FYI this is now a thirst account for historic #MayDay photos + posters from around the world, don’t @ me

First up, here’s Congress of South African Trade Unions from 1989. /1

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Next up is a Daily Worker float from I believe NYC in the 1930s, back when they did #MayDay like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Every time I see this I’m like wow, these communists were really into robots huh /2

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Argentina, 1975. This is the groovy ‘70s version of #MayDay. /3

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Tanzania, 1967. Socialists sometimes get a bad rep for giving terribly long speeches and being way too verbose, but you have to really give these guys credit for being concise and to the point /4

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Spain, 1937. Known as Les Mamàs Belgues, these women were a group of Belgian socialist volunteers who came to the Valencian town of Onteniente to nurse Republican anti-fascist soldiers in the Spanish Civil War. /5

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Bucharest, 1967. Romanians appear to have designed the heaviest #MayDay signs in the world. (Btw, this is *not* an endorsement of Ceaușescu’s brutal regime, or really any regime on this thread). /6

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London, 1928. If you’ve ever wondered what a British communist flapper might look like, here’s your answer. /7

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Washington, DC, early 1970s.

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Rio de Janeiro, 1943
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Kids on the march, Norway, 1924.
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More kids on the march, Soviet Union, 1960.
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And more kids on the march, Italy, 1953.
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Postwar #MayDay, part 1, German Social Democratic Party, 1946. One of the more somber May 1 posters I’ve seen. It basically only show two people focused on re-building their country destroyed by war and fascism.

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Postwar #MayDay pt 2, Japan 1953. On 05/01/52 aka Bloody May Day, two marchers killed, 100s injured by police at labor/communist rally at Imperial Palace. Along with Berlin '29, how many Bloody May Days have there been?

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El Dia del Trabajador, Bolivia, 1970. /15

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Paul Robeson, Glasgow, #MayDay 1960. /16

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#MayDay women's delegation, Vietnam, 1938 /17

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Anarchists on #MayDay, part 1. Alexander Berkman speaking to the @iww, Union Square, New York, 1908. /18

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Anarchists on #MayDay, part 2, Paris, 1972. /19

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#MayDay in Skopke, Macedonia, 1909.
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#PrimeiroDeMaio, Angola, 1980.
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#MayDay in San Francisco, 1980s.
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Which Side Are You On?
#MayDay in Seattle, 1976

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OK, going to wrap this up this thread with these marching bakers carrying a massive loaf of bread on #MayDay in New York, 1909. /24

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