The Convention People’s Party (CPP) congratulates workers on the celebration of this year’s May Day. The C.P.P. calls upon all workers, in carrying out their activities, to be guided by the principles of the theme for this years’ celebration, “Consolidating workers solidarity and the legacy of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah”.

The C.P.P. therefore urges all working people to return to the liberating principles that guided the struggle for national independence. Organised Labour should never forget that these principles represent the affirmation of the right of the citizens to protest against the actions and inactions of Governments and the right of workers to strike to back their legitimate political and economic demands. With the workers, Osagyefo and the C.P.P. shook the complacency and burst the arrogance of the elite in the fight for our nations independence and consequently the ordinary fisherman, worker, clerical officer, farmer, teacher among others joined Kwame Nkrumah in taking the destiny of this country into their own hands.

Despite vile propaganda, mass arrests and sacking of workers the march to independence was a resounding success. The lessons are therefore that when an oppressed people are awakened they recapture their self-confidence and no smatter how mighty or powerful the enemy, it would be defeated.

We in the C.P.P. call for the greater protection, consolidation and expansion of the rights of workers as well as hard work, discipline, patriotism from organized labour and indeed, all Ghanaians. We also call for an increase in the resolve to defend the rule of law, as well as an enhancement of our democracy, since the best protection for the rights of workers is an open and democratic society.

The CPP wishes to remind all employers that without adequate remuneration for the working people in all sectors of the economy, the private sector as well as government’s policies and programmes for national growth and development will not attain their desired targets.

We in the C.P.P. for our part commit ourselves once more to working assiduously to relight the spirit of mass activism towards a new popular struggle aimed at achieving greater economic democracy and call upon workers to repossess their birthright in its full richness and abundance and resume popular radical struggles to provide greater opportunity for the Ghanaian. signed

IVOR KOBINA GREENSTREET

GENERAL SECRETARY