On this May Day it is important to remember that today’s struggles against Trump and the billionaire class have a democratic as well as a class dimension. A working class approach takes this into account in its articulation of demands as well as its approach to allies and coalition partners — people of color, women, immigrants, gay, lesbian, and trans people, small business people, farmers, and many others.

A narrowly constructed articulation of class struggle politics — workers unite —is a recipe for defeat against Trump, Trumpism, and the billionaire class. It was Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution and in the epoch of imperialism, who correctly modified the slogan of Marx and Engels, Workers of the World Unite to Workers and all Oppressed People Unite. Like Lenin, we should do likewise, adjusting the slogan to the conditions of struggle that we face today, namely rising fascism and its relentless, farreching, and unprecedented assault on workers and other democratic minded people.