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So what do the communists, socialists, anarchists, and labor activists types of NSG have planned for May 1st this year?

My union's planning a rally and a march on city hall to protest the illegal use of "dispatch" teachers (http://www.generalunion.org/News/68) by local boards of education.

Don't know exactly, although my party is probably going to do something which I will participate in. We put the Red Flag on our branch building usually as a sign of respect.

I will largely ignore the day as nothing really ever happens, however that doesn't mean I won't get drunk eventually beating women and children in the street as a sign of respect for the working class :)

We put the Red Flag on our branch building usually as a sign of respect.
Wow, you have a real tree house? :)

So what do the communists, socialists, anarchists, and labor activists types of NSG have planned for May 1st this year?

My union's planning a rally and a march on city hall to protest the illegal use of "dispatch" teachers (http://www.generalunion.org/News/68) by local boards of education.I might attend one of the police fairs set up to get people to stop trashing the city.

So what do the communists, socialists, anarchists, and labor activists types of NSG have planned for May 1st this year?


Here in Milan there's the usual workers' unions parade. The leftmost parties usually march under their flags at Liberation's Day (April 25th), while the 1st of May is left to unions only.

I’ve got an exam the day after, so not a huge lot, but I may well be popping along to the march(es) in the centre of town.

uhhhh

i might participate in the local "cinco de mayo" celebration (on the 3rd). does that count?

So what do the communists, socialists, anarchists, and labor activists types of NSG have planned for May 1st this year?

My union's planning a rally and a march on city hall to protest the illegal use of "dispatch" teachers (http://www.generalunion.org/News/68) by local boards of education.

I'm none of the above, however May 1 is my birthday. I really appreciate all the rallies and parades people have had for me for the past 61 years, it's been touching. Please, don't burn yourselves on the candles.

Same thing we do every May Day, Pinky

Same thing we do every May Day, Pinky

What's that, Brain?

I will be voting for The Mayor of London.

1st preference) Lindsey German standing as "The Left List"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_%E2%80%93_The_Unity_Coalition

2nd preference) Ken Livingstone (Because Boris Johnson is worse)

Then I will be marching to celebrate international workers day most likely marching to the center of Trafalgar square with a rally there.

To be honest in Britain most of the working class action is happening on the 24th of April. Alot of the unions are going on strike as they face lower pay as the rich continue to get richer.

http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=1876

This is the main activity imo, even if it is on the 24th.

What's that, Brain?

Try to take over the world.

Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Me and a few other leftists are working on a two day May Day event at the university with speakers, bands, and so forth. Pretty ambitious I suppose, but my friend Angelo apparently has a lot of connections.

http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=1876

ewww Respect, are you in full time education ATM? ;)

I think I'm going to make a Margarita with tequila, ice, and the blood of the proletariat.

Crash a plane. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday_%28distress_signal%29)

Try to take over the world.

Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

I think so, but where are we going to find a horse's head at this time of night?

celebrate peoples birthdays in a rowdy manner.

The only May Day I'm celebrating is that of my university where we crown the May Monarch. It'll be a great day with drinking all day!

ewww Respect, are you in full time education ATM? ;)

Trust me whatever you think you may know about Respect, you don't.

If every other party in Britain doesn't fill you with vitriolic bile then there's something wrong with you. The majority of people have had enough with the current politics so maybe it's time you did too.

If every other party in Britain doesn’t fill you with vitriolic bile then there’s something wrong with you. The majority of people have had enough with the current politics so maybe it’s time you did too.
Aye, but the majority of people won’t support a twat like George Galloway who, like it or not, is the face of Respect.

I'm going to stay true to my deepest principles and democratic instincts and vote.... :D

Aye, but the majority of people won’t support a twat like George Galloway who, like it or not, is the face of Respect.

George Galloway has left Respect. He left last year to do his own thing.

We were a committed party fighting against war, privatisation of our health care and transportation systems, neoliberalism, racism and fascism before George was elected, after he left we are continuing this.

George Galloway was just one member of Respect who is no longer in it.

Whether you like it or not we are the most successful left of Labour party for the last fifty years. There is no party for ordinary people anymore or a party that opposes the status quo of the lib dems, lab, or tories: which is why we are standing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIBKwRHvkV8

By all means tell me what is wrong with the above link.

I plan to participate in a Nazi Orgy Party, myself. Full of delicious anti-semetic themes.

There are always nice activities for families on May Day. I like my girls to come out with us so they ask questions about what May Day is all about.

George Galloway has left Respect. He left last year to do his own thing.
You learn something new everyday.

Perhaps Respect will now gain some... respect.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13835866806

Thats what this socialist Christian is doing :)

There are always nice activities for families on May Day. I like my girls to come out with us so they ask questions about what May Day is all about.

Quick question: does May Day have any significance to the Ameican Aborigianal peoples? (I haven't heard of any, but that doesn't exclude the posibility. And since you're one of the prime advocates of American Aborigianal peoples here, I recon you'd know...)

