May Day 2025: Stand up for workers and immigrants’ rights!

A few days from May 1st, an emblematic day of workers' rights, centrist senators supported by the government want to relax the rules governing work on this day, especially for bakers and florists. "No question," the CGT replied on Sunday, April 27.

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May Day 2025: Stand up for workers and immigrants’ rights!

On International Workers Day 2025, our mission is clear: Stand up for workers and immigrants’ rights. Since Trump’s inauguration, the p...

An Acrimed leaflet for the May 1 demonstrations. Available in pdf here. Regularly called "work festival" by the dominant media, on May 1 is the subject of massive depoliticization. As the redundancies multiply, the struggles of workers are ignored, while the government's attacks on the social protection system, the rights of employees and public services are relegated to the background. In line with the finance law 2025 imposing budgetary bleeds…

At the end of the 19th century, the living conditions of working men and women remained miserable and enslaved; they couldn't have been worse: 16-hour workdays, meager wages, and no rights. Children worked from the age of 6, and women worked at night to supplement the family wage. Poverty and exploitation were commonplace among the working class, and police repression served the bosses. Faced with this extreme struggle to survive, the workers' s…

A wide representation of the Holguín workers' movement participated in the Provincial Plenary for May Day