With International Workers' Day taking place in a world riven by economic crisis, we're sharing short reports, pictures and videos on May Day protests and celebrations around the world.
Turkey, May 1st 2014.
Below are some short reports, pics or videos of May Day protests. Let us know if you've seen any more!
Ankara, Turkey
Bologna, Italy
#1maggio, non c'è nulla da festeggiare per precari studenti e lavoratori! pic.twitter.com/JRLXljxj6J
— Cua Bologna (@CuaBologna) May 1, 2014
The tweet above says "There's nothing to celebrate for the precarious, students and workers".
Istanbul, Turkey
Massive fighting between police and protesters as upwards of 30 groups defy a ban on demonstrations.
Turin, Italy
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Scuffles also broken out with violent police attacks. For videos of the day, see here and here.
Pnomh Penh, Cambodia
Around 1,000 factory workers demonstrate against low wages, and are attacked by police with five workers injured.
May Day rallies demand reform; 5 hurt in Cambodia
In Phnom Pehn, civilian auxiliary police, armed with clubs and often used by the government to break up protests, turned on the demonstrators after opposition leaders spoke to the crowd of nearly 1,000. The assaults appeared to be random and limited, and were over in less than an hour.
At least five people were hurt, said Om Sam Ath, an officer of the human rights group Licadho.
“These security forces seem to be addicted to beating people,” he said. “Every time they disperse protesters, they beat people, and not one of them has been arrested.”
Phnom Penh govt thugs in action a short while ago as the attack bystanders at banned May Day rally pic.twitter.com/QV5BYPQuKV
— Kevin Doyle (@doyle_kevin) May 1, 2014
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Some really nice photos of
Some really nice photos of demonstrations are the world here.
Spain
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Chile
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Over
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Over 50k throng anti-GST May Day rally
Some pics can be found here.
Turkey (again!) - Turkey
Turkey (again!) - Turkey doing really well on the cool photos front..
London, UK Howevr much you
London, UK
Mental, as always..
Detroit, USA
Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain
Berlin, Germany
15,000 demonstrate in Berlin
Ed wrote: London, UK Howevr
Ed
Ed that first video from
Ed that first video from Spain is from last year. I'm 100% on that because I was there
Kureigo-San wrote: Ed that
Kureigo-San
Haha, right, whoops! Sorted now..
Btw, in case it wasn't clear, if people want to post updates from Mayday where they are then that'd be ace.. even if just a few sentences on what went on near them..
More from Turin #torino
More from Turin
Demonstrators try to forcibly remove PD (Partito Democratico, like the Labour Party) members from the May Day demonstration, police have to come in to save them..
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More clashes between police and protesters
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And in Bologna
Members of base union Cobas (who do lots of organising in the big warehouses in the north) demonstrating for May 1st..
London, UK Feed the Poor ☠
London, UK
Turkey
Naples, Italy
Workers and supporters at Leroy Merlin (kind of like B&Q) protesting it being open on a day of public holiday; in the end they manage to hold the demonstration inside the shop..
Madrid, Spain #1demayo en
Madrid, Spain
Argentina
Chicago, USA
Milan, Italy
Turin, Italy
Cool banner in Chicago..
Video of the above picture below, with one demonstrator taking out a policeman with a plank of wood..
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London, UK Police out in
London, UK
Police out in force around UCL in central London to protect Conservative politician David Willetts..
One policeman earlier draws for his taser
Istanbul, Turkey
In this link there's a video from Turkish news of a policeman caught by protesters and given a kicking..
New York, USA
Jakarta, Indonesia Los
Jakarta, Indonesia
Los Angeles, USA
Santiago de Chile Serious
Santiago de Chile
Serious fighting in Chile, police being crazily violent
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Oaxaca, Mexico
Some pictures from the Paris demonstration
as usual, loads of pictures
as usual, loads of pictures and reports on Solidarité Ouvrière:
http://communismeouvrier.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/premiere-serie-dimages-du-1er-mai-2014/
http://communismeouvrier.wordpress.com/2014/05/02/deuxieme-serie-dimages-du-1er-mai-2014/
http://communismeouvrier.wordpress.com/tag/1-mai/
Sanandaj, Iran:
Ed wrote: Kureigo-San
Ed
In a small classroom in a language school in London, some students completed a gap-fill to the lyrics of Solidarity Forever.
And that was my contribution to the global proletarian uprising.
Seattle, Washington, USA.
Seattle, Washington, USA.
There were several marches. One large march earlier in the day revolving around issues of immigration reform, and another, explicitly anti-capitalist march later at night.
The immigration march was much the same as it has been for years, and the anti-capitalist march went fairly strong for its third year in a row - although reports from friends at the march said parts of it were pretty sketch. Undercovers, lot of guy fawkes masks, etc. Decent article on it here: Seattle May Day 2014: An Anti-Capitalist Tradition!
One thing that does bear explanation - there are some photo's I've included of people dressed as superheros getting into a fist fight with blac block folks. Basically, its exactly what it looks like: Scuffle Between Anarchist And Superhero During Seattle's May Day March.
Anyways, here's some pics/riot porn for you.
http://media.thenewstribune.com/smedia/2014/05/01/20/00/O8Pg0.AuSt.5.JPG
http://media.thenewstribune.com/smedia/2014/05/02/15/28/1356JD.AuSt.5.JPG
http://media.thenewstribune.com/smedia/2014/05/02/15/27/1q5lhw.AuSt.5.JPG
Anti-capitalist May Day demo
Anti-capitalist May Day demo in The Hague, Netherlands. The demo of about 300 people passed through two of the poorest neighborhoods of the country, areas where the local government cut a lot of funding on community centres, libraries, social projects etc, while at the same time installing more police and control measures. Racial profiling and police violence are common in the area.
A lot of people from the neighborhood joined the demo, which succeeded in keeping the initiative and countering police provocation, stopping the demo for a few times until demands (for example for plainclothes cops to leave the area) were met.
http://1meidenhaag.wordpress.com/
first 4 pics by Brandon Jourdan
I got stuff from Buenos
I got stuff from Buenos Aires, Caracas, Bogotá and - I think - La Habana in my inbox. Will try to write up tomorrow.
This one'll cheer you up.
This one'll cheer you up.
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Video from the demo in The
Video from the demo in The Hague, Netherlands:
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These pictures are just
These pictures are just fucking beautiful.
Parma, Italy
Parma, Italy
Joint Greek and Turkish
Joint Greek and Turkish Cypriot Mayday demo in Nicosia
Mayday greetings from the AWU
Mayday greetings from the AWU (Ukraine)
Direct action to celebrate
Direct action to celebrate May Day in Cardiff by South Wales Anarchists and Stop NATO Cymru: https://network23.org/stopnatocymru/2014/05/04/anarchists-shut-down-barclays-in-cardiff/