What to know about May Day and how it has grown over the years

‘May Day was born in struggle’

In the midst of escalating attacks on immigrants and all working people, we must build the future our ancestors dreamed of by APRIL SIMS (May 1, 2025) — May Day was born in struggle. It didn’t start with a holiday, it started with a strike. Back in 1886, thousands of workers—many of them immigrants—took to the streets […] The post ‘May Day was born in struggle’ appeared first on The STAND.

What to know about May Day and how it has grown over the years

May Day has spread from its U.S. roots to an international celebration of working people, highlighting labor and immigration issues across the world.

May Day, and Public Holidays - Searchlight

YESTERDAY, THURSDAY, Vincentians joined hundreds of millions of people all over the world in celebrating an international holiday, International Workers Day or May Day as it is more popularly known. It was the first of two public holidays in St Vincent and the Grenadines in May, for we will also be observing Spiritual Baptists Day, deservedly so, on May 21. While we celebrate or commemorate these public holidays, it may...

From workers’ rights demonstrations to social justice marches, activists around the world started May Day demonstrations on Thursday. In some countries, it’s a holiday in honor of work, but activists planning marches in the United States claim that much of their message is focused on fighting President Donald Trump’s policies aimed at immigrants, federal workers and diversity programs. Thousands of people are expected at demonstrations from the …