Mayday 2025. Some Thoughts.

From Organise! Magazine by Peter Ó'Máille

The International Workers' Day is for most people in Britain, just another holiday given to us from the government. For some it means you can nurse your hangover for another day, for others it means an annoying obligation to take the kids to Rhyl for the weekend.

Chile: Anarchist May 1st

From Buskando Lakalle (facebook)

In Santiago, territory occupied by the Chilean state, we received and spread.

Reclaiming the insurrectionary origins of May 1st. Bringing to the present our dead comrades of yesterday and today, expanding the memory far from historiography and victimhood. We invite you to this political day that positions itself from the confrontational sidewalk against Power from and for Anarchy.

Portland: May Day Reportback & Reflection

From Rose City Counter-Info
May 7, 2024

On May 1st in downtown Portland, 50-60 people gathered in a black bloc at the edge of the Palestine Solidarity March, which was comprised of several hundred people. Inspired by the combative student protests all over the country, our goal was simple: disrupt business as usual; bring the war home. There is no peace in genocide.

May Day 2024: Remembrance Through Action

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

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.

May Day

From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos

After a police raid, detentions, zip ties, the students running the nearest Palestine solidarity encampment started negotiating with the school administration. The result: they would be allowed to maintain their encampment overnight, but they would be fenced in, cops would control the entrance, and they had to kick out non-students

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