*sigh*<\/p>\n
Boneheads in Dortmund attacked a trade union rally: “In the western city of Dortmund, police opened an inquiry against 280 neo-Nazis who attacked a parade of trade unionists with stones and clubs Friday. A police union [?] said neo-Nazis assaulted people and police in five other cities on May Day.” Berlin can has pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in Melbourne, ex-Miaowist<\/a> Brian ‘Working Class Discipline’<\/a> Boyd wants teh Government to like, invest in manufacturing. ‘N’ stuff. Not a line I remember from the Internationale<\/em>, but whatever. (See also<\/em> : Manufacturing decline is all made up<\/a>, Kim Carr, The Age<\/em>, June 4, 2008 ~versus<\/em>~ Manufacturing falls to 17-year low<\/a>, Ed Logue, The Age<\/em>, May 2, 2009.)<\/p>\n Organisers expect big turnout for May Day rally<\/p>\n Organisers of this afternoon’s May Day rally through the streets of Melbourne are expecting a big turnout.<\/p>\n Workers are gathering outside Trades Hall in Lygon Street, Carlton and will march down Swanston, Bourke and Russell Streets, before returning to Lygon Street, from 1:00 pm.<\/p>\n Trades Hall secretary Brian Boyd says they will be calling on governments to do more to protect jobs during the economic downturn.<\/p>\n “There will be a couple of speeches along the way, we will definitely be calling on both the State and Federal Government to take the impact on job losses from the financial crisis far more seriously than they are already,” he said.<\/p>\n “We think there’s a lot more governments can be doing to make sure that Victorian jobs are saved.<\/p>\n “Both the state and federal budgets are coming out at the moment, even though they’ve got some stimulus packages, they aren’t targetted enough to protect our manufacturing base that is slowly being eradicated by overseas markets, we need to concentrate on our manufacturing base.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Makes me wanna shoop<\/strike> listen to some Kraftwerk<\/strike> Kreator.<\/p>\n