No to corrupted system and to religious fundamentalism!
Stop Injustice against workers!
For the dignity of female workers from Hassi-Messaoud!
For the unity of action of workers inside autonomous trade-unions!

For several years, Algeria celebrates the international day of workers fight for the fulfilment of their material and moral rights in a context of general crisis marked by political, economical, social and cultural stagnation unprecedented. And yet, the oil godsent whose incomes remain very important could have reflated the economic machine and could have given a new life to the country.
Nothing of the kind! The country is governed on sight, it is uncared for:
Not any council of ministers nor council of government since … january 2010! Since a long time, both chambers of the Parliament are only used for justifying a pretence of pluralism and they are hibernating because of the absence of bills. The unemployment reaches unequalled records. Not only it affects a significant proportion of the youth, but college graduates that labour market can not absorb any more or disqualifies towards second rank tasks too.
The polarization of wealth severely increases the impoverishment of large sectors of the society and throws millions of Algerians into extreme poverty, just like workers all over the world. Even the middle classes are not spared in this highway to hell. The purchasing power is so valueless that the joke took up by the workers: « our salaries are in dinars but our bills are in … euros!!! » sums up the sad truth.
In such an explosive social situation, a small part of youth teeters into delinquency. Fathers that can not bear any more their inability to feed their family are lead to commit suicide.
Instead of listening to those that are building the country each day in spite of difficulties of all kinds, the islamo-conservative power pushes the indecency until considering the increase of old-age pensions of thousands of murderers retrained into « repentants ». Those « repentants » are better considered than the contract employees of the People’s National Army (ANP) that just demonstrated for the third time (27/04/10), in front of the department of defence in order to ask for more dignity. They only found the police forces who roughly pushed them back, just as health and education workers who answered to the call of autonomous trade-unions general strikes.
Corruption become gangrenous in the country to such an extend that not a day happens without the public outburst of a new scandal. But the system uses the same string since the Chadli era. Instead of being in line with a democratic and transparent process, the power puts behind bars subordinates and executives, making them scapegoats and sometimes clearing them after it discredited them in front of the society.
At the same time, islamist terrorism keeps decimating citizens, patriots and security forces. Terrorism reorganization allows it to control some areas. Insecurity reaches such a level that foreign diplomats are forced to travel with safe-conducts throughout the national territory, and this fact contradicts the optimistic discourses of Zerhouni speaking of the “recovered security”.
Neither the thirty years of fight for the defence of the Berber patrimony, nor the huge sacrifices of 2001 allowed to the Berber language and culture to escape from the ghetto where an autistic power wants to confine them.
In Hassi-Messaoud, the year 2001 as well as 2010 will be etched in stone forever. The cry of women workers terrorized and tortured by cruel hordes stirred up by an obscurantist discourse torn apart the Algerian sky.
Their fight, as well as the one of all men and female workers of the country, will be a symbol for all those who yearn for a democratic, secular, open to universal values and united society.
The Party for Secularism and Democracy (PLD) calls another time all the progressive forces to gather around a table in order to think about a democratic alternative, off the system and political islamism.

For a more efficient workers national and international solidarity!

Algiers, May 1st 2010
Po / the national board of PLD.