Zimbabwe - August 18th, 2018

SCANDOLOUS AND BLOODY ELECTORAL FRAUD IN ZIMBABWE

The leaders of ZCTU and ISO called to vote for MDC and they legitimized the dictatorial regime, servant of the IMF and the imperialist pirates

DOWN THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP!

Out the government of Mnangagwa and ZANU PF!

Let the ZCTU, workers' organizations and those who call themselves "socialists" like ISO break with MDC and the bourgeoisie and call a national congress of workers, students and poor peasants immediately!

PLAN OF STRUGGLE AND GENERAL REVOLUTIONARY STRIKE!
Let's set up  self-defense committees and workers' and peasants' militia!
For rank and file soldiers committees!
For a provisional revolutionary government of poor workers and peasants, based on the struggling masses!

On July 30th presidential and legislative elections were held in Zimbabwe. As we, the internationalist revolutionary socialists of WIL, have been denouncing, these elections, supported by the participation of MDC, legitimized a military dictatorship -that governs with its caste of officers in the shadows of ZANU PF- with a scandalous fraud.
The corrupt Electoral Council of Zimbabwe (ZEC) in its swindle to the people, stated that "Crocodile" Mnagagwa (ZANU PF) “won” with 2,460,463 votes while the MDC candidate, lawyer Chamisa got 2,147,463. At the legislative level - always according to the fraudulent numbers of the Electoral Council - ZANU PF reached 140 parliamentary seats, while its opponent the MDC obtained 68.

As we have been saying on previous occasions, this scandalous fraud could not have been carried out without the full participation of the MDC (the main opposition party, which already governed a coalition with ZANU PF in 2008) in it.
The MDC announced in its campaign that "if there is fraud there is a boycott", since they did not give it the voter rolls or the printed ballots in a timely manner. However, sniffing that this demagogic game incited the exploited to set fire to the rage of mass struggle against the government and regime, candidate Chamisa, after stating that his party (MDC) "could make the country ungovernable", called to participate in the elections affirming "we cannot boycott our own triumph". But by participating in the elections, what he did was "boycott his own triumph" and legitimized the dictatorship of the military and ZANU PF. The fact is that the MDC, like any bourgeois faction, fears more the mobilized masses fighting in the streets than the dictatorship that defends the interests of the bourgeoisie as a whole (including those of the MDC).
There were conditions for the boycott of the electoral trap and to develop and extend the mass struggle for the revolutionary overthrow of the military dictatorship. This was proven by the huge battles of workers and exploited from different sectors, such as teachers, doctors and nurses, street vendors, who clashed in the streets with the government of Mnangagwa and the coup army.
The bourgeoisie knew that a mass struggle in Zimbabwe could sweep away not only ZANU PF bourgeoisie, the murderous army and imperialism, but also the same bourgeoisie MDC and its properties. That is why MDC, which weeks before the elections based its campaign on the slogan "fraud or boycott", called to order and pulled out of the struggle in the streets of the masses who had been involved in heavy fighting against the military dictatorship and the pro-imperialist government of Mnangagwa. And it created false illusions in which putting a ballot in the ballot box could overthrow the dictatorship and conquer the long-awaited "democracy".
In short, without the "sweet phrases" of MDC, which acted as an anesthetic to numb the masses and subject them to the electoral trap, the fraud would not have been carried forward. The role of MDC was to legitimize the elections, by participating, and thus save the military dictatorship, ZANU PF and the business of the capitalists and the IMF that comes to collect the 9,000 million dollars of fraudulent foreign debt and deepen the famine and misery of millions of rural and urban poor who survive today in Zimbabwe.
But the MDC was not alone in subjecting the masses to the electoral trap. He had the help of ZCTU bureaucracy and the leaders of ISO, who instead of coordinating the dozens of workers and popular struggles that fought against the infamous dictatorship, campaigned for MDC; they called to vote telling workers that they would bring "democracy". But the MDC only brought, once again, the perpetuity of the dictatorship of the coup militants and ZANU PF in power.
So ZCTU bureaucracy and the leadership of ISO, endorsing, legitimizing and being part of the fraud, allowed the MDC to make the country governable in favor of the military dictatorship and the ZANU PF who had been totally in crisis and cornered by the rebellious masses that fought against hunger, unemployment and repression and threatened to sweep away this infamous regime that governs the service of the imperialist pirates.
That is why Mnangagwa, recovering the "governability" granted by MDC in complicity with ZCTU and ISO, can announce now to the bourgeois media (in his new role as president) the "end of two measures: the law of" indigenization" , which forced foreign companies to transfer at least 51% of their capital to local black investors; and the embargo of farms belonging to white businessmen ". This was the electoral trap and the subsequent fraud in the elections, to ensure a new delivery of Zimbabwe to the plundering of imperialist pirates and white masters who from the hand of the rich black bourgeoisie are left with all the riches of our soils and deepen the slavery of our people.
After the electoral trap and fraud: a bloodbath of the military against the people
Before the results that ZEC made public, strips of the exploited who hate ZANU PF and the coup army and sectors of supporters of MDC, mobilized through the streets of the main cities of the country. But in Harare the army stationed in the street opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 6 protesters, 3 in the streets and 3 died finally in hospital. Today the military is, as there is a state of siege, patrolling the streets.
MDC uses these demonstrations to negotiate its place in the current regime and the new government. It does not care about the blood of the exploited. Regrettably, the leaders of the trade union and the workers and popular organizations, before the brutal attack of the army against the democratic freedoms, call to be "calm" and to "preserve life", to "not go out into the streets until the situation return to normal." When the bullets of the executioners of the people and the impacts against the bodies of the exploited are heard, it is time to call the masses to set up the Self-Defence Committees and workers and popular militias, to arm themselves, to dissolve the police, and to summon the rank and file soldiers to break with the caste of army officers and set up their own committees to join the people with their arms. The pacifism of the collaborationist leaderships with the bourgeoisie is paid dearly by the poor, who are watering the land of Zimbabwe with their blood.
Report the electoral scam in the "Constitutional Court" of ZANU PF and the military:
a new step of the MDC in the legitimation of the regime of fraud and the military dictatorship
MDC endorsed the fraud scheme with the electoral trap, and keeps doing it so, even though it complains, while allowing groups of the people -including their own supporters- unarmed and defenseless to clash in public demonstrations with the army, fully armed and who do not hesitate to shoot. Now, after not having signed in ZEC the conformity of the electoral result, they say that they will appeal to the Constitutional Court that is also directed by ZANU PF and the army.
This is an unusual cynicism, is a new deception to the workers and the people by this party that applauded and supported the coup of the military against Mugabe yesterday and told the people that "the dictatorship could give free and democratic elections." So MDC seeks to give a twist to the legitimacy of electoral fraud and prevent workers and the exploited from uniting, put up their bodies fit for political struggle and winning the streets, leaving the army, sweeping the dictatorship and opening the road to the workers' and socialist revolution to recover the land, break with the IMF and conquer true national independence.        

