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Short report of mayday march and dancing in the streets!

01-05-2007 22:53

Mayday began with the gathering of the Unions, autonomous bloc and Turkish Workers organisations, amongst others, mobilising at Clerkenwell Green to set off on the march to Trafalgar Square. The march itself was largely uneventful, being smaller than past years, brisk of pace and fairly contained by police and stewards

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May Day Picket of Liverpool Army Recruitment

01-05-2007 19:22

After turning away from the lure of warm beer and a cover of John Lennon's Imagine at the official Merseyside TUC rally, ten activists from the Liverpool Social Forum picketed the Army recruitment office on James Street, to try and stop young scousers fighting and possibly dying for oil in the Middle East.

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Quick Report from Dancing in The Streets London Mayday Street Party

01-05-2007 18:06

The street party is still going on with around 80 people near to Canary Warf in east London. Hundreds of police and security guards are in the area.

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Low-Key May Day March and Rally in Liverpool

01-05-2007 17:35

About eight hundred people - including many from the striking Public and Commercial Services union - marched through Liverpool city centre this afternoon, in an event organised by Merseyside TUC.

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Feministas' Mayday - Guerilla Stickering

01-05-2007 17:03

Feministas Guerilla stickering campaign today...

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Mayday Early Report - South London

01-05-2007 16:38

50 people share food, drink and music in Kennington Park, South London. A 15 foot Maypole was erected before the eye of bemused officers of the law and dancing proceeded.

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Mayday, Germany: Anti-Nazi rally turns into Riots

01-05-2007 16:26

Germany, Dortmund. 2000 antifascists gathered in Dortmund on tuesday afternoon to protest against 1500 neo-nazis who try to use mayday for fascist propaganda. After the police declared the anti-fascist protest illegal and tried to desperse it, the protest turned into heavy riots.

on tuesday afternoon.

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Canary Wharf update

01-05-2007 16:17

Loads of police everywhere Hijackers performing.

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Sheffield Mayday 2007

01-05-2007 16:16

Over 4,000 members of the PCS were on strike today in Sheffield to oppose cuts, privatisation and pay cuts, over a dozen city centre offices were picketed. Strikers joined other protestors for a march and rally from Moorfoot to the Town Hall.

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PCS strike kicks off Sheffield Mayday action

01-05-2007 16:03

Civil Servants across Sheffield have been on strike in impressive numbers as part of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union's second one day strike against government attacks on pay, job cuts and increasing privatisation of public services.

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Squaf: Sheffield Squat Café and Social Centre

01-05-2007 15:53

Opening tonight, 1st May 2007, for a limited time only (depending on input), is a new squatted social centre and café in the former Tramway pub on London Road, Sheffield.

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Police questioning people at Canary Wharf

01-05-2007 15:35

Not much happening 4.30pm.

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May Day in Nottingham (Round One)

01-05-2007 15:14

The PCS civil service union celebrated May Day on May the first by going on strike, picketing and marching, including through Nottingham to a rally in the Congregational Hall. There will be a PCS speaker at Nottingham's May Day (Round Two) in the Brewhouse Yard on Saturday, 5 May.

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Mayday: Riots in ISTANBUL

01-05-2007 15:07

In Istanbul, Turkey, mayday protests turned into heavy riots when police tried to stop several thousand protesters to reach central Taksim-place in Istanbul where in 1977 500 000 people celebrated mayday and where police-snipers killed 36.

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In Defence of Work Conditions: PCS Strike and Rally in Birmingham

01-05-2007 14:48

About 70 people turned out today for a rally in Chamberlain square, Birmingham, called and organised by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The event was one of many events up and down the country.

Earlier in the day, groups of workers picketed in various locations as part of a national discontinuous strike on May 1st. The PCS had launched a national campaign in defence of jobs, services, pay and work conditions. Their demands include no compulsory redundancies and relocations; no more outsourcing without consultation and agreement; fair and equal pays and decent work conditions.

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Federal Army Harrasses Zapatista Commanders

01-05-2007 14:37

Federal army aggressively harasses Zapatista Commanders and delegates of the Other Campaign.

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Claimants Support Job Centre Strikers

01-05-2007 12:57

Claimants in Norwich joined the picket line at the Job Centre in support of the demand made by striking PCS union members.

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Autonomous Workers Bloc - text

01-05-2007 06:53

Mayday Tuesday May 1st

In Struggle In Solidarity

AUTONOMOUS WORKERS BLOC @ Mayday March
12noon Clerkenwell green, London

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Stop the deportation of Tresor Nlabu Masampu to DR Congo and being torn away fro

01-05-2007 05:10

Opposition political activist, Tresor Nlabu Masampu, is currently in Colnbrook IRC's Health Centre. He was injured in a recent deportation attempt and another attempt to deport him on Monday 23rd April was stopped at the last minute. Removal directions have now been reset for Tuesday the 8th May.

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Students Re-Occupy Radio Universidad in Oaxaca City Today

01-05-2007 01:41

Today Radio Universidad in Oaxaca City was re-occupied by students who sypathize with the APPO (Assemblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca) for the first time sinse November.