It’s May Day

The real May day, also known as Beltaine in Celtic tradition, is an ancient European spring festival. It was celebrated to mark the start of summer. Ritual celebrations include the maypole, decorating with fresh green leaves and flowers, ‘morris’ dancing, crowning a May Queen and feasts. In some places, bonfires are lit the night before.

However, like all good things, the commies have twisted the original meaning of May day. They call it international workers day. They co-opted the date during the 2nd International for labor, socialist, and Marxist parties in 1889 in Paris.  The date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair on 4 May.

The date, and mode of ‘celebration’ – more protest than anything else – was made part of the International Workers Congress platform in 1891. The protests became a yearly event after that. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on “all Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace”.

The commie version of May day was most widely celebrated in the former USSR and Warsaw Pact countries. May day was generally marked by large military parades, often led by high party apparatchiks. In Moscow, Lenin’s tomb was a center point of the parades and celebrations.

If you ask me, it’s time to take back this wonderful spring tradition from the commies.