This is a repost from last year… because it still applies. We also need to reconize and encourage the recent remobilization of labor in this country and abroad. It’s the only chance we have against the ruling class and their lickspittles… less an actual, French-style revolution…

Summer’s Last Holiday

used to be the summer
season’s first holiday
May-day, still celebrated
around the world on
the first of May

celebrates labor’s victories
of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries over robber barons
and their bankers and lackeys
federal, state, and local

our owners bought and manipulated
the levers of power; moved our
celebration to season’s end
reduced to backyard smokey grills
and a few ball games

they dismantled the left
coalition that won labor the
New Deal and clawed back
most of the gains bought with the
sacrifices of workers and their lives

propaganda and bought politicians
got rid of the CIO, the Wobblies,
the socialist, the anarchists, and
the dreaded communists
put the robber barons back in charge

Labor Day reduced to symbolic
day off and little understanding of
its significance and the costs to
the working classes and their
current losses

–LE