It’s the day of international working class solidarity, so a few quick answers to some things I’ve been hearing. 1) No serious revolutionist has ever wanted to make things worse in order to incite revolution. Utter rubbish.  Especially now; things are quite bad enough. What’s missing is consciousness that there is a way forward, a … Continue reading May Day Post

Cloud Telephony Leader, Knowlarity Communications, shows its solidarity to the worker’s movement in India by launching a slew of initiatives on the occasion of May...

Cloud Telephony Leader, Knowlarity Communications, shows its solidarity to the worker’s movement in India by launching a slew of initiatives on the occasion of May...

ലോകമെമ്പാടുമുള്ള അധ്വാനിക്കുന്ന തൊഴിലാളി ജനതയുടെ അവിസ്മരണീയ ദിനമാണ് മെയ് ഒന്ന്. തൊഴിലാളികളുടെ മനുഷ്യാവകാശങ്ങള്‍ നേടിയെടുത്തതിന്റെ ഓര്‍മ്മ പുതുക്കുന്ന ദിനം. എട്ടു മണിക്കൂര്‍ ജോലി, എട്ടു മണിക്കൂര്‍ വിനോദം, എട്ടു മണിക്കൂര്‍ വിശ്രമം എന്ന അവകാശം അമേരിക്കന്‍ മുതലാളിത്തത്തിന്റെ കൈകളില്‍ നിന്നു പിടിച്ചു വാങ്ങിയ സഹന സമരത്തെ ഓര്‍മിപ്പിക്കുന്നതാണ് ഈ ദിനം. അമേരിക്കയിലെ ചിക്കാഗോയില്‍ നടന്ന

A crowd of farmers, environmentalists and community members gather at a May Day rally in Sydney to call for tougher mining restrictions to protect sensitive lan

Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 who handle cargo at the Port of Oakland — one of the busiest US seaports — stopped work across the Bay Area today to protest against police brutality. Rallying near the gate of an idle port terminal, Bay Area longshore workers were joined by labor leaders representing BART train operators, city and county workers, port workers from Los Angeles, as well as hundreds of community members.

“There is an epidemic of police terror,” said Jack Heyman, a retired Oakland port worker.…

The onset of the coronavirus and the subsequent classification of many of these workers as "essential" have heightened some existing tensions. Workers have accused companies of being slow to provide protective gear and implement precautions, something that may put them in danger.

What used to be an annual May Day march for workers’ and immigration rights has taken on a different look this year due to coronavirus stay-at-home restrictions. This year, the march from Judkins Park to downtown Seattle has been canceled. Instead, march sponsors El Comité and the May 1st Action Coalition have scheduled a vehicle […]

As usual, May Day demonstrators took to the streets on Friday. Only this time, they drove in cars and practiced safe distancing while pushing for immigrant and workers' rights as well as a proposed tax on large corporations.

The onset of the coronavirus and the subsequent classification of many of these workers as "essential" have heightened some existing tensions. Workers have accused companies of being slow to provide protective gear and implement precautions, something that may put them in danger.

What used to be an annual May Day march for workers’ and immigration rights has taken on a different look this year due to coronavirus stay-at-home restrictions. This year, the march from Judkins Park to downtown Seattle has been canceled. Instead, march sponsors El Comité and the May 1st Action Coalition have scheduled a vehicle […]

The Illawarra union movement pays tribute to a Dapto man who has not missed a May Day march in 88 years.

Among the ten of millions of people left idle or thrown out of work by the COVID-19 crisis, garment workers have been among the hardest hit, as orders dry up and shutdowns leave factories shuttered, giving workers plenty to protest at a time when lockdowns are keeping them at home

After her mother passed away, her father remarried and moved elsewhere, and so attending school became a luxury for 12-year-old Sheuly Munda. Along with her grandmother Belmoni, a registered tea-garden worker, Sheuly now plucks leaves at a tea garden in Moulvibazar district’s Srimongol upazila. “I wanted to continue my study, but my grandmother said she […]

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It doesn't have to be all about politics.

It's Loyalty Day in America, but International Workers Day in much of the world. That's what we should celebrating right now.

This May Day, an unprecedented coalition of essential workers from Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target and FedEx are calling out sick or walking out during their lunch break to demand better health and safety conditions, along with hazard pay. Others are joining them for May Day actions that include rent strikes, car caravan protests and online organizing calling for a "People's Bailout" and economic recovery plan that prioritizes workers. We speak with Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, which issued a call for a people's strike starting May 1. "The corporations and the government are willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of us," Akuno says. "We have to put people before profits."

Police in Istanbul detained at least 15 people Friday, including trade union leaders who tried to stage a May Day march in defiance of a coronavirus lockdown and a ban on demonstrations at the flashpoint Taksim Square.

Customers and investors may appear immune to staff complaints but regulators have not lost interest

The Congress also highlighted the plight of the migrants who are stuck in different part of the country and wants to go home. The party urged the government to start plying trains immediately.

ലോകമെമ്പാടുമുള്ള അധ്വാനിക്കുന്ന തൊഴിലാളി ജനതയുടെ അവിസ്മരണീയ ദിനമാണ് മെയ് ഒന്ന്. തൊഴിലാളികളുടെ മനുഷ്യാവകാശങ്ങള്‍ നേടിയെടുത്തതിന്റെ ഓര്‍മ്മ പുതുക്കുന്ന ദിനം. എട്ടു മണിക്കൂര്‍ ജോലി, എട്ടു മണിക്കൂര്‍ വിനോദം, എട്ടു മണിക്കൂര്‍ വിശ്രമം എന്ന അവകാശം അമേരിക്കന്‍ മുതലാളിത്തത്തിന്റെ കൈകളില്‍ നിന്നു പിടിച്ചു വാങ്ങിയ സഹന സമരത്തെ ഓര്‍മിപ്പിക്കുന്നതാണ് ഈ ദിനം. അമേരിക്കയിലെ ചിക്കാഗോയില്‍ നടന്ന