MEXICO CITY — Members and friends of Progressive Labor Party met here to celebrate May Day with a march and a dinner.  At a meeting before our demonstration, a PL’er gave a brief history about the original May Day struggle in 1886 in Chicago and its historical meaning. The comrade described how PLP has taken up this tradition as a day of celebration for the international working class.

After the speech, the workers at the meeting talked about the importance of organizing workers. They also discussed the bosses’ election sham and how the capitalists use the state apparatus to share power within their class, but never with the working class. A Party comrade made a communist analysis of how the elections are a dead-end for workers, since they lead us only to elect our next oppressor.  

The meeting culminated with a worker asserting that class struggle in our area needed to be infused with communist ideas. At that point another worker interrupted: When would we meet again? We ended by asking them to accompany us in our May Day march.

Comrades at this meeting understood that these workers — like many throughout the world — live in difficult conditions. The ruling class is in crisis, which means that capitalist exploitation and brutality are on the rise. The situation leads workers to think and fight for local and immediate reforms. Our struggle will be to lead these workers to think and fight for the only solution for the international working class, a communist world. 

Long live communism!