Here in the good old United States of America, we have a beautiful holiday every September called Labor Day where we celebrate the contributions of the nation’s workers. We don’t celebrate the communist holiday of May 1 like most of the world does, at least not until recently.
Today, hundreds of left-wing organizations and Democratic Party supporters across the country will gather, protest and cheer on May 1 in an act of radical Marxist globalization. It should make Americans who aren’t fans of Mao’s Little Red Book very nervous.
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As usual, progressives want to destroy the wholesome aspects of our homegrown culture and replace them with cold, ugly, almost Soviet-style international nonsense, even though our American forebears resolutely rejected this.
People take part in a May Day rally and march in New York City to protest the Trump administration, New York, USA, May 1, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
It turns out that both Labor Day and May Day have American origins, with the former being a slightly older tradition from the early 1880s. It was an unofficial day to celebrate the country’s working men and women.
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Then, on May 4, 1886, came the Haymarket Affair, in which an unknown individual in Chicago threw dynamite into a crowd of police during a labor protest, killing several officers and civilians, in an act of political violence that feels all too familiar today.
Clearly, the version with mass political violence is the version Marxists preferred at the time, and they still do.
The riot and subsequent arrests of several anarchists set the world ablaze, and almost immediately May Day, or May Day, became a communist holy day, and eventually a national holiday in most of the Western world.
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But by the 1890s, President Grover Cleveland and Congress had a choice to make: should they legislate September Labor Day, or May Day, as a state holiday?
We all know how that turned out, because we all know Labor Day as the unofficial end of summer, and also as a non-political day to give our country’s workers a pat on the back and a barbecue.
It is the political implications of Labor Day versus Labor Day that are crucial. The latter, in the Old World image, treats ‘workers’ as a solid political, usually Marxist bloc, while Labor Day celebrates workers of any political stripe.
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We can see this division in European and South American sports, where one team represents the workers and the left, while another rival represents the rich. Here in America, Mets fans of all tax brackets are simply suffering together.
When we think of globalism, perhaps the force that brought President Donald Trump and his populist agenda to power, we often think of white guys from the 1990s with big smiles and shiny wide lapels pushing free trade deals. But there is also a Marxist version.
New York’s communist mayor, Zohran “Madman” Mamdani, has already said that he believes Gotham is subject to international law, whatever international law is, and it is clear that left-wing globalists view our nation’s borders as merely a suggestion.
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Replacing Labor Day with May Day, even unofficially, though some school districts have considered the switch, is as much an attempt to divorce Americans from their own history as tearing down statues.
These progressives don’t want you to have the traditional American Labor Day, where you tear up a few cold leaves and think about your hard work and the fruits it brings to your family. They want you to get angry, take to the streets with red flags and maybe throw a few bombs for good measure.
This Marxist globalization is much more dangerous and older than the third way, the neoliberal globalism of good haircuts and bad trade deals. Just look at how quickly Trump has dismantled so much of that.
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No, Marxist globalism is not just a new way of looking at markets. It is an attempt, at least as old as Leon Trotsky, to take over every aspect of our lives, not just our work, but also our vacations and ultimately our basic freedoms.
Activists are organizing nationwide May Day protests and boycotts under the message “Workers over Billionaires,” building on a long history of worker demonstrations rooted in the 19th century fight for workers’ rights. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images)
Americans don’t need a stinking May Day. The American worker is not a drone to be pigeonholed into a left-wing political box, nor is he or she a chess piece in a game of class war. They are our neighbors, friends and family. It’s all of us together.
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We must reject May Day here in the United States, as we did long ago. We will continue to celebrate the worker, and not turn him into an agitator, as exactly it should be.
So come September, spare me a hot dog, and carry on the tradition of the proud American worker who continues to make this country the greatest nation on earth.
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