Zimbabwe - December 13th, 2018

Dear SRWP Committee 

We write this letter to tell you that we have failed to attend the first Pre-Launch of the South Africa Revolutionary Workers Party. This is because of the limited time we had to prepare our trip due to the short notice. We look forward to get to know your resolutions, debate them and to be able to meet soon, to organize a joint struggle.

Comrades, we salute your Pre-Launch of the SRWP from the Workers International League of Zimbabwe. We are part of a fraction of internationalist socialists of revolutionary workers of the world, the FLTI / Committee for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International.
From Zimbabwe, we have participated and stood together with the fight of the Marikana workers and their widows and their demand for justice. We intervened together with you because from black Africa, from Zimbabwe, we fight alongside the teachers, the railroads, the health workers, Hwange miners, Vendors, calling for the Marikana program of R12,500  and the fight against the union bureaucracies to be a combat of the entire working class of the region, who are punished, suffering and a thousand times enslaved by the white imperialist masters.

We, WIL of Zimbabwe, together with our international current, made your call to build up the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party known to thousands of workers and revolutionary youth around the world.
We also made a political contribution to your motion of building up the SRWP. We are also sending it attached to this note, to put it forward for the discussion, as a point of view to strengthen the struggle of the workers of South Africa and the entire Southern Africa. We believe it is time that the workers movement in our continent and internationally recovers its internationalist character. The reformist leaderships, servants of the bourgeoisie, who subordinate us to our executioners, are the same ones in every country. It is about to unite the ranks of the working class to fight against imperialism and the capitalists. For us, it is also about the experience to set up a Revolutionary Workers Party.
It is clear that the method to conquer this party is the broadest workers democracy, the same one we strive for in our unions, to be able to fight. We think it must be expressed in an opened debate among the militant forces of the working class to conquer a program that set us free from the governments and regimes of the capitalists and advance to the victory of the socialist revolution.

We are thus sending you our political contribution to your program and we hope it can get to be known by all the delegates that will attend to that meeting. We look forward to receiving your opinions and criticisms on these contributions.

Also, we hope we can have the chance to meet us, to learn from your experience and we are willing to receive your resolutions and to make your debates and calls for struggle known in the entire African continent and internationally.

Comrades, we intervene in this Pre-Launch with our contributions, to help this appeal to fulfill your objectives because we actually believe that COSATU collaborationist Stalinist bureaucracy, which has sustained this infamous regime of the ANC of bourgeois black millionaires stockpiling their fortunes amidst a sea of black slaves, has not done anything more than to guard the same imperialist interests that the white bourgeoisie and the Boer defended with Apartheid.

We also are to make this appeal known because –for sure, it is clear for the entire world working class that with the treacherous leaderships that we have at our head, we can no longer fight. They divide our struggles; bleed them away leaving them isolated, while the bosses and their governments concentrate their forces to defeat them one by one. They are paid with the coins thrown at them by the capitalists, coins that trickle down from the fortunes created through the super-exploitation of the working class; the paid bureaucrats sell the exploited. This happens there in South Africa, in Zimbabwe with the ZCTU, in Latin America with the "Bolivarian" trade union bureaucracies, servants of the native bourgeoisies, in USA with the AFL-CIO, as also happens in imperialist Europe, where most of the trade union centrals are controlled and manipulated fiercely, under control of the state, by the communist parties that yesterday handed over the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam and other former workers states to imperialism and today surrender each of the workers' conquests, creating the workers the worst conditions for their struggle. They preach class collaboration, as they have done in South Africa with that infamous government of subjugation of the workers to their executioners, while the capitalists have launched a brutal class war.

Comrades, today we see the struggle of the Yellow Vests in France. They, in their fights of barricades, confronting French imperialism and the government of the bankers of Macron, have overcome in the streets the official trade union bureaucracies that have been yielding all the working class gains, such as the 35 working hours a week and the working conditions, while they have allowed the theft to the retired. The workers said “enough!”. They overran the official trade unions and set up the barricades, with which they fight against the powerful of the world. There’s the spark and fire to burn not only Europe but also our continent. The French imperialism, together with the US and other imperialist powers, controls Maghreb and Middle East and the Sub-Saharan Africa, while the US-UK companies plunder our minerals, oil and all our natural resources.
The fight for our demands today is also defined in the barricades of Paris. It is a single fight. There are conditions to re-group the ranks of the world working class.

A revolutionary workers party is built though the struggle for the socialist revolution and fighting for it every day, fighting at every step to set up self-determination and self-organizing associations of the masses that coordinate their struggles and their demands; only thus the working class will be able to get rid of the leaderships that betray them and to really put in place the revolutionary leadership the workers deserve.

Millions of unemployed and underemployed workers, immigrants, treated as outcasts by the bourgeois society are not organized in the trade union centres or the trade unions. Any serious struggle, like the one you already waged by the working class of South Africa, needs to organize the millions who enter the fight. The task is for the revolutionary unions to set up ad hoc organizations that are best adapted for the political struggle the masses have ahead (as the French working class), such as the factory committees, the unemployed committees, and committees of immigrants (who are attacked at every step by counter-revolutionary pogroms to tear down the workers' ranks).
Committees for water, for housing, of consumers against the high cost of living, are the organizations that the unions should call for to unite the vast majority of workers and poor people of South Africa.

At every step, as we saw in Marikana, the bourgeoisie organizes gangs to attack immigrants, and massacre workers with their murderous police. The struggle to set up strike pickets, which are the embryo of the workers' militia, is essential to carry out any serious struggle that minimally attacks the interests of the capitalists and the government and the infamous regime of the Anglo-American and the transnationals.

The traitorous bureaucracy of COSATU was the one that repressed and gave out the Marikana miners. Any serious fight against the union bureaucracy will put the fight for the self-defences committees and a real working-class militia on the order of the day, which will be strengthened by integrating the rank and file soldiers, the children of the people within the class and revolutionary unions.

This is the task of a revolutionary party and a revolutionary leadership of the trade unions to organize and set up the armed dual-power organizations of the working class, uniting their ranks, conquering their majority. Because that day, which we must prepare hour by hour and minute by minute, will be the day of liberation, the day of the socialist revolution.

That is why we consider the call of the SRWP is a step forward to set up a movement for the construction of a new revolutionary party so that the workers have at their head the leadership they need and deserve to succeed.

The Pre-Launch came at a time when we are remembering December 12, the day of freedom to the political prisoners of the world.

As Workers International League of Zimbabwe we stand with together with the condemned workers, family and friends of Las Heras. As we say this December they are not alone. From Zimbabwe, South Africa and the entire Southern Africa to Argentina condemned workers of Las Heras, their family and friends, we send a warm hug to all workers and students of the country and the world who are fighting for acquittal. On this day, We demand justice for the 34 miners of Marikana. We fight for the freedom of the prisoners of the Syrian revolution. 40,000 of them were slaughtered in the jails of the fascist Al Assad. The fight for the freedom of all the political prisoners (like the Palestinians in the prisons of the Zionist occupier, the Basque in the jails of the regime of the Borbon in the Spanish State, the rebel youth of Greece, Mumia Abu Jamal in USA and all the political prisoners of the world) will be centralized during this entire week.
Attached to this note, we are sending you the call of the oil workers of Las Heras, Argentina, convicted to life in prison.

Socialist revolutionary greetings,

WIL Zimbabwe