time since its adoption as a unitary global struggle for the Second International in 1889, on 1 May has always been linked to workers' struggles for democracy and against dictatorship, exploitation and war. Since that time raised the slogan of the 8-hour day, however, the fight against long hours and sweatshop conditions, child labor and even slave labor will be a constant while capitalism exists.
Above all, the 1st of May is a celebration of internationalism that unites workers around the world and is opposed to any attempt to divide the working class by nationality, sex, language , race, ideology or religion.
This May 1st turn our eyes to the Arab countries especially in the midst of a historic revolutionary upheaval, Egypt and Tunisia, where the young and the workers played a vital role in reducing dictatorships who had oppressed for decades. The role of women in these revolutions demonstrates the potential for further advancement of their rights as a genre. The fight against economic crisis and full democratic political rights is far from complete by the new regimes that try to ban strikes and military government still in power.
In particular, we express our solidarity with the Arab workers who struggle to overthrow repressive regimes in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and Iran. Totally condemn the military intervention of U.S. and European imperialist powers in Libya in the name of "humanitarianism " because their real motives are to continue the looting of the oil wealth of the region and to stop the advance of the revolution that aims to achieve objectives conquering imperialist and social justice.
past year has witnessed the mass marches of protest and general strikes in many European countries especially in Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Britain, where governments are trying to download the cost of major crisis that began in 2008 on the backs of the working class, privatize education, health services as all services public, and annihilate unemployment insurance for workers.
However, the official trade union leaders, the union bureaucracy and reformist parties, too often divert these struggles against austerity and decisive impact, so we must redouble efforts to pass them. Trade union activists class and the organized movement of the bases should centralize the struggle and promote general strikes to topple these neoliberal governments are trying to destroy the social gains result of the struggle of many generations of workers.
In the United States North American unions have awakened from a long sleep by the savage attacks on their rights to organize and massive cuts released by rightist governors. The massive occupation of Madison, Wisconsin state capital, and weeks of demonstrations in Ohio, the solidarity strike of the longshoremen on the West Coast indicate that American workers are finally deciding that enough is enough. To take a big step forward for U.S. workers will have to break with the Democrats to unite and form a new anti-capitalist party, where they are united regardless of origin white workers, blacks, Latinos and other minorities.
The underlying impetus for these struggles around the world is the historical crisis of capitalism, with mass unemployment, which particularly affects young people, increases in food prices and fuel, and attacks against the social gains and trade union rights. Without forgetting the growing rivalry between the imperialist powers for natural resources and exploitable labor of our planet. Their rivalry threat beyond the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. The years and decades ahead will not only wars and revolutions, but also the increasing number of disasters called " natural. " Many of them are actually the result of the destructive effects of capitalism on the environment, and even though it is not the case, as always, will be the poor and oppressed those who suffer most from the effects of climate change.
The struggles of Chinese workers and Asia, coupled with growing resistance in Latin America of the workers, peasants and indigenous people, migrants worldwide and especially in the United States strengthen resilience days day and we are sure you will witness and be transformed resistance struggles in offensive fighting forces join the revolution world.
On 1 May we remember that the working class must join its natural allies, who are the poor, oppressed and discriminated minorities. The unity of workers and peoples is the only force that can by its resistance to end the global crisis, only revolutions can clearly resolve crisis and other dangers looming over humanity. We must remember that women, half of humanity are doubly oppressed at home and at work, for it will surely in the forefront of these revolutions.
But to secure their release, the world proletariat needs to build new revolutionary parties. The League for the Fifth International and their sections in Asia, Europe and the United States are calling on those who fight around the world to unite all our struggles, to join us in creating the organized expression working-class world to unite in a new International. The Fifth International , world party of socialist revolution. Socialismo Revolucionario Mexico (SRM) takes this appeal and hopes to achieve coordination among all those who struggle for socialism.
Do honor to proletarian internationalism, and with millions of workers of all countries in the world to fight this May 1, cry together, united in the irrevocable decision to succeed: Workers of all countries unite!
