May Day
Mayday mayhem for London?
from vastminority, 12 March 2010: "An Election Meltdown mass protest has been called by the same groups behind last year's anti-G20 protests during which newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson was killed by the police.
Says the event website: "On International Worker's Day, Saturday 1st May 2010, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will take to the streets again at the head of four Mayday Carnival Parades. "All four Parades will converge on Parliament Square at 2:30pm, and the carcasses of the four party leaders will be hung, drawn and quartered, or guillotined in accordance with the wishes of the assembled multitudes in a Mayday Carnival..." more
The origins of May Day
from WAG, 30 April 2009: "“The rapid passage of time has brought us once again to the symbolic, evocative date of 1st May” CNT Spain 1947.
As the recession deepens, unemployment grows, another case of police brutality makes the headlines, factories become occupied, schools blockaded and thousands begin to come out on the streets, again we find ourselves approaching the historic May day date. Despite the media perpetuating a campaign of fear mongering continuing from the G20 circus, these turbulent times have put the anarchist movement back on the stage of history and the May Day weekend is on the cards to be quite a scorcher in the “Summer Of Rage”. more
Brighton May Day 2009! + Anti-Militarist Gathering info
from email, updated 2 May 2009: "MAYDAY! MAYDAY! -MASS STREET PARTY AGAINST WAR AND GREED, BRIGHTON, MAY 4TH, 12 NOON - BRING RADIOS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN MUSIC! ARRIVE EARLY - WEAR RED... Bring stereos and radios to the Mayday Street Party so we can make our own music..
Critical Mass: There will be a Critical Mass meeting at 11am at Brighton Station before the main Street Party... BIKES NOT BOMBS, bring sound systems... more
Mass May Day street party in Brighton against war and greed, Monday 4 May 2009
from email, updated 14 April 2009: "Brighton, May 4th 2009, 12 noon, wear red. Bring passion, drums, sound systems, radios and stereos... For centuries Mayday has brought people together and out onto the streets. People danced for the coming summer and the fertility of the crops.
People marched in remembrance and solidarity with their fellow workers around the world. People gathered in their cities to fight against global capital and exploitation. Smash EDO invites you to a celebration of all these aspects of Mayday..." more
Sevilla: Support Nicolàs Sguiglia and Javier Toret - No to the criminalization of social struggles
from email, updated 2 February 2009: "We ask for your solidarity with Nico and Javi, members of Universidad Nómada and since years activists in the self-organized social centers, in the global movement, in the network of migrants, and in collective experiences like Mayday and the struggles against precarization... Your personal, collective and institutional support is needed... They call for two years of prison for Nicolas Sguiglia and Javier Toret for the imputed act of robbery and intimidation when they were involved as syndicalist mediators in a protest against precarity in Plus supermarkets in Sevilla around Mayday, 1 May of the precarious in 2006..." more
November 1st 2008: Why wait til May Day?
from imc-uk, 24 September 2008: 1st November will be exactly six months away from May Day, international workers day. Well we at the anarchist federation ain't got that much time to lose and want to shut down greedy scum like Manpower, RIGHT NOW! Why wait til May Day? Take control today! more
1st May 2008 - A Day of Climate Action, everywhere
from email, 20 April 2008: May 1st, international workers day, has traditionally been a day to challenge the capitalist system and a celebration of solidarity and workers' struggle for a more just social system. On this day we are calling on people to make the link between capitalism, economic growth, climate change and social struggle. more
Space Hijackers: London Mayday 300th Anniversary Party
from imc-uk, 14 April 2008: "Mayday 2008 is the 300th anniversary of the last free Mayday before the Grand Jury suppression of the traditional May Fayre in central London; a riotous, raucous celebration of fertility and freedom... To commemorate this significant anniversary, and the still thriving tradition of over the top state control, the Space Hijackers and the Metropolitan Police proudly present a collaborative re-enactment of the end of this traditional May Fayre..." more
EuroMayDay 2008 press release
from email, 7 April 2008: EuroMayday is a process by which actions and demands are put forward to fight the widespread precarization of youth and the discrimination of migrants in Europe and beyond: no borders, no workfare, no precarity! more
Revolting London: anarchists against the Mayoral elections, 2 May 2008
from ainfos, 10 April 2008: In an unprecedented show of unity London anarchists decided tonight to organise against the London mayoral elections on May 2nd by calling for the ‘return of the London mob' at the GLA building on the South Bank at 6pm when the result will be declared.
"Everyone knows the politicians are lying,corrupt, self-serving parasites - it's time we let them know - THIS IS OUR LONDON not theirs, their party's or their paymasters.
On Friday May 2nd at City Hall we will confront our class enemies at the Mayoral election results reviving a great radical London tradition - ITS TIME TO TAKE TO THE STREETS AND CLAIM BACK OUR CITY." more
EuroMayday Aachen 2008: transnational parade of precari@s and migrants
from email, 13 March 2008: This year for MayDay, two worlds clash together: the global movement vs strong-armed governments; grassroots networks and squatted social centers vs EU power; Utopian Society vs Capitalist Market; the radical europe of multitudes vs the conservative Europe of élites.
We are gonna spoil the party of the powerful, by raising hell in Aachen and holding our own party: the EuroMayDay Parade, the transeuropean demonstration of all precarious and migrants against workfare, discrimination and border controls held in more than twenty cities. more
BBC: LA police admit riot 'mistakes'
The head of the Los Angeles Police Department, William Bratton, has admitted that his officers made serious mistakes at the end of a May Day rally.
The admission came as Mr Bratton delivered a report on the immigration rally to the city's police commission. more
London Mayday 07' - Join the Autonomous Workers Bloc!
From email: Over the last few years, grassroots democracy has returned or sprung up in a number of different and inspiring ways; on this Mayday we march to celebrate our new resistance to our oldest problem – united in unrepentant struggle against their unrelenting war. more
London Mayday 2006 :: Statement from London No Borders
May Day is International Workers Day, a day that should recognize that the working class is an international class; that the oppressed and exploited throughout the world have everything in common with each other and nothing in common with 'their' nation, 'their' government and 'their' bosses.
So migrants, refugees, those deemed 'illegal immigrants' by the State, those facing deportation, people in detention, should be at the center of what May Day is all about more
EuroMayday 2005: London Report
Originally posted 22:42 02 May 2005: Yesterday, Sunday 1st of May saw the first EuroMayday action happen in London. Organised by the precarity network, our aim was to bring together people in London who have precarious working and living situations. more
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Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009
from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more
Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"
from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more




