The May Day March, composed by Sarper Özsan for “The Mother Courage”, a play by Bertolt Brecht, adopted from the novel “The Mother” by Maxim Gorky, was put on stage by a theater group named “Ankara Art Theatre” in 1973. The march has been sung by dozens of singers and music groups since then.

In 2011, the march was sung by Purple Choir, a women’s music group of Eğitim-Sen Branch 2 in Istanbul with the dream of a classless, equal and free world without exploitation.