Argentina - January 8th, 2018

Emergency Motion to all the combative worker organizations of the Americas

Continental Workers' Congress to unify the fight against Trump’s and Wall Street offensive

 

The attack of the Wall Street bankers, the IMF and the other imperialist powers is here. They met at the G-20 in Hamburg, Germany, last year, and declared war on the workers of the world to make us pay for their crisis. In France, Macron and the imperialist bourgeoisie of the Fifth Republic are taking out, one by one, all the conquests of the working class. In Germany, Merkel and the bankers of the Deutsche-Bank make the workers in the factories work totally enslaved for half the salary.

Settled in the counterrevolution imposed in the Maghreb and the Middle East -fundamentally in the genocide in Syria at the hands of al-Assad and the assassin Putin- they redouble their offensive on the workers of the world and the Americas.
In the US, Obama before and now Trump, the conquests have been taken from the workers, making them work without collective labor agreements, without medical insurance, etc.
In Latin America, imperialism, through its lackey governments, advances with the labor reform to try to bring the workers to the working conditions of the 19th century, without collective agreements, totally enslaved and in maquila conditions, as in Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, etc., or expropriating thousands of poor peasants, as in Colombia and Central America. And this plan they want to impose with a big club, with openly Bonapartist governments, carrying out a brutal repression against the workers of the continent, with murders, thousands of defendants and political prisoners, as happens with the imprisonment and persecution of class delegates and militant workers. , like Sebastián Romero, former delegate of GM Argentina, who participated in the last Congress of Conlutas

But the workers are beginning to respond in very tough struggles against the slavery plans of the imperialist transnationals, their native partners and their governments. In Argentina, the working class comes from starring in an enormous mass response against the reactionary and anti-worker government of Macri. In Honduras, they go out to the streets to face the pro-US coup. In Mexico, with the struggle of education workers grouped in the CNTE and before them the Pemex oil workers; in Colombia, with the miners of Segovia; in Peru, with steelmakers and teachers. In Brazil, the working class confronts the Temer government and its labor reform. Sectors of the Bolivian working class are coming out again to fight against the slavery plans of Evo Morales, as for example the health workers are doing.

Imperialism and its partners come for everything! In Venezuela, they kill us with hunger. In the United States they take the fascists to the streets. In Colombia, the paramilitaries kill us. They impose labor flexibility on us throughout the continent. The union bureaucracies divide us country by country and sell us out to the slavers. We must unite right now against the attack of Trump, Wall Street and the G-20!
The forces do already exist: they are the workers of Conlutas, the Factory Workers of La Paz (Bolivia), the Tire Workers Union and the internal commissions taken from the Peronist bureaucracy in Argentina, the miners, teachers and health workers of Peru, the miners of Colombia, the CIUS of Chile, and in the United States, the Movement for USD 15 an hour, the dockworkers of Oakland, the Carpenters Union of Portland and dozens of militant workers' organizations.
In October, the International Trade Union Network, promoted by CSP-Conlutas and more than 70 unions in the world, decided to "build an open team in the Americas, with meetings by Skype every two months." But this is insufficient to organize a response to such an attack. The meeting of the International Trade Union Network from January 25 to28 in Madrid must review this resolution and call a large Continental Workers Congress of all workers' organizations and militant trade unions in the Americas.
It will also be a great opportunity to call the IG Metall of Germany, currently in general strike against Merkel, Siemens, VW, etc., to unify this fight with the American working class and also with the rest of Europe, like the French workers.
Likewise, it will be a key opportunity to promote the international fight for the freedom of the imprisoned workers and fighters in the world and the defense of the persecuted ones like Sebastian Romero.

Open the way to proletarian internationalism!