SEATTLE, WA, May 1: "Las luchas obreras no tienen fronteras!" chanted ICWP members as thousands marched this May Day along a route winding miles from the Central District to downtown.
"Good one!' said an immigrant worker from El Salvador. Other bullhorns and marchers took up the chant. Another worker translated the chant into English so everyone would understand: "The workers' struggles know no borders."
"No borders, No nations, smash racist deportations!" added still more.
Hundreds grabbed our leaflet asking the marchers to avenge the mass murder of Bangladeshi garment workers by burying capitalism with communist revolution. Comrades also distributed our manifesto, Mobilize the Masses for Communism and a party pamphlet on the South African industrial workers' revolt. Marchers read more than 450 Red Flags with front-page articles on building May Day from El Salvador to Seattle.
For the first time, a contingent of a 16 Boeing Machinists participated. Even better, no pro-capitalist top union leaders dared show their faces.
Our comrades and friends from the plant made sure these marchers got our literature. International solidarity for communist revolution became a hot topic the following days as comrades discussed and debated the meaning of this march with the Boeing marchers and their friends on the shop floor.

World's Workers on the Move! What Does It Mean?
"When I see the May Day reaction of Bangladeshi workers to the mass murder by the
capitalists, I can't help thinking we're standing on another powder keg in the U.S.," said a veteran
Red Flag reader to a comrade the following Friday.
"Let me introduce you to a new worker in this building"
He picked up a copy of our paper and the Bangladesh leaflet to hand to his friend. "Oh, I've been reading this for a while. I pick up copies at your bench," said his friend, giving us a contribution.
He didn't agree we were on a powder keg, but did think he should pay more attention to workers' struggles around the world. The Red Flag reader was astonished that his friend didn't see the potential.
"Let's talk some more after I read this," the seller's friend said after a half-hour discussion on May Day and the potential for communist revolution.
Another young worker commented how big and diverse the march was. "I was encouraged, maybe now we can really change things," she told an ICWP Machinist.
We talked about how the bosses' plan for immigration reform was really aimed at creating millions of indentured workers to super-exploit and more recruits for the bosses' volunteer imperialist army. Change for the better was an illusion. "Yeah, but the system should work to flush out the reactionary forces every few years," she answered repeating the union misleaders propaganda.
"No, the faces may change, but the big bosses still run the show." She couldn't disagree with that. "Only communist revolution could bring any meaningful change."
We agreed to talk more here too, even as she prepared to go on an organizing trip for the union.

Bosses' Media, Cops Escalate the War on May Day
Unbreakable political, personal and social ties to workers like these are our weapon against the drumbeat of anti-communist propaganda dished out by the local bosses' media this May Day season.
Huge May Day headlines ran the width of the front page of the Seattle Times. Initially, they threw out some sops to the thousands of workers marching, but soon the headlines only praised the cops.
You would have thought the cops were fighting WWIII with the riot control phalanxes and exploding "flash-bang" grenades splashed across the front-pages and TV screens. In fact, it was a made-for-TV minor dust-up with a few silly anarchists arrested for mostly resisting arrest.

Action Leads People To Want to Talk Politics, Let's Not Disappoint Them
This May Day season we've met many people who want to "talk more" about the potential and reason to mobilize the masses for communism.
To facilitate these talks, we're scheduling our pizza and politics discussions for the first weekend of every month. We'll hold a weeklong project this summer with daily social/political events, movies and mass distribution of our paper. A retired Latino worker and a young veteran already signed up for the LA communist school at the beginning of August.
We'll have to put in long hours in the factories and schools following up with these potential recruits from this year's May Day activities if we want these events to be successful. We've barely started. The follow-up promises to be even more important than the march itself.