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May 1: Turkish riot police disperse May Day demonstrators in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkish police charged into crowds of leftist protesters marking the anniversary of a deadly May Day rally in Istanbul, spraying tear gas and kicking and clubbing demonstrators as they fled. Police also used a water cannon to clear crowds from around Taksim square. Officers outfitted with helmets, gas masks and truncheons detained 580 demonstrators.
May 1: Turkish riot police chase leftist demonstrators during a May Day rally in Istanbul. Turkish police charged into crowds of leftist protesters marking the anniversary of a deadly May Day rally in Istanbul, spraying tear gas and kicking and clubbing demonstrators as they fled. Police also used a water cannon to clear crowds from around Taksim square. Officers outfitted with helmets, gas masks and truncheons detained 580 demonstrators.
May 1: A Turkish officer beats leftist demonstrators with a truncheon during a May Day rally in Istanbul. Turkish police charged into crowds of leftist protesters marking the anniversary of a deadly May Day rally in Istanbul, spraying tear gas and kicking and clubbing demonstrators as they fled. Police also used a water cannon to clear crowds from around Taksim square. Officers outfitted with helmets, gas masks and truncheons detained 580 demonstrators.
May 1: Turkish riot police use a water cannon and fire tear gas to disperse leftist demonstrators during a May Day rally in Istanbul.
May 1: Turkish riot police fire tear gas to disperse leftist demonstrators during a May Day rally in Istanbul.
May 1: Police chiefs order riot police to stop firing tear gas at leftist demonstrators during a May Day rally in Istanbul, Turkey.
May 1: Turkish riot police detain a leftist demonstrator during a May Day rally in Istanbul.
May 1: Turkish riot police use truncheons to disperse leftist demonstrators during a May Day rally in Istanbul.
May 1: Turkish riot police detain a leftist demonstrator during a May Day rally in Istanbul.
May 1: Turkish riot police fire tear gas to disperse leftist demonstrators during a May Day rally at Taksim square in Istanbul.
May 1: Turkish riot police fire tear gas to disperse leftist demonstrators during a May Day rally at Taksim square in Istanbul.
May 1: Turkish riot police chase leftist demonstrators during a May Day rally at Taksim square in Istanbul.
May 1: A leftist demonstrator kicks at riot police during a May Day rally in Istanbul, Turkey.
May 1: A leftist demonstrator throws stones at riot police during a May Day rally in Istanbul.
May 1: A riot police officer uses pepper spray in a clash with protesters during the demonstration in downtown Macau.
May 1: Protesters clash with police officers during the demonstration in downtown Macau.
May 1: A police officer holds a gun, trying to stop May Day protesters moving forward during a demonstration in downtown Macau.
May 1: Protesters march during the demonstration in downtown Macau. Hundreds of workers marched to demand a crackdown on alleged corruption and illegal laborers in a rare protest in the booming Chinese territory that recently knocked off the Las Vegas Strip as the world's most lucrative gambling center.
May 1: Visitors take photos in front of a portrait of Sun Yat-sen in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Sun is considered the father of modern China for his 1911 overthrow of the Qing Dynasty.
May 1: Crowds jam a pedestrian underpass in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on May Day. Thousands crowded the square to mark May Day, the day once used by communist countries to honor their workers. In modern China leaders use the day and a weeklong annual holiday that comes with it to encourage citizens to spend, giving a boost to the country's capitalist-style economy.
May 1: A People's Liberation Army officer helps a boy to hold a machine gun during an open day at a military base in Hong Kong marking the May 1 Labor Day.
May 1: Demonstrators display a Cuban flag as they march during the May Day parade in Havana. There was no sign of a convalescing Fidel Castro as hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through Revolution Plaza to celebrate May Day, an event the island's 'maximum leader' had attended for decades without fail.
May 1: Cuban acting president and Defense Minister Raul Castro waves at the crowd during the May Day parade in Havana.
May 1: Students carry pictures of revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara during May Day celebrations in Havana.
May 1: A group of students carry Cuban flags during May Day celebrations in Havana.
May 1: Thousands march during the May Day parade in Havana.
May 1: Students hold Cuban flags and a picture of revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara during the May Day parade in Havana.
May 1: A man leans his head on a portrait of Cuban leader Fidel Castro during the May Day parade in Havana.
May 1: Workers march toward the presidential palace during a May Day rally in Jakarta, Indonesia. Thousands of workers joined May Day rallies across Indonesia, prompting police to deploy forces at landmarks in major cities.
May 1: Workers shout slogans during a May Day rally outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. Thousands of workers joined May Day rallies across Indonesia, prompting police to deploy forces at landmarks in major cities.
May 1: Workers shout slogans during a May Day rally outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. Thousands of workers joined May Day rallies across Indonesia, prompting police to deploy forces at landmarks in major cities.
May 1: Workers with painted faces take part in a May Day rally as police officers guard the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. Thousands of workers joined May Day rallies across Indonesia, prompting police to deploy forces at landmarks in major cities.
May 1: A worker licks razor wire barricades that block protesters from marching closer to the presidential palace during a May Day rally in Jakarta, Indonesia.
May 1: Indonesian workers parade a giant rat representing corruption in the country as they march toward the presidential palace during a May Day rally in Jakarta, Indonesia.
May 1: Indonesian workers and labor activists rally to commemorate International Labor Day in Jakarta, Indonesia. Thousands of workers and activists around Indonesia demonstrated for better wages and safer working conditions in a country where the minimum wage amounts to less than $95 per month.
May 1: Indonesian dock workers unload wood at a port in Jakarta, Indonesia. As thousands of workers and activists rallied to commemorate International Labor Day, the dock workers, balancing 20-60 pounds of wood on their shoulders, walked up and down narrow planks to earn 25,000 rupiah, about $3, for their day's work.
