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![]() ![]() 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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