May Day demonstrations around the world

Demonstrators participate in a May Day rally in Union Park before marching to downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

People watch as demonstrators participate in a May Day march through downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day rally on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day rally in Union Park before marching to downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day march to downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day rally in Union Park before marching to downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day rally on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Workers chant anti-government slogans during a demonstration marking International Labor Day in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, May 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Workers chant anti-government slogans outside Industrial Park during a demonstration marking International Labor Day in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, May 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Protesters clash with riot police as they attempt to force their way closer to a Labor Day march, in Turin, Italy, Monday, May 1, 2017. (Alessandro Di Marco/ANSA via AP)

Members and supporters of the Lebanese Communist party, chant pro-worker slogans and wave Lebanese flags with Communist symbols, during a demonstration to mark International Labor Day or May Day, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 1, 2017. Workers and activists marked May Day around the world Monday with defiant rallies and marches for better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Protesters gather during a May Day rally in Daley Plaza in Chicago on Monday, May 1, 2017. Thousands of people from New England to the Midwest to the Southwest chanted, picketed and protested Monday as demonstrations raged against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies along with the traditional May Day marching in favor of labor. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP)

People participate in a May Day rally in the South Park Blocks’ Shemanski Park in downtown Portland, Ore., Monday, May 1, 2017. Some 200 people including some families with children in Portland joined many thousands of others across the country in pro-labor, pro-immigration and anti-Donald Trump rallies on May Day. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP)

A group dances during a May Day rally and march at Shemanski Park in downtown Portland, Ore., Monday, May 1, 2017. Some 200 people including some families with children in Portland joined many thousands of others across the country in pro-labor, pro-immigration and anti-Donald Trump rallies on May Day. (Stephanie Yao Long/The Oregonian via AP)

A protester is arrested by Seattle Police during a May Day protest, Monday, May 1, 2017, in Seattle. Thousands of people from New England to the Midwest to the West Coast chanted, picketed and protested Monday as demonstrations raged against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies along with the traditional May Day marching in favor of labor. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

People participate in a May Day rally at the Daley Plaza in Chicago on Monday, May 1, 2017. Thousands of people from New England to the Midwest to the Southwest chanted, picketed and protested Monday as demonstrations raged against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies along with the traditional May Day marching in favor of labor. (Brian Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Charred and melted debris is still visible on a downtown street corner the day after a May Day march in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. May Day protests turned violent in the Pacific Northwest as demonstrators in Portland threw smoke bombs and other objects at police, setting fires in the street while elsewhere thousands of people peacefully marched against President Donald Trump’s immigration and labor policies. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Demonstrators from around Wisconsin rally outside the Milwaukee County Courthouse after marching from the city’s predominantly Hispanic south side area Monday, May 1, 2017, joining their counterparts around the country and world in a May Day support for labor and immigrant rights. (AP Photo Gretchen Ehlke)

Professional dog walkers use a main street that was left free of cars by the Labor Day march in Mexico City, Monday, May 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A couple enjoy a walk through a field of wheat during the labor day holiday in Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Protesters carry a mock coffin to protest the continuing killings under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drug as they march towards the Presidential Palace to mark May Day celebrations in Manila, Philippines, Monday, May 1, 2017. As in the past years, workers mark Labor Day with calls for higher wages and an end to the so-called “Endo” or contractualization. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Protesters clash with riot police as they attempt to force their way closer to U.S. Embassy to mark May Day celebrations in Manila, Philippines, Monday, May 1, 2017. As in the past years, workers mark Labor Day with calls for higher wages and an end to the so-called “Endo” or contractualization. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

A few hundred labor union and left wing activists mark May Day, or International Workers Day, with a rally and march calling for the left wing’s unity to oppose the policies of the conservative, nationalist government in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, May 1, 2017. Banner in front reads: “Constitution is our law”. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Workers attend a May Day rally in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Monday, May 1, 2017. South African President Jacob Zuma was jeered by labor unionists and his speech was cancelled after scuffles broke out between his supporters and workers chanting for him to step down at the rally. (AP Photo/Khothatso Mokone)

Trade Union demonstrator is surrounded by a Spanish Republican flag during a May Day rally in Pamplona, northern Spain, Monday, May 1, 2017. The country’s two major unions called for marches in over 70 cities to demanded that the conservative government roll back its labor reforms to make it cheaper to fire workers and increase wages and government pensions as Spain emerges from its recent economic downturn. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Trade Union demonstrator shouts slogans during a May Day rally in Pamplona, northern Spain, Spain, Monday, May 1, 2017. The country’s two major unions called for marches in over 70 cities to demanded that the conservative government roll back its labor reforms to make it cheaper to fire workers and increase wages and government pensions as Spain emerges from its recent economic downturn. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Thousands of labor activists hold a demonstration on May Day Monday, May 1, 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Donal Husni/Zuma Press/TNS)

Police stand guard as thousands of labor activists hold a demonstration on May Day Monday, May 1, 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Donal Husni/Zuma Press/TNS)

More than 10,000 people took to the streets for a May Day rally Monday, May 1, 2017 in Toulouse, France. This year, the May Day rally is happening between the two rounds of the French presidential election. (Alain Pitton/NurPhoto/Zuma Press/TNS)

Protesters chant slogans as they take part in a May Day rally outside the Greek parliament on May 1, 2017 in Athens, Greece. (Aristidis Vafeiadakis/Zuma Press/TNS)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day march to downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day rally in Union Park before marching to downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day march todowntown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day rally in Union Park before marching to downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

People watch as demonstrators participate in a May Day march through downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day rally in Union Park before marching to downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Demonstrators participate in a May Day march to downtown on May 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, originated in Chicago when labor leaders staged a series of rallies and marches in May of 1886 to demand an eight-hour work day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

May Day demonstrations around the world

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