May 1: Indonesian workers and labor activists rally to commemorate International labor day in Jakarta, Indonesia.
May 1: Indonesian laborers shout slogans during a rally to mark May Day outside the palace in Jakarta.
May 1: Protesters shout slogans as they march toward the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines, in the international celebration of Labor Day. Thousands of protesters, mostly from the labor sector, marched in Manila to press for an across-the-board wage increase, but President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo instead unveiled non-wage benefits for them.
May 1: Riot police watch as protesters wave their banners during a rally near the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines.
May 1: Protesters wave their banners during a rally at a Manila square for the international celebration of Labor Day in Manila, Philippines.
May 1: Fire blocks a road in downtown Dortmund, western Germany, after left-wing protesters marched against a right-wing demonstration in Dortmund, Germany.
May 1: Demonstrators try to block a demonstration of the right-wing National Democratic Party NPD in Neubrandenburg, northern Germany.
May 1: Yamato Sasaki, center, shoots a bubble gun as he joins the May Day parade with his father, Koichi, in a cardboard box tank in Tokyo. Main themes of this year's workers festival are protecting the Pacifist Constitution and global warming.
May 1: A group of workers pull a mock tank with a caricatured doll of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waving during the annual May Day parade in Tokyo.
May 1: Sex workers from various red light districts shout slogans demanding their 'right to work' as they join a midnight torchlight rally on May Day in Calcutta, India.
May 1: Laborers load bricks onto horse carts in Domana village, on the outskirts of Jammu, India. May Day is marked across the world on May 1.
May 1: Members of the Paraguayan Actors' Union perform during May Day celebrations at Asuncion's main square.
May 1: Members from associations defending women's rights hold placards reading 'The women's strength for Segolene' left, and 'The women's experience for Segolene' during a rally on Bastille square in Paris.
May 1: Thai workers hold banners and march on the street during a demonstration for a May Day celebration in Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands of the workers participated in the celebration. The Thai banners read: 'Cheap labor wage, expensive goods,' 'Compensation must be paid'.
May 1: South Korean workers shout slogans during a rally to mark May Day in Seoul. About 7,000 workers opposed a free-trade agreement with the United States. The banner in the background reads: 'South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement is invalid. Block the South Korea-U.S. summit talks.'
May 1: South Korean workers shout a slogan during a rally to mark May Day in Seoul. About 7,000 workers opposed a free-trade agreement with the United States. The letters read: �Block FTA.�
May 1: A South Korean worker shouts a slogan during a rally to mark May Day in Seoul.
May 1: Demonstrators carry flags of the liberal opposition party Yabloko during an anti-government march near the headquarters of the Federal Security Service, the main successor of the Soviet KGB, background center, in downtown Moscow. The banner reads: �Civil society against the police state.� Hundreds of thousands of Russians hit the streets as an array of political forces held marches and rallies on May Day, a holiday that was of great importance in the Soviet era and is still marked with demonstrations in cities nationwide.
May 1: People hold flags of the liberal opposition party Yabloko and Russian tricolor, center, during an anti-government march near the headquarters of the Federal Security Service, the main successor of the Soviet KGB, in downtown Moscow. Many thousands of Russians hit the streets as an array of political forces held marches and rallies on May Day, a holiday that was of great importance in the Soviet era and is still marked with demonstrations in cities nationwide.
May 1: A woman holds a portrait of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya during an anti-government march organized by the liberal opposition party Yabloko near the headquarters of the Federal Security Service, the main successor of the Soviet KGB, in downtown Moscow.
May 1: A woman shouts holding portraits of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, left, and his successor dictator Josef Stalin, during a traditional Communist Party demonstration in downtown Moscow.
May 1: Communist Party members and supporters dance in downtown Moscow during their traditional demonstration.
May 1: Members of a radical leftist group march during a traditional Communist Party demonstration in downtown Moscow.
May 1: Soviet Navy veterans march during a traditional Communist Party demonstration in downtown Moscow.
May 1: Members of Working Women Organization chant slogans during a rally to mark International Labor Day in Lahore, Pakistan.
May 1: An activist from Pakistan Labor Party holds a portrait of Argentine-born Marxist Cuban revolutionary and political leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevera as she chants slogans during a rally to mark International Labor Day in Karachi, Pakistan.
May 1: Supporters of the Iraqi Communist Party wave with a symbolic hammer and sickle and the communist and Iraqi flags as they take part in the May Day celebration in Baghdad, Iraq.
May 1: Supporters of the Ukrainian Communist Party wave various communist party flags during a May Day rally near the monument to Vladimir Lenin, Soviet founder, in Kiev, Ukraine
May 1: Bulgarian anarchists and supporters shout anti-government slogans during a protest to mark May Day in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.
May 1: Workers from the National Workers Federation demonstrate on a May Day in Madrid.
May 1: Israeli border police scuffle with Palestinian workers during a May Day demonstration next to a section of Israel's separation barrier at the Kalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah.
May 1: Israeli people participate in a May Day demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel. About 4,000 members of various socialist youth groups attended the demonstration.
May 1: Activists of the ruling Democratic Left Alliance and of related organizations march with red flags in a May Day parade in Warsaw, Poland.
May 1: Woman walk past as they take part in May Day celebrations in the West Africa city of Dakar, Senegal.
May 1: The crowd cheer moments prior to the start of the traditional May Day free rock concert in Rome's San Giovanni square.
May 1: A flag with an image of revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is seen at left as a youth tries to get the best view of the traditional May Day free rock concert in Rome's San Giovanni square.

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