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International Workers' Day
, also called Labour Day in some countries[1] and often referred to as May Day,[2][3] is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May,[4][5] or the first Monday in May.[6][7] Traditionally, 1 May is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. The International Workers Congress held in Paris in 1889 established the Second International for labor, socialist, and Marxist parties.
[ citation needed]) In 1947, following an unexpected electoral victory of the Popular Democratic Front in Sicily, local secessionists and pro-USA mafia hitmen killed 14 and injured 27 firing machine guns at an International Workers' Day celebration in the Portella della Ginestra Massacre. In the cantons of Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Jura, Neuchâtel, and Zürich, Labour Day is an official public holiday equal to Sundays, based on federal law ( Bundesgesetz über die Arbeit in Industrie, Gewerbe und Handel, article 20a). The Libyan government transition – Prime Minister's Office (in Arabic).^ Address to the nation and call for reforms by Muammar Qaddafi, marking celebrations of International Workers' Day on 1 May 1982[ usurped] Mathaba News Network – Archive: Democracy in Industry.
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