This is a May Day message from Jeremy Corbyn MP.
May Day is a traditional festival, a festival of Spring, a festival of communities coming together – and it goes back centuries.
It’s also a labour movement tradition – solidarity around the world, workers united all around the world.
This year’s different. There are very few marches or rallies anywhere, because of the lockdown due to the Coronavirus. The Coronavirus has taught us something: that we are all vulnerable to the inequality, injustice, poverty, inequality – and disease that others may have.
And so today, today let’s send a message of the most enormous solidarity to all those working in health and care – and putting their lives at risk so that others may survive. But let’s also resolve that at the end of the Coronavirus we won’t go back to austerity and to poverty. We won’t go back to cutting public services. Instead, we’ll invest.
And we’ll support important international organisations like the World Health Organisation to bring about health justice and health equality to all parts of the world.
Our message today is: support each other.
Our message today is of solidarity.
And our message today is our world should be a world based on peace, on justice, on human rights, on health care and on education – not on wars and exploitation.
Happy May Day!
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