Berlin, GERMANY, May 1, 2015: May Day celebrations in Oranienstrasse, Kreuzberg. For an entire day most of Kreuzberg SO 36 district is cordoned off to allow people to mingle, drink, and dance through the streets during MyFest. In recent years, May Day has been rather peaceful. However, at times there are still riots, with leftwing youth throwing rocks and bottles, smashing windows, setting cars on fire, and getting into fights with the police. The riots originated in May 1, 1987, when a fight between young autonomists who fought for anticapitalist change and the police first took place on a grand scale.
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