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May Day protests around the world
Tens of thousands of workers marched in cities across the world on Saturday to mark the international day of the worker, or May Day. In Turkey, authorities allowed workers to march on Taksim Square in Istanbul for the first time in 30 years [AFP]
Published On 1 May 2010
1 May 2010
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In Pakistan, activists from working women organisations rallied in the streets, shouting slogans for better wages and conditions [AFP]
In neighbouring India, trade union workers shouted anti-government slogans during a protest in New Delhi [AFP]
Thousands of people also filled the streets of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to demand better working conditions and the establishment of a labour court [AFP]
Taiwan also saw rallies, with thousands of people taking to the streets to protest against a planned trade pact with China that they say will threaten the island [AFP]
Most of the rallies were peaceful, but in the German capital, Berlin, riot police braced for clashes between left-and-right wing protesters [AFP]
Violence also erupted in Greece, where demonstrators clashed with police outside the Greek parliament during a massive protest against a government plan to tackle its economic woes [AFP]
But in other countries, the rallies included children. Children joined the nearly 3,000 people gathered in Romania to call for the resignation of Emil Boc, the Romanian prime minister [AFP]
Meanwhile in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, union members turned a May Day march into an election rally to call for the re-election of leading presidential candidate Benigno Aquino [AFP]