The Nation: “May Day and the Reclamation of the Jewish Radical Tradition”
For the Nation, Dave Zirin reports on the radical history of May Day in the U.S. and its reclamation by the nascent U.S. left during a time of Israeli genocide, rising anti-Zionism, and the resurgence of the politics of the anti-Zionist Jewish Labor Bund.
He quotes JVP Executive Director Stefanie Fox on the connection between anti-Zionism and radical class struggle:
“Of course there will be thousands of anti-Zionist Jews in the streets on international workers day! Our work organizing for a free Palestine is deeply connected to hundreds of years of radical Jewish labor organizing. That legacy isn’t just historic — more than 20 percent of JVP members today are unionized workers. All of our fights are connected, and now is the time to act like it, and to rise up together.”
– Stefanie Fox
Read the full story in the Nation.
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