[Marxism] May Day in Oakland

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Here is a short video of May Day, 2020 in Oakland. The video ends with a
call to support all those workers who are working under unsafe conditions,
but especially the meatpacking workers. A new Civil Rights movement is
needed to give support to those workers. Remember Mississippi Freedom
Summer, when the young radicals in the Civil Rights movement organized
thousands of supporters from the North to come to Mississippi to help build
the movement? Now, a similar event is needed. Build car caravans to go to
the meat packing plants across the country & encourage them to do what they
feel is necessary to ensure safe conditions. If that means that they feel
they have to walk off the job and shut the plants down, then so be it.
That’s the way to push back against the far right bigots and science
deniers who want everything opened right now, the same ones who value a
hair cut or a hamburger over human life.

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/05/02/may-day-2020-in-oakland/

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[Marxism] May Day!

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A Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis
and Create a New World
by Cooperation Jackson
General Strike! No Work, No Shopping Friday, May 1st
https://cooperationjackson.org/announcementsblog/towardsageneralstrike

Workers Gear Up for Major May Day Strike in Pushback Against Unsafe
Conditions Amid Pandemic
by Andrea Germanos
Common Dreams, April 29
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/29/workers-gear-major-may-day-strike-pushback-against-unsafe-conditions-amid-pandemic

from DemocracyNow! democracynow.org headlines, April 29:

Workers Plan May Day “People’s Strike” to Demand Safer Workplaces
Workers at some of the biggest corporations in the United States are
planning an unprecedented wave of strikes on May 1, International Workers’
Day. Employees of Amazon, Whole Foods, Walmart, FedEx, Target and Instacart
will walk off the job demanding compensation for unpaid time off work,
hazard pay, sick leave, personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies
at workplaces. Many of the workers are part of a growing coalition that
will join a May 1 People’s Strike launched by worker cooperatives in
Mississippi. This is Kali Akuno, co-director of Cooperation Jackson.

Kali Akuno: “We’re asking everybody to start with these basics: no work, no
shopping, no rent, no mortgage, no school, no borders, no prisons. Right?
Let us all take joint action together.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Lends Support to May 1st Rent Strike
Tenants around the U.S. are organizing rent strikes, as rent comes due on
May Day for millions of newly unemployed workers. And some homeowners are
planning to withhold mortgage payments. New York Congressmember Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez is calling on state and federal officials to cancel housing
payments nationwide during the pandemic.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “People can’t pay. You cannot coerce someone
into doing something that they cannot do. There is no money in the bank.
People need to feed their kids. We cannot be evicting. We need to be making
sure that we are passing policy that allows people to stay in their homes.”
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[Marxism] May Day 2019: Mourn for the dead; fight like hell for the living

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"Alan Justad, 71; Sarah Wong, 19; Andrew Yoder, 31; Travis Corbet, 33.
These were the four killed when a tower crane collapsed in Seattle last
Saturday (April 27). They are just a tiny little symbol of what is
happening. There were 4,674 workers killed on the job in 2017 (the latest
year for which there are statistics). This is nearly 13 every day, and more
than that when one keeps in mind the fact that most workers don’t work on
Sunday. It also does not include those workers who are poisoned on the job
and die as a result."

The building trades union leadership is covering up for the contractor
responsible for these deaths. Why? Because they are a "good union
contractor".

See more:
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/05/01/may-day-2019-mourn-for-the-dead-fight-like-hell-for-the-living/

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[Marxism] May Day poem

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A May Day poem ? The eight hour day is not enough; We are thinking of more and 
better stuff. So here is our prayer and here is our plan, We want what we want 
and we'll take what we can. Down with wars both small and large, Except for the 
ones where we're in charge: Those are the wars of class against class, Where we 
get a chance to kick some ass.. For air to breathe and water to drink, And no 
more poison from the kitchen sink. For land that's green and life that's saved 
And less and less of the earth that's paved. No more women who are less than 
free, Or men who cannot learn to see Their power steals their humanity And 
makes us all less than we can be. For teachers who learn and students who teach 
And schools that are kept beyond the reach Of provosts and deans and 
chancellors and such And Xerox and Kodak and Shell, Royal Dutch. An end to 
shops that are dark and dingy, An end to Bosses whether good or stingy, An end 
to work that produces junk, An end to junk that produces work, And an end to 
all in charge - the jerks. For all who dance and sing, loud cheers, To the 
prophets of doom we send some jeers, To our friends and lovers we give free 
beers, And to all who are here, a day without fears. So, on this first of May 
we all should say That we will either make it or break it. Or, to put this 
thought another way, Let's take it easy, but let's take it. -MayDay 1980, 
former Buick auto-maker from Detroit, "Mr. Toad" 

