Dhaka, May 1 -- Workers and labour organisations have held rallies and processions to mark International Workers' Day and push for their fundamental rights.

Thousands of working-class people assembled under different banners outside the National Press Club in Dhaka from 9am on Friday.

Leaders of the Sramik Karmachari Oikkya Parishad (SKOP) stressed that alongside the full implementation of labour laws, the minimum wage must be set at Tk 30,000.

They maintained that without this shift, the remnants of the "system of servitude" would persist in society, adding that working hours must be strictly defined and enforced.

The Socialist Workers' Front pressed for the cancellation of "anti-national" trade deals with the United States.

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