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MILLIONS of workers across the world marched on May Day yesterday — to widely differing receptions.
While tens of thousands of happy Cubans welcomed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution, turning their May Day into a celebration of international solidarity, Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of May Day protesters after they tried to march to Istanbul’s Taksim Square.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
Mass strikes over cost-of-living protections have escalated into a broader confrontation over democracy, after the government moved to impose a pay freeze by decree, writes KIVANC ELIACIK
One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES