WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, FDCA, Il Cantiere n. 17 - Long live May 1 - Day of struggle and celebration - Carmine Valente (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 May 1st, like many other anniversaries, has partially lost the link with the

facts and events that led to it. But as happens with other holidays, May 1st is
also lived with deep participation, becoming in fact a moment of conviviality and
reconstruction, albeit momentary, of the community. ---- So even May 1st doesn't
slip away like any other day. ---- For many, yesterday as today, May 1 remains a
day of struggle. ---- Day in which workers in the world once again make their
voices heard against the exploitation and annihilation of freedom, which still
represents the characteristics of today's societies in a different guise. ----
But May 1st is also a day of celebration, a celebration because no one has given
us this day, neither kings, nor governments, nor parliaments.
Celebration because it is the day in which the international proletariat
recognizes itself as a community of solidarity, in which it recognizes that it
has common interests. Party because the values of freedom, equality and
solidarity are positive values, inclusive values and therefore values of joy.
This community of solidarity is open to all, it does not create barriers, it has
no racial or religious prejudices, everyone can be recognized within it as long
as privileges are abandoned and the cause of freedom and equality is embraced.
These values, which are the founding values of anarchism, were those which those
union militants of anarchist orientation, leaders of the movement for the
eight-hour day, propagated with tenacity and passion.
And it was precisely the vast consensus that was determined around these social
agitators in Chicago, the city in which the movement developed, that brought them
to the gallows.
We want to remember one of these men, Albert Parson who, like the others
sentenced to death, wrote his own autobiography for the "knights of Labor" magazine.
Albert's life, through his story, is a little jewel that shows us how
materialistically proceeds his awareness of the reality that surrounds him. Still
a teenager, at the age of 13 we find him fighting for the confederal states of
the South, up, through the path of life, to being a brilliant orator and
political and union agitator in the ranks of anarchism. Albert is the only Native
American among those convicted of the Haymarket events in Chicago, the others
were German immigrants. This greatly affected the outcome of the trial. As in
other historical moments, and one cannot fail to think of our Sacco and Vanzetti,
the class hatred of the capitalists was fed and merged with profound chauvinist
sentiments.
It is this story, for the first time in Italian, that we have published and that
we dedicate to all those comrades who are fighting for a perspective of change in
society in which equality is combined with freedom.
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