Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan sent a message for Workers' Day to Zurich were the Kurds are celebrating today.
Here is the full message.

There is one point shared by all those who have risen up, struggle for their dignity and those who fill the squares: Hope. To date, capitalism's modernist imposition always tried to strike this
attribute of ours; that is to hope. For peoples hope is not something that should be searched far from oneself. The common point in the resistance of our people that has transcended all borders and in all other resistances of people from Mexico to Tahrir is the fact that peoples have found hope to be within themselves.

Today, in this First of May, one of the most important messages that needs to be given is that we have confidence in the ability of the peoples of the world to live both in peace  and dignity. Because the experience of the past and present has taught us that the statist and elitist communities are a minority in this world but we, the majority, carry the elements of rebellion in our words and deeds.

Our response to the salute you sent to the Kurdish people's struggle for equality and freedom via your organizations would be to take back the modernity from the hands of the elites and reconstruct it as an egalitarian and democratic modernity. As with every period in history, every blow made to the working people in all the continents of the world and in all countries also injures the rest of us with the same severity. Our long term political struggle is a clear indication of how a people can change its destiny through common sense and effort.

Due to my present circumstances  I am unable to be there with you. However this does not mean that the rebellion of any given Kurd differentiates from the struggle of your own, on the contrary, this is an indication of the necessity of all political movements and working peoples to come together. The most dignified method to head to the end of the history of capitalism, nation-state and genocides is to carry this togetherness, the intellectual collectivity more freely to a wider audience.

Let me remind all that there is a long head way to make in the struggle areas of social gender equality, working conditions, rights of the immigrants, unemployment, racism and sub-contractors.

With the resistance spirit of First of May, I salute all of you who have volunteered to fundamentally change the history of the decaying capitalism, nation-state and its genocides and massacres and to re-write history.