DRAFT MAY DAY 2008 RESOLUTION

This Joint Trade Union May Day Rally held on 1st May 2008 at Hyde Park, Colombo

NOTES with satisfaction that May Day this year is being celebrated by workers’ organizations in Colombo , without the diversions and deceptions of the working people that both the UNP and the SLFP have caused in the past, by organising big processions and rallies of their political supporters, for their political purposes, on this historic day of the working class. On some occasions, when governments headed by them have found it inexpedient for them to do so, they have banned the traditional May Day demonstrations and meetings of other organizations, as President Mahinda Rajapakse did through the IGP, under an Emergency regulation that he made just before May Day 2006. continued ......