Workers Vent Anger at May Day Rallies Across Europe

Hundreds of thousands of workers across Europe mobilized on May Day to demand more political muscle in the face of global capitalism, as clashes with police marred some rallies.
In Germany, more than 500,000 trade union activists hit the streets across the country on Sunday to demand more jobs and a roll-back of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's tough new labor market reforms.
...French workers marched in a string of May Day demonstrations, with their divisions over the EU constitution overshadowing their common concerns about jobs, salaries and a cancelled bank holiday.
...In Russia, tens of thousands of people from across the political spectrum flooded onto the streets for May Day as the nation marked the Soviet-era Labor holiday which coincides this year with Orthodox Easter.