Mayday Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Authoritarian Contingent

April 30th, Gather at 12 noon at Olympic and Broadway

Bring flags, banners, anti-authoritarian literature (in different languages, English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese), yourself and your friends

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Worldwide May 1st is recognized as International Worker's Day, a holiday that carries with it a history of class struggle, state repression, and resistance from the working class.

In 1886, 800,000 workers from all trades and factories throughout the US went on strike demanding the eight-hour workday. The Ruling class responded by sending out their lap-dog police forces, opening fire on picketers, and in the end, framing, railroading, and murdering eight anarchists in Chicago, known as the “Haymarket martyrs.”

In 1889, the American delegation attending the International Socialist congress in Paris proposed that May 1st be adopted as a workers' holiday. This was to commemorate working class struggle and the "Martyrdom of the Chicago Eight". This is where we find our history; this is Mayday!

The legacy of Mayday lives on to this day, with worldwide celebrations of resistance, direct action, and complete shut downs of factories, cities and whole regions. In the United States, the powers-that-be replaced the powerful workers holiday, with their own state-sanctioned event, otherwise known as “labor day”, in an attempt to once again control and regulate working people. We are taught to forget the significance and importance of this day because our bosses fear it; our bosses fear our power and our significant history. They fear our potential when we’re united and fighting in solidarity against their capitalist power structure and their entire way of life based on their greed. We will never forget and only struggle harder.

We realize that all forms of oppression are a result and stem from the systems of capitalism and imperialism. We’re united against capitalism, imperialism, authoritarianism and all its forms of degradation and bondage. From South Korea to Argentina, from Palestine to LA, we are building and we are resisting.

Although capitalists, racists and sexists don't like and even deny our
struggle, it will go on and grow. That's why on May 1st, the international day of
labour, we call for an anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian contingent at the
immigrant rights march organized by the MIWON Coalition.

We’re in solidarity with immigrants working in the garment district in downtown, day laborers in the fields, and those that have been attacked and assaulted by the racist Minute Men in Arizona. We passionately believe that no human being is illegal, and borders are just a product of the rich drawing lines between working people everywhere. We recognize that global capitalism forces people to leave their homelands in need of survival, which is a human right. As Revolutionary Anarchists we oppose this system and instead believe that our communities must be reclaimed by all of us, the people who they truly belong to.



This is a call for a non-black bloc contingent. The purpose of the contingent is to not alienate ourselves, but integrate ourselves with the rest of the march. Our goals are to make alliances and connections, and to engage people there not just hand them flyers. Our contingent will be accountable to everyone at the march, therefore we would have to act accordingly and think tactically. This, in turn, will help us grow to the critical point in which we can be effective in forms of protest that go beyond the legal boundaries outlined by the state.

Always in struggle until humanity is free,

Southern California Revolutionary Anarchists

Make everyday a celebration for workers, internationally!!!!!!

Excuse me, but... did the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON) invite the "Southern California Revolutionary Anarchists" to participate as a militant block in the march and rally MIWON organized? Has MIWON called for an "anti-Capitalist and anti-Authoritarian contingent" to march with them? Did anarchist activists even bother to contact MIWON to work with them on a plan of co-operation? MIWON is made up of hard working immigrant laborers, Korean, Filipino, and Latino. Their goal is to gain a broad legalization program for millions of undocumented workers and their families residing in the US. The MIWON march will be in a part of LA that is heavily populated by Latino immigrants... many of them undocumented. If MIWON had wanted anarchists to participate in their coalition they would have asked for anarchist participation. Of course everyone has the perfect right to attend any event they want... but it is unethical and politically backwards to hijack a demonstration organized by others and claim it as your own. If you want to wave black banners and march around with "destroy the state" signs... go organize your own march. Otherwise, show respect for and solidarity with MIWON and immigrant workers, by marching behind THEIR banners and signs.

as a person behind the call, I feel it is my duty to respond.

this is a call for a non militant contingent, similar to those that always march at demonstrations:

"This is a call for a non-black bloc contingent. The purpose of the contingent is to not alienate ourselves, but integrate ourselves with the rest of the march. Our goals are to make alliances and connections, and to engage people there not just hand them flyers. Our contingent will be accountable to everyone at the march, therefore we would have to act accordingly and think tactically. "

I believe someone has been in contact, and if not, and this is a problem, it will be resolved before anyone is put at risk.

We, as southern ca anarchists have had many discussions lately on the uselessness (for now) of militant tactics at certain protests, for some of the following reasons: 1. militancy puts all those around at risk. 2. not much can be accomplished with the LAPD surrounding you, 3. we isolate ourselves... And a list of other reasons.

"...but it is unethical and politically backwards to hijack a demonstration organized by others and claim it as your own."

We will not be hijacking the MIWON demo. as it states above. May day is directly connected to anarchism, so i personally feel, it should be no problem, as anarchists, being there and building alliances, since may day is rooted in the labour/anarchist movement.

in summary: I personally, as an anarchist, want to march side by side with all those participating in the demonstration. I do not want to put anyone at risk (as some anarchists in LA, have stupidly have done in the past)

they didnt invite us(not everyone who is coming was "invited")you twit, but we went to a meeting and are welcome if that answers your fucking question

We, as humans, have a right to walk these streets, whenever we feel like it. Any group can "claim" these streets are theirs. ANSWER and their permits seem to convince people that ANSWER "rents" this authority for a specified amount of time. Others, like the government, seem to think they own it. I have news for all, these are our (the peoples) streets, and if it is collectively owned, it cannot be hijacked. If A.N.S.W.E.R., or any other authoritarian group wants to pretend to own demonstrations, let them pretend. If they try to control me, they will be no more successful than any other police group. Anyone can make a call of action, and anyone can show up. But the idea that, "but it is unethical and politically backwards to hijack a demonstration organized by others and claim it as your own," is absurd. The freedom march in the 1960’s to DC was going to be great until a central authority asserted its dominance and started making “rules” to lesson its impact. The antiwar movement now is worthless for the very reason that groups have taken control of it and then work with the authorities to make sure there is no impact. As far as this May Day, go there, do what you feel is right and ethical, don’t do things that would harm people (not for me, but for the common good), but don’t bow down and let some group take the credit for all of our collective years of struggle. This is not ANSWER’s day (or who ever sold out this time to the system) it is the workers day. And if there is no permit, GREAT, let it be a day of freedom, remembering the days when we (as a people) had a right (not a privilege like permits imply) to peacefully assemble and reclaim public space for the public.

BTW, this is not an attack on 'just' answer (they are the biggest and most well known), but against any group that claims a movement or rally. Movements can not be owned.