WFTU STATEMENT: May Day 2022: “United, we continue! For the satisfaction of our contemporary needs, against imperialist-capitalist barbarity!”

 

LT EDITORIAL COMMENT

All around the world we commemorate, we do not celebrate May Day. We have much work to do to realize the reasons why May Day was created.

Long live the 18th World Trade Union Congress!

The World Trade Union Federation, on the occasion of May Day 2022, salutes workers on all continents – all those whose work continues to drive the gears of life even in difficult conditions and who continue to produce all essential goods.

The migrant workers in Chicago, who fought and sacrificed their lives in May 1886 for the establishment of the 8-hour day, paved the way for the international working class to continue to demand its rights.

The international class-oriented labor movement, through the ranks of the WFTU, honors the legacy of their struggle and continues under all circumstances, despite the difficulties, to fight for the fulfillment of the contemporary needs of workers and the abolition of exploitation, for the emancipation of the working class and its liberation from the capitalist barbarity. CONTINUE READING...