A group of white supremacists -- one of them holding an apartheid-era South African flag -- were surrounded and confronted by a larger group of anti-racists as they held a May Day protest outside the White House. Police made one arrest after the g...

The Dhaka building collapse should spur US lawmakers to insist that countries exporting to the US give workers their legal rights, labor activist Charlie Kernaghan tells Democracy Now!, noting that Congress has done more to protect trademarks -- a...

Striking dockworkers from a port owned by tycoon Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, were joined by thousands of other protesters in a May Day march through Hong Kong. The workers, now in the second month of their strike, say they haven't had a pay r...

Thousands of furious workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day, calling for safer conditions and better compensation for all workers, and demanding the death penalty for the owner of a garment factory complex that collapsed last week, crush...

From the video: Democracy Now! May 2, 2012

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has delivered a further blow to President Nicolas Sarkozy's hopes of re-election by refusing to endorse him and telling her six million supporters to make their own choice at Sunday's ballot. "I will not grant...

From anti-austerity demonstrations in London, to Vladimir Putin enjoying a beer in Moscow, the Telegraph takes a look at May Day marches around the world.

From the video: Democracy Now! May 1, 2012

Asia is marking International Workers' day with rallies in major cities across the region. In Manila, labor groups demanded higher wages and better protection for workers both in the Philippines and abroad. In Jakarta, unions demanded that working...

Tens of thousands of people have descended on streets across the world to mark International Workers' Day. Big protests are also taking place across Europe, particularly in the hardest-hit countries such as Greece and Spain, where governments hav...