FIGHT THE LABOUR BILL, SMASH AUSTERITY, BUILD WORKERS’ POWER: Workers And Socialist Party (WASP) and Socialist Youth Movement (SYM) statement for May Day 2025
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Workers' action (Image: Wasp website)
This May Day, we stand in struggle and solidarity with workers across the world resisting exploitation, oppression, and austerity.
May Day is not a holiday—it is a day of rebellion. It commemorates the Haymarket martyrs, workers executed in 1886 in Chicago for demanding an eight-hour workday. They died fighting the same capitalist system that we confront today. From the mines of the DRC to the factories of China, from the farms of Mpumalanga to the gig economy of Gauteng, working-class people still endure brutal conditions so that a small elite can live in obscene luxury.
Today, global capitalism is in terminal crisis. Its contradictions grow sharper every day. Climate collapse, mass unemployment, war, genocide, pandem...