#MayDay2017

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Some May Day 2017 posters from the US

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Blessed Belthane!!

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May Day in Paris, 2017

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Anarchists in Chicago write ‘Capitalism Kills’ on a bank during the May day 2017 demo.

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From Twitter user: It's ItsAdrianaRuiz Today is a very important day in my country. It's the day we say no more. Its the day we stand together to fight against colonialism and unfairness. Together we are fighting for a brighter future. Join us! Spread the word! @1minniemouse2 @mikealex01-lovestruck-gay-teen

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May your Beltane fires burn bright

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Mayday! Made a lil fairy offering of wine and moonstone, lavender and yarrow. And my alter looked kinda cute! Blessed Beltane all and peaceful journeys! 🙏🏻🔥🍃✨🌿🍂👣

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Rosie and Dayzee

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Our efforts for freedom and equality are intertwined. ✊ 

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International Workers' Day

“International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries,  is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement, socialists, communists, and anarchists which occurs every year on May Day (1 May), an ancient European spring festival. [4] The date was chosen for International Workers' Day by the Second International, a pan-national organization of socialist and communist political parties, to commemorate the Haymarket affair, which occurred in Chicago on 4 May 1886. The 1904 International Socialist Conference in Amsterdam, the 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 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace." 

Being a traditional European spring celebration, May Day is a national public holiday in several European countries. The date is currently celebrated specifically as "Labour Day" or "International Workers' Day" in the majority of countries, including those that didn't traditionally celebrate May Day. Some countries celebrate a Labour Day on other dates significant to them, such as the United States, which celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September.”

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Victory in Baltimore: Charges dropped for May Day protesters

Three demonstrators who were arrested while protesting at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on May 1 won their cases in court on May 22.

Those whose charges were dismissed included the Rev. CD Witherspoon, noted Baltimore activist and former president of the Baltimore Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Rasika Ruwanpathirana, an immigrant, filmmaker and representative of Workers World Party; And Andrew Mayton, a union activist. A fourth protester, Baltimore law student Alec Summerfield, is scheduled to go to court in June. All four had been charged with "failure to obey."

On May 1, after hundreds marched from downtown Baltimore, the four were arrested at Baltimore's ICE office as they demanded that ICE shut down. They were also demanding $ 15-an-hour minimum wage and an end to racism and police terror.

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Global Mayday 2017: Enough is Enough! #Disrupt2017!

May 1st is a day of special significance for anarchists and the labour movement. It originated with the execution of four anarchists in Chicago in 1887 for organising workers in the fight for the eight-hour day in the year before. Thus May Day is a product of “anarchy in action” — of the struggle of working people using direct action in labour unions to change the world. While it has been hijacked by reformist unions and social-democrats in Germany and elsewhere, for the anarchist and syndikalist movement May Day is a day of world-wide struggle and solidarity. A day to remember past struggles and a day to fight for a better future. A day to remember that an injury to one is an injury to all.

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Global Mayday 2017 Mobi video:

In 2017 people are still suffering from capitalism. Numerous people are struggling to survive and more and more people are affected by precarisation, also in European countries, the U.S., Australia and Canafa. Millions have no social security and the majority of people on our planet are not able to pay their medical bills. Millions are forced to flee for war and persecution, while others are forced to flee because trade treaties destroyed their livelihood. At the same time a small group of people and corporations is getting richer and richer.

We are devided by nations, classes and racist policies. Its time zo unite! Its time to revolt! As long as its legal to let tens of thousands of people drown or getting deported, as long as people don’t have enough to eat, as long as people are forced to sleep on the streets while many houses are empty, as long as the happy few are looting the natural resources of our planet, as long as there is no justice and real freedom for all, we will resist! State and corporate surveillance, a police state, capitalist propaganda by corporate and state media, and laws that are made to control us and benefit the ruling class need to be abolished. Capitalism needs to abolished.

While many can’t strike on the 1st of May, because Mayday is a national holiday in many countries, we can still make it into a day of transnational struggle and solidarity. Not like reformist unions and social democrats who pacified Mayday with uninspired parades and barbecue parties, but with direct actions and powerful demonstrations.

For self-determination, collective decision-making, global minimum wage, global social security, global health care and freedom of movement for all!

Against racism, fascism, police state, anti-semitism, white supremacy, Islamophobia, against attacks on regugees and migrants, against attacks on women and LGBTQ people!

No Housework!

No shopping!

No banking!

No school!

No Work!

Organize!

Social strike!

Resist! Protest! Strike!

See you on the barricades!

Send us your Mayday calls and reports: https://enoughisenough14.org/submit/