CP of Greece, Message of the CC of the KKE on Workers’ May Day
4/30/20 3:11 PM
This year’s Workers’ May Day finds the working class of our country and all over the world in the middle of a pandemic. The working people, the poor popular strata are once again the great victims of this “healthcare” crisis that functions as a catalyst for a new deep capitalist economic crisis, but also for the promotion of plans and demands from big capital and its political representatives.
The collapse of the public healthcare system, even in the apex of capitalism, the USA, despite the heroism of healthcare workers there, the intensification of labor and the lack of even the most basic protection measures with risks to the lives and the health of the working people, unemployment, the testing out of new, more advanced forms of exploitation, such as telework, are just a few of the daily images that reveal the decay and the historical bankruptcy of capitalism.
At the same moment, the quest for profits and competitions around it undermine the existing capabilities of science and research that could provide a faster way out of today's pandemic and to satisfy contemporary needs. The “global war” between the capitalist states and the giant corporations over the patent for the new vaccination, the therapies and the vital healthcare supplies, confirm what most people all over the world comprehend and shout out “Capitalism is the real virus”. All of this brings closer the necessity of the socialization of the means of production, of distribution, of services, of scientific central planning, of Socialism.
The teachings from the History of the labor movement in our country and all over the world are more relevant than ever today. Whatever the working class gained, it won it through tough battles, through a clash with capital and its power, overturning the correlation of forces that may have seemed indestructible.
Above all, History has proven that the working class, the most vanguard force of society, can, in alliance with the oppressed popular forces, overthrow the power of capital, to build a new society that will have as its focal point the satisfaction of expanding popular needs.
The experience of socialist construction in the 20th century, although it concerned countries with absolute and relative – in comparison with today’s scientific and technological standards – conditions of great delay, demonstrate the superiority of socialism in the protection of health, insurance, work, extensive social protection. The overthrow of socialism and the global retreat of the labor movement neither vindicate the capitalism barbarism we live in, nor do they halt wheel of History that despite the difficulties and the obstacles, always moves forward.
This barbarism is not vindicated by individual measures to mitigate its consequences, by the attempts at covering up what its governments do, its parties, the international imperialist alliances, in total, all the forces that defend and serve this unjust exploitative system.
They deify “individual responsibility” in order to cover up the vast state deficiencies, mainly in the public Health systems.
They attempt to put a silencer on the workers, with the pretext of the pandemic and a false “national solidarity”.
They seek to subjugate workers to the aims of capital, with the false argument that ‘we are all in the same boat.”
They develop measures for direct economic state intervention – with investments and funding, even the nationalization of huge bankrupt companies – in order to boost capitalist incentive and profit-making However, the workers will pay for all of this through new harsh measures and memorandum in the name of “emergency conditions”.
They evoke the myth of “European solidarity” to hide the fact that the EU, the Eurozone, is by its very nature an alliance of competing nations and economies, which especially in times of crisis “show their teeth”, both amongst themselves but above all, against the people.
Both the ND government and SYRIZA as well as the other bourgeois parties of our country are moving in this line preparing for the next day, which for working people will be painful if they do not stand up more decisively, in a mass way and militantly , if they do not go on the counter-attack.
No illusions, no deceptions are allowed for employees, pensioners, the self-employed of the city and the countryside. NO change in the mix between fiscal and monetary policies, no new “Marshall Plan”, no digital modernization of state services will constitute a “progressive reform” of capitalism, it does not absolve it of its giant deadlocks and the upcoming crisis, as occurred in 2009. From the new large-scale economic crisis, the working people will not emerge victoriously.
For this reason, a workers’ counter-attack, the alliance of the working class with the other popular forces does not remain “on ice”.
We remain strong under pandemic conditions.
We fight for the protection of the health of the people, for Education, labor, Culture, tackling the refugee problem, the defense of labor and and wider trade union rights and civil liberties, by repealing any laws restricting trade union and political action, the intensifying of repression.
We strengthen the struggle for those who are responsible to pay, the capitalists, with an increase in their taxes, with the abolition of tax-exemptions for capital, a crackdown on obscene profiteering.
