From Colombia - September 2, 2024
COMRADE ALEJANDRO VILLARRUEL
HAS PASSED AWAY IN ARGENTINA
On September 1, 2024, our great companion and comrade ALEJANDRO VILLARRUEL passed away in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a result of a long and tormentous illness.
Comrade Alejandro was a rank-and-file worker at the SHIPYARD RIO SANTIAGO -ARS- for more than 20 years, during which time he stood out as a tireless fighter for the rights of his comrades at the company, but also as a comrade who was in solidarity with the struggles of workers not only in the sector, but in all branches of production and services in Argentina. What highlights the struggle of this comrade, in addition to his struggle in his country, was his outstanding solidarity with the struggle, alongside the workers and fighters from all over the world against capitalist exploitation and repression, an activity that made him a true icon for the proletariat and the exploited worldwide and a mold, model and example for the international working and revolutionary youth to continue emulating.
His flag as a fighter alongside the revolutionaries in Libya, Syria and all of the Maghreb and the Middle East, his tireless denunciation of the Zionist massacre in Palestine, his solidarity with the comrade fighters in Zimbabwe, South Africa and all of Africa, where anti-colonialist struggles became a fight for revolution throughout the continent, that same solidarity that he had with the exploited comrades of Asia and Oceania. We also remember him for his support for the struggles of the Latin American peoples and his solidarity with the Black Power of the black exploited and other exploited people in USA, and in a special way we remember him for his expressed solidarity with the fighters of Colombia during the uprisings of 2020-21 when the first lines were at the forefront of our conflict, and ALEJANDRO was with us with his internationalist support and solidarity.
He demonstrated with his struggle and solidarity what MILITANT INTERNATIONALISM is all about, being its most outstanding example at a global level in the current class struggle. ALEJANDRO VILLARUEL is then our example to follow, so that we all become those INTERNATIONALIST FIGHTERS that the exploited need in this struggle against capitalist overexploitation and oppression at a global level.
The FLAG OF MILITANT INTERNATIONALISM was his cloak while he lived, the life of a combatant and fighter, disrupted by a painful illness that finally cut short his existence.
Thank you, comrade and companion. You will always be at our side in the struggles that we will continue to advance worldwide. Your baton will be taken up by our worker fighters all over the planet. Your example is so valuable that it is impossible to set it aside. The struggle will be as you yourself said, UNTIL TRUE SOCIALISM TRIUMPHS IN THE WORLD, knowing that many of us will leave our example and/or a trail of blood on the road, but that it will be like yours, an example to follow for internationalist fighters.
ALEJANDRO VILLARRUEL, PRESENT AND FIGHTING!
Hector, CHEO,
NUCLEO SOCIALISTA REVOLUCIONARIO, FLTI-CI, COLOMBIA |
