May Day greetings from the Socialist Party
Date: Saturday, April 30 @ 02:21:14 CDT
Topic: Socialist Party


The Socialist Party sends May Day greetings to our comrades in the CWI and workers and youth across the world.

May Day has historically been celebrated as a day of international working-class solidarity and struggle. It has added significance this year as workers and young people confront a globalised capitalist system attacking our working conditions, polluting our environment and killing thousands of men, women and children each year through war, starvation and preventable diseases.

The origins of May Day lie in the struggles of the American trade union movement in the late 19th century for a maximum eight-hour day.500,000 took part in demonstrations and the first national general strike in US history on 1 May 1886, winning their demand with no loss of pay.

Today in Australia and across the world, workers rights are being attacked as the bosses aim to squeeze even more profit from the real wealth creators, the working class.

The bosses' global offensive will need an international challenge from the workers' movement. The solidarity shown by millions of ordinary people for the victims of the tsunami disaster, in contrast to the meanness and hypocrisy of capitalist governments, gave a glimpse of the potential to unite working people across national boundaries.

Recent years have seen mass international movements by hundreds of thousands of young people against the warmongers Bush and Blair and Howard and capitalist institutions, such as the World Bank and IMF. But it will be the struggles of the working class in defence of wages, against job losses and privatisation that will be crucial in the battle to transform society.

The celebratory May Day solidarity demonstrations of today will tomorrow be transformed into an international struggle for socialism.


Make capitalism history - fight for socialism





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