Workers Rise and Organize! is a call rooted in the oldest truth of the labor movement: workers produce the wealth of the world, and only together can they win back what is taken from them. Every right working people have today was won through struggle rather than given. The fight for the eight-hour day led to the Haymarket martyrs of 1886 and gave the world May Day. The Industrial Workers of the World called for one big union of all workers regardless of race, sex, or skill. In the Bread and Roses strike of 1912, immigrant women textile workers demanded not just wages but dignity, and in the Flint sit-down strike of 1936 and 1937, autoworkers occupied their factories and built the power of industrial unions.

The labor movement has been strongest when it fought racism and empire along with the bosses. In 1965, Filipino farmworkers led by Larry Itliong walked out of the grape fields of Delano, and Mexican American workers joined them to build the United Farm Workers. In 1968, Black sanitation workers in Memphis marched with signs reading "I Am a Man." In Detroit, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers organized against both the auto companies and the union leaders who ignored racism on the line. In Los Angeles, the janitors of the Justice for Janitors campaign showed that immigrant workers could organize and win against the odds.

Today, as wealth concentrates in fewer hands than ever, workers are rising again, from the warehouse workers who formed the Amazon Labor Union to baristas, teachers, autoworkers, nurses, and gig workers walking off the job. Organizing is how the working class learns its own power, builds solidarity across every line meant to divide it, and prepares to run society itself. When workers rise and organize, across borders and industries, another world becomes possible.

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