1st May:

The 1st of May is an important day for working people. It commemorates the anniversary of legal demonstrations in democracy, after Franco's dictatorship.

In 1978 lots of workers participated in the demonstration of the 1st of May to revindicate their rights and the consolidation of democracy. They aso prostested against the high rate of unemployment and the increase of prices.

Internaional Workers' Day (or May Day) is a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labour movement. May Day commonly sees organized street demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of working people and their labour unions throughout Europe and most of the rest of the world — though, not in the United States or Canada.