Labor Day : ce que cela change

Leftist organizations rallying on May Day represent a Marxist globalization that threatens America's Labor Day tradition, the article argues. Labor Day s'impose comme l'un des sujets qui mobilisent l'attention en Lebanon ce vendredi.

Les faits

• Leftist organizations rallying on May Day represent a Marxist globalization that threatens America's Labor Day tradition, the article argues.
• As it turns out, both Labor Day and May Day are of American provenance, with the former being a slightly older tradition from the early 1880s.
• Then, on May 4, 1886, came the Haymarket Affair, in which an unknown person in Chicago threw dynamite into a crowd of police during a labor protest, killing several officers and civilians, in an act of political violence that feels all too familiar today.
• But by the 1890s, President Grover Cleveland and Congress had a choice to make: Should they codify into law the September Labor Day, or May Day, as the official holiday?
• Activists are organizing nationwide May Day protests and boycotts under a "Workers Over Billionaires" message, drawing on a long history of labor demonstrations rooted in 19th-century struggles for workers’ rights. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP via Getty Images).

L'essentiel

Dans le détail, as it turns out, both Labor Day and May Day are of American provenance, with the former being a slightly older tradition from the early 1880s.

Sur le fond, Then, on May 4, 1886, came the Haymarket Affair, in which an unknown person in Chicago threw dynamite into a crowd of police during a labor protest, killing several officers and civilians, in an act of political violence that feels all too familiar today.

Concrètement, But by the 1890s, President Grover Cleveland and Congress had a choice to make: Should they codify into law the September Labor Day, or May Day, as the official holiday?

Au-delà de ce constat, Activists are organizing nationwide May Day protests and boycotts under a "Workers Over Billionaires" message, drawing on a long history of labor demonstrations rooted in 19th-century struggles for workers’ rights. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP via Getty Images).

Reste à préciser que here in the good old United States of America, we have a lovely holiday each September called Labor Day, on which we celebrate the contributions of the nation’s workers.

Les chiffres

À noter par ailleurs: Outnumbered' discusses nationwide teacher walkouts planned for May 1st, protesting President Donald Trump's policies on immigration and taxes.

Plus précisément, People take part in a May Day rally and march in New York City to protest the Trump administration, New York, U.S., May 1, 2025. ( Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images).

Dans la foulée, the riot and the subsequent arrests of several anarchists set the world ablaze, and almost instantly, May 1, or May Day, became a communist holy day, and eventually a national holiday in most of the Western world.

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Le contexte

Reste à préciser que We all know how that one turned out, because we all know Labor Day as the unofficial end of summer, and also as a non-political day to give our nation’s workers a pat on the back and a barbecue.

À noter par ailleurs: it is the political implications of Labor Day vs May Day that are crucial.

Plus précisément, the latter, in the image of the Old World, treats "workers," as a solid political, generally Marxist, block, while Labor Day celebrates workers of any political stripe.

Dans la foulée, Replacing Labor Day with May Day, even unofficially, though some school districts have contemplated the switch, is just as much an attempt to divorce Americans from their own history as tearing down statues is.

À ce stade, these progressives don’t want you to have the American traditional Labor Day, when you rip a few cold ones and think about your hard work and the fruit it bears for your family.

À retenir

• As it turns out, both Labor Day and May Day are of American provenance, with the former being a slightly older tradition from the early 1880s.
• Here in the good old United States of America, we have a lovely holiday each September called Labor Day, on which we celebrate the contributions of the nation’s workers.
• It is the political implications of Labor Day vs May Day that are crucial.
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