Recently, has been published the first number of Anarco-Sindicalista, a common publication of the portuguese section of IWA and the regional federation of the CNT-IWA in the Spanish region of Galicia, whose main purpose is to strength relations between those two regions that have much in common like borders, the idiom and the migration of workers. For a better understanding of what are the purposes of Anarco-Sindicalista, the following is the translation of a presentation article of that first number (titled Unha presentación and signed by CNT-A Coruña):
This publication is certainly an unusual one: the experiments in communication and coordination between workers from regions officially belonging to different countries are quite uncommon. That is not the case among businessmen, politicians, exploiters of different kinds: for centuries, they took advantage of the borders that they created themselves in order to increase their money’s profits. We, the working people, only cross those borders to escape the misery in our own land. Now, it’s time to change this. We must use the possibilities given by the linguistic, cultural, territorial and historical resemblances between Galicia and Portugal in the advantage of the workers.
It won’t be an easy way. For many centuries, caused by the interests of high classes, we were suspecting and ignoring each other, even fighting wars. Only recently the mentalities have really begun to change. Now, each time a galician or a portuguese worker crosses that ancient frontier full of fortresses and guards in both sides, the reality that we, anarchosyndicalists, have been pointing out for a century, becomes more and more patent: the workers are everywhere on equal footing, we are all human beings, exploited, controlled, dominated and, above all, disunited and manipulated by other human beings, within a social, political and economical system that uses our division to dominate us more effectively.
With this small step, we start the long demolition of the invisible wall that confines us: a conjoined publication with witch we all will learn about our resemblances and differences and, especially, about how to fight together for a better world.
