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Working Americans are taking the streets for May Day. Will Democrats pay attention? | Claire Valdez
Americans are fed up with an establishment that has abandoned the working class. It’s time to organize for change
On Friday, more than 3,000 May Day protests will take place across the United States – more than double last year’s number. Workers, students and families are calling for a strike: no school, no work, no shopping, and an end to billionaire rule. I’m headed to the streets with members of my own union, the United Auto Workers, in New York City.
Americans are fed up – 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.
Claire Valdez is a New York state assemblymember, union organizer, and Democratic socialist running for Congress
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Claire Valdez · Fri, May 1, 2026, 2:00 AM
US news | The Guardian
Americans are fed up with an establishment that has abandoned the working class. It’s time to organize for change
On Friday, more than 3,000 May Day protests will take place across the United States – more than double last year’s number. Workers, students and families are calling for a strike: no school, no work, no shopping, and an end to billionaire rule. I’m headed to the streets with members of my own union, the United Auto Workers, in New York City.
Americans are fed up – 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.
Claire Valdez is a New York state assemblymember, union organizer, and Democratic socialist running for Congress
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