May Day: Forward To Workers’ Unity
May Day is a very special day for the working people, not just of South Africa, but of the whole world. It is the day when the working people need to reflect on their struggles over the years, their shopfloor and collective bargaining efforts, the past struggles against colonialism and apartheid, and the current struggle against neo-colonialism and neo-apartheid imperialist machinations. May Day is the day of the celebration of unity, the celebration of the victories obtained through struggle, the celebration of the martyrs who gave their lives for the working people, for freedom, for justice and for social advancement.
In all countries that were subjected to colonial brutality and exploitation, workers should reflect on their unity, and it is an appropriate time when they should not forget all their difficulties, all the differences which are fostered and sown by the capitalist forces or by the reactionaries who are infiltrated into their ranks, by the dividers of working class unity. With all the differences amongst themselves being forgotten, workers come together in celebration of their revolutionary efforts. It is a great day of unity!
The only weapon that the working people globally and in South Africa have got is their trade union unity in struggle. Once the workers are divided, the employers can create havoc, and the ruling classes can make a mockery of their struggles. They can make strikes and demands for negotiations me
