May Day( May 1st) more popularly known as International Workers day, provides a unique opportunity for the working class to reflect on their current situation, in working environment that is largely hostile to their general well being and more focused on the profit of the enterprise.
This is a status that irrespective of the kind of work that you do for a living, whether you are a medical doctor, engineer, professor, teacher, lawyer, work in the factory, farm, household, bus or train driver, you are trading your labour to the company/ enterprise that employs or ‘buy your service’, for either a monthly, forth-nightly, weekly or daily wage to feed your family and yourself in order to stay alive.
So on this May Day, we offer solidarity to all the workers in the world whether they are in France, struggling against their government’s collusion with the capitalist class, to take away the workers retirement pay by unilaterally extending their working years, in Britain where the medical workers have been demonstrating for higher wages due to the ravages brought on by inflation to their income.
In the USA where the young workers at both Amazon warehouses and Starbuck coffee shops are agitating for unionization to better their working conditions and their lives, just to highlight a few of the struggles that are happening in the bastions of the capitalist world.
Without the workers these enterprises cannot exist and despite this indisputable fact, the paid ‘mouth-pieces’ and apologist for the capitalist system insist that the working class is not important, can’t lead revolutions and more importantly cannot run society. These pro-capitalist ideas are refined to a science, as they are taught at the highest levels of learning in our universities, even as this anti-working class system runs the world into chaos, economic ruin, climate catastrophe, pandemic and wars.
Thankfully, we are living witnesses to an example of what a working class/peasant alliance can do for its people as is the case with our sister country Cuba, where in its 64th year of a revolution led by Fidel, despite one of the most prolonged, murderous and destabilizing campaign in the history of mankind’s relation with each other, coupled with 62 plus- years of an illegal, criminal economic, financial and commercial blockade by the most powerful empire in the world, it remains a beacon for all us that a better world is indeed possible.
Workers of the World Unite
Trevor G Brown
President