loyalty day, fuck off!

[babylon_yen]

1. Arise! ye starvelings, from your slumbers;
Arise! ye prisoners of want.
For reason in revolt now thunders
And ends at last the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses, arise! arise!
We’ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
Chorus
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale
Unites the human race.
2. No saviour from on high delivers;
No faith have we in prince or peer.
Our own right hand the chains must shiver:
Chains of hatred, greed and fear.
E’er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at his forge must do his duty
And strike the iron while it’s hot!
3. The law oppresses us and tricks us,
The wage slave system drains our blood;
The rich are free from obligation,
The laws the poor delude.
Too long we’ve languished in subjection,
Equality has other laws;
“No rights,” says she “without their duties,
No claims on equals without cause.”
4. Behold them seated in their glory
The kings of mine and rail and soil!
What have you read in all their story,
But how they plundered toil?
Fruits of the workers’ toil are buried
In strongholds of the idle few
In working for their restitution
The men will only claim their due.
5. No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the Generals on Our Own Side.
6. We peasants, artisans, and others
Enrolled among the sons of toil,
Let’s claim the earth henceforth for brothers,
Drive the indolent from the soil!
On our Flesh too Long has fed the Raven;
We’ve too long been the vulture’s prey.
But now farewell the spirit craven:
The dawn brings in a brighter day.

[david]

i dont even think san diego has demos on may day anymore

everyone got scared into being democrats by 9/11

[babylon_yen]

i bet there's an immigrant march. which is way cooler than 5 anarchists standing in front of horton plaza handing out bakunin pamphlets heckling the 3 dudes on the other corner desperately trying to sell 'socialist workers'.

[david]

haha no im sorry the immigrant march does not sound cooler

[babylon_yen]

May Day 2008

ankara beat down


manilla protest over food prices


in south africa the holiday is used as a cultural celebration, as a social party remembering the fight against aprtheid, and of course for labor action in those years and beyond


beruit

[babylon_yen]

stuff burning in hamburg


hamburg


undocumented immigrant worker rally in paris


roma children attend leftist parade in bucharest

[babylon_yen]

communist youth group in petrograd


moscow


baghdad


madrid

[babylon_yen]

border rally, gaza


maoists in nepal


kathmandu


zurich

[babylon_yen]

trade union rally in india


russian pensioner march


lahore


kiev

[babylon_yen]

south korea


seoul


manilla


ukraine (haha stalin portrait)