May Day greetings: Back the paper that backs the working class

Scott Jones, May Day greetings campaign organiser

Millions of days of strike action have taken place in the last few years as workers fight back. There have been countless demos against war and oppression in the Middle East. And there will be further mass struggles in opposition to Keir Starmer’s Labour government attacking workers.

Picket lines and protests are now part of the landscape almost everywhere. A feature of many is the Socialist newspaper, as Socialist Party members join these workers in struggle as supporters, or as workers on strike themselves. These hundreds of struggles, including many victories, are reported every week in the pages of the Socialist.

The Socialist carries reports of strikes and protests, quotes from workers and young people involved, and offers a fighting strategy to take the movement forward and win. For example, opposing Keir Starmer’s latest attempt to get education workers to succumb to the bosses’ demands for cuts and privatisation, with so-called ‘partnership’.

The Socialist says what most people are thinking: “Starmer’s Labour backs bosses”. We are supporting workers fighting to defend pay, conditions, and services, as we did under the Tories, and now against a Starmer-led government. The best way to prepare for that is to take steps towards the development of a new mass workers’ party now.

We have been putting forward a socialist programme against the Israeli assault on Gaza at every Palestine demonstration too.

It’s clear that the rest of the media does not do this, either repeating misinformation or only putting forward the bosses’ side of things. We need organised workers to support the alternative – the Socialist.

May Day tradition

So celebrate International Workers’ Day 2025 in the traditional workers’ movement way, by sending May Day greetings to help fund the Socialist. May Day is an annual celebration of workers’ struggle against capitalism.

Its origins lie in the general strike for an eight-hour working day. Each year, we ask groups of workers and trade unionists to support the Socialist newspaper and its revolutionary, anti-war, pro-working-class ideas, by financing a May Day greeting.

Can your trade union branch, community campaign, workplace colleagues, trade union council, or student society send us a donation and short message of solidarity? We publish these each year on International Workers’ Day to help fund the socialist press.

Help us get that message out there and continue to report and support workers in struggle by backing the paper that backs the working class.