"MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS"
Throught the People's Republic today, a national celebration was held in the annual celebration of May Day.
May Day, also known as International Worker's Day, has been celebrated annually in the FOA since 1975.
This year saw almost the entire population of the FOA "go on strike" a traditional ceremonial act celebrating the right to strike and unionize against all, even the state, a right not yet fully supported by the world.
Members of the Folkets Forsamling, as well as members of the military and large amounts of the capital's population met in the Kongens Firkant, outside the offices of state.
There, amid the rolling banners with the faces of Comrades Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Marcuss, the crowd joined hands and sang the anthem of not only their home, but the
anthem of worker's world wide.
In other local areas, citizens sang their own songs as well as the International, with favourites including
Solidarity Forever,
the song of the WUF as well as the
song growing in popularity, Do You Hear the People Sing, from the play Les Miserables.
Many plays were also preformed, from the less serious ones organised in the local hall to the stages of the capital, with favourites including
An Inspector Calls, the aforementioned
Les Miserables and the classic
Waiting for Lefty.
Comrade Folkets Præsident Rolf Høgh, made his speech on the current situation of the Mundus, and the position of the worker within it.
He highlighted that despite the world's average wealth growing higher and higher each year, the average member of the proletariat saw almost no change from what his wages had looked like decades ago. Over points included the need to unite with working members of the Mundus to help eliminate the evils of capitalism, as well as the undisguised tyranny that the nation of Tamora inflicted voluntarily upon its people. Whilst capitalism gives the illusion of choice (after all, the choice between working and starving is no choice at all), slavery doesn't even have the kindest of that illusion.
Commenting on the today's celebrations, Comrade Høgh had this to say:
"Overall, I think I can safely say that today's May Day Celebrations are a resounding success. With the scourge of capitalism still present in the Mundus, it is good for everyone to be able to celebrate what we do have. I hope that other nations around the world have found it in their hearts to allow people a paid vacation to celebrate the worker. But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if they found ways to sell the soul of even this celebration."