May Dibosher Itihash

Capital survives by breaking the neck of wage labor. The surplus value that working people create every day is converted into the profits of the capitalists. It is a natural tendency of the owners of capital to increase profits by increasing the working hours of the workers. From the first decade of the nineteenth century, workers began to organize protests against this. After various small and large battles, the demonstrations near the Hay Market in Chicago, America, in 1886 and the killing of labor leaders went down in history. As a result of a long struggle, employers around the world were forced to accept the workers' demand for an eight-hour workday. In 1889, on the occasion of the centennial of the victory of the French Revolution and the fall of the Bastille, labor leaders from different countries met in Paris. It was there that it was decided to celebrate May 1st as International Workers' Day, and May Day became a special day for working people around the world. In an article in Paris, some twenty-three years after the declaration, Stalin wrote, "In the last century, the workers of all countries decided to celebrate May Day every year. It was in 1889, when the workers at th