May 1st is International Workers Day, a historic day of struggle born of
the blood of revolutionary anarchist martyrs of the Haymarket Affair,who gave their lives as part of a mass movement in the US against the
rapacious exploitation wrought by the capitalist system and the violence
of the state that preserves and protects it. ---- These revolutionary
martyrs envisioned a world free not only from capitalism and the state,
but free from all forms of domination. Their memory inspires each
successive generation all over the globe to commit to revolutionary
social transformation. Once more we return to their memory in an effort
to steel ourselves for the immediate struggles in which we are involved
and through which we are constructing the popular power necessary to
achieve our broader aim: social revolution.
This year, as the Israeli state continues to prosecute its genocidal war
against the Palestinian people, we heed and amplify the call of the
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU-Gaza) to take
substantive-not simply symbolic-action in opposition to the United
States' ongoing support and arming of the Israeli state. Members of
Black Rose/Rosa Negra, including those in and outside of unions, have
continued to organize in their workplaces to realize concrete solidarity
with the Palestinian people. On this May Day we commit to redoubling
these efforts.
In recent weeks a massive wave of student organizing has taken center
stage across US college and university campuses. Students have
undertaken encampments, building occupations, marches, and other
activities to demand and pressure the divestment of their institutions
from the infrastructure of death that facilitates the mass murder of
Palestinians. Now, seven months into the genocidal war waged by Israel,
there is not a single college or university left standing in Gaza.
While many US students clearly recognize that the people of Palestine
are being systematically destroyed, the same can not be said of the
politicians and university bosses who have mobilized brutal state and
private security forces to attack the student movement. Our own
members-among them students, faculty, and university staff-have suffered
in these attacks, but remain unmoved in their commitment to
international solidarity.
On this May Day we call on others to join together with the student
movement and to expand its scope. Internationalism is nothing if it is
not vigorous and material.
For the liberation of Palestine!
For popular power!
For libertarian socialism!
Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN)
https://blackrosefed.org/may-day-2024/
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