With revolutionary actions, the masses of Swaziland begin the struggle for national liberation
Down with the monarchy of King Mswati III!
The workers' and peasants' councils and the national workers'
militia must be set up!
For a provisional revolutionary workers and peasants government, supported by the organizations of the self-organized masses!
Only such a government will be able to guarantee a free and sovereign National Constituent Assembly that leaves no stone unturned of the murderous regime of the Swazi nation, and the black bourgeoisie guarantor of the property of the imperialist transnational corporations.
The Swazi workers and peasants have started revolutionary actions against the bloody monarchy of King Mswati III. The protests intensified after the police suppressed a mobilization led by the National Union of Students and murder the student ThabaniNkomonye in early May.
The regime unleashed a bloody repression that has led to more than 52 recognized dead, hundreds wounded and disappeared, with house-to-house raids by the army. Internet service was cut off, to prevent images of the terrible events that shook all of Africa from being seen. The fierce repression against the youth provoked the outbreak of anger from the masses who identify the monarchy as responsible for all their hardships and despite the fact that the regime decreed a curfew, the masses and workers with revolutionary actions, with blockades, mobilizations and burning of fields paralyzed the country, attacking the property of transnational corporations and the monarch, whom they made to flee, leaving the monarchy in a deadly crisis.
53 years after the creation of this semi-colonial state by English imperialism, and after the abortion of the anti-colonial revolutions that began the masses after World War II, the majority of the population (60%) survives below the line out of poverty with less than U$D 2 per day. In this bloody monarchy that guarantees the looting of the nation by the imperialist transnationals, which owns the diamond and gold mines, they control the lean production in the countryside, especially the production of sugar cane, which is the mayor input for coke throughout the region. Political parties are outlawed and there is a fictitious parliament that was created by the monarch.
The Swazi nation, located within the territories of South Africa along the border with Mozambique, is experiencing a state of revolution. The workers, peasants and poor people are mostly migrant workers who, together with millions of workers from the region, cross the borders to work in the mines and fields of the transnationals mainly in South Africa, turned into outcasts in their own land. They correctly identify the struggle for democratic demands and the fall of the king as the solution to the problem of hunger, so their fights have shaken the whole territory of South Africa. Long live the revolutionary struggle of the working class and people of Swaziland! Down with the monarchy!
The democratic struggle of the Swazi nation puts the resolution of the problem of national liberation in Southern Africa on the order of the day
All the labor organizations in the region came to support the poor exploited of Swaziland. With marches to the border of the Swazi nation, the masses imposed to the political parties of the South African bourgeoisie, the Communist Party and the trade unions, solidarity with the struggle of their Swazi brothers. But hand in hand with the ANC-CP of South Africa and COSATU, together with the ITUC (an international organization led by the TUC of England), the ZTUC of Zimbabwe and the MDC have called for an agreement that brings together unions, political parties opponents and the student federation, with the officials of the monarchy so that there is a "transitional change of the regime", legalizing political parties and calling for elections. An agreement to guarantee that it doesn’t discuss the problem of land, hunger and imperialist plunder, but cosmetic changes to maintain the property relations of the transnationals (associated with the black bourgeoisie, especially of South Africa). Unfortunately the Numsa and the Saftu of South Africa who had led the break with the ANC-CP support this agreement! We must impose the break of the workers' organizations with the bourgeoisie!
Once again, the struggle of the exploited in Swaziland shows that the democratic national struggle of the masses calls into question all the borders created by imperialism in accordance with Stalinism, which gave up and betrayed the national liberation struggles of all Africa resultingin the creation of semi-colonial nations governed by a black bourgeoisie slavers of their own people, this is what is demonstrated throughout Southern Africa. This is why the Swazi people, along with workers from Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the entire region were transformed into outcasts in their own land, forced to migrate through the nations of Southern Africa in search of work, fleeing hunger. They are the ones who work in the Lonmin mines, in the fields of the white bourgeoisie of South Africa; they are the workers who led the struggle in Marikana and were assassinated by the ANC-CPregime. This is how Stalinism and the black bourgeoisie have left the workers of Africa: as migrants who have to risk their lives to achieve decent living conditions, as seen in the Mediterranean Sea where they die trying to flee to Europe and are locked up in concentration camps, repressed by the armies as in Ceuta, enslaved like in Libya and South Africa, and attacked by fascist gangs encouraged by transnational corporations and the government of the ANC-CP !
For this reason, the democratic struggle of Swaziland can only triumph in alliance with the working class of the region, expelling imperialism, defeating the black bourgeoisie, expropriating all transnational corporations and the countryside to solve the problem of hunger and work. This can only be achieved by fighting together with the workers of South Africa itself who live the same conditions, to defeat the leaderships of the tripartite alliance of the ANC-CP-COSATU that are the ones that guarantee that the RainbowNation keeps the Bantustans of slave labor! We must impose the rupture of the workers' organizations with the bourgeoisie! For an international congress of all the organizations of Southern Africa! Out with imperialism and the black bourgeoisie! All the borders drawn by imperialism must be broken! For a Federation of BlackSocialistRepublics!
The struggle of the Swazi nation must triumph. Down with the monarchy of King Mswati III!
The UN, the transnational corporations and the political parties of the bourgeoisie, the CP and trade union centrals of imperialism want a reconciliation pact with the armed forces of the monarchy to make cosmetic changes that keep the property of the nation in the hands of imperialism. Against this the working class, far from stopping its revolutionary offensive, must sweep away the regime and destroy all state institutions. To achieve democratic freedoms, to solve the problem of hunger, health and housing, We must set up the workers 'and poor peasants' councils, we must set up the national worker and peasant militia! We must overthrow the monarchy and set up a revolutionary provisional government based on the armed workers and peasants councils!
Only such a government will be able to convene a revolutionary constituent assembly that dissolves all the institutions of the monarchy, a free and sovereign National Constituent Assembly that takes the Swazi nation together with the areas in power of South Africa as a single district with 1 deputy for every 20,000 inhabitants, that assumes the executive, legislative and judicial powers with a Single Chamber and with removable deputies who earn the average salary of a worker.
A free and sovereign National Constituent Assembly that breaks with imperialism and recovers the land from the hands of the transnationals so that the exploited can eat worthily.
A free and sovereign National Constituent Assembly that reconstitutes the borders of all Southern Africa into a single black nation that breaks with imperialism and its native partners. This can only be achieved by the working class in alliance with the oppressed masses of the region.
For a federation of black Soviet and socialist republics from all Southern Africa!
The masses of Swaziland, resume the national struggle against imperialism as did the South African working class against the ANC-CP, which with general strikes and fighting in the streets called to overthrow Zuma and then Ramaphosa. It’s the same struggle of the Zimbabwean workers against the government of Zanu-PF generals. That is why we must impose the rupture of the workers' organizations with the bourgeoisie and from Numsa, Saftu, the student federations that march in Pretoria against the Swaziland embassy, COSATU workers who want to fight with their brothers, workers from Zimbabwe and Mozambique, African workers' organizations in Europe such as the Black Vests, the black organizations in USA that fight against the policemurders and the Yankee apartheid, must lead with marches and actions in the streets the fight for the triumph of the masses of the Swazi nation sweeping away the murderous monarchy, and to resume the struggle to end the ANC-CP regime. In this struggle of the workers of Southern Africa together with the black people of USA and the African workers in the imperialist Europe, the struggle for the national liberation of the martyred Africa is beginning again.
Juan Rep |