DRUMS AND SOUNDS OF CELEBRATION HEARD HALF A MILE AWAY
Police vans line avenue de Choisy that leads to City Hall.
Arrive a place d'Italie: crowd too great to proceed toward City Hall or to see the signs shown in televised reports (which themselves did not show those below).
Participant carries sign with anti-war messages on both sides.
"In Palestine. In Ukraine. In the world. PEACE!"
The flag represents indigenous people of the Andes
"Women in Struggle:" Part of the Andean demonstration
"May 1: LONG LIVE THE WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE !"
Young men selling the newspaper of Lutte ouvrière, a working-class party
T-shirt sticker: "Capitalism is war. If you want peace, prepare the revolution!"
A brawl led to two arrests lower down on this street, but here police and demonstrators chat amicably.
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After two hours of celebration
the demonstrators marched through the eastern city
gathering even more participants.
They arrived another huge open space
built for massing troops,
place de la Nation.
Participants listening to speech by the leader of France insoumis ("France unbowed") / zoom
Police and union crowd size estimates differ as usual,
but media stated a crowd twice as large
as in 2024.
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