Harare, Zimbabwe - January 22nd, 2018

Zimbabwe up to day

The military dictatorship continues to persecute the leaders of the workers organizations and activists
Free all those imprisoned for fighting!

Nearly a week after a 3 day general strike, with fighting in the streets, where the masses faced the increase in the prices of fuel and the starvation misery plans of the IMF, the government of Mnangagwa of ZANU-PF continues with the brutal repression. Not only they sent the police to suppress the masses in the streets on the days of strike, leaving 5 dead. The army keeps raiding every house looking for the leaders and activists that were and are part of the fights against this government of the military dictatorship, servant of imperialism. They have detained the president and the secretary general of ZCTU trade union federation, to the president of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union, comrade Masaraure, Civil Society Leaders and hundreds of so many activists and leaders of other workers organizations. Immediate and unconditional freedom to all of them now!

The country is militarized. In Zimbabwe there’s the rule of a military dictatorship, which has now taken the army to the streets, to persecute the workers and popular fighters. You can be killed only for exercising your constitutional right to protest.

We, the internationalist socialist revolutionaries of the Workers International League of Zimbabwe, say that our country is a slave labour force open air concentration camp, totally militarized, where there’s no democratic freedoms. This is Zimbabwe as an IMF colony, under the military dictatorship, agent of imperialism and the transnational companies.

Immediate unconditional release of all the leaders of the workers organizations that were arrested and those imprisoned for fighting!

Down with the military dictatorship! Out with the government of Mnangagwa and the ZANU-PF! Enough of governments of the imperialist transnational companies!
Out with the IMF! Let’s expropriate the transnationals and bankers without compensation and under workers control!

Let’s set up self-defense committees and workers and peasants militias! Rank and file soldier committees to disregard the murderous officers!
For committees of factory, of poor peasants, of rural workers, of unemployed and of vendors to be coordinated by town, city and region! Set up the power of those from the below, the broadest exploited majority of Zimbabwe!
Revolutionary general strike until Mnangagwa falls! For a provisional revolutionary government of the workers and poor peasants, based on the struggling masses!

The liberation of the workers will be the task of workers themselves!

Issued by Workers International League of Zimbabwe, section of the FLTI