Gabon - September 10, 2023
After the coup in Niger, another coup as an anticipation to control the outbreak of the masses against imperialist plundering
The fight against imperialism can only be effective and win in the hands of the working class and peasants
IMPERIALISM OUT OF GABON AND THE WHOLE AFRICA!
In Gabon, on August 30, a dozen soldiers annulled the presidential elections, by which Ali Bongo, for the third consecutive time, remained president; They also dissolved the Congress and the Supreme Court. So the Committee for Transition and Restoration of Institutions inaugurated, which has, according to the military, the responsibility of avoiding chaos, defending peace, in the face of “an irresponsible, unpredictable government, which results in a continuous degradation of social cohesion”; and this is the argument with which they put an end to Ali Bongo's regime.
Gabon, a former French colony until its independence in 1960, has 2,400,000 inhabitants, who have under their feet plenty of natural wealth: oil, natural gas, diamonds, manganese, uranium, gold, wood, iron ore... all these stole by France. 33% of the population lives in absolute poverty, unemployment reaches 22%, of which among young people reaches 38%. Currently 81 French companies are based in Gabon, of which the most important are Total Energy, the Eramet mining group and Bolloré.
The military coup plotters together with the “nationalist” bourgeoisie seek to contain the masses who revolt against imperialist plundering.
The military coups in Niger last month and today in Gabon are to control the masses and avoid an open confrontation against imperialism and prevent revolutionary uprisings on the continent.
The impoverished masses begin to take to the streets expressing their hatred to the plundering of French imperialism that leaves scorched earth and miserable living conditions for the population of Gabon. Hence, this hatred to the puppet government of France, which for 60 years has allowed the empire unprecedented plunder.
The struggle of the masses in Gabon is part of the anti-imperialist combats that run throughout central Africa, along with Senegal, Kenya, Niger, and Chad. Well, the masses rise up against the power that oppresses them and in order to get out of misery they have to expel imperialism.
That is why the masses take to the streets in support of this Transition Committee, believing that this sector of the army, together with the bourgeoisie that promotes and supports the coup against the pro-French government, can play a liberating role.
But this is not so. Both sectors of the army and the bourgeoisie supported Ali Bongo's government during these 60 years and never stood up against the imperialist plunder since they are his junior partners in this plunder. That is why the coup plotters will leave the businesses and their assets intact to imperialism. We saw this in Niger, where the military junta expelled the French ambassador, but did not dare to touch any of the interests of imperialism and thus the uranium, manganese and enormous natural wealth remain in the hands of France.
The “nationalist” bourgeoisie, together with the coup plotter military, wants to contain the masses that rise against the imperialist looting
The military coups in Niger last month and Gabon today are to control the masses and avoid an open confrontation against imperialism and prevent revolutionary uprisings in the continent.
In Gabon, the "pan-African" bourgeoisie dressed as "democratic" together with a sector of the army carries out a preventive coup d'état so that the masses do not channel their hatred fighting imperialism, and unleash an anti-imperialist struggle in the face of the permanent plundering of the French master and also of US imperialism that leaves empty land in its wake and plunges the nation into misery.
This lackey bourgeoisie cannot allow revolutionary uprisings to break out like in Senegal or Kenya and before that in South Africa, because it is terrified of the uprising of the masses, who by entering into combat against imperialism may end up taking away all of its privileges from the bourgeoisie and taking their hands what belongs to them. This is what really drives the coup plotters. It is a national bourgeoisie that poses as anti-imperialist and, taking advantage of the imperialist crisis and the mass combat, will seek to negotiate to keep a few more coins than what imperialism loots.
In Central Africa: millions of hungry people enter the fight, emboldened by the crisis in the metropolises and in France in particular
The thing is that the French bourgeoisie is in crisis and losing big businesses in its African colonies. Since it is terribly hit by the attacks of its own working class that came out in mass political struggle, facing the retirement reform and to overthrow Macron. Likewise, the murder of Nahel, a young French Algerian, at the hands of the police, put the most exploited sector of the French working class at the center of the scene: the children of immigrants, who fought against French imperialism by burning the entire country… This crisis within the imperialist France opened a gap through which the masses entered the fight in their colonies in Africa. That is why the struggles of the working class and youth in the metropolis are an inseparable part of the anti-imperialist attack of their brothers on the African continent who today rise up against their colonizers.
