Yves here. Last week, I chided American labor for walking away from the American-born May Day commemoration as apparently too Commie/Rooskie, and substituting a bloodless and overly-wordy “workers Memorial Day”.
The apparent Russia/international Socialist aversion looks even more spineless in light of the Russians moving away from May Day as a formal holiday (although Barkley Rosser indicates it’s still effectively observed).
By Barkley Rosser, Professor of Economics at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Originally published at EconoSpeak
Today is May Day. An ancient point of the Gaelic calendar marking spring, it was long marked by pagan fertility celebrations and rites, dancing around May poles and the like, with many variations on this in different countries. The day became associated with the worker’s movement in 1886 when in Chicago a movement for the 8-hour work day involved many demonstrations and strikes and ultimately a riot in Haymarket Square in
Рюмку и бутерброд – народу! Как праздновали Первомай трудящиеся в СССР
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«Напомнить о героических страницах»: Минобороны запустило патриотическую акцию «Мы — армия страны! Мы — армия народа!»
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With his passing the international communist movement lost one of its most remarkable and long-serving leaders.
Comrade Khavari selflessly dedicated the whole of his adult life to the party, the international struggle and the cause of socialism.
He gave everything he had in whatever circumstance he was placed working underground for the outlawed party, serving time as a long-term political prisoner of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and in decades-long exile from the post-1979 theocratic dictatorship, from which he was never to return.
In an interview with Jung Welte in August 2009, Khavari said: “Every aspect of the political, social and cultural life of our diverse society is affected by [the] tireless struggle and effort of our party.”