Throughout his more than three hundred pages, the book traces the many moments that were shaping the history of May Day in South America (which makes up the vast majority of the book) and North (thanks to a remarkable work of the compiler of the text). Along with the precious data, lengthy narratives and everything that makes this book a true contribution to historiographical interest, brings a strong militant placing it in a place unlike any other contribution.
"Our ancestors were not only taught us that violence is justified against despots, as the only means left to us, but we have given themselves an immortal example." That relates in part manifest Pittsburg, dated 1883-and that includes as an appendix to this paper-, three years before the general strike on May 1 and represented the most determined political platform of the American labor movement for those dates, and that prompted workers' struggles for several years in that region. Today, that same proclamation invoking the force of a past waiting to be done, makes sense for the protagonists of the various First of May throughout the Americas (North and South) and echo back through this publication.
In an unprecedented effort, thanks to the comrades of the Red Lion Press in Canada and especially the colleagues of the Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici and the Centro di Documentazione Franco Salomone (both Italian organizations), the Chilean publishing Quimantú , Man and Society and Free Initiative have launched a movement this tribute to the many working-class fighters who perished in the wheel of history in this ceaseless struggle of labor against capital.
Throughout his more than three hundred pages, the book traces the various stages that were shaping the history of May Day in South America (which makes up the vast majority of the book) and North (thanks to a remarkable job compiler of the text.) Along with the precious data, the neat stories and everything that makes this book a true contribution to historiographical interest, brings a strong militant placing it in a place unlike any other contribution. All participants in this work are active militants in the various popular movements in their countries. USL's brothers (Peru), FARJ (Brazil), Red and Black (Uruguay), Mexico Anarchist Black Cross, Children's Village (Ecuador), Revista La Libertad (Costa Rica), OARS (Bolivia), CILEP (Colombia) , and as Lopez Trujillo Muñoz VM Argentina and Chile, all of them, in their way, are part of a militant group and commitment to the resurgence of a revolutionary alternative in their respective countries, with a strong libertarian stamp.
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This same charge makes it clear that, to paraphrase J. Most, this book was not written to "mourn over the grave of the martyrs of the proletariat, because it does not matter for the revolucionarios”, sino que ha sido escrito “para levantar aquella bandera a cuya sombra combatieron, lucharon y se sacrificaron los que aquí yacen recordados, y a la que permanecieron fieles hasta la muerte”.
Hoy, en tiempos que el neoliberalismo no sólo causa estragos en la calidad de vida de los trabajadores y demás sectores que conforman nuestros golpeados pueblos latinoamericanos, sino que además vacía la memoria de lucha anti-capitalista que caracterizó al movimiento obrero que nos precedió, este libro emerge como un pequeño ejercicio de memoria colectiva, nos vuelve a hacer parte de un largo y delgado hilo rojo que recorre nuestras accidentadas experiencias como clase obrera y nos recuerda, essentially, that nothing that the working class is now established as a right has been a gift, but all progress, all guard against the capitalist class has been the fruit of their struggle, their blood and their dead.
Another aspect of this publication is that, unlike traditional historiography and not so traditional, claims the right place for anarchists in the labor history. Throughout its eleven essays, this remarkable publication restores the deserved recognition anarchist lines have been developed over the history of modern exploited class and show it what it is: a bet real program of radical change, born the bosom of the working class, as its most settled and that, after decades of authoritarian exchange betting is all the more vigorously than ever.
addition, the book has an excellent photographic archive that helps us a much more vivid idea of \u200b\u200bthe context. But perhaps as important as historical essays, is the appendix containing the publication, consisting of twelve handwritten texts of important libertarian activists such as Lucy Parsons, J. A. Most and the same Parsons, among others, which contribute not only to clarify the ideas that nourished the labor movement then, but they are a potent source of anti-capitalist slogans that have not lapsed, and summaries master anarchist ideology.
With all these elements, libertarian origins of May is presented as a significant contribution to the popular libertarian movement today, as ever, must take tough battles, not only because of the possibility of historical memory to have a truer picture of himself, but to reconstitute themselves as a historical force to forge a definitive alternative to capitalist barbarism that today as in times of Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engel, Louis Lingg and Adolf Fischer, all of them martyrs the struggle of the workers, no longer drag an untenable situation and we forced to seek a revolutionary and definitive.
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