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Friday April 30, 2010 20:24 by Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group - MACG macg1984 at yahoo dot com dot au PO Box 2120, Lygon St North, East Brunswick, Victoria 3057, Australia
May Day statement On May Day, we put forward our alternative. It is libertarian communism, a society without governments or bosses. A society of peace and freedom, of justice and equality. We can build a new world. It is the only way out of the irrational, unjust and unsustainable one we live in today. [中文] [Ελληνικά] [العربية] [Castellano] No Capitalism Without CrisisOn May Day, we put forward our alternative. It is libertarian communism, a society without governments or bosses. A society of peace and freedom, of justice and equality. We can build a new world. It is the only way out of the irrational, unjust and unsustainable one we live in today. OriginsIn Chicago in 1886, anarchist union organisers were framed for the death of police killed by a bomb which exploded at a workers' rally on 4 May. Convicted in a farce of a trial, four were executed and one committed suicide the day before to avoid sharing that fate. Years later, all were exonerated. The campaign for justice for the Haymarket Martyrs grew into an international movement for commemorating May Day as building the unity of workers around the world.The Recovery We Had to Have120 years later, world capitalism fell into a crisis bigger than any since the Depression. Starting in the U.S. real estate market, then spreading to financial markets there and in Europe, and finally choking off trade and investment patterns worldwide, fear of bad debts laid low great corporations and whole nations. Governments around the world responded with massive stimulus packages, racking up huge debts to do so. Weak recoveries are now underway in the U.S. and Europe, while Asia and Australia are returning to what appears like normality. Here in Australia, though, “normal” means housing being priced out of workers' reach by landlords, racist scapegoating of refugees, junking of action on climate change, and grave warnings against workers' wage rises.You Ain't Seen Nothin' YetThe current recovery, however, merely sets the scene for a new crisis. The public finances of the U.S. and Europe are ruined. Greece has already reached the limit of its credit and several other countries are close behind. Meanwhile the boom in China, now the workshop of the world, has unsustainable imbalances. When the insane real estate bubble pops and the badly-planned infrastructure has to be written off, China will drag the world economy to a shivering halt. And the capitalist governments will not have the ability to finance another round of stimulus. The next crisis, when it eventually arrives, promises to be worse.Workers of the World, Unite!Around the world, workers have the same enemies. Everywhere, bosses exploit and oppress us. Everywhere, we live in societies vulnerable to irrational crises. The bosses want us to believe we have to make sacrifices to “save” the economy of whatever country we are in. Whether it is in Australia, China, Greece or the United States, this is a lie. The bosses' recipe is just a race to the bottom. Around the world, workers are on the same side. We can unite to fight back against exploitation, unemployment, environmental destruction and all forms of oppression. On May Day, we put forward our alternative. It is libertarian communism, a society without governments or bosses. A society of peace and freedom, of justice and equality. We can build a new world. It is the only way out of the irrational, unjust and unsustainable one we live in today.Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group1 May 2010 |
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Contre la guerre au Kurdistan irakien, contre la traîtrise du PDK Meurtre de Clément Méric : l’enjeu politique du procès en appel International | Workplace struggles | Press Release | en Fri 19 Apr, 15:18 May Day 2023 14:08 Mon 01 May 3 comments No government can save us. Only the working class free itself. We need to make a revolution. We need to overthrow capitalism and build libertarian communism, worldwide. For this, the labour movement needs to be built anew. We need to organise in the workplace and rebuild our unions from the ground up. We need rank and file control. The practices by which we build our movement will be the ones that form the basis of the new society. May Day 2022 19:17 Sun 01 May 2 comments The crisis of capitalism won’t resolve itself. No government can save us. Only the working class can end it for the better. We need to make a revolution. We need to overthrow capitalism and build libertarian communism, worldwide. For this, the labour movement needs to be built anew. We need to organise in the workplace and rebuild our unions from the ground up. We need direct democratic control, with delegates held to mandates, and a consistent federalist structure. The practices by