May Day is on us and it is time to
check out the various May Day messages from around the world. . -សតិវអតុ
FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY, CANADA, FOR
MAY DAY 2015
This
year, International Workers’ Day will take place in a context of crisis where
we are facing attacks on all fronts. Across the country, the governments that
are run by and for the rich are escalating their attacks against the
proletarian and popular masses. This results in cuts in public services,
increases of all kind of fees, restrictions in EI and welfare, and systematic
pressures on our wages, pensions and working conditions.
In their insatiable quest to maximize profits, the
capitalists and their state crush everything that stands in their way; they no
longer have the luxury of preserving the democratic veneer they once applied to
their system. Gone is the time when they were upholding their system of rights
and civil liberties and were even pretending to recognize aboriginal rights.
Exploitation of natural resources is at the heart of the redeployment of big
capital in Canada
Against the resistance that these policies necessarily
cause, the capitalists and their state are deploying their whole arsenal. First
of all, they do not hesitate to repress and crush any pocket of resistance,
militant organizations and individuals who support them, and to set up the
mechanisms (like the infamous Bill C-51) that will enable them to act with
impunity. Secondly, they promote hatred against some of us (namely, at this
moment, migrant and Muslim workers, hoping that we will turn our despair and
anger against ourselves, rather than directing them against those who are
responsible for the crisis and our misfortunes: the wealthy few who run the
country.
And soon, in a few months, they will dare to bring out
their old decrepit spectacle and try to bring us again into their electoral
circus by hinting that things might be better with Trudeau or Mulcair. Above
all, their goal is to convince us that it is still possible to “do things
differently” without changing the foundations of the capitalist system.
What is happening in Canada
Our resistance is correct: as the Maoists use to say, it is right to rebel! And yes, we must dare to struggle and dare to win! It is right to reject the divisions fomented
by the bourgeoisie and to unite and fight all together to defend and enforce
demands that meet our needs. Doing so reinforces our camp and opens
possibilities to go further.
While it is increasingly clear that capitalism has had
its day and that it now produces nothing but misery, wars and destruction, it
is the time to say that another world is possible and necessary and that this new world has a name: socialism,
that is to say, workers’ power, the dismantling of bourgeois institutions, the
complete reorganization of all aspects of social, economical and political life
so the downtrodden of today will be the masters of the future.
This new world will not happen by itself; it will come
from a revolution, that is
the overthrow of today’s ruling class by the one that is currently dominated.
This dominated class, which represents the future, is ours—the working class.
We proletarians have the ability to run the society; in fact, without us, the
bourgeoisie would be nothing. This capability has to be put in the service of
revolution, by building our militant organizations and strengthening our
headquarters—our revolutionary party.
Fellow proletarians, on May 1st 2015, across the country
and by any means, let’s show and demonstrate our aspiration to build socialism
and revolution! Join the Maoists in their colorful red contingents! The red
flag is our flag—the proletarian flag that symbolizes our strength, our
courage, and the victories that soon will be ours!
Pix by www.holtlaborlibrary.org.
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