A-Infos (en) US, BRRN: Statement: May Day 2026 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

140 years ago the state hanged anarchist workers, the majority of them 
migrants, in Chicago for daring to organize and fight. Albert Parsons, 
August Spies, George Engel, and Adolph Fischer were killed not for any 
crime, but for the threat they posed as organizers of a multiracial, 
internationalist working class capable of shutting down the machinery of 
capital and state. Through their martyrdom May 1st was remade as May 
Day, a holiday for the global working class to reflect and recommit 
ourselves to the struggle for total liberation.

Standing in front of the gravesite of the Haymarket Martyrs, members and 
supporters of Black Rose/Rosa Negra in Chicago hold a banner that reads 
"May Day, today, everyday: Honor our martyrs, fight for the living!"
The same logic of domination that sent these men to the gallows fills 
the state's migrant concentration camps today. Seventy thousand people 
are caged by ICE across the country. Our responsibility to our class 
siblings, regardless of their nationality, is to act in solidarity 
against our common enemy and for our shared aspiration for freedom. This 
notion terrifies the state, undermining its ability to pit the working 
class against itself through the deceit of its self-serving nationalism. 
A recent episode in North Texas demonstrates this clearly: a group who 
stood in solidarity with migrants inside of the Prairieland Detention 
Center have been convicted as criminals and terrorists. Their brave 
actions speak clearly and forcefully: The working class has no borders. 
La clase obrera no tiene fronteras.

Elsewhere in the world, state violence takes a different form. Since 
February 28, U.S. and Israeli bombs have fallen on Iran and Lebanon, on 
hospitals, schools, cultural sites, and civilians. This is not defense 
but imperial conquest. The same government terrorizing immigrant workers 
at home is killing working people abroad. To this horror we say: No war 
but class war. Ninguna guerra salvo la guerra de clases.

Millions of people have started to recognize what we would need to fight 
back: a general strike. The mass shutdown in Minneapolis this January 
shows us we can get there by organizing towards it in our everyday 
lives. Organize a workplace committee. Build a tenant union. Link arms 
with your neighbors to blockade ICE. Do not wait for union leadership, 
elected officials, or a better political moment. Organize with those 
around you, today. You are the union. A militant minority that acts can 
help build the popular power that makes larger action possible. Building 
a critical mass of working class organizations creates the popular power 
that will bring about social revolution.

Build popular power!
For libertarian socialism!
For a world without borders, bosses, or bombs!

Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation - Labor Committee

https://www.blackrosefed.org/statement-may-day-2026/
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