article published by the Union of Migrant Workers in Europe – AGEB.

The 1st of May, Day of Unity, Struggle and Working Class Solidarity, is a day of rebellion and struggle against the exploitation and capital oppression. As comrade Lenin expressed, it is a day on which you celebrate “the awakening of the class consciousness of the workers in all the countries, whose solidarity in the struggle against all kinds of oppression and exploitation of men by men, and the struggles of millions of workers to liberate themselves from hunger, poverty and humiliation”. This day is to commemorate with the same vitality and spirit of struggle. The working class and all toilers take to the streets on this historic date, with the consciousness of the necessity of unification, acting organized and struggling against the system of exploitation, to present the ideal of a world without classes and exploitation.

Workers, worker’s friends; the contradictions between the imperialists continue growing. On the one hand the imperialists of the USA and from the EU, and on the other hand the imperialists of China and Russia, are intensifying the wars for power in parallel to the repartition of the markets. The imperialist capitalist system tries to control its deep crisis with the wars and occupations, like in Ukraine, Middle East and many other areas. Nevertheless every realized movement is intensifying even more the crisis and contradictions. The more the crisis is intensifying, the attacks increase, what brings more unemployment for the workers, cheap workforce, flexible work, increase of prices, greater poverty and misery.