Zimbabwe - July 10th 2018

July 30th: ELECTIONS IN ZIMBABWE The military dictatorship, the capitalists and the IMF have two candidates: ZANU-PF and MDC Mugabe and MDC already ruled together at the service of the bankers and transnational companies

On a scandalous statement of ISO leadership and their call to fight for democracy together with MDC, one of the fundamental supports of the military government and its electoral fraud See full polemic

The class-collaborationist leaderships of the unions and ZCTU subordinate us to our executioners

Down with the electoral farce!

Break with the bourgeoisie and its parties!

To conquer bread, work, houses, land and freedom
Let’s build up the power of the exploited!

National Congress of the employed and unemployed workers to promote a struggle plan and the General Strike!

Down with the military dictatorship! Mnangagwa out!

On July 30th…
LET’S NOT GO TO VOTE

Out with IMF, the employer politicians and the trade union bureaucrats, traitors of the workers movement!
Everyone out, no one left!

For a revolutionary workers and popular government!
Based on the self-determination and direct democracy organs of the masses

Zimbabwe will be socialist or Wall Street colony

The workers of Zimbabwe have been staging great and hard struggles. We did so against Mugabe and his bloody dictatorship for more than three decades. We also did so when Mugabe’s government entered in crisis in 2008-2009 and called their self-proclaimed “democratic” partners of MDC for them to save him from the hatred of the masses. The MDC has always been riding the coat tails of the generals of the army. These “democrats” came to apply the same plan of starvation and misery against the workers, and the same sellout to imperialism that their boss Mugabe did. ZANU-PF and MDC are two legs of the IMF, of imperialism and the bosses that plunder Zimbabwe and starve the workers.

In the last years, Zimbabwe was filled with workers, popular and students struggles. Hundreds of thousands strive to collect the wages in arrears. We fight because they don’t even let us be vendors when we are unemployed, because we get evicted from the streets. We come out to fight for a wage increase, as Hwange miners did, as well as the health workers, civil servants and railway workers, or for our job source to be reopened and collect our compensations as textile workers. The teachers and students fought in defense of education. There was no sector that didn’t stand against Mugabe’s government and also against the military, which with Mnangagwa took charge of the government.
Now they call for elections to prevent that this huge hatred of the masses gets unified and coordinated in order to wipe out as a wave all the exploiters, plunderers and starvationinst of the nations.

If today the military and the black bourgeoisie, junior partner of the imperialist pirates, can call to these fraudulent elections to cover up for the fierce dictatorship of the bosses, the military and IMF, is because the bureaucratic and collaborationist leaderships of the unions and ZCTU refused to organize and coordinate a great struggle that defeats them all on the streets. They refused to coordinate those in struggle. They divided all the struggles and entered in the electoral farce, against the interests, needs and struggle of the workers and the people in Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, the MDC appears as “opposition” to the military junta, when the very day it took office, they went to beg on their knees for “free elections”. They were very far away from calling the workers and the people to rise against Mugabe and the military coup. The capitalists of MDC know that they need the coup generals of today because they will rely on them if the elections are won, to repress the people and impose the IMF plans, as they did when they ruled.

Down with the electoral trap of the government of the coup of Mnangagwa,
the military dictatorship, ZANU-PF and MDC!

On July 30th, the workers do not vote ZANU-PF, MDC or the military of the coup
We don’t vote for capitalists; they are repressors and lackeys of imperialism

Both MDC and ZANU-PF are agents of the multinational companies. Both of them want to form their government and pro-imperialist regime, supported by the army generals from the backstage, and legitimize it by providing a “democratic” costume with the fraudulent elections called by the officers cast and the government of the coup of Mnangagwa. Their goal is to impose a more bonapartist regime, settled in the repressive forces of the bourgeois state.
That’s why, both MDC and ZANU-PF, who already ruled together in the past under former president Mugabe’s supervision, will bring more repression, persecution and even worse living standards for the working class and the exploited masses.

We, internationalist revolutionary socialists of the Workers International League of Zimbabwe, declare 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.

These elections are a true scam on the workers. They are not even democratic elections because it is impossible for the socialist and workers party to participate in them, due to the legal economic restrictions. Meanwhile, the leaderships of the unions that could do so, rising for a workers way out of the crisis of Zimbabwe, are kneeling down to the MDC and ZANU-PF, the parties of the bosses and their government.
They are preparing a trap on the exploited. No matter who wins, the attack on the workers will be deeper. Because the bourgeoisie, the corrupt politicians of Zimbabwe, AngloAmerican and the transnational companies that plunder our nation and the rest of Africa are the ones who win with this elections.

