May Day originated in the United States in 1886 when more than 300,000 workers across the country walked out on their bosses on the first day of May.
In India, May Day was first celebrated in Chennai on 1 May, 1923 following an initiative by the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan.
Thousands of activists have marched in May Day rallies across the globe in a fight against anti-austerity and poor workers’ rights.A poster of revolutionary hero Che Guevara is seen during the annual May Day parade in Havana, Cuba.
Huge crowds of campaigners gathered in the likes of Russia, Turkey and Indonesia to mark May 1 –known as International Workers’ Day.
Labour Day, an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers, with origins in the labour union movement, is being marked on Tuesday by the Google Doodle.
Thousands of people, among them left-wing activists, on Tuesday joined the May Day marches in Berlin and Hamburg to protest against capitalism, arms exports and racism.
About 10,000 people rallied in Moscow on Monday to protest the blocking of the online service.Thousands of labour union members rallied in downtown Seoul calling for an increase in minimum wage.
Turkey declared Taksim Square off-limits to May Day celebrations citing security concerns. Thousands of Greeks marched through central Athens in at least three separate May Day demonstrations.
About 10,000 workers rallied near the presidential palace in Jakarta to voice their demands. Most of the workers came from Jakarta and nearby suburbs, but some travelled from West Java and Surabaya.
Riot police broke up a rally of about 2,000 clothes factory workers gathered at a park in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh.
