Join 3CR in our 50th year of coverage on achievements of the labour movement, in solidarity with the continued struggle for labour rights and fair working conditions for communities around the world.
May Day is International Workers’ Day. 3CR supports the fight of workers and unions for better wages and conditions, and their democratic rights to organise and unionise, wherever they are.
Tune in on Friday 1 May and Sunday 3 May 2026 to hear 3CR's May Day coverage:
Friday 1 May 2026 | 12.30am - 7.00pm
3CR's yearly May Day special broadcast, including regular Friday programs with a May Day presentation, plus some specials in our yearly commemoration on 1 May 2025
12.30 - 5.00am | Special Feature | Talkback with Attitude! May Day All Night
Back by ... demand! For the 3rd year running, join our hosts Pat ‘The Axe’ Khor, Dr Joe Toscano & their fine feathered friends LIVE on Talkback's special May Day All Night.Share your comments, questions, stories, and announcements, and we'll provide an encyclopaedic history of May Day, plus great company, music, and best of all - attitude! Put May Day All Night in your calendar. A special and unique opportunity to gather ‘round the radio. Call (03) 9419 0155, or text in on 0488 809 855.
5.00am-7.00am | May Day special features
7.00 - 8.30am | Green Left Radio | 'Friday Breakfast' presenters
8.30 - 9.00am | Left After Breakfast | Presenter Susanna Duffy
3CR Volunteer for 43 years running, and weekly programmer since 1985, host Susanna says:
"May Day isn’t just about history — it’s about continuity. It connects past struggles to present issues, and links:
It’s about solidarity and collective power. It reinforces the truth that workers are stronger together."
9.00-10.00am | Kill Your Lawn & Kick Your Fence | Presenter Amy Ciara
Focusing on bush workers and gardeners for May Day.
10.00-11.00am | Think Again | Presenter Jacques Boulet
Conversations and reflections about workers struggles here and abroad, in a 1 hour May Day special of Think Again.
11.00am-12.00pm | Blak 'n' Deadly | Presented by Djuran Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe and Zvi Belling.
12.00-2.00pm | Music Matters | Presenter Joe Malignaggi
Live bands and May Day music with Joe and 3CR's award-winning Live-to-Air tech team!
2.00 - 4.00pm | Burning Vinyl | Presenter Matt Gleeson
The best of local, unsigned music - for workers! Live band with Matt and our Live-to-Air tech team.
4.00 - 5.00 | In Ya Face | Presenter James McKenzie
Interviews and commentary on workers movements from an LGBTIQA+ perspectives, with James, longtime 3CR programmer, and former co-host of Stick Together.
5.00 - 5.30 | A Friday Rave | Presenters Jacob Grech and Mercedes Zanker
Activists and ravers Jacob and Mercedes with a special, including their usual incisive commentary and analysis.
5.30 - 6.30 | Slacker Radio | Presenters Tilde Joy and Jordan Adams
Slackers' bread'n'butter - "radical unionism, local street movements, complaints about waged labour and strategies to slack off at work and still get paid." With music and specials to commemorate May Day 2026.
6.30 - 7.30pm | International Workers’ Programming | Special Feature
Sunday 3 May, 2.00pm - 4.00pm
3CR's two-hour LIVE outside broadcast from the yearly May Day Sunday event, which is organised by the Melbourne May Day Committee. Live discussions with rallygoers from Marisol Salinas (Mujeres Latinoamericanas), plus speeches and May Day audio extras!
