The working class is preparing to commemorate its class day for 2011 amid great revolutionary circumstances and gigantic revolutionary movements in the Arab World and the region, which is a significant portion of the world working class. It is passing through an important turning point which impose upon it enormous tasks proportional to the current revolutionary situation. The revolution has succeeded in its early stages in Tunisia and Egypt by overthrowing two tyrannical regimes in the region though a significant involvement of the working class.  Moreover, the revolutionary trend and revolutionary movements present in many countries in the region starting from Algeria in the west to Bahrain in the east and Iraq and Syria in the north. The revolutionary wind has started blowing in Iraq and the working class like other countries in the region lives amid huge changes in the temporary history of the Arab World and the globe.

The working class and its vanguard have had a crucial role in the current revolutionary conditions and revolutionary movements in the region. It has participated in creating and maturating these conditions through years of struggle.  These circumstances have prepared a suitable ground for the working class and its leaders and parties to make progress consciously and in organized manner toward reclaiming its social and historical rights through overthrowing the capitalist system, abolishing waged labour and building socialism.

The working classes in Egypt and Tunisia have taken appropriate steps in the process of the revolution in these two countries. They are struggling now to accomplish their revolution. May 1 for workers in Egypt and Tunisia is a day to accomplish their great revolution, build unity and organize in a party, which aims at abolishing waged-labour and overthrowing the capitalist system.

In Iraq, May 1 is a day the working class regains the rights taken away over the last eight years by the Islamic-ethnocentric government based on militia in Baghdad. It is the day the working class comes to the fore and assumes the leadership of the revolutionary movement and guide, organize and advance it toward the final victory through seizing power and building socialist system, the system which not only meets the demands of the revolutionary movement but also freedom and political, social and economic equality for the entire society.

Amid these revolutionary conditions, the Worker-communist Party of Iraq emphasizes more than ever on the workers arming themselves with Worker-communist view. It stress the impotence of workers organizing themselves in all sectors including oil, manufacturing and service sectors and uniting their ranks in the their mass organizations, organizations of their party-the Worker- communist Party of Iraq, in non partisan organizations of the leaders and vanguard activists of the labour movements, in factory committees which are the nucleus of general assembly and then councils or any organizational form pioneered by the workers and their leaders.

On May 1, The Worker-communist Party of Iraq calls on workers, communists, freedom loving people, the mass protest committees, various youth groupings, labour federations and trade unions to engage in a practical political activity to lift the standing of the working class and its vanguard role in the society. It calls on them to struggle to build a large workers uprising, through massive demonstrations and strikes across Iraq. It is a crucial task for working class and its movement and vanguard and communist leaders to come to the fore on their class day and assume the responsibility for the fate of the society and the current revolutionary conditions.

The demands raised by the revolutionary masses since 25^th February are all demands of the working class. On May 1, workers should raise these demands with a louder voice in demonstrations, strikes and sit-ins as a crucial step to expand and advance the current revolutionary conditions. The following demands: Freedom of strike, demonstration and organization; abolishing the policy of self-financing; jobs or unemployment benefit; increase minimum wages; release all uncharged detainees; release all detained demonstrators; bring those responsible for opening fire on demonstrators and those behind them to justice; increase ration items constitute a serious revolutionary bill to be raised by the workers, the youth and deprived people on their class day.

The Worker-communist Party of Iraq is in the forefront of the this relentless revolutionary struggle and calls on workers and all federations, trade unions, freedom loving people, mass protest committee in Iraq and all youth groupings to stand by it in this struggle for a great labour day.

Worker- communist Party of Iraq

10^th April 2011

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