Workers and Revolutionaries Celebrate International Workers’ Day

Read the joint statement of US Maoist organizations for International Workers’ Day 2026 here.

On May 1, revolutionaries, workers, and students carried out joint and parallel actions in commemoration of International Workers’ Day (IWD), a proletarian holiday with its origins in the fight for the eight-hour work day in the US and internationally. For revolutionaries, IWD has been and remains a trench of combat to militantly raise the demands of the working class in confrontation with the class enemy, centrally the conquest of power. It is an opportunity to mobilize and educate proletarians and the broad masses against imperialism, revisionism, and reaction in the face of the pacifist and self-serving gatherings of the opportunists and the repression of the state and civilian reactionaries. The Worker restates that “every worker who calls in sick or walks off the job and especially every strike action is worth ten million cook-outs.”

In Seattle, WA, about 100 people attended a march in a working class and immigrant neighborhood. The event was endorsed by the Puget Sound Struggle Committees, Puget Sound Revolutionary Youth, pro Palestinian-resistance organizations Nidal Seattle and Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return (SUPER), and Local 1789 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Slogans present at the march included “Workers of the World, Unite!”, “Victory to the People’s War in India!”, “Victory to Iran! Death to US Imperialism!”, and “Learn from Chairman Gonzalo Unite Under Maoism!” Portraits of the six greatest leaders of the international proletariat (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Chairman Mao, and Chairman Gonzalo) were held at the front of the march.

In Eugene, OR, the Eugene Revolutionary Women’s Committee, Eugene Housing and Neighborhood Defense, and local education workers organized a demonstration in commemoration of IWD and against mass layoffs of school employees. Ribbons were tied to the district building for each fired worker, and several attendees were arrested by the police. Speeches exposed workplace conditions and struggles and discussed the history and significance of IWD as a day of class struggle. At the end of the event, demonstrators sang The Internationale, the anthem of the international proletariat.

In Portland, OR, Portland Antiimperialist Action, Renters Action Network, and Revolutionary Student Front – Beaverton formed a red contingent of a local May 1 march. Revolutionaries carried portraits of the six teachers of the international proletariat and chanted slogans including, “PLGA [People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army, the army that wages the people’s war in India led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)], people’s war will lead the way!”, “fry the pigs, burn the ballot, which side are you on?”, and “One side’s right one side’s wrong, we’re on the side of Al-Qassam!”, in reference to the Palestinian national resistance.

In Oakland, CA, the League of Class Conscious Workers, Revolutionary Women’s Committee, and Revolutionary Youth Organization marched as a red contingent in an IWD march. The flag of the Anti-Imperialist League (AIL) was raised as well as banners with quotes from Chairman Mao and the Great Lenin: “Working Women Hold up Half the Sky” and “Trade Union Workers! Do not rely upon the state, rely only upon the power of your class!”

In San Antonio, TX, students in the Foxtech Students League led a red contingent at a May 1 march and carried out agitation against bourgeois politicians and revisionists co-opting IWD for their own aims.

In Binghamton, NY, activists organized with the Revolutionary Student Front – Binghamton formed a red contingent at a local May 1 demonstration, wielding red flags and delivering a speech on the necessity of a militant and red IWD.

Image: Revolutionaries in Seattle march on International Workers’ Day 2026.

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