* May Day 2020 within COVID 19 Lockdown planet !
But optimism never dies : Happy Labour Day*
Greetings of May Day 2020 – Happy_Earth_Day 2020 –
শুভেচ্ছা মহান মে দিবস ২০২০ – শুভ বসুমতি দিবস ২০২০
*দুনিয়ার মজদুর এক হও
তুমি মহান মে দিবস
খুন হও যতবার
গর্জে ওঠ বার বার
হও তুমি অজস্র জলন্ত সূর্য
হানো চরম আঘাত শোষকের বুকে
আকাশ বাতাস কাঁপাও আবার !

May Day 2020 – Friday, May 1!
April showers bring May flowers, as the saying goes. And with those flowers comes May Day, a holiday that most people have heard of but have little to no idea what it’s for. Well, the reason and pattern of celebration of countries around the world might vary.

This year the great May day has come to us in a very crucial time while the world severely sufferings from Corona COVID 19 pandemic situation with myriad casualties .The wheel of the planet has stopped and passing lockdown time imprisoned in home quarantine . In this situation people became workless . No income is there . the low incomes mass and labourer people are passing very hardship life by fighting with hunger . as the part of global village and the middle incomes country Bangladesh facing lot of trouble in many way .


The International Workers’ Day, also known as Workers’ Day, Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, which is a public holiday usually celebrated on 1st May.
We celebrate the May Day for the variety of issues it stands for, as well as the significance of those issues bear. For instance, the part of the world that celebrates May Day for fighting against the labor oppression around the world are doing it for a really worthy and noble cause, won’t you agree? Not, just that May Day is a day of protest, celebration as well as findings regarding the current labor condition in a country.

It’s a day that is very important to the labor community. The country’s which celebrate the day for the advent of the spring season uses this day to rejoice and celebrate the new by removing the old! So, May Day has some solid weight to be celebrated around the world.

 Whether you are celebrating the day for the advent of a new season or for the rights of the labor community, do it with total integrity and joy. When we all will come together to celebrate just cause, the world will indeed become a beautiful home for all of us to live in harmony and peace.
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Description : Labour Day is an annual public holiday that celebrates the eight-hour working day, a victory for workers in the mid-late 19th century. The argument for the eight-hour day was based on the need for each person to have eight hours labour, eight hours recreation and eight hours rest.

May Day started in Chicago. In 1886, workers peacefully came together, striking for an eight-hour work day. That rally turned deadly after a bomb was thrown at police—protesters and police alike lost their lives. You learn about the Haymarket Affair in school, but the story, essentially, has been lost to history. We forget about all the labor tragedies and triumphs along the way.
On a day like May Day, we think about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 garment workers in New York City. We think about all the moments in American history when people have struggled for basic autonomy—dignity, solidarity, and protection for themselves in the places where they work. Sometimes we think that all that stuff that happened in the 19th and 20th centuries: labor mobilization, fighting for better conditions—that’s is just some story. A fairytale from the past. But this battle is not in the past. It is very much in the present

Today, thousands of Bangladeshis took to the streets in the capital city of Dhaka demanding better safety standards for their neighbors, their brothers, their sisters, for themselves. Because Bangladesh right now as a society is saying what other societies has said at other moments: Enough. This cannot stand. It is a stark reminder on this day, when we think about what it means for working people to band together and assert their power, it literally is a matter of life and death

Now take a look at Bangladesh—a country of 150 million people. In 24 april 2013, the country suffered the single most lethal incident in the history of the garment industry. on that day more than one thousand garment workers died by collapse of rana plaza at savar Dhaka


Not only garments workers face the reality. Workers in construction sites, brick kilns, chemical plants, metal, foundry and glass works, cold storages, transport, processing, cement, leather, ship breaking industries also face the reality. Labor in agriculture faces the reality. All the poor face the reality. Middle class faces the reality.
For workers in informal sector, the reality is harder. For children, the reality is crueler; in cases, it’s similar to the early days of capitalism. For women, the reality is more than crueler with extra burden of ideas propagated to secure existing property relations.
The Savar-deaths have brought to notice the condition of garments workers. What about the child labor that also is compelled to move, sometimes all through their work-hour, and sometimes slowly and silently, along a path to graveyard? They move along that path not in a huge number at a time. But in total the toll the child labor pays is not insignificant

Citing the 11th edition of the Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, an annual report by the US department of labor, Financial Express, a Dhaka daily, said: 81.5 percent of the total working children in Bangladesh are engaged in the worst form of child labor including agriculture and domestic services. About 16.2 percent children are engaged in manufacturing sectors, most of which are hazardous. (Nov. 10, 2012, “81.5pc engaged in worst form of child labor in Bangladesh”)
According to the report, the child labor is engaged for dismantling ships although they lack required physical strength. They are pushed in the production of salt, bricks, soap, matches, footwear, glass, cigarettes, steel furniture, leather and jute products. They are pressed into welding, carpentry, rickshaw pulling, automobile repair, poultry farming, drying fish, shrimp processing

Many like to forget this reality. A single May Day shall not change the reality. But with each May Day and with following days labor moves towards changing the reality despite efforts to overwhelm labor with
anarchism, vandalism, auctioned leadership, unawareness and demobilization.
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