Question about May Day

[gaiualves 0]

Hey, what's the May Day?

[r_nuclearbom0 62]

Discount day...

[r_peccinator0 2]

Discount day...

when is that lovely day? :mrgreen:

[r_xpgamer0 8]

Discount day...

For Tanki that is. May Day... is a Holiday I think. Not in America though.

[king_beast88 19]

Haha o how many have already spent the funds.

[r_nuclearbom0 62]

For Tanki that is. May Day... is a Holiday I think. Not in America though.

 

Not in Holland neither ._.

[AstroApollo 81]

May Day is also known as Victory Day. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)

[r_peccinator0 2]

May Day is also known as Victory Day. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)

uhm 9 may? :evil: the home page says about 30 hours :roll:

[Nk100_Original 13]

the calendar is different?

[skitee 555]

May Day is also known as Victory Day. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)

 

Are you sure it isn't this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day That's the May Day we celebrate in Britain...

[r_nuclearbom0 62]

May Day is also known as Victory Day. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)

 

Are you sure it isn't this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day That's the May Day we celebrate in Britain...

 

Yes, and White_Owl, your link was weird...

[Contaminated 129]

This is mayday

[SilentShadow 104]

This is mayday

 

The distress call is one word; the holiday is two words. :roll:

[tralalalalala 1]

It is a bit early, they clearly want to have an event this weekend and not on the ninth. Nowhere on Victory day wiki page is it called May Day.

 

May Day

May Day on May 1 is an ancient northern hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday;[1] it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures.

 

Last time there was a counter there was 25% discount on everything, hoping it happens this time.

[sokrat111 1]

Most of You don't will understand that, but...

that would not have died in ignorance reed it:

 

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day"

 

In Serbia it's national holiday - regulated by law (2 days)

[Reiki12345 57]

whats May day for me ?

 

Its when i go out with my frends and make barbecue..

Every year...

[Tommy60 406]

Many things will happen around May Day... 8)

[Contaminated 129]

This is mayday

 

The distress call is one word; the holiday is two words. :roll:

 

Bish did I ask you of your opinion?

[r_CaptCannon0 1]

Seriously people, no one seems to know the importance of May Day in Russia. For those of you who do not remember the former Soviet Union, here it is: During the era of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (CCCP), May Day was called the International Worker's Day. The worker was supposed to benefit from being a member of the Soviet Union under Communism, but I think most of us know how that turned out. Anyway, it was a time when there were big parades and the Soviets would parade their newest weapons down the street to show off to the population and scare the Capitalists. There leaders made speeches all about how they would defeat the Capitalists, etc. Now that there is no Soviet Union, Russians mostly just use it as a holiday for families. After all, winter is gone and now is a good time to celebrate! Planting season is coming up, summer is right around the corner, and it's time off from work. Anyone would understand that, right? Let's just hope that May Day never goes back to what it once was in Russia. There are a few around who want to see the former Soviet Union restored, but we in the rest of the world hope that never happens. Well, my opinion, of course.

[Stratavari 1]

For those of us from the USA, Russia's May Day ( Victory Day ) would be like our Veterans Day. Just a way to show thier support of thier Military

[SilentShadow 104]

This is mayday

 

The distress call is one word; the holiday is two words. :roll:

 

Bish did I ask you of your opinion?

 

What did you just call me :evil:

[r_Micky30 4]

Seriously people' date=' no one seems to know the importance of May Day in Russia. For those of you who do not remember the former Soviet Union, here it is: ... [/quote']

My sources say, that it is an international day of all working people and most of the world celebrates in on May 1st (US and Canada on September 1st, Australia on October 1st).

In Germany its public holiday since 1933.

 

Originated from Chicage 1862.

 

I keep digging.

[panzer-runner 2]

Without calling anyone out by name, I am amazed at the ignorance here. (cexcepting Micky3 ;) thank you brother :) )

 

I am from Chicago, Il in the USA. I am a Socialist.

 

WE are the ones that started May Day world wide, long before there was a Soviet Union. :!:

 

I hope everyone takes a moment and reflects on the sacrifices made by workers all over the world on May 1st that have built the world we see around us. The advances made over the last hundred plus years would not be possible without the hard work of those souls who day in and day out work to keep the world turning while others capitalize on their efforts.

