SFG SALUTES WORKERS

Workers of the Trades Union Congress on a recent demonstration

The Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) has commended the working people of Ghana for being the real producers of wealth and the guarantors of the independence and sovereignty of Ghana on the occasion of May Day.

The full text of a statement issued to that effect is published unedited below:

The Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) salutes the working people of Ghana as the real producers of wealth and guarantors of the independence and sovereignty of Ghana on the occasion of May Day.

We express our full solidarity with the working people in their struggles for better working and living conditions within the context of the drive to free Ghana and the world from the exploitative tentacles of neo-colonialism.

As we mark May Day, the SFG notes with legitimate anger that the resources of the people of Ghana are being continuously taken over by multi-national corporations in pursuit of a neo-liberal agenda aimed directly at the return of Ghana and all former colonies to the embrace of the colonial empire.

At a time when 60% of total national tax revenue is just enough to pay 600,000 public sector workers, it has become imperative to intensify the struggle for the people of Ghana to take full control of their own resources and to exploit them for their own benefit.

The SFG decries the wanton and astronomical increases in utility tariffs because they whittle away the real value of wages and salaries, increase the cost of production in all enterprises and contribute significantly to squeezing job opportunities.

We stand firmly with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and all organisations of working people in Ghana and throughout the world in the bold confrontation with underdevelopment, poverty hunger disease, illiteracy and limited access to all social services.

Long live the working people of the world!

Kwesi Pratt Jnr

For Convener

May 1, 2016