May Day marked in Asia-Pacific with rallies, protests

[struggle4progress]

Last Updated 02/05/2005, 00:20:28

Tens of thousands of workers have taken to the streets of countries throughout the Asia-pacific region, to mark May Day.

In Indonesia, workers gathered in a number of cities, demanding better working conditions and calling on the government to declare the day a public holiday.

In the capital Jakarta, protesters who marched on the presidential palace carried posters demanding entrepreneurs oppressing workers be arrested. <snip>

In Cambodia, workers gathered to place flowers at the murder site of prominent unionist Chea Vichea.

He was gunned down in broad daylight on a Phnom Penh street in January 2004 in what his union said was a politically motivated killing.

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1357380.htm

[IndianaGreen]

1. May Day is celebrated everywhere except in the country that gave it birth

American workers have been led by toothless reactionary unions ever since a GOP-dominated Congress passed Taft-Hartley over President Truman's veto.