Here's a day when all workers take part in this celebration, forgetting sometimes the true meaning of this day in the world.

But after all why we need a day of workers? What is the history of this celebration and why on International Workers' Day in many countries around the world nobody works?

Like the celebration of International Women’s Day, the International Workers’ Day is celebrated because of the socialist movement which took place more than one century ago. So, in 1889 the Congress of the Socialist International decided that 1^st May to be dedicated to the International Workers’ Day, in memory of the victims of the general strike that took place in Chicago. By the time this commemoration became a celebration of workers and more than 80 countries have adopted it until today.

The impact of these events, which took place after more than a century the United States, was more than just a day off to celebrate. Due to these events, the daily work time became as we know it today, for 8 hours.

Some years ago, 1^st May was celebrated in the socialist countries with military parades and workers, accompanied by slogans to the system. But with the fall of the socialist bloc in Eastern Europe, few socialist countries organize the traditional parades (for example: China, North Korea, Cuba).

Nowadays, in Romania and in Poland, this celebration became more than an opportunity to go out to a barbecue with family or with friends, going to the sea or mountains, a way to feel good.

On this day, I’ve enjoyed the day off and I’ve visited the city where I live, Lodz.

So I’ve visited the place which during the Second World War was created the Lindzermandt Ghetto (the second most important in Poland). Of course in this ghetto were not provided any labour rights, the people from here usually were exploited to exhaustion. All that's left in this ghetto are Hebrew Cemetery (the place where they were buried those who died in the ghetto and other people who died before or after the ghetto) and Radegast station, the place from the people present in the ghetto were deported to various concentration camps such as Auschwitz.

It is sad that so many people suffered because of an ideology that says that some people are superior to others. In front of God we are equal.

Immediately after it, I made ​​a short visit to Museum of Canal "Dętka", located in Liberty Square (Plac Wolności). It was the first day when this channel could be visited. Once in the channel, I admired for about 15 minutes, its 142 meter built in 1926.

For me this day was an opportunity to enjoy what this city can offer to any people who came here.