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Established in \u003Cstrong>1889\u003C\u002Fstrong>, it has enabled different trade union movements to come together for common causes such as the \u003Cstrong>reduction of working hours\u003C\u002Fstrong> and the \u003Cstrong>improvement of working conditions\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Today, through struggle, it has become an \u003Cstrong>international\u003C\u002Fstrong> observance and a public holiday in many countries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>Our student organisations are \u003Cstrong>fully engaged in the class struggle alongside all workers. \u003C\u002Fstrong>We all campaign with a \u003Cstrong>cross-sectoral\u003C\u002Fstrong> approach, \u003Cstrong>nationally and or internationally\u003C\u002Fstrong>. \u003Cbr>As workers in formation, we have a role to play in \u003Cstrong>encouraging\u003C\u002Fstrong> as many students as possible to \u003Cstrong>support the social struggles led by workers’ unions\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We claim the recognition of our status, \u003Cstrong>the freedom to strike\u003C\u002Fstrong>, and a genuine capacity for autonomous student unions to participate in decisions that shape the university.\u003Cbr>\u003Cstrong>Our goal is the democratic self-management of universities by their students and staf\u003C\u002Fstrong>f. 1st of May is an opportunity to demonstrate our refusal to be excluded from the decisions that concerns us, and to \u003Cstrong>fight against the destruction of free university\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2>In France\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In early April 2026, parliament members from\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>the liberal minority supporting the government proposed \u003Cstrong>weakening the status of 1st of May\u003C\u002Fstrong> \u003Cstrong>as a full public holiday\u003C\u002Fstrong>, \u003Cstrong>by introducing ‘voluntary’ work for some employees.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We all know that ‘voluntary’ work quickly becomes an obligation under the weight of subordination to bosses. \u003Cstrong>This is why all trade unions immediately opposed the measure\u003C\u002Fstrong>. In the end, the Prime Minister \u003Cstrong>backed down in the face of pressure.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The liberals underestimated the symbolic importance of 1 May for our class\u003C\u002Fstrong>. They won’t be taking it away from us any time soon!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2>In Poland\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>On the 1st of May, trade unionists from Workers’ Initiative are taking to the streets to\u003Cstrong> fight for the freedom to strike\u003C\u002Fstrong>. In Poland, the laws concerning the right to strike and collective bargaining which were introduced in the \u003Cstrong>1990s \u003C\u002Fstrong>were \u003Cstrong>designed to minimise the amount of strikes \u003C\u002Fstrong>so that\u003Cstrong> foreign capital, with the support from the national capitalist class, could freely exploit Polish labour\u003C\u002Fstrong> and take over formerly state-owned factories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The procedure is tied with collective bargaining – you cannot organize a strike unless you have gone through a number of negotiation meetings. Even after that, you still need to organise a \u003Cstrong>referendum\u003C\u002Fstrong>, in which more than half of the workforce must participate. Only then can you proceed with the strike, which most often takes \u003Cstrong>months\u003C\u002Fstrong> after the negotiations began.\u003Cstrong> By then, most of the workers will have forgotten why they even started negotiating with their boss.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Another problem lies within the Trade Union Act – to create a union,\u003Cstrong> at least 10 people \u003C\u002Fstrong>are required. However, young people mostly work in workplaces that employ only a few people, such as cafés or bars. At the same time, a strike can only be organised by a trade union, which means that\u003Cstrong> precarious workers cannot legally organise themselves against their bosse\u003C\u002Fstrong>s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the majority of young people work on precarious contracts. \u003Cstrong>Bosses do not need to fire\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>a union member under false pretences – they can simply choose not to renew the contract and replace unionised workers with new ones.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This leads to a straightforward conclusion: the legal “right to strike” must be replaced with the real\u003Cstrong> freedom to strike.\u003C\u002Fstrong> To achieve this freedom, trade unions and workers must mobilise and win it through direct action, such as today’s mobilisation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Solidarity forever!\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2>In UKRAINE\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>For more than four years, the Russian imperialist aggressor has been \u003Cstrong>killing workers with bombs\u003C\u002Fstrong>, while at the same time \u003Cstrong>the government helps bosses squeeze everything out of them inside the country\u003C\u002Fstrong>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Significant losses and war-related expenses have exhausted the state budget, which the authorities are trying to replenish through the introduction of\u003Cstrong> neoliberal reforms\u003C\u002Fstrong>, the “optimization” of educational institutions and hospitals, and by \u003Cstrong>increasing the influence of the private sector\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the significance of May Day is being artificially diminished. Since 2017,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>the holiday has been renamed from\u003C\u002Fstrong> the “International Workers’ Solidarity Day” to the bland “Labor Day”. Now, under martial law, \u003Cstrong>no holidays are days off at workplaces\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This creates additional difficulties, yet socially oriented organizations and trade unions \u003Cstrong>continue to give May 1 the attention it deserves\u003C\u002Fstrong>. In the occupied territories, which make up about 20 percent of the country, any struggle for workers’ and human rights is impossible and met with \u003Cstrong>harsh repression\u003C\u002Fstrong>. There Russia uses May 1 as a\u003Cstrong> pretext for militaristic propaganda\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The totalitarian legacy and the transformation of trade unions into bureaucratized structures during Soviet times have created a culture of skepticism toward the labor movement in Ukraine.\u003Cstrong> The student trade union “Priama diia” has taken on not only the struggle for better social support amid constant military attacks, but also the fight to build a truly independent and progressive trade union movement\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Militant students who do not make concessions to the authorities will soon \u003Cstrong>join the ranks of workers \u003C\u002Fstrong>and become a\u003Cstrong> driving force \u003C\u002Fstrong>for change in Ukrainian society.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2>JOIN THE STRUGGLE JOIN THE MOVEMENT\u003Cbr>FOLLOW US AT \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Funiversities.at.war\u002F\">@universities.at.war \u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cbr>Don’t mourn, organise!\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>","\u002Fuploads\u002Farticles\u002Fimported\u002F128027e90e6db7e2417dfd6ed32658a6fc293008.png","2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z","2026-05-17T00:00:00.000Z",[]]