{"id":30548,"date":"2023-05-02T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=30548"},"modified":"2023-07-06T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T10:22:50","slug":"may-day-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=30548","title":{"rendered":"May Day around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. . DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION . .<\/p>\n

Information compiled by CPNN from various sources as indicated<\/p>\n

May Day was celebrated by workers around the world, as shown in these photos. Click on text to go to the source for more information or click on photo to enlarge or to go to video.<\/p>\n

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\nVideo of rally in Athens with bilingual banners in Greek and French reading \u201cThe peoples will win\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPercussionists in traditional Lebanese clothing lead the chants in the annual Labor Day parade in Beirut (AP Photo\/Hussein Malia)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIn Buenos Aires, activists held banners and chanted slogans at a rally in front of the Presidential Palace to demand an increase in the minimum wage and protested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal. (Reuters)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nGovernment supporters rally marking May Day in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo\/Ariana Cubillos)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nScene from Colombia Foto: AFP<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMembers of the Sommilito Garments Sramik Federation hold a May Day rally at Muktangan in Dhaka, Bangladesh<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMap of May Day rallies in France with total estimated by the trade unions as 2.3 million participants, including over half a million in Paris alone.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIn Germany, demonstrations took place\u00a0in Berlin and Hamburg (Reuters)<\/p>\n

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\nOn the occasion of International Labor Day, daily wage workers of Birbhanpur village (India) took out a rally, demanding employment and increase in wages from the government.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nScene from video of May Day rally in Istanbul under the motto “Labour is our future”.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMay Day demonstration in the Horse Statue area of Jakarta (KONTAN:Francis Simbolon)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nBolivian President Luis Arce participates in the International Workers’ Day march organized by the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB) in La Paz.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMembers of the National Union of Road Transport Workers raise their hats as they march to celebrate International Labour Day in Lagos, Nigeria. [Pius Utomi Ekpei\/AFP]<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIn London, the march comes down Clerkenwell Road, past Farringdon. (Photo by Andr\u00e9 Langlois)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nHundreds of Filipino activists took to the streets\u00a0in Manila calling on the\u00a0government for better wages and treatment of labourers. (Reuters)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMexico City: Thousands of workers demonstrate on May 1 in the Z\u00f3calo. Foto Mar\u00eda Luisa Severiano<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nCommunist party supporters with red flags march near Red Square in Moscow, Russia. [Alexander Zemlianichenko\/AP Photo]<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMultan, Pakistan – Workers of different organizations are participating in a rally on the eve of World Labour Day. APP\/SFD\/TZD\/MOS<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nScene from video of rally in New York City including New York City Coalition for Domestic Workers<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nWomen walk close to a banner reading “Domestic workers we do not agree with the Government,” during a May Day rally in Pamplona, northern Spain, May 1, 2023 (AP).<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMay Day demonstration celebrating Labour Day in Porto, Portugal (Reuters)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMay Day in Potenza, Italy, the procession of CGIL, CISL and UIL<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nScene from rally in Prague (AA)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n Scores of workers gather at the Saulsville arena (Pretoria) to observe Workers Day. Picture: Timothy Bernard African News Agency (ANA)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIn Quito, people take part in a march on International Workers’ Day to demand that Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso, who is facing an impeachment process, leaves office amid rising crime and insecurity, (Reuters)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nRally in the heart of the Mission District of San Francisco with many immigrants from Latin America<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nA protester holds a sign that reads in Spanish “El Salvador, the biggest jail in Latin America” during an anti-government march on International Labor Day in San Salvador, El Salvador, Monday, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo\/Salvador Melendez)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPeople attend a May Day, or Labor Day, rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, May 1, 2023.(AP)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nThe Korean Confederation of Trade Unions march toward the presidential office in Yongsan following a Labor Day rally in downtown Seoul. (Yonhap)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nThe crowd at the May Day rally of the Marxist\u2013Leninist communist party JVP, in Sril Lanka<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nWorkers from various confederations and labor unions pass the South Sumatra DPRD office<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Labour day parade march in front of the town hall in Vienna, Austria. [Lisa Leutner\/AP Photo]<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Medics hold slogans reading “I want benefits” during a May Day rally in Taipei, Taiwan (AP Photo\/Chiang Ying-ying)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMembers of left-wing parties and trade unions march in traditional May Day parade, one of the smallest ever, to mark Labour Day, in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo\/Czarek Sokolowski)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPeople take part in a ‘Feminist Revolution’ May Day protest rally and some clash with the police in Zurich, Switzerland, Monday, May 1, 2023. (Ennio Leanza\/Keystone via AP)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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