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Title: MayDay ’98 Author: Workers’ Solidarity Federation Date: 1 May 1998 Language: en Topics: May Day, South Africa Source: Retrieved on 29th October 2021 from http://struggle.ws/africa/wsfother/mayday98.html
ONLY THE WORKERS CAN FREE THE WORKERS!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.