May Day Actions Call for 'Workers Over Billionaires' (opens in new tab)

On May First—International Workers’ Day—people across the U.S. and the world joined rallies and other actions calling for “Workers over Billionaires.” In the U.S., workers organized over 4,000 May Day actions in big cities and small towns. They focused on three demands: tax the wealthy, no to ICE, and expand democracy, not corporate power. The protests came in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision further gutting the Voting Rights Act and amid ongoing wars in Iran and Lebanon, as well a...