Red May Revolution
| Part of Second American Civil War | |
| Date | 1 May 1933 |
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| Location | the former  United States |
| Participants | members of the Workers' Communist Party, Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, left members of the Democratic and Republican parties. |
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| “ | We shall cast aside the old order, and build a new world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. And under the leadership of the Popular Front, uniting all proletarian and liberal political forces, we shall tear down the despotic dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and establish the revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat.
To mark the beginning of this new dawn, we declare the formation of a Union of American Socialist Republics as a free association of the workers, soldiers, sailors, farmers and people of the United States. |
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| — Provisional First Secretary William Z. Foster, 10 a.m. CST, 1 May 1933, "Red Dawn" national radio address | ||
The Red May Revolution was an event during the Second American Civil War that marked the disestablishment of the United States and the formation of the Union of American Socialist Republics. It was announced via a nationwide radio address by William Z. Foster, serving as spokesman of the new troika that had taken the reins of the anti-fascist resistance, delivered at 10 a.m. on May 1, 1933.
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 later govern the United Republics, and established the Provisional Government lead by the Workers' Communist Party in 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-hoc 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 Soviets, the proclamation of a soviet-style government in America was fiat accompli.
Legacy
May 1 is celebrated in the United Republics as the country's "revolution day", in addition to its status International Workers' Day, and is accompanied by large annual celebrations. In American Havana it is mourned as the beginning of the end of the old United States.