A global mayday call

To All Those Who Fight 4: Anarchy, Autonomy, Ecology, Queerness

To all media activists, creative workers, radical artists, union organizers, immigrant and precarious youth

In 2009, as millions are made unemployed by stupidity and greed, we call onto all insurgent people and networks out there to unite on the 1st of May for a global mayday against financial capitalism and state repression, and for social redistribution and self-emancipation.

MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY, THE FIRST OF MAY WE’LL MAKE YOU PAY!

YOU, the financial and political élites, we’ll make YOU pay for your crisis.

The economic and moral collapse of capitalism is for all to see. But it’s us who’s paying for the crisis with our money and jobs. They’re robbing us blind! States are throwing trillions at bankers, while jobs, wages, incomes, services are savagely cut, and millions are thrown into poverty.

We can fight and reverse this process. The Great Recession, the biggest crisis of capitalism in 80 years, opens up opportunities for social conflict and radical transformation.

We the Precarious, We the Unemployed, We the Immigrants, We the Antiracist, We the Antiauthoritarians, we are already fighting together from Athens to Reykjavik, from Capetown to Gaza, from Los Angeles to Buenos Aires, to Tokyo, from Shanghai to Mumbai, and across all seas and states where migrants risk their lives and freedom, in all the cities where dissident and discriminated people are fighting for social equality, autonomous culture, a better life.

Let’s unite in an ideal world brotherhood all our actions and demonstrations on the 1st of may in all the cities large and small around the globe. Let’s make our states and corporations know that at least on that day we are ONE against their capitalist crisis that threatens us all.

Let’s make’em pay on the 1st of May, and in London (vs G20) and Strasbourg (vs NATO) in the coming weeks.

MAYDAY: make’em pay…