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DAVID MARCUS: Leave May Day to America's haters. Labor Day is for the proud workers who built our country

What is less American than not working, not going to school and not shopping?

By David Marcus Fox News

Published May 1, 2026 8:42am EDT

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Here in the good old United States of America, we have a lovely holiday each September called Labor Day, on which we celebrate the contributions of the nation’s workers. We do not celebrate the communist holiday of May Day, as most of the globe does, at least not until recently.

Today, hundreds of leftist organizations and Damoractic Party adjuncts around the nation will rally, protest and cheer on May Day in an act of radical Marxist globalization. It should make Americans who are not fans of Mao’s little red book very nervous.

As usual, progressives want to destroy the wholesome homegrown aspects of our culture and replace them with cold, ugly, almost Soviet-style international slop, even though our American ancestors firmly rejected it.

People take part in May Day rally and march in New York City to protest the Trump administration, New York, U.S., May 1, 2025. ( Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

As it turns out, both Labor Day and May Day are of American provenance, with the former being a slightly older tradition from the early 1880s. It was an........

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