Socialist Party USA

06/08/2026

The Northern NJ Socialist Party co-sponsored a book release and discussion of "Unions of Our Own" by Daniel Gross with Brandworkers International, Solidarity Union Network and North Jersey DSA on Thursday May 28th.

Daniel Gross is a longtime labor organizer and labor lawyer and one of the original organizers for the first (IWW) push to unionize Starbucks. He is the coauthor of Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law, and currently works with the Solidarity Union Network.

The conversation focused on rank-file-organizing and the "Eight Building Blocks of a Union". You can find more about the book and Daniel's recent work at https://unionsofourown.org/

The Party has worked with Daniel since the early 2000's and it was great to have him in our local area.

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The Northern NJ Socialist Party co-sponsored a book release and discussion of "Unions of Our Own" by Daniel Gross with Brandworkers International, Solidarity Union Network and North Jersey DSA on Thursday May 28th.Daniel Gross is a longtime labor organizer and labor lawyer and one of the original or...

06/08/2026

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05/23/2026

05/10/2026

The Socialist Party of Southern NH was grateful to be invited to celebrate May Day with students at University of New Hampshire Durham. Special thanks and recognition to the Palestine Solidarity Coalition and their efforts. What a wonderful event and we applaud their work and its excellent turnout!

The Socialist Party of Southern NH was grateful to be invited to celebrate May Day with students at University of New Hampshire Durham. Special thanks and recognition to the Palestine Solidarity Coalition and their efforts. What a wonderful event and we applaud their work and its excellent turnout!

05/06/2026

Baltimore Socialists Join May Day March and Rally

Baltimore's May Day rally and march was a great show of solidarity with a couple dozen organizations and several hundred participants. There were three ceremonious stops along our march for special speakouts and in one case a dramatization of the plight of Filipino cruise workers: Baltimore Police Headquarters, remembering how four neighbors were killed by police just in the past year; BGE Headquarters, marking a call for public utilities rather than BGE's record profits during astronomical rate hikes; and the Fallon Building, damning the use of this federal office building as an ICE detention center and tangentially honoring the broader fight against war and genocide.

05/05/2026

Socialists Join May Day Celebration in Bentonville, AR

NW Arkansas Socialists join the BITE BACK Coalition May Day celebration in Bentonville, AR. The event included a food drive, songs of solidarity, and community building. We had a free community cookout and flowers for all because we deserve bread AND roses!!! Socialist Party Local Organizer Will Cichy spoke at the event.

05/05/2026

Members of the Northern NJ Local joined immigrant rights and labor activists at Cosecha NJ's May Day March and rally. The action started in Newark's Independence Park, with participants chanting and marching to the Federal Building and ending at Military Park.

Local members have been working with Cosecha NJ and affiliated rapid response networks in the state.

05/04/2026

Socialist Party members in North Carolina joined thousands of public school teachers and their supporters in a May Day rally at the state capital. Members of both the Triad NC chapter and the Central & Western NC chapter gathered with members of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) to demand the full funding of public schools and an end to the private school voucher program.

In Charlotte, another May Day rally was attended by SPUSA members. The first speaker of the event was the president of the AFPENC, which is a state-wide affiliate of the AFT teachers union. Other speakers included the VP of the Charlotte area Central Labor Council, and a few speakers addressing issues around immigrant rights. After the talks and march a street party with food and DJ was held.

05/01/2026

Happy May Day, comrades!

May Day in America, also known as International Workers Day, traces its origins back to the 1886 Haymarket Square labor demonstration in support of workers striking for an 8-hour workday. As police were attempting to disperse the peaceful assembly, an unknown individual threw a bomb into the crowd, resulting in the police firing on demonstrators.

Eight demonstrators were charged as accessories to murder and subject to a farcical trial, where a biased jury convicted them on evidence that ranged from flimsy to fabricated, and a biased judge sentenced seven of the defendants to death, with the eighth being sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Of the seven sentenced to death, four were executed and one took his own life before his ex*****on could be carried out. The remaining defendants were eventually pardoned, but the grievous miscarriage of justice had a profound impact on the labor movement.

Today, we remember the courageous sacrifices of labor organizers struggling for better working conditions, knowing that we cannot take for granted the hard-fought victories of the labor movement. Only by leveraging their collective power can workers secure these gains and determine for themselves the conditions under which they work.



Art by Ricardo Levins Morales

04/25/2026

North Jersey Socialists Join Successful Push for Montclair Trust Ordinance

Members of the Northern NJ Socialist Party joined community residents in a successful push for a "Montclair Trust act" ordinance to bar federal immigration agencies from township property and records unless they present a judicial warrant.

This campaign came out of a previous campaign to get Montclair to pass a resolution in support the proposed state-wide Immigrant Trust Act. While the township (and dozens of other towns & cities) supported that effort, the legislation was partially vetoed by the former Governor (Phil Murphy).

This push was focused on getting Montclair to pass a town ordinance which clearly defined where ICE cannot gather and to restrict the Twp from sharing information with Federal immigration authorities without a warrant.

This work was coordinated through ICE Out of Montclair/ICE Out of NJ/ Indivisible, Montclair High School student organizers, and neighbors. It also received support from organizations including Resistencia, Cosecha NJ, Wind of the Spirit and more.