May Day

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

>The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of MAY DAY is now
>at:
>
>http://parsons.iww.org/~red/mayday.html
>
>This radical social history of both red and green roots of May Day
>includes select graphics and is beautifully written.
>
>From the beginning:
>"Green is a relationship to the earth and what grows therefrom.  Red is a
>relationship to other people and the blood spilt there among. Green
>designates life with only necessary labor; Red designates death with
>surplus labor.  Green is natural appropriation; Red is social
>expropriation.  Green is husbandry and nurturance; Red is
>proletarianization and prostitution.  Green is useful activity; Red is
>useless toil.  Green is creation of desire; Red is class struggle.  May
>Day is both."