Revolutionary Labor Day Speech presented by the CLU on May 1, 2025

Comrades, Workers of Uganda, peasants, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle,

Today, on International Workers’ Day, we do not merely gather to celebrate labor, we come together to raise our voices against a system that exploits our sweat, robs us of our dignity, and enriches the few while the many toil in poverty, the system that deliberately punishes the poor and rewards the rich. We are here to speak the truth of the oppressed, to awaken class consciousness, and to reaffirm our struggle for a socialist Uganda. Where the wealth of the nation belongs to those who create it: the workers and the peasants. The Worker Is the Producer of All Wealth. From the factories of Jinja, Mukono, Kampala, Luwero,Kapeka to the plantations of Masindi,Masaka, Mitiyana from the classrooms in Gulu to the hospitals in Mbale, it is the worker and the farmer who produce every grain of food, every manufactured good, and every service rendered in this country. Yet we remain landless, powerless, and voiceless in an economy built on our labor.

Capitalism has failed us. It has delivered inequality, exploitation, and foreign control of our resources. It prioritizes profit over people. While we, the workers, rise before dawn and labor until nightfall, the capitalist class—the owners of industries, banks, and land, live off our labor without lifting a finger. This is not just unjust. It is criminal. The Time for Reform Is Over. The Time for Revolution Has Come. For decades, we have pleaded for better wages, for decent working conditions, for fair treatment. But the ruling class, both political and economic, has answered with corruption, repression, and lies as well empty promises. We do not need reform, we need revolution.

We must seize control of the means of production. We must build a new classless society.one where the land, the factories, and the wealth of Uganda belong to the workers and peasants not to foreign investors or local elites. And where everyone is a worker and potential contributor to the nation’s wealth.

This is the socialist path. This is the workers’ path. This is the future. Our Demands as a Revolutionary Class. A national minimum living wage, adjusted with inflation and dignity. State ownership and democratic worker control of key industries, health, transport, energy, and natural resources, banking and communication. A radical agrarian reform to return land to the tiller not the speculator. Universal social services: free education, healthcare, and housing. A workers’ party and mass organizations that fight for working-class power and control over means of production and resources, not compromise with the bourgeoisie, a vanguard movement which builds on ideology and accountability, ideology of Marxism, the only scientific theory of socialism seeks to liberated the proletarian and peasants from exploitation, from low wages and unfavorable working conditions.

Workers of Uganda, Unite! We are not separate. The factory worker and the peasant farmer, the nurse and the teacher, the boda-boda rider and the market vendor. We are all part of the exploited and oppressed class. Our liberation will never come from above as well concession does not come from above, it must be seized from below. Let us organize in our unions and cooperatives, in our communities, and in political movements that stand for socialism and hat stand against imperialism and all its forms. Let us reject the tribalism and divisions used by the comprador elite to keep us weak. Let us raise the red banner of unity, dignity, and class struggle.

Long Live the Working Class! Long Live the Revolution!

Let this May Day be a day of awakening, not of celebration alone, but of mobilization. Arise! Let the ruling class fear the unity of the workers, for once we are united, nothing can stop us.

Workers of Uganda and the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! A revolution is not like an apple, that fall when it is ripe, your own initiative is not only a requirement but also a necessity. Your triumph over forces of oppression and expression is inevitable.

Long live socialism!
Long live the working class!
Long live the Communist League of Uganda!
Forward ever, backward never!

Thank you, comrades.