The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.