#MAYDAY: THE PEOPLE UNITED CAN NEVER BE DEFEATED! - ACIS-Movement
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*ACIS-M Message on 2021 MAY DAY!*
*- As the Working People of the World Celebrates the 135th Anniversary of MAY DAY for the 2nd Year Running in the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic!*
The Amilcar Cabral Ideological School (ACIS-M) Movement, committed to the total liberation of Nigeria and the Pan-African world on the basis of socialist transformation, salutes the Nigerian workers, African workers and workers of all countries on the occasion of the 135th Anniversary of MAY DAY, which was a product of the working class struggle in 1886 that achieved the 8-hours a day and 40-hours a week work standards.
In celebrating MAY DAY in 2021, we are concerned about the state of the political and economic realities of Nigeria and the countries across the Pan-African World. We are equally concerned about the fate of the working people in a global context dominated by US imperialism, in which sovereign nations and peoples such as Socialist Cuba, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicaragua and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, struggling to assert their rights of sovereignty and independence in their choices of political and socio-economic directions, but which are being variously undermined, sabotaged and threatened by the US establishment!
In Nigeria, where the ACIS-M operational base is domiciled, the realities are: a general state of insecurity in all the states across the country, unprecedented rise in unemployment with over 40-million youth jobless, daily job losses, collapse of basic industries aggravated by the neoliberal policies of privatization and deregulation, non-implementation of collective agreements reached with trade unions, indecent work conditions and below the poverty line wages, casualisation of the workforce, lack of social security for the aged and unemployed, default by both public and private employers in the payment of severance allowances, gratuities and pensions, denial of rights and victimization of workers to unionise in most private establishments, etc. And in the stead of all previous exploitative regimes in Nigeria since the 1999 civilian dispensation, the current Buhari-regime, which assumed power in May, 2015 and raised the hope of workers with its slogan of “Change”, has equally proven to be a disaster.
*We can recall that in our 2015 MAY DAY Message, we stated that: "Nigerian workers should be cautious about a “Change” that is anchored on the policies of neo-liberal global order of International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the puppeteers’ structural adjustment policies. The working environment foisted by these neo-liberal exploitative policies wherever they operate across the world, have never been favourable to the working people.
Nigeria workers should be ready to STRUGGLE TO DEFEAT the impending Austerity Measures, which the Buhari-APC regime would be required to impose on Nigeria by the puppeteer IMF and World Bank. ACIS-M urges Nigerian workers to challenge the Buhari-APC “Change” and Private employers with Workers’ friendly policies and demands, which should include: living wage; rights to unionise and favourable conditions of employment; job security and secured work environment; implementation of all outstanding collective agreements; training and retraining of workers with every advancement in science and technology to improve their skills and increase their earning capacity; living pensions and its prompt payment; protection on health and safety from hazardous elements; just compensation for work injuries; and Old age care, social security and social welfare for other categories of the working people.*
*The above message is as germane today as it was six years ago because nothing fundamentally has changed in terms of the living conditions of the working people and the general political and socio-economic situations in the country. Rather, what we have is the worsening of the situations and an environment of hopelessness now enveloping the country, with implications for impending anarchy and disorder!*
*It should be clear from the above highlighted prevalence that workers in Nigeria and by extension, working people across the world would have to go beyond trade union struggles for improvement in work conditions and respect for trade unions’ rights!* The Nigerian and African workers must be prepared for the task of building working people’s alternative political platforms, with which to struggle for political power in order to DEFEAT the unjust capitalist exploitative system and set a new AGENDA of reconstructing the society on the basis of a Socialist socio-economic system globally!
ACIS-M calls on Nigerian and African workers specifically, to demonstrate practical solidarity with the revolutionary peoples of Cuba, Venezuela, the Palestine, the Sahrawi and other sovereign nations and peoples being politically and socio-economically aggressed, sanctioned, destablised and terrorised by the unjust and inhuman policies of the US establishment!
*Working People of the World Join Forces Now to:
*- END THE US BLOCKADE AGAINST CUBA!*
*- END US AGRESSIONS IN VENEZUELA & ACROSS THE WORLD!*
*- END CAPITALISM & ITS INHUMAN & UNJUST POLICIES ACROSS ALL COUNTRIES!*
*- FREE THE PALESTINE & THE SAHARAWI!*
EVER ONWARD TO WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES!
FORWARD TO SOCIALISM!!