They want to have a strong government, deceiving the people, because they need to double the attack on all our gains. They have to enslave us even more, in order to pay for the 9 billion dollars to the IMF of a fraudulent debt that the government, the bosses and the bankers stole and took away from the country.

The workers of Zimbabwe cannot trust in the boss parties and we have to turn our backs on the electoral trap. We cannot wait a single day longer without doing it. We have to fight against this electoral fraud, where the two parties that participate this elections have the same owner: the imperialist bankers and the transnational companies. They are a lie and a deception.

The way forward is no other than coordinating our struggles and advance to the General Strike. It is a path that the class collaborationist trade union leaders that agreed with the government and the boss parties closed to us.

NO MORE SUBJECTION OF THE EXPLOITED TO THE EXECUTIONERS OF THE PEOPLE!

Down with the military dictatorship!

Let the unions and the worker and popular organizations break with the boss parties and their infamous regime

Let’s set up a…
National Congress of employed and unemployed workers
And of all the exploited, to vote and promote a struggle plan and the General Strike!

This has to be voted by assemblies of the workers, the unions and all the exploited sectors of Zimbabwe. The working class didn’t vote that the leadership of ZCTU and the unions call to support ZANU-PF or MDC, as their leaders do. This is how the trade bureaucracy acts: yesterday, it turned its back on the workers struggles and today they embrace the capitalists, their politicians and parties.
We cannot let this pro-imperialist anti-worker regime to keep on strengthening and legitimizing itself with fraudulent elections and electoral traps where the working class is forbidden. Therefore, every organization that claim to defend and represent the workers, like ZCTU, PTUZ or ISO must break with the government of the coup and the parties of the bourgeoisie and call for a National Congress with delegates of employed and unemployed workers and the exploited, for the working class to prepare the best conditions to fight for bread, work and against imperialist plunder. We need to conquer a revolutionary general strike to defeat this repressive government, their electoral trap and end with the imperialist plundering and that of the IMF on the nation!

Nobody who calls himself a socialist can be for another minute together with the executioners of the workers and the people. The one that wants to fight as in Marikana, to establish struggle organizations of direct democracy of the exploited, to get decent wages with decent work for all… MUST BREAK WITH THE BOSS PARTIES RIGHT NOW. There’s no time to lose

Imperialism and the capitalists are burdening their crisis on the masses
The catastrophe is here: we have to fight against it!
For a workers and popular economic plan!

Zimbabwe is a true slave labour force reserve to be used in South Africa and in the rest of the continent. While the bourgeoisie does this electoral circus, the unemployment rate is at 90% and those who work, they do so in terrible conditions. There is no public health or education. Inflation has destroyed local currency some years ago and it turns the cost of living unbearable. This cannot had happened without the bureaucracy of the unions and ZCTU that divides and sells out the struggle of the workers and supports this infamous regime. Let’s be clear: the one that rules in Zimbabwe is IMF, the imperialist bankers and a millionaire black bourgeoisie that kept the best lands and, associated to the US, wields the whip of slavery on the workers and the people. This is the so-called “democracy” that is falsely preached by MDC, the friend of imperialism and the transnational companies, the other enemies of the workers and the people. This is a democracy for the rich and the capitalists.

 

The ones on the top come to get all that’s ours!
Those on the below, let’s vote to go and get all of them!

Let the crisis be paid by the capitalists and imperialism!

Decent work for all! Reduce the labour shift for all the available hands get back to produce! Decent non fix wage of 1000 dollars!

There’s enough money: it is being taken away by the IMF, the bankers and the bosses.
Out with the IMF! No pay the fraudulent foreign debt to the plunderers of the nation!
Expropriate without compensation and place under workers control the transnational companies and the bankers!
Expropriate without compensation and place under workers and poor peasants control all the land of Zimbabwe!
Single state bank under workers control!

Dissolve the repressive forces!
Self-defense committees of the workers organizations and rank and file soldiers! 

Neither coup generals nor ZANU-PF nor MDC, the parties of the capitalists!
For a revolutionary provisional government of workers and poor peasants! 
Zimbabwe will be socialist or it will be a Wall Street and IMF colony!

Workers International League, Zimbabwe, member of FLTI