Marking May Day 2024 in broadly the same way as Engels did in 1891

The May Day demonstration in Hyde Park on 3^rd May 1891 was a landmark as it marked the first united march (the first May Day in 1890 had seen two marches). Engels writing to Laura Lafargue about the day noted how he, the Bernsteins and Tussys had celebrated in the evening at his Regents Park Rd residence:

When we came home last night, we wound up with a Maibowle, the Maikrauth of which Percy had sent us from Ryde. We put in 4 bottles Moselle, 2 claret, 1 Champagne, and finished it — we, Bernsteins and the Tussy’s. Late in the evening Cunninghame Graham came in and actually had two or three glasses of it — he seems to have left his teetotalism at Tangiers. There is a slight but rather agreeable Kater,J kept in proper bounds this morning by a bottle of Pilsener.

A Maibowle is a punch and Maikrauth is Woodruff used to make the punch. Kater is a hangover.

From 1891 to 2024 the tradition of solidarity on May Day endures and if celebrating it was good enough for Engels 133 years ago it’s fine now surely.