Aside from that, what will you be teaching them about May Day? The European pagan festival or the US origin but ignored labor movement meaning?

You learn something new everyday.

Perhaps Respect will now gain some... respect.

Well, he was a very loved and hated figure.

Ultimately it's about politics and not personalities. We have a lot of respect amongst working class people fucked off by new labour as well as ethnic communities. But generally yes I think with GG gone we will probably seem a more respectable or serious coalition.

I'm gonna fire all my exploitees.

I will be honoring the millions of victims murdered by communism, drinking to the eternal damnation of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and their followers, and celebrating the demise of communism worldwide :D

I will be honoring the millions of victims murdered by communism, drinking to the eternal damnation of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and their followers, and celebrating the demise of communism worldwide :D

Right now, drinking to the demise of Mao, I'll join ya...

I will join you in drinking to the damnation of Stalin, and Mao amongst Bush, Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, Pinochet and others. But I think blaming Marx or Lenin for these Stalin and Mao's deeply unsocialist uequal poverty striken dictatorships, is like blaming Otto Van Bismark for Hitler.

A river of blood separates Lenin and Stalin. Namely the "leninists" who Stalin had shot, surely if all socialists were happy to murder people they wouldn't have needed to be.

I will join you in drinking to the damnation of Stalin, and Mao amongst Bush, Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, Pinochet and others. But I think blaming Marx or Lenin for these Stalin and Mao's deeply unsocialist uequal poverty striken dictatorships, is like blaming Otto Van Bismark for Hitler.

A river of blood separates Lenin and Stalin. Namely the "leninists" who Stalin had shot, surely if all socialists were happy to murder people they wouldn't have needed to be.

hang on a sec, we've left out dear ol Pol Pot....

I make a point of buying something manufactured in a third world country every year on May Day.

We need to exploit those workers if they're going to get paid.

I make a point of buying something manufactured in a third world country every year on May Day.

We need to exploit those workers if they're going to get paid.

:confused:

I make a point of buying something manufactured in a third world country every year on May Day.

We need to exploit those workers if they're going to get paid.

Or we could replace the system that exploits them.

So what do the communists, socialists, anarchists, and labor activists types of NSG have planned for May 1st this year?

My union's planning a rally and a march on city hall to protest the illegal use of "dispatch" teachers (http://www.generalunion.org/News/68) by local boards of education.

I'm opening up a sweatshop.

Or we could replace the system that exploits them.

But if we don't exploit the third world workers, who will we exploit?

Start a Viking attack upon those damn commies!:p

But if we don't exploit the third world workers, who will we exploit?

The exploiters.

The exploiters.

But that's no fun! The cake of the Proletariat is so delicious and moist.

But that's no fun! The cake of the Proletariat is so delicious and moist.

and poisoned, by you'rs truely.
muhahahahaaaaahaha.

Trust me whatever you think you may know about Respect, you don't.

thats odd...you mean that bunch of slightly mobbish college students who walk around chanting crap that could only come from Vietnam era America are actually in an underground fight club?

We were a committed party fighting against war, privatisation of our health care and transportation systems, neoliberalism, racism and fascism before George was elected, after he left we are continuing this.

instead of looking at more pressing issues like say the environment, (the conservatives are a ray of hope on this) soil degradation, out of control spending under labour*

*oh wait thats what your opposed to stopping, haven't seen my pay check lately have you (I'm usually the last one to bitch about spending but duuude)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIBKwRHvkV8

By all means tell me what is wrong with the above link.

Green propaganda is better (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgpqaHLsX6A)

I'm going to repay all of the attempts the President of the MSU College Republicans made to recruit me into her party... :eek:

Yeah, I'm going to go try to recruit her. *nods*

We have a lovely antagonistic relationship. :D

I'm going to repay all of the attempts the President of the MSU College Republicans made to recruit me into her party... :eek:

Yeah, I'm going to go try to recruit her. *nods*

We have a lovely antagonistic relationship. :D

Wait, wut?

Wait, wut?

Montana State University

Montana State University

I thought so.

This begs another question. What are you doing in Montana?

Or we could replace the system that exploits them.
If no one exploits their labour, then their labour goes unused, and they fail to earn income. Is that better?

I thought so.

This begs another question. What are you doing in Montana?

Waiting for a chance to leave. My parents moved here when I was 7, it's not like I had much choice to be here.

If no one exploits their labour, then their labour goes unused, and they fail to earn income.

False dichotomy. People can have jobs without being exploited.

I´m going to bathe on the first May showers. Yup, that´s what I´m going to do.

I like this idea the best, personally:
I will be honoring the millions of victims murdered by communism, drinking to the eternal damnation of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and their followers, and celebrating the demise of communism worldwide :D

Waiting for a chance to leave. My parents moved here when I was 7, it's not like I had much choice to be here.

