Proletarian agitation against capitalism
Neither for democracy nor for any State
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It’s widely known that May Day has become just another date in the calendar of State holydays, where we are encouraged to celebrate “Labor Day” through obsolete parades and ceremonies led by professional demagogues – politicians and trade unionists – spouting deliquescent bullshit from their tribunes. However, although our class enemy – the bourgeoisie – has succeeded in distorting and institutionalizing the significance of this important date for the international working class, it doesn’t mean that it has succeeded in suppressing the spirit of the 1886 Haymarket Revolt.
The specter of communism, the old mole, re-emerges each time the proletariat takes to the streets to confront Capital’s order. Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Iran, Hong Kong, Kenya, Greece… these are just a few examples of the militancy shown by our class in recent years. This is the seed of what is just beginning, but capitalism and its democracy for obvious reasons will not allow us to defeat them, so they will immediately repress us with laws to silence us and more and more professionalized repressive bodies, all with the purpose of keeping us as citizens, docile automatons respectful of the laws and their morals, to be functional and useful for them.
Today the bourgeoisie, through its left- and right-wing factions, seeks to mystify us so that we take sides in “a cultural battle between globalists and nationalists”, but this battle is nothing but a fallacy, a false antagonism, a dead end, an ideology lane that serves to frame us in the defense of capitalism’s interests. Whether it’s defending a nation, fighting to die in its wars, demanding reforms, going to the polls or assimilating false progressive alternatives to “make this system more inclusive”… thus forgetting our genuine historical interests. Let’s not be mistaken! The only struggle that concerns the proletariat is the struggle class against class, against our long-standing enemies: the capitalist system sustained by the State, the homeland, democracy, wage labor, money and commodity.
In the end, all the capitalists will urge those of us who live in misery (workers or unemployed) to unite and sacrifice in the name of progress and economic development, because – they say – “it will benefit us all equally”. But we know beforehand that this progress and development that so obsess the bourgeoisie only means more accumulation of capital in their bank accounts; whereas for us it only means more rot and shit: more precariousness, more exploitation, more gentrification, more expropriation, more segregation, more uncertainty… and in the worst cases, being massacred in wars, as in Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan or Congo.
There’s no point in taking pride in “labor rights and social gains obtained through struggle” if a mode of production remains in force that can afford to reduce or take away those “rights and gains” whenever it’s convenient for its functioning. With each crisis, austerity or readjustment, the bourgeoisie will implement plans to throw away everything we are supposed to have thanks to “legality”… That’s why continuing to bet on struggles under the flag of rights and “freedoms” that democratic institutions provide us, is to condemn ourselves to permanent failure and the worst possible defeat.
That’s why today more than ever, it’s essential to assume the perspective of world revolution, militating for the extension of proletarian struggles and the generalization of revolts all over the world… Getting involved and supporting the realization of the tasks implied by class struggle, in which the coordination of direct action, solidarity with the repressed, expropriations, the organization of collective canteens, the occupation of spaces for the needs of the struggle and mutual aid networks are indispensable.
Against all the usual opportunists and swindlers: let’s affirm our autonomy and rupture outside and against political parties and trade unions of all stripes. As proletarians, we must rely on our own forces and class instinct, reappropriating our historical memory and using the results and weapons of criticism. We must constantly agitate and struggle until we achieve our only historical program: the definitive overthrow of Capitalism and the State, giving way to a classless and moneyless human community.
Contra la Contra
We also recommend the compilation: May Day: Let’s reaffirm the proletarian rupture [in Spanish]
English translation: Los Amigos de la Guerra de Clases