We step up the fight for the abolition of all the older memorandum laws and the recent anti-people measures.
With the demand for a statute of limitations on the state debt that was not created by the people who are paying for it dearly and continually all these years.
With the withdrawal from the program and the dangerous plans of NATO, that as a country we pay for with 4 billion euros every year. With the total and liberating for the people clash with and disengagement from the imperialist alliances of NATO and the EU.
The only path for the working people to not pay for the crisis is the road of struggle and workers’ power.
The coronavirus will be cured and the pandemic will end, just as others did in the past. Capitalism, however, is incurable and will continue to torture humankind, with poverty, unemployment, wars, the destruction of the environment, until the peoples decide to lead the way in the developments.
Today’s system can only be overthrown and replaced by a superior social system, socialism – communism, where social ownership of the means of production with workers’ power, scientific central planning for the satisfaction of people’s needs, workers’ control of all the administrative organs and participation in all the organs of power, from the bottom to the top, can lead to prosperity for the people, to peace and the progress of humankind.
Workers’ May Day symbolizes the invincible battle against the class enemy. This is the precious legacy of our time. With this weapon in our hands and in our thoughts, we honor Workers’ May Day, the dead workers of Chicago in 1886, the tobacco workers of Thessaloniki in ‘36, the 200 executed communists in Kaisariani May 1st 1944, all those who remain unflinching in the class struggle, all those who were sacrificed for a society without exploitation of man by man.
We continue on this path, for the satisfaction of all of the modern social – popular needs.
PROLETARIAT OF THE WORLD UNITE!
Athens 25/ 4/ 2020
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Party of Labour of Austria, Labour Day 2020
4/30/20 2:56 PM
Labour Day 2020: A mask is not a muzzle! Let us protect our health! Let us defend ourselves against exploitation and oppression!
Declaration of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Austria on Labour Day, Vienna, 28 April 2020
For exactly 130 years - since 1890 –May 1, International Workers’ Day, has been celebrated as a worldwide day of struggle and holiday of the working class. In all these years there have been several reasons in Austria which made it impossible to hold Labour Day events - repression of state power, fascist dictatorships, war. This year, in 2020, for the first time in decades, there will be no large rallies and demonstrations in public, because the epidemic measures of the government do not allow these activities.
But class struggle cannot be quarantined. While it is true that common sense and mutual respect dictate that we should refrain from organising large gatherings this year, this does not mean that we should also refrain from making our voice heard in other ways. While Social Democracy and its associated Trade Union leadership are once again counting on collaboration and capitulation, one thing is certain for us: there can be no closing of ranks and no truce with the government and capital.
It was the governments of capital and all the parties represented in parliament that brought us to the present situation: They have been demolishing the health and welfare system for decades to achieve absurd deficit goals and to open these areas to capitalist profiteering. Not only the conservative People’s Party, but also Social Democracy was in the lead: for a long time it placed the Federal Chancellor in charge and pursued a capital-friendly policy against the interests of the working class - with social cuts, privatisation, liberalisation, cuts in benefits, percentage excesses, site closures, underfunding, staff cuts and the promotion of precarious employment. But hospitals and statuary health funds are not business companies that have to make profit. They are public institutions to ensure the health and survival of the population, whatever the cost - not only in times of epidemics. Nor must the provision of medicines, medical materials and equipment and, last but not least, sufficient staff, who are decently paid and have tolerable working hours, be subject to "market logic". It is the unforgivable fault of the ruling class that this is not so. The primacy of capitalist profiteering, the exploitation of labour for the further shameless enrichment of the rich, led almost lawfully to the present situation. It is the rich, the capitalists, the greed of the banks and corporations for profit that we can no longer afford - not hospital beds, medical treatment for all or humane working conditions and salaries for health and nursing staff.
