From its origins as a presidential ploy to its current incarnation as a back-to-school shopping bonanza, Labor Day has little to offer American workers except a badly needed beach day. But May Day celebrates the historical hope for a fundamentally different society – a dream that made American workers some of the most fierce antagonists capitalism has ever faced.
Today isn’t labor’s day. Labor’s day is May 1.
– Jonah Walters
Excerpted from "Labor Day is May 1"
Jacobin Magazine
(Originally published September 7, 2015)
Excerpted from "Labor Day is May 1"
Jacobin Magazine
(Originally published September 7, 2015)
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Where Did All the Money Go?
• Rocking the Cradle of Power
• Something to Think About – September 3, 2013
• A Labor Day Prayer
• A Lose/Lose Situation
• Just Wondering
• At the Minnesota Capitol, a Show of Solidarity for Workers' Rights in Wisconsin and Beyond
• Across America, "the Giant is Awake"
Image: Michael J. Bayly.
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