Moscow May Day: For a world without exploitation

On May Day, the communists will come to the people.

ROT Front to organize action on the outskirts of the capital.

The Moscow city branch of the ROT Front party (Russian United Labor Front) plans to hold a May 1 “March of Workers” in one of the peripheral areas of the city. As the press service of the organization reported, a notification has already been submitted to the Prefecture of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. The prospective route march will go through the Izmailovo district. A May Day rally will be held there.

According to the representative of the Party’s Moscow City Committee, participants of the May Day actions will gather at 12:00 near the metro station Pervomayskaya. The final point of the procession will be the Izmailovo underground station, where a meeting will begin at 13:30. It will be attended by representatives of the Independent Trade Unions (CTE, “Protection”), initiative groups of the surrounding areas, left-wing political parties and movements (Russian Communist Workers’ Party (RKRP), Labor Russia, Left Front). There is a possibility of a concert.

“We deliberately decided to abandon the campaign in the city center,” said the head of the city branch of the ROT Front Alexander Baht. “We are tired of walking through deserted, police-fenced streets. Our task is to campaign among the workers, not ourselves. So we go to the people.”

According to Baht, those left organizations who are trying to organize their rally in the city center are invited to participate. “We hope they seet that work with ordinary citizens is more important than public relations,” said the representative of the Front. The question of unification with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) is not considered.

The ROT Front party was established in February 2010 and registered after seven attempts in December 2012. The delegation included the unregistered Russian Communist Workers’ Party, as well as a number of activists of leftist organizations and trade unions. For some time Sergei Udaltsov was co-chair of the party. A November 7, 2013 rally of the party in Moscow ended in clashes with riot police.

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