The government, instead of funding the public health system, is taking billions to subsidise capitalist companies and corporations - in fact, on a particularly large scale at present. The working class-whether in employment, on short time or unemployed-must continue, and even more so, to live on alms. Those who remain in business all the time despite the crisis - in supermarkets, for example - are massively drained and notoriously badly paid. "Bonus payments" on a ridiculous scale, hypocritical expressions of gratitude by politicians and public applause will not change this. Even the health protection of working people is obviously of no value to the government and capital, because in many industrial companies or in the construction industry work must continue as usual. Disease is a class issue under capitalism. The fact that unemployment figures are exploding and reaching an all-time high of the Second Republic cannot be prevented by the given short-time work model - nor should it: it exists to support the capitalist entrepreneurs, not the workers.
The government knows very well, why it must support capital. Because with and after the epidemic comes the economic crisis - on a scale never seen before. As a regularity of the fundamentally flawed capitalist economic cycle, the crisis would have been inevitable anyway, but the epidemic and its accompanying conditions are accelerating and exacerbating the development. Of course, the government and capital will try to shift the burden of the crisis back onto the working class. There will be new "austerity agendas", which will once again affect the social system, pensions, education and - of course - health care. There will be wage losses and the destruction of jobs. For capital, this is just a purification process. For the working class, it means increased insecurity of existence, unemployment, the risk of poverty. The government will lie to us again, it will argue that it was about general necessities and that we must now stick together. In reality, the capitalist losses will be socialised again - on the back of the working class - just as all profits are privatised in times of favourable economic conditions.
Capitalists and workers have no common interests, either in or outside the crisis. The workers can always work, even without a capitalist owner, but the capitalist cannot exist without exploiting human labour. Therefore, it is obvious what would actually save expenses: economizing the capitalist, because he does not work, but consumes and rakes in most of the wealth produced by the workers; he is useless, unproductive and parasitic in society. The workers do not need him. They may just as well - and better - be themselves joint social owners of the means of production, of factories and plants, of machines and tools, of land. With the difference that they would then be free from exploitation and would no longer have to feed the capitalists and unproductive rich. The money for their profits and luxury life would be available for better things. The workers as owners would have the financial and material resources and the political decision-making power to achieve prosperity for all through fair wages, adequate housing, secure pensions, sufficient leisure time and a comprehensive health system. And they would be able to eliminate future crises from economic life through planned production and distribution based on actual needs. Such a system is called socialism.
All the working class has to do to achieve it is to organise and take a firm stand against the capitalists and their governments - putting the overwhelming majority of the population against a handful of capitalist parasites and exploiters who care nothing for our lives. Dealing with the Corona epidemic illustrates this, and the economic crisis will illustrate it even more. Even under normal conditions, capital and its governments maintain a massive propaganda and repressive apparatus to deceive and, if necessary, oppress the working class. However, under the current restrictions of the epidemic, there has been an even greater concentration of power, which is manifested in the current epidemic regime. The government decrees the restriction and, in some cases, the complete abolition of fundamental rights and freedoms, of civil and human rights, with the parliament not exercising a control function but willingly assisting. The epidemic regime takes it upon itself to spy on individuals, to use police intimidation, to repress critical media and to promote denunciation. The government does not ensure that its actions conform to the constitution and shifts all measures to contain the epidemic onto the population. We will have to be attentive and watchful concerning this massive political power, which can easily tip over into fantasies of omnipotence and lead to the extension and continuation of restrictions even without necessity. Because, in the end, the bourgeois state is a tool for the oppression of the working class and the government is only a committee of the ruling capital, which should organize the optimal exploitation and prevent any counter-movement - by all necessary means.
We have to put an end to this. That is why the Party of Labour of Austria has made it its task to inform the working class about the actual situation, to expose the lies of the ruling class and to offer a way out - by organising the working class in a revolutionary way as a fighting unit against exploitation and oppression, against unemployment and insecurity of existence, which are inevitably connected with capitalism. This is what the Party of Labour is working for - onMay Day and all other days of the year.
For a militant workers front!
Against epidemic regime and crisis capitalism!
Socialisminsteadofbarbarism!
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CP of the Workers of Spain, PCTE Manifest on 1st of May
4/30/20 3:12 PM
Workers, pensioners and retirees, students, self-employed workers, class struggle has not stopped in the health crisis and we must be ready for new assaults against our rights and our life conditions.
