Chile - May 2, 2022

Brutal fascist attack on workers and rebel youth who mobilized for May Day

To crush the fascist lumpen thugs who act in coordination with the murderous cops and left 5 comrades wounded by bullets…

Let's organize Unified Self-defense Committees of all worker and student organizations!
For Workers and Peasants’ Militia!

You don't argue with fascism, you crush it!

Yesterday, in the Central Station fascist lumpen gangs attacked the mobilization of thousands of workers, high school student and labor organizations, collectives and leftist currents that took onto the streets this May 1st for International Workers' Day, independently of the CUT bureaucracy and the Boric and CP Government.
While the mobilization was advancing and the repression of the cops deepened, with their cannon water and teargas launchers at Meiggs, in the heart of Santiago, these fascist lumpens acted, coordinated with the murderous cops.
With firearms and sticks, the fascist gangs violently and savagely attacked the march in La Alameda, shooting at close range against the mobilized workers and students.
Five comrades were seriously injured. Comrade Francisca Sandoval, a journalist for the independent media outlet of Señal 3 La Victoria, was shot in the face, had to be hospitalized in a life-threatening condition.

We are all Francisca Sandoval!

To get justice for comrade Francisca and all the wounded, accounts must be urgently settled with the fascist gangs and the repression of Boric’s Government and the Communist Party and the same cops  commanded by Piñera yesterday commanded.

You don't argue with fascism, you fight it!

These are the same lumpen fascists that weeks ago attacked the mobilized students and a little earlier the migrant workers in the north.
Today the fascist lumpen gangs, organized by the transnationals and the Pinochet generals, can continue to raise their heads and take the streets because   the masses were taken out of the revolutionary combat of October 2019. More and more the bureaucracy of the CUT and the  Social Unity Board, in the hands of the CP and the Broad Front subjected the working class and the exploited to the Constituent farce with its chitchat of "democracy" and "freedom",  more and more the workers and exploited were taken at the feet of the class collaboration Government of Boric, the "Red Pacos" and their new Concertación; they more and more made Chile go back to sleep once it had woken up, and more and more allow the  bourgeoisie, imperialism and big capital to have their hands free to organize fascist actions.

These same leaderships of the CUT, while the fascists attack us in broad daylight, organized and carried out, this May 1st, the act of the anti-worker government of Boric, the "Red Pacos" of the CP and its bourgeois ministers, the new administrators of the regime of the Pinochet generals and imperialism, to continue subjecting the working class to their executioners.
Enough! It is necessary to impose the rupture of all the worker and student organizations with Boric and his new Concertación, the new “left” guardian of the civic-military regime, the Pinochet generals, the FTA and the mining transnationals!
Without delay, before it is too late, we must reorganize the First Lines in all the cities of Chile, set up the self-defense committees and the workers' and peasants' militia.
From all the militant worker and student organizations, we must set up the unified self-defense committees NOW.                                                                               

Let us call urgently from the Central Clasista de Trabajadores (Working Class Principled Workers Central, NT ) that called for the May 1 march, from the port unions that have been mobilizing, from the & factory & High School & College occupations, the assemblies and groups of high school students in struggle and all the combative workers' organizations and Left currents to meet immediately to set up a unified self-defense committee to urgently crush the fascists and defeat the murderous policemen and the Pinochet militiamen. There is no time to lose!                                                                                    
Dissolution of the genocidal officer caste, servant of the Gringos! Dissolution of the pacos (cops) and all the repressive forces of the state! Down with the “state of exception” in the north!
Freedom for all political prisoners and trial and punishment for the murderers and repressors of the workers and the people!

POI-CI, adherent to the FLTI