A-Infos (en) Czech, CAS:[2023]- Joint Statement of European Anarchist Organizations - Long Live Mayday! Long Live Anarachy (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Every first of May we commemorate the Chicago Strike of 1886 that 
culminated in the so called Haymarket Riots. The strike ended with 
thousands of workers being fired and many injured, the vast majority of 
them immigrants from Europe. This mass mobilisation was fought extremely 
hard by the authorities, who subsequently executed the five "Chicago 
Martyrs", trade unionists and anarchists militants.
Chicago was the starting point of a worldwide movement to win the 8-hour 
working day that lasted for decades. The working class achieved this 
goal thanks to the struggle, not thanks to the decisions of parliaments. 
Most of our rights are won through the offensive of the popular forces. 
It is when the struggle stops, that the correlation of forces changes, 
and the ruling class starts to cut rights.

For decades the ruling class of Europe as part of the imperialist core 
was able to secure basic standards of living for 'their' working class 
by colonial and imperialist exploitation of the global south with the 
aim to undermine resistance in their own backyard. Altough this 
exploitation and oppression continues to exist, we can see that even 
those standards of living are more and more under attack: Having to work 
more and more to get the same pay, seeing our living standards decrease 
through inflation or seeing our pensions cut or the retirement age 
increased. For some years now, we have been experiencing a process of 
dispossession of the working class that is accelerating due to the 
various crises that feed back on each other.

We have the post-pandemic production crisis, the energy crisis, the 
housing crisis, the crisis of increasing resource scarcity and the 
climate crisis. All of them will mark a time of change towards another 
kind of civilisation and all of them bring us new conflicts that can 
develop in the field of geopolitics. In this sense, we do not want to 
forget the terrible war in Ukraine, where the great world powers have 
been at each others throats for more than a year, producing death and 
devastation en masse.

Social anarchism understands that empowered peoples cannot expect 
substantial improvements in their lives through parliamentary struggle. 
On the contrary, in times of scarcity authoritarian monsters grow. 
Right-wing ideology pretends to use the diversity of the working class 
to single out groups to hate: immigrants, the LGTBI community, Romani 
and Sinto people or even feminism or environmentalism.

We cannot fail to point out that the libertarian communist movement will 
always be with oppressed people and social groups and that we believe 
that collective self-defence against authoritarianism is a means of 
building a better world, which necessarily involves diversity, 
fraternity between peoples and the construction of a free and socialist 
society. Anarchism is a permanent effort to generate emancipation from 
mass direct action, from diverse but federated and cohesive social 
struggles, building the correlation of forces that allows the radical 
changes we need.

We, the European libertarian communist organisations signing this 
communiqué, wish all the working class of Europe and the world a happy 
and militant May Day.

For the construction of popular power
Long live anarchy
Long live libertarian communism
Long live May Day
* Anarchist Communist Group (ACG) - Great Britain
* Alternativa Libertaria (AL) - Italy
* Die Platform - Germany
* Embat, Organització Llibertària de Catalunya - Catalonia, Spanish State
* Organisation Socialiste Libertaire (OSL) - Switzerland
* Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL) - France, Belgium and Switzerland

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32764
https://anarchiste.org/komunike-evropskych-anarchistickych-organizaci-k-prvnimu-maji/
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