General Defense Committee

Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, the Landless Workers Movement in English, grew out of the popular peasant response to the military dictatorship installed in Brazil in 1964. This dictatorship, installed by a US-backed coup of the elected João Goulart administration,…

Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign In Haiti, May 1st is known as Agriculture & Labor Day and celebrates Haitian farmers, the Haitian natural environment, and Haitian cultural traditions. This celebration honors the Haitian labor struggle as a struggle for the liberation from the violence of colonialism &…

Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a revolutionary grassroots Indigenous organization founded in Minneapolis in 1968 by Lakota, Dakota, and Anishinaabe people that fought for the sovereignty and liberation of Indigenous people. AIM’s militant, anticolonial class conscious movement formed out of Indigenous…

Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign On November 29, 1973 nearly 2000 Arab workers (and some Black workers) at Dodge Main (Chrysler’s Hamtramck factory) went on strike as a political stance against the UAW bureaucracy’s support of Israel.  The strike was organized by the Arab Workers Caucus.  At…

Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign Days into the zionist bombardment of Gaza, a broad coalition of Palestinian Trade Unions across Palestine in October called people internationally to refuse to build or transport arms to israel, to take action within their unions, and to act against complicit institutions…

Part of GDC’s International May Day 2024 Campaign Enacted into law in the USA in 1867, the 8 hour work day went unenforced. In 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions called for May 1, 1886 as the date of nationwide enforcement of the 8 hour work day;…

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…