The Incomplete, True, Authentic, And Wonderful History Of May Day

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An essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and

voltaic occasion of May 1st, the international May Day holiday May 1st is a

day that once made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused

Parliament to ban the Maypole–a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth,

renewal, and refusal. This book''s reflections on the Red and the Green–out

of which arguably the only hope for the future lies–are 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.