May Day 2011 around the world

[Red Commissar]

Found an article talking about some demos- post others here or your own participation at one.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gpISElyvp-ejgT28ty8o9Itn1fsw?docId=3d217118de424434844afa487 48caeb6


BERLIN (AP) — Some 400,000 people took to the streets in Germany on Sunday as marchers around the world demanded more jobs, better working conditions and higher wages on international workers' day.

In Turkey, some 200,000 protesters flooded a central plaza in Istanbul, making it the largest May Day rally there since 1977, when at least 34 people died and more than 100 were injured after shooting triggered a stampede. Turkish unions weren't allowed back until last year.

Across Germany, some 423,000 people took to the streets to demand fair wages, better working conditions, and sufficient social security, the country's unions' umbrella-group, DGB said.

Union group head Michael Sommer said the turnout — similar to last year's — was a clear message to the government that it should give up its refusal to introduce a national minimum wage.

"Fair wages, good jobs and social security are the minimum standard in this country that workers expect, need and have to fight for time and again," Sommer said at a protest in the central German town of Kassel.

In Berlin, several rallies were scattered across the capital, with police saying ten thousand people had taken to the streets.

Some 8,000 gathered late in the afternoon at a rally called for by leftist groups, with police out in force as past demonstrations had turned violent. Marchers carried banners saying "This is the least: fair salaries, fair jobs."

Across the city, some 6,000 security forces were deployed Sunday to monitor the protests, police said.

In Austria, more than 100,000 people peacefully took to the streets of Vienna, protest organizers said. Social Democratic Chancellor Werner Faymann promised social policies and warned against leaving too much room to financial speculation, Austrian news agency APA reported.

In New York, labor leaders from Wisconsin joined activists to march for the rights of America's immigrants and workers. Immigration advocates latched onto the May Day tradition in 2006.

The noon rally in Manhattan's Union Square was one of dozens around the nation. Marchers planned to walk down Broadway to lower Manhattan for a second rally.

In Cuba, hundreds of thousands of people marched through Havana and other cities to mark May Day in a demonstration touted as a vast show of support for economic changes recently approved by the Communist Party.

In South Korea, police said 50,000 rallied in Seoul for better labor protections. They also urged the government to contain rising inflation, a growing concern across much of Asia, where food and oil prices have been spiking and threatening to push millions into poverty.

Thousands of workers also marched in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines to vent their anger over the rising cost of living and growing disparities between the rich and poor.

Several thousand people turned out for May Day demonstrations in Paris, including supporters of the far-right National Front party whose new president, Marine Le Pen, stressed her party's long-standing anti-immigrant stance.

In the Philippines, about 3,000 workers demanding higher wages held a protest in a Manila square that included setting alight the effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III grinning in a luxury car. Aquino was criticized this year for buying a secondhand Porsche in a country where a third of people live on a dollar a day.

In Taiwan, about 2,000 people rallied in Taipei to protest the widening income gap and to demand their government create better work conditions. About 3,000 people in Hong Kong took part in a Sunday morning protest while another 5,000 were expected at an afternoon rally, local media reports said.
In Spain, where unemployment has reached a eurozone high of 21.3 percent, several thousand people gathered in the eastern port city of Valencia and protested the government's failure to create new jobs.

In Moscow, up to 5,000 Communists and members of other leftist groups marched through the city carrying a sea of red flags to celebrate their traditional holiday, which in Soviet times was known as the Day of International Solidarity of Workers.

Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the holiday has been known as the Day of Spring and Labor, and organizations from across the political spectrum held their own marches on Sunday.

The dominant pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, gathered the largest crowd by pulling in workers from factories and institutes in and around Moscow. Party organizers claimed that 25,000 people took part.

Hacaoglu reported from Istanbul. Associated Press writers Christopher Torchia in Istanbul, Kelvin K. Chan in Hong Kong, Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, Aaron Favilo in Manila, Philippines, Lynn Berry in Moscow, Russia and Harold Heckle in Madrid, Spain, Peter Orsi and Andrea Rodriguez in Cuba and Jenny Barchfield in Paris, France contributed to this report.

Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Though we've seen like in the case of United Russia, its hijacking by political parties.

I'll see if I can dig up some images.

[Die Rote Fahne]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/nice-day-for-a-revolution-why-may-day-should-be-a-date-to-stand-up-and-change-the-system-2276274.html

[Red Commissar]

Pictures


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Prachanda

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Supporter of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

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Ditto

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St. Petersburg

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Lenin impersoantor at Grutas Park in Lithuania

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Turkey

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CPRF ( :laugh: ) Chairman Zyuganov with other supporters

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Moscow

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Volgagrad

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Kiev

[Arlekino]

Lenin impersoantor at Grutas Park in Lithuania.
Good place to visit I have been there.:):)

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

In Austria, more than 100,000 people peacefully took to the streets of Vienna, protest organizers said.

