A South Korean labor union official died in a Seoul hospital on Tuesday after setting himself on fire during a May Day protest. The official was evidently in distress over a pretrial hearing over extortion charges.
In a sign that the protests against Macron do not appear to be going away, some 782,000 people poured onto the streets of France on Monday.
Communists around the world observed a relatively subdued May Day holiday on Monday, with some large marches and plenty of vacations but few fireworks.
The Chinese Communist Party greenlit the debut of Born to Fly, a Chinese propaganda version of Top Gun, in theaters on Friday in anticipation of one of the biggest box office weekends of the year.
The head of the only legal workers’ union in Cuba announced on Tuesday that the communist regime had canceled its most prestigious annual event, the May Day parade in Havana, due to “limitations with securing fuel.”
Far-left President Gabriel Boric of Chile issued a plea, Argentine news outlet Infobae reported on Tuesday, for the nation to stop a trend of what he called “normalizing violence” after leftist groups rioted in Santiago, resulting in three injured from gunshot wounds during the Marxist holiday known as “May Day.”
The Cuban Communist Party spent much of the weekend attempting to protect its May Day celebrations from the expression of the profane, and increasingly popular, acronym “DPEPDPE,” which dissidents have grown to display on signs and shirts.
Tens of thousands of people across Istanbul, Turkey, held demonstrations on Sunday in honor of the communist holiday “May Day,” with some of the gatherings devolving into riots and clashes with local police officers, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Cuban dictator Raúl Castro made a guest appearance at the first communist May Day parade in Cuba since the pandemic, expressing “hope in the management of the Party” as it struggles to contain mounting pro-democracy protests.
Chinese government officials canceled most of the lavish events – concerts, festivals, and major travel attractions – typically organized around the communist holiday of May Day, celebrated on May 1, this year, claiming it necessary for people to stay home to prevent the further spread of Chinese coronavirus.
Conservatives flooded the streets of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday for rallies in defense of free speech and family values and supporting President Jair Bolsonaro for re-election this year, far outpacing the small group of socialists gathered in Sao Paulo for an event marking May Day.
Left-wing activists embarked on their now-annual May Day (Labour Day) riots in Paris, France, on Sunday, with the day’s violence tinged with anti-Emmanuel Macron sentiment in the wake of his recent re-election.
Beijing health officials on Monday warned that an upcoming communist holiday on May 1 known as “May Day” would cause an increase in travel into the Chinese national capital and therefore raise the city’s risk of facing a spike in Chinese coronavirus cases, the state-run Global Times reported.
Conservatives in Brazil have announced a large rally for free speech and individual liberty in Sao Paulo scheduled for May 1, a holiday typically celebrated by Marxists known as “International Workers’ Day.”
China marked its “Youth Day” – part of a five-day celebration of Marxism that begins with May 1, or “International Workers’ Day” – on Tuesday, claiming that the nation’s youth is a growing demographic targeted by the nation’s “red tourism,” or industry devoted to visiting sites with historical ties to communism.
China began the five-day communist holiday known as “May Day” on Saturday by encouraging citizens to travel the country. Thousands, and perhaps millions, obliged, flooding tourist sites like the Great Wall of China and forming tightly packed crowds in major cities.
Thousands of supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro flooded at least eight cities in Brazil on Saturday for rallies in support of his conservative agenda – drowning out the traditional Marxist events planned on May 1, known as “International Workers’ Day.”
A mishmash of Antifa banners, foreign flags, and communist and LGBT symbols covered the streets of Berlin, Germany as crowds of leftists turned out for International Workers’ Day, or May Day, on Saturday.
Antifa, communist, Black Lives Matter, feminist, labour union, and environmentalist activists rallied in London on Saturday to mark International Workers’ Day, or May Day.
The French capital of Paris has seen vandalism and violent clashes as demonstrations marking May Day, also known as Labour Day or International Workers’ Day, have once again devolved into riots.
Chinese government media outlets predicted a “travel bonanza” on May Day, or May 1, on Wednesday as “red” tourists prepare to visit historic sites to celebrate 100 years of mass killings, poverty, and repression under the Chinese Communist Party.
Two of the Antifa suspects involved in an attack on a television crew have been revealed as coming from a privileged middle-class background.
Chinese state media on Monday was brimming with upbeat accounts of travelers crossing the country and flooding into tourist attractions to celebrate May Day, a major holiday for the Communist country.
Members of the Italian Jewish community expressed anger after the Naples city government created a poster to celebrate May Day containing the same phrase used on the gates of the Auschwitz death camp.
Police arrested over 50 leftist activists in Manila on Friday for “illegal assembly” when they rallied en masse, violating coronavirus quarantine restrictions against large gatherings.
The world’s Communist governments and their supporters largely made do on Friday without the lavish parades, violent mobs, and attacks on dissidents that typically embolden International Workers’ Day, or “May Day.”
Dozens of far-left black-bloc Antifa anarchists stormed a Paris hospital during the May Day riots in the city this week with staff claiming the extremists threatened them and put patients at risk.
A Chinese student activist group dedicated to Marxism announced on Tuesday that six of its members vanished, presumably into the clutches of the Chinese security apparatus, after they declared their intention to work alongside laborers on International Labor Day, better known as May Day.
Britain’s Marxist prospective future Chancellor of the Exchequer has outlined his plans for the red-green terror which will engulf the world’s fifth largest economy, come the revolution.
Thousands of #RedforEd public school teachers in North Carolina and South Carolina walked out on their classes and marched through the streets of their respective state capitols to demand higher wages and more money for schools on Wednesday.
May 1st was long ago appropriated by communism as its worldwide holiday, and unfortunately, the civilized world has yet to take it back. The latest murders by Marxist regimes bring the death toll from communism ever closer to 100 million, but there are still marches in celebration of the ideology everywhere, including American cities.
PARIS (AP) — French police clashed with stone-throwing protesters as tens of thousands of people started marching in Paris Wednesday for May Day rallies under tight security. More than 200 arrests were made.
A Democrat California Assemblyman introduced a bill seeking to make “May Day,” or International Workers Day, a state holiday that would replace President George Washington’s or President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
Members of the Los Angeles cell of the Red Guards, an “Antifa” group, hung an effigy of President Donald Trump during their May Day celebrations and protests in Boyle Heights last week, and called for a violent revolution against the “capitalist state.”
Six of the 200 alt-left Antifa extremists arrested on May 1st in Paris were presented before a court this week, with several of the alleged rioters coming from upper-middle class backgrounds.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni claimed he is working for “low pay” as an argument for his citizens not to go on strike during a May Day speech on Tuesday.
Chinese state media urged citizens to work hard to benefit Beijing in celebration of International Workers’ Day, a Marxist holiday, on Tuesday, extensively quoting Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s assurance that “happiness is achieved through hard work.”
Paris witnessed burning cars, smashed shops and banks, and police attacked by masked and hooded left-extremist activists Monday as the May Day protests descended into bitter violence.
Left-wing activists and Marxist governments participated in May Day on Tuesday, in what many claim as an attempt to promote the rights of the ordinary worker.
Daniel Llorente, a Cuban dissident who made news in May by running into the island nation’s communist May Day parade waving an American flag, remains trapped in Havana’s notorious mental institution. Family say doctors have not diagnosed Llorente with any illness or charged him with any crime.
