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A demonstrator helps carry an American flag as immigrants rights supporters march downtown during a 'March for Dignity' on March 01, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

A May Day message for Americans

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Beltane Fire Society performers celebrate the coming of summer by participating in the Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill April 30, 2014 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

10 bewitching facts about Beltane

Lucie Grace - Mental Floss
Stop & Shop workers strike outside of one of the grocery stores on April 20, 2019 in Westport, Connecticut. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Stop & Shop workers ratify contract

Jeremy Gantz - In These Times
Workers shout slogans as they hold a rally near the Presidential Palace to mark the Labor Day celebrations on Thursday, May 1, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. Various labor groups nationwide held protests, mostly to demand wage hikes, better working conditions and an end to corruption in the government. The sign reads: Workers Have Zero Benefits In The Four Years of Capitalist Government of Aquino. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) (Bullit Marquez)

May Day continues to capture hearts

Raechel Anne Jolie - In These Times
(Getty/Mark Wilson)

What Sanders would mean for labor

Adam D.K. King - The Conversation
Port of Oakland (Wikimedia Commons / Ingrid Taylar)

Don’t like war? Then don’t work!

Peter Cole - In These Times
May Day equals resistance (Kunal Mehta / Shutterstock.com)

Don Hazen - Alternet
Barack Obama (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/AP/Mary Altaffer/Photo montage by Salon)

Obama's economy and May Day

Andrew O'Hehir
(KIRO 7 Eyewitness News)

May Day's odd police response

Colin Gorenstein
Bangladeshi rescuers work at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. (AP/A.M. Ahad)

Palash R. Ghosh - International Business Times
A support poster for Kteeo Olejnik (Committee Against Political Repression)

Natasha Lennard
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