International Event on the 13th anniversary of the Syrian revolution
From Zimbabwe:
James by the Workers' International League (WIL)
"In Africa we lived through years of looting and genocide, as with apartheid or the massacre of the Marikana miners in South Africa. Today we are experiencing it in the DRC, with a brutal massacre that affects children and women"
Comrades:
I greet you from the martyred Africa, a continent devastated with massacres and wars by imperialism for centuries, just as it did in Syria, Ukraine and Palestine. Imperialism only advances on the planet by massacring, bleeding, looting, oppressing people for control of raw materials, expanding wars and barbarism.
In Africa we lived through years of looting and genocide, as with apartheid or the massacre of the Marikana miners in South Africa. Today we are experiencing it in the DRC, with a brutal massacre that affects children and women. In the DRC they suffer from hunger, kidnapping, massacres, child exploitation, slave labor of men, women and children, at the hands of groups armed by transnational companies that impose death and abuse of all kinds on them so that they steal the coltan and cobalt.
We are facing a continent very rich in minerals, diamonds, gold, platinum, etc. but what the imperialist powers leave us is only massacre, wars, barbarism and misery.
Stalinism, which controls union centers in South Africa and other union bureaucracies in the region, look the other way in the face of this genocide. And they are what guarantees the same plunder and exploitation in all the countries of black Africa. In the same way that the Stalinist parties silenced the genocide in Syria by supporting al-Assad and Putin, today they want to sweep under the carpet the genocide of the Palestinian masses in Gaza at the hands of Zionism.
In the same way, the union centers of the imperialist countries leave us isolated. Just as they imposed a siege on the Syrian revolution and now surround Gaza, every time the black working class went out to wage enormous struggles, they isolated us country by country and subjugated our executioners. The black working class in the US has shown that it can be the advance guard of the black labor movement internationally in its great battle of 2020. But the traitor leaderships set up an “anti-Trump front” and placed it at the feet of the butcher Biden, the murderer of the Palestinian masses and chief of the looters of the oppressed peoples of the world.
That is why, comrades, we all have the same enemy, it is the same fight against transnational corporations that only spread wars, massacres and misery. Forward towards the socialist revolution! Death to imperialism!