With slogans such as "Employment, employment, is our obvious right; job
security is our main demand" and "Unity, unity, workers, unity" Iranian workers came on the streets of Tehran on May Day. The workers from Qom were
walking at the front of the rally and carried a large placard with
"Temporary contracts must be revoked" and "End slavery" written on it.
After being labelled a “butcher” by the British press following last week's bad election results for the Labour Party and the subsequent Cabinet reshuffle, Tony Blair suffered another blow, this time not at home but abroad. In Basra the British army lost five soldiers, including the first female casualty, as their helicopter crashed and British soldiers came under attack.
This
year’s May Day rally in Istanbul was somewhat smaller than last
year’s. However, there are growing tensions in Turkish society over
such issues as cuts in welfare and pensions and rising unemployment.