The May 1st is a holiday for the working class worldwide. A day where all employees are invited to show our strength, the strength of billions of human beings who produce the wealth, the creators of wealth but live with limitations.
The May 1st is a day of fighting, a day of UNIT of the working class where a unit, regardless of whether or not we are a party or organization, or that union, federation or union current belong. It is a holiday with joy that we met while all like brothers, like brothers class, working class to protest and show our strength, to shout from the rooftops that without us nothing works, nothing is produced, all stops, and yet, all we are denied.
want free and quality education for all our children, efficient medical services, housing, good wages, decent and safe, healthy food, cheap transportation and we are denied.
Politicians live well in our work, living standards thanks to our work well, they all live well our work unless we and our families. Thus we are tired of promises, misery, lies and angry, pissed and invite everyone to yell this May 1: BASTA YA!
Tired of young people without jobs or schools, extra fees for services paid with our taxes, the ridiculous minority of millionaires and the vast majority of the poor. Enough of job insecurity, low pensions and cowardly murders of the drug where the dead are workers or children workers earn only businessmen, drug dealers and politicians.
enough that our brothers are forced to migrate, to spend misery and suffering abuse at home that are denied the right to happiness. Live migrants around the world!
Proud of our fellow miners, workers in Olympia, SME's electricians, Chapingo, teachers, peasants, indigenous people, women and students in struggle. If thousands of millions around the world, to be part of this immense force, the most in the world. So we must fight and to hell with all politicians and their parties. We must organize a single union, a single organization, a party of city workers and country and impose government workers, workers benefiting and not to entrepreneurs. BASTA YA!
BASTA YA! that the "leaders" give speeches do not drive and drive. Enough of that same day made various events. If our leaders want unity, they must make a single event, where we show our strength. One day that raises our demand for better wages and benefits, job security, against the dead by cowards narcos and police. No labor reform that favors employers. Not Labor Reform Peña Nieto supported by the PAN and the PRI!
We must make clear our anger, we're pissed, but glad to see our brothers in the street agree, saying a resounding NO to the labor reform. A resounding NO to the new ISSSTE law. A resounding NO to the political patron of P R I , PAN , PVEM , p ANAL. And a resounding Yes for better wages and benefits, job security, social security.
A resounding Yes for the unity of all working people requiring our leaders to stop childish and make a call to one day fight for the working class. Those who are leading unions are our representatives, not our heads. Therefore we must obey and call for unity in our favor. And if we obey not change, revoke and appoint others who do seek unity of the entire working class.
You complain but you're off! politicians Employers cut spending on education, health care, raise taxes, reform the law to benefit employers, that the crisis caused by the employers pay the workers! You complain but you leave and they will keep doing if we allow it to continue dividing! So to hell with the political patron, the "charro" union and refuse to sectarian unity. Because only the UNIT will assert our strength.
Enough complaining . Organize and decide to fight uniformly. If you decide to stop complaining: We support you. And if you want and you decide to organize and achieve unity will be with you. Contact now:
THE VOICE OF RESISTANCE
and democratic trade union COORDINATOR (viscosity)
BASE ANT
COORDINATOR OF WORKERS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN DEFENSE OF ISSSTE (CTyOD-ISSSTE)
sent by our brothers workers Mexican Electricians Union (SME) from the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos, to whom we say: You are not alone with the black campaign, lynching campaign against their just struggle. The Voice of Resistance like many other workers in struggle say: Viva SME!, Popular resistance Viva! why we insist. This May 1, in all places of the country, in all flyers and newspapers, all troops, a central slogan should be:
Freedom for all Political Prisoners. Political prisoners released EMS. reproduce verbatim the SME
Bulletin
Mexican Electricians Union
Division Cuernavaca PRESS RELEASE
Cuernavaca, Morelos, April 19 del2011 Continued political persecution of the Federal Government to members of the Division Cuernavaca.
