May Day

First greeting before dawn is Happy Beltane. Some pagan festival apparently.

Second, a little later, is Happy May Day ... International Workers' Day ... once celebrated exuberantly in London with the comrades. Marches to Trafalgar Square with the many shades of red available ... we reckoned ourselves the purest, albeit rather small. Official recognition from Albania after Enver had fallen out with China. Evening rallies with speeches from the leaders, music from the Peoples' Cultural Association ... a quite famous composer was on the Central Committee,  Cornelius Cardew. Killed by a hit and run driver one snowy night in East London.

Exciting times. We even had a few working class militants, health workers, a foundry worker from Fords, a bus driver ... mostly entryists. Preparing the workers for the revolution. We did our best, but the great unwashed were diverted by material things. Happy for the odd strike to lighten up their lives and upset the managers, but one day was enough. They got very nervous if we went past the first week's wages. The miners held out for a year. Heroic. They knew this was the big one.

Another world. I see the comrades once a year at the Miners' Gala in Durham. A great celebration of their history. No pits left now. Will it be on this year?  Will Keir be invited? He has the name for it, but maybe not the politics.

I mix more with Beltane types these days, though that's not really my thing. Mind, I'm not averse to some tree hugging and wandering in Nature, just not really into the rituals.

The warrior archetype has revived recently in the service of the Resistance. More blogging and Facebook rabble rousing ... plus engaging with locals to encourage dissent. Amazing how the fear has taken hold. It's the masses demanding more repressive measures now. Not clear how long the government can keep it running or how they can stop it ... it seems as if the genie is out of the bottle. Still, it will stop. Let's see how the people react when they see they have been had. Nuremberg Trial mark 2 anyone?

Well, the Resistance is fairly relaxed these days. .. it's not a War after all.
Irony free V.E. Day coming up and Poppies in November. Portugal maybe?