This world where the mighty trample the workers and tell us this is the way it must be will collapse and a world of freedom will arise where everyone will contribute to a better life said August Spies when sentenced to death by the tribunal charged for being the leader of May 1st 1886 By the second half of the XIXth century the economy of Europe and the United States had been totally transformed many workers that lived out of what they produced from the fields now depend on salary farmers, shoemakers, artisans all of them are now operators 12... 13... 16 hours of work Beat-point Precarious conditions, little money to eat, live, and return to work They sold the strength of their arms too cheaply Short afterwards, they discovered that such strength could be used to defend themselves, their families and companions The operator's indignation ripens new lines of action and thought appear that look for the organization of workers they dreamed with a new society with no oppressed nor opressor a just, fraternal society In Chicago, the beginning of a general strike was called for May 1st stopped operatives, stopped machines workers from all genders in the streets to fight for a better, renewed life The repression shot its arms cowardly and 6 people died in answer, anarchists called for a grand act on the day of May 4th at the Haymarket Square the troop in service marched again against the masses a bomb interrupted the journey Fussiles and machine guns sounded highly too highly it's been said that for 5 minutes rioters died, police too All of them workers from all genders someone had to be considered guilty and 5 leaders from the worker's movement were arrested sentenced to the capital punishment the judgement would be annuled years after their death the ideas, not since they are not made from flesh nor bones they defeat death and win the world In 1889, the II International Socialist announces May 1st as the Worker's Day The main flag, the reduction of the working day 8 hours of work 8 hours of pleasure 8 hours of rest 1890, Spain for 8 hours of work 1907, Festival in La Paz, Bolivia 1909, 30 thousand people in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1913, 25 thousand workers in Mexico In Russia, the Czar falls the victory of popular power invites to the awakening of rights the fight of workers, symbolized by the May 1st, was improving the life and allowing new demands In 1919 the ILO, International Labour Organization, have determined 8h of workday and 40h of working week. Goverments and entrepreneur celebrate with the workers Great carnivals of music, games and gifts amused and inebriated the memory of the date they wanted to reinvent the May 1st But if have ever marked in the calendars Day of fight! 1920, ten thousands workers in Japan 1925, founded the National Confederation of Chinese Syndicates 1946, Australia, Aboriginals does a strike to reclaim better labour conditions 1950, mobilization in South Africa 1954, 30 thousand people in Honduras 1962, tens of thousands people in Portugal 1968, Paris Spring, workers and students 1970, Seatle, EUA, protests against the war in Vietnam and Cambodia 1975, Angola, national holiday 1978, Chile, protests agains the ditatorial government of Pinochet It is May, the our May...