Celebrate May Day: Day of Unity in Struggle of the Working Class, Oppressed and Insurgent Peoples of All Lands!

RCPB(ML) sends its warmest revolutionary May Day greetings to the working class of England, Scotland and Wales on May Day 2014. We salute all those who have taken a stand in defence of the rights of all, who are fighting the so-called “austerity” agenda of the anti-social offensive, who are strengthening their organisation to fight for a human-centred society wherever they may be.

The past year has seen an intensification of the struggle between the old and the new. The new is represented by all those who are striving to build the alternative, to leave behind the old society with its capital-centred thinking, and to open the door to the progress of society which is being blocked.

At the centre of this struggle is the working class, whose day this is. Those in power in society would even like to deny the existence of the working class, and certainly to refuse to recognise its rights. In opposition, the workers are constantly affirming the dignity of labour, are constantly having to oppose the influence within the working class movement and all sections of society of capital-centred thinking and the agenda which favours the monopolies and the ruling elite.

The working class produces all material wealth and provides all services in the society. Justice demands that this wealth be applied for the public good, that the claims of all working people on society be met. The assertion by the monopoly capitalists and their representatives that these claims are a cost to society, a drain on the public treasury and on the national economy, are a fraud and a falsification.

The working class cannot accept this assault on its rights, its dignity and on the public good. It is one class with one programme representing the future of society. Through developing the independent politics of the working class politics this future can take shape, and the working people as a whole oppose the dictate which is depriving them of decision-making power.

For the people to have control over their lives means that wherever they live and work they must be empowered to participate in decision-making. The struggles over the past year at the points of production, in public services, in health and education, for the rights of the various collectives in society – these struggles have shown that the powers-that-be are intent on depriving the working class and people of this decision-making power. By summing up their experience, it is becoming very clear to the people involved in struggle that the fight must be to challenge this dictate of the powers-that-be. Experience shows that incoherence, violence, chaos and actual war are all that the ruling elite has to offer. This experience can be generalised to draw the conclusion that all over the world, the workers are the only social force capable of saving the day.

Summation shows that marginalisation from decision-making is a fundamental problem facing the working class and people. Those that worship the power of capital are intent on intensifying this situation, and causing the working people to lose their bearings. But where the fight against this marginalisation has been taken up, the fight to roll back the prevailing ethos of dictate, then the working people have been more than capable of setting their own agenda for the well-being of society and its members.

On this May Day, our Party gives the call to the working class and all working people to unite in action. The goal is to deprive the owners of capital and their representatives of the power to disempower the people from being the decision-makers.

This is a profoundly political struggle, a school of the working class and people for running a modern economy, a modern society. The task in the coming year is to become still more powerful and effective in challenging the marginalisation of the people from economic, political and social affairs.

The advanced forces can also unite to build the political party of the working class, a mass communist party, whose outlook is modern communism, in the midst of the intensifying struggles of the working class and people.

The fight for the alternative remains the overall task at hand. May First is an occasion to reaffirm this struggle in the context of the present concrete conditions. The working class and people will prevail if they set their sights on becoming the decision-makers and persist in their struggles.

No to Austerity! For a New Direction for Society! Organise for the Working Class to Fulfil its Historic Mission and Vest Sovereignty in the People!