By Alejandra Garcia

Happy May Day 2022! May is an exciting month in the skies – and a great time to get outdoors in the warm weather! On May 16th a Total Lunar Eclipse will be visible in the Americas, Eastern Europe, and most of Africa. The η-Aquariid Meteor Shower peaks on May 6th, showcasing debris from Halley’s Comet. Mars and Jupiter are both in Geocentric Conjunction with the Moon on May 24th. These two planets will visit each other more closely on May 28th.

During the Total Lunar Eclipse on May 16th, the East Coast of the United States and the entirety of the South American continent will have the best view. First, the Moon will enter the Earth’s Penumbra, or indirect shadow. Next, the Moon will cross the line into the Earth’s Umbra, or direct shadow, to begin the Partial Lunar Eclipse. Once the moon is completely surrounded by the Earth’s Umbra, the Total Lunar Eclipse begins. It finishes the cycle by entering another Partial Lunar Eclipse as the Moon makes its way back out of the Umbra and into the Penumbra. When the Umbra is completely ended, the Partial Lunar Eclipse finishes.

The detailed post at WildHemlock.Com features:

Total Lunar Eclipse Timeline

Lunar Eclipse Map

Detailed Meteor Shower Information

Full Astronomy Calendar

and much more!

Socialist Senate candidate from California attends Moscow May Day

Struggle-La Lucha writer John Parker, Socialist Unity Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket, is on a fact-finding trip to uncover the truth about the U.S./NATO proxy war on Donbass and Russia.

By Union of Communist Youth

Moscow – Today, May 1, on the Day of International Solidarity of Workers, communist and left-wing organizations of the capital held a solemn event.

In this difficult time it is more important than ever to show international solidarity, because no matter what conflicts and wars go on now or in the future, it is worth remembering that there are only two classes, and this is the largest world conflict, which so far does not even think of ending – the confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

By Greg Butterfield

This May, as U.S. imperialism wages a criminal proxy war against Russia on the territory of Ukraine and the Donbass republics, the workers’ movement should take steps toward organizing to defeat imperialist war and fascism. Three days of fight-back give us an opportunity to begin that urgent work.

May 1 is International Workers’ Day, commemorating the 1886 Haymarket protest and deadly police repression in Chicago. The day of international working-class solidarity is celebrated around the world. In the United States, anti-communism and anti-Sovietism nearly wiped out May Day for decades, until it was revitalized by the struggle of undocumented immigrant workers in the early 2000s.

May 2 marks the anniversary of another massacre: in Odessa, Ukraine, in 2014, carried out by U.S.-backed neo-Nazis. At least 48 anti-fascist protesters were killed when supporters of the illegal Maidan coup set fire to the House of Trade Unions and slaughtered those who tried to escape the burning building. This massacre isn’t yet well known in the U.S. but should be, since it illuminates the ugly reality behind Washington’s “Stand with Ukraine” war propaganda.

On May Day, the international day of solidarity of the workers of the world, the following groups and individuals proclaim our united opposition to the greatest threat to the global working class: imperialist war.

We declare our refusal to accommodate ourselves to the war drive of world imperialism against Russia. We hoist on our banners today the following:

Down with NATO’s proxy imperialist war in Ukraine!