In every other country, it's celebrated as international workers day in commemoration of the Haymarket massacer in this country in which several labor activists were put to death as scapegoats for an act of violence they didn't commit. We created "May Day" to distract Americans from thinking about this moment of history, or (gasp!) class politics.

Not the same without the Red Square parade. Oh well, the geezers can sit around the old folks home singing the Internationale,

Labor day in most countries.

It is a big thing in England but don't ask me why. I think the communists celebrate it to but for different reasons.

Pro-worker, historically relevent holiday still officially celebrated in many countries. Not merely for a holiday communists and anarchists but for all who believe in the rights and immense contributions of labor internationally.

Never even heard of it before coming to this site.

I really don't see its significance as a holiday, but it is my birthday. It doesn't promote a pagan conspiracy, either.

This is a holiday? What exactly are we supposed to celebrate about the first day of May?

I think this one has really gone by the wayside. Since my grandmother died, I never hear anyone even mention it anymore. She was born in 1889 and she used to tell us stories of how all the children used to make May Day baskets full of flowers and leave them anonymously on their neighbors porches. There were probably other traditions involved with the day, but this is the only one I can remember hearing in my family.