Anarquistas pela paz : uma análise dos discursos antimilitaristas e contra a guerra no jornal “A Voz do trabalhador” (Rio de Janeiro, 1908-1915)”

Abstract

This article is dedicated to demonstrating the importance of the labor press in the context of Brazil’s First Republic, with particular emphasis on the newspaper A Voz do Trabalhador (The Worker’s Voice) and its influence on the organization, education, and transformation of social relations within the Brazilian proletariat during this period. With this in mind, the present article provides a brief historical overview of the anarchist movement in Brazil and its influence on labor unions, highlighting its strategy of neutrality within these organizations and the role of anarchist libertarians in fostering revolutionary consciousness — a process that unfolded through antimilitarist discourse in A Voz do Trabalhador. In this sense, the writings against World War I represented much more than simple informative articles; they constituted a strategic framework developed by anarchists to help workers see beyond the biases of the idealized images propagated by states and bourgeois ideology. Against this backdrop, the article examines how these antimilitarist discourses awakened a revolutionary consciousness in workers, enabling them to organize and fight for better living conditions within this context.