Our View: Akel’s May Day message may have completely missed the mark

In an interview given of the occasion of May Day, Sotiroulla Charalambous, the general secretary of the Akel union federation Peo, felt duty-bound to talk about important Marxist ideas such as the exploitation of workers and the class struggle. Although these ideas evolved in the 19th century, for Akel they are still valid in the 21st, despite the huge improvement of workers’ living standards in the capitalist world.

“The mechanisms of exploitation may be changing, but exploitation continues to exist,” said Charalambous...