¡Feliz Día Internacional del Trabajador!

Striking garment workers block traffic in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2006 to demand better working conditions, which they won after 13 hours in the middle of a busy street.

International Worker’s Day 2009 – Las RSF will be celebrating by taking to streets to demand justice from San Francisco to Palestine, legalization and worker’s protections for immigrants, and an economic bail-out for the working classes from this crisis created by los meros adinerados. On this, the 119th anniversary of International Worker’s Day, let us not forget that the day was originally observed to honor a labor strike that took place in this country, one of the few countries that refuses to officially recognize this day.

In solidarity with the workers of the world, we offer you these songs.

La Pachuquita


The Magnificent Seven - The Clash

la diabólica

¡la tierra es para quien la trabaja! the land belongs to those who work it!!


A Desalambrar - Daniel Viglietti

La Cumbiambera

This song, by Guatemalteco Ricardo Arjona, flooded the radio stations right around the time of the mass Immigrant Rights marches of spring 2006. Listen up, políticos, as photographer and essayist David Bacon points out, “The wealth created by undocumented workers is never called illegal.”



“Si la visa universal se extiende el día en que nacemos
y caduca en la muerte, por qué te persiguen mojado
si el cónsul de los cielos ya te dio permiso.”

“If the universal visa is extended to us on the day we are born
and expires when we die, why do they persecute you, mojado
if the consul of the heavens has already given you permission”