 

Those in power have gone to great lengths to try and erase the Workers International from our collective memories. This should not be. Here is a bit of history for those that are interested in what May Day is all about.........

 

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/571.html

 

Haymarket and May Day

 

On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, anarchists, and ordinary workers combined to make the city the center of the national movement for an eight-hour day. Between April 25 and May 4, workers attended scores of meetings and paraded through the streets at least 19 times. On Saturday, May 1, 35,000 workers walked off their jobs. Tens of thousands more, both skilled and unskilled, joined them on May 3 and 4. Crowds traveled from workplace to workplace urging fellow workers to strike. Many now adopted the radical demand of eight hours' work for ten hours' pay. Police clashed with strikers at least a dozen times, three with shootings.

 

At the McCormick reaper plant, a long-simmering strike erupted in violence on May 3, and police fired at strikers, killing at least two. Anarchists called a protest meeting at the West Randolph Street Haymarket, advertising it in inflammatory leaflets, one of which called for “Revenge!”

 

The crowd gathered on the evening of May 4 on Des Plaines Street, just north of Randolph, was peaceful, and Mayor Carter H. Harrison, who attended, instructed police not to disturb the meeting. But when one speaker urged the dwindling crowd to “throttle” the law, 176 officers under Inspector John Bonfield marched to the meeting and ordered it to disperse.

 

Then someone hurled a bomb at the police, killing one officer instantly. Police drew guns, firing wildly. Sixty officers were injured, and eight died; an undetermined number of the crowd were killed or wounded.

 

The Haymarket bomb seemed to confirm the worst fears of business leaders and others anxious about the growing labor movement and radical influence in it. Mayor Harrison quickly banned meetings and processions. Police made picketing impossible and suppressed the radical press. Chicago newspapers publicized unsubstantiated police theories of anarchist conspiracies, and they published attacks on the foreign-born and calls for revenge, matching the anarchists in inflammatory language. The violence demoralized strikers, and only a few well-organized strikes continued.

 

Police arrested hundreds of people, but never determined the identity of the bomb thrower. Amidst public clamor for revenge, however, eight anarchists, including prominent speakers and writers, were tried for murder. The partisan Judge Joseph E. Gary conducted the trial, and all 12 jurors acknowledged prejudice against the defendants. Lacking credible evidence that the defendants threw the bomb or organized the bomb throwing, prosecutors focused on their writings and speeches. The jury, instructed to adopt a conspiracy theory without legal precedent, convicted all eight. Seven were sentenced to death. The trial is now considered one of the worst miscarriages of justice in American history.

 

Many Americans were outraged at the verdicts, but legal appeals failed. Two death sentences were commuted, but on November 11, 1887, four defendants were hanged in the Cook County jail; one committed suicide. Hundreds of thousands turned out for the funeral procession of the five dead men. In 1893, Governor John Peter Altgeld granted the three imprisoned defendants absolute pardon, citing the lack of evidence against them and the unfairness of the trial.

 

Inspired by the American movement for a shorter workday, socialists and unionists around the world began celebrating May 1, or “May Day,” as an international workers' holiday. In the twentieth century, the Soviet Union and other Communist countries officially adopted it. The Haymarket tragedy is remembered throughout the world in speeches, murals, and monuments. American observance was strongest in the decade before World War I. During the Cold War, many Americans saw May Day as a Communist holiday, and President Eisenhower proclaimed May 1 as “Loyalty Day” in 1955. Interest in Haymarket revived somewhat in the 1980s.

 

A monument commemorating the “Haymarket martyrs” was erected in Waldheim Cemetery in 1893. In 1889 a statue honoring the dead police was erected in the Haymarket. Toppled by student radicals in 1969 and 1970, it was moved to the Chicago Police Academy.

 

I'd like to add:

On May 20-21 this year, Chicago will host a meeting of NATO members. Anger is high, unrest is building, and the Police are ready and willing to crush any form of dissent. May 1st might be overshadowed by May 20-21 in the future comrades. Take warning. Be ready.

 

-Panzer Runner