Stories du Moment

On May Day, the status of the protests, and reads you might enjoy

Défilé du 1er Mai (vers 1937-1939) © Mauric – Mémoires d’Humanité / Archives départementales de la Seine-Saint-Denis

Le 1er mai, a simple day off for some, a day to march for others. For more than 150 years, workers in France have taken to the streets on May 1 to march for their rights— those acquired, regressing, or not yet written into law. It wasn’t u…