WEBVTT 00:00:04.714 --> 00:00:07.500 This world where the mighty trample the workers 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:11.067 and tell us this is the way it must be 00:00:11.067 --> 00:00:12.393 will collapse 00:00:12.701 --> 00:00:14.559 and a world of freedom will arise 00:00:14.559 --> 00:00:19.367 where everyone will contribute to a better life 00:00:19.367 --> 00:00:22.400 said August Spies when sentenced to death by the tribunal 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:28.117 charged for being the leader of May 1st 1886 00:00:57.702 --> 00:00:58.329 By the second half of the XIXth century 00:00:58.329 --> 00:01:00.651 the economy of Europe and the United States had been totally transformed 00:01:00.651 --> 00:01:03.960 many workers that lived out of what they produced from the fields 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:08.708 now depend on salary 00:01:14.077 --> 00:01:16.531 farmers, shoemakers, artisans 00:01:16.654 --> 00:01:18.538 all of them are now operators 00:01:18.538 --> 00:01:22.291 12... 13... 16 hours of work 00:01:23.282 --> 00:01:24.559 Beat-point 00:01:24.869 --> 00:01:32.000 Precarious conditions, little money to eat, live, and return to work 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.067 They sold the strength of their arms too cheaply 00:01:35.067 --> 00:01:38.300 Short afterwards, they discovered that such strength could be used 00:01:38.300 --> 00:01:41.467 to defend themselves, their families and companions 00:01:41.467 --> 00:01:43.398 The operator's indignation ripens 00:01:43.398 --> 00:01:46.463 new lines of action and thought appear 00:01:46.463 --> 00:01:49.267 that look for the organization of workers 00:01:49.267 --> 00:01:51.600 they dreamed with a new society 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:53.351 with no oppressed nor opressor 00:01:53.367 --> 00:01:56.259 a just, fraternal society 00:02:03.967 --> 00:02:08.500 In Chicago, the beginning of a general strike was called for May 1st 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:11.262 stopped operatives, stopped machines 00:02:11.262 --> 00:02:16.882 workers from all genders in the streets to fight for a better, renewed life 00:02:19.067 --> 00:02:21.572 The repression shot its arms cowardly 00:02:21.572 --> 00:02:23.851 and 6 people died 00:02:26.067 --> 00:02:29.333 in answer, anarchists called for a grand act 00:02:29.333 --> 00:02:33.100 on the day of May 4th at the Haymarket Square 00:02:33.100 --> 00:02:36.736 the troop in service marched again against the masses 00:02:43.567 --> 00:02:45.981 a bomb interrupted the journey 00:03:00.674 --> 00:03:02.800 Fussiles and machine guns sounded highly 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:04.529 too highly 00:03:04.529 --> 00:03:07.269 it's been said that for 5 minutes 00:03:07.269 --> 00:03:10.288 rioters died, police too 00:03:10.288 --> 00:03:13.156 All of them workers from all genders 00:03:14.033 --> 00:03:16.464 someone had to be considered guilty 00:03:16.464 --> 00:03:19.761 and 5 leaders from the worker's movement were arrested 00:03:19.761 --> 00:03:21.480 sentenced to the capital punishment 00:03:21.480 --> 00:03:24.836 the judgement would be annuled years after their death 00:03:25.067 --> 00:03:26.733 the ideas, not since 00:03:26.733 --> 00:03:28.700 they are not made from flesh nor bones 00:03:28.700 --> 00:03:31.900 they defeat death and win the world 00:03:31.900 --> 00:03:37.051 In 1889, the II International Socialist 00:03:37.066 --> 00:03:41.369 announces May 1st as the Worker's Day 00:03:41.815 --> 00:03:44.999 The main flag, the reduction of the working day 00:03:48.461 --> 00:03:50.216 8 hours of work 00:03:53.431 --> 00:03:55.202 8 hours of pleasure 00:03:59.741 --> 00:04:01.979 8 hours of rest 00:04:22.687 --> 00:04:24.870 1890, Spain for 8 hours of work 00:04:24.870 --> 00:04:27.285 1907, Festival in La Paz, Bolivia 00:04:27.285 --> 00:04:30.257 1909, 30 thousand people in Buenos Aires, Argentina 00:04:30.257 --> 00:04:33.467 1913, 25 thousand workers in Mexico 00:04:33.467 --> 00:04:35.505 In Russia, the Czar falls 00:04:35.505 --> 00:04:39.933 the victory of popular power invites to the awakening of rights 00:04:39.933 --> 00:04:44.607 the fight of workers, symbolized by the May 1st, 00:04:44.607 --> 00:04:48.129 was improving the life and allowing new demands 00:04:49.437 --> 00:04:54.870 In 1919 the ILO, International Labour Organization, 00:04:54.870 --> 00:05:00.867 have determined 8h of workday and 40h of working week. 00:05:00.867 --> 00:05:05.459 Goverments and entrepreneur celebrate with the workers 00:05:05.459 --> 00:05:09.406 Great carnivals of music, games and gifts 00:05:09.406 --> 00:05:12.506 amused and inebriated the memory of the date 00:05:13.029 --> 00:05:16.369 they wanted to reinvent the May 1st 00:05:17.400 --> 00:05:20.087 But if have ever marked in the calendars 00:05:20.087 --> 00:05:21.527 Day of fight! 00:05:21.527 --> 00:05:23.802 1920, ten thousands workers in Japan 00:05:23.802 --> 00:05:26.310 1925, founded the National Confederation 00:05:26.310 --> 00:05:27.843 of Chinese Syndicates 00:05:27.843 --> 00:05:32.533 1946, Australia, Aboriginals does a strike to reclaim better labour conditions 00:05:32.533 --> 00:05:35.412 1950, mobilization in South Africa 00:05:35.412 --> 00:05:38.059 1954, 30 thousand people in Honduras 00:05:38.059 --> 00:05:41.371 1962, tens of thousands people in Portugal 00:05:41.371 --> 00:05:45.705 1968, Paris Spring, workers and students 00:05:45.705 --> 00:05:50.200 1970, Seatle, EUA, protests against the war in Vietnam and Cambodia 00:05:50.200 --> 00:05:54.333 00:05:54.333 --> 00:05:57.564 1975, Angola, national holiday 00:05:57.564 --> 00:06:01.525 1978, Chile, protests agains the ditatorial government of Pinochet 00:06:10.571 --> 00:06:12.634 00:10:15.109 --> 00:10:19.697 00:10:22.364 --> 00:10:24.643 00:10:24.920 --> 00:10:27.353 It is May, the our May...