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View this email in your browser The War Against May Day is a War On Workers In anticipation of May Day this Saturday, Agency’s Eric Laursen and Lilias Adie share how despite governments’ efforts to suppress, co-opt, or just ignore it, people all over the world continue to celebrate May 1 as International Workers’ Day. “May Day’s profound relationship to anarchism can be seen in the fact that at its heart it involves working people taking direct action to achieve their goals–starting with the struggle for an eight-hour day that ignited the Haymarket Rally in 1886. But it’s never been just about airing workers’ specific grievances. It has always been about asserting our rights and dignity as human beings, whether the State agrees or not. May Day, for anarchists, is our holiday. It doesn’t matter whether the State recognizes it; we observe and celebrate it anyway.” Read Full Article Copyright (C) 2021 Agency. All rights reserved.