"Protest" organizers? Vienna is socialist, and has been for a long time. Mayday is officially celebrated at City Hall. Was there last year. My favorite moment: when the "Red Bikers" brigade came roaring past the reviewer's stand, and the Burgermeister greeted them with: "We salute the motorized proletariat!"



In New York, labor leaders from Wisconsin joined activists to march for the rights of America's immigrants and workers. Immigration advocates latched onto the May Day tradition in 2006.

The noon rally in Manhattan's Union Square was one of dozens around the nation. Marchers planned to walk down Broadway to lower Manhattan for a second rally.

Just got back from the "second rally." I'd say 5,000 and up, which is pretty good for NYC. The usual suspects (PLP with an impressive procession of banners); lots of immigrants, the major unions sending just a handful so they could say they'd been there. Very strong feel that this was an occasion to legitimize communism and marxism; a few black flags as well. Had to talk down a Teamster who seemed intent on red-baiting a few Socialists.

[#FF0000]

"Protest" organizers? Vienna is socialist, and has been for a long time.

what

[Tommy4ever]

The Lenin impersonator's nose is too big. :p

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

what

Is that the "what" of pugnacious purity, as in "How can you possibly say Vienna is socialist, just because the City Government is in the hands of the SPÖ, the Socialist Party of Austria, and the Austrian Chancellor, also
SPÖ, was elected last year by an 85% margin? Don't you realize they're merely social-democrats?" I can get plenty of that from my Viennese comrades, including those who turn up at the Mayday parade.


Or is it the "what" that says, "Why, Hoipolloi, I didn't realize until now that in 1919 the Austro-Marxist decided, rightly or wrongly, not to crash the country as in Hungary and the Bavarian Republic, and opted instead for one of the most successful experiments in democratic socialism ever, including wiping out tuberculosis, first women's suffrage in Europe, vast urban programs, for instance in low-income housing, not to mention guys like Adler and Freud setting up free and low-cost mental health clinics, or the first motorized street cleaners? Hoipolloi, why didn't you tell me about the Karl-Marx Housing Projects, which the fascist militias blasted with mortars in 1934, the first fascist attack on civilians before WWII? Does that mean I might have to rethink some of these ideas about socialism and social-democracy and how they fit into the fight against capitalism?"


'Fraid it does...

[#FF0000]

words.

So the working class is running the show in Vienna, eh? Capitalism just doesn't exist there?

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

So the working class is running the show in Vienna, eh? Capitalism just doesn't exist there?

Guess that answers my question. Pugnacious purity.

[#FF0000]

Guess that answers my question. Pugnacious purity.

I'm just confused, because, uh, nothing you said sounds like socialism, really. Sounds like good ol' social democracy/capitalism w. a happy face.

What makes Vienna socialist, exactly? Does working class rule exist there or not? This is the metric by which we decide if a society is socialist, isn't it?

[KurtFF8]

Don't ruin the May Day thread with sectarian arguments :(

[NoOneIsIllegal]

It's not sectarian. Some guy is claiming socialism exists when clearly it doesn't?
Anyway,
Happy May Day. I may have pictures soon, because the IWW organized a rally in Lincoln, NE.

[#FF0000]

Don't ruin the May Day thread with sectarian arguments :(

it's not really sectarian. I'm just confused as to what on earth makes Vienna, the capital of a country with an Economic Freedom Rating of 71 (http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Austria/economic-freedom), socialist. Cause, you know, I always thought we were aiming for working class rule, and not just social services. :mellow:

[Illuminati]

This article is inspiring indeed, and shows that despite sectarian or minute ideaological differences the overall goal remains, the triumph of the proletariat.

[Red Commissar]

More photos:


http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/05/01/93546-demonstrators-attend-a-may-day-rally-at-taksim-square-in-central-istan.jpg

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http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/05/01/93547-demonstrators-attend-a-may-day-rally-at-taksim-square-in-central-istan.jpg

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/05/01/93554-activists-march-to-mark-international-workers-day-or-may-day-in-ankara.jpg

Both Turkey- first three in Istanbul and last in Ankara

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/05/01/93549-cuban-students-in-uniform-walk-through-havanas-revolution-square-with-.jpg
Cuba

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Cuba

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Trafalgar Square

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Switzerland

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Berlin

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Athens

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Madrid

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Bulgaria- old dude with picture of Todor Zhikov. Reads "22 years without him is getting worse with every day"

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Beirut

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Philippines

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/22457/slide_22457_272121_huge.jpg
Indonesia

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/22457/slide_22457_272122_huge.jpg
Bangladesh


Amusingly, I also saw a picture of the far-right Front National Le Pen's daughter trying to get in on the fervor today in France. You also see a lot of the soft "centre-left' soc-dem parties spammed all over there too.

