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May 1, 2012 - No. 62 May Day 2012 -- Defining Moment for Canada The Role of Leading Society Has Become the Responsibility of the Working Class Hamilton steelworkers rally on Parliament Hill, May Day 2011. Celebrate the day of international working class solidarity by advancing a program to resolve the problems facing society in favour of the people, not the rich! On this May Day 2012, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) sends its warmest militant May Day greetings to all workers and their allies at home and abroad and their fighting organizations. We salute all the working and oppressed peoples everywhere who are defending their rights, fighting to uphold their dignity and sovereignty and to find a way forward to build new societies which uphold the rights of all on a modern basis. On the occasion of May Day 2012, the most important problem to be taken up for solution is for the working class to take up its independent politics and program. All over the country the working people are under tremendous pressure to wage only defensive battles and depend on others to represent them politically. But the workers are breaking out of this old way of doing things. They are taking measures to hold governments to account themselves by working out programs which will contribute to resolving the crisis in their favour, not in favour of the rich whose imposition of monopoly dictate onto the peoples everywhere is leading to devastating nation-wrecking, impoverishment, wars of aggression and occupation. As the monopoly dictate reveals its brutality and irrationality more every day, the workers are saying Enough! There is an alternative! The lessons we draw from the struggles of the past year is that the only way out of the present situation is for the working class to assume the role of leading the society by exercising control over the decisions which affect their lives. We call on the fighting workers across the country to use the strength of their numbers and organization to wage the struggle with this aim in the forefront. The workers and oppressed peoples all over the world are feeling the full weight of the deepening crisis of the monopoly capitalist system and the demands of the international financial oligarchy and its oligopolies which dominate all sectors of the economy. Their only concern for society is their pursuit of maximum profits, no matter what gets auctioned off or who and what get destroyed. Governments use the full weight of the state, its agencies and revenues to meet the demands of the monopolies and financiers. In the name of prosperity, austerity, eliminating deficits and debts, national security, unity in diversity, democracy, human rights and many other high ideals which they misuse, they seek to achieve their aim. Anyone who resists this dictate is criminalized and accused of being a security risk. Because of this, the workers are facing massive economic insecurity, unemployment and downward pressure on their wages, working conditions and integrity. In addition, the cutbacks to social programs make life increasingly difficult for the people from all walks of life. Today, the only claims on society which governments recognize are those of the speculators and money lenders. When it comes to the claims of the working people every bogus excuse is given as to why it is not possible. In the past year, the workers have stepped up their opposition to this self-serving direction the financial oligarchs, monopolies and governments in their service have set for society. Only the working class has an interest to defend the guiding principle that the society must provide for all. The Hamilton steelworkers set the tone one year ago with their May First Rally on Parliament Hill where they gave the call to Stop Harper! Canadians Stand as One in Defence of Public Right! Manufacturing Yes! Nation-Wrecking No! In the face of the attacks of the monopolies and the federal and provincial governments the workers are fed the fairy tale that nothing can be done about the crisis except to accept it and, willingly or unwillingly, "share its burden." The steel workers called on workers from coast to coast to oppose the ideological defeatism and passivity the ruling elites and their media seek to impose on them and set their own course. In this way, organized workers everywhere are figuring out an alternative for themselves by taking a militant stand that No Means No! No austerity! No privatization of social services and social programs! No to making the people pay so as to pay the rich! The working class must constitute itself the nation and vest sovereignty in the people! The contradictions on the world scale are sharpening at an ever increasing pace as the monopolies and imperialist countries in their service strive for domination. Today the rule of law at home and abroad is destroyed and anarchy has been raised to authority. This means that no monopoly accepts to have any other above it and they all do as they please, with devastating consequences. Governments simply remove any barriers in their way and criminalize any opposition and they too vie with one another for domination. The situation is way beyond unacceptable. The workers must continue to rise up and stand as one to demand a rule of law which upholds the public interest. Such a rule of law must subordinate monopoly interests to the public interest. In the absence of this stand, life is grim; the future is bleak. But by taking this stand, the prospects open up and a bright future can be foreseen. This May First 2012, let us work hard to increase our awareness that the role of leadership in society has become the responsibility of the working class. Let the working class celebrate its latent and actual power to deprive the owners of capital and their political representatives of their power to deprive the actual producers of their rights, turn their lives upside down, wreck the socialized economy and embroil them in wars of aggression and occupation. This May First 2012, let workers pledge to improve the quality of their defence organizations and resistance by ridding their thinking of all the old dogma forced into our brains by owners of capital and their anti-social traditions and outmoded notions of exploitation and class privilege. Let all workers and their allies pledge to organize to build the new with their own thinking and outlook. The working class is the only social force capable of establishing a new equilibrium based on recognition of the rights of workers and the general interests of society. Across the country and internationally let us step up the work to uphold the dignity of labour in actions with analysis, oppose the dangers facing humanity of more wars of aggression and occupation and even more devastating fascist regimes to those defeated in the twentieth century. Throughout the world the working and oppressed peoples are rising up to face the situation. Our future lies in standing as one to defend the rights of all! One for All and All for One! Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the
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