** Europe`s Funkiest Conspiracy ...**

In the beginning, MayDay was conceived as an open format for social activists, media subvertisers
and the radical sections of unionism to come together creatively and horizontally in order to
give voice and empower the weak and invisible strata of workers in the service city: cashiers,
cleaners, call-center operators, programmers, knowledge and culture workers with temporary,
part-time and freelance contracts, overexploited men and women from all contintents.

It was also a way of recombining radical practices and political traditions around a
proactive project, rather than simple resistance, in order to transcend the various fissures and
obsolescences in autonomist and anarchist squatting cultures, not to speak of the
inabiltity of traditional leftism of reaching the ever-wider dissenting and mobilizing crowds in