A-Infos (en) Spaine, Regeneracion - Our only war is the class war -- Organization and struggle; past, present, and future. By REGENERATION EDITORIAL STAFF (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Today, May 1st, marks 140 years since hundreds of thousands of American 
women workers went on strike to fight for the eight-hour workday. They 
succeeded. The still-young working class, bolstered by the tireless 
efforts of communist and anarchist activists, forged in decades of 
struggle, sharpened its weapons and showed the entire world what it was 
capable of. ---- The bourgeoisie, naturally, was not going to remain 
silent: three days later, in Chicago, the police would open fire 
indiscriminately on protesting workers; the bourgeois press would 
slander the strikers and incite repression; and a rigged trial would 
result in the execution of anarchist activists. The bourgeoisie 
responded with everything it had, and it wasn't enough.

Despite the barbarity, despite a capital now unmasked, willing to use 
every means at its disposal to conquer, devastate, and exterminate, the 
working class of yesterday demonstrated its power as a social force.

The bourgeoisie could do little against a self-aware class that managed 
to prevail and impose the eight-hour workday. That victory is our legacy.

Two centuries later, this May Day, we renew the commitment of all those 
who fought for the dignity of the working class. Today more than ever, 
with our class in the process of reorganization, searching for its path, 
we remember and embrace the history of all those who dedicated their 
efforts, and sometimes even their lives, to the struggle of all.

Because, although the forms change, the oppression against our class 
continues. We discover it in our lives, increasingly precarious and 
insecure, forced to exist in a system that jeopardizes the possibility 
of accessing decent housing, of making ends meet despite having a job. 
Naming it is the first step in confronting it.

Once again, we denounce labor exploitation, working conditions that make 
us physically and psychologically ill, wages insufficient to cover basic 
needs, precarious contracts, and the growing difficulty of balancing 
work with rest and our personal lives; a situation that particularly 
affects the most vulnerable sectors of our class.

Against the rise of the far right and against fascism, which infiltrates 
society through fear, disillusionment, and the feeling that nothing 
makes sense. It dissolves in the internet and crystallizes in the 
institutions of the bourgeois state to defend the interests of those who 
are truly its masters: the capitalists. Against the fear that paralyzes, 
we oppose the organization that liberates.

Our class is not homogeneous. We live under the weight of various forms 
of oppression and violence that are intrinsic to and sustain capitalism, 
such as colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and discrimination 
against sexual and gender minorities. Unity is not a given; we build it 
day by day, adding up the struggles and marginalized working-class 
people. Every addition is a victory.

We are internationalists and, therefore, we have a global understanding 
of capitalism, which leads to solidarity with oppressed peoples. Borders 
are nothing more than instruments of class. We reject all the 
institutions of the bourgeois state created for its defense, from 
immigration detention centers to Frontex.

We promote a class-based interpretation of environmentalism, denouncing 
the plundering and destruction of our resources, economic 
neocolonialism, and the devastation of the land caused by capitalist 
accumulation and the false theory of infinite growth.

The climate and energy crisis, exacerbated by unequal distribution, must 
be understood within this framework. It will be the working class, 
especially those in the Global South, who pay with their blood for the 
consequences of the struggle for resources and with their livelihoods 
for the consequences of droughts and storms.

Against imperialist rearmament, war, and genocide, waged to defend the 
interests of the Western capitalist class, which has been ravaging the 
Global South for years. Capitalist, imperialist, and criminal wars that 
claim the lives of the working class in defense of the interests of a 
few who will never experience the harrowing reality of setting foot in a 
war zone. Our solidarity knows no borders because neither does our 
struggle. No war between peoples, no peace between classes.

The working class is going through a period of recomposition. Without a 
revolutionary political program, it is condemned to a struggle of 
resistance, where victory is not progress, but rather halting the 
erosion of the victories we won yesterday. It is held back by unions 
controlled by and for capital, which limit and betray its struggles.

The end of history has not yet arrived, nor, much less, the end of the 
history of our class. Sprouts of hope still sprout where others see only 
silence. Every assembly called, every strike sustained, every comrade 
who takes a step forward carries within her the potential for a crack 
that might just bring down the wall.

Today we are given the opportunity to reorganize and build a strong 
revolutionary and libertarian organization, capable of confronting 
bureaucracies, opportunistic or authoritarian deviations. An 
organization that not only resists, but also brings us closer to the 
world we want: horizontal, based on solidarity, alive.

We are not starting from scratch. We are starting from 140 years of 
hard-won struggles, from memories that sustain us, from comrades who 
came before us and believed it was possible, and were right. The only 
path we have as a class is revolution.

Today, yesterday, and tomorrow, our war is one and the same: the class war.

Batzac - Hedra - Liza - Xesta - Embat

https://regeneracionlibertaria.org/2026/05/01/nuestra-unica-guerra-es-la-guerra-de-clases/
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