May Day Demonstrators Rally Across Asia

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May Day Demonstrators Rally Across Asia

By IRWAN FIRDAUS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Workers across Asia rallied Monday to press for better factory conditions and higher wages, often encountering a heavy police presence and, in some places, outright resistance.


Demonstrations were planned in major cities across Indonesia, with up to 50,000 people expected in the capital alone to protest government plans to revise a labor law. The new law would cut severance packages and introduce more flexible contracts that would chip away at worker security.

"Don't change the law," thousands of laborers chanted at Jakarta's main downtown roundabout, as others arrived in buses and trucks, waving green, yellow and red flags and banners expressing their demands.

Fearing violence, about 13,000 police were deployed on the streets, some carrying riot shields and manning water cannons, said police chief Maj. Gen. Firman Ganisaid.

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1. Vive la revolution du monde...

People all over the world are reacting to global corporate fascism.

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2. Yep. And reacting to PNAC imperialist aggression as well.

Which in essence is global corporate fascist imperialism.

The global corporate fascists and their PNAC policemen seem determined, in their greed and ignorance, to prove that Marx was correct in his assessment of inevitable historical processes.