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Primero de Mayo - May Day 2006 in Chicago

Primero de Mayo=May 1st, International Workers' Day — Dia Internacional de los Trabajadores — honors the historic struggle in 1886 for the eight hour work day and the anarchist labor organizers at its core who were murdered by the state the following year. That epic battle for workers' rights and dignity was in large part carried out by immigrant workers. Now, 120 years later, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, their families, friends, neighbors and co-workers will return to the city streets on May Day to demand full justice, equality and dignity for undocumented workers threatened with criminalization and deportation by anti-immigrant legislation now being debated in the US House and Senate.

The Chicago mobilization is part of a nationally coordinated day of action: El Gran Paro Americano 2006 - Un dia sin immigrante The Great American Boycott … A Day without Immigrants. The call appeals for a national boycott and strike — no work, no school, no buying, no selling — on May 1. Currently more than one hundred May Day actions are scheduled in sixty cities across the U.S. In Chicago, the Movimiento 10 de Marzo (March 10th Movement), a multinational coalition of community and labor groups, will sponsor a 10:00 AM rally in Union Park, followed by a unified mass march past historic Haymarket Square to Grant Park. [ See the CIMC razor wire above for a list of specific actions, feeder marches and contingents. ] Read: Support Builds for Immigration Protests, Boycott, Kari Lydersen, The New Standard

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    M1 Online Resources: Workers Defense Committee - March 10th Movement Hotline: PDF Flyer | Posters | NBN PDF Brochure: El Primero de Mayo - Mayday and Beyond | Song: El Primero de Mayo [ mp3 ] | ACLU Resource Page on Worker, Immigrant and Student Rights

    Local Organizing Projects: CAAAELII Coalition | Chicago Federation of Labor | Centro Sin Fronteras | Latino Union/Union Latina de Chicago | Chicago Workers Collaborative | Industrial Workers of the World | Illinois Coaltion for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | Niezalezne Stowarzyszenie Studentow w Chicago

    Related National Links: NO HR4437 Network | Immigrant Rights Solidarity Network | deleteTheBorder.org | Mexican American Politcal Association | National Council of Arab Americans
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    Re: Primero de Mayo - May Day 2006 in Chicago

     

    Re: Primero de Mayo - May Day 2006 in Chicago

    Solydarite! Kenbe fem. Good luck today.
     

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    Against the ceremonies of May Day
    www.geocities.com/icgcikg/leaflets/primerodemayo.htm

    [in Spanish] | [in French] | [in English] | [in Czech] | [in Portuguese]

    Here is reproduced a leaflet against the bourgeois celebrations of May Day, written and distributed by South American comrades. The clearness of these comrades while affirming the invariant positions of the revolutionary proletariat makes any other observation useless: against the state, against democracy, against national liberation, against wage slavery, against labor, against capital, against the bourgeois commemorations of May Day. We just want to emphasize the importance of the fact that these comrades support the real historic subject of revolution, i.e. the proletariat, at an historic time where all the ideologies apply themselves to diluting and dividing our class into a whole of various categories. With these comrades we affirm against the current that May Day was and will be a moment and a flag of the struggle against exploitation, and with them we call "for the constitution of the proletariat as a revolutionary class".

