"WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE"

Workers Unite Before There’s Nothing Left to Fight For

Unless you are a billionaire, you are a worker.

There was a time when the phrase “Workers of the world, unite!” was dismissed as old-fashioned, even quaint, a relic of dusty manifestos, Communism, and distant struggles. But if there was ever a time to revive it with conviction, that time is now.

The working people of America, the ones who clock in, labor long hours, and keep the country running, are being systematically plundered. Their wages are stagnant, their jobs are insecure, and their benefits have been shredded. Corporate lobbyists and billionaire donors have drowned out their voices. And while they struggle to make ends meet, their labor fuels record profits for a ruling class that views them as disposable inputs. Human capital is to be squeezed and discarded.

This is no accident. This is the very logic of capitalism, and under the modern American version, it's reached its most grotesque and exploitative form.

Let’s be clear: the problem with capitalism is not innovation, or markets, or the free exchange of goods. The problem is that under today’s regime, capitalism exists for one purpose: to extract wealth from workers and funnel it upward, where it is hoarded by a class of owners and investors who contribute nothing but demand everything.

And now, under the banner of Donald Trump and the intellectual goons at the Heritage Foundation, this exploitative machine is being fine-tuned into something even more dangerous: a full-blown fascist economy, where government is used not to regulate capitalism, but to guarantee and intensify its abuse,  where every lever of power is turned to serve the oligarchs, and the working class is left to fight among itself for scraps.

Project 2025, Heritage’s blueprint for authoritarian takeover, proposes exactly this: dismantling civil service protections, crushing unions, eliminating the Department of Education, privatizing public goods, and turning every federal agency into an arm of corporate rule. It is not conservative. It is economic totalitarianism, backed by billionaires and branded with a red hat.

And where is the opposition? The Democrats talk a good game but play it safe. They’re too timid, too compromised, or too comfortable. If they finally unite and act, the workers are the only real power capable of stopping this runaway transfer of wealth and control.

That means:

• Organizing labor not just at Amazon warehouses and Starbucks counters, but across all industries.
• Demanding congressional action to restore workers' rights, rein in corporate monopolies, and raise taxes on extreme wealth.
• Voting as a class, not as fractured identities, to block the authoritarian agenda before it cements itself.
• Support bold legislation like universal healthcare, free public college, and living wages because these aren’t luxuries but the bare minimum in a fair society.

It’s time for workers to stop thinking of themselves as individual strivers and start realizing they are the nation's backbone. Without them, no economy, service, industry, or country exists. And yet they’ve been made to feel powerless, distracted by culture wars, divided by race, pitted against each other by the very elites who are robbing them blind.

Here’s the truth Trump doesn’t want you to hear: He is not on your side. He is not one of you. He is a billionaire’s idea of a conman, a rich man’s puppet, a front for those who want to tear down every protection working people ever won, from child labor laws to Social Security.

And the Heritage Foundation? They’re not patriots. They’re corporate courtiers, writing policies that make owning, exploiting, and leaving you behind easier.

So, the time has come to stop playing defense and rise up, politically, economically, and morally.

Workers must unite, not with nostalgia, but in purpose.

Unite to stop the theft of your wages.

Unite, to end the lie that billionaires care about your freedom.

Unite, to take back your country, from the grifters, the racists, the fascists, and the greedy.

Unite, before there’s nothing left to fight for but your chains.

William James Spriggs