For the next week leading up to International May Day, we will be posting information on anti-imperialist, decolonial, and revolutionary labor movements inside and outside of the imperial core that have confronted U.S. imperialism and settler colonialism.
May 1st, an anniversary of the revolutionary workers’ rebellion, is commemorated and celebrated worldwide. So called Labor Day, a day off of work in September, was adopted in the U.S. to squash the potential of an uprising of the working masses and to suppress international working class solidarity.
GDC believes that we must take a resolute anti-colonial, anti-imperialist position that links the international role of U.S. empire to the domestic war against poor people and working-class, Black Brown and Indigenous people here. The resistance of colonized and oppressed people abroad to U.S. imperialism weakens the dominion that the ruling classes have here. Anti-capitalist resistance here weakens U.S. rule abroad. This looks like both building a mass movement and taking steps to weaken the war machine. Confronting the empire at home through anti-capitalist organizing is anti-imperialist work, as it creates another front that the ruling classes have to contend with.
While it is imperative now more than ever to address capital in anti-imperialist struggles, we reject the all-too-common chauvinistic approach that flattens culturally significant struggles for sovereignty and liberation into one-dimensional stories about labor. Struggles against imperialism are struggles for self-determination, and they are significant in their totality.