May 1st – The Agenda
May 1st – The Agenda
The Workers’ Day or Labour Day, which originates from American trade union demonstrations for the 8-hour workday, is approaching – with particular urgency.
The political situation in Germany and around the world has rarely been more tense.
The contrast between the owners and the workers is at its highest point in the history of the Federal Republic.
The deep crisis of the FRG, worsened by the still irrational sanctions policy towards Russia, reckless rearmament, and growing resistance to supporting the genocide in Gaza, calls for action!
Profiting from this profound crisis of the capitalist system, the same system in blue (instead of black or colorful) is doing so; the alarming development of the AfD mainly shows that socialism and leftist alternatives are not recognized as such.
The reason for this is not least the self-promotion of the objectively right-wing traffic light government as non-right and progressive, although they adhere to the same capitalist mechanisms of property, wage labor, and capital export as the AfD – just with a different facade.
With this progressive self-marketing, the traffic light parties attract forces that certainly carry politically constructive ideas – but are simply addressed to the wrong audience.
And they repel people who are just as little aligned with the AfD but feel fooled by the progressive pretenses of the traffic light parties.
The manifest of this manipulative self-promotion is the now common term “Left-green-stained”; Left and Green? Anti-capitalist and capitalist?
It’s like meat salad, somehow doesn’t make sense.
The arms industry with its massive lobby motivates people in Germany towards “war readiness” and uses the same warmongering to legitimize cuts in social budgets and agitation against migrants.
If the progressive traffic light government no longer allows refugees free access to money to avoid cheaper immigration (proven to not work with the payment card system) and simultaneously pumps hundreds of billions into an unprofitable war, it must be clearly noted; if that’s not right-wing, then what is?
“When the right to strike is attacked, when a Palestine-solidarity congress is dismantled under grotesque pretexts, when payment cards for refugees are introduced and ‘work-averse’ people’s hunger pennies are sanctioned, then it always also concerns those who perhaps have understanding for it today. It concerns everyone when bourgeois ideologists on prime-time TV talk about how there’s not enough for ‘cannons and butter’ together.” (Nico Popp, jW)
The state itself is aware of the deep crisis it is in.
The unprecedented repression against Palestine-solidarity activists has reached levels never seen before, with the eviction of the Palestine Congress () and the “Occupation against Occupation” protest outside the Bundestag.
The state’s plans to exclude politically dissenting individuals (triggered by Gaza) in the future are frightening – that must be said clearly.
They also show that the “democratic” state, in its crisis, uses undemocratic means to conceal the contradictions between the people and those in power.
Realizing that each of these crises stems from the contradictions within this system is more important than ever.
Inflation, the war in Ukraine and Gaza, rearmament and war readiness, fascism and frustration – resistance has never been more crucial.
We, the solidaristically minded, Marxists, war opponents, and workers, must now be loud and expose these contradictions.
Revolutionary demonstrations, all well and good! But the content of our criticism must also be voiced loudly at bourgeois progressive demonstrations like those of the DGB.
Mobilize, agitate, and expose – against war, participation in genocide, and crisis – for socialism, peace, and solidarity.
Come out on May 1st!