Post by account_disabled on Feb 21, 2024 23:31:58 GMT -7
To remember the history of May 1, the unions, like every year, have called for demonstrations and rallies in streets and squares - on the 132nd anniversary of their first celebration -, where they will make known their current demands. Indeed, since 1890, unions in the world have been honoring the martyrs of Chicago , in accordance with the resolution approved by the International Workers' Congress held the previous year in Paris (1889), in which Pablo Iglesias and José Mesa participated as Spanish delegates. Years before, on May 1, 1886, the strike had broken out in the USA for the eight-hour day (eight hours of work, eight hours of rest and eight hours of leisure). More than 5,000 factories stopped and 340,000 workers took to the streets to defend their rights and fight against truly inhumane conditions (the work of women and children was frequent and endless work days of to.
Hours), where misery , exploitation and brutal repression were commonplace among the working classes. In Chicago, in Haymarket Square , on May 4 of that same year, the demonstrators protesting against this situation were massacred (38 workers dead, 115 injured and 6 police officers dead) and, what was more serious, 4 of their leaders were hanged a year later, despite the Costa Rica WhatsApp Number strong popular mobilizations called. One of the jurors, when the innocence of the accused was proven to him, confessed: “We will hang them anyway. “They are men who are too self-sacrificing, too intelligent and too dangerous for our privileges.” The most scandalous thing about the entire process is that they were later declared “innocent victims of a miscarriage of justice” in a trial held later in 1893 ( History of May 1. Maurice Dommanget). The May 1 celebrations were emblematic at that time and caused horror to the bourgeoisie , not so much because of the number of participants, but because those red flags , those worker leaders, those masses, broke the altarpiece, the organization of the State, the molds , the way of being on the political stage... More specifically, May 1 represented the mobilization of a social class against the bourgeoisie ( the class struggle ), which was summarized in the slogan: "another policy is necessary.
The demand and fight for eight hours lasted decades; despite the fact that May 1 was forgotten, deliberately hidden and devoid of all social content in some countries and, in some, it was even prohibited (among them Spain, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, where said date was transformed into a simple holiday religious character: “San José Artesano”). For this reason, in Spain we had to wait until 1978 to legally celebrate May 1 in defense of various basic demands, including the consolidation of freedoms (political and union) and the defense of democracy. May Day is freedom Therefore, only by keeping in mind what has been happening in the last 132 years does this May 1st as International Workers' Day acquire total significance ; which, therefore, fully reaffirms the essential unity of the working class (“workers of the world unite”) as the most effective and supportive instrument to combat the brutal exploitation of man by man in a globalized world that has generated a new subproletariat: immigrants, refugees, homeless, unsheltered, victims of sexual exploitation, domestic workers, false self-employed, very low-paid workers in the informal economy.
Hours), where misery , exploitation and brutal repression were commonplace among the working classes. In Chicago, in Haymarket Square , on May 4 of that same year, the demonstrators protesting against this situation were massacred (38 workers dead, 115 injured and 6 police officers dead) and, what was more serious, 4 of their leaders were hanged a year later, despite the Costa Rica WhatsApp Number strong popular mobilizations called. One of the jurors, when the innocence of the accused was proven to him, confessed: “We will hang them anyway. “They are men who are too self-sacrificing, too intelligent and too dangerous for our privileges.” The most scandalous thing about the entire process is that they were later declared “innocent victims of a miscarriage of justice” in a trial held later in 1893 ( History of May 1. Maurice Dommanget). The May 1 celebrations were emblematic at that time and caused horror to the bourgeoisie , not so much because of the number of participants, but because those red flags , those worker leaders, those masses, broke the altarpiece, the organization of the State, the molds , the way of being on the political stage... More specifically, May 1 represented the mobilization of a social class against the bourgeoisie ( the class struggle ), which was summarized in the slogan: "another policy is necessary.
The demand and fight for eight hours lasted decades; despite the fact that May 1 was forgotten, deliberately hidden and devoid of all social content in some countries and, in some, it was even prohibited (among them Spain, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, where said date was transformed into a simple holiday religious character: “San José Artesano”). For this reason, in Spain we had to wait until 1978 to legally celebrate May 1 in defense of various basic demands, including the consolidation of freedoms (political and union) and the defense of democracy. May Day is freedom Therefore, only by keeping in mind what has been happening in the last 132 years does this May 1st as International Workers' Day acquire total significance ; which, therefore, fully reaffirms the essential unity of the working class (“workers of the world unite”) as the most effective and supportive instrument to combat the brutal exploitation of man by man in a globalized world that has generated a new subproletariat: immigrants, refugees, homeless, unsheltered, victims of sexual exploitation, domestic workers, false self-employed, very low-paid workers in the informal economy.