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1. Working with an inscription on the head, "Stop outsourcing" during a march to the Presidential Palace at a rally in Jakarta. More than 15,000 workers held rallies in Jakarta and other big cities in Indonesia in honor of May Day, calling on the government to improve employment policies. (Supri/Reuters) (Supri / Reuters)

2. Working with banners at the rally Federation of Trade Unions of Korea near the parliament building in Seoul. The rally gathered 50,000 workers. Надпись на баннерах гласит: «Пересмотрите акт профсоюза». The inscription on the banner reads: "Reconsider the act of union." (Truth Leem/Reuters) (Truth Leem / Reuters)

3. Protesters shout slogans during a rally in the center of Lisbon. In Portugal, tens of thousands of people staged a protest against austerity Evrosoyuza and the International Monetary Fund. (Patricia De Melo Moriera/AFP/Getty Images) (Patricia De Melo Moriera / AFP / Getty Images)

4. Representative of the Left Party douse with water from the hose during May Day demonstrations in Hamburg. (Thomas Peter/Reuters) (Thomas Peter /Reuters)

5. Indonesian workers go to the presidential palace in Jakarta. (Supr/Reuters) (Supr / Reuters)

6. A demonstrator with the Colombian flag on May 1 demonstration in Cali. (Jaime Saldarriaga/reuters) (Jaime Saldarriaga / reuters)

7. Running from tear gas at demonstrators protest in Bogota. (John Vizcaino/Reuters) (John Vizcaino / Reuters)

8. Demonstrators put each other on the background of the Iroquois machine water gun at demonstrations in Bogotá. (Guillermo Legaria/AFP/Getty Images) (Guillermo Legaria / AFP / Getty Images)

9. The girl on the move to Los Angeles, where thousands of people came to the meeting about changing immigration reform. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images) (Eric Thayer / Getty Images)

10. In Germany, the International Day of working for 20 years followed by street demonstrations and clashes between skinheads, anti-fascist groups and the police. (Bodo Marks/AFP/Getty Images) (Bodo Marks / AFP / Getty Images)

11. Protesters hit the glass entrance to the bank in Bogota. Riot police clashed with students threw stones, Molotov cocktails and paint and whacked the glass. Colombian workers marched through the main streets of the country in the International Day of Solidarity of Workers. (Fernando Vergara/Associated Press) (Fernando Vergara / Associated Press)

12. Demonstrators in Los Angeles . (Thayer/Getty Images) (Thayer / Getty Images)

13.Kubintsy in the parade in honor of May Day at Revolution Square in Havana. (Desmond Boylan/AFP/Getty Images) (Desmond Boylan / AFP / Getty Images)

14. Riot in front of the TV office in Cali, who suffered at the hands of the protesters. (Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters) (Jaime Saldarriaga / Reuters)

15. Demonstrators throw a home-made grenade at a rally in Cali, Colombia. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images) (Luis Robayo / AFP / Getty Images)

16. Police help demonstrator, wounded during clashes in Bogota. (Guillermo Legaria/AFP/Getty Images) (Guillermo Legaria / AFP / Getty Images)

17. Young people at a rally in Tegucigalpa. The inscription on the shirt: "Life for freedom." (Edgard Garrido/Reuters) (Edgard Garrido / Reuters)

18. Demonstrantka with the flag of the union is waiting for the start of the march in Malaga, Spain. Spanish unions held their annual meetings throughout Spain, demanding equality, good wages and productive investment. (Jon Nazca/Reuters) (Jon Nazca / Reuters)

19. Trader with a cart loaded with bottles of water on the background of a huge poster in the center of Istanbul. The inscription on the poster: "We congratulate all the workers from the first day of May." (Murad Sezer/Reuters) (Murad Sezer / Reuters)

20. Maoist activists and their supporters arrived by bus to the rally in honor of the first day of May in Kathmandu. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters) (Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters)

21. Police have detained opposition supporters at a rally in St. Petersburg. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Russian cities on May 1: some supported the Kremlin, some demanded the overthrow of the ruling tandem. However, the anti-Kremlin significantly outnumbered by government demonstrators mobilized by the "United Russia" and labor unions. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images) (Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Getty Images)

22. Work is trying to stop the police, extinguishing burning tires during a rally in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta. (Enny Nuraheni/Reuters) (Enny Nuraheni / Reuters)

23. A police officer on the background of the flash from firecrackers during demonstrations in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. (Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters) (Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters)

24. A riot police shields on the street, where thousands of workers held a protest in Manila. Thousands of workers and activists marched to the marches on the Filipino streets in honor of May Day, demanding a change in policy towards migrant workers, raise wages and reduce the prices of essential commodities. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images) (Noel Celis / AFP / Getty Images)

25 An elderly woman with a red flag on May Day demonstration of the Communist Party in the center of Kiev. (Natalia Slipchuk/AFP/Getty Images) (Natalia Slipchuk / AFP / Getty Images)

26.A protester shouts slogans on the roof of a car in Macau. About a thousand people joined the peaceful but noisy march to the government office in Macau on May. He was arrested only one demonstrator, who refused to remove his van off the road, creating a traffic jam. (Antony Dickson/AFP/Getty Images) (Antony Dickson / AFP / Getty Images)

27. A protester with a hammer and sickle in the center of Baghdad, attended by hundreds of Iraqis. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images) (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

28. A police officer against protesting workers outside the presidential palace in Jakarta. (Enny Nuraheni/Reuters) (Enny Nuraheni / Reuters)

29. The man symbolizes imperialism at a rally for the rights of workers and migrants in New York City. May Day - the traditional day for demonstrations. This tradition has gone since 2006. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press) (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)

30. The Lebanese opposition shout slogans against sectarian political system of Lebanon at a rally in Beirut. The inscription on the banner in Arabic: "The people want to end the sectarian system of Lebanon." (Grace Kassab/Associated Press) (Grace Kassab / Associated Press)

31. A protester in Cairo with the inscription on the palm of "Social equality". (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters) (Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters)

32. Supporters of the Bulgarian Socialist Party's anti-government rally in Sofia. Hundreds of Bulgarians urged the government to resign because it was unable to cope with the economic crisis in the poorest country in the European Union. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters) (Stoyan Nenov / Reuters)

33. Participants at the rally street repose on the International Day of workers in Moscow. (Nikolay Korchekov /Reuters) (Nikolay Korchekov / Reuters)


35. Supporters of the Russian opposition to a May Day rally in Moscow. (Dmitry Kostukov/AFP/Getty Images) (Dmitry Kostukov / AFP / Getty Images)

36. Left-wing opposition rally in Kiev. (Sergei Chuzavkov/Associated Press) (Sergei Chuzavkov / Associated Press)

37. A demonstrator CCOO organization with a pick at a rally in Malaga, Spain. (Jon Nazca/Reuters) (Jon Nazca / Reuters)

38. Demonstrators with placards shout slogans during a rally in the center of Lisbon. (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images) (Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP / Getty Images)

39. The girl with the flag of the General Workers' Union at a May Day rally in the center of Madrid. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets all over the world the first of May, in order to defend the rights of workers among serious economic problems.