Happy May Day, Alberta!

Today we honour the workers who keep our province running. Let’s celebrate their contributions and keep pushing for fair wages, safe workplaces & dignity on the job.

Solidarity today and everyday.✊

#MayDay2024 #WorkersRights #FairWork #AlbertaLabour

✊ MAY DAY – INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY ✊
We stand in solidarity with workers worldwide.
Today we demand dignity, justice & fair pay.

📍 Rally at The Stade
☕ Social at Isabel Blackman Centre

UNITY IS STRENGTH

#MayDay2024 #WorkersUnite #PublicServicesNotWar #TaxTheRich #NEUHastings

‘Except as a Punishment for Crime’: Black Labor and the US Criminal Justice System - শুদ্ধস্বর The U.S. criminal justice system has created an endless supply of cheap labor that profits businesses and the local and national government. Does this system have connections to slavery?

Read Kaniqua Robinson's new article in Shuddhashar FreeVoice´s Labour issue.

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#MayDay2024 #equality #LabourRights #LaborRights

Should China’s Labour Go Its Own Way? - শুদ্ধস্বর Over the past four decades, East Asia’s labor force has grown significantly, with China alone contributing over 400 million workers to the global economy, leading some to view China as a battleground ...

Farid Erkizia Bakht shows how China’s labour landscape is evolving into a new paradigm, defying Western predictions and expectations.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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Class Aspirations and Female Workers in the Garment Industry in Bangladesh - শুদ্ধস্বর Bangladesh emerged as a critical player in the global apparel industry. Yet discriminatory practices of low wages, anti-trade unionism, and lack of factory upgrades persist, trapping the female worker...

Discriminatory practices of low wages, anti-trade unionism, and lack of factory upgrades have trapped Bangladeshi female garments workers in an illusory world of possibilities. Read Lamia Karim's essay.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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Japan’s Workers Treading Water - শুদ্ধস্বর After three decades of tepid economic growth and stagnant wages, Japanese employment practices have shifted from stable jobs to contingent work. Half of the 21 million contingent workforce lives in re...

Jeff Kingston explores how, after three decades of tepid economic growth and stagnant wages, Japan's workers are dealing with the shift from stable jobs to contingent work.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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Exploitation and Desperation: Human Rights Violations and Labor Conditions of North Korean Workers Dispatched Overseas - শুদ্ধস্বর To earn foreign revenue, the North Korean regime subjects its citizens to forced labor and egregious human rights abuse. The international community must do more to end these egregious labor practices...

The dispatch of North Korean workers overseas represents a severe violation of human rights and international labour standards. Diletta De Luca and Damian Reddy explain why and how to address this problem.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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Veiled in Secrecy: Unravelling Eritrea’s Forced Labour Enigma - শুদ্ধস্বর Decades of secrecy, authoritarian rule, militarization, and exploitation have shaped Eritrea's landscape. The plight of forced labour adds another distressing layer to its complex narrative.

In his contribution to our latest issue, Dessale Berekhet shows how forced labour in Eritrea serves the interests of its authoritarian regime.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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‘The First Casualty’: Notes on Journalism, Truth, and Conflict - শুদ্ধস্বর During wars, journalists are among the first on the scene, committed to uncovering what unfolds in real time on the ground. However, in recent conflicts, journalists are caught in the crossfire of vio...

Words establish our shared humanity. And destroying these stories, bombing the work of journalists and writers and poets, is a way of sundering this essential connection.' - find Taran N. Khan's essay in our latest issue.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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Preeti Urang’s Death is Not a ‘Tragedy’: How the Privileged Class Enables Violence Against Child Domestic Workers - শুদ্ধস্বর When a child is forced to leave their family home to become a live-in servant at a stranger’s home, when middle-class families exploit the impoverished class by employing live-in child servants, we as...

Hana Shams Ahmed explains why the deaths of live-in child domestic workers are not merely ‘tragic’ or 'unfortunate' but murders.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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Surrogates: Mothers, Workers, or Commodities? Navigating the Complexities of the Reproductive Market - শুদ্ধস্বর The surrogacy market has led to the reduction of women’s wombs to commodities. Yet the ‘colonisation of the womb’ cannot be challenged with regulations or industry bans alone but a more equal structur...

In countries like India, surrogacy has led to the commodification of women’s bodies. Shreeti Shubham argues that countering it requires a more equal structure that is free of exploitation.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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At #Minneapolis 's freakiest party #MayDay2024 https://t.co/fvizLLrZ7W

How (not) to be an Expert - শুদ্ধস্বর If there is one lesson universities should have drawn from the Holocaust, it is to not reproduce technically competent yet morally vacuous specialists and experts. Recent events suggest that they have...

In light of the recent attacks on Academics and students protesting genocide, Siddhartha Dhar argues that universities have failed to learn a critical lesson from the Holocaust.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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A Tour of the Palace of Calculation: Some Laboratory Notes on ‘45 Days in the Company of Robert Walser’ - শুদ্ধস্বর ‘45 Days in the Company of Robert Walser’ summons the Austrian nascent Modernist novelist as well as Herman Melville as guides to what 21st-century Higher Educational labour feels like. The accompanyi...

