Perhaps to you May Day is to recount the mystical or medieval origins of a pagan fertility festival. And though you may never have seen a maypole in your life, you will be assured that a ribboned piece of birchwood is the sign and sanction of May Day, also known as Beltane in Celtic traditions. May Day is a pagan holiday celebrating the arrival of Spring and the fertility of nature. It marks a time of renewal and abundance, often associated with fire rituals, floral decorations and festivities centered around the Maypole.
But for most of us, especially now May Day, the date of May 1st, commemorates a nationwide strike for an eight-hour workday that commenced in 1886. This pivotal event, however, culminated in the Haymarket Affair in Chicago, a regrettable incident where a labour protest apparently escalated into violence.
The story goes that Chicago trade union organizers, who also happened to be anarchists, were framed on false charges of throwing a bomb at police who were busy busting the heads of workers participating in a demonstration in Chicago. This was part of a strike demanding an 8 hour day involving 400,000 workers in Chicago that started May 1st, 1886.
Since that critical moment in American history which stands as a reminder that we all must continue to represent and engage in the outpouring of support for worker’s rights, most of us living and breathing today recognize May Day as the day to stand up and demand fair and better treatment from our wage enslavers and now, in the 21st century, our resetters. We must remind our resetters that they will never, ever infringe on our human rights again nor can they use the excuses of “emergencies” of any kind to withhold our right to work and right to assemble.
As contemptuous as I was a few years ago of the professional (and working class) sector who supported the demand for closure of businesses, to keep our children from school and to force all office workers into some sort of highly controlled, surveilled at-home remote work type situation, or face the highly (unlawful) invasive daily testing, or worse yet, forceful (unlawful) vaccinations, I am still sympathetic to their present plight and stand with them in solidarity, even if they don’t fully understand the machinations of their current plight.
The now unemployed professional worker, who typically represents a strong middle class, are woefully uninformed about the latest sign of economic trouble. Weekly jobless claims surged to 241,000. Unemployed workers filing for unemployment benefits totaled a seasonally adjusted 241,000 for the week ending April 26, 2025 which is up 18,000 from the prior period and higher than the expected 225,000.
May Day! May Day! May Day! May Day!
The alarm rings loud as continuing claims, which run a week behind and provide a broader view of layoff trends, rose to 1.92 million in the United States, up 83,000 to the highest level since Nov. 13, 2021.
It is only going to get worse.
The sad part is these professional workers are fed a steady stream of lies and obfuscations where they are told it’s their fault: their resumes aren’t outstanding enough, their employed past colleagues disregard and dismiss them and are contemptuous of them (not true), their websites aren’t sexy enough and the list of their wrong-doings and where they are falling short goes a mile long. They are left to believe they need to sign up for “professional coaches.” This particular demographic is typically made up of divorced women, who’ve never been unemployed, who find themselves in early retirement either by choice or by RIF (Reduction In Force) and think they have all the answers because they never did anything wrong to find themselves on the unemployment line. These “professional coaches” are parasites, feeding on desperate people and support the false notion that the worker must be doing something wrong to find himself unemployed.
We must stand in solidarity with the unemployed, even if their world-view is different from ours and even if they championed senseless mandates at one point. Many have openly admitted to regretting their choices back then. As comrades we must forgive them, show compassion, move on and face the treachery that has befallen all of us at the hands of diabolical resetters that are hell-bent on not only impoverishing us, but killing us outright.
We must remind them NOT to spend their money on those charlatan know-it-all “professional coaches” or “life coaches” and we must also remind them, constantly, that it’s not their fault.
It’s bad enough they (the resetters) want to kill us.
Let’s not kill each other.
May Day! May Day! May Day! May Day!
The Reichstag fire of 1933, and the subsequent rise of the Nazi Party, were deeply intertwined with Germany’s severe unemployment crisis during the Great Depression. I’m not being coy. This is exactly why I’ve been hell-bent on following the rise of unemployment. Despite my fever pitch, I still don’t think the message is getting across.
The Reichstag fire, an event used by the Nazis to justify the suppression of dissent and the establishment of a totalitarian state, was a catalyst for the rapid decline of the Weimar Republic and its eventual replacement by the Nazi regime. The Nazis capitalized on widespread economic hardship and desperation, promising “work and bread” to address the unemployment crisis, which was a major factor in their gaining power.
You should be able to easily see the correlation.
Right now, you have some asshole that goes by DC Draino (Rogan O’Handley) on New Twitter championing the idea of suspending habeas corpus. Out of hundreds of online influencers he was the most excited about being the first question at the April 28, 2025 press conference and gleefully holds the historical moment in history that sparked the signal that could ultimately sunset our precious Republic. But, instead of planted arsonists creating a false flag which German Parliament saw in 1933, we now have the false notion that we must suspend habeas corpus because our country is at war with planted or even personas (something not real) of DANGEROUS IMMIGRANTS.
O’Handley’s suggestion that the bedrock legal principle of habeas corpus be suspended for undocumented immigrants—hundreds of whom have already been forced out of the country without due process—came ahead of Trump’s scheduled signing of two new immigration-related executive orders.
In case you need it made abundantly clear at this point, I’m comparing the false flag event of the Reichstag fire in 1933 which gave rise to fascism and false imprisonment of innocents, with the false flag language around dangerous immigrants which also, right now, is giving rise to fascism and false imprisonment.
The legal doctrine of “habeas corpus,” a Latin phrase that has its American roots in English law as early as the 12th century, stands as a barrier to unlawful arrest.
In its essence, habeas corpus protects any person, whether citizen or not, from being illegally confined. Habeas corpus is Latin for “you shall have the body” and requires a judge literally to have the body of any incarcerated person brought physically forward so that the legality of their detention may be assessed.
When a judge demanded the return of an American “accidentally” sent to an El Salvadoran prison, the Trump administration flouted habeas corpus and defied this cherished principle that some argue stands as the bedrock for freedom and autonomy and holds the line against tyrannical dictatorship.
May Day! May Day! May Day! May Day!
At the end of April, 2007, Huffington Post published Naomi Wolf’s Ten Steps To Close Down an Open Society. I’ve read all ten steps over and over and it seems as if we keep reinventing each step and placing it in different orders.
How many times do we have to learn this lesson over and over again. In 2007 she writes,
“The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 gave the president new powers over the national guard. This means that in a national emergency – which the president now has enhanced powers to declare – he can send Michigan’s militia to enforce a state of emergency that he has declared in Oregon, over the objections of the state’s governor and its citizens.
Even as Americans were focused on Britney Spears’s meltdown and the question of who fathered Anna Nicole’s baby, the New York Times editorialised about this shift:
“A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night … Beyond actual insurrection, the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or any ‘other condition’.”
It’s May Day. Sound the alarm.
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