May Day rally in Pakistan (May1, 2008)
May Day was marked throughout the world with a mix of rallies, violence and even rays of hope, news agencies reported. There were massive rallies across the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia and other Asian countries.
May Day Celebrations kicked off throughout Cuba on Thursday morning with over half a million Havana citizens staging a huge march at the city’s Jose Marti Revolution Square, in the presence of Cuban Presdient Raul Castro Ruz.Bearing banners, posters and placards, people demonstrated in support of Socialism and against Washington’s hostile Cuba policy. They also demanded the release of the five Cubans held for nearly 10 years now in US prisons.
Thousands of marchers gathered in Hamburg to call for more workers’ rights. Anti-capitalism protests turned to violence and vandalism, police said.Protesters in Turkey were met with police batons and water cannon. Six police officers were injured and 467 demonstrators were detained.
In Russia, marchers called for economic equality. In Moscow, about 30,000 people participated in rallies. Members of the Kremlin-backed party United Russia marched down a main Moscow artery, carrying banners reading “Economic Growth Not Just for the Wealthy,” “Putin and Medvedev are the Saviors of Higher Education” And “Say No to Higher Prices!”
Labor Day, once an occasion to bring most of India’s organized workers together, was a relatively insipid affair around the country, with trade unions organizing a few rallies.
Volatile crowds also rallied in the Philippines’ capital of Manila and Indonesia’s Jakarta, carrying signs demanding “Jobs, Justice, Food” and “Lower Food Prices Now”.
Rallies focusing on rising living costs were also held in Singapore and Bangkok, where protesters waved signs saying “Expensive rice prices, cheap labor wages. How can laborers live?”
One billion people in Asia are now seriously affected by the food price surge, the director general of the Asian Development Bank, Rajat Nag, said on Wednesday.
Business came to a standstill as China celebrated the national holiday. Huge traffic jams blocked some roads out of the city and the expressway to the Great Wall, one of the country’s most famous tourist spots, had tailbacks at least 20 kilometers (12 miles) long.
About 44,000 people attended a rally in Tokyo where Japanese Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii railed against the government for reinstating a controversial petrol tax.
FTP/HAR, Fri, 02 May 2008 00:19:41
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