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MDC salutes the workers of Zimbabwe
Movement for Democratic Change
April 30, 2010

The MDC joins the hard-working people of Zimbabwe in celebrating this year's Workers day, which comes amid hardships and suffering by the majority of the Zimbabwean people. The MDC leadership will attend the celebrations and we urge Zimbabweans to turn up in their numbers at the various national centres to commemorate this important national day.

The MDC is a party hewn from the sweat, blood and toil of the working people of Zimbabwe. We are a broad political movement founded and domiciled in the factories, among ordinary workers who sought to improve the living standards of the people of this country. We cherish our origins in the smoky factories, in the mines, on the vast tracts of Zimbabwe's farmlands, in ordinary poor homes and in the villages where patriotic Zimbabweans toiled, and still toil every day, to build a worthy and prosperous nation.

The MDC is in government on the back of the aspirations of the ordinary working people of Zimbabwe to achieve real change. We have won an election because of the overwhelming support from the ordinary workers whose vision is to see real change; a new Zimbabwe and a new beginning. This is what the workers themselves sought to achieve when they laid the foundation of this great political movement in Hillside on 26 February 1999. The theme for this year's celebrations is Forward Ever Backward Never: Workers Intensify the struggle. As a party, we cherish our rich working class heritage. We express our solidarity with the struggles of the working people of Zimbabwe.

We remain alive to our generational and historical mandate to bring about real change and to improve the lives of the people in the villages, to create new industries and protect the rights of the working people. But, above all else, we are cognizant of the imperative to build a prosperous and peaceful nation which guarantees every citizen's basic rights and civil liberties. The behaviour and approach of the inclusive government to workers' concerns leaves a lot to be desired. The poor wages of our civil servants, the high income tax, the shooting of striking workers with live bullets in Shabanie, the small job market, conflicting signals in government and the continued brain drain, are all signs that we are not yet there. We need to do more if we are to achieve the true aspirations of the toiling workers of Zimbabwe.

We in the MDC, together with the working people, believe we are still on the road to realizing real and complete change for a better life for all. We salute the workers of this country for continuing to toil for their country, armed with nothing but their vision and hope for a new and better Zimbabwe. We remain alive to the vision of the country's workers and their desire for real change and a new Zimbabwe with better wages and affordable education and health facilities. Zimbabwean workers want food, jobs,hope, security, dignity, freedom and prosperity. Armed with our hope, and the collective national spirit to prosper, a new Zimbabwe is inevitable.

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