Labor Day Greetings

Greetings To All,
Thursday, May 1st, was the celebration of International Workers Day, initiated by international workers to commemorate the Haymarket Massacre, 1886 in Chicago.
Today, I would like to extend warm and fraternal greetings to all who struggle, toil to feed, house and clothe their families and the rest of the world. In this increasingly challenging, for some overwhelming, global community the vital role of the working class comes into stark relief. If any practical solution to the issues of the international and domestic economies, global warming, the chaos of war etc, thenworking people will remain as we always have the crucial ingredient for winning peace, justice and integrity for all.
Indeed working people are increasingly being forced to bear the brunt of the devastating rise in food prices, the dislocation as a result of war and climate change. Compliments to the valiant visionary action of the Longshore Workers on the West Coast of the USA, who stood tall on Thursday against the tyranny of war.
Too often workers forced to endure the in your face arrogance, of the super rich, whose tainted fortunes, often produced or stolen from the said communities, continue to rise on the backs of the working poor. Witness the chronic oppression of the poor communities in Nigeria, who had the misfortune to be born/located upon the black gold that Chevron, Shell and others seem to claim as their birthright. This predicament is cause for much frustration and even anger, but could also give direction to the permanent struggle to for justice and freedom, in effect to remain on the upward trend of the human experience.
One dimension of this observation relates to the question of relationships, what nature of relationships does the prevailing conditions dictate.
To me it is about unity and solidarity among working people, built not only around the acknowledgement of our common plight, but of equal importance, the fact that we are stronger together, and can create the world we desire only if the fruits of our labor and knowledge are organised to meet our needs and goals.
So on this labor day, I offer wishes for the best of times for you and your loved ones. But I really hope that we work for a common agenda, that the outcome be to build a global and local community, where individual workers, on the job or in the home, become friends and friends become comrades in the universal struggle for a better world, a more humane culture as the ultimate goal of our labor.
Check out indymedia and allafrica.com for some labor day coverage.