The Eternal May Day Mirage: Why the Left's 2028 Strike Plot is Less "Red Dawn" and More "Groundhog Day," By Charles Taylor (Florida)

Ah, the radical Left and their date with destiny, May 1, 2028, when the proletariat allegedly rises up, unions seize the means of production, and America crumbles into a socialist utopia (or dystopia, depending on your newsletter subscription). You've probably seen the headlines: infiltrators in Amazon warehouses, DSA operatives salting auto plants, teachers plotting walkouts while grading on a curve of revolutionary fervour. It's all courtesy of Karlyn Borysenko, the self-styled decoder of Leftist hieroglyphs, who's been live-tweeting her undercover escapades like a budget James Bond in Birkenstocks. Sounds terrifying, right? Schools shuttered, planes grounded, your Prime delivery of Das Kapital rerouted to a commune in Vermont. But let's pump the brakes on the panic-buying of canned goods and AR-15s. This isn't a fresh conspiracy unearthed from a Moscow basement; it's the same old May Day fever dream that's been simmering since Karl Marx was scribbling manifestos in between family tragedies (yes, he did lose children to poverty, letting his kids starve while he wrote books).

The Setup: Salting, Strikes, and Socialist Speed-Dating

First, the facts, because even in the echo chamber of alarmism, truth is the ultimate vibe check. Borysenko, a former Democrat turned anti-communist crusader, has indeed been crashing Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) "salting" workshops. For the uninitiated, salting is union lingo for radicals getting jobs in non-union shops to agitate from within, like a Trojan horse, but with more TPS reports and fewer flaming arrows. She's got the receipts: videos of DSA trainers urging members to infiltrate key industries (airlines, autos, education, logistics) to build rank-and-file power. And yes, the endgame? A big, coordinated push on May Day 2028, International Workers' Day, which DSA has explicitly targeted in their 2025 convention resolutions.

This isn't Borysenko's fevered imagination. The DSA's National Labor Committee passed a resolution creating a "May Day 2028 committee" to sync up salting efforts, reform caucuses, and, gasp, potential strikes. It's inspired by real labour momentum: UAW President Shawn Fain called for aligning contract expirations around May 1, 2028, to maximise leverage. Other unions like the AFT (teachers) have nodded along. The goal? A "general strike" vibe, walkouts rippling across sectors to demand better wages, conditions, and maybe a side of wealth redistribution. DSA's own mag, Democratic Left, even published a piece framing it as a "confrontation to make," but with the sober caveat: "Nothing DSA does will impact whether there is a significant strike in 2028. That is a decision that will be made in unions and on shop floors."

In DSA-speak, this is about "class consciousness" and "Left-labour power," fancy terms for getting more dues-paying socialists into union halls. Borysenko spins it darker: a "plot to overthrow America," with operatives embedding like sleeper cells to "cripple society." Her clips have gone viral on Infowars and X, racking up views from us, the loveable tinfoil-hat crowd. Fair enough; she's got skin in the game as a one-woman intel op. But is this the apocalypse, or just activists cosplaying the Paris Commune in cargo shorts?

The Hype Machine: From Marx to Memes

Here's the politically incorrect truth: The radical Left has been plotting the "overthrow of Western civilisation" since Marx traded philosophy for polemics in 1848. May Day itself? Born from the Haymarket Riot of 1886, when Chicago anarchists demanded an eight-hour day and got bombs, hangings, and a global holiday instead. Fast-forward: Soviets celebrated it with tanks and tractors; American commies used it for rallies that fizzled harder than a flat ginger ale. DSA's 2025 May Day? Over 1,000 events nationwide, from teacher sick-outs to street marches, energetic, but about as disruptive as a flash mob at Starbucks.

Borysenko's intel is spicy, but it's amplified by the Right's outrage industrial complex. Her Substack post warning of "the most terrifying thing the far Left is doing" hit like catnip for podcasters. Yet DSA, with its ~70,000 members (many of whom are baristas debating theory over oat milk lattes), isn't exactly the Red Army. Their convention resolutions read like a wonky wishlist: more political education, industry committees, coalition-building with "squad members" for a 2028 independent presidential run. Revolutionary? Sure, if your bar for revolution is a spreadsheet and a Slack channel.

And the "collapse"? Please. General strikes sound exciting … France 1968, Seattle 1919, but in 21st-century America? Amazon's got robots; airlines have scabs; schools have Zoom. UAW's Big Three strike in 2023 shut down plants for six weeks and won big, but a nationwide shutdown would need buy-in from millions, not a DSA memo. Plus, with Trump 2.0 vibes in the air (or whatever 2028 brings), the Left's more likely to fracture over pronouns than synchronise a shutdown.

Nothing to See Here? Well, Almost

This is speculation dressed as scoop. Borysenko's not wrong about DSA's ambitions, they're open about it on their site, for Marx's sake. But framing it as a "mass general strike to embed operatives and collapse America" is like calling a bake sale a siege on capitalism. The radical Left dreams big because that's what radicals do; they've been at it since Marx's kids went hungry in Soho (a grim footnote that underscores poverty's bite, not some divine mandate for upheaval). It's the boy-who-cried-May-Day syndrome: Every few years, a new date gets circled, operatives "infiltrate," and the system chugs on, absorbing the energy like a black hole eats stars.

That said, dismissal isn't denial. Labour's resurgent, UAW, Starbucks union drives, and DSA's salting could juice that. If 2028 hits with expiring contracts and economic wobbles, we might see fireworks. But overthrow? No. America's too fat, happy, and divided for a clean coup. The real threat isn't red flags in factories; it's complacency on all sides. Maybe that might have a silver lining.

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