In France, the leaderships of the workers' organizations have not raised in these combats, along with the demands of the French proletariat, the demands of the peoples oppressed by this imperialism or unity with the anti-imperialist struggle of the workers and exploited of the colonies in the Central Africa that today hits the government hard and leaves Macron weakened and in crisis, thus creating the best conditions to overthrow him.
The union bureaucracies and the social-imperialist currents of the French proletariat are directly responsible for the native bourgeoisies of the colonies leading the anti-imperialist struggle, as occurs in Gabon and Niger. Because neither of these directions nor the liquidators of the Fourth International have raised as a central point that, to recover the 35 hours, stop labor flexibility and defend pensions, France must stop plundering the colonies and super-exploiting its black brothers of Africa.
If the leaderships of the workers' organizations in France had had this policy and raised "the enemy is at home", it would have been a true electric shock that would have quickly united the combat of the working-class neighborhoods of the French suburbs with that of the exploited of Gabon, Niger, Senegal, Kenya that strive to “drive the enemy out of the house.” And this would have allowed the working class and the poor peasants of the colonies to quickly overcome the limit that the native bourgeoisies impose on their anti-imperialist struggle, since they would see that they have a very powerful ally within France: their class brothers of the proletariat of the metropolis.
The reformist currents dismantle the program and tear apart the struggle of the oppressed peoples, even leaving them exposed to counterrevolutionary blows, while the labor aristocracy of the metropolis tries to maintain its privileges at the cost of surrendering the struggle of the colonies and of the proletariat of the imperialist country itself, in this case from France. Where neither the Stalinism that influences the CGT, nor France Insoumise, nor the “Anticapitalists”, nor Permanent Revolution (FT) have ever called for any decisive action for the independence of the colonies oppressed, plundered and massacred by the regime of the V French Republic. Traitors. Thus they have brought the struggle of the French proletariat to a dead end.
For the working class and poor peasants to triumph, imperialism must be expelled
Shouting: Out with imperialism from the African continent! Out with France, the United States and other imperialist powers!
Enough looting! Only in this way can the anti-imperialist struggle be fully and effectively resolved.
Uranium, cobalt, lithium, manganese, gold, oil, gas for their true owners!: the working class and the poor peasants.
We must expropriate without payment and under workers' control all the French, Yankee, and English transnational corporations that steal all our natural wealth and also steal the land that belongs to us.
Get Total Energy, Shell, Bolloré, the mining company Eramet and the other 78 French multinational companies out of Gabon!
Expropriation of the bank without payment and under the control of its workers. For a single national state bank.
For a free and sovereign National Assembly, with revocable delegates, 1 every 10 thousand inhabitants, that acts as a single chamber and assumes executive, legislative and judicial functions, that breaks with imperialism and guarantees land to the peasant. Let us not allow more fratricidal confrontations over the use of land fueled by imperialism! The land is for the people of Gabon so we can eat all the exploited!
Let us set up fight committees in each mine and each company, which are coordinated by city and at the national level. For committees of common soldiers who are on the side of the people and break with the officer caste, both with the coup plotters who negotiate with imperialism and with their direct servants! Generalized arming for the masses in struggle, let's set up worker and peasant militias to be able to expel imperialism!
Dissolution of the police and repression forces!
Get the military bases of France, North America and the rest of the imperialist powers out of Gabon, Mali, Chad, Djibouti and all of Africa!
The national bourgeoisies were and are the junior partners of the imperialists in the plundering of our nations, they plunged black Africa into the most absolute hunger and misery. Now, it is time for the working class and poor peasants to establish their own power, wrest it from this vassal bourgeoisie of imperialism and impose a black workers and peasants republic.
And side by side with our brothers from Niger, Somalia, Senegal, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso etc. Let's set up a Federation of Black Republics of Central and Southern Africa!
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