Articles of May Day

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Cuba Begins May Day Activities With Voluntary Work

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The call will first materialize on March 31 and April 1, and it will be intended to do useful and necessary labors for the production and services such as in building projects, agriculture and the sugar harvest, including industrial works as well as planting or cleaning sugar cane. Likewise, the initiative will reach the tourist sector, as well as sanitation and cleaning of institutions and communities.

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Can you cover a parade of thousands of people in Cuba with an unhappy person and a flag?

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Cuba surprises the world every May 1st., with parades that bring together millions of people all over the island. It is a disturbing image for the centers of power, which try to tarnish it through its powerful propagandistic mechanisms.

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The unity that strengthens us

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The activities that began yesterday, April 11, with the reading of the call to participate in this year’s May Day celebrations, will demonstrate the majority commitment of our people to the Revolution, stated Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, a member of the Party Political Bureau and secretary general of the Cuban Workers’ Federation (CTC), during a press conference in Havana.

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The “Great Moderation” and the International Assault on Labor

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By Noam Chomsky In most of the world, May Day is an international workers’ holiday, bound up with the bitter 19th-century struggle of American workers for an eight-hour day. The May Day just past leads to somber reflection. A decade ago, a useful word was coined in honor of May Day by radical Italian labor