Africa - December 18th, 2017
Against the slave traders Gadafist bourgeoisie in Libya and the European imperialists...
Long live the war cry of black workers in Europe and the United States!
"DOWN WITH SLAVERY!" "FREEDOM TO OUR BROTHERS!"
"WE ARE NOT GOODS!"
Thousands of black and immigrant workers marched on the streets in Europe against the slavery of their brothers in Libya. Through the streets of several states of the USA, London, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, the Spanish State... they mobilized to the embassies of Libya shouting "Down with slavery!" "Freedom to our brothers!" "We are not goods!"
Everything started when CNN broadcasted a video of a slave market in Libya. These journalists of the imperialist bourgeoisie, who in a cynical way were "overwhelmed" by "sensitive images", did nothing but revealing the true face of this rotten system that is plunging human civilization into barbarism. The video showed the merchants of the Gadafist bourgeoisie selling slaves for 400 euros, who were described as “big strong boys for farm work”. A market led by European imperialism that holds in concentration camps thousands of immigrant workers fleeing from famine and wars, looking for a better life outside Africa, running the risk of dying in the Mediterranean Sea, or being deported or treated as slaves if they manage to reach land.
While thousands of black workers marched on the streets in Europe and the US, the European and American trade unions did not call for a single action to free the workers in Libya. The currents that speak on behalf of the working class call to humanize this decadent system calling for the "free movement of goods and people" (as the English SWP says); "the suspension of foreign debts of African countries" (as the LIT); and "to put an end to Maastricht's anti-immigration policies". But they do not say that this situation is possible because the working class did not take power in Libya for the betrayal of the leaderships of the world working class; and that is why the "40 thieves" of the Gadafist bourgeoisie have returned to do what they always did, now without their "Ali Baba" Muamar, upon whom the masses in their heroic revolution made justice.
"How is it possible that slavery still exist in one of the richest continents in the world?"Ask the sinister "journalists" of imperialism. Black workers of Africa will answer you. We have oil, diamonds, uranium, platinum, copper, gold, coltan, zinc, productive lands, but it was stolen at the point of cannons by imperialism and the black bourgeoisies who associated with it and gave our nations and our people as slaves in the 21stcentury. In today's Africa, the black bourgeoisie in power has imposed the same or worse conditions of slavery on us, after suffering genocides like in DRC, Rwanda and Burundi; the regimes such as the Apartheid of South Africa, etc.. Our previous generations suffered them. They turned us into new slaves, fleeing from the genocides like in DRC-with five million dead-, with entire countries turned into refugee camps, with millions forced into economic exile to be subjugated as in South Africa where immigrant black workers do the worst jobs, being victims of pogroms and endless daily abuses.
If the imperialist bandits can continue treating us like this, it is due to the "liberation movements" like the ZANU and the ZAPU in Zimbabwe; like the ANC in South Africa; like the FRELIMO in Mozambique, MPL in Angola, among others. They - supported by the Communist Party, Stalinism, Maoism and Castroism- prevented the working class from taking power, expelling imperialism and setting up black workers and peasants' republics by expropriating the bourgeoisie. It was this that allowed the "balkanization" of our people, the emergence and enrichment of a billionaire black bourgeoisie associated with the imperialist looters and the scourge, pain, hunger, epidemics, massacres... and hell over the true owners of Africa: the workers, peasants and the exploited who for centuries were kidnapped by the white invaders and taken as slaves to build the great cities that today everyone knows and that the bourgeois enjoy over the martyrdom of our muscles and bones and the shedding of our blood.
We must organize a decisive battle against the Gadafist bourgeoisie, dogs like Al Assad in Syria, murderers of their own people and against these imperialist pirates who are making workers pay for their crisis in the world. Enough withGadafist bourgeois in Libya and governments of the black bourgeoisie in central and southern Africa! Enough wit Trump and imperialist butchers! Down with the European Union of the imperialist powers, its euro, governments and monarchies! Down with the V French Republic, the monarchies of the Bourbons and the English pirates! No more assassins like Assad, Putin and the Hezbollah mercenaries! Down with the fascist state of Israel, killer of the Palestinian people!
The world proletariat must stand up right now. They must fight against any anti-immigrant law. The European and North American working class have in their hands the task of unifying the ranks of all the exploited. The leaderships submitted to capital prevent a concentration of the forces of the exploited of the world.Work for all, to equal work, equal pay for the native and immigrant working class! Sliding scale of wages and hours of work! All available hands to produce!
This will only be possible with the expropriation without payment and under workers control of the imperialist companies!
Stop the persecution of immigrant workers! Freedom to imprisoned immigrant workers! Down with the imperialist butchers who repress and take thousands of immigrant workers to concentration camps!
One class, one fight against multinational companies and parasitic financial capital!
For the working class to live, imperialism must die!
Workers International League of Zimbabwe