A-Infos (en) International anarchist communist statement: MAY DAY 2008 [it]

MAY DAY 2008 - Towards a new international movement of the exploited,
Against neo-liberalism, against war, against hunger and poverty,
For peace, food and housing for all, for safe and secure jobs,
Towards the libertarian alternative!
A harsh reaction has been unleashed by States around the world against the cycle 
of social, labour and political struggles which have been carried on by the 
movements of opposition to neo-liberalism since the late 20th century, with a 
consequent general worsening of living conditions for millions of proletarians 
who are increasingly enslaved by capitalist exploitation.

In every country, the primacy of finance as the motor of the economy, with its 
lethal rules based on interest rate increases, credit clampdowns and social 
dumping, is provoking a grave crisis. Its results can be seen in millions of 
families falling further into debt and impoverishment and losing their homes and 
their economic security. The workforce is being concentrated into more intensive 
and highly flexibilized units of exploitation in order to strengthen supply and 
competition in macro-economic areas (EU enlargement, the re-launch of Mercosur 
and ASEAN, the WTO crisis, etc.). The concentration of production into 
monopolies on an international basis (motor industry, energy, 
telecommunications, agro-chemical/pharmaceuticals, etc.) is destroying social 
wealth and jobs and producing a food crisis without precedent.. Economic 
development is tending to create a neuron-like network of privileged sites and 
related corridors of capital and raw materials around
  which public and private investment can coagulate, thereby impoverishing the 
large areas in between. And the background to all this is the state of endemic 
war generated by the USA for control over the system of imperialist 
dependencies, the increasing use of militarism and nationalism (and all its 
religious and ethnic varieties) in order to control/de-stabilize an area which 
goes from the Middle East throughout Asia and Africa and to destroy the autonomy 
of the exploited classes by forcing them to side with a particular State, 
religion or elite to whom they entrust their present and future destiny of 
exploitation.

In this difficult situation, the social, labour and political struggles of the 
proletariat in every country are seeking to resist the various forms of 
capitalist exploitation and the harsh repression that the States have unleashed, 
making it increasingly evident that today we need to:

* ensure the total independence of all mass struggles and movements from all 
political and economic institutions (no State, government or market has any 
interest in fighting neo-liberalism);

* demand peace, so that it can the cradle for the re-emergence of civil society 
and allow the development of struggles for the emancipation of today's 
downtrodden classes;

* work to rebuild the autonomy and the role of the exploited classes, the 
defence and reconstruction of their free and independent organizations, as a 
condition and indispensable factor in the struggles against neo-liberalism and 
war in every country of the world.

Anarchist Communist and Libertarian Communist organizations support, promote and 
assist every initiative aimed at rebuilding a large international movement

* against neo-liberalism, denouncing the crimes of exploitation and bringing 
solidarity to proletarian organizations and local movements fighting against 
local or foreign bourgeois aggression;

* against war, demanding ceasefires, demilitarization and disarming by every 
State and ethnic or religious elite, who are united in their contempt for the 
lives of proletarians;

a great international movement whose heart and whose base lie in the grassroots 
social, labour, cultural, political and anti-militarist organizations, and also 
in their ability to federalize the struggles that develop, on a national and 
international level.

To that end, we support:

* the horizontal creation of networks, coalitions and forums inspired by the 
practice of self-organization, self-management and direct action, which 
represent the collective capacity for acting against the contradictions and 
violence of neo-liberalism and develop the greatest possible international 
solidarity;

* all efforts to contribute to the development of the international 
class-struggle anarchist movement, by supporting its political networks and its 
capacity for social insertion in the struggles and struggle fronts in support of 
popular power, so that we can spread the anarchist communist project and put the 
libertarian alternative into practice.

1 May 2008

FEDERAZIONE DEI COMUNISTI ANARCHICI (Italy)
WORKERS SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT (Ireland)
ZABALAZA ANARCHIST COMMUNIST FRONT (South Africa)


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