Red May Revolution

The Red May Revolution was an radio address by William Z. Foster, serving as spokesman of the new troika that had taken the reins of the anti-fascist resistance, delivered in May 1, 1933. Occuring in midst of the Second American Civil War, the address was a proclamation of the overthrow of the old system and the establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics.

Background
Though MacArthur's putsch failed to obtain a decisive victory, it controlled a considerable portion of the country in early February. A Congress of Soviets was assembled in Chicago, laying the groundworks of the Basic Laws that would govern the United Republics, and established the Provisional Government lead by the Workers' Communist Partyin order to put down the insurrection. To pre-empt measures by dissent Republicans and Democrats to form their own restaurationist government, the Congress aproved the Labor's Declaration of Independence, brokered between the Provisional Government and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The Declaration established a dual power arrangement between the Congress of Soviets and the Provisional Government, admitting a mass of DFLP and Republican delegates to the Congress as well committing to call a constitutional convention after victory was achieved.

Throughout March and April, the Provisional Government supported a ad-oc arrangment called War Syndicalism in which labor unions took a commanding role in the management of liberated factories, steel mills and mines in order to redirect the industrial resources towards the war effort, with these policies being justified as "military necessity" to the more recalcitrant allies of the Provisional Government.

By late April, with Reds having achieved victories in San Francisco, Chicago, Long Island and (a day later) Toledo, the forces of the National Salvation Front was pushed back to Washington, DC. With War Syndicalism underway, and the Provisonal Government being beholden to the Congress of Soviet, the proclamation of a soviet-style government in America was fiat accompli.

Legacy
May 1 is celebrated in the United Republics as "Revolution Day" as well the International Workers' Day, and it's national holiday. In the MacArthurite-occupied Cuba, as well the capitalist bloc, the day is seen as the beginning of the end of the old United States.