** Workers Memorial Day ( International )

** The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.

** In India, May 1 is declared as ' Maharashtra Divas ', i. e., Maharashtra Day ( also celebrated as ' Kaamgaar Divas ', i. e., Workers Day ).

** While working as a spy for the police, Adolf Hitler is ordered to monitor the German Workers Party.

** The Steel Workers Organizing Committee is founded in the United States.

** The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee ( UFWOC ), predecessor of the United Farm Workers of America ( UFW ), is formed.

** The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola.

** The United Mine Workers of America is founded.

** The Polish United Workers ' Party votes to legalize Solidarity.

** César Chávez, American labor activist, United Farm Workers founder ( d. 1993 )

** Hungary ( Hungarian Working People's Party ) 1948-1956, ( Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ) 1956-1989

** North Vietnam ( Workers ' Party of Vietnam ) 1945-1976

** Poland ( Polish United Workers ' Party led the Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth ) 1948-1989

** ( National Socialist German Workers ' Party ) 1933-1945

** United Farm Workers headquarters

** Arbeiter-und Soldatenräte ( Workers ' and Soldiers ' Councils ) established throughout Germany, beginning in Kiel, during the German Revolution of November 1918, including Bremen, Braunschweig, Würzburg, Munich ( Bavarian Soviet Republic ( 1918 – 1919 )) and Alsace ( Alsace Soviet Republic ( 8 – 22 November 1918 )).

** Finnish Socialist Workers ' Republic ( January – April 1918 ) in the south of Finland only: Social Democratic Party of Finland.

** Communication Workers Union ( South Africa )

** Communication Workers Union ( Trinidad and Tobago )

** Communication Workers Union ( UK )

** Communication Workers Union of Australia

** French Confederation of Christian Workers

** Workers ' Force

** The Master of Elibank, Lord Murray, the Treasurer of the Liberal Party,

** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

** Democratic Party ( United States )

** Democratic Party of Japan

** Official Bharatiya Janata Party Web Site

** Islamic Dawa Party ( Hizb al-Da ' wa al-Islamiyya )-led by Nouri al-Maliki

** Kurdistan Democratic Party ( Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê )-led by Massoud Barzani

** Kurdistan Toilers ’ Party ( Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan )

** Kurdistan Communist Party ( Partiya Komunîst Kurdistan )

** Assyrian Patriotic Party

** Party Chairman

** General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam

** The second was based in Cyprus and led by Homayoun Jarir, a member of the Islamic Party of his father-in-law, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

** Progressive Canadian Party, Canada's new progressive conservative party

** Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a now-defunct Canadian centre-right conservative political party

** Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Ontario

** Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN ( National Action Party ), ending 71 years of PRI ( Institutional Revolutionary Party ) rule.

** The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections in Israel.

** Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and Vice Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, addresses the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention, challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation.

** The Labour Party wins the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom, ending 13 years of Conservative Party rule.

** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.

** The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.

** The Social Revolutionary Party declares Belarus independent ; Bolshevik armies soon crush them.