Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
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Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

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Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

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"May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil." So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st.

It is a day that has made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole—a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. These reflections on the Red and the Green—out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies—are populated by the likes of Native American anarcho-communist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, JosĂ© MartĂ­, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant. The book is a forceful reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.

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Publisher
PM Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781629632513
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. One: The May Day Punch That Wasn’t
  6. Two: The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
  7. Three: X2: May Day in Light of Waco and La
  8. Four: A May Day Meditation
  9. Five: May Day at Kut and Kienthal
  10. Six: Magna Carta and May Day
  11. Seven: May Day with Heart
  12. Eight: Obama May Day
  13. Nine: Archiving with Mayday Rooms
  14. Ten: Ypsilanti Vampire May Day
  15. Eleven: Swan Honk May Day
  16. Index