Mayday Call from Italy : Very 'Ya Basta':
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Thursday April 03, 2003 20:04
by blisset4
MAYDAY 003: the parade of the euro precariat Blair, Aznar, Berlusconi: what do they share in common? All the three of them are Bush's allies in his war of aggression against Irak and the people living there. A war to achieve control of the world and to kill at birth any chance of a European social project, built from below by the new transnational movements for global democracy.
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Jump To Comment: 1ºhas long been a day of festival and carnival and celebration marking the beginning of Summer.
The ancient peoples of Europe celebrated pagan and later christian variant festivals for the period of end April to early May.
Mayday from the end of the nineteenth century become associated with worker and marxist actions and marches.
One of the first recorded uses of the Black Flag of Autonomy which displays an encircled "A" was on May day in the 1860s.
Mayday is the official worjer holiday in many European states with the notable exception of the U.K. which in a move to limit the search for labour rights and trade union organisation moved the official workers holiday at the end of the 20th century.
Mayday celebrations every year typically include long marches of Marxist and Socialist groups the 4th international of fraternal socialist parties always goes to the street May 1.
Mayday is also an important anniversary for the RTS family who remember the Guerilla Gardening action of London 1999. The day that gave us "punky churchill".
I particularly like on the personal level the anual memorial for the those who joined the internationalist brigades to fight the Fascists in Spain. Irish and British internationalists are remembered each year at the memorial which stands on the Albert embankment almost opposite the British houses of Parliament.
The statue represents two uplifting hands allowing a dove to fly free.
The enscription reads....
"they went because they saw no other way"
and the eternally evocative
"No Passaran!"
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