In Brazil there’ll be massive marches for the reduction of the workweek. I think this year it’ll the biggest First of May since the turn of the century.
How’s it gonna go in your countries?
i live in amerikkka so im pretty sure im gonnna be working 12hr
It not being a holiday there is horrible.
At the very least share some post about the anniversary of the murder of Jordan Neely to show your discontent.
Be sure to observe Loyalty day, citizen
holy shit it’s so on the nose lmao
In China and wish I had the time to go to a parade, but too swamped with work 😭
Nobody is making an event this year in Hungary. The Party this year decided to not organize any kind of march, as there would be so few of us, it would just be ridiculed nation-wide. Instead, to fit the theme of the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation in Hungary, they are doing an event around that for themselves. They had the public event earlier, this is more in-house, apparently to encourage organization and deepen ties between members. They are planning to be around the party house, trying to come up with activities that serve this goal. I myself have been invited as well, but I’ve just been to the capital, barely a month ago as a guest to the congress and so I can’t afford to be there for every event, I can barely afford a trip let’s say twice a year, and I am saving the other one for Kádár’s birthday during the summer.
In short, people forgot the 1st of May, or the ones who didn’t, think back on it as like a funny/lame custom from the past, that was forced on them. I get people who only remember the songs, the flags, the marches, but it’s really fucking depressing nobody fucking know what this shit is about. You would think an ex-socialist country made sure to cement concepts in people, but I swear on my momma, people don’t even know what a worker is nowadays. The succdems and libs naturally aren’t doing shit, not even the unions do. So unless the Nazis and Fidesz is going to surprise us with something, this year is going to be eventless.
It usually is a day of celebration here. The unions and socialist parties will march but mostly in a festive mood. I don’t expect too much activist stuff. We have a big general strike on Tuesday already so that’s when things will happen I guess.
It’s not a free day in the Netherlands, so I’m gonna take the day off to join the parade. But almost no one celebrates it here unless you’re very involved with a left wing political party or a union.
The current ruling party is running for reelection on the promise that they will protect penalty rates (higher wages for evening and night shifts, weekends, and holidays) I’m not hopeful considering their environmental “protection” platform that they ran on last election ended up being a massive deregulation on fish farming and expansion of coal mining.
And instead of a “carrot” style controlled opposition in australia we have a “stick” of the blue party.
