Colombia - April 29th, 2021

April 29: the exploited do not leave the streets

From the general strike to the revolutionary strike!

Down with the Duque government and the infamous regime of the US military bases!

Neither "peace" nor "reconciliation" with the capitalists, their government and imperialism that declared war on the people!

We must arm the masses and disarm the repressive forces!

No justice, no peace and there will not be peace!
That is the banner of struggle of the black people in the United States who fight for their rights.

The capitalists, the IMF and their bankers declared war on those below, with widespread theft to the workers and the people. Those at the top steal, kill leaders of the people daily, massively layoff workers as in Cerrejón and condemned millions to starve... And now call they call to "peace". What "peace" are they talking about?

In order to conquer peace, the IMF-led hikes in taxes must be brought down.
In order to have peace, it is necessary to disarm the paramilitary and repressive forces and expel the 9 US military bases that are installed in Colombia.
In order to have peace, it is necessary to give the people a minimum, living and mobile wage according to the family basket.
In order to have peace, we need an unemployment insurance, to take millions out of indigence and nationalize without compensation and place under workers control every factory that closes or dismisses.

There will only be peace if we expel the IMF and do not pay a fraudulent foreign debt that was stolen by politicians and big bankers.

Stop the armed robbery of land to the peasants!
May health workers live with dignity to save the people!

The exploiters want "peace" when they rob us, slaughter us and plunder us.

The strike, called by the trade union federations to decompress the hatred of the masses, showed that the masses are a thousand times cleverer than the treacherous leaderships they have at the head. The wholeout "tax hike" against the workers and the exploited was the drop that filled the glassin the face of so much misery, looting, hunger, death and other sufferings of those from below. A "tax reform”that increases the VAT, the tax on  wages, oil, transport... A wholeout attack of the government and the infamous regime against the exploited.
With the general strike, the exploited climbed one step towards adecisive mass political struggle to overthrow the regime and the government.
The general strike has started. The 29th is already the second revolutionary day that shakes the country controlled by the US military bases and the infamous regime supported by a pact between the counterrevolutionary forces of Castroism and Stalinism that disarmed the peasant masses.

The Stalinists union bureaucracies who preach "peace", "democracy" and "reconciliation" are responsible of this attack of the  Duke goverment. They were and continue to be accomplices in this attack on the people. They isolated every claim of the workers and poor peasants, as they did with the Cerrejón miners' strike and hundreds of combats.

This time the unit of the exploited occurs on the streets, on the barricades, on the picket lines, in the clashes with the murderous police and the paramilitaries.

April 30 must be a new revolutionary day

The combat of the masses should not stop. That is what all the reformist leaderships, agents and lackeys of the regime will try to do.

The revolutionary masses who are taking to the streets, theworkers, the popular layers, the poor peasants, should take the struggle in their own hands without delay.

Let no one dare to betray the rebellious people!

Let the "tax reform" fall and with it, also the government, the bosses' politicians, its judges and murderous generals go to the dustbin of history!

Let’sset up the power of the of the exploited!

From the grassroots, the exploited begin to self-organize for this battle in the municipalities, in the cities, in the squares, at the factory gates, in the universities...
The setting up of factory or company committees, of unemployed people, of students, of popular assemblies in the working-class neighborhoods is the task of the moment.
Organisms must be put in place to unite all the masses in struggle and make feel the full weight of the exploited who are the vast majority of the nation!

It's time for the self-defense committees! Against the murderous repression that has cost hundreds and hundreds of lives of those from below, a powerful worker and peasant militia must be set up! Weapons for the people!

Bread, land, health and decent work for all!
Progressive taxes on big fortunes! Out with the IMF! No pay the fraudulent foreign debt!
The expropriators of the people must be expropriated!
Let the capitalistspay for the crisis!

They came for everything and took everything from us...
Now we go for them all

Indefinite revolutionary general strike until those at the top fall!
Up those from below!

Internationalist Workers Nucleus of Colombia
Comuneros Group, Calí
Collective for the re-foundation of the fourth international / FLTI-CI