May day 2026!
May Day 2026, one of our Fellow Workers had the privilege to give a speech during the celebrations in Nijmegen.
The old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.
While we workers are struggling to pay our energy bills and lack roofs over our heads, the rich and powerful are flaunting their corruption in our faces.
It does not matter to them what comes to light, whether it is them not paying taxes in the Panama Papers or stuff much more gruesome in the Epstein files.
And what do we see the government, the law, and our elected politicians do about it? Nothing; they let it happen or, worse yet, are a part of it!
And while the world around us is slowly falling apart and the brickwork is showing, the right is seeing its chance. Fascism is on the rise all across Europe; they are in parliament, on the streets and even on the talk shows.
All of this thanks to the normalising of their politics by the "so-called" centrist parties. They went into government with them; they treat them like an actual alternative.
And what do the "leftist" parties do? Nothing; they have become toothless, disconnected from the working class whom they pretend to represent.
While the world slides more and more into chaos, the system is unable to keep up the mirage for the middle class. Every crisis that comes along is only a crisis for the working class.
While we struggle to pay for our heating, food and rent. The oil companies, investment firms and landlords keep profiting more and more.
Every time we need to "tighten our belts", the capitalist grows richer; our struggles are their profit. And that is no accident; that is the way the system is designed.
The worker pays extra taxes to fix the problems of the capitalist, all the while the worker pays extra at the till to enrich the capitalist. Because how else would they get their next superyacht, without extracting the value we create?
But all these problems, they are clear to see for most of us. But what do we do about it, who and what can change this course?
It is not the parties who show up to our demo's only to vote against us later.
It is not the big corporate unions that wave the banner in the street but deal with the bosses in the backrooms.
And it is definitely not the "new" billionaires who spend millions on PR pretending they are "against the system".
It is all of us, us workers, we who keep the system running and we who can change it!
So don't look up for help; look next to you, to your co-workers, your friends, and your fellow activists. To your fellow workers.
Together we can fight this! So organise and fight!