In addition to stage violent orchestrated by the federal government on April 11, 2011
in Mexico City where outsiders infiltrated our movement that led to riots, the media lynching that is simultaneously gave the event, of allegations of acts of sabotage in the historic center of same city attacks against the electrical division continues Cuernavaca, showing that, indeed, in the state of Morelos and in the country, the rule of law does not exist. The primer tribunal colegiado
del decimo octavo circuito con residencia en esta ciudad capital, negó el amparo de la justicia federal a los compañeros Héctor Salazar Porcayo Subsecretario General de la División Cuernavaca y Marco Antonio García Barrera subsecretario de trabajo, también de esta división, derivado de la causa penal 63/2010 que se sigue en su contra en el juzgado IV federal con residencia en esta ciudad, a cargo de la Juez Griselda Sáenz Horta, al no encontrar, según sus deliberaciones y análisis, violaciones a sus derechos. De igual forma el pasado Quinto Tribunal Unitario de Circuito Assistant Center
of the Third Region based in the city of Guanajuato, in charge of legal challenge the detention order ratified it on 8 April. As the process of self-incrimination
that takes place in the IV trial is ongoing, violating the constitutional provisions governing the matter. On 29 April at 11:00 hours, will be held this diligence unconstitutional, in presenting a cd with pictures and video to be confronted with technical tests with the voices and images Peer Salazar Barrera, although we do not know if it is true that in the time trial and formal presentation of evidence was not presented. also perform the procedures that partners are booked as dangerous offenders by examining sicopedagógico and pictogrames tab.
The only crime was to ask who were the persons who appeared at the premises on February 17, 2010, kept order in the facilities and ultimately to be union members of the EMS. We reiterate emphatically that never was prevented from passing to any person, both like going out.
is regrettable that these processes do not have legal grounds but rather political, and that the administration of justice at the mercy of federal plans to exterminate an organization, to criminalize a peaceful movement.
The electricians say, nothing quiet our voice of struggle, can imprison our bodies but never our spirit and dignity.
sympathizes in full with our brothers and requested EMS electricians, to the hate campaign waged by the media mercenary who defames the just and heroic struggle of the EMS calls on all trade unionists and revolutionaries the world spreading the legitimate and legal struggle working to recover the source of more than 44 000 workers redundant. SRM fully supports the call of the SME to form a new political organization that will bring together all trade unionists and all of us for social change. This May, around the country and everyone should be clear that the more than 16,000 workers in resistance have the support of the entire working class. Welcome to the leaflets, newspapers, flags and banners of the organizations that claim to be left to include the demand to release all political prisoners in Mexico, freedom for political prisoners of the EMS. reproduce verbatim the pulldown today, April 17, 2011 in the Mexican press,
reiterating its invitation to all organizations of all countries in the struggle to reproduce and disseminate heroic SME fight:
WHAT WE ARE GUILTY IN THE ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE OF SME?
Following mobilization on Monday April 11 at the facilities of Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LyFC), 18 months of the decree unconstitutional extinction of the decentralized public agency, again has unleashed a ferocious political and media campaign against members of the Mexican Union of Electricians (SME).
All the forces of reaction and the right have united in holy crusade to insult and pepper to our organization, in another attempt to end the SME, grooms, lackeys and serving tinterillos oligarchy and government, have spared no worn hollow words and speech, to smear the electrical workers.
Given the clear lack of evidence with which to support their accusations against us, we have filled diatribes and insults by calling us violent saboteurs, cowards and other nice things like that, but what truth is there in all this?
On violence: He was the holder of federal executive, who decided to neglect the "war" against drugs, bringing to the staff of the Federal Police to crush any resistance EMS the decree of suppression LyFC. Was the headline of the Federal Police, who decided to enter their "effective" in our workplaces, with total luxury and military police violence on the evening of October 10 under cover of darkness, abusing and humiliating workers delivered at the time and took turns. It was the Federal Police who chased, beat and arrested our comrades on the Mexico-Queretaro, Sector Bolivar in
Substation Cerro Gordo, in plants and Juandhó Necaxa. It was they who fired tear gas and pepper spray, regardless of the effect on children women and the elderly, as documented in the national press (the kindergarten Bolivar March 16, 2010 and the Zocalo subway station April 11, 2011). It is they who carry helmets, batons, shields, guns, tear gas and pepper spray, with which harass, intimidate and beat the workers with impunity. About
sabotage: By order of the previous and current owner of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), the agency personnel and private contractors are those who have been operating our generating plants, lines transmission and distribution networks
substations, without the technical knowledge, expertise and experience from the night of 10 October. Lying "officials of the sector" that, without a modicum of knowledge about electricity, ensure that you can saw or cut a live wire without causing certain death.
