First up, you'll notice I have veered from my usual use of the Queen's English in this article's heading. This is because, surprisingly, given that it's a holiday built on socialist strikes and the work of the Second International, this is an American holiday at its core.

So, before we go onto how you guys can save some of your money earnt through your hard labour (back to the real spelling for the body of the article), lets have a little look at the history of the day, so we know exactly why we celebrate. 
Or just scroll straight down if you don't care about history, that also works.

The whole holiday has its roots in the international campaign for an eight hour working day which led directly to what became known as the Haymarket Affair in Chicago in 1886. A peaceful rally that was transformed, when an unknown person threw a stick of dynamite at the police, into pretty much an all out battle in which lives were lost on both sides.  In the following years this loss of life was commemorated annually, and in 1889 the date of 1st May was put forward to the Marxist International Socialist Congress by the American Federation of Labor as an annual date for strikes and protests to act as both rememberance for the fallen and a push for more workers' rights. And that's why the day is celebrated in both capitalist America and socialist China alike. It's nice when people find common ground.

Or if you're British you dance around a phallic representation festooned with ribbons to call on the pagan gods to ensure both women and the earth are fecund in the year ahead. Take your pick of which one you prefer.

And so on to the SALE!

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