May Day is the day of the international protest of working class against the system and power of capitalism. It is a day for solidarity and unifying the international struggle of workers and restoring the revolutionary belief of this class for abolishing oppression and ensuring a better world. It is a day in which the working class advocates another vision and perspective that the human society lives in freedom, equality and social justice.

Capitalist system, which is built on profit and robbing the products of workers contradicts with the desires and hopes of human beings. In this system the labour force is the force of social wealth whereas the working class is denied decent living rights and faced with enormous ills. Because of this system, the world is overwhelmed by wars, terror and genocide; homelessness, illness, hunger, poverty, unemployment, ethno religious killings and sex apartheid are ubiquitous. Besides, a small number of capitalists and the ruling strata are living a very luxurious life and have all the economical and social prospects to sustain their system and play with the destiny of humanity.

The states and governments who run this system and call that they have come to power through people’s votes, carry out the most backward and inhuman agenda exactly at their first mandates against the people who have voted for them. The economical crisis, in which millions of pounds and dollars were collected to rescue the banks, was as a wide economic and political attack against the lives of workers and toilers. This is an example of lies and tricks of governments and rulers of capitalist society. May Day is a message to stand against this system and intensify the revolutionary struggle of workers to free society from this system and its power.

In Kurdistan (Iraq), under the power of the Kurdish bourgeoisie and its different tendencies and parties, the workers have experienced 18 years of homelessness, civil war, and instability. A small number of chiefs who control the society have accumulated the most part of the wealth of the society. On the contrary, it is the workers that are faced with lack of any labour law, low wage, long work hours, child work, night and extra work, lack of unemployment benefit and other social benefits and many other hardships. Furthermore, freedom of strike and worker organisation is prohibited and any workers movement is facing armed militias and shooting.  

In such a situation the worker movement and its leadership must opt to overcome the destiny of society and put an end to the reactionary and militia power of the Kurdish bourgeoisie and its ills. The May Day calls upon the working class to unite and organize themselves in their strong movement to impose the economical and social demands and also bring revolutionary and profound changes in favour of the majority of people in Kurdistan.

Long live May Day, the international day of the working class!

Long live freedom, equality and worker state!

Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan-Abroad Committee   10.04.2010

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