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This pamphlet contrasts international May Day with the United States Labor Day, arguing that May Day symbolizes working-class emancipation while the U.S. holiday celebrates accommodation to capitalist control. It traces economic and political concentration—mechanization, corporate consolidation, and the erosion of independent livelihoods—that has produced a mass proletariat, and insists that political gains are ineffective without the power of organized industrial unions. The author critiques reformist and narrowly trade-unionist approaches and advocates class-conscious, collective industrial organization as the route to systemic change.

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Title: International May Day and American Labor Day

Author: Boris Reinstein

Release date: May 6, 2017 [eBook #54666]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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OFFICIAL ORGAN SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY

A revolutionary Socialist journal. Dedicated to the idea that the emancipation of the working class must be the class-conscious work of that class. The WEEKLY PEOPLE teaches that a political victory of the working class is “moonshine” unless the might of the workers in the shape of a revolutionary industrial union is behind that victory. It teaches further that the organization of the working class can not be accomplished by dragging the revolutionary movement into the ratholes of anarchists and “pure and simple” physical forcists generally. The WEEKLY PEOPLE ruthlessly exposes the scheming “pure and simple” politician as well as the “pure and simple” physical forcist. In doing this it at the same time imparts sound information regarding Marxian or scientific Socialism. It is a journal which, read a few times, becomes indispensable.

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Weekly People, 45 Rose St., New York City.

International May Day
..and..
American Labor Day

BY
BORIS REINSTEIN
A HOLIDAY
Expressing Working Class Emancipation
Versus
A HOLIDAY
Exalting Labor’s Chains
Published by
National Executive Committee Socialist Labor Party
45 Rose Street, New York City