May Day: a time to proudly re-affirm and recommit to class based values

May Day is celebrated across the globe – and rightly so.  It is a day when working  people can not only take pride in the contribution they make to the society they live in and celebrate their links with other working people around the world, but it is also a day when we can proclaim and re-affirm our values.

For the Workers Party in Northern Ireland that means recommitting ourselves to class politics and rejecting the narrow, divisive and deadly rhetoric of nationalism in all its local forms.

It means standing up against sectarianism, racism, homophobia and misogyny.

It means actively opposing cuts to public services, tax breaks for the rich and denial of opportunities to yet another generation of young people.

It means focusing on, and providing a class based analysis of  the real issues affecting working people. It means not being sidetracked by gesture politics. smoke and mirrors and snake oil peddlers.

It means being a Workers Party for working people. There is no better day to recommit to that task than on May Day – the day of  working people and their parties world wide