Monday, May 01, 2006

Solidarity: a necessity for our times

Only by organising the new workforce across companies and national borders can we win social justice and equality

Solidarity may be an unfashionable virtue today, but it is the best - and often the only - defence most people have in a world dominated by big money, growing inequality and unrestrained profit-making. May Day has, for over a century, been the day working people have proclaimed their common interests across industries and countries. Its message of the necessity for solidarity is even more decisive than in the past.

In recent months, millions have shown they want a different world of greater justice, democracy and equality: in Latin America, the global anti-war movement, and the French workers who defeated the recent attempt to slash labour protection. That world is the ultimate purpose of the union freedom we are demanding today.

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