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[Marxism] May Day Greetings to all

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[from Billy Bragg's version of The Internationale]

And so begins the final drama,
In the streets and in the fields.
We stand unbowed before their armour,
We defy their guns and shields!
When we fight, provoked by their aggression,
Let us be inspired by life and love.
For though they offer us concessions,
Change will not come from above!

So come brothers and sisters,
For the struggle carries on.
The Internationale
Unites the world in song.
So comrades, come rally,
For this is the time and place!
The international ideal
Unites the human race.
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[Marxism] May Day statement

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For those interested in such stuff, here is a joint May Day statement 
issued in 10 languages:


/English: https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/may-day-2019-statement/ /

/Spanish / Español 
https://www.thecommunists.net/home/espa%C3%B1ol/primero-de-mayo-2019-manifiesto/ 
/


/Arabic / 
//العربيةhttps://www.thecommunists.net/home/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9/may-day-2019-statement/ 
/


/French / Français 
https://www.thecommunists.net/home/fran%C3%A7ais/1er-mai-2019-declaration/ /


/Russian/// русский 
//https://www.thecommunists.net/home/%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B9-2019-%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0-%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5/ 
///


/Portuguese / 
Português://https://www.thecommunists.net/home/portugu%C3%AAs/primeiro-de-maio-de-2019-declaracao/ 
/


/Korean 
///한국어//https://www.thecommunists.net/home/%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%96%B4/may-day-2019-statement/ 
/


/Turkish / Türk 
https://www.thecommunists.net/home/t%C3%BCrk/1-may%C4%B1s-2019-bildirisi/ /


/German / Deutsch 
https://www.thecommunists.net/home/deutsch/1-mai-2019-statement/ /


/Polish / Polski 
https://www.thecommunists.net/home/polski/1-maja-2019-komunikat/ /


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[Marxism] May Day in Turkey

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May 1 in Diyarbakır: Time to stop AKP-MHP

https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/may-1-in-diyarbakir-time-to-stop-akp-mhp-26408

Thousands in Istanbul shout: AKP-MHP will fall!



https://anfenglish.com/news/thousands-in-istanbul-shout-akp-mhp-will-fall-26412


84 people detained in Istanbul on May Day:



https://anfenglish.com/news/84-people-detained-in-istanbul-on-may-day-26416
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[Marxism] May Day 2018: Exploitation, NO! Expropriation, NO! Unite for justice! | Interviews with John Bellamy Foster, Fred Magdoff, and Michael D. Yates | Farooque Chowdhury | MR Online

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https://mronline.org/2018/04/30/may-day-2018-exploitation-no-expropriation-no-unite-for-justice/


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[Marxism] May Day in Yakima

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Looking at the pictures I was struck by how the marchers presented themselves.  
Some wore festive Mexican dress.  An interesting interweaving of national 
identity with workers' struggles.
ken h


MAY DAY IN YAKIMA
Text and photos by David Bacon
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2017/05/may-day-in-yakima.html

full set of photos:  
https://www.facebook.com/david.bacon.5496/media_set?set=a.10211768695000478.1073741876.1461973423=3=story

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Re: [Marxism] May Day - workers of the world unite and take over – their factories

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Thanks, useful article.
I think I only made the comment below on Facebook, and not here, when the
article appeared, but just to be sure:
If co-ops are part of a spreading phenomenon, and that spread encourages
thinking about the next logical, qualitatively deeper step, right on!
In what I consider the economic complement to State and Revolution, Lenin
in Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government goes on and on about how
society must become one big coop, partly by uniting all the small coops,
and for that to work he insists on democratic worker accounting and control
at all levels (he must repeat that phrase accounting and control like 50
times).
And notice, by the way, that in any of his writings when Lenin refers to
working-class organizations he ALWAYS mentions coops and mutual aid
societies (and usually worker reading rooms etc.).
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Shalva Eliava via Marxism 
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 Regardless of how one feels about co-ops/market socialism, these are
 pretty inspiring stories. I liked the Turkish textile
 workers-turned-co-op-owners' attitude best:

 We don’t want to work for a profit, just enough for all of us to get by,”
 Aynur Aydemir said. “We work six hours a day, and we like coming to work in
 the morning now, because we are our own bosses.”


