Category: International Workers’ Day
May Day is Our Day
worker | May 3, 2020 | 7:12 pm | Communist Party Britain, International Workers' Day | Comments closed

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May Day is our day. We are proud to proclaim our movement as the greatest force for fairness

It should not take a pandemic for a Tory government to value working people or to recognise the need for public investment, writes LEN McCLUSKEY

Len McCluskey is general secretary of Unite the Union.

May Day in Athens, Greece
worker | May 3, 2020 | 6:59 pm | Communist Party Greece (KKE), Greece, International Workers' Day | Comments closed

Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker’s Day
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Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker’s Day

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  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
  • Peace, Labor, May! How Soviet People Celebrated International Worker's Day
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A physical fitness parade in Red Square on International Workers’ Solidarity Day, 1969

The former Soviet Union and other communist countries celebrated Labor Day every May with banners, marches, and demonstrations; take a look at how it was back then in Sputnik’s photo gallery.

Russia has celebrated May Day since 1917, but it was only proclaimed an international holiday in 1918. In 1928, the Labor Code was amended, and May 2 was declared an additional non-working International Day holiday. Although the holiday had its roots in ancient European spring celebrations, by 1904, the international labor movement had dedicated the day to the drive to establish an 8-hour work day.  Each year, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens celebrated the law that established the shorter shift; previously, workers had toiled for as many as 10-16 hours every day.