History of Anarchism - May Day ---- Below we reproduce a copy for thinking the date of May
Day and its text importance for social struggles. Credits transcription of the text are
dxs companheirxs Group Anarchist Studies of Piau?, which has been performing the important
task of study, translation and dissemination of anarchist thought. For more information
see GEAPI http://anarquistas-pi.blogspot.com.br/ ---- FEAST OR PROTEST? ---- The text
provided is a matter of the newspaper The Worker's Voice - Organ of the Brazilian Workers'
Confederation - Year I, No. 10, 1st of May 1909. ---- Should be understood as the 1st of
May for all those who work for everyone who has passed through the ages and an infamous
life full of misery? ---- Yes! All who spent many years running a strenuous work without
ever having achieved some welfare their whole life serving the capitalist class, as they
should celebrate the 1st of May?
I believe that all workers that day should protest strongly against this order of things,
showing all these people hypocritical tyranny, who are unwilling to accept hunger, misery,
in return for their effort, made for the benefit of half a dozen leeches banned from
humanity, but to fight vigorously in favor of a freer life, where your effort represents
only his own will; and from which they can obtain the necessary for the complete
satisfaction of their needs; thus sharing of human progress for which the complete
satisfaction of their needs; thus sharing of human progress to which compete within its
forces.
This day should be outrage, not party; tell of revolt, because I believe it necessary
revolt is all beings who toil daily within the workshops, factories, mines and fields,
against this nefarious company that seeks artimanhosamente enslave us, denying us the
right of the to enjoy all the riches that nature has, and which we treat! I say we should
not be party because party work in today's society would be like to celebrate our slavery,
misery overwhelms us, would mean that we are happy with this tyrannical power that
oppresses us and satisfied with the annihilator yoke makes us bend under its weight.
We need all the oppressed to rebel against the current organization, it is necessary to
demonstrate their discontent frankly what all this misery by raiding the homes of those
who produce duct and enjoy nothing; that all workers with vibrant words prominently put
your hatred of all these social cancers.
When this whole legion of human beings employed by capital, unite to end all these
infamies committed by this slave class that relies on unconsciousness of uncultured
creatures, lack of experience, in order to understand the rights they have on earth.
All conscious workers must for relief before those who least understand that above all we
must consider the freedom of the land, through which we have to fight; fight relentlessly
until we acquire everything that rightfully belongs to us, and today we have been extorted
by the infamous and degenerate bourgeois society.
Man is happy only when "free on free land"; do not know who wrote well, I can not remember
now, but I accept that thought as logical and true, that it closes all the happiness of life.
Euripides Floreal
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