May Day UK/Ireland in 2024

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2024 Date	6 May 2024
2025 Date	5 May 2025

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May Day UK/Ireland in

Monday, 6 May

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Meaningful May - Day 6: Look for people doing good and reasons to be cheerful https://actionforhappiness.org/meaningful-may #MeaningfulMay
— Action for Happiness (@actionhappiness) May 6, 2024

Liverpool marches for May Day, workers’ day, and for Palestine.
— Alan Gibbons (@mygibbo) May 6, 2024

Some of our brilliant comrades marching at the Chesterfield May Day march this morning. So many beautiful banners on display today, shame they don't make them like that anymore!
— Workers Party of Britain (@WorkersPartyGB) May 6, 2024

Happy May Day to all. A reminder of sometimes having the discomfort in school assembly of having to sit on the hole in the floor that was for the May Pole.
— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) May 6, 2024

We were at Salford TUC May Day rally today - celebrating workers’ solidarity, socialist & progressive movements & politics. Included trade unions, political parties, community groups & others. Started at Working Class Movement Library @wcmlibrary @SalfordTUC Show more
— Greater Manchester Morning Star supporters (@MorningStarManc) May 6, 2024

Socialist Party Comrades marching in solidarity with all workers in today's May Day march with two of our comrades speaking from the platform at the end rally "Workers of the world... UNITE!!!"
— Socialist Party - Liverpool and District branch 🚩 (@LivSocialists) May 7, 2024

Happy May Day Monday If you do one thing today, please sign @EISGlasgow petition to reverse GCC planned brutal cuts to education Sign here change.org/p/stop-cuts-to Show more
— Eireann (erin) (@xeireannmcauley) May 6, 2024

A few photos from yesterday’s May Day Worker’s March from George Square to the Glasgow University Union
— fraser 🇵🇸 (@AFrazzledScot) May 6, 2024

A short clip from my May Day speech in Burnley today and the importance of a Labour Government for improving workers rights
— Justin Madders MP (@justinmadders) May 6, 2024

Lovely to hear cuckoos again! #MayDay #SpringBreak
— Liz Webster (@LizWebsterSBF) May 6, 2024

May Day UK/Ireland History

May Day in Ireland, like in many Celtic religions, commemorates the coming of spring and the blossoming of flowers and fruit, a festival known as Lá Bealtaine.