Well there's your problem!

well if i were young enough and still inerested in such things, i might let some young lady invite me to dance the maypole with her.

i don't have any actual PLANS as such, but i am glad to hear people are starting to rememer that there is such a thing and it might actually be worth celibrating in some way. a kind of international labour day, rather then that of just one country.

it is a good day to remember solidarity with all sentient life.

every day is actually.

but it IS good to have days to remind us of that.

i'll probably do the same thing i do on easter, christermass and new years, which is basically the same thing i do every day anyway.

sit here and play with the computer and run off at the keyboard on my favorite online forums.

then again, since they don't make it a day to stop running the busses where i live, i might take my camera and take a ride up in the hills to take some pictures.

i really wish we did have some kind of free concert in the park where i live on that day to celibrate it, with food booths run by the friends of labour and the children of solidarity and so on.

=^^=
.../\...

Trust me whatever you think you may know about Respect, you don't.

If every other party in Britain doesn't fill you with vitriolic bile then there's something wrong with you. The majority of people have had enough with the current politics so maybe it's time you did too.

I read the manifesto. It's a good thirty or forty years out of date.

I think so, but where are we going to find a horse's head at this time of night?
Narf!

But that's no fun! The cake of the Proletariat is so delicious and moist.

Try it dipped in the tears of the unborn. It's a delicacy. *nod*

well if i were young enough and still inerested in such things, i might let some young lady invite me to dance the maypole with her.

i don't have any actual PLANS as such, but i am glad to hear people are starting to rememer that there is such a thing and it might actually be worth celibrating in some way. a kind of international labour day, rather then that of just one country.

it is a good day to remember solidarity with all sentient life.

every day is actually.

but it IS good to have days to remind us of that.

i'll probably do the same thing i do on easter, christermass and new years, which is basically the same thing i do every day anyway.

sit here and play with the computer and run off at the keyboard on my favorite online forums.

then again, since they don't make it a day to stop running the busses where i live, i might take my camera and take a ride up in the hills to take some pictures.

i really wish we did have some kind of free concert in the park where i live on that day to celibrate it, with food booths run by the friends of labour and the children of solidarity and so on.

=^^=
.../\...

You sound a little forlorn, any particular reason for this or am i just over analysing again?

False dichotomy. People can have jobs without being exploited.
Not productive jobs. If you're working for someone, either they're exploiting your labour or they're not benefitting from your labour, in which case your job isn't productive.

Exploitation is not, in and of itself, a bad thing.

Not productive jobs. If you're working for someone, either they're exploiting your labour or they're not benefitting from your labour, in which case your job isn't productive.

Exploitation is not, in and of itself, a bad thing.

You seem to be confusing the definition of exploitation when applied to land with the definition of exploitation when applied to people. The former has no inherent positive or negative attributes. The latter is inherently negative.

You seem to be confusing the definition of exploitation when applied to land with the definition of exploitation when applied to people. The former has no inherent positive or negative attributes. The latter is inherently negative.
I think I'm the one here who isn't confused about the definition. Exploitation is use to a productive end, or profitable management, nothing more.

So what do the communists, socialists, anarchists, and labor activists types of NSG have planned for May 1st this year?

My union's planning a rally and a march on city hall to protest the illegal use of "dispatch" teachers (http://www.generalunion.org/News/68) by local boards of education.

I'm going to buy lots of things that I don't need with my disposable income.

I think I'm the one here who isn't confused about the definition. Exploitation is use to a productive end, or profitable management, nothing more.

Only in reference to resources. Between you and the OED, I'll go with the latter.

*ahem* STUDY! My finals start May 2.

Haha, may day. Communism is so sad.

Haha, may day. Communism is so sad.

May day is communist now?!:eek:

May day is communist now?!:eek:

Well, whether or not it is, Communism is still sad. My impression from the first post was that this thread was about the communist celebration of may day.

Communism is still sad.

pfft I'm sorry but you have clearly never dressed in commie clothing at a party

Nothing.

On May 3rd, however, I'm going to a comic book shop for free comic book day (which kicks may day's ass...)

I plan on celebrating by mandatory scheduling of 12hr shifts for all my employees for that day. :D

pfft I'm sorry but you have clearly never dressed in commie clothing at a party

I thought dressing up as Nazi's was all the rage in the UK?

I plan on celebrating by mandatory scheduling of 12hr shifts of all my employees for that day. :D

Sweet, you should push through a pay cut too!

Sweet, you should push through a pay cut too!

Good idea!

I'll be embracing Mayday for the sole purpose of it's traditional relation to spring: Thus, I shall be having a bit of a picnic outdoors for lunch.

We've already got a Labor Day, and it runs on the other end of summer, opposite memorial day. We don't have a spring day.

I thought dressing up as Nazi's was all the rage in the UK?

fascism is for royalty ;)

Going to spend a lot of money on imported foreign products.

I thought dressing up as Nazi’s was all the rage in the UK?
Only if you’re a product of institutionalised inbreeding.

Only in reference to resources. Between you and the OED, I'll go with the latter.
I got that fom the OED. I have my second edition sitting right here.

The problem is I'm not accepting the connotatioon you're insisting exists. because connotation never exists; there's no such thing.