May Day as Labour Day
In many countries including India, May Day is also celebrated as Labour Day. The day originates with the US labour movement in the late 19th century. The history of the movement dates back to May 1, 1886. On this day several labour unions across the US went on strike, demanding a standard workday of eight hours. On May 4th there was bloodshed in Chicago's Haymarket Square – A bomb thrown by a revolutionist led to the deaths of a dozen people (including several police officers) and the injury of over 100 people. The protests did not get an immediate outcome, but they proved effective subsequently, as eight-hour work days became the norm in many countries across the globe. This day was hence chosen as a day for demonstrations, parades, and speeches. It is a major state holiday in US, Russia and other communist countries. In India, May Day has also been declared a public holiday.
IN INDIA THE FIRST LABOR DAY
The first May Day celebration in India was organised in Madras by the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan on May 1, 1923. This was also the first time the red flag was used in India. The party leader Singaravelu made arrangements to celebrate May Day in two places in 1923. One meeting was held at the beach opposite to the Madras High Court; the other meeting was held at the Triplicane beach. The Hindu newspaper, published from Madras reported, The Labour Kisan party has introduced May Day celebrations in Chennai. Comrade Singaravelar presided over the meeting. A resolution was passed stating that the government should declare May Day as a holiday. It was emphasized that workers of the world must unite to achieve independence. May Day is a nationwide bank holiday in India. The holiday is tied to labour movements for communist and socialist political parties. In Maharashtra and Gujarat, respectively, it is officially called Maharashtra Day and Gujarat Day, since it was on this day in 1960 that each attained statehood, after the division of the old Bombay State on linguistic lines.
PICTURES OF MAY DAY RALLYS 2008
Labor Day is celebrated on May 1 in many countries around the world and it is still often a day for protests and rallies. On this day, various labour organizations across the country carry out processions and organize competitions for children belonging to labour class.
However, in recent years, the celebration of this day has taken a new turn, Now a days under the globalization stage in the world, the MAY day is not been held as a celebrating function. It becomes a struggle day and it becomes a day for the labors to fight for their right once again as “8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest and 8 hours for sleep”. It is not just an old slogan pronounced by the Chicago labors; it will be a breath for all labors until this foolish capitalism and its goliath globalization will left off from the human history.
The globalization which makes thousands of humans, corers of labors into machines for a single profit hungered capital. The base of the human is his work, the human beings become a cultured man for a society because of his work, and this is an ever green practical truth. But today we are becoming a part of machines and we are tortured to run away from the work, not only the thing work, the man is entirely deviating from the basic human activities, and his rest time is fulfilled by the bars, disco, peps etc… of this ‘devil capitalism’.
Every labors man, woman, child except the upper class are affected by the globalization by any one of its way it may be by natural disaster, poverty, jobless, physically or mentally. But the root of these evils is globalization and the seed for this ‘globalization’ is ‘rotten capitalism’.
These days’ labors and working peoples are divided into so many parts by language, race, culture, food etc… but we have a common enemy called capitalist, capitalism, we have no choice for living without destroying the above. We are the creators of this world and we are the center axis for the society’s life span. We are the humans, who don’t have anything to lose except our life, our breath. And we have to get a thing called freedom, it will never provided by this vulnerable capitalist, we have to plug the freedom under the communist labor unions and our policy to form our world ‘socialism, a communism’. “World proletariats unite”.
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