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<p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><strong class="">This May 1, the French people offer the world a strategy.</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">The stunningly successful “yellow vest” movement building over the past half year decided to join with labor unions and social movements in a massively enlarged Mayday, 2019. Demonstrations
will sweep across France with a demand for what the yellow vests call “a new democracy.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">In the US and beyond we need that too: the call, the vast new kind of social movement represented by the yellow vests, the unity of social movements with the labor movement. And
like the yellow vests made clearly explicit in their call for these Mayday events, by “new democracy” they mean to confront and move society beyond capitalism.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">What is “new” first of all is that democracy belongs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">inside</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the
workplace. The capitalists who give lip service to democracy have always rigidly excluded it from the workplaces they owned and were determined to control<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">exclusively</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">.
The privations, inequalities, money-bought governments, and ecological disasters that plague us today follow directly from how capitalists use their unaccountable power inside capitalist enterprises. To democratize the enterprise solves many social problems
caused by and from capitalism’s undemocratic core. A new democracy inside enterprises ends capitalism and begins a better system for the vast majority.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">At Democracy at Work we seek to contribute to just such an international movement for a new democracy. Our advocacy for a transition from undemocratic capitalist enterprises to
democratic worker cooperatives instead is one way to make such a contribution. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">We invite and welcome others to join in a process of change already well underway.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">In solidarity,</span></p>
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<div class=""><strong class="">Richard D. Wolff</strong></div>
<div class=""><strong class="">Founder</strong></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">PS: In honor of Karl Marx's birth month, we are offering our latest book </span><em class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">Understanding Marxism,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></em><a href="https://www.democracyatwork.info/r?u=cI7mAwKjsMghxcbA29h8szWSDm96Rle2yAn7wgIiCjCzu37-QH8qYFVljEZeWNPHrHbD9jg3RBPcZFRrVkRegpdrY7LELyFjM0eFHvpMm_4Ek3-bxT8QvHpUXXRtWOrf&e=0c7438b9a1b1c59994ee9514deb63174&utm_source=democracyatwork&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190501_mayday&n=3" class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">at
a 25% discount for the entire month of May</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">. Funds go to support the organization. </span></div>
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