[KurtFF8]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=135887804

[28350]

Defend Vienna from Capitalist and Revisionist Attack!

yeah I was in the nyc march.
kinda felt like a circlejerk of leftists following around union bureaucrats and some unionized workers
feelsbadman

[KurtFF8]

ApAt_IXCL-I

Tahrir Square

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

it's not really sectarian. I'm just confused
Okay, kid. I'm gonna tell you. Vienna has a tradition that, by some curious coincidence, almost every single wannabe on this list lacks: it's a tradition of actually, umm, trying to build socialism instead of hanging around the schoolyard fantasizing. I see self-styled American "reds" and Brit "reds" like you and they've never experienced anything even approaching something as simple as worker solidarity, they're so shot through and through with the dominant capitalist way of thinking, breathing and making a buck they wouldn't know Socialism if it bit them. Then I go back to places like Vienna or Paris and I'm hanging with my friend who is Jewish, and heading for ninety, and who was an underground Communist in 1938, and somehow managed to survive, and came right back is still going strong, and if you think you've got something to teach her I suggest you go say so to her face.

Sorry, kid. Some of us learn about socialism from books. Others attempt to understand it from the (excuse the expression) material conditions of existence. If you don't know what the word "socialism" means in the context I gave it you need to get out more. Or wank less.

[#FF0000]

Okay, kid.

Good start.


I'm gonna tell you. Vienna has a tradition that, by some curious coincidence, almost every single wannabe on this list lacks: it's a tradition of actually, umm, trying to build socialism instead of hanging around the schoolyard fantasizing. I see self-styled American "reds" and Brit "reds" like you and they've never experienced anything even approaching something as simple as worker solidarity, they're so shot through and through with the dominant capitalist way of thinking, breathing and making a buck they wouldn't know Socialism if it bit them.

so public services = socialism then?


Then I go back to places like Vienna or Paris and I'm hanging with my friend who is Jewish, and heading for ninety, and who was an underground Communist in 1938, and somehow managed to survive, and came right back is still going strong, and if you think you've got something to teach her I suggest you go say so to her face.


does she think vienna is socialist?


Sorry, kid. Some of us learn about socialism from books. Others attempt to understand it from the (excuse the expression) material conditions of existence. If you don't know what the word "socialism" means in the context I gave it you need to get out more. Or wank less.

so is vienna socialist? why/why not?

[#FF0000]

also why are you so mad

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

also why are you so mad

jesus

Because you're baiting me, and I don't like it. Run along now, before I say something rude.

[#FF0000]

Because you're baiting me, and I don't like it. Run along now, before I say something rude.

I am not. You said Vienna was socialist, and I'm asking you "how in the fuck".

[Os Cangaceiros]

gettin some bad vibes up in here

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

gettin some bad vibes up in here
Funny, ain't it? It's Mayday, it's the day we all unite all over the world to celebrate the workers. I just come from hanging with all sorts of people I may not agree with over the details, but we're all here in a common cause. Somebody publishes a note suggesting that surprisingly, a demonstration in Viennna was "peaceful" and that the marchers were "protesters." So I try to point out that Vienna has a powerful tradition social and socialist achievements of which anyone could be proud, and that in fact these "protesters" are very much the majority in Vienna - not to mention peaceful, and this little ball of snot has to jump in to show me he's the boss.

Great future for you, little ball of snot. Keep up that competitive spirit, it'll serve you well in your Wall Street job.

[Red Commissar]

Some more pictures:



http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5i-hYFB0dfMA7hzRZZODhNKWXQp0w?docId=d4fad78c1a8944c28 fa4c9605773c255&size=l
Berlin

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Trafalgar Square

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London

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5gZ8u2FieOe-MZd9TzIPBxJVYah-g?docId=5882189a41134370a9ec0b0c654e8ad1&size=l
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South Korea

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5i6rJm3gNxybbRZhpr21AA78n7L_w?docId=a06790011 95b48188a901b98be902842&size=l
China

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5hvq1TB_5PDQ64PRVrhcExITeHAEw?docId=6bdf62527 a334206b20c8f4c50314e90&size=l
Taiwan

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5hFRHUHEJcwV2MnTKT_XE-fMhEv1Q?docId=2eaa13def0e44827b328ff786f1c9ace&size=l
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5hBA1zTU2paM1KPSdePRgTCV-sugA?docId=03a74b5af9a748b2be8fe89c1da87279&size=l
Philippines- burning an effigy of President Aquino III

