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- Anti-Capitalist Demonstration of May 1, 2013 in Montreal
Journée des Travailleurs et Travailleuses: Manifestation Anti-Capitaliste
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2013
Montreal 2013: police state. Montreal's municipal goverment passes a bylaw that suspends the right of citizens to assemble unless they have received advance permission from police. Citizens who assert their right to assembly are kettled by police and arrested.
- Archiving With May Day Rooms
From the Marx Memorial Library to Cold Bath Fields
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destroys the evidence of our past, its joys, its victories. Clear out the closets, empty the shelves, toss out the old footage, shred the underground press, pulverize the brittle, yellowing documents! Thus neo-liberalism organizes the transition from the old to the new; they must silence alternatives.
- The Idea of May Day on the March
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1913
The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
- In the Storm
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1904
The war destroys the appearance which leads us to believe in peaceful social evolution; in the omnipotence and the untouchability of bourgeois legality; in national exclusivism; in the stability of political conditions; in the conscious direction of politics by these statesmen or parties.
- The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
This book's reflections on the Red and the Green -- out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies -- are populated by the likes of Native American anarchocommunist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant.
- International Workers' Day
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement.
- Istanbul's Shameful May Day
Silencing the Masses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
"I was walking through the streets of Istanbul. Smoke and tear-gas bombs were exploding everywhere and people were running, pursued by police in riot gear". I lay for a while analysing my dream. It was May the first – International Workers’ Day.
- Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
- May Day
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Occurs on May 1 and refers to several public holidays.
- May Day 2010: Jobs, Justice and Public Services - Getting the Economy to Work
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
May 1, 2010 - On today of all days, trade unionists around the world demand fresh steps to reform the global economy in favour of social justice, investment in jobs and fairness in society. This is no time for business as usual.
- May Day Documents
Resource Type: Website
Documents focusing on the labour history origins of May Day as a workers' holiday, including material from the eight-hour movement, the Haymarket Tragedy, International May Day, as well as recollections, music, literature and images.
- Mayday, the 8-hour movement and the Knights of Labor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Jeremy Brecher's account of the growth of the Knights of Labor union in the US, the agitation for a maximum 8-hour working day and the Chicago Haymarket events of 1886.
- A Revolutionary Marxist History of May Day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The revolutionary heritage of May Day
- What Are the Origins of May Day?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1894
As long as the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie and the ruling class continues, as long as all demands are not met, May Day will be the yearly expression of these demands. And, when better days dawn, when the working class of the world has won its deliverance then too humanity will probably celebrate May Day in honour of the bitter struggles and the many sufferings of the past.
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