General strike in France – workers in struggle everywhere!

Happy May Day from Railroad Workers United!

Tomorrow, Thursday, May 1st, railroaders join millions of workers worldwide in celebrating International Workers' Day. We carry on the tradition of rank-and-file resistance that has defined Railroad Workers United since 2008: fighting Precision Scheduled Railroading, opposing long and heavy trains, demanding two-person crews, and insisting that every rail worker gets home safe and free of injury and illness.

Right now, our fight against the proposed UP-NS railroad merger is front and center. The consolidation of Class One carriers is a direct threat to rail workers, rail safety and the communities we serve. We need every railroader engaged in this fight.

In the United States and Canada, the "official" holiday for workers is Labor Day in September. After the Haymarket Incident in Chicago, U.S. President Grover Cleveland "feared" that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 would become an opportunity to commemorate Haymarket and radical worker struggle. Thus, he pushed for U.S. Labor Day to be the first Monday in September.

In the United States, efforts to officially switch Labor Day back to the May 1st have been unsuccessful. However, a number of unions and locals — especially in urban areas with strong support for organized labor — have maintained a connection with labor traditions through their own "unofficial" observances on May 1.

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Workers and Retirees vs. Milei: The Fight for a Shared Future

Class War and Market Predation

Contra la privatización: La clase obrera argentina en lucha

We must be clear: the assault on Argentine retirees is a direct attack on the entire working class. While the capitalist media distracts us with the president’s erratic social media outbursts, we recognize these as a smokescreen for the systemic dismantling of our social security. We refuse to be passive observers as the wealth we generated through decades of labor is handed over to private financiers and local oligarchs under the guise of austerity.

This is not a crisis of leadership—it is a brutal class war.

Our demand is non-negotiable: we must establish a new public, non-state, pay-as-you-go, and solidarity-based pension system. This structure must be managed and administered directly by those it serves: active and retired workers. We refuse any attempt at privatization or the further erosion of our dignity by a government that views the elderly as liabilities rather than the builders of our nation’s heritage. The struggle of the retirees is the struggle of every union member today.

International Solidarity Against Capital

The core issue is not the president’s personality, but the predatory capitalist agenda he enforces. As rival factions of the right-wing elite squabble over the spoils of the state, the working class continues to suffer. Whether it is the internal corruption of 'Freedom Advances' or the boardroom battles between industrial giants like Paolo Rocca and the Clarín Group, the outcome for us is always the same: austerity, layoffs, and the theft of our futures. We stand with those defending public education, healthcare, and science against a 'lion' who is nothing more than a puppet for global capital. No worker is left behind in this fight.

Argentina, May 18, 2026
NATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF RETIREES' AND PENSIONERS' ORGANIZATIONS OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC