On Thursday, May 1, 2025, a march and rally in London, the capital to mark Labour and Solidarity Day. As part of International Workers’ Solidarity, participants voiced demands for better working conditions, the right to social housing, access to quality healthcare, and free education for all.
We gathered at Clerkenwell Green at 12:00 p.m. and began marching at 1:00 p.m. West Papua joined the Latin America block for Palestine rally on the way, West Papua was joining the Kurdish Communities rally until we arrived to Trafalgar Square at 2:30 p.m. then joined stand solidarity with the free jailled workers in Iran and free political prisoners in Iran to raising awareness of the Iranian barbarism regime suppressing Iranian, Kurdish, Ahwaze, Baloh and other ethnic minorities workers in Iran and including demanding release all the political prisoners who were jailed. Also stand solidarity with international workers, indigenous resistance globally, and all oppressed nations.
Kanaky Liberatian struggle against the France coloniser :
Jean-Marie Tjibaou, leader indépendantiste kanak, est assassiné ce jour-là à Ouvéa, aux côtés de Yeiwene Yeiwene, par un militant du FLNKS opposé aux Accords de Matignon.
This archive video looks back on this tragic event a few months after their commitment to a fragile peace between Kanaky and the French state.
A painful page of kanak history.
“Tjibaou and Yeiwéné murdered”: the tragic ONE that marked the entire Kanaky.
The day after their murder in Ouvéa, Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes published this cover, in full commemoration of the drama of Gossanah.
A shock for the kanak people. A wound that is still alive.
36 years later, the memory still stands.
Families gather in front of the grave of the nineteen independence activists who died in the attack on the Gossanah Cave on May 5, 1988.
Alongside civil society organisations, Unions, youth groups, first nations, and workers are also expected to participate in large numbers.
Taking part in the event is the West Papua, Latine American block for Palestine, Kurdish Peoples Democratic Assembly in Britain, Revolutionary Kurdish Youth Movement UK, Free Jailed Workers in Iran, Free All Political Prisoner in Iran, Stop the Alevi Genocide in Syria, Turkish and Kurdish Community Solidarity Centre (DAY-MER). They have organised to make their way to the march at 10am from their headquarters at NLCH (N17 6PY) address. In a statement released by DAY-MER, the slogans “Long live workers’ unity” and “May international solidarity endure” were highlighted, emphasizing the unifying power of the struggle for workers’ rights and calling for everyone who wishes to join them on Thursday.
We salute the workers, youth, women and pensioners of Europe and the world. We honour the bloody uprising in Chicago and the heroic struggles of our class and draw inspiration from them for our struggle today.
With clear intensity, the last year has shown the full brutality and savagery of the imperialist system. Wars, famines and poverty haunt the working people of the world, making their situation all the more precarious. With their own eyes, the workers can observe the dangerous development and sharpening contradictions that constitute real threats to their lives and livelihoods. The barbarity of capitalism is laid bare for all to see.
Within the imperialist system, contradictions are sharpening, as all capitalist powers vie for more profits for their own monopolies at the expense of their rivals. Their old alliances, which were thought of as permanent, are shown to be fragile as powerful countries reposition themselves. Under capitalism, no bond is stronger than the potential profit that is to be made.
The logical conclusion, to which the increased competition will lead, is war. When all other means fail, force is used in the capitalist competition to gain advantages and strike against competitors. The outbreak of a new capitalist crisis and the risk of a generalised capitalist war loom on the horizon, threatening the lives of millions and millions of working people all over the world.
In answer to this development, the capitalist countries of the world are arming themselves to the teeth, readying themselves for a struggle. To justify this, the ideology of nationalism is utilised among other things, giving the workers the illusion that they share interests with the capitalists of their own nationality.
Parallel to this development, political repression mounts. In country after country, political rights are repealed with the purpose of obstructing the political and trade union activity of the working class. In country after country, funds are redirected from the needs of the people to the repressive apparatus of the capitalist state, which is then unleashed upon those who refuse to accept this development.
In this situation, the role of social democracy remains a particularly deceptive enemy. Throughout the history of the labour movement, social democracy has acted to guarantee capitalism the social support it needs, and as communists, one of our most important tasks remains to unmask the role that social democracy has played historically, as well as today.
All obstacles seem great, until they are surmounted. This is true of capitalism as well. Over a century ago, the working people of Russia broke the ice and showed the way forward, the socialist society. Exactly 80 years ago, the Soviet and European peoples stopped what briefly seemed unstoppable and, through their struggle, achieved victory over fascism. Again and again, the working people have defied the developments of capitalism, and it has shown that it carries the new world on its shoulders.
reward by the strength and activity of the working people of the world, we are certain that we will and that we must bring the new world, the socialist world, to fruition.
In the form of a generalised imperialist war and the impoverishment of the peoples, darkness looms menacingly on the horizon, but remembering that darkness is nothing but stolen light, we continue forwards, honouring those that came before us and laying the groundwork for those who will come after us.
Freedom for Palestine against the Israel genocidal. Freedom for Kurdistan from the Turkey colonialism, Syria colonialism, Iran colonialism, and Iraq colonialism in indigenous Kurdish lands. Freedom for West Papua from the Indonesia colonialism and illegal annexation since 1963. Freedom for Balochistan from Pakistan colonialism. Freedom for Kashmir from India colonialism. Our solidarity with Armenians demands an immediate release of Armenian hostages detained by Azerbaijan colonialists.
Long live the 1st of May!
Long live the struggle of the people!
Long live socialism!
Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!