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Thread of #MayDay2022 demonstrations around the world (share your pictures in the reply):

Cuba
Sri Lanka
India
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1\ I wonder if @JPHornick @KingsleyKwok know about the pro-#Russia rhetoric coming from the hosts of Toronto #MayDay2022 they're attending tomorrow? Some white boys astroturfed an "indigenous" protest to tie Indigenous issues to #Donetsk/#Luhansk "self determination".
2/ In early April, I asked about Indigenous participation/endorsement. I was told by a member of @may1labour "The poster was designed by an #Indigenous artist." I asked the artist for comment. The response intriguingly disavowed official Indigenous "endorsement" or involvement.
3\ My conclusion: in an #election year they've tricked an #ONDP candidate into endorsing and appearing at a rally whose core organizers are pro-Russia, appropriating Indigenous issues to conflate them with Donetsk/Luhansk, tying Unions/the @OntarioNDP to Putin's genocidal war.
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Bringing in the May 1/
Drive east to meet @BrightonMorris to a soundtrack of @LisaKnappMusic's unbeatable Til April is Dead, and of course @shirleyeCollins
Bringing in May 2/ The Sir Charles Napier in Hanover with Brighton and @cuckoosmorris and Hammersmith Morris. ImageImageImage
Bringing in the May 3/ @BrightonMorris dancing one of our own dances Southover ImageImage
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1/ May Day, international workers’ day, had US origins in the Eight Hour Day movement that emerged after the Civil War. This Marx had predicted. “The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class…
2/ “…so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes,” he wrote to Lincoln in congratulation for the latter’s re-election in 1864, in the midst of the Civil War. Just three years later, in 1867, Marx was able to see his prognosis vindicated…
3/ …In his brilliant “The Working Day” section of Capital, in which he explained how capitalists extract surplus value, Marx wrote, “Out of the death of slavery a new life at once arose. The first fruit of the Civil War was the eight hours’ agitation….
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@CFNU @canadanurses take note;
From @RNAO leadership & board @MorganHoffarth & @DorisGrinspun
We have seen no content

This is what the ppl of Ontario want to see from strong leaderships. Everything in excess of 1% in pay should be repaid or resign
solidarity is everything
@DorisGrinspun ... mmmm
An emergency meeting should be held to remove her. If 100,000+ nurses are capped at 1% ... while she enjoyed a [52%] raise since #DougFord took office #RussianAssetTracker
'21 - 9.6%
'20 - 26.8%
'19 - 8.4%
'18 - 7.2%
#onpoli #onted
May1st is a saturday! ImageImage
#MAYDAY2022 could end up ⬆️ looking like 2017 or 2021
#DougFord doesn't want this kinda smoke
May1st is a Sat
There is literally no justifiable excuse for 52% gain in pay when 100,000 nurses are capped at 1%
@_RyersonNursing @GrittyNurse
@UofTNursing @ANANursingWorld
@SHNcares ImageImage
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