It will be a May 1st anarchist In the sign of sobriety, without music in the procession, the one scheduled in the morning in the streets of the historic center of Carrara. This was decided as a sign of respect for the death of Paolo Lambruschithe truck driver who lost his life on Monday morning in Miseglia aboard the dumper on which he was working. As per tradition, the appointment will be an opportunity to celebrate the worker movement and struggles for the workers’ rightswith the thought aimed at what happened in the quarry a couple of days ago. May 1 anarchist took place in Carrara since 1945 and is organized by Italian anarchist federation (Fai), managing hundreds of people who come from all over Tuscany and also from other regions every time.
In each new edition, a theme is brought to the center of reflection, with many topics that have been touched over the years and always focused on particularly felt or burning issues, from the local to the global. “Anarchist May 1st in the direction, as usual, from its birth in 1889 of its original meaning – explains the 1st May May Committee – of the international day of struggle and claims, for social justice and for freedom. The offensive against the world of work by the capital and finance in this historical period has come to its culmination, with the imposing and unscrupulous attack on working conditions, with a daily workers, of exploitation, the erosion of wages and rights.
Many themes that the Committee has decided to face on the occasion of May 1st, with an eye especially to current affairs and this year certainly to accidents at work that continue to stain our quarries red. “From the stage of May 1st we will also speak of the advance of the new fascisms – illustrates the Committee – as well as the nationalisms that push the many wars scattered around the world and also of the genocide in Palestine to the rearm policies. A companion of Freedom Flottilla will intervene on stage to present the antimilitarist event of La Spezia, then the sisters of Nudm and an intervention of the federation of the anarchist federation that This year he turns eighty years.
Space then for a message of condolence addressed to the family of Paolo Lambruschi following the tragedy that took place on Monday morning in the quarry in Miseglia, who led the organizers to place some small changes to the program, in particular to the background music, which will not be performed. “As a committee of May 1st, we hold around the family, colleagues and acquaintances of Paolo Lambruschi who has lost his life in the quarry. Out of respect for Paolo, we decided that the procession will start without the usual music, remaining silent until the plaque of the martyrs of work”.