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May Day Strike for Immigrant Rights at UC Santa Cruz 
On Monday, May 1st, International Workers Day, students and workers at UC Santa Cruz walked picket lines at the base of campus and west entrance to support the rights of immigrants and all people. In the United States, grassroots organizers of May Day 2006 called for a day of, "No Work, No School, No Buying, No Selling" to help illustrate the critical role that migrants play in the United States and global economy....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 10:32pm PDT
German May day indymedia fotos 
This is an assembled list of articles on German indymedia with lots of photos of various Mai tag protests. With most of them, you can easily follow along, or press translate....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 9:11pm PDT
Europeans hold May Day protests Many thousands of people have taken to the streets across Europe as part of traditional May Day protests....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 7:10pm PDT
FRSC: May Day callins from Bakersfeild cops preventing march grabing marchers (audio/mpeg 1.3MB) Two Calls from Bakersfeild where cops are preventing march and start arresting. caller was aperently grabbed by cops....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 2:42pm PDT
FRSC: May Day callins from the marches San Fransisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 1.1MB) Callins to Free radio Santa Cruz from San Fransisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz including Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Molina, Payso and FRSC programmers Sandino and Danielsan....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 1:41pm PDT
Precarious of the World! May Day is a response to the crisis of traditional union represen-tation. The loss in influence and fighting strength of the unions has its cause in the changed working conditions in so-called post-Fordism. The eight-hour day is increasingly replaced by short-term work contracts....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 8:44am PDT
ON MAY DAY-OUR FLAG IS STILL RED-HONOR THE HAYMARKET MARTYRS THIS YEAR MARKS THE 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MAY DAY HAYMARKET FRAMEUPS. HONOR THE MEMORY OF AUGUST SPIES, ALBERT PARSONS, ADOLPH FISCHER, GEORGE ENGEL, LOUIS LINGG, MICHAEL SCHWAB, SAMUEL FIELDEN, OSCAR NEEBE- CLASS WAR VICTIMS OF AN EARLIER TIME. ALSO REMEMBER LUCY PARSONS WHO CARRIED ON THE STRUGGLE FOR VINDICATION AFTER HER HUSBAND’S EXECUTION. LET US REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO FREE TODAY’S CLASS WAR PRISONERS....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 7:31am PDT
May Day 2006 KPFA 94.1 FM News All Day on First Day of 2d US Revolution Happy May Day! Today, the First Day of the Second American Revolution and hopefully the First Worldwide Socialist Revolution, America's first national General Strike will be broadcast all day on KPFA, 94.1 FM. See below for details....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 2:46am PDT
May Day and the Haymarket Martyrs - Historia del Primero de Mayo 
To Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden and Oscar Neebe. Your courage and sacrifice for the emancipation of labor - without borders - will never be forgotten....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 8:58am PDT
Help Distribute Radical Bilingual May Day Pamplet 
Individuals involved with Arizona Indymedia, San Diego Indymedia and Delete the Border produced this bilingual pamplet, providing a radical analysis between May Day and pro-immigrant actions. Please distribute widely. It is an 11'' x 17'' pdf that is easy to print and fold. You can include local details in the document before you print it....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 1:14am PDT
US Revives McCarthy-era Powers for Port Workers WASHINGTON, April 27, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The Bush administration is reviving the McCarthy-era powers to check hundreds of thousands of port workers for possible terrorist links, a British influential industry newspaper reported on Thursday, April 27....
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 7:13pm PDT
Injured Workers To Rally In Sacramento On Workers Memorial Day Hundreds of injured workers will be rallying in Sacramento at the state capitol on Workers
Memoiral Day for injured workers and workers killed on the job. The rally will start at 11:00 AM
on the south steps of the State Capitol...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 10:30am PDT
May Day - the Real Labor Day May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 9:15pm PDT
May Day Remembered "There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!"
August Spies, Haymarket Martyr
This poem by Susan Kling, written in 1990, recalls the roots of Mayday, born in the USA, in our struggle for the eight hour day....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 9:10pm PDT
Mexico 2 Workers Killed in Steel Strike Two striking Mexican steelworkers died and at least 41 were injured in a confrontation with hundreds of police agents in Michoacan on Apr. 20....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:27pm PDT
May 1st International Workers Day: Actions on the California Central Coast Salinas, Watsonville, Seaside and Santa Cruz...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 6:06pm PDT
SF Grocery Workers Win at City Hall ! On Tuesday, 25 April 2006, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously pass the Grocery Workers Retention Ordinance....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 6:01pm PDT
Berkeley Honda's worker strike ends BERKELEY — A 10-month strike at Berkeley Honda is over, following a Monday night vote by union members and Teamsters to accept a new contract.
Members of the East Bay Automotive Machinists Lodge 1546 and Teamsters Local 78 voted 14-1 to accept a five-year contract, said Berkeley Honda general manager Steve Haworth....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:26am PDT
The End of Security The state has a social nature and isn't only a security and power state. If the state is reduced to a trough or waterboy for capital, the class compromise is dissolved and justice becomes an abstraction. Neoliberal myths legitimate the growing precariusness....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 6:03am PDT
Union leader jailed for New York City transit strike Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint was jailed in New York City Monday, after a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge sentenced him to 10 days imprisonment and fined the union local $2.5 million for carrying out the 60-hour strike last December....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 10:06pm PDT
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