New Duranty: Left-wing protesters erected barricades in the streets of Hamburg and burned police cars as part of a demonstration against a march by neo-Nazis that the counter-demonstrators said was intended as a provocation on May Day. In the confusion of smoke and smashed windshields, the counter-demonstrators attacked the police, stormed a cafe and set fires, a police spokesman said. The police said they had arrested 56 people and detained 227 others. They estimated that 1,500 people had participated in the right-wing march and 6,600 in the left-wing response.

Meanwhile in America, the illegal immigrant May Day marches have fizzled - probably because the backlash among ordinary Americans who were shocked to see so many illegals in their towns.

In the Los Angeles May Day illegal-alien marches:

2006: 500,000

2007: 35,000

2008: 8,500

In Chicago:

2006: 400,000

2007: 150,000

2008: 15,000

(hat tip: Mark Krikorian)