From our oil town we want to send greetings to the family of comrade David Soria on his death.
We knew him very well. He, along with all of Paty's companions, never left us alone, never turned their backs on us.
He always told us that our fight in 2006 against the imperialist oil companies had been always an example for the workers of their meat processing plant, because our demand for "equal work, equal wages, we are all oil workers!" and "down the income tax!" was a demand that united the entire labor movement. That is why he never stopped fighting for the freedom of our companions who were jailed awaiting trial for more than three years.
When we learned that in 2013 the justice was preparing to carry out a condemnatory trial, three colleagues immediately traveled to Buenos Aires, to tour different workers and student organizations in the Federal Capital and the Province of Buenos Aires. David and Paty's companions never detached themselves from us; they looked after us like their families. So much so that the Internal Commission of Paty, along with the workers of the Garrahan Hospital, of bus Line 60, of the Haedo Railways, among other organizations, promoted in Buenos Aires the Committee for the Acquittal of the Oil Workers of Las Heras.
The damn trial, which we call "of revenge," came in mid-2013 and lasted until October. David arrived on the first day of the trial, with a flag with the logo of the Paty meat processing plan that read in black letters " Acquittal to the oil workers of Las Heras", which was tied on the bars of the court, next to the flag of the comrades from Japan of the JRCL-RMF. Thus the trial began. The 13 companions sitting on the benches of the accused, some of our relatives in another room and there were David and Comrade Villita, known in our town as "Paty's fat people".
The trial ended in October and in December they would give the sentence. Together with our families we called to set up a Workers 'Congress on October 12 that we held at the ADOSAC teachers' premises in our town. There was also Soria and a large part of those who made up the Committee for Acquittal that had risen in Buenos Aires.
We prepared to march on December 12. In front of us with our families. Behind us, guarding our backs, as they did from the beginning, were “the fat people of Paty” and dozens of workers and student organizations from all over the country accompanied us.
Not all the members of the Internal Commission came and they explained to us why: “The rest of our Internal Commission stayed in Buenos Aires, because in an assembly we voted to stop the factory for your acquittal because we know that if you are condemned and you are alone, then they will come for all of us ”. We will never erase this example from our minds!
With them, along with dozens of workers' organizations and political prisoners around the world who showed solidarity on December 12, we set up the International Network for the Freedom of the Political Prisoners of the World and Justice for Our Martyrs.
We understood, as David Soria always repeated, that workers needed to achieve “unity and coordination” and that it had to be done across borders.
The following year, five comrades from the oil company BACS S.A. were arrested, and this occurred on the eve of May 1. David was also there with Villita, touring the prisons where the comrades were detained, and then, together with their families and the former political prisoners of Corral de Bustos (Córdoba) we commemorated May Day in the Plaza San Martín in our town.
Undoubtedly, David and Paty's comrades never left any worker to their fate who engaged in a fight against the bosses and in rebellion against the union bureaucracy. So much so that, that same year, in 2014, he came to Río Gallegos, to fight for the freedom of his comrades from ATE-Río Gallegos who went to trial and had been detained for more than 1 year. "Never again a single worker alone in front of a court, never again a single worker alone fighting against the bosses", those were the constant words of David.
But in June 2014 we received the news that Paty's employers had decided to close that meat processing plant and leave more than 200 families on the street. We recall that one of our comrades called David to find out how the situation was and he told us "we are concerned about getting you not to be imprisoned, your sentence not to be enforced."
We collected the few pesos we had among us and the next day, two of our comrades from the Commission were in Pacheco, North Zone of Greater Buenos Aires, with them fighting to recover their jobs. And again we suffered a very hard blow. Paty closed and the workers remained on the street.
But we have never given up, we keep fighting together. Every December 12 of each year we have got together to fight around the world, but we also traveled to Santa Fe with the oil mills workers, we went to the press conference in defense of Sebastián Romero, we fought for the freedom of the prisoners of December 14 and 18 2017, we went to the trial against the comrades of bus Line 60 ...
We will always cherish great memories of David and his great examples and teachings. The first of all is that workers will never have a chance to succeed without "unity and coordination" worldwide.
That is why we tell him goodbye saying that we will continue fighting, that we will not give up and continue standing as he always did.
We want to tell David's children that here, in the distant Las Heras, they also have their homes, they also have their family and they can count on us for whatever they need.
David Soria! Present here, now and always! THE SLAVES' REBELLION IS NOT A CRIME, IT IS JUSTICE!
Comisión de Trabajadores Condenados, Familiares y Amigos de Las Heras
(Statement of the Commission of Condemned Workers, Families and Friends of Las Heras)
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We want to reproduce the speech of comrade David Soria, in the meeting of May 1, 2014 held in our town, in Plaza San Martín
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