We honour Labour Day, the dead
workers of Chicago in 1886, all the unyielding fighters of the class struggle
that even gave their lives for the rights of their class, for
the abolition of the exploitation of man by man, for socialism-communism. We draw strength from
the historical experience by organizing the contemporary struggles of the working class, its alliance with the other popular strata, against the attack
of the capital, the anti-popular measures of the EU and its governments,
against imperialist interventions and the EU-US-NATO wars, in order to meet contemporary
needs.
The contradictions of capitalism are
sharpening and apparent to all: continuous wars, refugees, crises, mass
unemployment, exploitation, inequality, workers’ impoverishment and environmental
pollution.
The capital tries to conceal the real
causes that generate this reality in order to divert the correct popular
indignation towards directions that perpetuate capitalism, hiding the fact that
the impoverishment of the working masses internationally and the growing
inequalities between rich and poor, as well as between countries with different
levels of development, are the result of the division of society into classes
and of the process of capitalist accumulation.
The injustice that characterizes
capitalism as a system based on exploitation is endeavoured to be justified as
a result of the economic conjuncture or as a defect in the management of the system, whereas, instead, it is a characteristic intrinsic to capitalism itself,
both in crisis and in its economic recovery phase.
The capital also uses nationalism - racism
as a weapon of "mass distraction". Only the imperialist bourgeoisie
benefits from this, thus hiding its enormous responsibilities for wars and the
looting of entire countries. The refugees and immigrants who flee from their
countries because of imperialist wars, as well as from the imperialist peace which
comprises exploitation, diseases and misery, contribute to widening the "reserve
army of labour " that capital uses to further reduce everyone's wages.
On May 1st, we reiterate once again
the solidarity of the communists and the labour movement with immigrant
proletarians. The class enemy is not an immigrant, but the capitalist. It is
the capitalist who fires, who reduces wages, who imposes inhuman working
conditions. The way out can only be found in class unity and equality of rights
for all workers, both native and immigrants.
We denounce the opportunism of
social-democracy, of the collaborationist trade unionists and their compromised leadership, who act to defuse
the people’s discontent and only help to guarantee the survival of a dying
system. The bourgeoisie tries to neutralize the popular discontent also by
suppressing social protest and by channelling it to movements that, regardless
of their "right" and "left" connotation, serve the
interests of the capital, its governments and its international imperialist
alliances, such as the EU and NATO.
For example, the bourgeoisie is
trying to divert the just and widespread indignation against the ecological
devastation and the damage to the health of workers towards neo-ecological
movements that criminalize the individual consumer instead of the big
monopolies, omitting to denounce that what threatens the very survival of the planet is the exploitation of natural resources by capitalist monopolies in
search for profit maximization and imperialist wars. Hope lies in the class
struggle, in the organization and regroupment of the workers' movement.
This year, May 1st coincides with the
beginning of the European election campaign. The peoples know from their
experience that the EU is not improving, it can only be worse, more anti-popular
and reactionary. This is why we must break the chains that hold us, prisoner, we
must intensify the struggle against the EU and NATO, the political-military
institutions of European imperialism that guarantee the domination of capital to
the detriment of workers and peoples.
The Europe of workers and peoples cannot
arise by this European Union that perpetuates capitalist oppression and
imperialist aggression.
We must concentrate our action against
the EU and NATO, starting from this May 1st, a day from which a new season of
proletarian struggles must start for the claiming of labour rights, the overthrow
of capitalism, for socialism-communism.
On the occasion of this May 1st the
Communists greet and express internationalist solidarity with the workers of
Europe and all over the world, who are everywhere engaged in the struggle for
their rights and their emancipation from the shackles of the capitalist system.
Long live May 1st!
Proletarians of the world, unite!
