Struggle for a New World greets the working and oppressed peoples of the world on May 1st, with whom we celebrate this International Workers’ Day. Today is the working class’s own holiday, a day that belongs to all the exploited and oppressed; today is the day we raise our voices loudest in our struggle against capitalism, imperialism, and fascism, and for socialism, peace, and democracy. From the U.S. to Uruguay, from the Philippines to Poland, from Italy to India, from South Africa to South Korea, from the Congo to Cuba, indeed, in every corner of the world, our class and our movement is celebrating and struggling. Greetings comrades!
The holiday of the international proletariat, which began with a workers’ resistance in the United States, is scarcely known in this country – while “Labor Day,” a holiday created by the state, is pushed as an apolitical day off. Outside of the radical left, it is little known that the mass movement in the US for the 8-hour workday gave birth to this day. But as the contradictions of the global crisis sharpen, the younger generation of strugglers, workers, students, women, LGBT+, and oppressed nationalities feel themselves more connected to the struggles against the capitalist-imperialist world system and fascism around the world. May 1st is again on the lips of the real, class-conscious masses in the belly of the beast!
This May Day happens at a time of great darkness, yet there is a great light of hope shining still. Across the world, reaction, fascism, and war are on the rise – but the struggles of the workers and oppressed also rise up higher in resistance. US imperialism just launched yet another assault on revolutionary Venezuela and threatens Cuba, but the Venezuelan and Cuban peoples stand up against the empire. Austerity means cuts to education, but today teachers in the Carolinas walkout in protest to these measures. The Trumps, Bolosaros, Dutertes, Modis, Orbans, and all the rest may strut themselves about and push us around on behalf of the ruling classes whom they represent: but the resistance to their tyranny builds every day. This resistance will show itself on the streets today, in all of those who march in defense of the basic rights of humanity, the working class, and all the exploited and oppressed. This is what will overturn the powers that be and win the struggle for socialism. We must join these growing masses in the streets and become one with them.
This May Day, let us come out for our class and for socialism. This May Day, let us rally like those before us have. This May Day, let us continue the struggle to “bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old” – a world in which “the international working class shall be the human race.”
Long live May Day!
Workers and oppressed people of the world – unite!
Struggle for a New World 
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