May Day 2026
All Out to Uphold the Dignity of Labour, Stop Paying the Rich and Make Canada a Zone for Peace! Enhance the Role of the Working Class to Keep the Oligarchs in Check!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
On the occasion of May Day, the Workers' Centre of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) sends revolutionary greetings to the workers in Canada and Quebec, the United States and all the countries of the world. It hails the defence of the Cuban people of their revolution, the Resistance Movements of the Palestinian, Lebanese, Iranian, Yemeni and all the peoples in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean who are fighting for their right to be, keeping the initiative in their own hands, making supreme sacrifices to not permit the U.S. imperialists and their allies to get away with their heinous crimes against humanity.
Right
before the eyes of the working people of Canada and Quebec and of the
Indigenous Peoples, Métis and Inuit, Prime Minister Mark Carney
is amassing bankers and CEOs of the largest corporations in parliament,
in his government ministries and unelected advisory committees to
restructure the
state to enhance the competitiveness of the oligopolies and their
cartels and coalitions. This includes not only the oligarchic financial
interests and war producers but war alliances like NATO and NORAD and
their private contractors as well. To this end, in the name of
nation-building, a strong
Canada and stability, the cartel parties and Carney's catch-all cartel
party government, have taken over the political process to restructure
the state in favour of supranational narrow private interests.
A catch-all party, also known as a "big tent" party, prioritizes pragmatism over principle. It seeks to win elections using whatever means it deems necessary over adherence to a political program which humanizes the natural and social environment and prioritizes the well-being of the people. In a catch-all party, power shifts from the members to a professional, top-tier leadership and technical experts. They are called catch-all because their aim is to catch all the interests in society irrespective of their class composition or ideology and on this basis they declare they represent the national interest. Carney's catch-all cartel party government is wrecking the social and natural environment and stepping up war preparations to give themselves unlimited powers to rule by decree. Their counter-revolution uses the positions of power and privilege the oligarchs have usurped to target the working class.
Far from Carney's catch-all cartel government uniting the nation or providing stability, power is more alienated than ever from the people, while police and military measures, intrigue and factional fighting have become the ways in which the state asserts its authority. The catch-all cartel party government unites the factions in appearance only. Factional fighting in fact intensifies because the private interests the factions represent are fighting each against each and each against all to dominate and control the productive forces.
On
this occasion, as part of its work for democratic renewal and
empowerment, CPC(M-L) vigorously supports all the actions of the
workers, small farmers and fishers across the country to lay the claims
on the economy and the society they are entitled to make by virtue of
being the producers of
the wealth the society depends on for its living. It is the battles
they are waging which keep the oligarchs in check. The working class
has long experience of the pressure to wage only defensive battles
without having its own program. By speaking out in their own name and
laying their claims and
elaborating what belongs to them by right, they keep the oligarchs in
check. They expose the corruption of the oligarchs who are using their
positions of power and privilege to deprive the working people of what
belongs to them by right on every front of endeavor. Those who, in the
name of
democracy, stable government and defending the national interest, use
positions of privilege and power they have usurped to pursue their own
private aims, must be condemned and the means they are using must be
defeated as the way to unite in action to open society's path to
progress.
The
workers are feeling the full weight of the deepening crisis of
capitalism and the demand of the capitalists that the only matter of
concern for society is their pursuit of maximum profits. This demand is
being fully implemented by the federal and provincial governments and
the government of
Quebec. At a time when the workers are facing massive economic
insecurity, unemployment and downward pressure on their wages and
working conditions, the agenda of privatization, cutting down on social
programs, increasing spending on war preparations, absconding with
workers' pension funds to
increase investments in private ventures which pay the rich and much
more make life even more difficult for the people. In the face of this
counter-revolutionary offensive, every day the workers reject the
mantra that their role is to contribute to the cause of making Canada
more competitive for the
corporations and oligopolies by accepting wage concessions and agreeing
to restructuring programs which put them into the ranks of the
unemployed.
Canadian and Quebec workers who hail from virtually every country in the world, see the tragedies that have emerged as the United Nations Security Council acts not as an instrument for the resolution of conflicts through peaceful means, but as an instrument of U.S. imperialism as well as other big powers, going so far as to portray genocide, extreme violence and impunity as the new normal which the peoples must accept or also be targeted for obliteration.
Not
only governments but also the cartel parties, media and all the
courtiers of the rich and powerful, are attempting to impose an
ideology of defeatism and passivity in the face of the situation, a
form of nihilism that nothing can be done about the crisis except to
accept it and willingly take
up its burden by supporting what the oligarchs call the national
interest. But the workers are not succumbing to this pressure. They are
fighting, determined to not permit the nation-wrecking and social and
environmental destruction. Everyone has a role to play. Everyone is
called on to take their
place in this mighty fight to humanize the natural and social
environment and open society's progress on this basis.
The battles the working class and oppressed peoples are waging are evidence that they are embracing the role of leadership in society as their own responsibility. It is only the working class that can open the path to social progress.
Long Live the Fighting Unity of the Working Class and Peoples of the World!
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Unite!
This article was published in
Volume 56 Number 27 - May 1, 2026
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/TML2026/Articles/T560271.HTM
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