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14 September 2011
May Day protest case goes to Strasbourg
A Socialist Party member's case against the police tactic of 'kettling', containing protesters inside a police cordon, was taken to the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday 14 September...
Exeter Anti Cuts March and Rally 2 May 2011, photo Nick Hall
4 May 2011
On May Day bank holiday Exeter played host to a vibrant and up-beat anti-cuts demonstration. The demonstration was the biggest Exeter has seen since the anti-war movement
4 May 2011
May Day in Kazakhstan marked by attacks on socialists
The ruling parties in the former Soviet countries usually use May Day, international workers' day, in a cynical manner, organising official events to which people are expected to turn up to wave balloons and listen to speeches and pop music...
Wales May Day celebrations, with young TUSC supporter, photo Alec Thraves
3 May 2011
May Day: challenging the cuts in Leeds
Saturday 30 April saw the biggest May Day demonstration for some time in Leeds with around 500 participating, including contingents from the GMB, Unite, Unison, PCS, as well as anti-cuts campaigns across the city and from nearby towns and cities
Wales May Day celebrations, with young TUSC supporter, photo Les Woodward
3 May 2011
A busy May Day bank holiday weekend in south west Wales
Socialist Party members and supporters in south west Wales are exhausted but enthusiastic after the Bank Holiday weekend, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party
2 May 2011
May Day in Kazakhstan marked by attacks on CWI activists and supporters
Having been prevented from organising their own May Day event, activists of the socialist "Kazakhstan 2012" movement and Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan (the CWI in Kazakhstan) decided to participate in the official event...
16 March 2011
Celebrate International Workers' Day in the Socialist with a May Day greeting
Greeting prices include: £500 for a whole page; £300 for a half-page; £170 quarter-page; £90 one-eighth; £50 one-sixteenth; £30 1/32; £20 small box; £15 for up to 30 words; £1 per word...
9 March 2011
Defend International Workers' Day: Alongside the revolutions in the Middle East, the traditions of May Day marches and the need for a socialist alternative to cuts and poverty, there is an additional reason to support and celebrate International Workers' Day in 2011 - David Cameron wants to cancel it!, writes Bob Severn.
London May Day demonstration, photo Jules Mattsson
5 May 2010
Workers celebrate May Day: Marching together against the bosses' attacks
IN MANY countries around the world, socialists and trade unionists marched to celebrate international workers' day on 1 May. This year in particular, in the teeth of attacks by capitalists on jobs, wages and public services, international working class solidarity is a vital necessity.
31 March 2010
May Day march in Hull: Rebuilding traditions of struggle
Hull Youth Fight for Jobs will call a march through the city centre to mark May Day. It has been many years since May Day was last celebrated in Hull and the demonstration is the culmination of the efforts...
17 February 2010
Celebrate May Day this year with The Socialist
The Socialist appeals to all its readers to support the 2010 May Day greetings appeal, helping the paper to celebrate International Workers' Day, writes Bob Severn.
May Day demonstration 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
6 May 2009
Workers look for alternative to bankrupt capitalism
CWI May Day statement: THE COMMITTEE for a Workers' International (CWI - the socialist international organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) sent May Day greetings to workers, youth and the oppressed everywhere...
6 May 2009
Widespread protests in Pakistan
May Day reports: Hundreds of thousands of workers took to the streets across Pakistan to celebrate May Day. Workers from different sectors of the economy, nationalities, ethnic backgrounds and religions marched together...
6 May 2009
Thousands demonstrate in Hong Kong
A total of 7,000 people took part in this year's May Day demos in Hong Kong, the only place (along with Macau) in China that international workers' day can be celebrated, writes chinaworker.info reporters.
6 May 2009
Bigger May Day demos in Sweden this year
May Day demos in Sweden were bigger than in the last few years. The dual fear of the economic crisis, as well as the new danger that the right wing government will not be defeated next year, were the major...
15 April 2009
G20 Summit death: Bring the cops to account
THE DEATH of Ian Tomlinson, a bystander at the G20 summit protests, at the hands of a baton wielding officer of the London Metropolitan police is a scandal...
7 April 2009
G20 Summit protests: Democratic rights trampled on
YET AGAIN the right to protest is under attack. Last week's anti-G20 demonstrations were greeted with a violent and heavy handed response by the police. Protesters were hit with truncheons and contained...
7 May 2008
STRIKING WORKERS from Shelter led London's May Day march, followed by members of rail union RMT, local trades councils and Turkish and Kurdish groups...
28 April 2005
MAY DAY (1 May) has historically been celebrated as a day of international working-class solidarity and struggle...
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