World Marks International Workers' Day with Demands for Labor Rights

  • 9 years ago
Throughout the world the labor movement took to the streets on May 1, International Workers' Day. In each country demonstrators raised slogans against austerity and for higher wages and better working conditions, as well as political demands on their respective governments. In many cases, the demonstrations were met with police repression, such as in Turkey, which banned the May Day march. teleSUR