Labor Day 2025:

Hard Times Demand Change of Strategy

DON’T CELEBRATE, ORGANIZE!

We are told that Labor Day celebrates the contributions and advancements of working people and the labor movement. A national holiday filled with family barbeques, some marches and a lot of empty political speeches.

But, Labor Day 2025 looks bleak for working men and women. Sixty percent are living paycheck to paycheck,¹ eight million are working two or more jobs,² while housing, food, healthcare and other living costs keep going up.³

Capitalism used to depend on a stable white-collar and professional middle class and a well-paid working class.⁵ This is no longer possible, destroyed by the development of computer technology. Technology that continues to grow in computing power, and now can read, write computer code, organize office work, perform medical diagnoses, and much more. And robots that are eliminating manufacturing, warehousing, food service and transportation jobs.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is obliterating the dividing line between white-collar workers and blue-collar workers and throwing everyone out of work! AI can do the work that professionals, managers and clerical workers currently perform. It’s just a matter of time until masses of white-collar workers are hit by unemployment and declining salaries. In 2024, Silicon Valley companies laid off 260,000 tech workers.⁴

We are all in the same boat and we can turn this around!

First, we need to acknowledge what we already know, that the system is rigged to make the rich get richer while we come out on the losing end. Because both major political parties serve the richest 1 percent, neither will stop this. We must build our own party that serves our needs. Otherwise, there will be no progress.

The Trump regime recognizes this and is attempting to establish a strong-arm government to protect the wealth of the 1 percent. The Democrats won’t stop Trump because they too work for the 1 percent

To Hell with the Democrats and Republicans. The time is right for us to start a political movement for the majority, the 99 percent of the country that works for a living. We are the majority and have the power to create a new world of leisure, learning and cooperation for everyone.