The LUNk Collective is planning a Working Class Solidarity March for May day (Sat, May 1st, 2010). May Day is International Labor Day. The U.S. is one of the few places in the world where the holiday has been virtually suppressed. May day commemorates the 1886 Haymarket affair which was part of the struggle for the 8 hour work day (working class people commonly worked anywhere from 10 - 16 hours a day for 6 days a week before the 8 hour day was won).

At 2:00 PM we will begin with a rally at the Capitol steps and then we will march down Centennial Mall to O Street and come back up 14th and end at west side of the Capitol.

Immediately after the march we will be having a party/potluck at LUNk House to celebrate May Day!

The purpose of this march is to:

1. Build solidarity among working class people (all of us who must sell ourselves, our physical or mental labor, to an employer in order to survive).

2. Reclaim May Day as Labor Day. Our masters in the US government made May Day into "Loyalty Day" in 1958 in an attempt to suppress the working class holiday. Their efforts have been largely successful.

3. Build a local working class movement that is in opposition to the capitalist system itself and the Democratic and Republican Party duopoly which works to preserve it. These two parties represent the interests of the ruling (employing) class not the working class. Despite whatever populist rhetoric they may use in their speeches neither of these parties has done anything to bring about changes that could appropriately be called socially just. They only serve the interests of the profit makers: the corporations, the ultra-rich, the military industrial complex and other ruling class parasites. All the victories for the working class (like the 8 hour day) have been won by the blood and sweat of working people - they have not been handed down to us from politicians or elites. The right-wing tea baggers and the whiney liberal reformers can waste their time working within this corrupt system, as for us, we are working to do away with it.