In this 1st of May we especially want to greet all those sections of our class that have been in the forefront of the struggle against the pandemics in these last weeks – especially health workers, who have suffered so many attacks in the last years –, and all those who have been forced to keep on their work activity without the minimum safety and protective conditions.
We equally want to express our condolences to all the families that have lost any of their members in this dire health crisis, as well as our deep indignation for the specific situation of hundreds of nursing homes, mainly private or concerted, where thousands of people have passed away because of the lack of means and equipment.
This 1st of May is celebrated under some quite special conditions due to the confinement caused by the Covid-19 pandemics. This situation has made the usual rallies, gatherings and events organized to celebrate the International Workers’ Day to change their format, but this exceptionality does not mean any change in the struggling orientation of this day. It neither changes the need to place within the public debate that the working class is the one that creates all the social wealth in our country.
The terrible economic crisis unveiled by the pandemics is a new evidence of the collapse of capitalism, both in Spain and worldwide. There are no recent precedents of such a serious and deep economic crisis, and we are already witnessing how the first measures, aiming to make the workers and the people’s strata from our country pay for it again, are put into practice.
So far, the social democratic Government of coalition has carried out a management of the health crisis that clearly states what interests are mainly defended: the interests of the monopolies, of the big capitalists. There is no reason to think that their measures are going to have a different nature in the management of this extremely dire economic crisis already unleashed.
The whole society has witnessed that the choice of the capitalist parties, when having to choose between the health and the lives of workers or the maintenance of production for the sake of the employers, is always in support of capitalists.
The social democratic Government has placed itself in the side of the interests of the employers, prioritizing the maintenance of the capitalist production even though health and safety conditions recommended for other areas of social life are not being met. When the bourgeoisie pushes, the capitalist governments kneel.
The first economic and labor measures adopted to deal with the outcomes of the health crisis protected the interests of the big monopolies as the State assumed quite a large part of their costs and a significant part of companies’ debt became public debt.
Later, the measures that allegedly had a “social nature” have proved to be terribly limited and not enough. Moreover, their real goal – as the Government itself has acknowledged – is that the working-class families can uphold some minimum levels of consumption to offload the huge quantity of commodities stocked in stores.
The bombastically so-called “social shield” is a package of measures essentially addressed to limit the impact of the crisis of overproduction and overaccumulation on the capitalists, not to protect and assure the lives and health of the working-class and people’s majority. It is pretended to prevent the stoppage of capital circulation, it aims to support the stocked commodities to come back to capitalists under the form of many in order to restart the cycle of accumulation.
This – and none other – is the main goal of the measures allegedly adopted thus far to help the working-class and people’s majority to overcome the health crisis. This – and none other – will be the way that the social democratic Government of coalition pretends to overcome the first stage of the widespread economic crisis.
This situation is not new; social democracy is playing the same role it already tried to play in the first stage of the 2008 crisis. They are trying to implement again the same tools that proved then to fail, as they do not conceive any measure for the protection of workers that does not include the salvation of capitalists.
In the immediate future we will witness the strengthening of the role of the State in the economy, but we warn that this larger State intervention will be headed towards the safeguard of monopolistic interests. We will witness the nationalization of companies that go or risk going bankrupt, we will hear proposals of alleged plans for reindustrialization. The case of Bankia shows how nationalizations are understood by capitalist governments: companies are passed into public hand to socialize their losses and later, once their accounts are sorted out, they are gifted to private capital.
The existence of public companies submitted to the rules of the capitalist market and competing with private companies does not solve the problems of the people. It is necessary to consider, as a first step, that the strategic economic sectors should not only be in public hands, but also to be under the control of workers and their activity assigned to the satisfaction of the people’s needs, not subject to the criteria of capitalist competition.
If the proposals of industrialization do not serve to a comprehensive planning aiming to cover the people’s needs, they will be the means to give facilities to monopolies, mainly by the flexibilization of labor conditions so they keep on producing according to their private interests and not according to the collective ones.
This Government, just like all the capitalist parties, cannot assume that the only class essential in the society is the working class: the workers, the exploited. History has already proved that a society without exploiters is possible, but no society could ever survive without workers.
