March on May 1st - International Workers Day!

• published: 26 Apr 2015
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Join the CPGB-ML to march on Friday 1 May 2015 (11.00am onwards) at Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DU We will be marking International Workers' Day in the streets of London as it should be done! Wear red, carry a party flag, and show your support for the struggling workers and oppressed peoples of the world. This system isn't working for us; time for it to go! The demo will be forming up all morning on Clerkenwell Green and will leave the square around midday, marching to Trafalgar Square, where our party will have a stall. _____________________________________________________ Join us for our May Day CPGB-ML party school: 'Anarchism or Socialism?': Saturday 2 May 2015 (10.30am-4.30pm) Saklatvala Hall, Dominion Road, Southall, UB2 5AA As the crisis bites deeper and more and more workers are being ground down into severe poverty, increasing numbers of people are being mobilised for political action. It's not good enough to want to change society, though. We need to know how to go about doing it and what type of action will really deliver a decent life for all. In these times when communism has suffered many defeats, the appeal of the 'direct-action' anarchist groups is very strong for some. Come and find out what anarchism really represents and how it differs from scientific socialism. _____________________________________________________ The meaning of Mayday: On this day, millions across the world have taken to the streets ever since 1889, when the first congress of the Second International declared 1 May as International Workers’ Day. This day was initially chosen to honour the American workers’ triumphant strike for the eight-hour day on 1 May 1886 and as a homage to those gunned down by the Chicago police as well as their leaders – Albert Parsons, August Spiers, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden and Louis Lingg – who were condemned to death for their leadership of the strike and declared “guilty of murder” (policemen also died when they attacked the assembled protesters in Haymarket Square). One hundred and twenty years later, the echo of Spiers’ words from the gallows must continue to remind us of our strength: “There will be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.” The strength and power of the working-class movement has been demonstrated all over the globe ever since. May Day has become an occasion when we celebrate our achievements, express international solidarity and reaffirm that socialism is the way forward for humanity. With the establishment of socialism in the USSR and its historic victory over Nazi fascism, millions of toiling people have been inspired to fight for a better life. From the storming of the Winter Palace in 1917 to the victorious end of the anti-fascist war, when the red flag was raised on the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945, the flying of the red flag with its hammer and sickle has been indelibly linked to the achievements of our movement and is a symbol of progressive humanity. Whereas internationally, from east to west, from Asia to South America, red flags have dominated May Day, in the imperialist heartlands, far fewer are seen, as our historic day has been hijacked as a ‘spring holiday’ and drained of all revolutionary fervour by the dominance of the social-democratic leadership. It is time that socialists in Britain reclaimed the day, increased our symbolic use of the hammer and sickle, proudly declared our communist ideals and explained that communism is still the only way forward for humanity. Long live the Great October Socialist Revolution! Long live May Day! Workers of the world, unite! Red Youth on Mayday: https://redyouthuk.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/j-v-stalins-foundations-of-leninism-republished-and-on-sale-for-may-1st/ https://redyouthuk.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/workers-of-the-world-unite/ _____________________________________________________ Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity! http://www.redyouth.org http://www.cpgb-ml.org http://www.youtube.com/ProletarianCPGBML http://www.lalkar.org Red Youth Education Program: Each one teach one! http://redyouthuk.wordpress.com/educational-links/ Join the struggle! http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secName=join Donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted;_button_id=RNTPLUHGTMRP6