Moreover, it seems very strange that an immediate response time of one minute and twenty seconds of the police in the first frame of the city, has been arrested in flagrante no called "Saboteur." With so many video cameras installed in this city, no "spoiler" has been located and detained. While the Rapid Response Team that created the Department of the Interior, has nothing to report, for one reason, there is the alleged sabotage.
About
cowardice has been the holder of federal executive, who decided to act in the dark of night to attack defenseless workers and citizens. It was he who decided to apply the full force of state and public institutions to crush resistance Electricians 16.599. It is the federal executive, who violently trampling our Constitution and other laws and regulations, so shameless and cynical, to deliver our natural resources, energy equity and national sovereignty to the transnationals. Who submits meekly to the dictates of the United States in public safety.
So what are we guilty? Of us opposed to the delivery-privatization of the Electricity Industry Nationalized since the time of Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox and now Felipe Calderon. Have fought and stopped the attempts of regressive reforms to Article 123 of the Constitution and Federal Law
Labour during the Zedillo and now in the Calderonato. Of us opposed and fought against anti-worker amendments to the laws of Insurance Social and ISSSTE, during the foxiato.
are also guilty of not meekly accept our surrender and the suppression of our organization as claimed by the oligarchy and their government. To resist the unconstitutional suppression of a company owned by the nation. To refuse to accept the violation of our constitutional rights and legal
. Be firm and patriots, worthy of our identity as electricians, as workers and as Mexicans.
are also guilty of believing and practicing our inalienable and contractual rights, Labour and constitutional. To accept our status as workers and soldiers serving their country. To be worthy heirs of our deep roots and indigenous workers. To seek unity with our fellow workers, peasants, indigenous people, teachers, students, retirees, pensioners, women and youth, to change the root, rotten neoliberal economic model and the authoritarian political regime in our country.
If we are guilty of our conviction to end impunity for officials who enrich themselves in the shadow of enterprises and public institutions. Our belief that justice will to justice those who have been responsible for criminal acts such as those in Pasta de Conchos, the ABC Hospital in Cananea, in Ciudad Juarez, Monterrey Tech and some others.
confident in our soon to be called to account for the popular justice all those who have squandered the resources and indebted to the utmost, to companies such as PEMEX, CFE, Luz y Fuerza del Centro, and others.
We are absolutely guilty of our confidence in achieving
" The making of a total working class actually conscious, unified, disciplined and fit, able to carry out the establishment of a just economic system that allows all men and women able to work, live comfortably the product of his own work, and make it impossible to get rich work the other ". In our certainty cement a new political institutions without corrupt, or nepotism, which serves to build the happiness of the majority, in this our land.
Therefore, and with all of Mexican society, we demand: Enough
to trample on Constitution and laws of our country; Enough to violate human and labor rights of working people; Enough of the failed war, whose failure is measured by more than 40 thousand dead climbing Enough prices of gasoline, diesel, gas and electricity, enough is enough to raise prices of basic food products; Enough to keep unresolved conflicts: miner and electrician, Enough of decision "courageous" and not smart.
And because
with Juarez, we convinced that "the triumph of the reaction is morally impossible" , we understand the deep, revenge and class hatred sickening us who profess from money and power, we fight with all the fury possible. And for that reason, we cry from the depths of our conscience and dignity " Or are they or are we ."
Fraternally
"For the Law and Justice Worker"
Mexico City, April 14, 2011
Comité Central y Comisiones Autónomas
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