May Day

Situation about May Day, countries coloured red celebrate May 1 as national holiday.

May 1 is known in many countries as May Day or International Labor Day for human rights of workers and labour movement. This day is a holiday in most countries, including UK,China, Cuba, Czech republic, France, Russia, Brazil, Austria, Germany, Serbia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Slovenia, Slovakia, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Portugal, Bulgaria, Vietnam and Argentina.

May Day commemorates worker demonstrations for eight-hour workweeks in Chicago, May, 1886. More specifically, it commemorates the Haymarket Affair and the execution of multiple anarchist and marxist leaders.

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May Day Media

Floralia by Antonio María Reyna Manescau (1888).
Maypole dancing in the Netherlands, by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (16th century).
Maibaum in Munich, Germany
Maibaum in Bad Tölz, Germany
Bealtaine bonfire at Uisneach in Ireland, 2022
Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, 2019
Jack in the Green procession at Hastings May Day celebration, 2023
May Day parade, with a May Queen, in Lustleigh, England.
Children dancing around a maypole as part of a May Day celebration in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 2009.
May Day (1812) by William Collins