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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Wed May 1, 2013, 07:05 AM May 2013

Workers From All Around The World Are Angry, Rising Up, And Protesting Today

http://www.businessinsider.com/may-day-protests-around-the-world-2013-5

May 1, 2013 Supporters of the Iraqi Communist Party carry a banner and an Iraqi flag during a rally marking Labour Day at al-Firdous Square in Baghdad


Protesters wearing safety helmets carry a dummy body, which symbolizes a person killed in an industrial accident, during a march calling for the legislative restrictions on standard working hours, on Labour Day in Hong Kong May 1, 2013. The banner reads, "Against the import of foreign workers".


Workers from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) take part in a May Day rally at Seoul City Hall Plaza in central Seoul May 1, 2013. Thousands of workers who took part in the rally asked for an extensive revision of the labour law and demanded that the government provide temporary workers employment stability by converting their status to full-time workers.


A garment worker attends a march on the streets to mark International Labor Day in Phnom Penh
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Workers From All Around The World Are Angry, Rising Up, And Protesting Today (Original Post) xchrom May 2013 OP
Workers of the world Unite malaise May 2013 #1
... xchrom May 2013 #2
Communism doesn't work any better than Capitalism.... Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #3
Interesting to see an originally American holiday........ socialist_n_TN May 2013 #4
Unite ! marmar May 2013 #5
 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
3. Communism doesn't work any better than Capitalism....
Wed May 1, 2013, 10:06 AM
May 2013

Both are Authoritarian by nature to the little guy.

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