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Working people around the world marked International Labour Day with rallies and marches, and not all were welcomed by their respective governments.  In Paris, riot cops were dispatched for some reason and and got into a melee with demonstrators, with at least one officer taken to hospital with terrible burns after getting hit with a Molotov cocktail.  Tensions between activists communities and police have been strained since the false arrest and rape of a black man by police officers earlier this year.
Molotovs in Paris

The Paris clashes come just six days before the second round of the Presidential election which pits xenophobe Marine Le Pen against Centrist Emmanuel Macron.  Some on France's Left are reportedly on the fence about voting, with the choices being the same ol' same ol' neo-liberal economic crap versus "stop the nazi".  Take a look at Turkey, Trump, Hungary, or any number of countries where the fascists got in.. the choice is clear.  A melange of opinion polls gives Macron a 60 percent to 40 percent advantage over Le Pen.

In Turkey, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets when May Day marchers tried to go to Taksim Square, the epicenter of protests against the growing authoritarianism of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2013.  It has since been declared off-limits to free gatherings and protests.  Authorities detained more than 200 people at protests around Istanbul.

South African President Jacob "why is this guy still in office" Zuma abandoned plans to attend a May Day rally because workers booing him.  scuffles broke out between his supporters and opponents, and all speeches were canceled.  The main labour federation holding the rally has already called on Zuma to step down for sacking the widely respected finance minister, not to mention the vast corruption scandals plaguing Zuma and his administration.  Despite the growing discontent, Zuma plans to stay on until his term ends in 2019.

Donald Trump now wants to meet the other tubby dangerous authoritarian leader with delusions of grandeur and a nuclear weapons program, Kim Jong-un of North Korea.  "If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would - absolutely.  I would be honored to do it," he told Bloomberg News.  This comes a day after he praised the hereditary dictator of the hermit kingdom as a "smart cookie" for achieving and maintaining power (by being the son of the previous dictator and killing anyone who might be able to challenge him, such as his uncle and brother).  This came as a shock to US allies, the US national security apparatus, and the White House staff:  Spokesman Sean Spicer later rolled back Trump's ramblings with, "Clearly conditions are not there right now."

Earlier, Trump invited Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House, apparently without clearing it with his advisors first.  They might have reminded Trump that rights activists hold Duterte responsible for thousands of killings in his gruesome "War on Drugs" which literally encourages citizens to kill anyone they "suspect" of drug dealing.  That has led to at least 7,200 extra-judicial killings.  Duterte himself threw shade all over Trump, saying he "cannot make any definite promise" to travel to the US because of a busy schedule with trips planned to Russia and Israel.

Dozens of people were hurt when a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane out of Moscow hit severe turbulence en route to Bangkok.  The Boeing 777 shook violently when it hit a pocket of "clear air" turbulence, which is a disturbance without a telltale cloud that pilots could have seen and avoided.  Several passenger suffered broken bones; out of the 27 injuries, 17 are waking up in hospital this morning.

The Argentine human rights group "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" is marking its 40th anniversary.  Every week for the last four decades, mothers and grandmothers wearing white scarves march past the Pink House presidential palace demanding to know what happened to their children who disappeared during the US-backed fascist dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.  Most of the original mothers are old and frail, and there have been relatively few families reunited out of 30,000 disappearances.  In many cases, right-wing authorities murdered Left wing activists and stole their children, giving them to military and conservative families to raise.  Recently, conservative president Mauricio Macri - like any good little atrocity-denier - was criticized for questioning the number of murders and abductions.