Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linebaugh, Peter.

Contributor:

Linebaugh, Peter.

Series:

Spectre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

May Day (Labor holiday)--History.

May Day (Labor holiday).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland : PM Press, 2016.

Summary:

An essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st, the international May Day holiday May 1st is a day that once made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole-a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. This book's reflections on the Red and the Green-out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies-are populated by the likes of Native American anarchocommunist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant. The book is a forceful reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Untitled

Half Title

Dedication

Copyright

Contents

One: The May Day Punch That Wasn't

Two: The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

Three: X2: May Day in Light of Waco and LA

Four: A May Day Meditation

Five: May Day at Kut and Kienthal

Six: Magna Carta and May Day

Seven: May Day with Heart

Eight: Obama May Day

Nine: Archiving with MayDay Rooms

Ten: Ypsilanti Vampire May Day

Eleven: Swan Honk May Day

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781629632513

1629632511

9781629632537

1629632538

OCLC:

947085843