By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
April 26, 2026
May Day Review
International Workers Day, May Day, is just that in reality. It is a holiday born and matured in the struggles of working and oppressed people since the 1880s.
All around the globe, from Europe and Asia to Africa and Latin America, working people and their unions are rallying and marching to express their desires to speak and act in their own names.
In Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta, Miami, New York, Boston, etc., the rapid rise in prices for gasoline, heating, food and other costs are directly related to the treatment of billions of people around the globe. In the recent war with Iran, the administration of President Donald Trump spent billions of our tax dollars while working people are facing job losses and inflation.
Let us keep our focus on the struggles of our class allies in the various geopolitical regions.
Palestine: The Palestinians have been occupied by an apartheid state since its recognition by the colonial powers in 1948. Today it is evident that the people of Palestine must be allowed to determine their own destiny. Therefore, the U.S. must halt all support to the apartheid state in Tel Aviv.
Iran: People in Iran did not attack the U.S. or its interests. It was the Trump administration and its ally, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, who began bombing Iran without provocation. After nearly five weeks, Trump declared a ceasefire realizing that the Iranian government was not collapsing and the masses continued to fight. We must demand that the U.S. extend the ceasefire and withdraw all of its military forces out of the Persian Gulf.
Venezuela: When the administration invaded South America and kidnapped President Nicholas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores of Venezuela, this was another blatant violation of international law. The unjustified kidnapping, detention and show trial has no precedent among progressive societies. The administration has carried out a series of targeted massacres of people aboard boats in the areas off the coast of South America. There is no evidence that any of those killed pose a threat to the U.S.
Cuba: This country of 11 million people located just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, is being strangled by the White House. Cuba has made a tremendous contribution to the liberation of Southern Africa and to public health worldwide. Today the country is being threatened with another invasion perhaps similar to the “Bay of Pigs” fiasco or the “Missile Crisis” of 1961-62. As workers and oppressed peoples, we must demand that the blockade against Cuba by Washington be lifted and the Cuban people be allowed unhampered to build their own society.
China: This Asian country has been a target for successive administrations both Republican and Democratic. The People’s Republic of China is considered by the ruling class as the principal competitor and adversary of Washington and Wall Street. Along with Russia, India, South Africa, Brazil and a growing number of countries, the BRICS Summit is becoming a force in international trade. The governments represented in BRICS constitute more than half of the world’s population. In order for the U.S. to focus on the plight of working people in the U.S., there must be a normalization of relations with China.
These are the most discussed geopolitical areas which are sources of military and economic preoccupation by Washington and Wall Street. The propaganda being advanced by the ruling class is that working people have some vested interests in imperialist wars.
This could never be further from the truth. The workers and oppressed do not benefit from these adventures which result in millions of deaths, injuries, and dislocation abroad while in the U.S. many lose their lives and become unnecessarily disabled.
This cycle can be stopped with the organized entry of the labor movement into the antiwar struggle. The people of the world are our allies and not enemies. We must struggle for unity and peace in order to ensure a just future for the world.
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