Tag Archives: May Day

Welcoming in May with a Dance

By Robin Bates | Published: April 30, 2023

In Hardy, Mayday dancing is a way of connecting with ancient roots

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During Covid, Workers Must Unite

By Robin Bates | Published: April 30, 2020

On this International Workers’ Day, frontline workers are bearing the brunt on Covid-19 and public sector workers may not be far behind. Time for Shelley’s “To the Working Men of England.”

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History from the Workers’ Perspective

By Robin Bates | Published: May 1, 2014

Bertolt Brecht captures the spirit of May Day in “A Worker Reads History.”

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Muscles and Mind, Aching to Work

By Robin Bates | Published: May 1, 2013

Celebrate May Day with this passage from “Grapes of Wrath,” which emphasizes how vital work is to our sense of self respect.

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