Vol. 73/No. 16      April 27, 2009

The racist ruling threatens not only the Latino, Asian, and Caribbean workers. It endangers all union organizing.

These raids are intended to create an atmosphere in which any worker is afraid to speak out, to oppose abuses of any kind, or to be active in their union.

Employers increasingly are collaborating with the INS in staging these raids.  
 
April 27, 1959
May Day is an international labor holiday that began in the struggle of the American workers for an eight-hour day. Millions of workers stop work on May Day and march with their banners in token of the coming victory.

In America, too, hundreds of thousands of workers used to celebrate. Today this is not so. In America the official heads of the unions still preach the virtues of capitalism, still support the imperialist war drive of the ruling class.

The capitalist-minded labor bureaucracy appears strong and entrenched; the socialist movement appears weak and divided. Marxism teaches us to see the struggle for socialism from the long-range view of history and the whole globe.  
 
April 28, 1934
On May Day this year New York will witness the most imposing demonstration of the workers and the most tangible advances toward their united struggle against the common enemy that has been seen for many years. The participating workers’ organizations will march together and hold a common demonstration at Madison Square.

The idea that the political and economic organizations of the workers, regardless of their differences in principle, must form a united front of action against the class enemy—this idea, which was rejected with such fatal consequences in Germany, has brought a host of organizations together.

The no less important condition—that each organization shall preserve its own identity and march under its own banner—is likewise respected.  
 
 
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