    May Day

    The utopia of communism finds all the historic strength for a new world to build in the words Manual Gonzales Prada delivered at May Day, 1908 while describing it as the day where "proletarians, scattered throughout the world, don't see anymore May Day as the irony to commemorate Labor Day but as the symbolic day where oppressed and exploited gather to number themselves, unify their aspirations and get ready for destructive and definitive action" against the state and capital.
    May Day commemorates the international day of the proletariat, the day remembering the legal murder of four anarchist militants in Chicago perpetrated by the American state in 1887. Some are trying this day to reconcile class contradictions, shouting that May Day is Labor Day; these words are so pathetic that they only can be issued by counterrevolutionary agents (leftist from all sides) who mix with us and appropriate our flags to make us take the way of democracy's pacifism, that is to say the legal dictatorship of capital. Anarchists of Chicago didn't die for this, they died for a new world to win, a stateless one without democracy nor capital.
    Strengthening the historic line of revolution, whom Marx, Bakunin, Flores Magon, Gonzales Prada belong to as well as all those who succeeded in identifying the state, democracy and capital as the highest enemies denying our humanity, we will continue to say that May Day is "the international day of the proletarian struggle", and NOT Labor Day. Celebrating labor means to celebrate exploitation, celebrate the permanent action of selling day after day our labor force for money, this means to celebrate and cheer the bloody "community of money" of the bourgeois state. This is why speeches for Labor Day are coming from the UNO, which is the International Organization of Capitalism (where the whole of democratic dictatorship is represented), so that we celebrate the inhumanity to live happy within exploitation of the state and capital.
    In these periods of generalized reaction of capital, May Day must be the day where "the historic line of revolution" starts to live again, settling the positions once and for all, and demystifying the red-painted radical bourgeois opportunism represented by all the left-wing fractions: from the Leninist, Stalinist, Trotskyite, Maoist fractions up to Guevarist, Castrist, Mariateguist, Aprist ones [APRA = American Revolutionary Popular Action, populist party founded by Haja de la Torre; ICG's note], etc. All these intellectual fractions of radical petty bourgeoisie, everywhere in the world, instill us that it is necessary to celebrate labor, to continue the reactionary reasoning of the management of capital by workers and the reorientation of popular democracy and national liberation, through which the constitution of the proletariat as a revolutionary class is boycotted and continually changed towards the channels of capitalistic mentality.
    Between left- and right-wing there is no opposition, neither ideological nor practical, both are democratic lines and therefore capitalistic sisters differing only by the economic models of management of capital in the hands of the state. Thus, within democracy where leftists and rightists play, there is no opposition, there is uniformity in the dump of capital and labor management, generating all their blemishes: commodity, accumulation and trade; homelands and wars; borders, exploitation and misery; democracy and wage slaves. For this and forever, while reminding Gonzales Prada, celebrating May Day as Labor Day means to affect simplicity, this means to play the role of unfortunate and unaware people defending misery and wage slave role, this means to be made a fool of what is to be delighted upon the table of Easter feast. Conscious proletariat celebrates May Day as the day of revolution.
    "For the constitution of the proletariat as a revolutionary"
    Long live May Day!
     

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    Contra los festejos del Primero de Mayo
    www.geocities.com/icgcikg/leaflets/primerodemayo.htm

    [en castellano] | [en francés] | [en inglés] | [en checo] | [en portugués]

    A continuación reproducimos un panfleto elaborado y difundido por compañeros sudamericanos contra los festejos burgueses del primero de mayo. La claridad con que estos compañeros afirman las posiciones invariantes del programa revolucionario, contra el Estado, contra la democracia, contra la liberación nacional, contra la esclavitud asalariada, contra el trabajo, contra el capital, contra los festejos burgueses del primero de mayo,... hacen innecesarias otras observaciones. Queremos resaltar, sin embargo, la defensa que los compañeros hacen del verdadero sujeto de la revolución, el proletariado, en un momento histórico en que todos los ideólogos están empeñados en diluir y dividir a nuestra clase en un conjunto de categorías diversas como vimos en el subrayado "América, arriba los que luchan contra el capital y el Estado". Con los compañeros afirmamos a contracorriente que el Primero de Mayo fue, es y será un momento y una bandera de lucha contra la explotación y con ellos gritamos la consigna: "POR LA CONSTITUCIÓN DEL PROLETARIADO EN CLASE REVOLUCIONARIA".

