May Day 2026 Demonstrates Growing Revolutionary Unity
During the month of May organizations of revolutionary workers and masses throughout the country commemorated May Day with marches, rallies, and other mobilizations. For example, Omaha Tenants United hosted a May Day rally in Gifford Park, a vibrant working class neighborhood in midtown Omaha, and where OTU began its organizing in 2018. Speeches were delivered regarding the importance of May Day and its place in the history of the revolutionary working class movement, OTU discussed how the struggle against landlords fits into the broader working class struggle, and the Omaha New Labor Organizing Committee announced its existence publicly for the first time, promoting its recently formed Labor Circle, and discussing some of the efforts they had made in organizing a local landscaping company. Following the rally and the singing of The Internationale, a march was held around several blocks in Gifford Park, featuring red flags and banners reading “Workers of the World, Unite!” Additionally, it was later reported that a number of banner drops and other forms of street propaganda featuring revolutionary slogans were conducted around the city in support of May Day.
In areas such as Rhode Island, workers and their allies marched to state union headquarters and confronted their leaders for their treason against the working class, or, like in Chicago, the organized masses took the streets in a city where neighborhood defense units are being built and housing complexes mobilized for active and planned rent strikes. As a rule, workers and community members used the day to highlight the ongoing economic and political struggles led by the revolutionary mass movement, while simultaneously calling for a new, combative anti-fascism against the trend of fascistization. The Revolutionary Front, a comprehensive alliance of revolutionary mass organizations, was also announced on May 1.
Students at University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Strike for Demands
On March 24th, University of Puerto Rico president Zayira Jordán Conde undemocratically removed the rectors of 5 campuses (Rio Piedras, Mayagüez, Ponce, Aguadilla, and Bayamón), under the guise of “institutional strengthening”and “administrative reorganization”. The student masses, recognizing these maneuvers as part of a push towards the restructuring and privatization of the university, voted for and then launched strikes during the months of April and May. At the Rio Piedras campus, this culminated in a period of a 3 week student strike. The Movimiento Estudiantil Revolucionario (MER), a newly formed new democratic mass organization, participated as deeply as possible in this period of struggle. Before the strike, MER activists did mass work and handed out flyers before assemblies and participated in a march through the campus. During the strike, RSM activists joined the various strike committees, strengthened the gates and did mass work among students present. While the strike resulted in a tactical retreat, the practical experience gained had led to the development of MER activists and has made more clear key questions facing the student and revolutionary movement in Puerto Rico.
Chicago Masses Honor Nate Fejerang One Year On
On May 29, 2025, 19-year old Nate Fejerang was murdered by Chicago police officer Oscar Asilis. In the year that has followed, revolutionaries in his neighborhood and throughout the city of Chicago have organized under the banner of the Justice For Nate campaign worked to honor his memory through the struggle against police repression, for people’s justice for Nate, and for popular defense in the face of State violence. To commemorate this struggle one year, this May 29, 2026 revolutionary masses and activists in Chicago mobilized to demand justice for Nate and for killer cops to be kicked out of Humboldt Park, and all neighborhoods of the multinational working-class. To read more about the Justice for Nate campaign, click here.
Corriente Popular Damián García Launches
A new revolutionary mass organization oriented towards organizing the Latin American masses in the United States, Corriente Popular Damián García (CPDG), launched at the end of May. CPDG has developed out of comrades coming from the anti-ICE and national liberation struggles, and according to their declaration they define the new group as a“class-conscious, anti-imperialist, anti-reformist, anti-fascist, anti-chauvinist and anti-state violence, Latin American solidarity organization.” They end by stating: “Successful movements and revolutions come only through intense struggle against revisionism, opportunism and empowering the masses to confront their class enemies. Concretely this means no concessions taken, no cover ups of anti-people activities within our ranks and holding a firm stance against half-truths peddled by comprador governments to their own opportunist and revisionist ends. This means to march forward without fear, as the truth is on our side. We must aid the organization of workplaces, universities and neighborhoods concretely against the state and raise the banner of truly proletarian internationalism. We must heighten the consciousness of national liberation led by the proletariat and ironclad socialist principles.”
You can read their full declaration in English and Spanish here.
