A-Infos (en) MAY DAY STATEMENT

["Lucien W." <029WALT@cosmos.wits.ac.za>]

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MAYDAY '98-AGAINST BOSSES- AGAINST RACISTS
ONLY THE WORKERS CAN FREE THE WORKERS!


MAY DAY IS OURS
110 years ago workers started May Day- the international workers day. 
 

Today, across the world billions of workers, of every race and 
nation,  are celebrating May Day. We are one class of people, with a 
common struggle for freedom and equality.

May Day is ours. We have fought and bled and died for a day when we 
as workers can come together in our millions and say NO! to the 
bosses, NO! to the fat cats who bleed us dry, NO! to the low wages 
and the misery of our existence. 

THE BOSS- THE ENEMY
We workers build everything. Every building, every road, every farm, 
every factory, every factory. 

We make the wealth, yet everywhere we have nothing. Workers build 
cars, but never own one. The workers clean university offices, but 
our children go to broken down schools, overcrowded, understaffed, 
short of books and tables. 

Instead, the wealth the workers make goes to fill the pockets of the 
rich FAT CATS-the bosses and rulers. 

WORKERS OF AFRICA
There is enough money- there is enough money to end poverty, to 
provide jobs for all, to upgrade the schools, the roads, the hostels, 
to provide homes for all. 

There is enough money to end the nightmare legacy of apartheid-
capitalism.  The money is in the hands of the bosses. We must take it 
back through conscious mass struggle for socialism and freedom.

REJECT GEAR
Only the workers can free the workers. In this fight we cannot rely 
on the government and politicians. They have replaced RDP with the so-
called  GEAR. 

GEAR calls for privatisation, more tax on workers, cuts in spending 
on hospitals and schools, wage restraint, casualisation, sub-
contracting- in short, GEAR is a bosses programme. 

SOCIALISM THE ONLY ROAD
The main weapon of the workers are the trade unions. The unions must 
be under workers control, the unions must be independent of the 
bosses, the unions must fight in the spirit of no compromise. 

REVOLUTIONARY TRADE UNIONISM Socialism can only come about through 
revolutionary trade unionism-  implement workers control over the 
land and factories through mass trade union action.  We should take 
over and run the mines, factories and farms through our unions.
                                 
ISSUED by WORKERS SOLIDARITY FEDERATION
For FREE information about the WSF
 WRITE WSF, Suite no. 36, Private Bag X42, Braamfontein,  2017  PHONE 
088-122-0416

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