The incomplete, true, authentic, and wonderful history of May Day
By: Peter Linebaugh
Series: Spectre; Spectre Classics (PM Press (Firm))
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781629631073
Subjects: May Day (Labor Holiday); History
Description: "May 1st is a day that once made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypolea magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. This books reflections on the Red and the Greenout of which arguably the only hope for the future liesare populated by the likes of Native American anarchocommunist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, 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." -- Amazon.com
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The May Day punch that wasn't; title: The incomplete, true, authentic, and wonderful history of May Day; title: X²: May Day in light of Waco and LA; title: A May Day meditation; title: May Day at Kut and Kienthal; title: Magna Carta and May Day; title: May Day with heart; title: Obama May Day; title: Archiving with MayDay rooms; title: Ypsilanti Vampire May Day; title: Swan honk May Day.