The time is NOW for service workers to organize!

Despite the rise of domestic worker militancy in recent years, too many service workers remain confused. Like hikers on a mountain who strip naked amidst the delirium of hyperthermia, disorganized workers abandon their greatest weapons against the ruling class: (1) correct organizing tactics, (2) strong political leadership, and (3) Revolutionary Democratic Control by the Working Class.

Enveloped in this mass hypothermic confusion, the foolhardy, the incorrect, and the backwards workers, indoctrinated by liberal ideology, perceive themselves to be politically advanced. In this mistaken confidence they repeat incorrect analyses as self-fulfilling mantras:

“No one wants to organize.”

“The conditions aren’t ready for revolution.”

“It’s too hard to organize.”

“I’m not a ‘real’ worker.”

And so on and so on. A cacophony of unreliability. 

These positions have neither helped grow working-class power nor curb capitalist exploitation. Yet these defeatist prayers continue to be chanted by the adherents of liberalism, even the self-proclaimed “politically active” individuals who abound in “radical” organizing spaces. 

Far from being harmless, these positions ultimately rob the working-class movement of power. Any who promote such positions amongst workers are – at best – obstacles within the struggle to liberate oppressed peoples from imperialism. 

Obstacles, however, can be overcome and incorrect positions transformed into correct ones. Once we are able to discern the delirium brought on by our conditions  from deliberate misleadership, we can then isolate misleadership from the working-class movement — and grow a true revolutionary struggle.

Worker disorganization is a bourgeois strategy

As has been stated, too many workers discard the tools of revolutionary class struggle. But why would food, retail, and service workers, subject to a wide variety of exploitations, reject the power of worker organizing? 

Workers are people — they want, or rather need, to believe that their despair, their lack of actions, and their confusions, are, contradictorily, actions derived from their own agency as individuals. 

Instead your decision to not organize isn’t your own. It’s born from the rapacious desires of the bourgeoisie. 

These enemies of workers the world over — the capitalists, the managers, the bosses, the police, the misleadership classes—have already written the ending of every disorganized worker. It’s an ignoble end replete with death, disease, and suffering. 

The choice to not organize is the bourgeois choice which facilitates the rolling defeat of the working-class.

We have laid bare the claim that these positions are harmful to the development of worker power. But it’s not enough to make a claim. So let’s examine an example that the Party has encountered while engaged in shop organizing investigations and campaigns across the country.

“Workers don’t want to organize” / “workers don’t want revolution”

These statements are intended to evoke a degree of seriousness. Underneath such accusations is the false notion that workers in the U.S. simply lack the drive (“chutzpah”) to begin organizing, let alone to engage in self-sacrificing revolutionary efforts. “U.S. workers are hopeless,” so the nursery rhyme goes. 

The nihilistic idea that U.S. workers are uniquely hopeless misunderstands the nature of class struggle and correct organizing. Therefore it holds no validity for any serious thinker and organizer.

In truth, we must distinguish between correct organizing tactics and incorrect organizing tactics. 

Incorrect organizing tactics have infected too many organizations, including U.S. labor unions. Unions are an ever-present stillbirth of revolutionary potential. They’re the products of the labor lieutenants of capital which even now conspires with capitalists, bosses, and managers to stifle working-class power. They’ve betrayed domestic workers for decades and are unfit to continue as leaders of our working-class movement. It’s within this ecosystem of intentional misleadership that workers have become so complacent, defeated, and passive. 

The importance of correct organizing for food, retail, and service workers

However! When the Multinational Communist Party emphasizes the importance of organizing, we emphasize the primacy of correct organizing derived from decades of proven experience. The one-on-one conversation, workplace investigations, consistent agitprop — these correct organizing tactics must be utilized in order to overthrow the incorrect tactics that have stifled workers for too long.

Our organizing shows that through the use of correct organizing tactics, workers do, in fact, want to organize. They want to organize with correct tactics. They want to organize to win!

Workers do want revolution—what they don’t want is incorrect tactics which lead them to defeat.

Food, retail, and service workers are demanding better jobs, better pay, better benefits, better education, better healthcare, better housing, better communities. They’re demanding strong leadership in the form of a revolutionary political party that will lead them to these greater victories. 

The consequences of bad organizing for food, retail, and service workers

The failure to begin the organizing process, the failure to conduct one-on-one conversations amongst your coworkers, the failure to agitate, will only provide the building material for the continued defeat of the working class. To repeat — if politically advanced workers don’t conduct agitation, propaganda, and organization amongst their coworkers, there can’t be victory for the people!

The consequences of bad organizing is avoidable failure.

The consequences of disorganization is the continued degradation of all workers. 

This process won’t be easy. Nor will it be quick. But the Multinational Communist Party is here. We’re committed to advancing revolutionary class struggle and building working-class power. 

Organizing food, retail, and service workers NOW

The services-providing industries, including Wholesale Trade, Food, Leisure, Retail, Transportation, Utilities, and others, provided approx. 77.6% to the U.S.’s GDP in 2021. 

These industries, overall, account for approx. 80% of the U.S. workforce. As of Jan. 2025, retail and food employment together account for almost 30 million employed workers across the country. 

Retail, food, and service workers are sleeping giants. The revolutionary potential is there.  

Therefore, it’s the responsibility of politically-advanced workers to take hold of the proven technologies of organizing — of solidarity-building, of one-on-one conversations, of the organizational investigation, of political education — and fiercely wield them in the struggle for liberation, especially within their workplace. 

Don’t know of any workers who would want to organize?  Consider the coworker who attended protests for Black Lives and Palestinian liberation. Consider the coworker who shares social media posts on the liberation of women. Consider the coworker who talks about stopping their managers from allowing dangerous work conditions.

Where there are workplace grievances there are opportunities to agitate. Where there’s agitation, there’s opportunity to construct greater forms of worker solidarity. 

This solidarity is central to the Multinational Communist Party’s analysis on Workers Councils. 

In the beginning, this process will transform everyday workplace grievances, such as scheduling, wages, benefits, paid leave, and basic dignity, into demands of redress against exploitation, appropriation, and injustice. 

Therefore it’s not the responsibility of politically-advanced workers to simply speak to their coworkers and get them to agree on rhetorical political points. Having an intentional organizing conversation is not just something you do for its own sake — it’s something you learn, hone, and wield as a tool for building power.

Your responsibility is to agitate your coworkers on key grievances, organizing with other politically-active coworkers and directing the struggle. 

Your responsibility IS NOT to construct fanciful reasonings as to why you shouldn’t have to organize.

Your responsibility IS NOT to wait until “the conditions are right.”

Your responsibility IS to AGITATE. ORGANIZE. STRUGGLE. WIN.

The Multinational Communist Party—the path to victory! The path to socialism!

The call of the Multinational Communist Party is for those politically-advanced workers who see with clarity the utmost importance of organizing workers and revolutionary political leadership. If you don’t see organizing the working class as your solemn responsibility, with strong political leadership, then this call is not for you. We wish you the best in your efforts, however far they can carry you.

The Multinational Communist Party is engaged in this fight. Capitalism will fall and socialism will win. Food, retail, and service workers are being called up to the struggle. We cannot afford to fall into despair for despair is the deceptive enemy of possibility. We will seize the reins of the working-class movement to achieve victory for all workers!