Workers around the world took to the streets Friday, May 1 to mark International Workers Day, more commonly known as May Day, with marches and calls for higher pay and better working conditions.
May Day Celebrated Around the World
![A women delivers a speech as she stands on a chair of the public art project "Anything to Say?" at the Alexander Square in Berlin, Germany, May 1, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/70D82BC8-C08D-47B8-B08E-E528DD6142C4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A women delivers a speech as she stands on a chair of the public art project "Anything to Say?" at the Alexander Square in Berlin, Germany, May 1, 2015.
![A Myanmar worker uses a loudspeaker to shout slogans as she takes part in a May Day street march in Yangon, Myanmar, May 1, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4A26FA89-64CA-471E-855E-279480873EF0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Myanmar worker uses a loudspeaker to shout slogans as she takes part in a May Day street march in Yangon, Myanmar, May 1, 2015.
![A masked protestor poses with a sign reading "We are missing 43. They took them alive. We want them back alive" in front of a recently erected monument to the missing rural teachers college students from Guerrero state, during a May Day march in Mexico City, May 1, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/CC28C11C-4B85-473C-AF60-94777FA1C28B_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A masked protestor poses with a sign reading "We are missing 43. They took them alive. We want them back alive" in front of a recently erected monument to the missing rural teachers college students from Guerrero state, during a May Day march in Mexico City, May 1, 2015.
![A child attends a march organized by Lebanese Communist party to mark Labour Day in Beirut, May 1, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8DDE1BEF-899A-48D2-9976-5AE11D969E4E_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A child attends a march organized by Lebanese Communist party to mark Labour Day in Beirut, May 1, 2015.