On May 1, 2024, we meet in a period when the contradictions between the imperialist capitalist bandits in the international arena are sharpening, the discussions on a new war of division are increasing and accordingly the arms race of each state is accelerating. It is a fact that the increasing contradiction and conflict between the imperialist capitalist system is directly reflected in our geography. The genocidal attacks against the Palestinian nation by Israeli Zionism, which was established as an outpost of imperialism in the Middle East, continue unabated. The imperialists show the limits of their bourgeois democracy towards the working class and the people who stand with the Palestinian people, while giving all kinds of support to Israel’s genocidal attacks.
The Turkish state, which has been hostile to the working class and the people in our geography since the day it was founded, continues all kinds of trade with Israeli Zionism while fraudulently making statements in support of the Palestinian resistance. The clearest indication of this hypocritical policy of the Turkish state is seen in the invasion attacks on Northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan. The Turkish state, which sees any gains of the Kurdish nation as a survival problem for itself, is preparing for a new invasion of Kurdistan. As before every attack, it has accelerated diplomacy in order to cooperate with the reactionary forces in the region and to get the imperialist powers’ consent. As a preliminary preparation for the invasion attack, the Kurdish press has been criminally attacked.
The Turkish state resorts to all kinds of illegitimate trade to finance the unjust war, occupation and annexation attacks against the Kurdish nation. the Turkish state, which imprisons prisoners’ relatives under the name of “financing terrorism”, openly applies all kinds of methods from drug trafficking to “money laundering” and smuggling to finance the fascist terror and war against the people. As part of the capitalist imperialist system, it has emerged internationally as a “gang state”. While the Turkish state, under the AKP-MHP fascist government, implements all kinds of aggression against the peoples of the region, its own crony “gang of five” is getting richer.
Turkey is one of the countries with the fastest increase in dollar millionaires internationally. A complete system of corruption, robbery and extortion has been established. On the one hand, R. T. Erdoğan’s son-in-law brags about the fake “domestic and national” UAVs that rain bombs on the Kurdish people, on the other hand, he is on the list of the richest dollar billionaires internationally. They do not even abide by their own laws, which they once enforced, albeit ostensibly and on paper, and have turned into a rogue state. As a result, the nouveau riche are visibly emerging and living in luxury and splendor. There is an enormous income and wealth inequality.
Those who say to the working class and laboring people “give the authority and see the effect” have impoverished the people even more. The so-called minimum wage, which is below the hunger limit, has been turned into an average wage. Retirees are condemned to a wage in miserable conditions, let alone a starvation wage. The working class and laborers are subjected to heavy exploitation and continue to be murdered due to precarious working conditions. While a handful of parasites are getting richer and richer, the working class and working people are reduced to saving the day, not tomorrow.
“Do you know how much a bullet costs?” Those who make their fortunes with what they steal from the working class and working people will continue to increase their attacks on the working class and working people and their regional rights. Under the rhetoric of “suppressing wages and reducing demand” with the lie of reducing inflation on the grounds of “combating” the economic crisis of their own making, they will implement attack policies that they call “rational policies” that have no other solution except further reduction of poverty, unemployment and purchasing power.
May 1st; it should be the day to say no to all kinds of aggression, especially economic aggression, against the working class and working people, and the day for the working class and working people to have their say.
May 1st; it should be a day to object to the luxurious and lavish lives of those who make their fortunes by stealing from the working class and working people.
May 1st must be the day when our slogans are shouted against hunger, poverty, unemployment, precarious working conditions, being condemned to misery wages, attempts to usurp the severance pay of the working class, imperialist war, unjust wars and occupations.
May 1st; it must be the day when the working class and working people take over the squares and streets and show their determination to struggle.
May 1 must be the name of the real liberation of the working class and the working people, which can be won by organizing and struggling in the ranks of the United Revolution.
Long Live May Day/Biji Yek Gulan!
To the Fields on May 1st!
On May 1st to the Ranks of the United Revolution!
HBDH Executive Committee
May 1, 2024