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It's weird being a commie from the #USA cuz amid both the degeneration of politics and movements and the desperation of our situation the gestures of progressive labor leaders towards 1 May 2028 seems much more radical than anyone should honestly and seriously expect them to be.
On one hand I want all my fellow workers and wobblies to take part in pushing it as far as possible. Organizing now, cells and circles of conscious workers could proliferate & have serious impact. Of course, coupled with this idea of "just doing" a general strike, that's the kind of thinking that Luxemburg crushes in The Mass Strike so.... (that's why clever wobs just say it'd be in preparation for a general strike that could erupt, not to organize it (also that's probably illegal to state cuz it's easily considered industrial sabotage))
My other hand says that it'll likely be a prelude to disaster either in the form of right-wing reaction and the foreclosure of labor rights (which necessarily summons armed resistance as the only effective route for continuing any relevant agitation and hindrance) or the workers' capitulation into a brief liberal restoration by their leaders. I guess it could also simply flounder but that ultimately depends on us and the consciousness and audacity of the rank and file worker in the US.

“wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. In 2006 millions of undocumented and their supporters turned out into the streets.
Around #MayDay May 1, 2025 International Workers’ Day labor strikes — days without immigrants - #CincodeMayo walkouts from restaurants and hotels across the country. The coup will not be defeated simply by legal challenges in the courts. It will have to be confronted in the streets.”
democracynow.org/2025/2/11/tru

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democracynow.org/2025/2/11/vin

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