Why Revive May Day?
April 30, 2005–The most significant thing about this year’s mobilization to revive May Day as a day of international workers solidarity is that the initiative comes from the workers themselves–particularly from the Black workers in the leadership of the Million Workers March, along with others. May Day has historically been a day for working people to the streets and raise their demands in each country and international solidarity with the struggles going on around the world. May Day began as a struggle for the eight-hour workday in the United States in 1886.It became an international day in 1890.From then on throughout the world, including the United States, working people marched under the slogans of the day–against war for empire, colonial oppression, and racism and lynching, and for freedom for political prisoners, universal suffrage, immigrant rights and other demands. May Day 2005, to be held in Union Square in New York http://www.troopsoutnow.org/ as well as in San Francisco