which we build our movement will be the ones that form the basis of the new society. And we need to do it now, because time is short. Statement on International Workers Day 2021 05:40 Sun 02 May 0 comments The yearnings for justice and freedom of the Chicago Martyrs will roam the streets again this coming May Day, together along the oppressed of the world, in their struggle for a better future. Their dreams live on in the struggle of all people, all across the globe, for bread and dignity, but also for a fully egalitarian and fair society. May Day 2021 07:28 Sat 01 May 0 comments Capitalism in 2021 still hasn’t defeated the coronavirus pandemic and the downward trend in wage rises in advanced countries hasn’t changed. Social inequality continues to increase, while racism and misogyny are entrenched state policy. In many countries, capitalist democracy is crumbling. The radical workers’ movement which is being born is still young and weak, but the material conditions are helping it develop. This workers’ movement needs to unite internationally in order to overthrow capitalism and end all oppression worldwide. Anarchists need to be part of this movement, for it is our home. May Day 2020 18:55 Fri 01 May 0 comments The struggle against the coronavirus pandemic is one that can only be won by an act of unprecedented human solidarity. Through that act the values of a new world can be born. But turning those values into reality requires the working class. Only the working class: global, multi- racial, multicultural and gender diverse, has the potential strength to uproot the power of capital at its source and steer a new course. We can start by defending health and safety for all workers and by fighting for adequate resources for the health care system. We can extend the struggle by defending civil liberties and opposing austerity. And we can culminate it with a revolution to overthrow capitalism and create libertarian communism, worldwide. May Day 2018 15:49 Tue 01 May 0 comments This statement was distributed at noon on May Day at the 8 Hour Monument in Melbourne May Day 2017 09:56 Mon 01 May 0 comments On May Day we commemorate the past, but we also look to the future. There is no reason to be confident in capitalist economic recovery. There are many reasons to struggle against the horrors of oppression, unemployment, environmental devastation and war that capitalism dishes up. Workers can solve these problems for good. We can make a revolution and, as we do, the mass democratic workers' organisations we create will be the basis of the new society, worldwide. In this new society, each will contribute according to their ability and each receive according to their need. We will have no need of a State apparatus to enforce the dictates of a privileged elite. We will live a life of peace, freedom and equality. We have nothing to lose but our chains. Union organizations from Africa, America, Asia and Europe meet in Paris 20:02 Fri 22 Mar 0 comments The Confederación General del Trabajo (Spain), the Union Syndicale Solidaires (France) and the Central Sindical e Popular Conlutas (Brazil) have extended an international invitation to all organizations that consider themselves part of the combative trade union movement and see the need for social transformation to an international trade union meeting to be held in Paris from 22 to 24 March in order to work towards the coordination of alternative trade-unionism on an international level. [Castellano] Occupy London Ontario Callout for Anti Capitalist Boc 10:58 Sat 14 Jan 0 comments http://linchpin.ca/English/Occupy-London-Ontario-Callou...t-Boc May Day 19:42 Sun 01 May 0 comments Leaflet of Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG) distributed at todays May Day rally and events in Melbourne. more >>Chinese Workers Fight Back Jan 21 3 comments The working class of Australia has no interest in a war against Chinese workers and Chinese workers have no interest in a war with us. Militarization and war is a ruling class game. We have far more in common with each other than either of us do with the ruling classes of our countries. And just as so many Chinese workers (under much harsher conditions than our own) have had the bravery to fight the bosses and politicians who exploit and oppress them, rather than embrace a nationalist fight against ‘foreign forces’, we should also recognise that our main enemy is here at home. They manage our workplaces and make our laws. The only war worth fighting is the class war against them. (DE/ENG) India: biggest general strike in human history Jan 11 0 comments January 8, 2020 will go down in the history books as the world’s largest 24-hour general strike to date. In India, more than 250 million workers went on strike during the general strike or “Bharat Bandh”, which was joined by ten major unions as well as a number of independent associations. Associations organising bank employees, farmers and teachers, but also the student movement played a leading role. The