*ISSUED BY THE ACIS-M CENTRAL COORDINATING LEADERSHIP*
E-mail: [email protected],www.thepeopleng.com
*ACIS-M Message on 2021 MAY DAY!*
*- As the Working People of the World Celebrates the 135th Anniversary of MAY DAY for the 2nd Year Running in the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic!*
The Amilcar Cabral Ideological School (ACIS-M) Movement, committed to the total liberation of Nigeria and the Pan-African world on the basis of socialist transformation, salutes the Nigerian workers, African workers and workers of all countries on the occasion of the 135th Anniversary of MAY DAY, which was a product of the working class struggle in 1886 that achieved the 8-hours a day and 40-hours a week work standards.
In celebrating MAY DAY in 2021, we are concerned about the state of the political and economic realities of Nigeria and the countries across the Pan-African World. We are equally concerned about the fate of the working people in a global context dominated by US imperialism, in which sovereign nations and peoples such as Socialist Cuba, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicaragua and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, struggling to assert their rights of sovereignty and independence in their choices of political and socio-economic directions, but which are being variously undermined, sabotaged and threatened by the US establishment!
In Nigeria, where the ACIS-M operational base is domiciled, the realities are: a general state of insecurity in all the states across the country, unprecedented rise in unemployment with over 40-million youth jobless, daily job losses, collapse of basic industries aggravated by the neoliberal policies of privatization and deregulation, non-implementation of collective agreements reached with trade unions, indecent work conditions and below the poverty line wages, casualisation of the workforce, lack of social security for the aged and unemployed, default by both public and private employers in the payment of severance allowances, gratuities and pensions, denial of rights and victimization of workers to unionise in most private establishments, etc. And in the stead of all previous exploitative regimes in Nigeria since the 1999 civilian dispensation, the current Buhari-regime, which assumed power in May, 2015 and raised the hope of workers with its slogan of “Change”, has equally proven to be a disaster.
*We can recall that in our 2015 MAY DAY Message, we stated that: "Nigerian workers should be cautious about a “Change” that is anchored on the policies of neo-liberal global order of International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the puppeteers’ structural adjustment policies. The working environment foisted by these neo-liberal exploitative policies wherever they operate across the world, have never been favourable to the working people.
Nigeria workers should be ready to STRUGGLE TO DEFEAT the impending Austerity Measures, which the Buhari-APC regime would be required to impose on Nigeria by the puppeteer IMF and World Bank. ACIS-M urges Nigerian workers to challenge the Buhari-APC “Change” and Private employers with Workers’ friendly policies and demands, which should include: living wage; rights to unionise and favourable conditions of employment; job security and secured work environment; implementation of all outstanding collective agreements; training and retraining of workers with every advancement in science and technology to improve their skills and increase their earning capacity; living pensions and its prompt payment; protection on health and safety from hazardous elements; just compensation for work injuries; and Old age care, social security and social welfare for other categories of the working people.*
*The above message is as germane today as it was six years ago because nothing fundamentally has changed in terms of the living conditions of the working people and the general political and socio-economic situations in the country. Rather, what we have is the worsening of the situations and an environment of hopelessness now enveloping the country, with implications for impending anarchy and disorder!*
*It should be clear from the above highlighted prevalence that workers in Nigeria and by extension, working people across the world would have to go beyond trade union struggles for improvement in work conditions and respect for trade unions’ rights!* The Nigerian and African workers must be prepared for the task of building working people’s alternative political platforms, with which to struggle for political power in order to DEFEAT the unjust capitalist exploitative system and set a new AGENDA of reconstructing the society on the basis of a Socialist socio-economic system globally!
ACIS-M calls on Nigerian and African workers specifically, to demonstrate practical solidarity with the revolutionary peoples of Cuba, Venezuela, the Palestine, the Sahrawi and other sovereign nations and peoples being politically and socio-economically aggressed, sanctioned, destablised and terrorised by the unjust and inhuman policies of the US establishment!
*Working People of the World Join Forces Now to:
*- END THE US BLOCKADE AGAINST CUBA!*
*- END US AGRESSIONS IN VENEZUELA & ACROSS THE WORLD!*
*- END CAPITALISM & ITS INHUMAN & UNJUST POLICIES ACROSS ALL COUNTRIES!*
*- FREE THE PALESTINE & THE SAHARAWI!*
EVER ONWARD TO WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES!
FORWARD TO SOCIALISM!!
*ISSUED BY THE ACIS-M CENTRAL COORDINATING LEADERSHIP*
