Lieselotte-Herrmann-Park (Gathering) – Zweinaundorfer Straße – Breite Straße – Wurzner Straße – Torgauer Straße – Eisenbahnstraße – Neustädter Straße – Rabet Park (stopover) – Rabet; Street – Comeniusstraße – Kohlgartenstraße – Dresdner Straße – Klasingstraße – Kohlgartenstraße – Lutherstraße – Elsapark
Out for the anarchist May Day!
People around the world take to the streets on May Day to demonstrate for the right to work and for better working conditions.
Since the strike of thousands of workers in Chicago on May Day 1886 and the subsequent sentencing of 8 anarchists to death, May Day is considered a day of struggle for workers worldwide.
But the right to work in capitalism and in the social market economy still means that workers are oppressed and exploited for profit maximization.
Therefore, we do not stand up for continuing to be exploited under better working conditions, but go together on the streets in the framework of the Anarchist Days 2022 in Leipzig and remain irreconcilable. In doing so, we do not join the numerous May 1st rallies with their neoliberal character, but fight for intersectional feminism, against wage slavery and the plundering of nature.
At the moment, we are witnessing how the German state apparatus is fantasizing about an RAF 2.0 and underpinning the struggle against anti-authoritarian tendencies with tightened laws and precedents in order to criminalize comrades and cover them with repression.
The Rondenbarg trial, the Soko LinX, the Saxon police task law or the example of Lina and other accused activists are just a few examples of this.
The Corona pandemic has made the class character and the crisis of the German state more than clear: Through the billions in economic aid, privileged investors and capital owners were able to increase their wealth without doing any work themselves, while in return nothing changed for the working majority, who had to keep the system going. Marginalized and discriminated groups were pushed even further to the margins of society by the far-reaching tightening.
Nevertheless, we must note that Leipzig in particular has had a great and resistant potential for decades, which is currently not being fully exploited.
The idea of a liberated society beyond state, nation and capital is not just utopia. On a global level, there are already several models of society that have been fought for and are being lived. For example, the self-organized Kurdish Rojava in northern Syria and the Zapatista in Chiapas in southern Mexico. But also in France, Spain and Greece activists show us how to fight successfully against the ruling capitalist system.
The past has taught us again and again that the “beautiful life for all” conjured up by many sides will remain a utopia under the prevailing capitalism. For this is the basis for the omnipresent patriarchy, the resurgent broad social right-wing shift and the destruction of our environment. We give a loud voice to all FLINTA people, because the roots of their oppression are also anchored in the ruling system. Therefore, emancipation can only come with the overthrow of patriarchy and the downfall of capitalism.
Instead of continuing to lead closed struggles, it is necessary to carry radical left politics into the broad society, to organize ourselves and to build autonomous structures with which this “beautiful life for all” becomes more tangible. Therefore, come with us to the streets of Leipzig on May 1, 2022, to demonstrate resolutely and militantly against the prevailing conditions.
A liberated society cannot be dreamed of, but must be fought for!