A Request for May Day

[JazzRemington]

Since I am both sick and I live in a completely appathetic area with no May Day event anywhere nearby, I would like to request that people post links to reports on May Day events around the world here, either ones you've personally been involved in or not both so I can keep tabs on the events and because I'm compiling a list for my blog.

[h&s]

I can&#39;t go on it ( <_< ) but tomorrow there is a long May-Day march through Chesterfield, England which culminates in a market square where the market stalls are all devoted to the event. Apparently most of the speakers tend to be Stalinists, but you can&#39;t have everything can you? :lol:

[JazzRemington]

Yah. But what do you mean by can&#39;t go on it? My blog or the May Day celebrations?

[h&s]

The March&#33; If I went I would have had to get up at a ridiculously early time, which I&#39;m just not going to do on May Day&#33;

[Guest]

Sweden

Well, Sweden is a small country. I will keep to the demonstrations in our three biggest cities: Stockholm (1.2 miljon), Gothenburg (478:055), and Malmö (260:000)

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Stockholm:

Peppbrigaden (mostly socialist-anarchists): 8-10:000
The pirate bureau (against copyright, etc): 7-800
Communist party: (stalinist) 1000

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Gothenburg:

Syndicalists: 2000+
Left party: 2000
Communist party: (stalinist) 1000
(To compare: the ruling party in both Sweden and Gothenburg; the Social democrats had 1500 in their demonstration)

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Malmö:

Syndicalists & Gatuaktionen (communist, situationist): 2000+

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Quite a few other leftist demonstrations in these cities, but I have no numbers ye
t.
Heard that there were less riots in Berlin than usual, but there was some serious fighting in Liepzig and other places. Any more reports?

[Djehuti]

The Left party gathered around 6500-8000 people in Stockholm. More than last year.


Great to see so many communists and anarchists on the streets though. 10:000 (&#33;) with Peppbrigaden, thats terrific. And very nice that the non-parlamentary "extreme" left gathered more people than the established reformist leftist parties. :D