Zimbabwe 17/2/2018

Long live the struggle of the miners of Hwange and their women committee against the mining transnational companies!

They cannot end up being isolated
For delegates from all the worker and student organizations to go to the mine and set up a national struggle committee!

The struggle of the miners of Hwange has been on for 20 days now, for they payment of their wage arrears and for a raise. The mine is shut. The wives of the miners have set up a committee and are camping and blocking the entrance to the facilities of the collier.
This mine is part of the imperialist transnational company Anglo American, the same one that plunders the entire southern Africa and massacred 34 miners of Marikana when they came out to fight for wages.

The miners of Hwange cannot end up being isolated! Their demands are the same ones as the entire workers movement of Zimbabwe. Decent work and wages for all!
The fate of the working class and the oppressed of Zimbabwe is defined in the struggle of the miners of Hwange. If they are left alone, the bosses and the military government will seek to repress them and crush their struggle. We cannot let this happen!
Surround with solidarity for all the miners of Hwange and their housewives committee!
From all the unions and all the worker and student organizations of Zimbabwe, we need to vote delegates to go to Hwange to contribute to the strike fund and to fight together. There, a national struggle committee must be set up! For the general strike!

They fight against the transnational mining companies and their imperialist banks that plunder Zimbabwe, as all the colonial and semi-colonial countries. Their struggle is the same one with the miners and the workers of the world that confront the same transnational companies.
Stop the attack of the transnational companies that plunder all the wealth of the subjugated nation, plunging the working class in misery and killing it as in Marikana!
Expropriation without compensation of all the mines and place them under workers control! Out with the mining transnational companies! Out with IMF! Out with imperialism and its lackey government of the officers caste of Zimbabwe!

The miners of Hwange and their brave women cannot be isolated! If so, the imperialist bosses of Anglo American and their military junta will go to crush them, as they did yesterday in South Africa, killing the 34 miners of Marikana.

For this struggle to succeed, we need to deepen the way of the international solidarity that the Huanuni miners have already started to go through, contributing for the strike fund. From all the workers organizations in the world, send funds and food to the struggle committee and the women committee of the miners of Hwange! The working class of the imperialist centres, in USA and England in particular, must rise to confront Anglo American, the owner of Hwange mining company and that plunders the entire southern Africa, together with the workers of Zimbabwe.

Let all the worker and student organizations of Zimbabwe send delegates to Hwange to set up a national struggle committee! General strike to defeat the imperialist transnational companies and the lackey government of the military junta!
Justice for the murdered miners of Marikana!
Down with the murderous military junta that rules for the imperialist transnational companies!
Long live the struggle of the miners of Hwange and their wives committee!
Long live the international solidarity!