Unite for a Change in Direction for Society!

May Day Issue of the Line of MarchRCPB(ML) sends its warmest revolutionary May Day greetings to the working class of England, Scotland and Wales on May Day 2013. We salute the working and oppressed peoples of all countries on this day of unity in struggle of the international working class; militant revolutionary greetings to all humanity fighting for the new, fighting to affirm their rights and to assert their own course of development!

The banner has been raised to fight for the alternative. This means to take up for solution how to turn things around, how to end the backward neo-liberal direction which the monopolies are imposing on society which is causing untold hardship. It means to take up the pro-social direction based on the independent politics and programme of the working class. It means building the broadest political unity around that independent politics and programme of the working class, a political unity based not on handing over the initiative to any condescending saviours but on the strength of the working class itself, who are capable of getting into motion to resolve the crisis in favour of the majority of society. It means the working class itself utilising the strength of its organisation and numbers to rally all of society round it to build the new.

For the people to have control over their lives means that people wherever they live and work have to be the decision-makers. This in turn entails that the owners of monopoly capital must deprived of the power to disempower the people from being the decision-makers. An alternative direction for society, the fight for a society which is human-centred, means that social product produced by the working class must be reinvested in social programmes, public services and the productive economy, especially manufacturing, so that all can prosper from industrial mass production and not just a privileged few.

The so-called austerity measures far from resolving the crisis are intensifying it. The government has no mandate from the people to impose an austerity agenda that will wreck the social infrastructure even further. The working class must fight for its own independent political programme in order to occupy the space for change and defend its interests against the assault of state monopoly capital.

The organised workers everywhere are and have been in practice working out what it means to fight for the alternative. They are coming to the conclusion that it is not enough to fight battle after battle as though each had no connection with the others. They are coming to the conclusion that there is a thread running through their battles which is that the rich have a neo-liberal, capital-centred agenda which they are attempting to impose everywhere on society on the basis that austerity is a necessity. On the contrary, there is an alternative which is to fight for a change in the direction of society itself. This means not just a collection of policy objectives which may or may not work or come into being. It means through fighting for what is just and is in the public interest and the interests of the collectives of the working people, a direction will be found which will take society out of its crisis, and subordinate the interests of the monopoly capitalists, the finance capitalists, to the public good.

May Day 2013 is the time for the working class to pledge anew to leave the old behind, to resist the attacks of those who hold economic and political power and who seek to block this advance, and organise to fight for and build the new even in these adverse conditions. It is a time for the working class and its communist leadership to meet the challenge set by history and the objective conditions, and to fight for its own alternative, the alternative of the modern proletariat and all humanity – a socialist society in which the working class emancipates itself, and thereby emancipates all humanity, and ends war, aggression and the exploitation of persons by persons.

The working class is the only social force capable of establishing this new society. On May Day 2013, its task is to consider anew the direction and the means to bring this about. This includes building its own political party based on the new, based on modern definitions, based on being the most organised force, with one programme, a programme to end the exploitation of persons by persons and uphold and defend the rights of all.

Fight for the Alternative – A Socialist Society Which Serves the Public Good and Deprives the Owners of Capital of their Power!
Fight to Turn Things Around and Resolve the Crisis in Favour of the Working Class and People!
Unite for a Change in Direction for Society!
Workers of All Countries, Unite!

May Day Events 2013

LONDON: flyer Wednesday May 1st MARCH & RALLY Assemble 12 noon Clerkenwell Gre n London EC1 (nearest tube—Farringdon) March to Tra falgar Square 1300 London May Day Organising Committee http://www.londonmayday.org SOUTH TYNESIDE: flyer Wednesday May 1st - May Day Meeting & Celebration Simonside Social Club, South Shields. Doors Open 7.30pm Speakers 8.00pm Organised by South Tyneside May Day 2000 Committee TYNE AND WEAR MAY DAY 2013: flyer Saturday May 4th Newcastle-upon-Tyne March and Rally Assemble 11:00am Times Square (Centre for Life) March leaves 11:30am for rally at Exhibition Park 12:15 Organised Tyne & Wear May Day Committee CHESTERFIELD: flyer Monday May 6th - MAY DAY 2013 36th People's Gala & Demonstration Further Information: Chesterfield TUC c/o 70 Saltergate, Chesterfield Tel: 01246 231441 SOUTH WEST: flyer Saturday May 4th - MAY DAY 2013 Plymouth May Day Free Festival Bristol May Day Rally May Day Weekend in Exeter Dorset May Day See Flyer for Details.