Revolutionary general strike!

 To conquer bread, work and dignity

 We must expropriate imperialism and the capitalists!

Up those from Below!

 For months, the workers and people of Swaziland, fed up with living in poverty and hunger, and stripped of all rights, have been fighting in the streets against the monarchy, King MSWATI III and the plunder of their country by imperialism.
The fundamental driver of the uprisings is hunger, unemployment and miserable living conditions, which have worsened terribly with the Pandemic, with 60% of the population living below the poverty line.  Most Swazis stay on just two dollars a day or even less.  In the narrow workers' houses and rural shacks, there are no toilets or water, hardly any food.

The fight against the monarchy continues

 In this month of October, the working class and the poor masses intensified their struggle and faced the terrible repression unleashed by the police and the army, which obstructed the routes to prevent the mobilizations from reaching the most important cities.  The nurses' union accused the law enforcement forces of shooting at staff caring for the wounded and traveling to work in night shifts.

 Education workers, transporters, public employees, health workers, took to the streets and staged strikes, by sector.  But the king, in the face of this wave of protest against the regime, as "owner and lord of the Swazi nation", in a new onslaught against the demonstrations, banned the protests, closed the Internet, prevented the output of information abroad, and maintained the closure of schools.

 Despite this prohibition, the nurses entered their second day of strike as they refused to treat security officials after they had broken into the largest hospital in the city of Mbabane, capital of the country, with clean fire, while there were numerous wounded from the marches.  In addition, this army, under the king's orders, due to the curfew, shot all those who were in the street at night, that is, also the nurses who went out to work the night shift, when they are those who tended to the protesters and injured schoolchildren.  The textile workers also called a strike for Monday 25, which they later decided to suspend, in order to be able to meet again and decide how to face it in the face of the prohibition of protests and the repression of the army with real bullets.

No to agreements of the bourgeoisie or cosmetic reforms of the regime

 For the moment, although the workers and the masses were taken off the streets, their hatred against the oppression of the king, their fed-up with misery, hunger and deplorable living conditions, is not silenced.  Well, in a country of a million and a half inhabitants, mired in total poverty, with a dictatorial regime, the corrupt and arrogant king living in total opulence and accusing the masses of drunkards and criminals, being the guarantor of the theft by the transnationals of the nation's wealth, provokes the ire of the Swuazi inhabitants.

 The situation is still tense, the king changed the hated prime minister, appointing another more diplomatic who, so that the spirits of the dispossessed were appeased, hurried to air a statement of condolence to the relatives of the dead who exceed one hundred and a greeting to the wounded. Of whom there were many, while the arrests of minors who are 5 to 14 years old continue.

 It's a worrying situation for the entire bourgeoisie of the region and for imperialism.  Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, sent an emissary on behalf of the South African Development Commission to meet with the king and make a call for dialogue.  However, the opposition parties refuse to negotiate with the king due to deep mistrust.

 In turn, the UN called to respect the rights of children ... The entire bourgeoisie, both black and white, and imperialism want to go towards a negotiated transition to make only cosmetic changes to that infamous regime, that is, to try to deceive the masses with agreements between the king and parties of the bourgeoisie to placate the masses in their struggle.

But the Swazi slaves know very well that this monarchy is the one that imposes all their hardships on them.  All their demands collide with the existence of that despotic regime of King Mswati III, who assumed 35 years ago and is an unconditional ally of imperialism to which he guarantees the looting of the nation's wealth.

 Nothing good will come for the masses from the hands of agreements among the bourgeoisie, or cosmetic reforms such as those proposed by some opposition parties, the CP, the conciliatory trade union centrals and the governments of the region, especially that of South Africa.  The working class and the impoverished masses will achieve nothing in this way, not decent bread, wages and housing, free and quality education and health, peace, or the freedom of all prisoners for fighting and other democratic demands of the swazi nation

May the struggle of the working class and the impoverished masses not stop!

 It is necessary that they take the resolution of all their demands in their hands.  A decisive action must be prepared to paralyze the economy of the whole of Swaziland, to show who makes the country work.

 The unions must break their submission to the king and put all their strength in preparing and organizing this fight to break the chains that bind us.

 To achieve this, it is a matter of setting up committees of occupied and unemployed workers, which, together with the student and peasant committees, prepare and organize a Revolutionary General Strike that overthrows the king and leaves no stone unturned by this nefarious regime of hunger and guarantor of the robbery and plunder of imperialism.

 Faced with the terrible repression that the regime is printing and it will not hesitate to deepen, creating paramilitary gangs that continue to murder and sow terror to the masses together with the repressive forces, it is urgent to set up armed self-defense committees from the unions under the control of the assemblies of occupied and unemployed, win over the common soldiers so that they ignore their officers and refuse to shoot, passing with their weapons to the side of the workers and the poor people, to form workers' militias, destroy the officer caste and dissolve the police.

 And to conquer in that way, a Provisional Revolutionary worker and peasant government, based on self-organized and armed mass organizations.

 Only such a government will be able to call a free and sovereign National Constituent Assembly that is made up of one delegate voted for every thousand inhabitants, who are revocable, with the salary of a worker.  This assembly must break with imperialism to recover the wealth of the Swazi nation, give the land to the peasants, nationalize foreign trade and establish an emergency workers' and popular plan to face hunger and the most urgent demands of the exploited masses.

 For the expropriation without payment of all the king's companies, his wives, children and other relatives, of all the properties of the black and white bourgeoisie from South Africa and of the multinationals that plunder the Swuazi nation and the countries of the entire region!

 Expropriation without compensation of all the banks under the control of their workers!  So that they can provide cheap loans, seeds, tools to the thousands of poor peasants.

 For the expropriation without compensation of the lands that are in the hands of the king, the large landowners and the imperialist corporations!  The land is for those who work it and to feed the workers and the poor masses.

 The Swazi Nation Struggle Must Win!

 To this end, the unions from all over South Africa who expressed their sympathy and solidarity with the masses of Swaziland in the struggles of June and July, especially the NUMSA that has just carried out a National Strike of the metalworking sector and the brave miners of Marikana, Knowing first-hand the massacres of imperialism, they must translate words into action and unite their own struggles and demands with those of the impoverished Swazi masses.

 We call on the trade union centrals of South Africa to break with the bourgeoisie and not bow to the traps of reconciliation and cosmetic reforms proposed by the governments of their countries, which are allies of the same imperialist pirates who steal wealth, blood and the muscles of the workers and the poor masses in the region and throughout Africa.

 Therefore, let us fight alongside the workers of South Africa who live in the same conditions.  Let's defeat the leaderships of the tripartite alliance of the CNA-PC-COSATU that are the ones that guarantee that the Republic of the rainbow maintains the batustans of slave labor!

 We must impose the rupture of the workers 'organizations with the bourgeoisie! For an international congress of all the workers' and fighting organizations in southern Africa! Out with imperialism and the black bourgeoisie!

 All the borders drawn by imperialism must be broken!

 For a federation of black Soviet and socialist republics from all over South Africa!

 EG and AM