Together, the speakers set out a political programme capable of uniting the international working class and mobilising its immense social power in a struggle against the world’s major corporations and governments.
David North is chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site.
Andre Damon is a writer and editor for the World Socialist Web Site and member of the Socialist Equality Party (US) Political Committee.
Stepan Geller, in Ukraine, and Andrei Ritsky, in Russia, are representatives of the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists (YGBL).
The YGBL is a Trotskyist youth organization in the former Soviet Union that has declared its political solidarity with the ICFI and joined the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE).
Alex Lantier is the national secretary of the Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES), the French section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
Deepal Jayasekera is the general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka.
Will Lehman is a US autoworker and member of the International Workers’ Alliance of Rank and File Committees (IWA-RFC).
Evan Blake is the coordinator of the Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Cheryl Crisp is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia).
Christoph Vandreier is the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany).
Tom Scripps is the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK).
Ulaş Ateşçi is a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in Turkey.
Eduardo Parati is a member of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Brazil.
Gregor Link is a member of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Germany.
Dilaxshan Mahalingam is a member of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Sri Lanka.
Oscar Grenfell is a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia).
Tom Peters is a member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Keith Jones is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada).
Joe Kishore is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
The May Day rally will dedicate the celebration of this historic day of working class unity to advancing the struggle against war and for the transfer of power to the working class and the building of socialism throughout the world.
To mark the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the WSWS and the IYSSE sponsored a round-table discussion to explain the present situation and elaborate a socialist and internationalist strategy to end the war.
On December 10, 2022 the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) held an online rally, “For a mass movement of youth and students to stop the war in Ukraine!”
In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm.
Macron’s decision to impose pension cuts on the French people without a vote has torn the democratic mask off the capitalist state, exposing it as instrument of class rule.
Worker delegates at the meeting described harrowing conditions at their workplaces, recounted the deadly and ongoing impact of COVID-19, denounced the indifference and complicity of the pro-corporate UAW bureaucracy, and spoke passionately in support of the construction of a worldwide movement of the working class.
The political explosion in Israel is another expression of a widening global revolutionary crisis of capitalism.