Whether their proposals to support capitalism are more or less aggressive for the working-class and people’s majority, both the parties of the government of coalition and the other capitalist parties have linked their fate to those who get wealthier with the exploitation of others’ work. As managers of the interests of capitalists, they should be considered as enemies of the interests of workers. There is no possible conciliation when the contradictions of the capitalist society are more evident than ever and their efforts try to assure that those who overcome the crisis are those who exploit us every day.
They make laws for the owners of companies; we are struggling for the interests of those who create all the social wealth.
Several measures adopted to tackle the health crisis, initially presented as having an extraordinary nature, have come to stay; not only in the economic and labor area, but also regarding public rights and freedoms.
In the next weeks and months we will see how many of the temporary lay-offs approved in this term will be extended for months or indefinitely. We will see how many of them will transform into extinctive lay-off. We will assist to a widespread process of dismantling of collective agreements to make them ineffective. We will check how teleworking will be widespread beyond the quarantine period and how we will quickly advance towards increasingly more individualistic labor relationships.
Government, opposition and employers agree to promote a quick flexibilization of labor conditions for the sake of employers. They are opting for a model that goes further than the current one but that is already announced in the last labor reforms, which this Government only wants to touch in a hasty way.
The utmost inner flexibility in companies for the sake of employers has been presented for years under the deceitful name of “flexicurity”, sponsored by the European Union institutions. Thus far, it was already present through the system of accumulated hours, irregular workdays, the resort to subcontracted companies and temporary work agencies, the substantial modifications of labor conditions and a whole series of measures implemented in the labor reforms of the last decades.
The youngest sections of our class and our people will especially suffer this crisis, like it happened in 2008. They are nowadays those who know more directly the model of exploitation that is intended to be widespread: miserable salaries, permanent labor precarity, part-time contracts at request, growth of false self-employed workers and a large etcetera.
Under the excuse of the crisis, the capitalists aim to take a step towards the generalization of work at request; the model known as “uberization” of the economy that is coming along with a brutal ideological campaign aiming to break the class conscience and the collective nature of labor relationships, which the erosion of the trade-union movement is essential for.
The role of trade-union organizations every day in workplaces is irreplaceable. The hundreds of thousands of trade unionists who struggle in the companies all over the country are the forefront in the battle being waged, but in order to struggle with effectiveness they need a leadership that is not aligned to the social democratic thesis under the argument of the lesser evil.
The economic, social and labor model being raised is the one the monopolies require to guarantee the profitability of capital. The difference between the social democratic and the liberal proposals is found only in the speed and brutality of the adoption of those measures. We cannot choose between different murderers just because one of them is telling us that we will experience less pain when he will kill us.
Today, the rights of meeting, manifestation and freedom of speech have been limited de facto under the pretext of protecting the population against the virus. But a persecution of stances that allegedly generate a “climate against the management of the crisis” is also being carried out.
The role of parties like PP, VOX and their satellites is being key in the process of liquidation of the freedom of speech: slanders, calumnies and lies made and spread since the outbreak of the crisis serve as an excuse to legitimate before the masses some measures that are being adopted. They will be maintained in the next term and largely used by the PP and VOX when they will be in the Government.
The measures for social control through technology are complemented with speeches fill of war references and appeals to discipline, sacrifice and inter-class unity. If the country were to be under conditions of military clash, the climate would be very similar or even the same. Today’s “enemy” is a virus, but under conditions of a savage economic crisis tomorrow’s enemy can be any other country, any other alliance of countries whose monopolies are interested in the same resources or in the same markets than the Spanish monopolies.
The Government, the capitalist parties and the employers wants us behind the interests of the Spanish bourgeoisie with discipline for the future to come. They want us to defend the interests of the employers instead of fighting for our own interests.
Our answer is absolutely NO. Our answer is that a country where the primary interests are the ones of those who produce all the social wealth with their job – and not their exploiters’ – can and must be built.
Therefore, in this 1st of May, we openly say that the PCTE wants to build a country for the working class.
This new country will no be built by itself. This new country will not be born if there is no organized and rising struggle against capitalists and their governments. This new country will not be born if there are not millions of workers who want to put an end to the exploitation and who, recognizing themselves as the only essential class, want to take over their own future.
