the possibility of intervening

"The occupations movement was the sudden return of the proletariat as a historical class, a proletariat now enlarged to include a majority of the salaried employees of modern society and still tending toward the real abolition of classes and of wage labor. The movement was a rediscovery of collective and individual history, an awakening to the possibility of intervening in history, an awareness of participating in an irreversible event."
 - The Beginning of an Era (Internationale Situationniste #12, September 1969)

Leaving the factory

Sortie d'usine (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory), 1895.

Striking workers, Hershey, Pennsylvania (date unknown)

the first of May

take history

Haymarket, May 4, 1886

"The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!"

- August Spies, November 11, 1887

May Day