MIGRANTS, REFUGEES AND LOCALS
WE
DEMONSTRATE ON WORKERS’ MAY DAY
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world take to the streets every year on Workers’ May Day against exploitation, for better wages, fewer working hours, improved working conditions, social security, labor rights, for workers’ emancipation and social liberation.
At the same time,
all oppressed peoples of the world struggle for peace and solidarity among
nations, so that they no longer serve as cannon fodder for the magnates of
wealth, who compete to control regions, energy sources, transport routes, and
markets, multiplying profits stained with blood.
This year in our
country, refugees, migrants, and local workers, along with the youth and the
poor, will demonstrate united in an independent, class-based May Day, demanding
that we do not live as slaves. With the internationalist May 1st as our
milestone and guide, we will declare our determination to struggle and to claim
the wealth we produce and the world that belongs to us. We will overturn the
measures imposed on us by capital, the EU, and their subordinate governments.
We will resist
their war economy, which deprives resources from education, healthcare, and
social protection, redirecting them toward the war industry and technological
giants that provide war expertise. An economy that drains the lifeblood of
peoples only to drown them in blood.
This year, in
Greece, locals stand together with the refugees and migrants who live here,
against fascist and racist forces. Locals, migrants, and refugees united as one
fist, fight with class solidarity against the xenophobic and pro-war policies
of the EU and governments, demanding:
· An immediate end
to wars, imperialist interventions, and the criminal attacks of the West in the
countries of West Asia and Africa that generate death and displacement. An end
to the colonial plans of the USA, NATO, the EU, and the Zionists. No
participation of Greece in war operations. Stop the genocide in Palestine NOW.
Freedom for the unconquered Palestinian people! Stop the intervention of Zionists
and American imperialists in Iran. Immediate withdrawal of Zionist invaders
from Lebanon. Let the resistance of the peoples in West Asia prevail.
· Protection of
refugees, granting asylum to all without rejections or bureaucratic delays.
Open Europe’s borders to refugees, allowing free movement between countries.
Stop deportations, deadly pushbacks, and detention. Shut down the detention
camps.
· Immediate
legalization of all migrants without terms or conditions. Simplify and extend
the timeframes for obtaining residence and work permits in Greece, without the
unacceptable fees imposed on migrants.
· Decent living
conditions, access to food, and equal rights at work, in education, and in
healthcare for all. No to the isolation and ghettoization of refugees and
migrants. Housing for refugees in homes within our cities and neighborhoods.
· Migrants are
part of the working class! Equal pay for equal work, equal labor and pension
rights for all. No to undeclared, uninsured labor, to the hostage-like dependence
of migrants on employers, and to the terror imposed by capital. Open up trade
unions with the registration, equal participation, and representation of
migrants (with or without papers).
· Let us all live
together in a world of peace, friendship, and solidarity among peoples, without
discrimination and without the exploitation of human beings by human beings.
Gathering
for Workers’ May Day 2026
Friday, May 1st, at Propylaea (Metro Panepistimio), 10:30 a.m.
«STRUGGLE
WITHOUT BORDERS»
Internationalist Movement of Solidarity and Struggle
with Migrants and Refugees