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🟡 HAPPENING NOW: Red flags are rising in Berlin—and the state is already panicking. On the eve of International Workers' Day, hundreds filled the streets to denounce NATO militarism, the cost-of-living crisis, and the capitalist system driving both. Palestinian flags flew alongside red ones, confronting the political order.
Protesters chanted for the expropriation of capitalists—landlords included—“We will expropriate you all.” Police, mainstream media, and politicians are already framing the protests as violent threats—laying the groundwork to justify repression.
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Protesters chanted for the expropriation of capitalists—landlords included—“We will expropriate you all.” Police, mainstream media, and politicians are already framing the protests as violent threats—laying the groundwork to justify repression.
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First, the fact that labor is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. He feels at home when he is not working, and when he is working he does not feel at home. His labor is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need; it is merely a means to satisfy needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that as soon as no physical or other compulsion exists, labor is shunned like the plague. External labor, labor in which man alienates himself, is a labor of self-sacrifice, of mortification.
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The Philosophical and Economic Manuscripts of 1844
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The Philosophical and Economic Manuscripts of 1844
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On one side stand the handful of rich blood-suckers. They have seized the factories and mills, the tools and machinery, have turned millions of acres of land and mountains of money into their private property. They have made the government and the army their servants, faithful watchdogs of the wealth they have amassed.
On the other side stand the millions of the disinherited. They are forced to beg the moneybags for permission to work for them. By their labour they create all wealth; yet all their lives long they have to struggle for a crust of bread, beg for work as for charity, sap their strength and health by back-breaking toil, and starve in hovels in the villages or in the cellars and garrets of the big cities.
V. I. Lenin
May Day
Written in April 1904
On the other side stand the millions of the disinherited. They are forced to beg the moneybags for permission to work for them. By their labour they create all wealth; yet all their lives long they have to struggle for a crust of bread, beg for work as for charity, sap their strength and health by back-breaking toil, and starve in hovels in the villages or in the cellars and garrets of the big cities.
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May Day
Written in April 1904
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Clashes erupted outside Indonesia’s parliament on May Day. Workers, feminist groups, and student organizations gathered for a mass rally, defying relocation orders and a heavy police presence.
Banners declaring “May Day is not a holiday. This is the day to fight back” were seen outside the gates of the legislature. Protesters condemned state repression and neoliberal labor policies.
Student groups accused the Prabowo-Gibran government of serving foreign—especially US—interests, rather than protecting workers and the poor.
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Banners declaring “May Day is not a holiday. This is the day to fight back” were seen outside the gates of the legislature. Protesters condemned state repression and neoliberal labor policies.
Student groups accused the Prabowo-Gibran government of serving foreign—especially US—interests, rather than protecting workers and the poor.
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Protesters tore down police barricades in Manila on May Day. Clashes erupted near Recto Avenue, where demonstrators burned effigies of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump to protest foreign influence and imperialism in the Philippines.
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New video shows police unleashing extreme violence in Paris—protesters beaten on the ground, tear gas fired, and water cannons deployed during May Day demonstrations.
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Police tries to charge May Day crowd alone in Paris—but quickly regrets it.
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Berlin’s May Day protest has just kicked off. Thousands are marching against the cost of living crisis, rising fascism, militarization, and the genocide in Gaza. Police units from across Germany have been mobilized to the capital.
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🟡 HAPPENING NOW: Police attacked a journalist clearly marked “PRESS” during May Day protests in Paris. She was punched, kicked, and hit with a baton.
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We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.
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As police fired water cannons, Indonesian punk band The Jansen played in the middle of the May Day protest in Jakarta.
Banners reading “May Day is not a holiday. This is the day to fight back” were held high as riot squads advanced on the crowd outside parliament.
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Banners reading “May Day is not a holiday. This is the day to fight back” were held high as riot squads advanced on the crowd outside parliament.
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Workers of the world, pictured — a photo dump from this year’s May Day around the globe.
🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye — Turkish police detain a protester marching toward Taksim Square during May Day demonstrations.
🇵🇭 Manila, Philippines — A protester raises his fist while demonstrators confront the police.
🇱🇰 Colombo, Sri Lanka — Demonstrators carry posters of Marx, Engels, and Lenin during the May Day march.
🇬🇷 Athens, Greece — Protesters raise their fists and wave red flags in front of the parliament.
🇫🇷 Nantes, France — A demonstrator holds a smoke flare during violent clashes with the police.
🇮🇶 Baghdad, Iraq — A woman holds up a hammer and sickle symbol during the May Day march.
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, South Africa - A protester raises the Palestinian flag.
🇨🇺 Havana, Cuba — A demonstrator holds up a an image of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
🇹🇳 Tunis, Tunisia — A protester holds a sign that reads “Tunisia is an open jail” to denounce state repression.
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🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye — Turkish police detain a protester marching toward Taksim Square during May Day demonstrations.
🇵🇭 Manila, Philippines — A protester raises his fist while demonstrators confront the police.
🇱🇰 Colombo, Sri Lanka — Demonstrators carry posters of Marx, Engels, and Lenin during the May Day march.
🇬🇷 Athens, Greece — Protesters raise their fists and wave red flags in front of the parliament.
🇫🇷 Nantes, France — A demonstrator holds a smoke flare during violent clashes with the police.
🇮🇶 Baghdad, Iraq — A woman holds up a hammer and sickle symbol during the May Day march.
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, South Africa - A protester raises the Palestinian flag.
🇨🇺 Havana, Cuba — A demonstrator holds up a an image of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
🇹🇳 Tunis, Tunisia — A protester holds a sign that reads “Tunisia is an open jail” to denounce state repression.
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