EuroMayDay

EuroMayDay is a political day of action against precarity promoted by a network of feminist, anti-capitalist and migrant groups and collectives in mostly Western Europe. It takes place on 1 May each year, May Day, traditionally a European spring holiday, which is now also celebrated by socialists, communists and others as International Workers' Day. EuroMayDay has been promoted as an attempt to "update" the traditional International Workers' Day by focusing on flex and temp workers, migrants and other "precarious" people living in Europe.

History

The "Middlesex Declaration of Europe's Precariat" emerged from the Beyond ESF event held in parallel to the European Social Forum in London in October 2004.

In 2005, the EuroMayDay network used the slogan "Precarious people of the world let's unite and strike 4 a free, open, radical Europe".

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