    Primero de Mayo

    La utopía del comunismo tiene en las palabras de Manuel Gozalez Prada, arengadas por el 1º de mayo de 1908, como el día en que los "proletarios, esparcidos en todo el mundo, comprenden ya no la ironía de conmemorar la fiesta del trabajo y ve en el 1º de mayo el día simbólico en que los oprimidos y los explotados se juntan para contarse, unificar sus aspiraciones y prepararse a la acción demoledora y definitiva" del Estado y del Capital, toda la vigencia histórica por un mundo nuevo por construir.
    El 1º de mayo conmemora el día internacional del proletariado, día que recuerda el, asesinato legal efectuado por el Estado yanqui en 1887 de cuatro militantes anarquistas en Chicago. Hay quienes en este día tratan de conciliar las contradicciones de clase, vociferando que el 1º de mayo es la fiesta del trabajo o el día del trabajo, palabras tan patéticas no pueden venir nada más y nada menos de todos los agentes contrarrevolucionarios (izquierdistas de toda laya) que se mezclan entre nosotros y se apropian de nuestras banderas para desviarnos por el camino del pacifismo de la democracia es decir de la dictadura legal del capital. Los anarquistas de Chicago no murieron por ello, murieron por un mundo nuevo que ganar sin Estado ni democracia ni capital.
    Reforzando la línea histórica de la Revolución, en la que se encuadran Marx, Bakunin, Flores Magón, González Prada y todos los que supieron identificar al Estado, la democracia y al capital como los enemigos máximos que niegan nuestra humanidad, seguiremos gritando que el 1 de mayo es "día internacional de la lucha proletaria" y No la fiesta del trabajo. Festejar el trabajo es festejar la explotación, es festejar la acción permanente de vender día a día nuestra fuerza de trabajo por dinero, en fin es festejar y dar vivas a la puta "Comunidad del dinero" de los Estados burgueses. Es por ello que desde la ONU, que es la Organización Internacional del Capitalismo (donde están representadas todas las dictaduras democráticas), salen las arengas a la fiesta del trabajo a fin de que festejemos la inhumanidad de vivir felices dentro de la explotación del Estado y del capital.
    El 1º de mayo en estos momentos de reacción generalizada del capital, debe ser del día en que "la línea histórica de la revolución" comience nuevamente a cobrar vida zanjando posiciones y desmitificando al oportunismo burgués radical pintado de rojo representadas por todas las izquierdas (la fracción intelectual de la pequeña burguesía radical) leninistas, estalinistas, trotskistas, maoistas, guevaristas, castristas, mariateguistas, apristas, etc, etc, que en todas partes del mundo, nos infunden celebrar el trabajo, seguir con el argumento reaccionario de la gestión del capital a manos obreras, y el reciclado de la democracia Popular y liberación nacional, con lo cual boicotean la constitución del proletariado en clase revolucionaria y la desvían continuamente a los causes de la mentalidad capitalista.
    Entre izquierda y derecha no hay oposición ideológica ni práctica, ambas son líneas democráticas y por tanto hermanos capitalistas diferenciándose solo en los modelos económicos de como gestionar el capital a manos del Estado. En esta forma dentro de la democracia en la que juegan izquierdistas y derechistas no hay oposición hay uniformidad dentro de la cloaca de la gestión del capital y el trabajo, generando todas sus taras: mercancía, acumulación y comercio; patrias y guerras; fronteras, explotación y miseria; democracia y esclavos asalariados. Por ello y por siempre recordando a González Prada celebrar el 1º de mayo como la fiesta del trabajo es hacer el papel de ingenuos, infelices, e inconscientes defendiendo la miseria y el rol de esclavos asalariados, es hacer el papel de pavos que se regocijan en la mesa del festín de Pascua. El proletario consciente celebra en el 1º de mayo el día de la revolución.
    "Por la constitución del proletariado en clase revolucionaria"
    ¡¡ Viva el 1º de Mayo !!
     

    Re: Primero de Mayo - May Day 2006 in Chicago

    On May Day 2006 the Chicago Police Dept lost!

    We won a street battle against control freaks who cant stand to lose. During the march anarchists and other protesters got away with things they would normally be arrested and locked up for. The cops who were there tried their hardest to arrest us but everyone who they tried to arrest was physically de-arrested. Most of the Latino protesters liked what they saw and joined us in taking over Randolph Street. So at the Haymarket rally the extremely vengeful CPD tried to arrest each anarchist they saw but they were stopped by our direct action. After that the sore losers of the violent CPD went home.
     
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