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.