1st OF MAY, 2nd OF MAY, 3d of MAY AND THE REST OF THE WORKING CLASS HOLIDAYS
It's the 1st of May today, the day of the working class and the communist party.
I will only tell you the old story, which some of the youngest amongst you may not know with all its details.
There was then once upon a time in the north, where is the sea of Luxembourg today a pretty and sunlit country named Holland. The Dutch had made many dams to hold the water so the tulips grow in the fields.
What happened then in the year 1878 ;
There was a little Dutch boy, Joop Neeskens was his name, walking in the forest with his dad. Suddenly the little Dutch boy sees a hole in the dam through which water was pouring in.
Little Joop says to his dad "daddy, daddy, if I put my finger in that hole I can stop the water and save the dam".
But what happened next is history. Little Joop gets slapped in the back of his head by his daddy who says "listen here boy, are we going to put our fingers in dams now without overtime pay ?". Joop hesitated for a while and his dad after a little thought says again "as well as that the two hour work to rule about Nicaragua is due to begin ten minutes from now".
The dam of the Dutch bourgeoisie was therefore allowed to collapse ...
In this way the race of the Dutch people drawned and we lived happily ever after.