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May 1st is the day the working class
internationally protests against capitalism
and its reactionary system. It is the day
workers reclaim their will and their human
nature. It is the day workers build their
self -confidence and conviction in the
revolutionary movement to overthrow the
capitalist system to build a free social and
political system that abolishes classes and
eliminates oppression and discrimination. On
May, 1stthe working class announces to the
world that it is a class, which aspires to
build a different world where humanity
enjoys freedom social equality.
Despite the colossal advancements reached,
in this inverted world, in all areas of
science, technology and accumulation of
enormous wealth a vast amount of the world’s
population is still deprived of basic
economic, social and political rights. On
the one hand, more than a billion human
beings live under the poverty line while a
similar number are unemployed, this is in
addition to homelessness and lack of
economic security, deprivation of basic
freedoms and rights, wars, famines and many
more tragedies. On the other hand, a small
minority, less than two thousand capitalists
who run the world economy swim in sea of
wealth and luxury. The message of May 1st is
to end this unfair polarization and to build
a world based on equality and freedom.
In Iraq under the hegemony of capital and
fighting reactionary bourgeois movements,
whose main task is to ensure that the
capitalist system continues its ominous life
and under American occupation, the society
has literally been turned to a hell.
Killings, assassinations, lack of security,
law and order has been an integral part of
the daily life of the citizens for the past
seven years. The policy of the bourgeois
currents that regardless of their political
tendency and power toward the working class,
they have been wedging divisions and discord
by dividing the society on basis of
sectarian and ethnic identities on the one
hand and depriving workers of political
freedom, in particular the freedom to strike
and form their own organizations in addition
to imposing trivial wages and destitution on
them and increasing the number of persons
unemployed.
After the election results were revealed,
they disregard their own laws, constitution
and election results by striking deals and
compromises among the winning political
blocs. By using the term a “shared
government”, they are merely referring to
sharing the goal of prolonging the age of
their notorious rule and facing any labour
or liberation demand with violence. The aim
of their goals is to create a cheap, silent,
submissive and oppressed labour to lure the
international capitalists to invest in Iraq
and suck the blood of workers and toilers.
Under the current circumstances, the labor
movement and its leaders are required to
unit and organize their ranks against the
capital and bourgeois movements, and their
rule, policies, laws and militias. This is a
precondition to topple the rotten and
reactionary bourgeois system. It is a
precondition to emerge as a capable
political power that carries the banner of
change to all these tragic conditions and
leads the society to freedom, equality and
workers’ rule.
May 1st is a day necessary for the working
class to elevate its preparedness in order
to emerge as a distant class force unlike
any bourgeois movement, away from ethnic and
sectarian identities that attempt to impose
on workers and assumes class and human
identities by separating its ranks from all
bourgeois movements in power and opposition.
On the other hand, the working class should
base its struggle and perspective on the
socialist outlook to improve its living
conditions starting from wage level to
freedom of strike, organization,
demonstration and other political demands.
International Workers Day is the day workers
raised their class and reform banner, the
day they turned their movement to a capable
force in the forefront of society. It is the
day the working class showed that it is the
force, which can liberate itself and rescue
society from all the current appalling
conditions. The worker-communist Party of
Iraq is a part of this great social
movement. It is a vanguard part with a
communist and worker perspective for
overthrowing the capitalist system and
building a socialist society that is free of
all forms of suppression, oppression and
discrimination. May 1st, is the day that
workers in Iraq joined the Worker-communist
Party of Iraq.
Long live May 1st
Long live workers’ internationalism and
solidarity
Long live freedom and equality
Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
April 15th 2010
www.wpiraq.net
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