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.
