Labour Day
1 May 2026 — The hammer rests today! This sunflower is for you, workers!
Labour Day is marked on 1 May in many countries around the world, including Mexico, where it is an official day off. The date goes back to the labour movement of the late nineteenth century and the struggle for an eight-hour working day, linked to the events in Chicago in 1886. In 1889 the Second International (an international association of socialist parties) proposed 1 May as a day of workers' solidarity. In Mexico the day is tied to workers' organisations and trade unions. Traditionally, unions hold marches in big cities, above all in the capital, while for many families it is a chance to rest and go on outings. The holiday has nothing to do with the lunar calendar and is not tied to a solstice or equinox, but it falls in the middle of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, roughly halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. In much of Mexico this is the hottest and driest time of the year, shortly before the rainy season begins.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver star figure made of luminous dots and lines like a constellation, shaped as a craftsman in a wide straw hat holding a small hammer and carrying a sunflower on his shoulder
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