Statement on May Day 2025

On May Day 2025, the Socialist Party hopes that all Americans will realize that working people have truly only themselves to rely on during the second Trump administration, and we urge all working, poor, and vulnerable people to join, support, and vote Socialist as the only viable alternative to the current state of capitalist rule in the United States.

In Donald Trump's first 100 days, he and his sycophants have shown increasing cruelty to working people, immigrants, and anyone that slightly violates his racist, imperialist fantasy vision of a true American. The Republican Party has fallen completely in line with his

tactics, and the Democratic Party has crumbled, offering nothing more than the weakest symbolic resistance.

The Socialist Party understands that the American people cannot survive on symbolism, and are in desperate need of an opposition party willing to stand up for them. We ask all Americans to join us in building an opposition ready to fight for the working class.

Trump's inexplicable and unpredictable actions on tariffs have earned us nothing in the way of price relief and are already costing Americans more in both everyday expenses and major purchases. His initial focus on "illegal" immigrants has spilled over into the arrest and removal of foreign-born U.S. permanent residents, students studying on valid visas,

individuals protected from deportation by U.S. court orders, and judges. ICE agents acting under Trump's authority terrorize immigrant communities by making arrests without identifying themselves, without providing warrants, and without providing any information about where detainees are being held.

As Donald Trump continues to push beyond boundary-testing toward fascism, Democrats have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect the American people. During Trump's joint address to Congress, Representative Al Green shouted until he was removed from the chamber, but has done nothing of any substance to block Trump and Elon Musk's

attack on federal agencies and their workers. Cory Booker gave a 25-hour long speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, but unveiled no plan of action intended to protect the American people. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez left their offices in DC and went on a multi-week speaking tour, raising their public profiles while

the Green New Deal Resolution and Medicare for All Act have sat in subcommittees since spring of 2023.

While pundits discuss whether or not the United States is "officially" experiencing a Constitutional crisis, it is clear that Donald Trump has committed dozens of acts which could easily be interpreted as "high crimes and misdemeanors", yet no organized effort has been made to impeach and remove Trump from office. The most powerful weapon Congressional Democrats could muster as defense to slow down Trump's "flood the zone" strategy sits unused and ignored while the American people clamor for any action whatsoever from the so-called "opposition" party.

The Socialist Party understands that Americans cannot feed themselves or protect their bodies with symbolism and social media clout. We urge all Americans to support our efforts in building a party that will challenge authoritarianism, imperialism, and the daily cruelty of administrations that either actively work to harm poor and working people or simply sit back and watch, claiming helplessness as they promote their symbolic acts to raise additional billions in campaign funds.

May Day is our day! Congress, state legislatures and local governments must be ours as well! Join the Socialist Party as we work to challenge the parties of capital and the nightmare they are building. Only socialism can give us the world of freedom, democracy, and joy that we all deserve.

Passed by the Socialist Party USA NEC 4/29/2025