May Day is a great day for a Marxist IQ.  The correct numbers for last week's IQ are at the bottom of the page, so here goes.

l. May Day as an international day of worker's actions was established after a conference

   a. In the Soviet Union in 1917 following  the  revolution

   b. In China after the Revolution of 1949

   c. In Paris in 1889, part of a movement that produced the Second International

   d.  In the U.S. after the Revolutionary War(1775-1783)

2.  May Day's original purpose was

    a. to give workers a holiday

    b. to have workers demonstrate for the eight hour day and other rights

    c.  to launch socialist revolutions

    d.  to help workers join the middle class

 3. The original May Day demonstrations were influenced by and in honor of

    a. the workers of the Paris Commune of 1871

    b. of the British General Strike of 1926

    c. of the Chicago Haymarket Martyrs of the Eight Hour Movement in 1886

    d. Of the Chinese workers and students slaughtered in the April, 1927 Shanghai Massacre

 4.  The Song which the May Day demonstrations helped to popularize through the world, making it the most widely translated and sung song in history was

    a. Solidarity forever

   b. The Battle Hymn of the Republic

   c.  The East is Red

   d. The Internationale

 5. Today the slogan the best embodies what May Day is  about is

    a. all power to the people

    b. a world without workers is impossible.  a world without capitalists is necessary

   c. power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely

   d.  Read my lips.  No new taxes

 The correct answers for last week's health care IQ are

1.b

2. d

3. c

4. d

5. c

See everyone next week with the next IQ