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May Day

May 2024

  • Silhouettes of morris dancers on a blue and pink sky

    Photos of the day
    May Day protests, frolics and a volcano: photos of the day – Wednesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

May 2023

  • Protester holds placard amid burning shop window

    At least 108 police injured and 291 held in May Day protests in cities across France

  • Police clash with protesters across Paris who threw petrol bombs in violent Labour Day march – video

May 2022

  • Zoe Williams

    Digested week
    Digested week: bank holidays exist to remind me why schools exist

    Zoe Williams
    Arguments with my 14-year-old, bad dogs at polling stations, and Piers Morgan’s silent majority goes missing
  • Crowds of people at May Day protests in Berlin

    Feminist ‘witch’ protest kicks off May Day protests in Berlin

    Women’s safety campaigners among thousands on Germany’s streets in annual labour day marches
  • The traditional May Day labour union march in Paris on Sunday

    May Day marches across France send pensions message to Macron

    Eight police officers injured and 45 arrests made in Paris after protests on fringes turn violent

May 2021

  • Members of the Hook Eagle Morris Men

    Morris dancers and the origin of blackface

  • Haxey Hood Game. Haxey, Lincolnshire

    Homer Sykes: capturing the whimsy, folklore and festivals of Britain

  • Hook Eagle Morris Men.

    May Day morris dancers swap black face paint for blue over concerns of racism

  • Demonstrators march through central London during the May Day ‘kill the bill’ protest in London.

    Thousands march through London in biggest ‘kill the bill’ protest yet

May 2020

  • A giant union flag drawn into the sand at Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland to mark the VE Day anniversary

    The Guardian view on the VE Day anniversary: never again, 2020 style

  • Workers during the pandemic

    May Day workers confronting coronavirus around the world – in pictures

April 2020

  • A May Day demonstration in Berlin, Germany, last year

    German police face dilemma as May Day activists plan to cover faces

    Plans for physical distancing-compliant demonstrations test anti-mask laws

3 May 2019

  • Christophe Castaner

    French interior minister under pressure over 'hospital attack' claim

    Christophe Castaner accused of exaggerating May Day incident at Paris hospital

2 May 2019

  • May Day Protests Take Place In Paris<br>PARIS, FRANCE - MAY 01: Riot police are seen as they try to contain demonstrators outside a University Hospitals Pitié Salpêtrière building during the annual May Day protests on May 01, 2019 in Paris, France. More than 7,400 police and security forces have been deployed in the city to prevent a repeat of the violence and disorder seen in 2018.(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

    Paris hospital attacked by May Day protesters, say officials

  • Red Square, Moscow, 1936.

    From the Guardian archive
    May Day parades around the world – archive, 1936

1 May 2019

  • Porthleven in Cornwall during the August heatwave of 1990.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: the long hot summer of 1990 began in May

  • A protester next to a burning barricade in Paris

    Clashes as May Day protesters march in cities across Europe

  • Police and protesters have clashed in cities across Europe as tens of thousands of trade unionists, anti-capitalists and other demonstrators march in traditional May Day rallies

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    May Day: teargas and arrests in protests across Europe – video report

  • Paris, France Riot police walk past a burning barricade as they clash with protesters

    Photos of the day
    May Day rallies around the world: Wednesday's top photos

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