Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Only the words of a mad dictator, but Ghaddafi the Syndicalist may have be one of his saner personalities.

Declaration by the Guide of the Revolution on the occasion of 1 May

On the occasion of 1 May 1988 the Guide of the Revolution made the following declaration to the JANA:

"The 1st May this year is the day when wage workers are made fools of everywhere in the world, while millions of wage workers continue to be exploited and are still not freed from the wage slavery in which the leaders and bosses keep them to draw a profit from their labour and sweat.

The salvation of these millions of wage workers in the world lies therefore in the abolition of the wages system, of this servitude. The workers must transform this day of servitude into a day of resistance to these lies and to the forces of exploitation by marching on the factories and all places of production, to run them themselves, recover all their share of production and abolish the wages system for ever.

The error which prevails on this day in the world shows that the freedom of the workers is lacking, or that it is totally lost. This freedom can only be realised if the workers act together to emancipate themselves from wage slavery. The bosses will then have to accept this fait accompli and disappear.

The real workers' day is 1st September 1978, the day when wage workers freed themselves in the land of Jamahiriya, destroying the hotbeds of exploitation wherever they existed and taking possession of the factories and places of production to become associates.

The Green Book presents a third world theory, the only means to liberate humanity from oppression and exploitation, and traces the only way to the final emancipation of all the workers. All the workers of the world should be inspired by this theory to consecrate their freedom and abolish wage slavery.

Wage workers however good their wages may be, are a sort of slave, slaves of a master who hires their labour power,

All the speeches pronounced today do not incite the workers to free themselves from wage slavery. On the contrary they consecrate their exploitation.

The workers should therefore not pay any attention to them."