Happy May Day!

What comes to your mind when you think of the first week of May? I tend to think of springtime flowers and the flying pig marathon. But there's a much darker history to this fair holiday. Worker's rebellions. Anarchy. This holiday is also known as International Worker's Day.

The Origins of Mayday

Sit-ins or strikes, May poles or marathons, picnics or parties - How do you plan to celebrate this joyous spring day?





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I don't know about you guys, but I'm thoroughly entrenched in final exams. I'll write a paper, polish another two, and maybe if I'm lucky I'll get to plant something pretty before the impending thunderstorm hits.

 

Happy International Workers' Day, comrades!

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National differences and antagonism between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world market, to uniformity in the mode of production and in the conditions of life corresponding thereto.​

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The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster. United action, of the leading civilized countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.​

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In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another will also be put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.​

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— From Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists, The Communist Manifesto (1848), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels​

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Sunshine

 

Dyslexics of the world UNTIE !