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Eric Hobsbawm on How Workers Made May Day Theirs
The late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the origins of International Workers’ Day. “The priests have their festivals,” announced a 1891 May Day broadsheet, “the Moderates have their festivals. The First of May is the Festival of the workers of the entire world.”