Zimbabwe - April 27, 2021
LET THE WORKERS OF ZIMBABWE RISE!
GENERAL STRIKE NOW!
Workers have nothing to celebrate this worker's day that is celebrated worldwide by the working class. Zimbabwe is commemorating this day against a backdrop of workers not coming to work due to covid-19 and also due to the fact that the industry has failed to pay the workers in time and hence less hours at work and subsequent loss of jobs thereby exerting pressure to breadwinners within their families. 1.6 billion People lost their jobs worldwide due to the Covid-19 impact and this has consequences. The current situation for workers in Zimbabwe leaves a lot to be desired. Families are hardly surging and are struggling to make ends meet.
Recession has caused untold suffering with incomes being eroded by running inflation and lack of adequate healthfacilities to treat workers with insurance or not. We have nothing to celebrate and spaces for workers have since been closed for them to participate fully. We demand decent wage for all so that food is placed at the table and able to enjoy the socio-economic rights like education food, shelter, security and access to clean water.
DESPITE being rated highly across the region for their contribution to the country’s high literacy rate, Zimbabwean teachers in public institutions are still among the lowly-paid in the region. Low salaries and poor conditions of service have de-motivated teachers thereby compromising the quality of education. The time for a unity of demands is now. Let the sufferings and poverty denounce the situation louder than words, in resistance to government austerity measures. The fair struggle of the teachers must succeed. Their demands for decent wages and working conditions are the same demands of the workers of the country.
We International revolutionary socialist of the Workers International League of Zimbabwe stated that our country is a military state, a slave labour force open air concentration camp and there are no democratic freedoms, not even freedom of association, if all the assets of the officers members of coup d’état are not expropriated. There is not a single chance of marching to a free sovereign constituent assembly if the repressive forces and the judge caste (under the rule of the imperialist master and the murderous officers of Zimbabwean army) are not dissolved.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
We must re-nationalize the land without any payment, and put it to produce under the control of the workers' organizations, the poor peasants and popular organizations!We call all the organisations that speak in the name of the working class demands must break with the government and bourgeoisie that starve and dismiss us!
Enough with the class-collaborationist trade unions bureaucracy!
Only the working class of Zimbabwe, united to the working class of all Southern Africa, is the one that can guarantee the bread, the land, the national independence and even the struggle for the most extreme democratic liberties.
Today the Imperialism and the Capitalists are burdening their crisis on the masses. The catastrophe is already here: we need to fight it!
For a workers and popular economic plan!Let the crisis be paid by those on the top: the capitalists and the generals agents of imperialism!
The liberation of the workers will be done by the workers themselves!
The struggle of Zimbabwe is part of the struggle of our class brothers from all over Africa. Out Mnangagwa! Out Ramaphosa! Out Muhammdu Buhari! Enough of governments of the imperialist transnational companies!For a Southern African congress of workers' organizations, to break with the bourgeoisie and fight to expel imperialism!
We have to fight like in Marikana, with stoppages, pickets, and with the method of workers' democracy! Their demands are the ones of all the worker movement in the region and the World working class: salary, decent job, and against the treason of all the leaders that speaking in the name of the unions and worker organizations only sell out workers to their executioners.
We highly condemn all acts of violence by the security forces of Zimbabweon political activist. We deeply denounce the killings currently happenings in Nigeriaand Mozambique. We stand with our fellow brothers and sisters across Africa. Standing with our colour class brothers all over the planet! #Black Lives Matter, in Zimbabwe, in South Africa, in the US, Brazil and Libya! We are not indifferent to the genocide of our Syrian class brothers! Let's not allow the massacre to continue in, Nigeria, Syria! Let's fight against the dog Bashar and the murderer Putin, who do dirty work for imperialism!
Expel Mnangagwa, the bourgeois politicians and all the corrupt generals, agents of the imperialist powers that have ruled Zimbabwe for years!
Enough with governments of representatives of black millionaire’s partners of the banks and the TNCs that rule in a sea of black slaves. For a government of the workers and the poor people!
For a provisional revolutionary government of workers, poor peasants, students and ruined middle sectors, supported on rank and file soldier’s committees, self-defence committees and workers militias!
Revolutionary General Strike now until the government falls, and we expel imperialism out of Zimbabwe!
Out with the imperialist transnationals!
Let's take to the streets!
Issued by Workers International League (WIL) of Zimbabwe,
member of the FLTI
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