Happy Commie Day!
"No Peace, No Work” holiday
Aside from the No borders! crowd, there is a bunch of other outfits showing their red colors today.
I guess it’s considerate of them to poke their heads up and let us know who’s what…
Despite the fact that the union previously said participating in the protests was voluntary, Getzug said there was “increasing information that the [International Longshore and Warehouse Union] is telling union members not to show up for work."
Also, Oakland teachers will use this day to conduct lessons on the war, the budget crisis, the rights of immigrant workers and more to protest education and other social services budget cuts proposed by the governor.
Who sez there’s an International Socialist Movement?!?
May Day rallies are expected to draw thousands of protestors Thursday, and on the Seattle waterfront, longshoremen may join in. ...May Day when workers traditionally celebrate the labor movement...
MANILA, Philippines The unabated surge in the prices of basic commodities and the continued delays in awarding workers with the needed salary increase will be at the center of protest rallies slated for Thursday’s Labor Day celebration, a militant group said on Wednesday.
Uh oh. Trouble in Aztlanland?
[Michigan/Ohio] A divide in the Latino community over political strategy may lead to a smaller rally today for immigrant rights. Some key figures in the past two protests are backing out of this year’s rally, organizers say, over concerns that such rallies are creating a political backlash against their cause and might be counterproductive.
From Hamburg to Havana, workers march on May Day ...In Istanbul, Turkish riot police used clubs, tear gas and water cannon to break up crowds of workers and students trying to reach a main square for a Labor Day rally that had been banned by the government.
...In Germany, anti-capitalism protests in Hamburg on the eve of May Day turned to violence and vandalism, police said Thursday.
The night before May 1, known in Germany as Walpurgisnacht, is also an occasion for mischief. This year nearly 1,000 people attended a rally in Hamburg where protests against capitalism and in support of socialism quickly escalated into scattered violence and vandalism.
...Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, meanwhile, led a procession of red, hammer-and-sickle flags and portraits of Lenin and Stalin over a bridge toward the Kremlin.
...In Havana, hundreds of thousands of Cubans were expected to gather in Revolution Plaza for May Day amid hopes the government would announce more small changes to daily life on the communist-run island.
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