Since the founding of New Labor Press (NLP) in 2023, the political reach of New Labor has grown from a handful of workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island to a wide network spanning coast to coast that is united by a single organization, the New Labor Organizing Committee (NLOC). As the work of NLP and NLOC has expanded, so too have we naturally encountered a wide range of responses towards our principles and line. Because the line of New Labor is made from an uncompromisingly working-class perspective, while we have received overwhelmingly positive reactions from actual workers, we have also encountered many misconceptions and straw-man arguments mainly from activists, organizers and publications who support or are only familiar with popular ideas in the establishment labor movement. In honor of International Workers’ Day, we return our focus back to some questions at the heart of the US labor movement and have written a brief education article addressing some of the common misconceptions we have encountered both in polemics against us and from new contacts and organizers on the ground

This May 1, International Workers Day, thousands of workers and activists across the country took to the streets to celebrate this important working-class holiday under the slogan of “workers of the world, unite!” In those places where mobilizations occurred under the leadership of revolutionary mass organizations, this slogan was made living through its integration with active campaigns of class struggle in workplaces, neighborhoods, and schools. 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.

May 1, 2026 marked a new stage for the growing revolutionary mass movement. Today, May Day in the US has become a genuine day of class struggle, and not merely for sloganeering or “a momentary impulse for riot or uprising,” like Peruvian revolutionary Mariátegui once aptly put. With each May Day, the revolutionary movement grows bigger in size, more mature, and more tested in the fire of social practice.

Below we present a few sample photos from the actions and events held by revolutionaries-in-formation in dozens of cities and towns around the country in 2026.

Contra el estado y la mercancía, Frente al parlamentarismo y el sindicalismo, en contra del militarismo y el reformismo.

Solo a través del comunismo podemos defendernos.