Workers burn an effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino during a May Day protest outside the presidential palace in Manila yesterday. International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day or May Day, commemorates the struggle of workers in industrialised countries in the 19th century for better working conditions.

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