{"id":1312,"date":"2011-05-12T17:52:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2011-05-12T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:52:30","slug":"may-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wouldn’t want to miss May Day, but sometimes it seems like I’m taking the same pictures each year of the same people.<\/p>\n

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doing much the same things as last year. Sometimes I do it just a little better than other years, and I enjoy it but perhaps feel I’m not getting anywhere.<\/p>\n

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But the Turkish communists certainly put on a spirited performance, and one that makes a part of my heart warm, while elsewhere I’m chilled by the thought of Stalin.<\/p>\n

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Of course in my early years he was ‘Uncle Joe’ and still remembered here as the man who had led the dogged resistance that really defeated Hitler – with the help of arms and other supplies from the US and UK. We knew that without him we would have been living under German rule (or rather a later generation of German rule than the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas.)\u00a0 But then few of us knew much about the purges and all the rest.<\/p>\n

Of course there were some things new at May Day – including the launch of a new campaign for justice or at least better working conditions and more pay for one of the worst-treated groups of employees – domestic and restaurant workers.<\/p>\n

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Last year the event proved rather embarrassing for me, as getting down on my knees to photograph some of the many children who take part I heard a loud tearing sound as my trousers ripped from waist to knee. Fortunately that day I was wearing a jacket, and for the rest of the day covering the march and a later event in Parliament Square, I was kept more or less decent by this jacket tied around my waist as a skirt to cover the gaping hole. This year I made sure to bend down more carefully as I’d left my jacket at home!<\/p>\n

Pictures and text from this year at London May Day March.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wouldn’t want to miss May Day, but sometimes it seems like I’m taking the same pictures each year of the same people. doing much the same things as last year. Sometimes I do it just a little better than other years, and I enjoy it but perhaps feel I’m not getting anywhere. But the … Continue reading May Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}