In pictures: May Day protests around the world

BBC ^ | May 1, 2020 | Staff

[C19fan]

Every year May Day is used to mark many things - from the coming of spring in the Northern Hemisphere to the fight for workers' rights. This year many rallies have been scaled back because of coronavirus lockdowns, although some have taken place on the streets and online. Here are some of the events that have marked the day.

[C19fan]

Happy Commie Day!!! Actually May Day was originally a Spring festival until the Commies appropriated it. The opening of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Ubervilles" opened with a traditional May Day celebration.

[ncpatriot]

Back around 1955, we celebrated May Day at our school with Maypole festivities. Never did understand that. Where did the Maypole idea come from - Marx?

[C19fan]

May Pole I believe has pagan origins long before Marx.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Back in ‘55 or ‘56, the Japanese Zengakuran Students Federation staged a anti-Yankee demonstration across Japan. The “students” were communist sympathizers.

They snake-danced past our house in Yokohama, spotting my dad's Packard parked in the street.

About 30 young men got on one side of the Packard and succeeded in flipping it over. It was then set on fire.

[PROCON]

I remembering as I was biking to work in Bamberg, Germany, mid-’70’s, seeing the red flags and commies gathered around city hall.

[L,TOWM]

Maypoles were a derivation of Druid/Pagan sprig time fertility rituals. The...original pole...the largest and most perfect column of the hardest wood in the land...was honored and decorated to enhance its...fertile potency.

Cue the screen shot of the train going into the tunnel.
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Federico Fellini

[cowboyusa]

Today is victims of Communism day(burn a chi com flag.)

[hanamizu]

About 30 young men got on one side of the Packard and succeeded in flipping it over.

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Packards, for those too young to remember, were pretty substantial cars.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Folks were stationed with the Army in 1950s Japan.
My mom drove dad to Haneda for a trip to SK, but left the car in the street in front of our house.

Dad came home three days later in a taxi, stepped right over the big scorch mark on the pavement. His first words were, “What the hell happened to the Packard?”