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Clau O'Brien Moscoso
We Win Peace When We Struggle for It: Cuba and the Zone of Peace
22 May 2024
Cuba hosted its international peace seminar during May Day celebrations on the island.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio May 12, 2023
12 May 2023
African People's Socialist Party indictments, Cuban solidarity, and the 1970 police killings at Jackson State.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Solidarity with Cuba
12 May 2023
Netfa Freeman just returned from Cuba, where he was one of the coordinators of the National Network on Cuba's delegation to the U.S. May Day Brigade.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: “I’ll Be Damned if I Go Back to Work Under Those Conditions!” Lucy E. Parsons, May 1, 1930
03 May 2023
A 1930 speech by Black anarchist and labor organizer, Lucy Parsons, recalls the radical origins of May Day.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
May Day and Workers’ Rights in Eritrea
03 May 2023
The Eritrean people struggle against sanctions and warfare instigated by the US. They recognize their efforts on International Workers Day, May Day.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Essay: Record of Revolts in Negro Workers’ Past: Mary Adams, May 1, 1928
04 May 2022
A May Day 1928 essay by Black communist Williana “Liana” Jones Burroughs – aka Mary Adams – recounts the history of African revolt in the Americas.
New Frame
Marking Workers’ Day in Dispiriting Times
03 May 2022
Previously in South Africa, millions of people were mobilised in the hope of a better future on May Day. Now, amid mass unemployment and the collapse of an emancipatory vision, that optimism is…