The Many-Sided, Overlapping Meanings of May Day

Paul Street / Truthdig Apr 29, 2017 The working-class holiday has Marxist and anarchist industrial-era roots, but the significance of May 1 goes deeper than that. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

May Day March Planned as Trump Stokes Fear Among Immigrants

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Apr 27, 2017 If the past is any predictor, millions across the United States will march May 1 in defense of immigrant rights and against the president's increasingly draconian policies. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Daniel Ellsberg Recalls the Spirit of Resistance in the 1971 May Day Protests (Video)

Staff / Truthdig May 19, 2016 The man who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers sits down with Judy Gumbo Albert to discuss the large-scale acts of civil disobedience against the Vietnam War.The man who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers sits down with activist Judy Gumbo Albert to discuss the large-scale acts of civil disobedience against the Vietnam War. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: My Mother, ‘the Illegal Alien’?

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 8, 2016 In honor of Mother's Day, we've republished Robert Scheer's account of his mother's struggles as an immigrant living in fear of deportation. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Demonstrators at May Day Rallies Worldwide Demand Workers’ Rights

By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams May 2, 2016 In the U.S., "there’s manufactured ignorance that prevents us from knowing about May Day," one historian says. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Why the Real Labor Day Is May 1

Staff / Truthdig Sep 7, 2015 Whereas May Day "celebrates the historic power of the working class to oppose its oppression and fundamentally alter society … Labor Day is just another legacy of worker defeat," writes Jonah Walters in Jacobin magazine. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer on the Meaning of May Day

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer talks immigration and organizing, Donald Sterling has been a confirmed bigot since at least 2009, and a proposed press shield law leaves Glenn Greenwald exposed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Soup Having Sex With Soup

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jun 10, 2012 "If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes," Picasso said, naming the distinct advantage that artists have always had over pundits and polemicists when it came to perceiving the world as it is; pundits and polemicists being much more likely to insist that the world is whatever a person wants it to be."If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes," Picasso said, naming the distinct advantage that artists have always had over pundits and polemicists. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: The May Day Occupiers

Staff / Truthdig May 5, 2012 There were doubts about whether Occupy Wall Street could pull off the massive day of protest its organizers spent many months planning. But demonstrators in New York City and elsewhere joined forces with labor unions and immigrant-rights activists to remind the public that there is a working class and May 1 is its holiday.Demonstrators in New York City and elsewhere joined forces with labor unions and immigrant-rights activists to remind the public that there is a working class and May 1 is its holiday. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Introducing the OWS ‘Guitarmy’ (Video)

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2012 New York saw what was probably the city’s first ever "guitarmy" this May Day, a march by hundreds of OWS-affiliated musicians led by former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello from midtown’s Bryant Park to Union Square, where they were joined by Immortal Technique, Das Racist and Dan Deacon to fire up protesters with song. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind TV Political Ads

Amy Goodman / Truthdig May 3, 2012 May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

What to Expect on May Day

Staff / Truthdig Apr 30, 2012 Wondering where to go and what will happen during Occupy Wall Street’s May Day protests? You’re not alone. With the knowledge that Occupy events rarely go according to plan, Natasha Lennard at Salon tries to lick the revolutionary chaos into manageable order. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )