May Day

May Day being commemorated in the U.S.

April 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Immigrants, Labor, Labor Struggles

by Monica Moorhead, published on Workers World, April 24, 2023 A number of U.S. cities are gearing up for May Day (International Workers Day) 2023 with actions that highlight labor struggles, especially those involving young workers organizing at Starbucks and Amazon. But May Day is about much more than workers who are carrying out dynamic organizing campaigns. It encompasses the[…]

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[…]

‘May Day’ Militancy Needed To Create The Economy We Need

May 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Militarism

May Day Workers of the World Unite Melbourne Australia, 2012 ~Johan Fantenberg Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance Seventy years of attacks on the right to unionize have left the union movement representing only 10 percent of workers. The investor class has concentrated its power and uses its power in an abusive way, not only against unions but[…]