The International May Day event took place:

Worker, internationalist, and for the socialist revolution!

Organized by the Trotskyists of the FLTI

Speech by Abu Yazan from Syria

Greetings to all the comrades present here, to the revolutionaries gathered on International Workers' Day to raise high the banners of the revolution, because those are the banners that are raised on May Day.
I’m talking from Syria, from the revolution that toppled down the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime, which toppled a tyrant who carried out a genocide in Syria, which freed all those detained in prison tombs, which raised high the banners of the Palestinian cause; this is our revolution, which we must continue. It is not an isolated revolution, not merely Syrian, and for this reason I want to thank all of you who have raised your voices and have been the voice of the Syrian revolution, of the international revolution, of the revolution of all Arab countries, of the Palestinian masses, and who today raise that same voice together for the fall of all tyrants.

The revolution has taught us many things. One is that the beneficiaries of the revolution should not be the political parties, but rather us workers, revolutionaries. Our victory does not come from the triumph of a party; rather, what we need is for all parties to stop dividing our strength and subordinate themselves to our victory as workers. We, the workers, should not be used for the benefit of a party; rather, the parties should be at the service of the workers' benefit.
Today, we workers must unite to defeat the world's dictatorial systems. This cannot be achieved without the unity of the working class internationally. We must all act with a single heart.
In the Syrian revolution, when they divided us for 14 years, we were unable to defeat Bashar al-Assad. But when we overcame that division and united against the dictator, knowing that we had a criminal like Bashar al-Assad who had to be defeated and overthrown, and that Syria had to be liberated, we united under this program and defeated Bashar al-Assad.
Today, we must unite in the same way to liberate the Gaza Strip, which is being bombed, destroyed, and is sinking. Today, we must truly unite as workers with Gaza. We need to unite with them as one, like we did in Syria. When workers become a single fist across the entire world, we will win.
While Bashar al-Assad ruled, we were all divided. There was no party to unite us; rather, they divided us. Hunger and misery united us; the fight to defeat Bashar al-Assad united us. Thus, after fourteen years, we were able to get rid of this dictator. It is an example to follow.

We must force the parties to unite the working class, so that we can strike with one fist, because it is the working class that holds the power. Today we must do that to liberate Gaza.
Today, workers from any region—Syria, Argentina, Chile, Gaza, Palestine, even the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, European countries, the US, and so on—are the only ones oppressed in this society. The ruling class knows this and sees all workers everywhere as one people.

But workers do not see their fellow workers as one people. Workers are not united with their brothers and sisters in other regions. Today, that is the main problem to solve. Today, our word is unity.
Today, in Syria, we can take to the streets with millions of people. Despite the oppression, despite the death, despite the displacement, despite everything that has happened to us, the bombing, the chemical weapons, and so on. We have had to overcome the genocide imposed on us by al-Assad along with countries like Russia, Iran, groups like Hezbollah, and others like the USA and Turkey, which have attacked the interests of this people.
After 14 years, we have realized that our people have earned their right to protest.
Of course, the ruling class controls the majority of the people. But it does not control their interests, and when we go out to fight for our interests, we have won. Today, on International Workers' Day, we send our greetings to all the workers around the world who are fighting for the interests of the working class against the ruling class.
We call on them to be one fist, one demand, and to take the struggle to the streets in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Russia, and all over the world. Our fight is one. Our demand is one. Our voice is one. It is the voice of the working class.
With that, the ruling class will be frightened by the workers united internationally. We are going to scare these global imperialist organizations! If they think they are strong... No, they are not strong! We are the strong ones! The stiller we stay, the stronger they get.
That is why today we must ask everyone to take to the streets, to stand with the millions marching for workers' rights, for human rights.

We know we have rights, and we want them. And we want to stop wars and genocides, like in Gaza and other places. We want to stop the massacre and oppression of our people. So we cannot remain silent.
From here, where white phosphorus fell and bombs rained down from USA and Russian planes, and bullets from Iran, where we, as a class, resisted, we say that on this May Day we ask you to be one fist, to strike together, to take to the streets and we will see the tyrants fall. If we stay silent, they win.
That was the message I wanted to give for May Day. Please excuse the length of the speech for translation. One gets carried away trying to explain how to unify what has divided us, country by country, to say that it is not about Syria, it is about the Middle East, it is not about the Middle East, it is about Argentina, the United States, Russia...
It is about an international working class all over the world that is being divided. And in the midst of explaining this, one wants to share everything we experienced and learned in these 14 years in Syria.
So I wanted to greet you all, and say that it is been 14 years for Syria, and it will be as long as it takes for us to triumph. We will triumph if we stay together, united, and fighting with the unity of the working class, which must be international.