Is the United States the only country that celebrates May Day with protests? No. Countries across the globe mark May 1 as a day to celebrate labor and to highlight the problems workers face.

The day honors the struggles and achievements of labor movements fighting for workers' rights. In some countries, it's a public holiday similar to Labor Day in the United States.

Six weeks before Chomsky, Ellsberg and Zinn protested on May Day, 1971, Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam. As Saigon fell, Viet, then four years old, fled with his family to the United States.

From worker rights rallies to marches for social justice, activists around the globe kicked off May Day demonstrations on Thursday. In some countries, it’s a public holiday honoring labor, but ...

President Donald Trump late Thursday announced plans to designate May 8 as World War II “Victory Day” in the United States, which coincides with the “Victory in Europe Day” that has been ...

In May of 1886, activists in the United States organized a national strike to promote an eight-hour workday. One of the protests, in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, turned violent, with days of ...