May 1 or May day many would identify it just as a predetermined holiday.
Even many would planned their vacation and fun time, It's not the mistake of u
and me. Our history never gave us the real taste of workers movement and
significance of May day. A Historic day in every working class movement but
lost its significance over the years due to improper awareness about the
day. Let’s look into the history for importance of may day.
May day is celebrated as International workers day in remembrance with
Haymarket Affair, Chicago 1986. May 1 declared as international workers day by
second International on 1890. Chicago workers were first to organize 8 hours
worker movement during Haymarket affair.
History:
The first of May was originally
celebrated by pagans throughout Europe as the beginning of summer, which was recognized as a day of fertility (both for the first spring planting and sexual
intercourse). A maypole was oftentimes erected for young women and men to dance
around and entwine the ribbons they carried with one another to find a mate...
at least for the night. The ancient Celts and Saxons celebrated the day as
Beltane, the day of fire, in honor of the god of the sun; beginning their
celebrations at midnight; soon acquiring the label Walpurgisnacht, or night of
the witches.
Persecution of May Day began as early as the 1600s; in 1644 the British
Parliament banned its practice as immoral, with the Church bringing its full
force to bear across the spectrum. Governments throughout Europe were largely
ineffective in outlawing these celebrations, and thus the Church took a
different approach – it attempted to assimilate the festivities by naming
Saints days on the first of May. These efforts led to the destruction of May
Day in some places, but the traditions and customs of May Day continued to
remain strong throughout much of the peasantry of Europe, whose ties to one
another and nature were far stronger than their ties to the ruling class and
its religion. Celebrations became increasingly festive, especially at night
when huge feasts, song, dance and free love were practiced throughout the
night.
After the revolutions of capitalism, the roots and principles of the
tradition survived to various extents, with workers across Europe celebrating
the first of May as the coming of spring and a day of sexual fertility. Most
mythical and religious sentiments faded away, but the spirit of the festival in
expressing the love of nature and one another gained strength.
Haymarket massacre:
In 1884, the U.S. Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions had passed a
law declaring that, as of May 1, 1886, an eight hour workday would be the full
and legal workday for all U.S. workers – the ruling class had that much time to recognize this new law and put it into effect. The owners refused.
On May 1, 1886, workers took to the streets in a general strike throughout
the entire country to force the ruling class to recognize the eight-hour working
day. Over 350,000 workers across the country directly participated in the
general strike, with hundreds of thousands of workers joining the marches as
best they could.
In what they would later call the Haymarket riots, during the continuing
strike action on May third in Chicago, the heart of the U.S. labor movement,
the Chicago police opened fire on the unarmed striking workers at the McCormick
Reaper Works, killing six workers and wounding untold numbers. An uproar across
the nation resounded against the government and its police brutality, with
workers' protest rallies and demonstrations throughout the nation set to
assemble on the following day.

On May 4, Chicago members of the anarchist IWPA (International Working
Peoples' Association) organized a rally of several thousand workers at
Haymarket Square to protest the continuing police brutality against striking
workers on the South Side. As the last speaker finished his remarks that rainy
evening, with only 200 of the most dedicated workers remaining at the rally,
180 armed police marched forward and demanded the workers to disperse. Then,
deep within the police ranks, a bomb exploded, killing seven cops. The police
opened fire on the unarmed workers – the number of workers wounded and killed
by the cops is unknown to this day. Eight anarchists were arrested on charges
of "inciting riot" and murder. The retaliation of the government was
enormous in the days to follow, filling every newspaper with accusations,
completely drowning the government murders and brutality of days past.
Eight workers were convicted as anarchists, were convicted of murder, and
were convicted of inciting a riot. Only one of the eight men accused was
present at the protest, and he was attempting to address the crowd when the
bomb went off. In one of the greatest show trials in the history of the
working-class movement no evidence was ever produced to uphold the accusations,
though all eight were convicted as guilty. Four of the prisoners – Albert
Parsons, August Spies, George Engel and Adolph Fisher – were executed, Louis
Lingg committed suicide (His face was blasted with dynamite), and the three remaining were pardoned due to immense
working class upheaval in 1893.
Most painful would be were statue of Haymarket hero's were demolished and police statue resurrected (even after two demolished). Too make May day loose significance America simply altered its workers day to September first Monday that to as labor day.
Second International:

On May 1, 1890, in accordance with the decision of the
Paris Congress (July 1889) of the Second International to commemorate the
Haymarket
red flag was
here created as the symbol that would always remind us of the blood that the
working-class has bleed, and continues to bleed, under the oppressive reign of
capitalism.
Martyrs, mass demonstrations and strikes were held throughout Europe
and America. The workers put forward the demands for an 8 hour working day,
better health conditions, and further demands set forth by the International
Association of Workers. The
From that day forward (starting in 1891 in Russia, by 1920 including China,
and 1927 India) workers throughout the world began to celebrate the first of
May as a day of international proletarian solidarity, fighting for the right of
freedom to celebrate their past and build their future without the oppression
and exploitation of the capitalist state.
Significance:
It's a international important day to take forward 8 working hours demand. Even after 200 years we are still cant attain 8 hours working day passed.Capital and capitalist projected wrongly about the history of workers movement, So today May day as became a day of fun and frolic. It's the day to gain class consciousness unit workers in one voice against capitalist. We need to take forward our fight for 8 hours working day,better wages,better working condition,lower of inflation,building public property,strengthen labor law etc.Our ultimate aim of May day would be to build a stateless,classless,casteless,religiousless, society with permanent love and peace.
My dear comrades never forget what Spies shouted during execution in Chicago.Spies shouted, "The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!"
Source:Thanks to Marxist.org
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