| In 1889 an international meeting of socialists designated May Day, the first day of May, as a day to honor workers. The day was celebrated in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other communist countries. Shown here are demonstrators walking past a huge banner of communist leaders. They are, left to right, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Illich Lenin. This was at the 1988 May Day Parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. |