!!!Erster Mai

May Day (First of May), international labour day dedicated to 
manifestations and celebrations by the labour movement, which took its 
inspiration from the US movement calling for the eight-hour day and 
was designated as its international holiday by the Second 
International Socialist congress in Paris in 1889. From 1890 onwards 
May 1st was celebrated by the Social Democrats in Vienna and 
other Austrian cities. It was made a national holiday in 1919, when 
the Austrian Communist Party also joined the movement. The holiday 
continued to exist during the Corporate State and under 
National-Socialist rule. In the 1970s numerous other leftist and 
alternative groups also adopted May 1st as their holiday. The 
ideology and objectives of the celebration have but little in common 
with other  May Customs.

!Literature
H. Troch, Rebellensonntag, 1991.


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