US activists plan May Day economic blackout: 'No school, no work, no shopping'

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10. They do this every year. It's been a (global) "thing" for 140 years.

It's just that about a decade after the first celebrations associated with labor, the U.S. eventually picked a day during the first week of September to commemorate a U.S. "Labor Day" in honor of workers. But the rest of the world does it on "May Day" (May 1) and will use that day for general strikes, etc. If you do a search, there were strikes last year and the year before, etc.

It's not just associated with the "communists" because it started WAY BEFORE there was any "Communist Party" (it was celebrated pre-Russian Revolution where that happened around WWI in 1917).

That date was also a European thing for other spring celebrations. I remember as a kid growing up where the eastern Europeans in our school would work with the teachers to do a "May Pole" and each gym class would participate in "weaving" one.

I.e., we would do this in gym on May Day" -