Americans are fed up with an establishment that has abandoned the working class. It\u2019s time to organize for change<\/p>\n
On Friday, more than 3,000 May Day protests will take place across the United States \u2013 more than double last year\u2019s number. Workers, students and families are calling for a strike: no school, no work, no shopping, and an end to billionaire rule. I\u2019m headed to the streets with members of my own union, the United Auto Workers, in New York City.<\/p>\n
Americans are fed up \u2013 and not just with Donald Trump. People are angry at a Democratic party establishment that has abandoned the working class, that treated the labor movement like a turnout machine instead of the pillar of democracy it is, that funded a genocide in Gaza while ignoring a cost of living crisis, and that took its own base so completely for granted that it pushed millions out of the political process entirely.<\/p>\n
Claire Valdez is a New York state assemblymember, union organizer, and Democratic socialist running for Congress<\/p>\n
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