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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!

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[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's "Loyalty Day" in the US 

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago
[–] haha4456@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] vaguevoid@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

And Labor Day is Fake May Day.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 6 months ago (5 children)
[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago
[–] IvarK@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] IvarK@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ronweasleysl@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why is India and Sri Lanka not red? We do celebrate? It's an actual holiday?

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ronweasleysl@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It is formal though. The state recognizes it as a holiday.

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[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

It's an official holiday in Denmark, so this map isn't correct

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[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Another Canadian oof.

[–] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, only informally at best.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Australia, for starters... which makes sense.

[–] olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, if you're not bourgeois or petit-bourgeois, then you are proletarian, afaik

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] Lenom@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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!

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This book was my intro to the Haymarket Affair.

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[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's also this section of the autobiography of Mother Jones, and in general a lot of info from the IWW archive.

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[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago

In America, nobody knows about it.

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I totally forgot to wear my May Day pin too 😞

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

DSA rose bleh

I kid, I kid!

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s the Portuguese Carnation 😭

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago
[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 months ago

My therapist said happy "May Day" to me.

She sent me a picture commemorating it for me.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] ComradeSpahija@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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