November 2, 2024

From Zimbabwe,
James for the Workers International League (WIL)

Greetings from the Workers International League Zimbabwe to all the comrades present

We pay tribute to Abu Al Baraa, a true revolutionary socialist and founder of Syrian Trotskyism. Last October 24th marked eight years since his assassination by the fascist al-Assad and the butcher Putin under the US command.
We pay our tribute from Africa, and we cry out loud, We do not forget and do not forgive his murderers or those leaderships of the world working class who have betrayed the Syrian masses branding them as “terrorist” thus separating them from the rest!

We as African black workers stood up and fought together with the masses in the Middle East in their process. We fought in revolutionary uprisings and great struggles, like the uprising in Madagascar, the general strike in Nigeria or the miners strike in Marikana, where 34 of our fellow workers were murdered by Zuma and by current President of South Africa Ramaphosa plus the Stalinist bureaucrats leaders of the union as they were fighting for 12 500 rands. We also were part of Zimbabwe uprising, metalworkers general strike, revolutionary process in Swaziland, Kenya taking over the parliament against the IMF. We are the black workers that fought in France with Black Vests and that in USA stoop up to the white murderous police and sent Trump 14 stories underground to his White House bunker because he was afraid of our uprising.
All the processes were betrayed, diverted, besieged, separated country by country and now we are suffering the worst of counterrevolution. US imperialists command the genocide of Zionism in Palestine and Lebanon, killing the workers and children, like they did in Syria using Putin, Al Assad, and Iran. In Zimbabwe we are now eating elephants because of famine. Migrants are being expelled and persecuted. South African unemployment has sky-rocketed. In the DRC children are used as slaves, working in bare hands and bare feet, to get coltan, cobalt and other minerals for the transnational companies, with guns to their heads.

Our continent were used as slaves taken to America, and its wealth was looted. When we fought for national liberation, for black republic, they sold us the “panafricanism” which ended up in no liberation from imperialism, but with a black master enslaving a sea of black slaves, with the same white imperialists plundering and looting our wealth and exploiting our work. We stood up once and again, and again the imperialists and local bourgeoisies imposed genocide and misery on us. And close the borders of their countries when we try to get a job for keeping our families.

So comrades, as you see, we are one single working class. Let's unite the workers of world against imperialism, against the so called progressive bourgeois rulers and union bureaucracy political leaders who want to speak on behalf of workers when they under USA command.

So we pay our tribute to the martyrs of the Palestinian resistance who defend their land against the genocide Zionism. We pay our tribute to all the Syrian martyrs. We pay our tribute to the martyrs of Marikana miners. We pay our tribute to all the true revolutionaries.
We will not forget or forgive.
Abu Al Baraa, until we achieve socialism in the whole world!