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  1. Anti-Capitalist Demonstration of May 1, 2013 in Montreal
    Journée des Travailleurs et Travailleuses: Manifestation Anti-Capitaliste
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First 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.
  2. Archiving With May Day Rooms
    From the Marx Memorial Library to Cold Bath Fields
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  3. The Idea of May Day on the March
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  4. In the Storm
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  5. The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  6. International Workers' Day
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement.
  7. Istanbul's Shameful May Day
    Silencing the Masses
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  8. Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
  9. May Day
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Occurs on May 1 and refers to several public holidays.
  10. May Day at 125
    Against The Current vol. 152
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In the spring of 1886 workers at Chicago’s McCormick Harvesting Machine Company struck for the eight-hour workday. They were locked out by the employers, who hired strikebreakers in their place. On May 1 a protest parade was held outside of the plant; two days later police attacked the demonstrators, killing one.
  11. 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.
  12. May Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Class consciousness is the knowledge that emancipation is ours. Class struggle is the fight for it, the fight to be a class, and then the fight to abolish the class system. It is not economistic; it is historical. It was concrete not abstract. It was expressed in real voices, voices of the past and voices of the present. The skill is in the listening.
  13. Mayday, the 8-hour movement and the Knights of Labor
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  14. A Revolutionary Marxist History of May Day
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The revolutionary heritage of May Day
  15. What Are the Origins of May Day?
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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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