THEChoice of May 1st as a date for the workers’ party has deep roots. In 1886, in Chicago, thousands of workers took strike to claim the application of the law on eight hours and better working conditions. The protests degenerated into violent clashes with the police, which culminated in the Tragic massacre of Haymarket Square. The same year, however, thanks to the continuous pressures of the American Association of Knights of Labor (Knights of Labor), it came approved the first law that limited the working day to eight hours. This historical conquest entered into vigor the following year, precisely on May 1stbecoming the symbol of the struggle for more fair and dignified working conditions.
In the 1889, during the Congress of the Second International in ParisThe feast of May 1st was officially proclaimed as a day of commemoration of workers’ struggles and claiming workers all over the world.
The workers’ party, a universal symbol
So since then, every year, On May 1st the workers’ festival is celebrated all over the worldan anniversary that has its roots in the battle for workers’ rights during the industrial revolution.
Mules, proletarian democracy event, Milan, Darsena dei Navigli, 1978. From the exhibition “We … were not just songs”
One day to remember and look to the future
Today, the Workers’ Festival is an opportunity to remember the achievements obtained Thanks to the trade union struggles and to renew the commitment in the defense of workers’ rights. It is also one day to reflect on the challenges that we still have to face, such as the precariousness of work, social inequalities and globalization.
The workers’ party reminds us that the dignity of work and social justice are never acquired once and for all. We must continue to fight for a world in which work is a right and not a privilege, and in which all workers are enhanced and respected.
Institutional sentences for May 1st
«Italy is a democratic republic, founded at work. Sovereignty belongs to the people, who exercise it in the forms and within the limits of the Constitution “. (Article 1 of the Italian Constitution)
“Each individual has the right to work, free choice of employment, right and satisfactory working conditions and protection against unemployment”. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948)
Phrases for May 1 by poets and writers
“Work ennobles man.” (Charles Darwin)
“Work removes three great evils from us: boredom, vice and need”. (Voltaire)
“The best antidote to pain is work.” (Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Choose a job you love, and you won’t have to work even a day in your life.” (Confucius)
“If one spent a whole year on vacation, having fun would be stressful like working.” (William Shakespeare)
“You have to work and dare if you really want to live.” (Vincent Van Gogh)
“It is impossible to fully enjoy the idle if you do not have a quantity of work to do” (Jerome Klapka Jerome)
“Give a fish to a man and you will feed it for a day. Teach them to fish and you will feed it for life ». (Chinese proverb)
“The fruit of work is the sweetest of pleasures.” (Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues)
Phrases of successful people
«If you want something to be said, ask a man; If you want something to be done, ask a woman “(Margaret Tatcher)
«Being the richest man in the cemetery does not matter. What matters is to go to bed in the evening knowing that she has done something big ». (Steve Jobs)
«In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will be only leaders ». (Sheryl Sandberg)
“The great occasions are lost by most people because they are dressed in a suit and resemble work.” (Thomas Edison)
“Make sure never to do without your best.” (Walt Disney)
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” (Vince Lombardi)
Phrases for May 1st of institutional figures
«How much I would like to see everyone with decent job! It is an essential thing for human dignity ». (Pope Francis)
«I believe in the Italian people. He is a generous, laborious people, does not ask what a job, a house and to be able to treat the health of his loved ones. Therefore he does not ask for paradise on earth. He asks what every people should have. ” (Sandro Pertini)
“It is neither wealth nor fame to give happiness, but work and tranquility”. (Thomas Jefferson)
“Keep your job in hand, or he will keep you in hand.” (Benjamin Franklin)
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