[Bernard Marx]

Yes, it's all building up to an enormous national Mayday rally. Of course many of us remember what Mayday represents but I wonder if today's high-schoolers and other useful idiots have a clue?

[Beagle8U]

http://www.salmonriver.com/words/nancy/maia.html

May Day Origins... by Nancy Sherer


The earliest known picture of a May-pole is taken from a drawing
of a window in Betley Hall, Staffordshire, England,
erected in the mid-1460s during the rule of Edward IV ...

May day might have been adopted by Communists and Marxists as a day to spread their BS, but I don't think that has any bearing on the origins of the holiday.