This is an invitation to all those who refuse to remain silent facing the triumph of hate and capital! It's time to organize in preparation for May Day! It is a call to adopt pressure tactics within your organizations to disrupt the normal course of things, to organize autonomous disruptive actions, to participate in those that are announced, and to gather in large numbers in the streets for a common demonstration in Montreal/Tiohtia:ke.

As the global system is being reshaped under the weight of war and imperialism, and as the genocide in Palestine continues in unbearable silence, counter-powers are being actively repressed. Through the worst opportunism, our leaders succeed one another by alternately relying on fear of the Other to win votes. The slew of anti-union, racist, transphobic, antifeminist, and repressive bills introduced by our governments over the past year signals a homegrown drift toward authoritarianism.

We are now facing an increasingly emboldened fascism. It is composed of a set of well-oiled mechanisms in which massive investments in the military apparatus converge with repeated attacks on minority rights, the accelerated precaritization of workers marked by major cuts to public and social services, and the relentless pursuit of colonial extractivism, regardless of the consequences for our ecosystems.

In the face of a future that is closing in, let us draw strength from what unites us to imagine new horizons.

Against fear, exhaustion, and the unbearable, let us put forward resistance, collective organization, and solidarity. 

This May Day, let us meet in the streets or on the picket line and make this day an anchor point for the struggles to come.