A-Infos (en) Brazil, CAB: MAY 1ST: WORK LESS, WORK FOR ALL, DISTRIBUTE EVERYTHING (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

May 1st is International Workers' Day, not "Labor Day." This date 
originates from the General Strike held in 1886 in Chicago, USA, which 
fought for a reduction in working hours. The repression suffered by the 
workers, with the imprisonment and death of eight anarchist martyrs, was 
felt by the working class worldwide and gave rise to this important date 
for the labor movement.

The reduction of working hours is a struggle as old as the lies of the 
bosses!

Workers, make no mistake: if the boss could, he would keep us trapped in 
the workplace and pay the most miserable wage possible. If today we are 
not subjected to 14-hour workdays, if we ensure that most children do 
not need to work, or if we have retirement benefits, it has never been 
due to the goodwill of capitalists or the government. It was because we 
instilled fear in those at the top through our struggle, strikes, 
pickets, and mobilizations!

Even so, before giving in, they always invented lies to create fear 
about our rights. Since the end of slavery, newspapers have said that 
change is impossible because the economy would collapse. They said the 
same when the 13th-month salary or the 44-hour work week was created. 
Currently, they repeat the same discourse when we demand the immediate 
reduction of the work week to 30 hours without a reduction in wages.

End of the 6x1 schedule and the fight doesn't stop there!

The campaign to end the 6x1 schedule, due to its impact and enormous 
popular support, is the main struggle of workers today, but it cannot be 
the only one. After the 2017 Labor Reform, we have seen a huge increase 
in intermittent contracts, mainly in commerce and outsourced services. 
Another way to circumvent labor rights is the rise of "pejotização" (the 
practice of forcing workers to become self-employed contractors), where 
workers are forced to operate as micro-entrepreneurs to find employment. 
It is necessary to denounce the role of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), 
which has been issuing decisions favorable to employers in all cases of 
labor rights flexibilization!

Furthermore, today almost 40% of the working class is in the informal 
sector, self-employed, surviving on odd jobs, or competing in the 
barbaric market with small businesses and services with family support, 
or subordinated to platforms as delivery drivers and app-based drivers. 
The Brazilian unemployment rate is masked by this large and varied group 
of informal workers who have no time to rest and no rights to work.

In the struggle for some free time for rest or leisure, women are in a 
worse situation, overburdened by still accumulating, in the vast 
majority of cases, domestic work, childcare, and elder care. At the same 
time, those who occupy the majority of precarious jobs, whether on a 6x1 
schedule, in the informal sector, or on platforms, are Black people, 
women, and the LGBT+ population. This is why the union and working-class 
struggle is an inseparable part of the Black and feminist struggle!

Fight and conquer with strikes, pickets, marches, and occupations!

Just as it happened back in 1886, we are here in the streets in 2026 
fighting in defense of workers, wanting to guarantee more free time to 
rest and enjoy life.

We demand:

Immediate end to the 6x1 schedule and establishment of a common 30-hour 
work week for all categories.

Minimum wage in accordance with DIEESE (Inter-Union Department of 
Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies) and with an annual real increase.

Political autonomy of grassroots workers' organizations, against the 
criminalization of unions and for the maintenance of the right to strike
Repeal of the labor reform, the pension reform, the administrative 
reform and the BPC reform
Reduction of the minimum retirement age, recognizing care and domestic 
work time as worked time
Expansion of public service exams in all areas, defense of the stability 
of public servants, expansion of formal employment with signed contracts 
and labor rights
Therefore, on this May Day, we present ourselves not only as an 
organization that takes to the streets, but as an organization for 
everyday life, an alternative for each worker to stand shoulder to 
shoulder in the fight for a dignified life. We remember the Chicago 
Martyrs to raise our banners and affirm that we demand to work less to 
live more, we demand better wages so that we do not live in misery, we 
demand an end to intermittent work and the flexibilization of our rights 
and we will wrest each of these rights with the historical methods of 
the working class: strikes, pickets, marches and occupations!

FOR THE END OF THE 6X1 WORK SCHEDULE WITHOUT SALARY REDUCTION!

LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF THE CHICAGO MARTYRS!

LONG LIVE EVERY WORKER WHO RISES UP!

Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (CAB)

https://cabanarquista.com.br/1o-de-maio-trabalhar-menos-trabalhar-todos-distribuir-tudo/
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