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• Fidel Castro sends word to May Day rally

  2 May 2007: There was no sign of the convalescing Fidel Castro as hundreds of thousands of Cubans yesterday marched through Havana's Revolution Plaza to celebrate May Day, an event the island's 'maximum leader' has attended over decades.

• Late excitement shakes off May Day blues

  1 May 2007:

  Closing market report: After a fairly dull start to the day, the market burst into life late on with potential takeovers and a scandal involving BP's Lord Browne. By Nick Fletcher.

• No sign of Castro as Cubans celebrate May Day

  1 May 2007: Hundreds of thousands of cheering Cubans marched through Revolution Plaza in Havana to mark May Day today, but there was no immediate sign of Fidel Castro.

• United again

  1 May 2007:

  Unions celebrate May Day with renewed optimism as new members are breathing life back into the movement. Duncan Campbell reports.

• Turkish police break up May Day protest

  1 May 2007: Turkish riot police today clashed with protesters in Istanbul marking the 30th anniversary of a deadly May Day rally.

• Oxford's May Day bridge leap banned for 3 years

  7 Jun 2006: Magdalen Bridge, where Oxford students leap into the River Cherwell on May Day, will close for the next three years on May 1 for safety reasons.

• Bolivia's swoop for gas reserves stuns energy giants

  3 May 2006: · EU and US caught out by nationalisation move
  · Shares fall after Morales sends in army on May Day

• May Day marchers demand workplace justice

  1 May 2006:

• May Day march

  30 Apr 2006: Tristram Hunt: As the Labour machine faces one of its most testing times, it might draw inspiration from the original message of May Day.

• Early start to holiday brings motorway jams

  29 Apr 2006: · Weather outlook for May Day mainly bleak
  · Bedding plant sales boom but DIY gets thumbs down

• Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses

  29 Apr 2006:

  Anti-Flag are not your average punk rockers. These four vegetarian Pittsburgh polemicists with their anti-war, anti-racism, anti-corporatism, anti-globalisation agenda could be one of the most right on bands in the world.

• Celebrating May Day the pagan way

  1 May 2005:

  Bank holidays don't have to mean DIY and traffic jams. Richard Lewis joins the Wessex Morris Men for an ancient dawn ritual.

• No fizz in this year's May Day protest, say police

  30 Apr 2005: Officials predict calm in capital tomorrow as anti-capitalist demonstrators conserve their energy for mass action at G8 summit in July.

• Two fail in May Day test case

  24 Mar 2005: A breastfeeding mother and an office worker detained during a May Day protest for more than seven hours without food, drink or toilet facilities lost a high court claim for damages against the Metropolitan police yesterday.

• May Day detainees lose damages case

  23 Mar 2005: Two people who were detained during a May Day protest for more than seven hours without food, drink or toilet facilities today lost a high court damages action against the police.

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