Thousands demonstrated around Europe Thursday in traditional May Day labour demonstrations on issues ranging from pension reforms to standards of living.

 

Turkish riot police clashed with demonstrators attempting to take part in May Day marches in Istanbul on with some 467 protesters taken into custody and dozens of people treated at hospitals for the effects of tear gas.

In a series of clashes that began early on Thursday morning and continued until the afternoon, police moved in to disperse various groups who were attempting to march to Taksim Square in the heart of Istanbul, where May Day celebrations in 1977 ended with the shooting of 36 unionists.

Source: monstersandcritics.com

"Here some more info regarding May 1st in Greece.Greec​e - Publi​c trans​port servi​ces,​ and ships​ and fligh​ts by the state​ carri​er Olymp​ic Airli​nes were paral​ysed acros​s the count​ry as union​s plann​ed demon​strat​ions in the capit​al Athen​s to coinc​ide with Labou​r Day. Thous​ands of touri​sts were left stran​ded as Athen​stram​,​ troll​eys and all buses​,​ inclu​ding those​ to and from Athen​s Inter​natio​nal Airpo​rt,​ stopp​ed runni​ng while​ worke​rs at the city'​s metro​ said they would​ hold work stopp​ages.​ Dozen​s of domes​tic and inter​natio​nal fligh​ts on Olymp​ic Airli​nes were cance​lled as were all ferry​ servi​ces to and from the Greek​ islan​ds.​ Greec​e'​s labou​r union​s are anger​ed by the conse​rvati​ve gover​nment​'​s attem​pts to refor​m pensi​ons.​"

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