join together in every place against racism.
Against racism, against racism, against racism! What do you want from us today? I want you to know.
Down to the workers, down, down, down to the Nazis.
Power, power, power to the workers.
Down, down, down to the Nazis.
Power, power, power to the workers.
Down, down, down to the Nazis.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
What are you doing? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Six of us, there's that that's it.
Five, six, seven, eight.
We're celebrating the Workers' Day! Here in the United States, the power is charged to the people who control this country, want us to forget about May Day because May Day, brothers and sisters, is part of our own history.
Because May Day was born here in Chicago in May 1st, 1886.
All over the world is being celebrated this International Workers' Day but they want us here in the States to forget about our own history, to forget us, that we have roots in the past, that our people fought back in the past and that we have to continue with our struggle, brothers and sisters.
I'm glad we've got a beautiful day, the sun is shining and we're ready to fight back against the bosses.
I want to give a little history on May Day.
For those of you who don't know, the birth of May Day is here in Chicago in a place called Haymarket Square.
1886, the workers' lawyers decided to fight for eight hours a week, eight hour a day work weeks.
Out of that struggle in Haymarket Square, the workers were killed.
But they did get to eight hours.
But as you can see, here it is, 1981, and the bosses have stolen eight hours away and here we are now fighting for 40 hours, both for 40 hours a day.
The workers' lawyers are fighting for 40 hours a day.
They're fighting for 40 hours a day.
They're fighting for 40 hours a day.
They're fighting for 40 hours a day.
They're fighting for 40 hours a day.
They're fighting for 40 hours a day.
They're fighting for 40 hours a day.
They're fighting for 40 hours a day.
Racists we can't hide, we charge you with genocide.
Racists, you can't hide, we can't hide, we charge you with genocide.
My name is Rose Francis and I'm very proud to be today out here with NCAR.
I think it's a beautiful thing they're doing.
I think it would be very nice if everybody would come out and see what it's like.
I have been to quite a few of their meetings and there's nothing but love.
If the people only would know what time it is, there would be more people that would be out and joining NCAR.
Matter of fact, I think I might join them myself.
That's great.
Thank you very much.
All right.
What's your name? Where are you from? Chicago.
Chicago? Yes, sir.
You're active in the movement here? Yes.
How long have you been active in the movement? About two and a half years.
What are some of the things that are important to you in the movement? Seeing black and white people join together is one.
Socially and actively getting together, having fun, talking, not fighting.
You're high school student, right? Yes.
Fresh.
Do you have a lot of kids that you associate with at school that are members? Not really.
I go to school in the suburbs.
But I know there's a couple of schools here in the city that have a car chapter in their school.
How you like the RRWL today? It was really nice.
You had a pretty good time? Yes, but a lot of people didn't show up like last year.
They said some buses were delayed on the highway because they broke down or something like that.
That's great.
I'm glad you had fun.
Thanks a lot.
All right, you too.
Where are you from? I'm from Chicago.
Hey, hometown.
How you like the rally so far? Oh, it's beautiful.
It's great.
I like being here.
Did you get tired in the parade? No, I was helping other people, so I really didn't think about getting tired or anything.
It was really nice because it's nice to see black and white getting together, men and women getting together and organizing to fight back against racism.
It's really beautiful to see it.
That's great.
What do you think of the highest strongest movement here in Chicago? I think it's very strong because we've got people in Illinois, we've got people in health care, we've got people in CTA, we've got workers, we've got students, we've got in the military at Great Lakes, we've got people in the communities, we've got unemployed people that are working with Incar.
So it's really getting very strong.
A lot of people are joining Incar lately.
That's great.
That's great.
Thank you very much.
I hope you enjoy yourself.
Thank you.
And the working class in the world getting those things is simply organizing many, many more of us.
And is it that hard? Well, a lot of things are hard.
But is it impossible? No, no.
Revolutions haven't made.
Workers have fought.
Workers have fought for many, many years, many, many times, many, many occasions.
They always have.
They are today.
And they always will.
I tell the working class around the world, make communist revolution a reality throughout the world.
This part would be appreciated and grow to be used by the working class.
And that's what this revolution after all, in a certain sense, is all about.
Eliminating the capitalist class, hanging them high, and hanging them to the workers we'll be able to see and walk through the park and say, yes, indeed, that was a boss.
That's what we did to the boss.
We've heard it.
We've heard it.
We've heard it.
We've heard it.
We've heard it.
We've heard it.
We've heard it.
We've heard it.
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Students.
A work of student alliance means that we as students must no longer look at society as two different kinds of people out there.
We must no longer look at the strikes at CTA or the strike in Chicago, and it has nothing to do with us.
We must no longer look at strikes anywhere around the country like the coal miners strike and only worry about it because we might not have any coal tomorrow.
We must no longer look at the stubbornness of exploited workers from El Salvador to Africa or wherever it is and just thinking too far away from worrying about.
