Today is “May Day,” the first of May. In many European cultures, it’s a traditional spring festival holiday, celebrated since ancient times. For communists and socialist, it’s the “International Workers’ Day” and they too call it “May Day.”
India being a socialist/communist country, 1st of May is “Labor Day” and is a public holiday.
It’s kind of fitting that the communist/socialist celebrate “May Day” because “Mayday” is the international life-threatening distress call for mariners and aviators. It’s derived from the French m’aider (which means ‘help me’ and is pronounced “mayday.”) That use originated in 1921.
When a population falls victim to socialism, it’s in life-threatening distress and needs urgent assistance to recover from the disease that kills in the scores of millions. I remember the countless victims of collectivism on this day.
A song that I dearly love is “First of May” by the Bee Gees. It’s from before they started playing disco. It’s a beautiful love song, and like all great songs, it is about love, loss and longing.
. . . you and I, our love will never die,
but guess who’ll cry come first of May.
Have a great May Day.
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