WFTU Young Workers' Committee

More than 500,000 workers took part in the main May Day rally in Havana, Cuba, at the Anti-Imperialist Platform on the Malecón seawall, across from the U.S. Embassy.

Despite transportation difficulties resulting from the inhumane energy blockade being escalated by the U.S. government, both the rally in Havana and hundreds of other mass rallies across the island became a platform for denouncing the criminal blockade that has lasted over sixty years and for supporting the tremendous achievements of the Cuban Revolution.

Solidarity with Cuba!

With massive demonstrations taking place across the globe, workers around the world celebrated May Day. From Europe to Asia and from Africa to the Americas, millions of workers took to the streets, demanding decent wages and jobs with rights, and condemning the imperialists’ wars.

Workers of the world unite!

Solidarity with the people of Israel who are fighting against the government’s criminal policies.

Amid the new imperialist interventions by the U.S. and Israel against Iran and Lebanon, anti-war mobilizations continue within the murderous Israeli state itself, breaking through repression and bans, the climate of terror and slander against any anti-imperialist protest.

The demonstrations were joined by Israelis fighting against the Israeli state’s interventions and the occupation of Palestinian territories, as well as American citizens living in Israel.

In Jerusalem, the protesters arrived at the entrance to the U.S. Embassy and unfurled anti-war banners written in Hebrew and English.

At the same time, dozens of protesters demonstrated in front of the U.S. diplomatic mission building in Tel Aviv, holding a large banner with the slogan “Imperialist war is not liberation.”

With banners, picket lines, and slogans, they also denounced the occupation of Palestinian territories and the terrorist attacks by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.

It is also telling that during the protest, a thug attacked the demonstrators, with the Israeli police intervening not to protect them, but to disperse the demonstration.

Solidarity and support for the workers and the USB union in Italy who resisted the transport of military equipment and blocked the “trains of death".

At the same time that billions of euros are being funneled into military spending, workers are being asked to pay for inflation, energy poverty, and the constant deterioration of our lives. Workers have nothing to gain from war. On the contrary, they are the ones who pay the price: with poverty, insecurity, and the loss of rights.

We stand with the workers who refuse to load and transport weapons. International solidarity is the strongest response to the escalation of war. Workers will not pay the price of war. No to the militarization of ports and infrastructure. No to trains and ships of death. Stop the transport of weapons now.

Massive strike in India. We salute the strikers in India .

The new "Labor Law Code," under the pretext of simplifying labor legislation, deals a blow to collective labour agreements, the right to unionize, and the right to strike, and intensifies insecurity and exploitation.

At the same time, the Indian government is promoting the privatization and commercialization of health and education, as well as strategic sectors of the economy, such as energy, railways, and telecommunications, with the sole criterion being the profitability and competitiveness of business groups. The standard of living of workers, already affected by high prices and low wages, is expected to deteriorate even further as a result of this policy.

We are strengthening the common struggle of workers, farmers, and all the people against the politics of profit, which sacrifices our needs and our lives. With a class orientation, with internationalist solidarity, with the unity of the working class in every country and internationally, we are strengthening the struggle for jobs with rights, for collective agreements, for health and education, against imperialist wars and the system of exploitation.

We salute the International Dockworkers’ day of action under the slogan “Dockworkers do not work for war”, which will take place on February 6, in which our member union ENEDEP participates together with dockworkers from Italy, Turkey, the Basque Country, and Morocco.

Enough is enough! No more policies that gamble our lives for the profits of the few!

We will not allow anyone to gamble our lives for the profits of business groups and their war! Organized, massive, militant strike struggle for our labor rights and the protection of our lives!

Through organized and collective action, we can take the struggle to the end, the overthrow of the policy of profit, so that ports, shipyards, and all infrastructure become bridges of cooperation and friendship between peoples, not links in imperialist rivalries.

Power lies with the workers, in joint action with the self-employed, farmers, and youth. The solution lies in organized struggle, solidarity, and confrontation with employers and their state. For us to win, they must lose. We create all the wealth and it is stolen from us and we must finally enjoy the fruits of our labor, not a handful of parasites.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA

WE CONDEMN THE IMPERIALIST INTERVENTION OF THE USA

WE DEFEND THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO DECIDE FOR THEIR OWN COUNTRY!

The Youth Committee of WFTU condemns the military, imperialist intervention of the USA and expresses its solidarity with the working class, the youth, and the people of Venezuela in their right to determine the future of their country themselves, without foreign interventions and blackmail.

Following the deployment of US forces in the Caribbean under the pretext of “combating drug trafficking,” and after the first attack against a port area inside the country, the USA escalated its aggression by organizing a large-scale military attack against Caracas.

The US military intervention in Venezuela constitutes yet another crime of imperialism against peoples. It is a continuation of the interventions, blockades, coups, and wars, the bloodshed that is ongoing in the Middle East and Ukraine, for the profits of monopolies and imperialist rivalries.

This illegal abduction of President Maduro constitutes an unprecedented aggressive act that violates every fundamental principle of international law, opening yet another front in an already unstable global environment.

The USA and its allies are not interested in “democracy,” nor in the “fight against terrorism,” let alone in the “fight against drug trafficking.” What they seek is control over the natural resources of Latin America, the reserves and oil production of Venezuela.

They aim to impose their own dominance over the working class and the peoples, in the context of the existing intra-imperialist antagonisms for overall supremacy in the region and internationally.

The outrageous statements made by President Trump that the USA will govern Venezuela, the threats he issued against Cuba and Colombia, and the “warnings” he periodically addresses to Mexico, have a little to do with his “personality.”

They come from the new "Monroe Doctrine", which clearly dictates that the region must align with the economic and geopolitical interests of the USA, against those of its rivals, Russia and China.

The youth and young workers all over the world have nothing to gain from these plans. We cannot come to terms with the barbarity of imperialist interventions and wars!

Now is the time to organize in our trade unions, to express in a militant way our solidarity and our opposition to their war plans and rivalries.

We call on all trade unions and all youth committees to condemn by every means the imperialist intervention of the USA in Venezuela, to organize initiatives and uphold the non-negotiable right of peoples to democratically determine their present and their future.

We express our solidarity with the Bolivian Workers' Confederation and to the country's workers, who have been on strike for many days against the law 5503 and the anti-labour policies that are leading to a dramatic deterioration in their standard of living. At the forefront of the struggle are the miners, together with dozens of workers' organizations from the public and private sectors, farmers, and young people, who denounce this policy as deeply classist and unjust.

The struggle for free energy, as a social good, based on the needs of the people and not for the profits of monopolies, is a common struggle of the working class throughout the world.

Workers of the world unite!

We salute the working class of Portugal, who participated en masse in the general strike on December 11!

Workers of the world unite!

We express our class and internationalist solidarity with the Bosch workers in Waiblingen, Germany, who demonstrated en masse against the closure of the factory and the hundreds of layoffs planned by the multinational until 2028.

Workers from other Bosch factories and other sectors participated in the mobilization, sending a strong message that strength lies in class struggle and the unity of the working class.

Workers of the world unite!