We should see these attacks on us, the working class, because in the final analysis all members of all students are members of the working class and we must see these attacks by a racist, fascist power structure on us, the working class.
Students from Northwestern University.
Do we have any more students from Purdue campus or anywhere else? And I think we today are the leading example that the workers student alliance can and will work.
But the question is how are we going to make this movement bigger and stronger into the power that we want? How are you from? I'm from St.
Louis.
How was the trip down? It was great.
How do you think about the parade, the rally so far? I think it was really exciting.
Listen, how was the movement there in St.
Louis? Pretty good.
We've been building up, organizing against police racism in that area and against media publicity being given to the Ku Klux Klan.
Personally, the Klan came to my house a couple of times in the last month and dumped a fish in my front porch.
So the way we responded to that is we put out a flyer.
We called a news conference asking these newspapers to attend and TV stations to attend, but none of them would come.
None of them would give them any coverage to it.
I put out a flyer saying we weren't going to be intimidated.
I distributed the flyer in my neighborhood.
And I've been selling challenge door to door in my neighborhood now for the last three or four months.
And that was really good because it meant that when this happened I could go back to my neighbors and talk with them about what had happened and the need to keep organizing against racism because if they had more people in the Klan, it wouldn't have been just a bunch of dead fish.
The reason that there aren't so many people in the Klan is because when they, the Klan and us, we started to rally in Florissant, you know, a couple of years ago we beat the crap out of them.
Whenever they tried to get going, we stomped them.
So that's why it was dead fish and not something more serious.
Detroit.
Detroit, I was in Detroit down there.
It was complicated in the beginning, but we made some effort and we got here.
Yeah, that's great, that's great.
Listen, how is the movement in Detroit? Well, right now, the only job struggle is intensifying.
They know that we're very serious about building NCAR, making it a mass organization in Detroit.
And my job in particular at Northfield, we have like a real base with the workers and that's primarily the work at the hospital now.
You're getting a lot of participation in Detroit.
Right, right.
We haven't got as much as we would like and the reason we haven't is because we haven't really done the work as well as we should have.
But we have done a lot of good things, but we need to do better and as long as we realize that, then we'll go out and we'll continue to build NCAR and make it a mass organization.
Right, how old is the movement in Detroit? Right.
Massacre, kill the class, turn the guns on the ruling class.
Massacre, kill the class, turn the guns on the ruling class.
Massacre, kill the class, turn the guns on the ruling class.
Massacre, kill the class, turn the guns on the ruling class.
Massacre, kill the class.
Massacre, kill the class, turn the guns on the ruling class.
Massacre, kill the class.
Strike, garden robin.
Oh, I cannot break a strike.
Tell the generals, take a hike.
I'm a worker and cannot kill my sister.
But will you join the Marines? All right, to make a communist revolution, we must win the army over to the side of the working class.
We must build a base for communism inside the military.
Many people find these ideas, this idea of organizing in the military to be frightening, and some people think that it's incorrect.
All right, in some ways it is kind of frightening, but it's not as frightening to think of the men and women in this armory someday charging out at one of our May Day marches, busting up our march.
It's not as frightening to think of the people in the regular army being shipped to the Middle East or to Europe or to Africa to fight and die in World War III.
That's what's frightening.
Organizing our fellow workers in the military isn't frightening.
We are sending people into the military to do basic training this summer.
And if anybody who's a student, that's right, are an officer...
In car, and all in car youth cannot allow themselves or their friends or other youth in this country that haven't heard of our movement yet to be suckered into this move by the bosses.
We can't allow any youth on the face of this earth to be suckered into a war that they have absolutely no stake in.
Same enemies, same rights, workers of the world unite! I'm fine, my name is Lena Carey, and I'm a communist.
I'm a member of the Progressive Labour Party, and I'm very proud of it.
Because I'm fighting for a better life for the whole working class people, my kids, my grandchildren included.
That's great.
How long you been active in the party? I'm active in the party since I'm 10 years in the party.
But before I was active in the civil rights movement, I was active against war in Vietnam.
And I marched in all demonstrations against war in Vietnam on civil rights.
And I'm marching on May Day every year against super exploitation of the working class people all over the world in the United States.
That's great, that's great.
Were you in the civil rights parades? Were you in any of those? Demonstrations? Yes, I was in Washington, and I was in Chicago, and I was sitting on the state street, and I was arrested.
And I'm not afraid, because for what I'm stand, for a better life for the working class people, is the whole life I want to contribute to it.
You believe in what you've done is right, right? Right, because I lived, I went through the Second World War, and I went through concentrations.
And I know those capitalists who built Nazi Germany to kill millions and millions of people, I think approximately between 42 and 50 million people.
And I was the victim.
And I know the same capitalists support all the fascist movement, and all the fascists all over the world.
In El Salvador, in Nicaragua, in South Africa, in America, in Iran, all over the world.
And the same capitalists who are living off blood of working class people, of super exploitation.
We want to smash them.
Thank you very much, dear.