electricity supply was also affected, with up to 1.5 million people going on strike in the power stations. The same applies to local and long-distance public transport. Across the country there were also rail blockades. Education for revolution: Anarcho-syndicalist pedagogy for South Africa Nov 21 5 comments Mandy Moussouris and Shawn Hattingh explain the roots and principles of anarcho-syndicalism and what these mean for the practice of worker education in movements inspired by these principles and traditions. Emphasising the democratic practice, working class rooted, organic and critical nature of the pedagogy, they explain that the practice seeks to intersect employed and unemployed women and men. Practically, the education provides a platform for post-revolutionary practice of direct democracy at the point of production and, thus, naturally included practical skills such as trades, accounting and sciences. The people’s movement desperately needs working class solidarity Jan 06 0 comments This article is about the lack of working class’ support to the people’s movement. It analyses the current situation that surrounds working class and the factors that may contribute in weakening it almost everywhere. In the meantime the article considers the rule of working class as essential and crucial in prevailing any movement or any uprising. From union renewal to a self-managed society Dec 13 0 comments Trade union renewal is essential but should not be reduced to democratising structures or new recruitment methods. Renewal should centre on a bottom-up movement based on rank-and-file reform movements, and the direct action of workers as a precondition for radical redistribution of power and wealth to workers, community assemblies and councils in a self-managed, egalitarian order based on participatory planning and distribution by need. It must be rooted in an anarcho-syndicalist understanding that unions can profoundly change society. more >>May Day 2023 May 01 Anarkismo 3 comments No government can save us. Only the working class free itself. We need to make a revolution. We need to overthrow capitalism and build libertarian communism, worldwide. For this, the labour movement needs to be built anew. We need to organise in the workplace and rebuild our unions from the ground up. We need rank and file control. The practices by which we build our movement will be the ones that form the basis of the new society. May Day 2022 May 01 Anarkismo 2 comments The crisis of capitalism won’t resolve itself. No government can save us. Only the working class can end it for the better. We need to make a revolution. We need to overthrow capitalism and build libertarian communism, worldwide. For this, the labour movement needs to be built anew. We need to organise in the workplace and rebuild our unions from the ground up. We need direct democratic control, with delegates held to mandates, and a consistent federalist structure. The practices by which we build our movement will be the ones that form the basis of the new society. And we need to do it now, because time is short. Statement on International Workers Day 2021 May 02 1 of Anarkismo Editorial Group 0 comments The yearnings for justice and freedom of the Chicago Martyrs will roam the streets again this coming May Day, together along the oppressed of the world, in their struggle for a better future. Their dreams live on in the struggle of all people, all across the globe, for bread and dignity, but also for a fully egalitarian and fair society. May Day 2021 May 01 Anarkismo 0 comments Capitalism in 2021 still hasn’t defeated the coronavirus pandemic and the downward trend in wage rises in advanced countries hasn’t changed. Social inequality continues to increase, while racism and misogyny are entrenched state policy. In many countries, capitalist democracy is crumbling. The radical workers’ movement which is being born is still young and weak, but the material conditions are helping it develop. This workers’ movement needs to unite internationally in order to overthrow capitalism and end all oppression worldwide. Anarchists need to be part of this movement, for it is our home. May Day 2020 May 01 Anarkismo Editorial Group 0 comments The struggle against the coronavirus pandemic is one that can only be won by an act of unprecedented human solidarity. Through that act the values of a new world can be born. But turning those values into reality requires the working class. Only the working class: global, multi- racial, multicultural and gender diverse, has the potential strength to uproot the power of capital at its source and steer a new course. We can start by defending health and safety for all workers and by fighting for adequate resources for the health care system. We can extend the struggle by defending civil liberties and opposing austerity. And we can culminate it with a revolution to overthrow capitalism and create libertarian communism, worldwide. more >> |
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