may day in NYC

[redSHARP]

just throwing it out there, may day in NYC sucked! the march started at Union Sq. and ended at city hall. I liked the whole immigration solidarity thing, but these suburban kids kept chanting hollow phrases and kept talking about Sean Bell. I support the whole Sean Bell thing but may day is a worker solidairty day, not hate the cops day (which could be every day). the whole scene was a mess and did nt have any energy, no even one fucking red flag! everyone brought their own nationalist flag but talked about no borders and solidarity, it made no sense!

so my question is, how could i make may day less lame?

[Djehuti]

Can't find any May Day-thread. :/
Well...

I marsched with the Syndicalist Youth Organization in the syndicalist may day-demonstration that gathered 2500-3000 persons. It was a great day, and at times even the punks marsched in line. ;)


Movie:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IJpLGhvlPUo


Pictures:

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8128/frstamaj00ee9.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1356/frstamaj0yr5.jpg
Some of us before the marsch.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5575/frstamaj1mz3.jpg
Our block-front before the marsch.

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1936/frstamaj11os9.jpg
A lot of people...

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4808/frstamaj13wt4.jpg
Kids. :)
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4105/frstamaj2ob7.jpg
Demofront before marsch.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8139/frstamaj3os2.jpg
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/6274/frstamaj4tm9.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2877/frstamaj8md7.jpg
On our way...

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/5560/frstamaj5wm0.jpg
Our comrades in the Revolutionary Front

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/8070/frstamaj12gf8.jpghttp://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2649/frstamaj6zk2.jpg
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3847/frstamaj7kd6.jpg
Demofront

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3833/frstamaj10qj0.jpg
Through the old town...
http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/6536/frstamaj9so7.jpg
The internationale


How about other cities? :)

[Herman]

In Castilla La Mancha, a province in Spain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9QLXr45adk

Biggest unions in Spain by order:

Comisiones Obreras (Worker's Comissions - Social-democratic, socialist, historically aligned with PCE)

http://www.ccoo.es/csccoo/

Union General de Trabajadores (Worker's General Union - Social-democratic, aligned with the PSOE)

http://www.ugt.es/index1.html

Confederacion General de Trabajo (General Confederation of Labour - Anarcho-syndicalist, moderate)

http://www.cgt.org.es/

[ManyAntsDefeatSpiders]

Interesting pictures (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1917827/May-Day-protests-around-the-world.html) of May Day rallies around the world. :)

[ManyAntsDefeatSpiders]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00666/mayday-moscow-black_666956n.jpg

Members of the National Bolshevik Party hold their party's flags in front of Lenin's monument in Moscow. :thumbdown:

[redSHARP]

you lucky comrades! sucks about the national bolshevik party though.
i think a few red flags next year can spice things up for NYC.

[Bright Banana Beard]

I love seeing the direct action/ protest of our comrade across the world.

[AGITprop]

Red flags bring a tear to my eye.

Or is that the pepperspray...

[redSHARP]

hahaha...the NYC march was boring as hell. the cops the were laughing and making jokes for fuck sake! there is no fear of the working class here! I would really like to change that

[Djehuti]

Revolutionary Front in Stockholm:

http://www.revfront.org/arkivet/sthlm050108.jpg

[redSHARP]

i was suprised that no marxist or even socialist group was resent at the NYC march. that shit has to change!

[Zeus the Moose]

i was suprised that no marxist or even socialist group was resent at the NYC march. that shit has to change!


There were many socialist groups at the NYC march. Many of the speakers on the platform were affiliated with Workers World in some way, and I saw tables for the Freedom Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, and I believe the Internationalist Group. Still, the march this year did seem smaller than last year's, and the organizers were foolish enough to keep the speakers going so that their march permit ran out.

I was marching with the Socialist Party USA contingent, and we went with one of the feeder marches, with the Chinese Staff and Workers Association from Chinatown to Union Square. I found that feeder march more inspiring than the main event; the CSWA speakers before the march were articulating a more explicit class solidarity perspective, and putting the immigrant rights struggle and specific legislation in that broader context. And the fact that they had speakers delivering in English, Spanish, and Mandarin was pretty impressive.