The struggles that the class will wage in the immediate future will be decisive. The defense of the workers’ and peoples’ rights is a first step. Examples like the strike called in Nissan and other companies or actions of protest made by the “riders” in the last weeks are a good evidence that the class struggle has not stopped. But the struggle for the most basic rights of the working class should be accompanied by a higher political proposal, headed to illustrate what country we the communists are proposing.
Hence, we call today, for the immediate tasks, to face the new cycle of struggles that is coming with the following priorities:
Stoppage of the production in the workplaces where the safety and health of the staffs cannot be assured.
Invalidity of all dismissals since March 1, with compulsory readmission and payment of the processing salaries.
Indefinite unemployment benefit for all the work demanders with the highest quantity, allocating for it the budget items aiming to fund the employers’ costs because of temporary lay-off.
Urgent Plan to guarantee the people’s health. Expropriation without compensation of private health centers, nursing homes and all the centers of social assistance.
Plan of Development of the industrial public sector that assures the basic health and energy supplies.
Staff enlargements in health care and immediate solution of the precariousness in the sector. Guarantees of health protection for health workers.
Expropriation of houses in hands of companies and “big holders”.
Opposition to any measure of inner labor flexibility in companies: no collective layoffs, whether temporary or definitive.
Opposition to the new labor reform being imposed through the exceptional measures and immediate repeal of labor reforms.
These measures are necessary to fen the first attacks of capitalists and their governments off, but it is essential to raise a new economic and social model that prioritizes the rights for the working-class and people’s majority.
The immediate measures raised by the PCTE should be integrated in a much bigger process of struggle for the socialist-communist society, where the State is not the tool that guarantees the exploitation of our class any more, but the tool of our class to put an end to the exploitation.
We want to build a country where the strategic economic sectors are socialized and under workers’ control, where planned economy shows its superiority against the productive anarchy ruling in every capitalist country.
A country where the private property of concentrated productive means does not mean a sentence to lose health or the life for the millions of workers that produce all the social wealth with our work.
In order to achieve this country, in order to build our own country, it is necessary to reinforce the communist ranks. It is necessary the highest unity of our class and our people against the exploiters and their governments. It is necessary to overcome all kind of division among workers promoted by capitalists. It is necessary to be conscious that it is only us who are essential, and that our unity is our guarantee to prevail.
It is time to organize ourselves again. It is time to step again in the streets to make them ours, to make this country work for those who make it work.
It is only us who are essential
Long live the struggle of the working class!
Long live the 1st of May!
Political Bureau of the PCTE
April 27, 2020
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CP of Mexico, Salute of the Communist Party of Mexico to the working class for May Day
4/30/20 3:10 PM
Capitalism condemns peoples and workers to death.
Socialism or barbarism!
Workers, young workers, working women,
migrant workers, unemployed,
proletarian brothers, comrades:
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Mexico expresses its combative greeting to the working class on the occasion of May Day, remembering with emotion the proletarians of the World and Mexico who have given their freedom or life in favor of the rights and emancipation of our class . We pay tribute to the Chicago Martyrs and to the Cananea and Rio Blanco strike martyrs.
We commemorate this May Day in the difficult conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the dead are from the working class and popular sectors. It is also the working class that suffers the layoffs, being sentenced to quarantine with a reduction in wages, uncertainty about hunger, the payment of rent, basic services; the anguish before the post-coronavirus scenario of the capitalist plague with its economic crises, which already shows its contours.
We want to emphasize that the fatal victims of the tragedy are the responsibility of capitalism, that it commercialized health, that it privatized public health institutions, that it reduced budgets for this area, that it left scientific and technological research to the monopolies. Public hospitals are abandoned, without supplies, with poor wages and poor working conditions for medical, nursing, laboratory and service personnel. Many who could be saved die because health is not a right. In Mexico, the health system is overwhelmed, on the verge of collapse, while private hospitals are there only for those who can pay the prohibitive prices. How can it be that infrastructure, health personnel, are there for the benefit of the bourgeoisie, which is a minority, while the majority, the workers, those who live off their daily effort, are adrift despite the great effort of the medical personnel of the public system ?. Today it is possible to realize this inhuman logic of capital, but this is what happens every day in the capitalist system, and not only with health, but with everything.
