It’s the communist Christmas y’all. I am looking forward to a day of unity, marches, and workers getting together.

For most of the world it seems to be a day off (not looking at you, The Netherlands).

Enjoy!

    • Makan
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      7 months ago

      And enjoy the fruits of our labor.

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      7 months ago

      And Labor Day is Fake May Day.

  • ☭CommieWolf☆
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    7 months ago

    Happy labor day comrades. Apart from Holland (cringe) where else in the world is it NOT considered a day off?

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        7 months ago

        This weirdly says that Belgium has it on a different day which is not true

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        7 months ago

        Sweden definitely celebrates it as labor day, lots of marches and stuff

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            7 months ago

            I couldnt find it referenced as anything but labor day anywhere, but who knows I suppose!

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              7 months ago

              Labor Memorial Day, I think.

              There’s May Day and then there’s Labor Day sometime in the second half of the year.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, we celebrate May Day in America only informally.

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      7 months ago

      In Canada, we get the day off, but not until September.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, only informally at best.

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      7 months ago

      Australia, for starters… which makes sense.

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    except for me, it has been 10 months since iast worked, I’m unemployed :(

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      “Worker” in this context doesn’t mean “currently employed”, it means “working class person”.

      A working class person, a proletarian, is anyone who needs to sell their labour power to survive. As opposed to someone doesn’t need to work to survive, who can live off of profits from capital they own.

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        7 months ago

        ik ik, just kidding a little and venting, since im proletariat, im subjects to the wills of the market and have no employment consequently no money to my stuff and im surviving of my parents

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          I’m an intern, though not a full job. I vent about the same things too.

      • Makan
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        Yeah, if you’re not bourgeois or petit-bourgeois, then you are proletarian, afaik

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      It’s been over a year since I last worked.

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    Happy labor day, comrades! A shame people don’t celebrate May 1st in Canada (in Brazil the day is very celebrated).

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      In America, nobody knows about it.

  • Lenom
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    I have my soviet and China flag hanging in my room for this day o7

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    So glad to have the day off today (by coincidence) lol. I kinda want to read more about the Haymarket uprising in Chicago that started May Day, does anyone have any good articles or book suggestions on said topic? Thank you in advance!

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        I didn’t know the IWW had an archive.

    • Makan
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      Fun fact: the leader’s wife (the wife of the leader who was executed) join the Communist Party USA but had her house burned down and the FBI swooped in and stole everything she was writing from the wreckage.

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    I totally forgot to wear my May Day pin too 😞

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      7 months ago

      DSA rose bleh

      I kid, I kid!

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          Ah, like the Carnation Revolution, which helped to end fascism in Portugal and end Portuguese colonialism in Africa!

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            The exact one! It’s subtle enough to feel safe to wear and it gets the message across.

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      7 months ago

      I’m partial to Halloween…

    • Makan
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      7 months ago

      You in a union?

      #UnionStrong

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    I forgot to bring my Soviet Union flag to the demonstration :(. At least I bought a Palestine flag today

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    My therapist said happy “May Day” to me.

    She sent me a picture commemorating it for me.