They express the common will to fight precarity as well as criminalization of migrants, to make the daily struggles of the precarious people visible, to work together to subvert and disrupt the flows of money, redistribution and therefore the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
The European Left stresses on this occasion: Nowadays, precarity is structural and generalized. It's the paradigmatic condition of work. Structural, because it is the modern form of capitalistic dominance on labour, the outcome of individual bargaining at the expense of collective bargaining. Further, labour precarity is transformed into precarity for life. While our situations are diverse, we are united in the need to find new ways to counter the ever increasing capitalist claims on our lives.

We, militants and sympathizers of the European Left join the demand of the working people and Trade Unions for a life in dignity. The Europe we want and which we are fighting for is a social Europe. The actual European policy of deregulation and reductions of social and democratic rights needs real alternatives.
We refuse any policy to lower social standards and wages by creating and using tax and wage dumping policy cutting and destroying the various social systems of European countries, creating conflicts between workers within and between European states, playing the weak off against the weaker, including immigrants, the East against the West, the South against the North. Indeed, in social relations our goal is a Europe where freedom is possible through equality and solidarity in peace.
The EL repeats on the occasion of the International Labour Day our demands and proposes:
•    A new kind of full employment guaranteeing human working conditions and wages which are able to realise a life in human dignity as result of an active wage policy that would comprise productivity increase, compensation for inflation, as well as a redistributive component
•    Guarantied minimum wages for social inclusion not neglecting the cultural and civil value of human labour as cultural dimension
•    Standard working contracts allowing a personal development, a high standard of workers rights and employment protection by reduced hours on  full-time work
•    Equality for everyone by equal work and access to all careers: women and men, immigrants, ages “equal pay for equal work at the same place” everywhere
•    More democratic influence in any decision of the companies for the employees concerned, their representatives and unions.
•    Freedom to strike without restrictions and full rights for the working unions to intervene in the interests of the employees
•    Guarantees of all social gains in the different European states like minimum wages or  pensions – against the social dumping
•    Access to the public health care area for everyone - against the privatisation of any health sector
•    Concrete programs of measures for the eradication of poverty, of homelessness and illiteracy
•    Bringing the liberalised sectors back to public control for improving their performance and for shaping the services more closely to social environmental needs