 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/may-day-workers-of-the-world-unite-and-take-over-their-factories

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[Marxism] May Day - workers of the world unite and take over – their factories

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Regardless of how one feels about co-ops/market socialism, these are pretty 
inspiring stories. I liked the Turkish textile workers-turned-co-op-owners' 
attitude best:

We don’t want to work for a profit, just enough for all of us to get by,” 
Aynur Aydemir said. “We work six hours a day, and we like coming to work in the 
morning now, because we are our own bosses.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/may-day-workers-of-the-world-unite-and-take-over-their-factories

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[Marxism] May Day in Instambul

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Taxim square: https://youtu.be/-Dk6iMZUW3c

In Milan the government security forces are talking about an infiltrated 
(from outer space perhaps) rebellion.


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[Marxism] May Day: World protests target capitalist austerity

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People around the world took to the streets on May 1 to mark May Day, the
international workers' day.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58910



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Re: [Marxism] May Day in Athens

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International Workers’ Day: resounding struggles from Greece to Russia
[LeftEast interviewed six workers from Russia, Slovenia, Macedona,
Croatia and Greece.  I copied brief excerpts from the interviews with
the two Greek workers which btw show that The Greek Reporter did not
report on a third May Day demonstration in Athens initiated by
Antarsya.]

“For more than twenty years have the wage workers of this country
begged and prayed their masters, the factory lords, to reduce their
burdens. It has been in vain.” – this proclamation could easily have
come from a 1st of May rally in 2015, as it remains equally relevant
today. But it dates back to the 4th of May, 1886, when August Spies,
one of the key protagonists of the Haymarket affair in Chicago incited
the rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour-day, which
spiraled into a mass protest and inspired the International Workers’
movement. 130 years on, as the struggle continues, LeftEast spoke with
those familiar with workers’ conditions and Union organization in
Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Macedonia and Russia.
http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/international-workers-day-resounding-struggles-from-greece-to-russia


interview with Sylvia Koilakou on International Workers Day
by Left East 
http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/international-workers-day-greece

Sylvia Koilakou works as a civil engineer in a technical enterprise.
She is active in the union of technical employees and is a member of
the Board of the Labor Center of Athens. She is a member of the
anti-capitalist coalition ANTARSYA, on whose ticket she stood as a
parliamentary candidate in the recent elections.
. . .
May Day in Greece is a day of struggle for trade unions, with
demonstrations all over Greece. In Athens, three demonstrations are
called. One by the tertiary confederations (GSEE and ADEDY), one by
PAME (All-workers Militant Front, unions and unionists adjacent to the
Communist Party of Greece), and one by the grassroots unions, marching
towards the parliament and the EU offices. The forces of the
anti-capitalist Left, ANTARSYA and autonomous labor collectives
participate in the latter. These grassroots unions carry the logic of
independent class unionism and grassroots coordination, which is far
removed from the GSEE’s logic of unionism, which subordinates itself
to the existing system, as well as from the partisan unionism of
PAME.
. . .
This year’s May Day in Greece finds a labor movement that has faced 5
years of attacks on labor rights. At this instant, capital, the EU and
IMF forces, maintain a rigid stance aimed at the signing of a new
memorandum, which will include strict anti-labor measures. The
SYRIZA-ANEL government is oriented towards a deal with the country’s
borrowers, having accepted the obligation of paying the debt as well
as the inviolable terms that the EU and the Euro-Zone have imposed.
Thus, this year’s May Day is an important milestone for grassroots
unions, in order to organize the counterattack of struggles against
the new anti-popular agreements and in order to restore workers’
victories.
full at:  http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/international-workers-day-greece


interview with Christos Tsadaris on International Workers day
by LeftEast 
http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/international-workers-day-christos-tsadaris

Christos Tsadaris has recently concluded his studies as a physicist,
and is currently unemployed, searching for a job. He has been active
in social movements of the youth in Greece and is a member of ATTACK,
a youth collective against modern slavery, flexibility in work and
unemployment. He is a member of the anti-capitalist coalition
ANTARSYA.
. . .
... the unions never choose to actually defend workers’ interests,
but are most often led to compromises and submission to the dominant
bourgeois block.