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India

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5jIlEimpqngFOLtQ1bR2IdR9itI5A?docId=85ad80b32 911498b9221a7b34efb384e&size=l
Bangladesh

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5gHi311qXGEcMHb9FpfQ-Hmi--4BQ?docId=670ffcafc1d14725bc1133df9e6bca56&size=l
Portuguese Woman holding up a carnation, sign of the April 25 "Carnation" Revolution. The celebration for that event runs into May 1st

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5jlSouaS_TH541TrpZpskQrH4KnIA?docId=3e884f382 33f48559099cf93f20c231b&size=l
Old man holds the Portuguese flag taking shelter from rain, carnation in breast pocket

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5gO0FlUQ33n9XjvfBySWcaiHZwVtQ?docId=960641cca f6248148551005b4787841a&size=l
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5jYSAn_raaay1GvilwusykFSXWD9Q?docId=06e93ddfa 2c849fb92ac0aff5be9f030&size=l
Portuguese marching against the governments' decision regarding the IMF bailout

[28350]

a thought struck me earlier today

if on mayday, the most class-conscious section of the working class marched, wouldn't it be easy for the capitalist government to massacre them? if there really is an issue of leadership, then wouldn't something like that really fuck over the left?

[#FF0000]

Funny, ain't it? It's Mayday, it's the day we all unite all over the world to celebrate the workers. I just come from hanging with all sorts of people I may not agree with over the details, but we're all here in a common cause. Somebody publishes a note suggesting that surprisingly, a demonstration in Viennna was "peaceful" and that the marchers were "protesters." So I try to point out that Vienna has a powerful tradition social and socialist achievements of which anyone could be proud, and that in fact these "protesters" are very much the majority in Vienna - not to mention peaceful, and this little ball of snot has to jump in to show me he's the boss.

Great future for you, little ball of snot. Keep up that competitive spirit, it'll serve you well in your Wall Street job.

i hope you find help for your schizophrenia.

[RedSunRising]

i hope you find help for your schizophrenia.

Well its evidence of how fucked the left is today in many parts of the world but like as if you didnt need the Chavezistas to show you that.

[Red Commissar]

Two videos:

AP footage of rallies around the world

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The following two was the May Day procession in London being recorded by some people from their residence:

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I hope more will become available in the coming days, though in light of certain events it may be overshadowed and not uploaded...

[Red Commissar]

Some photos from the NYC march. This was a combination of various groups- immigrant groups, cultural organizations, labor, and anti-war groups. I've spotted some groups like WWP and Socialist Alternative (CWI).


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And of course, it won't be complete without an RCPer with Chairman Bob shirt:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_yA6Vo9U6dp4/Tb6wb740tGI/AAAAAAAAW2o/yzOSbScN7PM/s640/DSC01216.JPG


All the photos if you want to see them all:

https://picasaweb.google.com/jonflan/MayDayInNewYorkCity2011#

[Rooster]

I've only got a couple of 35mm cameras and I didn't feel like carrying them today.

So here's a video I just googled up.

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v209546823Yqc5hGg

Bagpipes everywhere.

[28350]

https://picasaweb.google.com/jonflan/MayDayInNewYorkCity2011#

found myself in the album
it's a little unnerving

[Q]

May Day in Utrecht, Netherlands, where I was, wasn't a happy celebration. The politice was fucking annoying. I'm somewhere on the first video. Bright red shirt in a sea of black, difficult to miss :lol:

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There were about 15 arrests out of around 200 people (facing a similar number of cops). The solidarity from the sidelines was great though (no one was allowed to join the demo). At the end an older woman, who walked with us along the sidelines, took the microphone of the audio-installation we had and spoke how great the demo was and how well we all behaved, despite the continuous police harrassment and provocations.

More pictures:

http://www.doorbraak.eu/blog/wp-content/uploads/Verzamelen.jpg

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[Die Neue Zeit]

^^^ The title of the third video says it all too well, comrade. :(

[Alaz]

Don't the Londoners celebrate the May Day?

Why the majority consists of Turkish and Kurdish groups both in the photos and video.

[thälmann]

berlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsoObLVY2Xg&feature=fvst

police attacks the demonstration in hamburg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4xoS-Kgyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGAvI_txX34&feature=related

[Sasha]

here in the netherlands there are always two different marches, one anarchist/anti-authoritarian dominated one in rotating cities (last year nijmegen, before that den bosch, this year utrecht) and an ML/Maoist dominated one in rotterdam.
the one in rotterdam is also always dominated by turkish and kurdish groups, just because these are the only ML groups with an kind of significant membership.
maybe the same goes for london?