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May Day in Aotearoa and around the world
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- Daphna + AIMC
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- 02 May 2006
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- 03 May 2006
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Around 200 students from high schools around Auckland gathered at Aotea Square to protests against youth rates on May 1. The march was called by Radical Youth and supported by Unite union which put on 12 buses to transport the students. There were speakers from Radical Youth, and from a number of schools, as well as Matt McCarten from Unite and Laila Harre from the NDU. They spoke about planned campaigns: McDonalds for Unite and the supermarkets for the NDU. Unite is calling for broad support in its battle against McDonalds, one of the most anti-union multinationals.
500 metal workers met in Auckland on Mayday to demand a 7% pay rise, a minimum pay rate of $12 an hour and the abolition of youth pay rates.
Over 200 people in total came to the really free market in Newtown, Wellington. Food was distributed by Food not Bombs, the Freedom Shop gave away anarchist propoganda and a lot of people donated clothes and furniture.
[ Radical Youth May Day Action | Mayday 06! One Class! One Fight! Occupy, it’s our right! | Supersizemypay.com ]
May Day around the world
#media_6882;left#Millions of people took the streets on international workers day all around the globe. The demonstrations were particularly huge in the US. Immigrant communities organised strike actions all around the counntry against a proposed immigration law. 700,000 people marched in Chicago 120 years after the Haymarket incidents in support of illigal immigrant. 450,000 people were out in the streets of LA, 100,000 immigrants rights supporters marched in San Francisco and thousands more all across the US. Many businesses were closed because immigrant workers went on strike.
EUROMAYDAY was celebrated in over 20 european cities with large demonstrations. The EUROMAYDAY network organised marches of temporary, part-time, contract workers and other precarious youth, along with militant unions and social collectives in Milan (120,000 people), Paris (30,000) and Berlin (5,000) among others. In Zurich, banks and police stations were attacked with stones and paint bombs.
Big anticapitalist Mayday marches also took place in Jakarta, Istanbul, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires.
500 metal workers met in Auckland on Mayday to demand a 7% pay rise, a minimum pay rate of $12 an hour and the abolition of youth pay rates.
Over 200 people in total came to the really free market in Newtown, Wellington. Food was distributed by Food not Bombs, the Freedom Shop gave away anarchist propoganda and a lot of people donated clothes and furniture.
[ Radical Youth May Day Action | Mayday 06! One Class! One Fight! Occupy, it’s our right! | Supersizemypay.com ]
May Day around the world
#media_6882;left#Millions of people took the streets on international workers day all around the globe. The demonstrations were particularly huge in the US. Immigrant communities organised strike actions all around the counntry against a proposed immigration law. 700,000 people marched in Chicago 120 years after the Haymarket incidents in support of illigal immigrant. 450,000 people were out in the streets of LA, 100,000 immigrants rights supporters marched in San Francisco and thousands more all across the US. Many businesses were closed because immigrant workers went on strike.
EUROMAYDAY was celebrated in over 20 european cities with large demonstrations. The EUROMAYDAY network organised marches of temporary, part-time, contract workers and other precarious youth, along with militant unions and social collectives in Milan (120,000 people), Paris (30,000) and Berlin (5,000) among others. In Zurich, banks and police stations were attacked with stones and paint bombs.
Big anticapitalist Mayday marches also took place in Jakarta, Istanbul, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires.
May Day in Auckland
Left activists and some other union officials were also present at the loud and lively rally. As the marchers headed down Queen St they chanted non-stop against youth rates,against discrimination, and outside McDonalds and Burger King called out “strike, strike, strike”.
The official CTU May Day marchers gathered at the bottom of Queen Street were small in number and were met by the Youth Rates demo. There were few blue collar workers, just a handful from the NDU, waterfront workers and seafarers. These workers picked up the chanting as the demonstration of around 300 people headed back up Queen Street.
Outside McDonalds the crowd chanted “Union busting,that’s disgusting!’ There were chants calling for NZ troops out of Afghanistan, US troops out of Iraq, and for the immigration laws to be scrapped.
The Workers Party marched under the banner “Open Borders Unite Workers”, promoting internationalism and opposing the government’s attacks on immigrants.
The presence of the students with their demand for equal pay breathed new life into the May Day procession.
