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May Day – our day!
Published May 9, 2012 9:15 PM
As the spectre of unemployment stalks the land, around comes May Day — a day set aside for the working class: those who build and built this nation, brick by brick.
Not just a day of idle salute, but a day to build more! A day to build social power. A day to strengthen our forces. A day of workers’ unity. Also a day to unite with the unemployed, to bring them in.
In the wake of NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement], one of the most brutal attacks on workers in the late 20th century, we have seen the dwindling of the working class, an attack on wages, an all-out assault on pensions (brought to you by thieving politicians!).
Grand theft writ large!
It’s time for workers and trade unions to join hands with all others in their class — to build, once again, social power; to build a better tomorrow!
Ona Move! Workers Power IS Social Power!
– Mumia Abu-Jamal
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