May Day is our day
Communist Revolution |
May 1, 2024
On May Day 1890, at the call of the Second International—an International founded by one of the fathers of Marxism, Engels himself—thousands of workers took to the streets.
On that day, 100,000 demonstrated in Barcelona, 120,000 in Stockholm, 8,000 in Warsaw, and thousands staged stay-at-home strikes in Austria and Hungary where demonstrations were banned. Strikes spread throughout Italy and France. Such was May Day in its early days.
But these traditions have largely been lost.
