Posted on 05/01/2024 12:31:36 AM PDT by RandFan
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May.
Traditionally, 1 May is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. In 1889, the Marxist International Socialist Congress met in Paris and established the Second International as a successor to the earlier International Workingmen's Association. They adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day. The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later. The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace".
“National Socialism + Soviet Socialism = 70 million dead.”
Stalin has been attributed to killing 70 million Soviet citizens during his Reign of Terror, but it is important to note that there were:
“70 million fingers pulling 70 million triggers that killed those 70 million.” - Sarah C. M. Paine (paraphrased)
It’s Lei Day in Hawaii. I always liked Lei Day when I lived there. It’s more benign than Socialism.
Whenever anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life individuals have formed a collective, lots of innocent individuals have been killed.
Ironically this day is also an international distress call.
VICTIMS OF MARXISM DAY.
More like 200 Million!!
Yes, we curmudgeons can be pretty blunt, crude, and tactless and cut straight to the chase without any BS. Pretty much what’s needed during these perilous times.
Beats Kill Haole Day.
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