In Pictures: May Day marches

Images from demonstrations and rallies around the world marking May Day.

In Australia, arrests followed an attempted blockade of Sydney's stock exchange

Police made dozens of arrests as they tried to clear the protestors from the streets

In Germany, riot police clashed with anti-capitalist protesters in east Berlin near the former site of the Berlin Wall

About 100 pro-democracy marchers were arrested attempting to defy a ban on marches in Karachi in Pakistan

Shops and businesses in London are taking no chances after vandalism during last year's demonstration

In India, sex workers marched to protest against what they say is the oppression of women by the Taleban in Afghanistan

In Moscow, several thousand communists staged a May Day rally reminiscent of those held at the height of the Soviet era

Workers in Seoul, South Korea, marched to protest about the government's economic policies