CorCom salutes working class on May Day
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, April 30 2025: The proscribed Coordination Committee (CorCom), the conglomerate of revolutionary organisations operating in Manipur (Kangleipak) and WESEA region, offered its highest respect and salutes to the working class people (labours) across the world on the occasion of May Day observed every year on May 1.In its message to the people, the CorCom said May Day will be observed with the global theme 'Industrialisation, Trade, and Decent Work for Social Justice' this year (2025), reminding the people about the significance of the day being celebrated by labours across the world till date including in Manipur (Kangleipak).

According to the CorCom, May Day is truly a commemoration of the united stand taken by labours against exploitation by the capitalists and the united movement by labours on May 1, 1886 at Hay Market in Chicago, USA.

It was a movement against excessive exploitation of labourers by profit-centric capitalists, it said.

While stressing on the significance of May Day observance, the CorCom said labours/working class people would not live happily until elimination of the system of humans exploiting/suppressing fellow humans with a handful of wealthiest people of the globe continuing to reap the benefits of science and technology.

Cautioning against the tendency of some wealthy people to grasp economy and administration in a capitalist system, it further reminded that the situation in Manipur has been exacerbated by the rising trend of 'absentee landlords' who control large portions of paddy land and subjugate the farmers.

"This is the real issue farmers and labours of Manipur are confronting at present," the CorCom pointed out, adding that labours have great role to play in abolishing the society ruled by capitalists.

While asserting that the alarming situation in Manipur (Kangleipak) happened due to India's annexation of the once sovereign Manipur (Kangleipak), the CorCom stressed the need for converging national liberation struggle with labour movement and urged people to unite towards empowerment of labours.

The CorCom also called upon farmers, labours and people to strive to wriggle out of suppressive administration and challenge the 'capitalist favoured society' to make a new Manipur (Kangleipak) and prepare for a movement to bring an egalitarian society.

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