The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of Mayday (December 3rd, 3pm, UC Berkeley)

A talk by Peter Linebaugh

“May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.” – Peter Linebaugh – Historian and Author of The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of Mayday

Saturday, December 3 at 3:00pm
Moffitt Undergraduate Library, Room 106

Organized by Students for Social Change (UCB), Speak Out Now! And PM Press
Co-sponsors: System Change not Climate Change (SCnCC)

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