Iraq
Iraqi Communists Celebrate May Day
Zeyad Healing Irak
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ MAY 1: Supporters of the Iraqi Communist
Party are seen during a May Day celebration May 1, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq.
Supporters of the Iraqi Communist Party
celebrate May Day at Fardous Square in central Baghdad.
May Day was inspired by a wave of strikes and demonstrations for a shorter
work day, followed by the Haymarket Square killings during a labor dispute in
Chicago in 1886. The Marxist International Socialist Congress adopted May Day
as International Workers' Day at a meeting held in Paris in July 1889.
May Day