! Unite for Justice!
Interview of Monthly Review analysts In view of the historic May Day, May 1st, analysts from Monthly Review, the famous independent socialist magazine, identify tasks the working classes should press…
‘May Day’: Militancy Needed To Create The Economy We Need
Co-authored by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Seventy years of attacks on the right to unionize have left the union movement representing only 10 percent of workers. The investor class…
May Day in a Neoliberal Society
A Forbes article entitled, “On May Day, Communism Is A Much-Closeted Joke” proclaimed the triumph of neoliberalism and the end of celebrating workers as follows: “Once its biggest self-celebration, May…
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Yes! There are atrocities Rapes Murders Lynchings ..... But Also there are protests Agitations Strikes Struggles .... Egging on the masses For future peaceful lives Though the ' opium'…
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