The latest issue of the electronic buletin of the Federation of Anarchist Communists
released. The buletin can be downloaded from the website of the federation in PDF format
(483 kb), for easy printing and distribution. ---- Editorial: The First of May ---- The
first reaction of / the Chicago anarchists to the announcement by the Federation of
Workers in the United States and Canada, the general strike for 8 hours of May 1, 1886 was
insufficient to judge. But he subsequently made ??of the need to support the strike, as
they were able to see in the struggle for the eight-hour reform is not just a simple, but
profound discontinuity ... ---- International: Spain - in the heat of the protests and
resistance, social change, only five or six years ago, talk about the company recovered or
cooperatives in Spain was a matter not only marginal, but profoundly alien to the
interests and experiences of the vast majority of the population .
As part of the company of the bubble, the unbridled consumption and the "party" youth, no
one has raised - or have done a lot of very small groups or geographically localized - the
need to work for the same horizontal perspective outside of capitalist command. ..
Updates: Do not push, there is something for all
elections most useless of Republican history have demonstrated for the umpteenth time,
after a show too humiliating to be compelling despite the wise direction of the regime, as
beyond all intents every illusion of political change is not covered by the current course
of history, at least through the farce of parliamentary democracy. Few stories, the Fiscal
Compact, approved by the previous government in March of 2012 and imposed by the ECB and
by European governments approved simply says that you have to reach a balanced budget. And
'then a European agreement, the Italian State has to cut resources for about ? 40 billion
a year for the next 20 years, but, as they are bankers and prevedenti States have agreed
to the creation of a rescue fund, "ESM" , which will cost Italy ? 125 billion over the
next 5 years. Well as those who want to do it, just do it ...
The First of May
International | workplace struggles | press release Tuesday April 30, 2013 23:11 by
Federation of Anarchist Communists - FdCA fdca at fdca dot com
The first reaction of / the Chicago anarchists to the announcement by the Federation of
Workers in the United States and Canada, the general strike for 8 hours of May 1, 1886 was
insufficient to judge. But he subsequently made of the need to support the strike, as they
were able to see in the struggle for the eight-hour reform is not just a simple, but
profound discontinuity.
Editorial: The First of May
The first reaction of / the Chicago anarchists to the announcement by the Federation of
Workers in the United States and Canada, the general strike for 8 hours of May 1, 1886 was
insufficient to judge. But he subsequently made of the need to support the strike, as they
were able to see in the struggle for the eight-hour reform is not just a simple, but
profound discontinuity.
The slogans that referred to 8 hours of work, eight hours for rest and 8 hours of free
time, involved with this in mind the need of those who lottaano to take charge of his own
life, to choose which is the sense of time, work and social life in general. For this
campaign in the first months of 1886 keynote speakers were anarchists, who uttered the
most ardent speeches against the established order and for the construction of a society
of equals, in front of thousands of strikers mobilized.
The fierce repression and persecution by the state fell upon precisely on those who
mobilized in those days, leaving several dead and imprisoning those who later became known
as the martyrs of Chicago.
The current historical moment seems light years away from that 1886. "At this stage
capitalism has reached unprecedented globalization. Has extended its neoliberal policy
over most of the planet. His international organizations act consistently overwhelming
benefit of a small group of powerful, and the fragmentation of all forms of resistance.
Destroying the world of work, the ties of solidarity, social life, the same situation of
the poor ... "
During this period of great difficulty we have to build a strategy to break with the
system of domination, and to do this we need to organize, in all spheres of social life, a
radical transformation. In this sense, the construction of a force capable of social
self-management is essential if we are to defeat the ruling class, to defend us from
economic mechanisms and institutions that oppress us by strengthening the social
hierarchies of command and obedience.
E 'need to build and participate in class organizations that are opposed to neoliberalism
increasingly inhumane, the insecurity and the forms of destruction of social life, not
just reforms but a reversal of perspective on life and social organization in the name of
solidarity, participation, individual and collective subjectivity that is in constant
dispute with the capitalist system.
Anarchist communism is the historical practice of the oppressed, which results in the
construction of a social project that proposes the primacy of self-management at all
levels of social life: this is the path that we have chosen to build a world without
domination, to build this horizon of freedom, and as the martyrs of Chicago, like so many
other boys and girls in our history many companions who have dedicated their life to this,
now it is up to us to find ways to engage in this cause, here and now, and fight for this.
Federation of Anarchist Communists
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