ANNOUNCEMENT
May Day should be the starting point for new struggles of the militant
trade unions to achieve all our rights and have the life we deserve.
As TUI PS of
Europe, the trade unions, all workers, are optimistically moving forward on the
path blazed by the Chicago worker heroes, the thousands of named and unnamed
militants who fell for the justice of our class, for liberation from capitalist
exploitation.
May 1st, the
day when workers around the world, those who hold the driving belts of the universe,
raise our fists. It is a day of struggle, a day for the militant promotion of
our demands, a day of glorious remembrance of the fighters who fell for the
right of the working class. In Europe, all workers are getting stronger and
joining our voices with the workers who are on strike, on militant mobilizations.
In France, Greece,
Germany, Sweden, Norway, England, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus,
Denmark and in other countries where millions of workers are going out on the
streets, striking, demanding and demonstrating with unprecedented massiveness
and endurance against the unpopular policies that all governments are
escalating, serving the interests and needs of the business groups.
We are against
those who call us to stay on the path of realism with our heads bowed, to be
trapped in the logic of the "lesser evil" and the one-way street of
the bosses' power, the workers' mobilizations in a number of countries send
promising messages of militant uplift.
We are opposed
to those who support the system of exploitation, who predict with crocodile
tears the end of the working class, who say that struggles do not bring results
and who characterize strikes as outdated forms of struggle.
The lessons of
the bloody sacrifice of the Chicago workers remain relevant, alive, a flame for
every worker around the world.
MAY 1st as a
day of remembrance, action and continuity of struggle is necessary to defeat
those who today defend a system of injustice, a rotten system that cannot be corrected,
cannot be humanized. The capitalist path of development, the subordination of
our lives to their profits, will only bring sufferings and misery for the
working class, for the peoples of the whole world. But it is also necessary to
defeat the trade union organizations that have cultivated the idea that workers
and the monopolies have common interests, a view expressed by ETUC and EPSU.
Today there is
a way out! With our struggles, we can overthrow them! This is the way to change
the current negative balance of power. This is the way to break the chains of
exploitation. To draw our own path of development, which will have as its sole
motive the satisfaction of the modern needs of the people, which will be
centred on man, the producers of wealth! This is what they fear, this is what
they dread! To put their fear into practice.
Long live the workers' May Day
