Colombia - May 2, 2022

Despite the electoral speeches and the electoral trap

The working class tries to break the corset imposed by its bureaucratic leaderships!

The task of the moment is to unify the struggles of the workers of the whole continent to confront the class collaboration fronts imposed on us by imperialism, the bourgeoisie and the conciliation leaderships

On this May Day, the open rejection of the Colombian workers to the policies of treason and class conciliation from the workers unions, servants and defenders of imperialism's businesses and lackeys of the bourgeoisie, backed by the "pseudo-left", became even more visible.
In Cali, as an undeniable symptom of this rupture, two (2) simultaneous demonstratios took place, expressing two viewpoints and class conceptions opposed by the vertex: On the one hand, the demonstration called by the CUT and other Federations and Workers' Organizations, which laid bare their character as defenders and servants of the capitalists, and as if to corroborate it, today they cover themselves under the umbrella of the Popular Front of Pacto Histórico (Historical Pact), with the mission of relegitimizing the battered bourgeois Duque-Uribe regime.
The other demonstration, called by the worker sectors and the super-exploited masses that reject and do not accept the directives of the worker and aristocracies bureaucracies, states that those leaderships of the CUT and the other Workers Federations do not represent us. These are sectors that broke away from the workers' federations, as a consequence of the continuous treacherous policy of those bureaucracies and have allied themselves with the “informal” workers like the recyclers and  carretilleros (wagon drivers). We could see a strong presence of labour unions such as Sintracapla (Goodyear workers' union), Sintrainal: The National Union of Workers of the Agrifood System, Sintraunal (university workers) and other unions from the industrial sector of Yumbo.

In our point of view, to be as objective as possible in our reading, and in line with our Marxist conception of History and Society, it is mandatory to keep as a frame of reference the glorious Strike of 28A of 2021, as a tipping point that clearly showed, in black and white, who are fighting to definitively bury the capitalist corpse and who are striving and focusing all their efforts to help it, oxygenate it and make possible for it to rise up, contrary to the irreversible course of History.
Colombia, far from having achieved "important victories in containing the government's policy of hunger and repression" (as the PST puts it), is facing an enormous crisis with a dollar increase from $2,899 to $4,062, an increase of inflation that affects the basic foods of the family basket, a fiscal deficit increase from 2.99 to 7.1% of GDP and an external debt of 172,000 million dollars. During the strike of 28A, a massacre was unleashed by the state and its murderous repressive forces that is still unpunished like all those that have been perpetrated so far this year and that according to official figures there are already almost fifty social leaders and workers murdered. Therefore, we do not understand what these people are referring to when they say the government's repression was contained. AN ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!
The two demonstratios to which we refer mark a sharp and significant contrast with those of last year in all Colombian cities, large, combative and bearers of all the enthusiasm and fury of the masses against the IMF attack and his servant, the bourgeois Duque-Uribe regime. There were unprecedented demonstrations in the history of the country. In Cali it was estimated at 1,000,000 people or a little less, who took to the streets, squares and avenues.

The bourgeois Petro demobilized the indigenous "Minga" that joined this unparalleled combat, and claimed that because the tax reform fell - due to the Struggle of the masses - there was no reason to continue in the streets. Likewise, the worker aristocracies (CUT, Fecode, and the P.C., Polo Democrático Alternativo (Alternative Democratic Pole, etc.) together with the CNP (National Strike Committee), in a cynical and coward way, when the strike reaches extremely high levels of radicalization and confrontation with the regime, they call for a virtual May Day and to "protest via zoom": such a level of cynicism and treacherous mentality of this fight! But the exploited masses do not abandon the struggle despite this tremendous betrayal of their "leaders" and the bloody repression by the ESMAD, the army and the fascist gangs of the "white shirts" of "good people".
The struggle gains momentum and combativeness, although the initial slogan "Let the regime fall", expressed the discontent and hatred of the workers towards the government, from that moment and nowadays, the cry in the streets is "These conciliation bureaucracies do not represent us"!!!
Therefore, the poorly attended demonstrations this year express the apathy and disappointment of the workers with the bureaucracies that claim to defend their interests and all the collaborationist leaderships that expropriated our revolution and subjected us to imperialism throughout Latin America.

With the judgment elements exposed, it is more than legitimate to affirm that the strike of 28A of 2021, the level and combative capacity of the exploited, contain enough strength to demolish all those prejudices and arguments about "the backwardness in consciousness of the masses" with which the reformist left covers up its cretinism and cowardice, attributing its responsibility for the survival of the capitalist yoke to the exploited.

