Undocumented Immigrant Strikers March Through France

JOIGNY, FRANCE, May 5 — Eighty-six undocumented immigrants arrived in this town in Burgundy today, as they pursue a one-month, 850-mile trek from Paris to Nice on the Mediterranean coast. The protest marchers aim to win support for the “legalization” of all undocumented immigrants. They all pay taxes or send their children to school in France.

The marchers left Paris on May Day. May Day was chosen “as a powerful symbol to say that undocumented workers are foreign slave laborers who are legally turned over to slave-trader bosses by the racist laws of the French government,” the National Coordination of Undocumented Immigrants said in a press statement.

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MORE MAY DAY STRUGGLES

GERMANY, May 1 — Nearly a half million people marched on May Day in many cities for workers’ demands while confronting and blocking neo-Nazi demonstrations protected by hundreds of cops.

In Berlin, up to 10,000 marchers blockaded the Nazis, stopping the latter’s march after 500 yards of a planned 3.5-mile parade.

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Defeat of Greek Austerity Robbery a Must for All Workers

Across the European Union, the bosses’ governments have been announcing cutbacks in government services:

• In Ireland, the government adopted two austerity plans in 2009, cutting benefits across the board by 7 billion euros (US$8.75 billion). Government workers’ wages have been cut 5 to 15%, depending on their department and pay category.

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Obama Uses Racist Arizona Law to Push Own Fascist Scheme

PHOENIX, May 2 — On May 1, hundreds of thousands of workers marched in many cities nation-wide — including thousands of students who walked out and marched in Arizona itself — to protest Arizona’s new racist anti-immigrant law and to demand a better life for themselves and their class brothers and sisters.

This law is among the most openly racist ones passed in recent years. It requires Arizona cops to demand immigration papers from anyone they “suspect” to be undocumented. This is an explicit call for cops to arrest anyone who “looks” Latino or has a Spanish accent or any other racist stereotype they might use.

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Seattle Students, Campus Workers Picket vs. Budget Cuts

SEATTLE, May 3 — At 8:00 AM today, up to 250 campus workers and students conducted mass picket lines throughout the day to protest budget cuts and show our strength in the face of current contract negotiations for graduate students and the upcoming contract expiration for the custodians at our university here. The UAW union leadership unilaterally chose to extend the grad students contract rather than strike, as many rank-and-filers demanded.

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MAY DAY 2010

Workers Of The World Unite: MAY DAY 2010: SMASH ALL BORDERS!

On this May Day, International Workers’ Day, the international working class is under sharpening fascist attack while the drums of global war beat louder and slaughter millions. World capitalism pushes its economic crisis onto workers’ backs with mass racist unemployment, wage-cuts, soaring food prices and resulting starvation.

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History of May Day

May Day is the working class’s international holiday celebrated by tens of millions of workers worldwide. It was born out of — and honors — the Chicago workers’ historic struggle for the 8-hour day on May 1, 1886, launching a general strike that spread to 350,000 workers across the country. It’s a day when workers around the globe march for their common demands, signifying international working-class solidarity.

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It’s All About Oil, Profits: Widening Wars Prelude to Nuke Showdown

Wars over access to resources, markets and workers’ labor result inevitably from capitalism’s dog-eat-dog competition and kill workers by the millions. Attacking this mass murder for profit is essential to the long struggle towards communist revolution our Party marks on May Day. May Day 2010 finds U.S. capitalists, led by Obama, shedding workers’ blood openly in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as they try to shore up a faltering worldwide empire largely based on control of energy. U.S. rulers, meanwhile, must soon confront Iran and have longer-term plans for facing off against China and Russia.

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SF Bay Area’s Multi-Racial May Day Celebration

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, April 26 — On April 24, this area had a very successful May Day celebration, especially because PLP’s future is growing from our hands-on activities. We have long-term ties with young adults, family groups and on-the-job fight-backs. This provides the potential for Party growth from a growing circle of people influenced by PLP’s activities and ideas.

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