Tomorrow is International Workers’ Day. This year, corporations are celebrating by laying off 882 people a day. Tech alone has cut 95,000 jobs in 2026 — Meta starts firing another 8,000 on May 20, Oracle just eliminated 30,000 people to fund $156 billion in AI infrastructure. Not to survive. To accelerate. You were the cost they were looking for an excuse to cut.
The framing is always the same: “toward AI,” “efficiency,” “long-term value creation.” What that means is they found the machine that does your job for less. No benefits. No vacation. No back-talk. And the record profits keep going to the same place they always go. A 58% majority of companies plan layoffs this year. That’s not a cycle. That’s a coordinated class decision.
May Day exists because workers bled for the 40-hour week, the weekend, the right to not be owned by the company store. The fight...