The Central Committee of the United Communists of Europe sends its warmest May Day greetings to the working people of Europe. International Workers Day is a day to commemorate the struggles of the international working class in its struggle against the bourgeoisie. It is not just a workers holiday, but an international recognition of the class struggle and the irreconcilable differences between capital and labour, between oppressor and oppressed, between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. May Day is a day of international working class solidarity in its struggle against the imperialist bourgeoisie and monopoly capitalism. It is a day to make calls for socialist revolution and a communist future that puts an end to all forms of oppression.
On May Day, workers around the world will march through their cities in demonstrations often led by reformists and class collaborationists. In Europe, most of the trade unions are led by bureaucratic officials who prefer diplomacy, using strikes only to put pressure at the bargaining table in order to reach a collective bargaining agreement. This corporatist approach to trade unionism creates the illusion that workers and capitalists can use dialogue in order to come to an agreement that works for all parties. These bureaucratic trade union leaders promote progressive bourgeois politicians that can push for legislation in parliament rather than a revolutionary struggle that puts the working class in charge of the state and deprives the bourgeoisie of all political power. The result is a trade union that has given up on the class struggle, created parliamentary illusions in its members, and betrayed the working class by collaborating with the bosses. This is reflected in the reformist demands that they put out on May Day that confine the worker to capitalism.
On May Day 2025, the United Communists of Europe resolutely opposes the class collaborationist trade union officials who will be leading the demonstrations. We call for rank-and-file militants to agitate for class struggle trade unionism. This means waging an active campaign inside the trade unions against the bureaucratic officials, demanding that the union refuse any compromise with the bosses, and struggling for revolutionary politics within the union through revolutionary action committees. A class struggle approach rejects the corporatist model that is dominant in unions, in which bargaining for better contracts through diplomacy and class collaborationism is in command. Instead, class struggle unionism highlights the irreconcilable antagonisms between the bourgeoisie and the working class, and puts this in practice by refusing to negotiate with the bosses. This is done by actively organising workers to take over their factories and workplaces, throwing out the bosses and organising workplace committees to create the basis of workers power. Additionally, a class struggle approach attempts to create armed workers combat units to fight the police and defend the working class from its enemies. Communist militants in the unions should organise campaigns to expose the reformist leaders as instruments of the bourgeoisie within the working class. Every call to participate in a bourgeois election or support the left-wing of capital–a social democratic party for example–should be shown to be hollow propaganda designed to keep the working class in chains.
On this May Day, lets bring the class struggle to our demonstrations and make calls for our unions to fight the bourgeoisie. At May Day marches, we should oppose the reformist bureaucrats that place the hands of the workers' struggle in the hands of the bourgeoisie. Our slogans at May Day demonstrations should include calls for workers to wage a revolutionary struggle against the bourgeoisie. We should remind our comrades and colleagues that May Day is not a holiday, but an international day of struggle and an opportunity for workers to wage revolutionary class struggle against the class enemy. Our slogans should articulate the internationalist nature of our struggle with calls for international proletarian unity and the necessity of defeating the bourgeoisie everywhere.
–Down with the bourgeoisie and all of its representatives!
–Not class peace, but class war!
–Evict the bourgeoisie from their homes! Distribute housing to all workers through revolutionary workers councils!
–Down with the class collaborationist union officials! For a class struggle trade union!
–For the international unity of the working class and oppressed nations against imperialism and capitalism!
–For a revolutionary struggle against capitalism through international socialist revolution!
–For the dictatorship of the proletariat, from Glasgow to Beijing, from Amsterdam to Moscow!
–For a communist future that puts an end to class oppression, racism, imperialist war, misogyny, and other forms of social oppression!
–Long live May Day and the struggle of the international proletariat against the bourgeoisie and its lackeys!
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