That right-wing extremists are appropriating – not to say abusing – May Day, historically a traditional day of struggle for trade unions and the left, is not a unique occurrence. After it was first declared a public holiday in the Weimar Republic in 1919, but only for that single year, it was the Nazis who made May 1st a permanent holiday from 1933 onwards: as the "Day of National Labor" – one day before they destroyed the trade unions. For righ…
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That right-wing extremists are appropriating – not to say abusing – May Day, historically a traditional day of struggle for trade unions and the left, is not a unique occurrence. After it was first declared a public holiday in the Weimar Republic in 1919, but only for that single year, it was the Nazis who made May 1st a permanent holiday from 1933 onwards: as the "Day of National Labor" – one day before they destroyed the trade unions. For righ…