April 22nd, 2018

 

THE STRUGGLE AND THE INTERNATIONAL STRIKE OF WOMEN ON MARCH 8 LIVES AND CONTINUES IN THE WOMEN'S COMMITTEE OF THE MINERS OF HWANGE

Let’s take the internationalist example of the comrades of CONLUTAS in Brazil and the miners of Huanuni in Bolivia whom had made collections to support the comrades of Hwange and their strike. ¡Long livethemilitantinternacionalism!

The women's committee of the Hwange miners and their children has been developing a heroic struggle against the Anglo American imperialist transnationals that owe their husbands' salaries and for salary increases. They continue the struggle for more than three month. They sing "200 rands is not enough." This happend in the midst of a fierce dictatorship in Zimbabwe.

They are camping and blocking the entrance to the mine shaft. Their husbands do not receive their salary since three months ago and their situation is desperate. Their children have nothing to eat. Their husbands are forced to work, the trade union bureaucracy of the ZCTU had leave them alone. Currents that speak in the name of the working class, such as the Zimbawe ISO and the English SWP, left them isolated, refusing to coordinate them with other sectors in struggle.

The Anglo American, transnational that Hwange miners face, is the same transnational that led the massacre of the 34 miners of Marikana who carried out a huge strike for 12,500 rands of salary in August 2012. Todaytheirwidowscontinuetodemandjustice ...

ENOUGH!  THEY CANNOT CONTINUE FIGHTING ALONE EVEN ONE MORE MINUTE! The fate of the working class of Zimbabwe and of all South Africa is defined in the Hwange miners' strike.

The working women of the world this March 8 made an international strike against all the oppressors and for all our rights more senses demonstrating that if the imperialists have no borders to attack us and oppress us, the workers do not have borders to fight against them either. Let'sdeepenthisfight!

The strike, picket and international mobilization on March 8 lives and breathes in the women's committee of Hwange! Let's make every day a March 8 against the imperialist transnationals that plunder our nations and condemn us to misery.

Long live the struggle of the Hwange miners and their women!

We are all the 34 widows of the Marikana miners who continue to cry out for justice!

WE CALL THE WORKERS, STUDENTS, FEMINISTS AND FIGHTING WORKERS WOMEN ORGANIZATIONS TO TAKE IN THEIR HANDS THE FIGHT OF THE HEROIC WOMEN'S COMMITTEE OF THE MINERS OF HWANGE AND TO PROMOTE IN EACH ESTABLISHMENT, SCHOOL AND PLACE OF WORK AN INTERNATIONAL FUND OF FIGHT FOR SUSTAIN AND STRENGTHEN THE FIGHT OF THE COMPANIONS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Let´s take the example of the Huanuni miners who carried out a collect through the tunnels contributing to the strike fund of the Hwange miners. And the example of the workers of CONLUTAS from Brazil that in a meeting of mora than 1500 women they make a collection for the women’s committee of Hwange. Long live the militant internacionalism! Women have proved that we do not have borders to fight against our opressors! 

The miners of Rio Turbio (Argentina) are still fighting with their women's committee, the miners of Huanuni are making a vigil for their comrades massacred by the thirst for profit of the transnationals and the Morales government, the coal miners of Ukraine are still on the warpath ...

For a single international struggle of the miners against the transnationals, their governments and servant regimes!