In his poetry, Simon Perril summons the Austrian nascent Modernist novelist Robert Walser as well as Herman Melville as guides to what 21st-century Higher Educational labour feels like.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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Climate Refugees or Labour Migrants? Climate Reductive Translations of Migration from Coastal Bangladesh - শুদ্ধস্বর Shrimp-induced migration, riverbank erosion and waterlogging are various environmental factors contributing to choices to migrate in Bangladesh, but to reframe these movements as ‘climate-induced’ wou...

Camelia Dewan shows how climate-reductive translations of migration misread the socio-economic and environmental processes shaping migration in coastal Bangladesh, obscuring discussion on highly political issues.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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Queer Labor Now - শুদ্ধস্বর Queer laborers face discrimination around the world. Countering it will require nondiscrimination policies not only in employment but also in healthcare and education.

Kelsey Hample argues that to improve labour market outcomes for queer workers we must attend to issues that begin in schools and homes.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #labour
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Dort und da - hier und jetzt?

#1mai #MayDay2024 #mayday #streetphotography #people #protest

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
-Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto” #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay2024

Zo beleefden wij dit jaar de Dag van de Arbeid | Doorbraak.eu Gisteren werd in diverse steden in Nederland de Dag van de Arbeid op straat gevierd. Op vier plekken was Doorbraak daarbij. Hier onze indrukken. In Amsterdam deden we mee aan de FNV-demonstratie met e...

“Het steekt […] dat de FNV uitgerekend vandaag de belangen van politieagenten centraal stelt in haar 1 mei-boodschap. De politie is niks anders dan een gewapende tak van het kapitalistische apparaat waar wij vandaag tegen protesteren.”
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#1mei #MayDay2024

Zo beleefden wij dit jaar de Dag van de Arbeid | Doorbraak.eu Gisteren werd in diverse steden in Nederland de Dag van de Arbeid op straat gevierd. Op vier plekken was Doorbraak daarbij. Hier onze indrukken. In Amsterdam deden we mee aan de FNV-demonstratie met e...

“Er waren diverse strijdbare Palestina-blokken, waarmee een luid signaal werd gegeven richting de vakbondsleiding dat er actie moet komen tegen de genocide.”
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#Amsterdam #Nijmegen #Tilburg #Utrecht #MayDay2024
#Arbeidersstrijd #Baanloosheid #Beweging #Vakbond

Silent Footfall: India’s Migrant Worker Crisis - শুদ্ধস্বর The pandemic revealed the precarious political and economic conditions of migrant workers in India. Their distress and their long, torturous flight from the city show how they have been rendered polit...

Gayatri Menon shows how India's migrant workers are rendered politically redundant and made invisible to the capital and the state as rights-bearing subjects.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #lobour
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Postcolonial Theory and the Postcolonial World - শুদ্ধস্বর The 1980s and ’90s saw the emergence of Postcolonial theory and its many avatars. But is it as radical as its proponents claim, or does it instead promote ‘racial essentialism’ in the guise of radical...

Is Postcolonial theory as radical as its proponents claim, or does it instead promote ‘racial essentialism’ in the guise of radicalism? Read Vivek Chibber's essay in our latest issue.
#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #lobour
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Issue 39, Labour Editorial To labour is a precondition of our existence in this contemporary world. Ever since the agricultural revolution, when we humans settled in place, hoarded possessions, and competed to acquire...

Articles in our Labour issue address many challenges facing contemporary workers, taking a broad lens to consider the labour of journalists, migrants, prisoners, garment workers, educators, and humanitarian volunteers.

#MayDay2024 #Equality #LabourRights #lobour

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#MayDay2024

red. on Instagram: "France shows its anger on May Day ahead of the Paris Olympics. Massive clashes break out in Paris as huge May Day protests swarm onto the streets across the country. Footage shows... 6,174 likes, 187 comments - redstreamnet on May 1, 2024: "France shows its anger on May Day ahead of the Paris Olympics. Massive clashes break out in Paris as huge May Day protests swarm onto the...".

Paris, France.

Emmanuel Macron the neo liberal from hell is ramping up his capitalist #policestate.

Parisians protest Israeli zionist genocide on Gazans. As usual the French police go ultra violent.

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Let us advance our march towards the downfall of racism and the crushing of fascism. May we steadfastly fight for a liberated, decolonized Palestine in our era. Onward to victory! #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay2024 #FreePalestine

On International Workers’ Day, comrades, let us rally under the banner of true proletarian solidarity! Today, it symbolizes the unyielding struggle against the oppressive chains of capitalism, the vile nature of imperialism, and the brutalities of colonial rule. #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay2024

Today and always, happy International Workers’ Day! Solidarity forever. #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay2024 #UPTE #UnionStrong

This site doesn't give enough alt text space for a description of this four panel cartoon, but there's a complete description and transcript at https://www.patreon.com/posts/103291731 .

A new cartoon for May Day! This has been an incredible year for unions in the USA - may next year be even better.

Unions Have Always Done The Impossible!

#PoliCartoon
#Union #LaborDay2024 #MayDay2024 #May1st #UBI #LivingWage

"{T}herefore brewed a barrell of excellent beer, & provided a case of bottles to be spent, with other good cheer, for all comers of that day. And upon Mayday they brought the Maypole to the place"

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#MayDay2024 #Merrymount