Socialist U.S. Senate candidate Joe Tache to address Boston May Day Rallies as workers and small businesses strike nationwide
Socialist U.S. Senate candidate Joe Tache will speak in Downtown Boston on Friday, May 1, as Massachusetts joins the national May Day general strike. Tache will address an anti-war contingent rallying at the JFK Federal Building at 3:00 PM under the demand "Fund people's needs, not the war machine," then march with the contingent to join the larger May Day rally at the Boston Common Bandstand at 4:30 PM, where he will speak again.
[Boston, MA] — Joe Tache, 2026 U.S. Senate candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, will speak in Downtown Boston on Friday, May 1, as Massachusetts mobilizes for the national May Day general strike. Workers across the country are answering the call for "no work, no school, no shopping" on International Workers' Day to protest the Trump administration’s anti-worker agenda.
At 3:00 PM, an anti-war contingent will rally at the JFK Federal Building (15 Sudbury St) before marching to join the larger May Day action at the Boston Common Parkman Bandstand at 4:30 PM. Tache will speak at both, joining a coalition demanding the U.S. stop funding endless wars and ICE raids and instead fund the housing, healthcare, education, and jobs working people need.
"Trump and the billionaires he serves are waging war on working people at home and abroad. The U.S. government is funding a genocide in Gaza, bombing Iran, pursuing regime change in Venezuela, and unleashing ICE on our communities – all while telling us there's no money for housing or healthcare," said Tache. "May Day is the day workers remind the ruling class who actually runs this country. In 1886, workers went on strike to win the 8-hour work day. In 2006, millions shut down the country in 'A Day Without an Immigrant' and defeated the racist Sensenbrenner Bill. When we shut down business as usual, we win."
Tache and his campaign volunteers have been organizing across Massachusetts in the weeks leading up to May 1 to talk to Massachusetts residents about the power of a general strike. Volunteers have been attending organizing meetings, hanging up posters, and talking to small businesses across Mass. about shutting down for May Day.
Many small businesses, such as Just Book-ish in Dorchester and La Piñata in East Boston, are shutting down part of the day or the whole day in support of the May Day general strike.
The anti-war contingent rallying at the JFK Federal Building is co-sponsored by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Palestinian Youth Movement, the National Iranian American Council, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, and Massachusetts Peace Action.