-There are those who die from curable diseases, while monopolies profit from pharmaceutical patents, and condemn investigations to the archive for not ensuring profits.
-There are those who starve while tons of food decompose or are thrown in the trash, as the monopolies do not seek to feed but to make a profit.
-Millions are out of work, when the workday can already be reduced to 35 hours, but the monopolies are interested in unemployment to ensure cheap labor.
-Millions are homeless, but monopolies increase their profits by building sumptuous works that only serve a few.
-Millions are without water, but monopolies monopolize their control and distribution.
-Millions are without electricity, but monopolies are exempt from payment.
-Nature is destroyed, water and air are polluted, because it suits capitalism.
-The proletariat produces everything, but the bourgeoisie appropriates social wealth. It is the great contradiction between social production and capitalist or private appropriation.
-The monopolies with exploitation amass super profits, but hunger, misery, disease prevail on the planet.
- Capitalism is inseparable from crisis to crisis, from one war to another. It is a system of barbarism, destruction, death.
Proletarian brothers, comrades:
Capitalism only cares about profits. The life of the workers, the life of the peoples do not matter to him. It exploits us and oppresses us.
It is necessary, essential, urgent, to end capitalism, to overthrow it. And the only ones who can do it are the proletarians, the working class. The workers have the historic mission of burying capitalism and building the new society, the new world.
With workers power, the dictatorship of the proletariat, socialism-communism will be built, where through the socialization of concentrated means of production, workers control, the central planning of the economy will satisfy the social needs and will remain behind exploitation, oppression, unhappiness.
And that is what the proletarians of Mexico and the World have to choose: Socialism or barbarism !, and act accordingly.
Comrades:
As in all capitalist countries - whatever their form of government - in Mexico, López Obrador, facing the pandemic, abandons workers and popular sectors to their fate, and adopts measures to help the monopolies, which he serves with obedience.
As a result of the 2008 economic crisis, anti-worker measures were adopted in the legislation, which makes the workforce increasingly precarious. Our conquered labor rights were drastically reduced over more than a century of harsh class struggle; the 8-hour day was lost, and purchasing power decreased. The capitalists, the monopolies, sought to bear on our shoulders the costs of that crisis.
Now they are looking for the same thing, that we pay for the broken dishes, while capital loses nothing in its profits.
And still the Government of Obrador gives the representatives of the monopolies, the employers' chambers a vote of confidence so that it is "their good will" that prevents them from reducing wages or firing thousands, to which they respond with layoffs and wage cuts. , because what deprives is your class interest.
They say the owners of capital they hold workers: Bullshit! And those parasites know it. Your money alone, saved, does not make a profit. Salaried work is essential to increase profits.
Essential is the oil tanker, the electrician, the industrial worker, the construction worker, the stevedore or the carrier. Essential is the miner, the education and health worker, the dispatcher. Essential are migrant workers, working women, young workers. Essential is the proletariat, and the bourgeoisie is superfluous: while nothing moves without the strength of the worker, while profit is not created without the exploitation of wage labor, the bourgeoisie is superfluous, because factories, industry can function without it.
And on top of that they ask us for more sacrifices, to bow our heads to the measures that the bourgeoisie and its administrative board take against us. With the story of national unity they want to subdue us, that we tighten our belts more, that we do not protest, that we do not rebel.
Proletarian comrades:
It is necessary to organize and fight. The Communist Party of Mexico, a party of the working class, ready to fight in all conditions, calls you to raise your fist, keep it up for the new battles that are coming, to face the aggressive measures that the capitalists are preparing against us. Capitalism is in the process of a new and deep economic crisis of overproduction and over-accumulation, the coming times will be of more struggle. We call for strengthening with a class orientation the unions and accentuating the worker-employer conflict, the class against class clash, to face the wave of dismissals that is already underway, the cost of life, etc. Above all we call you to conquer the new world of workers power and socialism-communism.
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Mexico
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