Zimbabwe - March 20th, 2018

Neither Mnangagwa Nor the Generals that made the Coup D’état! They are all servants of Imperialism and Enslavers of their own people! Coup d’état in Zimbabwe was a true plot against the masses made by imperialism, transnational companies, Mugabe’s generals, Zanu-PF and MDC.

LET THE WORKERS OF ZIMBABWE RISE!

Doctors' strike continues despite government claims that negotiation panel had signed a collective bargaining agreement effectively bringing the two-week long strike to an end. The ongoing doctors' strike which has crippled public health institutions is continuing.

In Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) and its workers, which has seen spouses protesting against management since January this year, has been locked in a long standing labour dispute with its workers who have not been paid for about three years.

Workers' spouses have been demonstrating against management since January 29, demanding the coal mining company fulfils its pledge to pay them outstanding salaries after agreeing to a Scheme of Arrangement last year.

The workers want to be paid lump sum packages of up to $10 000 each and have been promised full pay starting this month.

Since the demonstration started, the company has paid the workers 5.2 percent of the outstanding salaries in two batches of 2.6 percent each. The protestors have refused to end the demonstration saying the money was insignificant.
The struggle of the miners in Hwange is the fight of all workers movement in the Southern Africa. This fight has already touched the party of Mnangagwa, the ZANU pf, the war veterans has to come out and say that they must act, otherwise they will lose in the next elections.

On education sector; Teachers' Unions unanimously agree on job action. Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ met with all unions representing workers in the education sector. The meeting resolved that education workers will be downing tools if their demands are not met. As build up to the job action which is in May, Union leaders will march to the office of the President between 1300hrs and 1400hrs on 27 March 2018. The leaders will handover a notice of strike capturing their key demands.

For the past three years, there was no wage review in various sectors-wages are not going up.

The price of basic commodities, including bread and many other things, continues to go up despite spirited attempts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s new administration to instil confidence in the economy.

THE WORKING CLASS MUST GIVE A WAY OUT:
To get food, recover the land, collect our wages and for all to have decent work...The working class must give a way out for the crisis!

For committees of workers, poor peasants, vendors, students and rank and file soldiers!
Set up the power of those of below, the broad majority of the subjugated nation, to disarm the bourgeoisie!

To take a first step forward, we need to conquer rank and file assemblies in all remaining factories, mines and workplaces! It is necessary to set up a coordination organ of all the workers in struggle, of the unemployed workers, militant youth, poor peasants, the vendors, mine workers, civil servants and municipality workers and students to fight together!

Enough of collaborationist union bureaucracies! For a revolutionary leadership of the unions!

The struggle for better wages is won in the street not on negotiations and civil servants should unite with the vendors, private sector, mines and farm workers and make it a single fight.

We need to set up self-defence committees and the workers' militia to impose a revolutionary General Strike that will shake Zimbabwe from its foundations and put the fall of the infamous regime on the agenda!

Today, as Mnangagwa is settled as new government, the unions and the reformist left are joining the MDC voice in demanding elections with a new electoral law. Whilst Mnangagwa make us believe that the officers by this coup d’état have put an end to Mugabe’s dictatorship, since there will be a democratic opening calling for elections in 2018.

We International revolutionary socialist of the Workers International League of Zimbabwe stated that our country is now a military state, a slave labour force open air concentration camp and there are no democratic freedoms, not even free elections, 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.

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 South Africa. Out Mugabe and Mnangagwa! Out Zuma and Ramaphosa! 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!

Standing with our colour class brothers all over the planet! Black lives matter ... in Zimbabwe, in South Africa, and in the US, Brazil, Libya! We are not indifferent to the genocide of our Syrian class brothers! Let's not allow the massacre to continue in 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 millionaires 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 defense 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. General strike now!

Issued by Workers International League of Zimbabwe / FLTI