–> Glasgow Friends of MayDay (GFoMD) have announced another stellar line-up for the sixth annual Great May Day cabaret celebrating International Workers’ Day (May Day). This annual event at…Read more…
South Wales Miners Pageant – May Day 1939
South Wales Miners Federation May Day
Pageant of South Wales
Orgnised by the South Wales Miners Federation in association with the Labour Research Department
1st May 1939Read more…
Rebel Herstory of the Easter Rising
Cat HepburnThis weekend’s Morning Star carries a Connolly Association supplement,marking the centenary of the Easter Rising. It is worthy of purchase for that alone, of course, but to ensure the Arts…Read more…
The Red and the Green will be worn, side by side
Glasgow Friends of MayDay (GFoMD) have today announced changes for this year’s celebration of the International Workers’ Festival in Glasgow. While the annual event at Oran Mor will take place again…Read more…
The First May Day 1890 poem
The First May Day
Punch 3rd May 1890
A universal movement in favour of shorter hours would seem
best fitted to secure the amelioration of the labourer’s lot.
The Times.
Enthusiastic Operative to…Read more…
Portraying the Red Clydesiders – and young women of the East End!
A couple of events to draw your attention to today. Firstly an event slightly detached from its original slot in the Mayday celebrations – it was postponed from the original date of May 5 as that…Read more…
Reasons to be MayDay – part 2
….The main event of the holiday period is the March and Rallytoday (3 May). From 11.00 people will gather in George Square and then march to the O2 Academy in Bridge Street. The March is being lead…Read more…
Reasons to be MayDay – Part 1
–> As we approach the main weekend of MayDay it is maybe a good time to pick out some highlights in the programme. Particularly as many activists of whatever political flavour will be…Read more…
Gary Lewis and Tommy Sands lead Glasgow’s MayDay festivities.
–> MayDay festivals have been celebrated since pre-Christian times. Earliest celebrations marked the beginning of summer and linked to many pagan festivals including the Gaelic…Read more…
Artists against Austerity
From time to time this blog has been known to go on (and on) about the importance of cultural work in the struggle for a socialist and just society, Occasionally it has been known to hanker for the…Read more…