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May
1, the
day of international working class
solidarity
is approaching. On this day, the workers and
toilers chant: “no to oppression and
exploitation!”; “no to capitalist wars!”;
“no to wage labor slavery” and “a better
world is both possible and obtainable!”
In
this world, progress in productive powers of
humanity and growth in its capabilities owed
to the role played by the working class,
translate to more poverty, hunger,
deprivation and wars for the working class.
On May
1, the working class of the world emphasizes
that this inverted world must be put right
side up.
First
of May this year approaches while the
humanity lives one of the most dangerous
period it has ever experienced. Oppression,
exploitation, wars, organized crimes, mass
killings, absence of the most basic rights
and freedoms, hunger, poverty and
unemployment destroy the lives of hundreds
of millions of people. Oppression of women
has become not only a prominent feature of
this epoch, but also one of its main
pillars.
Progression of the humanity from this
barbaric capitalist world to the world of
humanism, civility and human values and
culture depends on the working class coming
to the fore. All the conditions for a free
humane socialist society exist and had
already existed on 1st May, 150
years ago. The humanity needs no
preparations to fulfill a humane, prosperous
and free world. What stands before creating
a better world is the obstacle of uniting
and organizing the working women and men and
arming them with revolutionary socialist
alternative and prospective.
On May
1 this year, the working class and the
deprived mass of people in Iraq live in
extremely harsh conditions rarely
experienced by humanity in contemporary
times. They live under war, occupation, the
dark scenario and where the fate of the
society is handed to gangs and sectarian and
ethnocentric militias. They live in the grip
of hunger, deprivation, poverty and
unemployment. Working class’s freedoms and
rights are violated and its gains attacked.
The occupation and ruling groups try to pass
laws which are as reactionary and against
workers as laws passed by the Ba’ath regime,
such as denying workers the right to
establish their own organizations and trade
unions and imposing pro-government unions on
them as their only representative. The
puppet government has adopted the so-called
self reliance and financing policy which
sets the hands of capitalists free to attack
workers, sack them in masses and deny any
responsibility toward workers’ living and
working conditions. Workers are laid off
while there is no social security including
unemployment benefit. Billions of dollars of
public money are stolen every year and
militias and capitalists accumulate immense
wealth while the unemployed workers and
their family who form the majority of the
Iraqi society, are deprived of the most
basic standards of living.
On
May1, we call upon the working class’s
leaders and activists, communists and the
freedom loving people to join “May 1
Committees” in the various cities of Iraq.
We call on you to hold ceremonies, functions
and public meetings on this day in your
living and working places and raise workers’
basic and urgent demands.
The
Worker-communist Party of Iraq emphasizes
the importance of workers uniting their
ranks in their mass organizations to achieve
the basic and urgent demands which include:
-
Ending the
occupation and abolishing its puppet
government;
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Building a
secular government based on people’s
conscious and free will;
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Recognizing
full and unconditional freedom of worker
organization and that building workers’
organizations is workers’ matter and no
government has the right to violate this
principle under any pretext.
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Unemployment
benefit for all unemployed people
decided by the representatives of
workers;
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Immediate
repeal of all anti-working class laws
and resolutions like the so-called
self-reliance and financing law.
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Rise in the
minimum wages proportional to soaring
inflation and costs of living.
The
WCPI is in the forefront of this relentless
struggle and calls upon the mass of workers
to support its efforts to end the current
catastrophic conditions.
Worker-communist Party of Iraq
Mid April 2008
www.wpiraq.net
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