What is crucial today is the overall objective of class
reconstruction and the development of a mass, political labor
movement, aiming to an overthrow of the current neoliberal attack, a
counterattack of struggles, unraveling the memorandum of capitalist
barbarism and reactionary reforms, gaining victories for the workers,
in connection to the struggle for the objectives of the
anti-capitalist program.
. . .
Regarding labour rights and specifically the collective contract
agreements in Greece, the numbers are really shocking. In 2008 there
were 161 sectoral and inter-professional collective agreement
contracts, which could cover almost all workers in the private sector.
Today only 18 contract agreements are active, while it is estimated
that less than 15% of the workers occupied in the private sector is
being covered by those 

[Marxism] May Day in Athens

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Labor Day Action: Thousands of People and Ministers Participate in Rally
by Ioanna Zikakou
The Greek Reporter, May 1, 2015
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/05/01/greek-labor-day-action-thousands-of-people-and-ministers-participate-in-rally

Downtown Athens is closed as of this morning, Friday, for strike
rallies to commemorate Labour Day (May 1).

Participants of a rally by the umbrella labor unions of Greece, GSEE
of the private sector and ADEDY of the public sector, who had gathered
at Klafthmonos Square on Stadiou, are marching to Syntagma Square, as
part of a strike action commemorating the day.

An earlier rally by PAME, the Communist Party-affiliated labor union,
at Syntagma has concluded.

The second rally is being attended by Interior and Administration
Reconstrunction Minister Nikos Voutsis, Productive Reconstruction,
Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, Finance Minister
Yanis Varoufakis, Social Insurance Alternate Minister Dimitris
Stratoulis and Attica Region Governor Rena Dourou among other
officials.

In a message as he arrived at the PAME rally, Communist Party of
Greece General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas said on Friday that
Labor Day’s message consists of leaving the memorandum policies and
breaking with the European Union.

The Day points us to the road away from the memorandum and its
application laws, Koutsoumbas underlined as he arrived at the rally
organized by the KKE-affiliated PAME labor union.

It also points us towards the direction of expanding the labor
movement to demand better wages for workers and collective work
agreements, as well as towards breaking with the EU and the capital
and its rule.

In statements at Klafthmonos Square earlier, Lafazanis said that this
year’s message on Labor Day was for struggle and resistance, and noted
that Greece is negotiating toughly, the government will keep its
commitments and the negotiations will have a positive outcome.

Yanis Varoufakis became one with the crowd. He wore a simple T-shirt,
a leather jacket and a carnation in his front pocket in order to
participate in the rally that took place in central Athens. Varoufakis
was cheerful as he spoke with the citizens who were commemorating
Labor Day. Meanwhile, several reporters approached him in an attempt
to get a statement.
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Labor Day 2015: Riots in Central Athens
by Ioanna Zikakou
Greek Reporter, May 1, 2015
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/05/01/labor-day-2015-riots-in-central-athens

Minor rioting incidents involving Molotov cocktails occurred in
central Athens, Greece, after the Labor Day rally ended.

Anti-authoritarians threw Molotov cocktails in Propylaea and police
responded by throwing stun grenades. Then, the group moved to
Exarchia, where they turned over garbage bins and set them on fire in
an attempt to set up makeshift barricades on Stournari street. Greek
police made two arrests in the area and the intensity eased a little
after 4pm.

Meanwhile, there was no tension during the standard Labor Day rally,
despite the fact that a small anti-authoritarian group decided to
throw Molotov cocktails to the riot police officers.

A small incident also occurred outside the hotel Grand Bretagne in
Syntagma Square, where once again anti-authoritarians threw Molotov
cocktails, however, the riot police did not respond.

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[Marxism] May Day: Not a Victory But the Class Struggle.

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Warmly, Vijay.

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