The bureaucracy of ZCTU and ISO leaders called to vote the MDC and ended up legitimizing the electoral trap and fraud

ZCTU’s leaders, workers' organizations and ISO said that MDC would conquer "more democracy and spaces for the advancement of the working class", and they refused to coordinate different struggles and called to vote for this bourgeois party. Thus they prevented the working class from the fights of the miners, the state workers, the teachers and nurses, the students and the street workers, regroup their forces in a Congress of the lower ones and with strikes, pickets and general strike: boycott of the electoral trap and a leap in the struggle to win over the poor peasants and to rise as the leader of the oppressed nation, crush the caste of coup officers, overthrow the pro-imperialist dictatorial regime and raise power of the exploited.
Let's tell the truth, these leaders -supporting the bourgeois of the MDC- stole the victory to the workers and the people; and they have saved for the moment a bourgeoisie in crisis besieged by the masses who fought for bread, work, land, dignity and freedom.
The struggle to sweep the dictatorship and conquer the most basic democratic demands must pass into the safe hands of the working class and the exploited

As we have already stated in previous declarations, we reaffirm that the democratic freedoms, subjugated at every step by the governments of the capitalists and imperialism, are conquered and defended with the methods of the working class struggle: the strikes, the pickets, the general strike, fighting in the streets and revolution itself. We affirm that bourgeois "democrats" of the MDC and the dictatorship come out of the same cesspool called capitalist system with its hunger and slavery bosses and imperialism looting the oppressed peoples.
Bread, freedom and national independence are conquered with the working class leading all the exploited and oppressed sectors of Zimbabwe. Only the working class breaking with the bosses and their parties can guarantee national independence and the most elementary democratic freedoms for the people.
We insist the Socialists would not hesitate a second to push this or that specific point in action with any current, including bourgeois, who want to fight for democratic freedoms or face even at a point to the plundering of the nation by imperialism. But none of this did -or does- MDC that yesterday only called for perfecting and MAKING MORE CRIMINAL THE ELECTORAL FRAUD, looking for the legitimacy of the constitutional court. If MDC wanted it could call for a generalized struggle of the people to defeat the military dictatorship and the electoral fraud. This is the most minimal and democratic struggle that is being held today in Zimbabwe. But all MDC does is to put the masses on their knees before the regime of the dictatorship and expropriate the struggle for the most elementary democratic demands.
THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE: the working class must break out with its own methods of struggle against the military dictatorship and the infamous regime...

ZCTU, the workers' organizations and those who call themselves "socialists" like the ISO, must break with MDC and the bourgeoisie, and call right now a national congress of workers, students and poor peasants!

The working class must break into this political crisis independently. The struggle against the dictatorship is once again in the hands of the workers, that we cannot allow this pro-imperialist and anti-worker regime to continue to be strengthened and legitimized by fraudulent elections. That is why all organizations that claim to defend and represent workers as ZCTU, PTUZ or ISO must break with the parties of the bourgeoisie and must convene a large National Congress with delegates of employed and unemployed workers and the exploited sectors of the people so that the working class can prepare the best conditions to fight for bread, work and against imperialist looting. We need to conquer a revolutionary general strike to defeat this repressive government, its electoral trap and end the plundering of imperialism and the IMF of the nation!
To defeat the murderous military dictatorship, electoral fraud and the IMF that supports it
General revolutionary strike!
We must stop the massacre that began and has already claimed the lives of 6 exploited
Self-defense committees and worker and popular militia! Dissolution of the police! By rank and file soldiers committees!

Down with the military dictatorship and its corrupt electoral board! Out IMF and transnationals! They are the fraud!
Provisional revolutionary government of the trade union and the poor peasants!
Free and sovereign national assembly of Zimbabwe without corrupt judges, without murderous police and without coup generals all agents of the transnationals, IMF and capitalists!

The fight against imperialism, Anglo-American and transnationals is of the working class and the poor peasants of all Southern Africa!
For a Bantu Republic, working and socialist!