ICOR: 1 May 2025: All over the world, come out on our day – long live socialism!

Written by: ICOR on 30 April 2025

 

On May Day, the International Day of Struggle of the working class, we reaffirm our ties and solidarity with all the exploited and oppressed.

Many people are concerned about the future, and this is beginning to come to the fore in the struggles of the workers and popular masses in many countries and all continents - on the streets, in the workplaces, factories and schools. The capitalist and imperialist world domination is becoming more and more absurd in view of the possibilities and achievements of the revolutionary productive forces: a growing working class worldwide, knowledge and possibilities of science and technology before unknown to overcome hunger and many mass diseases, to provide humanity in the entire world with work, education, health, food, housing and dignity and to save the environment. But instead, imperialist domination turns these gains into their opposite. The threat of world war, rising fascist movements and racist tendencies, and a worsening global environmental catastrophe that has begun are rampant throughout the world.

The heaviest burdens of imperialist rule are borne by the worldwide working class, their families and the women. Intensified exploitation and oppression in the factories, extended working hours, mass layoffs or even entire plant closures, dangerous working conditions, wage theft and widespread violence, particularly gender-based violence, etc. endanger health, undermine the quality of life, devastate communities and exhaust the masses. This makes the conditions more difficult to become socially and politically engaged next to work. These realities also steal hope for future generations. At the same time, fascist tendencies are on the rise: repressive laws, political persecution, and state violence are being deployed against striking workers, students, revolutionaries and the oppressed. Around the world, the ruling classes respond to the crisis with terror, but also with demagogy, seeking to break resistance with prisons, bullets, and fear – but also by means of deception.

Even more important is that 1 May must be more than a day of protest and be held in contrast to division, individualism and despondency. It is not only an occasion to develop the class struggle for the improvement of working and living conditions, but also to root the idea of socialism as the only perspective for the future among the masses of workers.

Let us recall Lenin's vision from 1 May 1919:

“Our grandchildren will examine the documents and other relics of the epoch of the capitalist system with amazement. It will be difficult for them to picture to themselves how the trade in articles of primary necessity could remain in private hands, how factories could belong to individuals, how some men could exploit others, how it was possible for those who did not work to exist. Up to now the story of what our children would see in the future has sounded like a fairy-tale; but today, comrades, you clearly see that the edifice of socialist society, of which we have laid the foundations, is not a utopia. Our children will build this edifice with even greater zeal." (V.I. Lenin, Three Speeches Delivered In Red Square, Collected Works, Vol. 29, p. 330)

Let us take up this vision, not as a dream, but as an urgent task.

Therefore, on 1 May 2025, in the spirit of Lenin and his legacy of struggle:

For the future of the children of the world!

Workers of all countries, unite!

Workers of all countries and oppressed peoples, unite!

Workers of all countries and all oppressed, unite!

Forward with the struggle for liberation, democracy, freedom and socialism!

Get organized and strengthen the ICOR!

 

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ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo

UPC-Manidem Union des Populations du Cameroun - Manifeste National pour l’Instauration de la Démocratie (Union of Populations of Cameroon - National Manifesto for the Establishment of Democracy)

CPK Communist Party of Kenya

MMLPL Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line

CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)

PPDS Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia

SPB Socialist Party of Bangladesh

NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

RUFN Revolutionary United Front of Nepal

CPA/ML Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

Krasnyj Klin Gruppa Kommunistov-Revoljucionerov „Krasnyj Klin“ (Group of Communist Revolutionaries “Krasnyj Klin” ), Belarus

БКП Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)

PR-ByH Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)

MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)

UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France

BP (NK-T) Bolşevik Parti (Kuzey Kürdistan-Türkiye) (Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey))

KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)

RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands

UMLP União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)

RMP Российская маоистская партия (Rossijskaya maoistskaya partiya) (Russian Maoist Party)

MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)

TKP-ML Türkiye Komünist Partisi – Marksist-Leninist (Communist Party of Turkey – Marxist-Leninist)

MLKP Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)

KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine

UMU Union of Maoists of the Urals (Union of Maoists of the Urals), Russia

OAPCM Organización Apoyante del Partido Comunista de México (Supporting Organization of the Communist Party of Mexico)

PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))

PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic

APR Ação Popular Revolucionária (People’s Revolutionary Action), Brazil

SUCI (C) Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist)

 

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