Less than three weeks before the presidential elections...
The bourgeois front of Petro supported by Stalinism with the renegades of Trotskyism come to divert the mass fight and continue with the Uribe regime of the Gringos military bases

On May 29, the presidential and parliamentary elections will be held. Those elections will define the next executioners for the next four years in the midst of an enormous social and political crisis. A true trap of deception and diversion that has already been proven in life itself in our continent. After huge waves of struggle as in Ecuador, Chile, Peru, also betrayed by their Stalinist leaderships supported by the renegades of Trotskyism covering their left flank, managing to impose a continental front of class collaboration with governments which apply the worst imperialism plans.
This was proved in life itself with the Stalinist and “progressive” government of Boric beating up the working class and student youth with the Pacos de Verde (Green Pacos) and the   Pacos de Rojo (Red Pacos) of the Chilean Pinochet’s regime. This is also proved in Peru endorsing the bourgeois government of Castillo who, as soon as he came to office, he launched an attack with a tax on fuels to which the masses responded by returning to the streets to overthrow him. This government, alleged “friend” of the masses, did not hesitate in militarizing the country with the repressive forces of the Fujimori regime and was once again saved by these leaderships: not only the UIT CI, but also the PTS of Argentina and the LIT CI, which after proposing a Constituent Assembly with the bourgeoisie, without breaking with imperialism and without calling to defeat the army officers caste, they now endorse Castillo's proposal for a new Constitution within the rotten regime that, according to them, would represent a favorable way out for the Peruvian working class.
Here in Colombia, the popular front of the bourgeois Petro and his Historical Pact come to divert and contain, throwing dirt in the eyes of the masses to whitewash one of the most murderous regimes in the continent. Barely two weeks ago, generals from the army and the murderous police met to give their support to Petro, who, if he wins, he will save them from punishment, continuing the impunity that they have enjoyed for decades.

Undoubtly, they are the ones who betrayed the glorious revolutionary struggle of 28 A, 2021 and the followers of the Pact of "the peace of graves" of reconciliation of the Havana Agreements of surrender of the peasant resistance by the bolibourgeoisies, the Castro brothers and the leadership of the FARC, the sinister Obama Castro Pact that saved and is coming to save the regime from the Gringos military bases, which the Popular Front of the Historical Pact would never expel from Colombia if it won the presidency, and much less to the transnationals that plunder the oil, the land, the minerals and all the wealth of the nation, it is worth remembering that from armed reformism the M19 together with Petro, gave birth to and promoted the 1991 constitution, which opened the doors to free trade and therefore to FTAs.
The tragedy is that the Colombian PST,group of the LIT-CI, in the name of socialism calls to vote for this bourgeois front, as it has been doing with its support for class collaboration fronts in the rest of the continent, following as body and soul the Stalinism's policy of support for the "progressive" bourgeoisie.
We, the internationalist Trotskyists of Comuneros who fight under the clean banners of the Fourth International cannot allow the PST that claims to be Trotskyist to support a regime of class collaboration, remaining at the feet of the Uribe’s generals, the police and the ESMAD… Shame on them!!!

AGAINST THIS POLICY:
WE CALL TO SET UP THE SELF-DEFENSE COMMITTEES AND THE WORKERS' AND PEASANTS' MILITIA.
FOR COMMITTEES OF ARMED RANK AND FILE SOLDIERS THAT EXPELL ALL GENERALS AND OFFICIALS, AGENTS OF THE U.S. MILITARY BASES AND REPRESSORS OF THE PEOPLE!
DISSOLUTION OF THE POLICE AND ALL THE REPRESSIVE FORCES OF THE STATE!
OPEN THE PATH TO THE FIRST LINE AND TO THE SELF-DEFENSE COMMITTEES OF THE COLOMBIAN WORKING CLASS AND YOUTH!
OUT WITH THE BUREAUCRACY OF THE TRAITORS OF THE NATIONAL STRIKE COMMITTEE!
THEY DO NOT REPRESENT US! DOWN WITH THE ELECTORAL TRAP! THE PATH IS TO RETAKE THE PATH OF THE INDEFINITE STRIKE OF APRIL 28th
WE MUST REOPEN THE PATH TO THE REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL STRIKE SO THAT THERE IS NO STONE ON STONE LEFT OF THE URIBISTA REGIME OF THE GRINGO MILITARY BASES! OUT GRINGOS FROM COLOMBIA AND LATIN AMERICA!!!
AGAINST THE UNBEARABLE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND TO CONQUER BREAD, DECENT WORK FOR ALL, LAND AND FREEDOM, IT IS NECESSARY TO EXPROPRIATE THE TRANSNATIONAL THAT PLUNDER OF THE WEALTH OF COLOMBIA WITHOUT PAYMENT AND UNDER WORKERS' CONTROL.
This can only be achieved by a PROVISIONAL WORKERS AND PEASANTS REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT that also breaks with the IMF and imperialism to conquer the independence and freedom of Colombia, as an advanced point of the socialist revolution in all Latin America.
We fervently believe that the task of the moment is to call for the unity of the workers' struggles in the entire continent as a powerful and invincible force to confront the class collaboration fronts imposed on us by imperialism, the bourgeoisie and the conciliatory leaderships in each country.
STAND TOGETHER WITH THE CUBAN WORKING CLASS THAT FACES THE CAPITALIST RESTORATION IN CUBA!
STAND TOGETHER WITH THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS THAT HOLDS THE KEY WITHIN THE VERY IMPERIALIST BEAST TO LIBERATE ITSELF AND FREE LATIN AMERICA AND THE SEMI-COLONIAL WORLD FROM OPPRESSION!

Colombia and Latin America will be socialist
or a Wall Street colony

Grupo Comuneros