If the CTU officials have any desire to make May Day a working class day of action they should take a leaf out of Unite’s book and tap into the issues that do affect workers, and put on buses to get people along to the march.What is needed is a fight-back against the government and employers. Without that May Day is just an abstract concept.
The few unions that got involved with the official May Day procession put in $100-$150 each towards organising the event.
Yet the SFWU can give $280,000 and the EPMU $300,000 to the capitalist Labour Party for its election campaign. With this awful state of affairs is it any wonder that only 9 percent
of the private sector is unionised?
As long as the CTU hierarchy focuses on propping up the capitalist Labour Party they will continue to be an obstacle to the working class. Of course the new generation of workers may just bypass the Labour-luvin’ bureaucrats. The rapid growth of Unite shows that militant class struggle unionism is a whole lot more appealing.
Daphna Whitmore
Left activists and some other union officials were also present at the loud and lively rally. As the marchers headed down Queen St they chanted non-stop against youth rates,against discrimination, and outside McDonalds and Burger King called out “strike, strike, strike”.
The official CTU May Day marchers gathered at the bottom of Queen Street were small in number and were met by the Youth Rates demo. There were few blue collar workers, just a handful from the NDU, waterfront workers and seafarers. These workers picked up the chanting as the demonstration of around 300 people headed back up Queen Street.
Outside McDonalds the crowd chanted “Union busting,that’s disgusting!’ There were chants calling for NZ troops out of Afghanistan, US troops out of Iraq, and for the immigration laws to be scrapped.
The Workers Party marched under the banner “Open Borders Unite Workers”, promoting internationalism and opposing the government’s attacks on immigrants.
The presence of the students with their demand for equal pay breathed new life into the May Day procession.
If the CTU officials have any desire to make May Day a working class day of action they should take a leaf out of Unite’s book and tap into the issues that do affect workers, and put on buses to get people along to the march.What is needed is a fight-back against the government and employers. Without that May Day is just an abstract concept.
The few unions that got involved with the official May Day procession put in $100-$150 each towards organising the event.
Yet the SFWU can give $280,000 and the EPMU $300,000 to the capitalist Labour Party for its election campaign. With this awful state of affairs is it any wonder that only 9 percent
of the private sector is unionised?
As long as the CTU hierarchy focuses on propping up the capitalist Labour Party they will continue to be an obstacle to the working class. Of course the new generation of workers may just bypass the Labour-luvin’ bureaucrats. The rapid growth of Unite shows that militant class struggle unionism is a whole lot more appealing.
Daphna Whitmore
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Has Radical Youth (And Their Parents) peaked already?
On Monday the police warned the public to stay away from Queen St because "up to 1500 Radical Youth and Union along with May Day marchers will be in the vicinity." Yet this report tells us only 200 students turned up at Aotea square.
Note to The Parents: John, Matt, Laila - it's going to take more than free bus tickets to bring down capitalism.
Re: May Day in Aotearoa and around the world
walkout that had attracted a phinominal amount of students. At first seemed
to be a significant number of students trickling into Aotea square but by
the time 4,oclock rolled around it was apparent that there was far less
students. One radical youth member admitted that on one bus there was had
only been five people.
Perhaps the low turnout could partially be explained by the fact that it was
a monday night on the first day of the new school term.
The small crowd was addressed by a variety of pre march speakers, Including
Mat Macarton, sue bradford from the green party, Laila Harre and several
radical youth members.
Radical youth member John Derric stated that this was a peaceful protest,
but if Sue bradfords bill failed the next protest would be extremely angry.
After the official speakers several school students stood up and plainly
voiced there disgust of youth rates to the cheers of the crowd.
From Aotea square the crowd then marched down Queen St to chants such as "1
in 3 children below the poverty line, youth rates are a bloody crime" and
"What do we want, A living wage" "When do we want it?, NOW!". The crowd only
got half-heartedly into these chants, but there was more support for a
rousing chorus of scum! outside Mcdonalds.
Once the march reached Brittomart, it met up with the other union groups and
marched up Queen st again. The other union groups brought up a wider range
of issues in the chants including the recent attacks on immigrants.
The march ended up at Aotea square where several union representatives gave
speaches.
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