any idea where/whether its possible to get any of the stickers so as to spread the message?

These look great. They will spread.

See you on May 1st.

Start the sundances now. Let's have a festival!

Yippy! I will be there to join the TUC march!

Yes I'll be hitting the streets wearing the bleeding tag they've put on my right ankle and I hope to knock a few peelers helmets off too and quite possibly those of that SERCO lot...
Regards to all the Mayday crew years past, this one is from me to you.
I simply love police cars---Especially when there wrapped round lamposts....

Pleased to see this, I will do my best to spread the news on my blog and elsewhere.

... in the usual places... russell square, rampart...

MAY DAY- INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL – MIGRANTS, REFUGEES, LEGAL OR 'ILLEGAL'
TEAR DOWN THE BORDERS THAT DIVIDE US

MONDAY 1ST MAY – MAYDAY PARADE
Meet 12pm Clerkenwell Green &
join the Autonomous Bloc on the TUC march

May Day is International Workers Day, a day that should recognize that the working class is an international class; that the oppressed and exploited throughout the world have everything in common with each other and nothing in common with 'their' nation, 'their' government and 'their' bosses. So migrants, refugees, those deemed 'illegal immigrants' by the State, those facing deportation, people in detention, should be at the center of what May Day is all about.

The Trade Union movement has had a sorry history in relation to immigration controls. At the beginning of the 20th century the TUC agitated for the first immigration controls against Jews, which helped bring about the introduction of the 1905 Aliens Act. At various times throughout that century trades unions have organised against migrant workers and for greater controls.

So not only have migrants confronted with the physical and legal borders, they have to contest the borders that exist within the workers movement itself. On May Day we must challenge that and call for a world without borders.

There has always been a voice within the trade union movement in support of migrant rights and against controls starting with the 'Voice from the Aliens' over a hundred years ago. More recently trades unions have opposed new legislation strengthening immigration controls. Today some unions such as Natfhe and NUJ have come out against immigration controls.

Immigration controls are in your work place and the union ought to be fighting them. People in the caring professions are supposed to act as immigration officers; reporting migrants to the Home Office, denying people services because of their immigration status, evicting them and taking their children away. We say DEFIANCE NOT COMPLIANCE!

People in your union are rounded up, detained and deported. We say NO DEPORTATION! NO DETENTIONS! Set up or support a campaign against their deportation. Take industrial action to oppose their deportation.

'Illegal' or precarious immigration status makes many workers vulnerable to super-exploitation paid well below the minimum wage with no health and safety conditions. The tragic consequences of this have been seen on the sands of Morecambe Bay. It is a duty of the trades union movement to organise, support and defend all workers regardless of their immigration status and say loud and clear IMMIGRATION CONTROLS KILL! NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!

WHO ARE LONDON NO BORDERS? London No Borders are a group of people who are opposed to immigration controls. As well as putting forward the arguments against immigration controls, we are involved, often with alliance with others, with practical activities against the various aspects of controls.

We are working to support people detained in centers around London – Harmondsworth and Colnbrook, Yarlswood – organising visits, campaigning for their release and against their deportations. We have organised demonstrations at Harmondsworth and Colnbrook.

We are currently supporting the self-organised struggles against detention centres by people detained inside Colnbrook, Haslar and Harmondsworth detention centres, who have formed a new movement called ‘Cry Freedom’ to demand their release. Their dissent has taken the form of hunger strikes, mass food refusals, and sit-down protests, and many of them have faced severe repression from guards as a result of this.

We leaflet at centers where asylum seekers have to sign-on and could be detained and taken away, with information about their rights.

We support and encourage people in the caring professions to refuse to carry out immigration control duties.

We disseminate information about campaigns around the country and around the world and will work in concert to make international days of action.

We meet every two weeks on Thursdays. Our next meeting is on Thursday 4th May, 7pm @ The Square Social Centre, 21 Russell Square, London WC1.

If you want to get involved you can contact us at  noborderslondon@riseup.net.

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL! NO BORDERS!

Is this what every1s callin the Cannabis march?

Who in their fucking right mind wants to 'march' with you load of dead beats.

If Jo would be so willing to forward her e-mail address then maybe we can speak to you in person rather than throwing un-intellectual comments like fucking and dead beats. What is your point precisely?

The fact you don't know about mayday i consider to be a fault of the state as it should of been taught at school,
Originally it was in 1 May 1886 and it was a mass protest / strike of workers in America, Chicago or New York i forget which, they protested on working conditions and for an 8 hours working day (as opposed to up to 16), the benefits of that you probably enjoy now,
Since then it became an annual event of socialists and anarchists communists and other "radicals" which oppose our enslavements to our "masters", be they our bosses, our governments, their wars, corporations and other institutes which hold us back, or repress us.

Feel free to add or correct me on that though

FUCK NEUROMAYDAY

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE
DESTROY EUROPEAN SUPREMACISM

As the European Union grows in power, Pan-European internationalism will create more problems than it solves. Whereas some may see “European-wide” links as being a healthy way of breaking out of the limits of the nation, for us the real key to internationalism lies in its universalism. We suggest that the abandonment of “Europe-wide” organising is necessary to allow a more egalitarian way of organising which does not privilege the “European”, whether understood in terms of culture, race or region.
It is precisely this three-fold ambiguity in the sense of the word “European” that gives it such a volatile ideological value. It can be understood by different people in different ways. Those that understand it terms of region, perforce must adopt the sort of territorialism which is characteristic of the state, in this case the emerging European Union. Another conception is racial, which originated in the consolidation of a White social elite in European colonies outside Europe. The third associates the highest level of human achievement with the history of Europe from the days of ancient Greece to today.
Europe-wide organising has a reactionary effect by:
• Encouraging a European identity as something separate from humanity in general by privileging European connectedness.
• Discouraging the participation of people from non-European diasporas living in Europe by discriminating against their social, cultural and political connections with places outside Europe
• Obstructing a critical appraisal of Eurocentrism, institutional racism and White Supremacy by adopting a structure which facilitates all three.
"Globalisation" has highlighted our increasing need to develop counter-strategies at a global level. For this to succeed we need to ensure that an organisational practice that embraces the whole of humanity, rather than allowing a method of organisation which asserts the autonomy of one of the richest parts of the world which has a track record of spreading destruction, exploitation and brutality across the world since the inception of capitalism in the sixteenth century C.E.
17th May 2005 West Essex Zapatista


 http://ourmayday.org

Discrimination : posts using language, imagery, or other forms of communication promoting racism, fascism, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia or any other form of discrimination.

This Euromayday is racist. It discriminates between European people who take the stereets for Mayday and non-European people. Why does Indymedia UK sanction this racism?