May Day worker related holiday.

The reading by Zdzislaw Mach (Continuity and change in political ritual) really interest me. Because I have not known much about May Day and its significant in rituals in transition (Post socialism). The change of the May Day ritual was very fascinating how it changed from a very structured routine tradition. In the reading the May Day political ritual is forced upon to showing that Poland was a unified society

We as New Zealanders see our Labour Day as a time to have a day off and do what ever we like. When I watch the news etc I see political rituals that are being done. However it does not click in my brain that it is a ritual. I just see it a a significant event that has politics in mind. This reading showed me to think in a very different way and ask why, how and who is making these rituals? and why have the political rituals become tradition and shift.