More nationalism shoved down our throats

Submitted by AWL on 21 April, 2020 - 9:08
Johnson

The Tories have moved the May Day 2020 bank holiday to 8 May, to commemorate “Victory in Europe” in the Second World War.

The plan was for nationalistic “commemorations” across the country. Though the pandemic will tone it down, you can be sure the nationalist jubilee will be marked. We should display banners on the day with messages like “Workers of the world unite” and “International solidarity against the pandemic”.

1 May has been International Workers’ Day since 1904. In 1978 the Labour government made the first Monday in May a bank holiday. In 1993 and again in 2011 the Tories have talked of replacing it by a nationalistic “Trafalgar Day” holiday in October.

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