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It's May Day, which is a labour holiday everywhere except North America commemorating the Haymarket Affair when American police brutally repressed striking work
by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
It's May Day, which is a labour holiday everywhere except North America commemorating the Haymarket Affair when American police brutally repressed striking workers .
In North America we have Labor Day in September to distance it from the historical associations with actual organizing and police brutality.
- reaperducer 5mo agoStill widely noted in Chicago, where the Haymarket riot took place. There's even a very well-attended reenactment every year. North America is a big place. Generalizations always fail.
- prmoustache 5mo agoYou do know that no sea/ocean has split the continent and that Mexico is still in North America right? 1st of may is festive day in Mexico.
- leptons 5mo agoMay Day has been around significantly longer than the Haymarket Affair.. a couple thousands years at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
- dotancohen 5mo agoThat's actually a different holiday celebrated on the same day. Why the other holiday got the name May Day is beyond me.