The theme for this year's May Day event is Celebrating Women as Workers - recognising the paid and unpaid work women do, their contribution to the union movement and the class struggle.
Join us in celebrating May Day in the centenary year of International Women's Day, rain or shine!
On the day we will be honouring women who are our role models, for example:
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Flora Tristan (7 April 1803 in Paris – 14 November 1844 in Bordeaux, France) was a socialist writer and activist.
She was also one of the founders of modern feminism. She wrote several works, the best known of which are Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838), Promenades in London (1840), and The Workers' Union (1843).
Her complete name was Flore-Celestine -Therèse-Henriette Tristan-Moscoso. Her father, Mariano Tristán y Moscoso, was an Arequipa-born Peruvian colonel of the Spanish Navy. She was the niece of Pío de Tristán, viceroy of Peru. Her mother, Anne Laisney, was French; her parents met in Bilbao, Spain during her father's stay there.