Haiti

Listen, comrades and friends: the bosses’ world is becoming increasingly aggressive to save their dying system. As the living conditions of workers and immigrants continue to deteriorate everywhere, the imperialists try to silence the working class at all costs by creating a climate of terror. The bourgeois politicians use their political power to impose the ruling class’s will on the international working class. And when workers and students rebel, the bosses deploy the most violent means to try to sabotage all forms of resistance to capitalism.

So, on this May Day 2025, as a greeting for International Workers’ Day, we launch a rallying cry from Haiti, where the working class has been petrified and wounded by indescribable violence for several years in the name of the interests of capitalism and imperialism. Comrades! The founder of the first Haitian Communist Party, Jacques Roumain, addressing Black workers who were victims of racism in the United States on their own soil during the first half of the 20th century, wrote: “We are all brothers.” Today, we repeat this phrase and proclaim it even louder. Again and even louder, let us chant, comrades: we are all sisters and brothers, regardless of our color or gender, in the face of capitalist exploitation.

Comrades, the hour is grave!

Yes, comrades, the hour is grave. The future of humanity is threatened, and it is up to our class to save it together in revolutionary comradeship. By standing up together to smash racism, the persecution of immigrants, and the genocide against the workers of the world (in Palestine, Haiti, and so many places) we must turn the bosses’ imperialist wars for profit and control of the world’s resources into class war for communism. We must put the international working class first. We have no choice but to come together to destroy the bosses’ plan to decimate our class and annihilate our planet.

Comrades, we have fought back for centuries and we know how to win. Let us strengthen our ranks to lead the class struggle. We have a world to win!

Long live the unity of the global working class! Long live the class struggle! Long live the revolution! Long live communism!

Colombia

Comradely greetings of struggle from Bogotá, Colombia! On the eve of commemorating the International Workers Day and its historic struggle against wage slavery, racism, slavery, sexism, child labor exploitation -- in general, against all forms of oppression imposed by capitalism -- we unite in this celebration of the international working class. Now is the time for people to commit to the revolutionary communist struggle, actively engaging against school closures, healthcare cuts, imperialist wars and police terror, deportations, and the persecution of migrant workers.

We urgently call on the international working class to unite their efforts and vehemently reject the fascist onslaught of imperialism and its nationalist lackeys. This rejection must range from militant demonstrations to refusing the corrupt and mafia-like electoral system of capitalist democracy.

Political preparation under PLP and the qualitative and quantitative growth of the Party are our priorities. There are advances and setbacks, but our motivation remains intact, and we will continue to fight, supporting our class, guiding and directing it toward future struggles for our liberation from the capitalist yoke.

Our Party, the PLP, chosen by rural and urban workers and students, fights to build communist consciousness with a long-term, revolutionary style of work to create a communist society, without bosses or profits, without racism or politicians, introducing revolutionary consciousness and combating the dishonest nature of capitalism.

With our newspaper, CHALLENGE-DESAFIO, we carry out mass work in working-class neighborhoods, in marches and protests, educating ourselves in collectivity and proletarian internationalism. Only by strengthening our international party can we emerge from this capitalist electoral quagmire, crushing these fascists and defeating the ruling class with communist revolution.

Brazil

In this year 2025, the working class of Brazil continues to suffer from both the state and the local bourgeoisie. Public schools and universities are suffering budget cuts from the state, leading to strikes in the education sector, including teachers and administrative staff. Public schools are functioning badly, lacking work materials; many schools lack chairs for their students; students can only go to school every other day. There are also environmental and climatic disasters affecting the working class due to the exploitation of raw materials by the bourgeoisie and the state, as was the case in Rio Grande do Sul last year and in São Paulo at the beginning of this year.

The local bourgeoisie, for its part, wants to generalize modern slavery. It’s not a number of hours to be worked, but a number of days of work per week. Thus, local bosses want workers to submit to the domination of this 6/1 law, which means working 6 days of work and having one day to stay home. This day spent at home is simply to replenish some of one’s strength, wash one’s clothes, get some sleep, and return to the modern fields that are the industries and large capitalist institutions. In this case, workers have no rest, no social life, no time for study, and even no time for recreation. It’s a life devoted entirely to capitalist exploitation. And to make matters worse for our class, the minimum wage is adjusted at the beginning of each year, but this has no impact on workers’ purchasing power, and since December, prices have steadily been rising.

The situation of the working class in Brazil is similar to that of the entire working class worldwide, regardless of the country in question. The application of exploitative policies may change, but the exploitation of the masses remains the same in all countries.

Thus, we, the members of the PLP in Brazil, continue to affirm that only revolutionary communist struggle can liberate our class from our common enemy, capitalism. Let us join the PLP—we have a world to win

Mexico

Comrades,

I’m sending you and the international working class  greetings from our Progressive Labor Party collective in Mexico. We wish you a large and enthusiastic May Day celebration. Amid the rise of fascism around the world and threats of imperialist war, our active participation in the struggle for the leadership of our class is key to keeping liberals, fake leftists, and fascists away. But above all, it keeps us on the revolutionary path toward a communist society.

Trade wars eventually turn into wars with bombs, most likely nuclear. To try to win our class to fight their battles, the bosses will use their entire arsenal of racist, sexist, and nationalist ideological weapons, as well as state violence to force us to fight for their interests. Our Party has the antidote to this genocidal poison: our red flags and literature in the streets, in the neighborhoods, in the factories, and in the fields; our revolutionary communist line and most importantly, our unwavering trust and love for our class sisters and brothers.

These days we, like you, will gather in modest but meaningful dinners to talk about May Day, communism, and our organization. And like you, we will take to the streets to proudly wave our flags, shout out slogans, and sing our anthems. Like you, we will distribute our literature, we will speak with our brothers and sisters. Like you, with these and many other actions, we reaffirm our commitment to a red future. Have a communist and revolutionary May Day!