The Libertarian Press: journalism worker and anarchist resistance in the first decade of the XX century

Abstract

The leaders of the Brazilian labor movement in the early years of the XX century, have struggled to maintain a unity between the Brazilian working class in order to achieve improvements in working conditions and living standards of workers, using various mechanisms to organize the workers, is through trade unions, or else labor press, which in many cases was more active than the union itself. The anarchists, especially those who followed a revolutionary syndicalist orientation, used from considerable form the newspaper workers, with texts and pictures depicting the anarchist ideals of liberation of the working class and a morality that is defined as uncontaminated by the dogmas of the church and bourgeois employer. Thus, the study aims to analyze the characteristics of this press editorials which was the beginning of the First Republic, which provided an attempt to organize the Brazilian working class, as well as the ideals of the current labor movement that prevailed in the First Republic.