Members of the Tucson club, CPUSA joined members of a dozen local unions, retirees and supporters.Ĭomrades in Minneapolis also took to the streets on May Day in celebration of labor, immigration, and indigenous rights.
The organizers wanted to mark the international workers’ holiday by emphasizing the international nature of workers’ struggles, and they chose to observe the holiday with an action, just as May Day began with actions demanding the 8-hour work day. The federation chose Amazon because of the worldwide efforts to organize this monster. They joined with others in demanding equality for undocumented workers, healthcare for all, equal pay for equal work, and an end to war, pointing to the need to put the major resources of the country into the hands of the public.įor the second year, the Pima Area Labor Federation sponsored a May Day action with a rally outside an Amazon distribution center. The Detroit club of the CPUSA marched with rank-and-file union members from the Teamsters, UAW, SEIU, UFCW, and other unions, as well as anti-racist, anti-sexist, LGBTQ equality, environmental justice, anti-war, and justice for Palestine activists. Here are a few highlights from local CPUSA clubs and districts. workers in Chicago, waged one year earlier and met with bloody repression in Haymarket Square.Īll around the world, Communist Parties participated with this years’ May Day celebrations, and the CPUSA was no exception. The holiday was established in 1889 by the Second International in recognition of the struggle for the 8-hour workday by U.S. Lenin later built on the formula, saying, “Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite!” adding to the centrality of the class struggle, the struggle for democracy.įew holidays capture the spirit of this internationalist working-class slogan like May Day. Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto that “of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class,” leading them to famously end: “the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
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