First of May, international solidarity day of  the working class is around the corner. It is the  workers’ international protest day against capitaliusm as a political and social system. It’s the day in which the workers’ waves unite in the worldwide. Those waves that sweep away all ethnic, religious, sectarian, national and racial identities to declare and chant in one voice ’ No to the capitalist system, No to wage labour ’.

The working class is going through the most repulsive economic, political and social situations due to deep capitalist economic crisis. Verily tens of millions of workers were sacked during the past year. And a ferocious attack is being organized by various capitalist regimes in the West and East on workers’ achievements, their political and civil rights, and their wages. The percetage of poverty has gone up and widespread as the number of those living under poverty line reached half milliard people whilst the wealth of human society is building up from the labour of workers whereas hunger , poverty, and deprivation among them inched upwards. Verily, the horrific increase of  phenomenons such as taking drugs, selling body, committing suicide,  organized crime, trade in human beings, and all other social ordeals condemn this oppressive capitalist world. The international bourgeois agreed to get over the world economic crisis, agreed on unholy defence of private ownership and its worn-out regims. They are united against our movement and the working class despite their deep political differences and despite raising false slogans and ethnical, national and religious identities. They raise these slogans to mislead and contain working class movement and oppressed masses. They agreed on preventing the protests and demonstrations of the working class.

Whereas in Iraq the workers are not only threatened with working conditions in terms of working hours, low wages, lack of social security,plundering their wealth and the destinies of the society,but also with their lives and their existence. Going to work has become full of danger to a horrendous extent. The workers gathering areas have become a direct target for suicidal attacks and booby traps. The workers of Iraq are the prime victim of war, occupation,  sectarian conflicts and aggression, and provocation of ethnic conflicts on old false rotten slogans of the so-called centralization (centralism) and decentralization.

The working class and its progressive movement started to retaliate the attacks that affect their lives and livelihood locally and internationally in waves of millions. The working class in Iraq made every effort to strive for the deductions made by Ministry of Finanace that had been deducted from the subsistence of their children and families to be payed back. The working class are raising their pressing and urgent demands such as freedom of organisation and strike, a progressive Labour Law, No to Oil and Gas Act,  Securing the lives of unemployed people by granting them unemployment allowances, Immediate abolition of all unfair policies hostile to the workers among them the policy of self-finance which is not more than a disastrous impoverishment policy, Wages increase apropriate to inflation and excessive high level of prices, and minimum pay appropriate to the contemporary human being’s life.

In this catastrophic situation that Iraq is going through, the working class should perceive its historic mission, it should stand on its own feet. It should compress its rank, organize and unify its forces in order to be able to impose its dominance as a great political and social power leading the society towards freedom and socialism. A capable power that could transform the society in the interest of the whole society for the benefit of women, the youth, the poor, and oppressed people.

The working class and its striving movement are raising its voice by saying: ” No to the poltical process, No to the current Government and Constitution, No to ethnic and sectarian wars”. The alternative for our classes today is a progressive socialist alternative which represents real freedom and equality. The Worker-communist Party of Iraq stands in the forefront of this predatory and persistent struggle and calls upon masses of workers to join its ranks and to  stand side by side in order to terminate all the current catastrophic situations under the banner of Marx ” Workers of the world unite”.

Long live 1st of May, the workers’ international protest and solidarity day.

Long live socialism.

Worker-communist Party of Iraq

14th April 2009

www.wpiraq.net