International Workers’ Day, known to most as May Day, was originally invented by the labor unions to celebrate the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago that resulted in the institution of an eight-hour workday. Since then, it has been hijacked by radical communist groups bent on overthrowing the “evil” of capitalism. After the Red Scare, May Day was no longer celebrated by the masses of the United States, but elsewhere in the world it is an officially sanctioned holiday.
Many communist subversives use it to bring their numbers out into the light, as you can see in Russia and the presence of A.N.S.W.E.R. at the illegal immigration rally in Los Angeles.
But not all May Day demonstrations sucked. In countries with the most repressive governments, people used the day to rally against them in the name of freedom. Thousands of people took to the streets that day, not seeking a communist revolution, but a democratic one.
Iran:
Thousands of Iranian workers on Monday protested the growing use of short-term employment contracts. It was the most vociferous May Day demonstration the Islamic state has seen in years.
The protest came as a reminder to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that, although embroiled in an international dispute over his country’s atomic ambitions, he was elected to improve living conditions for the poorest members of society.
Several thousands of Belarusians have taken part in the rally of solidarity with political prisoners held on May 1 in Minsk. Protesters demanded to release Alyaksandr Milinkevich and dozens of opposition activists, arrested for their political views. Participants of the protest marched from the center of the city to Bangalore square under national white-red-white flags, scanning ???????Freedom!??????? A meeting and a concert of solidarity with political prisoners took part on Bangalore Square. After the meeting policemen handed in a writ to the chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Hramada Stanislau Shushkevich. He is to come to the court of Savetski district of Minsk on May 3 at 10 a.m. The first leader of the independent Belarus faces the threat of arrest for holding a peaceful rally on May Day.
Initially the democratic forces planned holding a rally on May Day with the slogans ???????No to the contract system!??????? It should be explained that the contract system in its form existing in Belarus is generally called ???????a convenient way of inflicting punishment to workers???????. As fundamentally there is only one employer in the country, the state, the contract system allows the authorities to fire freely all dissenters.
In connection with the arrests of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition after the Charnobylski Shlyakh rally, the organizers of the rally submitted another claim, to release all political prisoners.