Alexander Trachtenberg: To the reformist leaders May Day was only an international labor holiday, a day of pageants and games in the parks or outlying country. That the resolution of the Zurich Congress demanded that May Day should be a 'demonstration of the determined will of the before the war. They did everything to discourage and thwart joint international action of the proletariat, and decisions of international congresses which did not conform with their ideas remained mere paper resolutions. Twenty years later the 'socialism' and 'internationalism' of these reformist leaders stood exposed in all their nakedness. wordsmith.social/protestation/…