For a Workers and Combative Left Bloc to defeat the plebiscite trap and knock down Piñera and the regime with the revolutionary general strike!
The trade union and student bureaucracies of the "Social Unity Table," the CP and the Broad Front are responsible for taking the workers' movement out of combat for the revolutionary general strike in order to save the hated Piñera government.
Behind the backs of the masses, with their call to vote for "Approval" in April, they have entered into the infamous deal with the government itself, the former Concertacion and the Pinochetista generals, commanded by imperialism, i.e., the call for the scam of the "constituent plebiscite" with which they only seek to get the exploited off the streets and divert their revolutionary struggle. In order to impose this plan they even brought in Judge Garzón, the jailer of the Basque and Catalan people, and Podemos' leaders of the Spanish state, agents of the monarchy!
These leaderships are now preparing to use the call for a general strike on March 9 in the service of leading the masses to vote for "Approval" in this fraudulent plebiscite. Whatever the result of the pebiscite, Piñera, the genocidal militias, the murderous pacos, the imperialist transnationals and bankers and the corrupt politicians of this infamous regime always win.
We must prevent the current struggle of the working class, the rebellious youth, the poor peasants and the oppressed from being betrayed! Against all the leaderships that conspire to lead the masses to defeat, let us put up a Workers' and Combative Left Block to fight and boycott the April plebiscite and to overthrow the Piñera government and the Pinochetista regime with the revolutionary general strike until they fall. A Block to fight for the advance of the revolution started, by setting up and coordinating the self-organizing and direct-democracy bodies of the exploited and the centralized self-defense committees, together with the "front lines" of the rebel youth. A Workers' and Combative Left Block that raises the fight to recover copper for the Chileans, for dignified salaries, work and pensions, for free and quality education and health, for land for the poor peasants, for the liberation of all political prisoners and for justice for our martyrs of yesterday and today.
We call on all the unions and combative workers' organizations, on the rebel youth of the "front line," on the assemblies and collectives of the high school students, on the families of the political prisoners and the comrades of the "Coordinadora por los Prisionerxs Políticxs 18 de Octubre" (Coordinating body for the Political Prisoners - October 18), on the feminist organizations of struggle, to put this Workers' and Combative Left Block on its feet.
Likewise, from the POI-CI we call on all the currents that claim to be revolutionary socialists, such as the PTR, the MIT, the MST and Fuerza 18 de Octubre (Force October 18) to put this Workers' and Combative Left Block on its feet in order to prevent the union bureaucracies, the CCP and the Frente Amplio to give up the struggle of the exploited. This Block would together lead the fight for the working class, with its base assemblies and works committees, to put itself back in the center of the masses' struggle to defeat the Piñera government and boycott the plebiscite trap.
With the majority of these currents we gave a common fight at the beginning of January in the "II Plurinational Meeting of those (women) who fight" against the leadership of the CCP and the Broad Front that imposed the hundreds of women fighters who were there could not vote on how to continue their struggle. Today we have in our hands the task to extend that Block to a national level. This would be a huge step forward because it would allow us to unite the small forces that we (the currents that face the fraudulent plebiscite) have and strike like a single fist to boycott that monumental trap.
Therefore, against the leadership of the "Mesa de Unidad Social” ("Board of Social Unity") we propose that we meet right now to form the Board of a Workers' and Combative Left Block so that together with different organizations of struggle we can forge an alternative for thousands and thousands of workers and young rebels.
We call on you to organize Unitary Base Committees of this Workers' and Combative Left Bloc that start by promoting the setting up without delay of rank and file assemblies and strike committees in all work and study centers in order to conquer the best conditions for March 9 to be the beginning of a revolutionary general strike to last until the Piñera government, the Pinochet regime and the fraudulent plebiscite are defeated. Let's take this motion together to the whole workers' movement, to the factories, mines and ports, to the "front line", to the high schools, universities, self-organized assemblies, etc.!
The revolutionary vanguard that has entered the fight in Santiago, Antofagasta, Valparaiso, Concepcion, and from Arica to Punta Arenas does not know the differences that separate us the different political currents that speak in the name of revolutionary socialism. Setting up a Workers' and Combative Left Block will be a great opportunity to debate our different programs and strategies in the face of thousands of workers' and students' fighters. But these deep differences we maintain cannot be an impediment for this time to fight together to defeat the traps of the bourgeoisie and the traitorous leaderships.
For our part, we are ready to meet immediately to make this perspective a reality. Let's set together a place, a date and time to meet and advance in building this alternative. There is no time to lose!
Partido Obrero Internacionalista - Cuarta Internacional (POI-CI)
(Internationalist Workers Party - Fourth International) A Member of FLTI
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