International Worker’s Day

‘Solidarity with Palestine on May Day!’

May 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Israel-Palestine, Labor Struggles, Mass action, Migrants

Statement by Workers World, April 28, 2025 May Day arose out of the struggle in 1886 when workers around the U.S. joined a general strike on May 1 demanding an 8-hour workday. Chicago police attacked demonstrating workers in Haymarket Square three days later. In 1889, international socialists named May 1 International Workers Day to commemorate this struggle, Chicago’s martyrs and[…]

Re-Centering Anti-War and Anti-Imperialism as Working Class Issues on May 1st

May 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, Labor Struggles, Poverty, Resistance

by Black Alliance for Peace, originally published on Black Agenda Report “We will never support U.S. imperialism in any of its adventures.” May 1st is recognized as International Workers’ Day throughout the world except in the most bourgeois of bourgeois nations — the United States. Yet, even though the capitalist oligarchy has tried to erase the day from the awareness[…]