May Dibosher Itihash

Capital survives by breaking the neck of wage labor. The surplus value that working people create every day is converted into the profits of the capitalists. It is a natural tendency of the owners of capital to increase profits by increasing the working hours of the workers. From the first decade of the nineteenth century, workers began to organize protests against this. After various small and large battles, the demonstrations near the Hay Market in Chicago, America, in 1886 and the killing of labor leaders went down in history. As a result of a long struggle, employers around the world were forced to accept the workers' demand for an eight-hour workday. In 1889, on the occasion of the centennial of the victory of the French Revolution and the fall of the Bastille, labor leaders from different countries met in Paris. It was there that it was decided to celebrate May 1st as International Workers' Day, and May Day became a special day for working people around the world. In an article in Paris, some twenty-three years after the declaration, Stalin wrote, "In the last century, the workers of all countries decided to celebrate May Day every year. It was in 1889, when the workers at the Paris Conference decided that on this very day, on this May Day - when nature wakes up from its winter sleep, the forests and mountains are covered with green, the fields and valleys are adorned with their flowers, the sun radiates more heat, the sky is filled with the joy of its return and nature dances and rejoices, on that very day they will loudly and openly announce to the whole world that the workers are bringing spring to humanity and liberation from the yoke of capitalism, that the workers' goal is the reconstruction of this world on the basis of freedom and socialism. Every class has its own festival. The aristocracy introduced its festival and from it they declared their 'right' to plunder the peasantry. The bourgeoisie has its own festival, from which they The 'right' of exploiting workers is shown to be 'just'. The clergy also have their own festivals, they then praise the existing system in which the working people die in poverty and the lazy people wallow in luxury. The workers must also have their own festivals and on that day they must declare universal labor, universal freedom, universal equality of all people. That festival is the festival of May 1. That was the decision of the workers in 1889. "The history of May Day is the history of the struggle for the lib

שנה

2025

שפה

ben

הוצאה

National Book Agency Private Limited

מהדורות

1

עמודים

32

ISBN

9789348778390

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