May Day Protests Around the World + Thousands join May Day march for workers rights in New York

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Workers take to the streets on International Workers’ Day in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe

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No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere: May Day on OWS, Immigration, Labor Protests with Chris Hedges

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May 1, 2012

Early Afternoon - May Day NYC Activities

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DemocracyNow.org – As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husain, editor of Tidal Magazine and a key facilitator of the Occupy movement; Marina Sitrin, author of “Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina” and a member of Occupy’s legal working group; and Teresa Gutierrez, of the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights. We also get an update from protests on the streets of New York City from Ryan Devereaux, former Democracy Now! correspondent, now with The Guardian.

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Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch: May 1st and an Independent Workers Movement

International Workers Day march in Minneapolis

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Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Occupiers and union activists should build class organizations that challenge for power.

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Noam Chomsky on May Day, 2009: Labor History and Anarchism (repost) + May Day Started Here

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Chomsky at the World Social Forum (Porto Alegre) in 2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Posted previously. Updated below.

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Black Bloc: The cancer of the system

Italiano: illustrazione disegnata di un black bloc

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on Mar 5, 2012

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This Week:
1. On May first call in sick
2. How to become a ninja
3. The biggest strike in history
4. Wheelchair resistance!
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The Stimulator: No Fracking Way!

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on Jan 23, 2012

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1. Oh Frack it!
2. Bullshit detector
3. Fugitive Methane
4. Romanian carbon offsets
5. Chinese rebellion
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The ‘Great Moderation’ and the International Assault on Labor by Noam Chomsky + Kucinich at May Day Parade

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DC We Are One Rally 13

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by Noam Chomsky
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Press Conference for May Day 2011 Union Square + Protest videos

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Updated: May 1, 2011 added protest videos

May Day '13, strikers in Union Square (LOC)

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on Apr 30, 2011

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The Haymarket Riot: “It is a subterranean fire” by Elizabeth Schulte

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by Elizabeth Schulte
SocialistWorker.org
April 29, 2011

ON MAY 1, 1886–125 years ago this month–hundreds of thousands of workers were taking the streets of cities around the U.S. to demand an eight-hour day.

The epicenter of this great labor struggle was Chicago, where the eight-hour movement inspired defiant protests and strikes–and inspired fear and repression from bosses and their loyal servants in law enforcement.

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Buddhagem Speaks with Noam Chomsky on May Day, 2009: Labor history and anarchism

Chomsky at the World Social Forum (Porto Alegr...

Chomsky at the World Social Forum (Porto Alegre) in 2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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with Noam Chomsky

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