Colombia July 4th, 2020 Despite and against a real state of siege, imposed with the excuse of the pandemic, with brutal repression and massacre... Against the attack of the Duque government and the IMF on all our conquests and the situation of widespread hunger that is no longer tolerated... Colombians won back the streets by conquering a unitary mobilization throughout the country Since the last few weeks, several days of struggle have been taking place throughout the country, despite the coronavirus pandemic. With sit-ins, mobilizations and confrontations against state agencies, the workers, youth and people in general are taking to the streets to express their discontent with the policies of the government of Ivan Duque in favor of their partners, the businessmen, the imperialist transnationals, the banks and large corporations.   On June 9, the Block for the Indefinite General Strike accompanied various sectors that came out to struggle as workers in public transportation (Transmilenio), health, airports, etc., who are subjected to a terrible situation of exhausting workdays, suspensions and layoffs. On June 15 a sit-in was held in front of the offices of the Ministry of Labor called by these sectors. While this was going on, in the working class and popular neighborhoods in the south of Bogota, the workers who were called "informal" in a derogatory way, the most determined sectors made up of unemployed young people, women, and street vendors, ignoring the restrictions, took to the streets and were ferociously repressed.  Human rights organizations, collectives and youth groups also carried out marches and rallies denouncing the corrupt nature of the regime and the government, while hundreds of police deployed throughout the city, dedicated themselves to dispersing and persecuting them.  Late in the afternoon, the mayor, Claudia López, could not get enough of accusing them of vandalism, making the organizers responsible by clarifying that she was not against the right to protest but against the harmful consequences of the rallies. Thus, she used all her cynicism to justify the repression and violence unleashed by the ESMAD and the police, arresting more than 100 demonstrators that day. The situation, far from calming down, is becoming increasingly tenacious: On June 26 the young Duvan Aldana was killed by the ESMAD in a violent eviction of several families in the Soacha Commune. On June 29 reports of rape of girls by members of the army came to light. In the peasant communities the massacre is increasing day by day. "The Peasant Association of Catatumbo (ASCAMCAT) and the Municipal Coordinator of Coca, Poppy and Marijuana Growers (COCCAM) denounced this Monday the murder of peasant Emérito Digno Buendía Martínez at the hands of Colombian Army uniforms. According to ASCAMCAT, the event occurred at 6:30 am when army men opened fire against the peasant settlement located in the village of Tutumito, rural area of Cucuta (North of Santander). In turn, ASCAMCAT pointed out that in the attack that was perpetrated by military men belonging to the Hermógenes Maza Battalion, three peasants were wounded: Miguel Hernández, Juan José Orozco and Jimmy Alberto González, who were taken to the health center of the village of Agua Clara" ( Taken from Nodal Noticias de America Latina y el Caribe). The most recent event was the assassination of social leader Carmen Ángel Angarita, who was a member of the board of directors of the Community Action Board (JAC), as leader of the Conciliation Committee of the Vereda del Hoyo, in the municipality of Convención. According to the community, Ángel was out in the field when armed men arrived and perpetrated the murder (published in Pares Comunicación Alternativa).   These facts, together with the rest of the unfulfilled demands, led to a new unified national call on June 30, the March of the Torches, an appeal made by different labor and popular organizations grouped in the Block for the Indefinite Unemployment. Meanwhile the Strike Committee led by the bourgeois parties of the Polo, Moir Colombia Humana and the Green Party, together with the leadership of the hated Stalinist bureaucracies, are trying to contain the struggle by all means to take it to the terrain of the electoral farce and the rotten bourgeois institutions, putting aside the demands raised on November 21 by the youth, students, workers and the most exploited sectors.  After the enormous step forward of January 30 and 31 when we confronted and threw out in an Assembly those leaderships that did not let us fight, they took advantage of the confinement to freeze the struggle, negotiating as always behind the backs of the workers and the people for labor flexibilization, imposing slavery, cuts in salaries and social benefits, and assaulting Colpensiones to steal it from them for the benefit of the bankers.  The central and bourgeois parties have brought the dictatorial regime and the IMF bankers to their knees and, to make no mistake, have attacked the list of demands they have managed to put forward in their struggle, a miserable list of demands, a mini list of measures in defence of the sugar industry, the dairy industry manufacturing industry and the clothing industry, but not a word about defending the rights and demands of the workers. Only profits for big business and now they will include the cancellation of loans to the agricultural sector, subsidies and payroll and bonuses for the employers.   Such is the extent of the betrayal by these bureaucrats that they have deleted from the demands the points relating to health, and the rights of the workers by making only a formal reference.  Not a word to denounce the genocidal regime against those murders and the deepening of state terrorism. Nevertheless, the masses continue to try to overcome the impasse that the leaderships want to impose on them. While this is the initial kick to return to the struggle, we must return to the path of November 21st when, as in Ecuador, Chile and the rest of the continent, we were engaged in a wave of revolutionary combat that put our feet on the chest of the brutal attack of imperialism and the bourgeoisie against the world working class. And that is precisely what they want us to forget, confined and surrounded in the working class neighborhoods, in the communities and countryside left to die for the Covid, from hunger or killed by the police, ESMAD, army and paramilitary dogs. Today we hear the echo of the revolutionary days led by the black and Latino working class together with thousands of workers and youth of the United States, we hear the cry of the Black Vests of France who say as we said that they had lost their fear, "fear changed sides" .   They are showing us the way again, because we, like them, know that our demands for wages, for decent work, for bread, for pensions, for freedom and for true peace can only be achieved if we defeat governments and their shameful regimes. OUT DUKE AND THIS MURDEROUS REGIME OF YAQUI MILITARY BASES! OUT WITH IMPERIALISM AND THE IMF! We must regroup our forces again by fighting to organize a great Congress of workers, peasants, students and popular organizations with delegates democratically elected by factories, communities, neighborhoods and universities. WITH HUNGER THERE IS NO QUARANTINE STOP THE REPRESSION, STOP KILLING US! POLICE AND ESMAD DISSOLUTION! FOR VIGILANCE COMMITTEES IN THE WORKERS' AND PEOPLE'S NEIGHBORHOODS AND DEFENSE COMMITTEES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND COMMUNITIES TO STOP THE MASSACRE OUT WITH THE GRINGO MILITARY BASES OF COLOMBIA AND ALL LATIN AMERICA!   Correspondent

Near 450 people met in Station Heroes to protest for the rape of an indigenous teenager by 7 military members, the lack of economic resources to face the pandemic and the evictions carried out by the District of the City of Bolivar, among other demands "When tirany becomes law, rebellio is a right" "To the banks trillions, to the hungry the ESMAD"