Colombia - May 2nd, 2021
From the rebel Cali, statement by Grupo Comuneros - Colectivo por la Refundación de la IV Internacional/FLTI
Savage repression of the regime and starvation plans against the workers dictated by the capitalists and the IMF
Huge revolutionary mass uprising…
“They are killing us!”
After the April 28 strike, the union bureaucracy lost control of the masses.
Millions entered the fray. Strikes, pickets, "cacelorazos" (pot-banging) , barricade fights.
The economic struggle rose to mass political struggle.
The revolutionary general strike deepened from April 29 to 30. Pickets have stopped all transportation. These are the days of the barricade fighting in more than 50 cities.
The traitors of the CUT called for the lifting of the indefinite strike and for a meeting for Zoom on May 1 ... They were left alone talking among themselves.
Hundreds of mobilizations of thousands of workers won the streets on International Workers' Day.
In Cali there are the most advanced processes of struggle and clashes of the self-defense groups with the police.
12 dead in a single day. Hundreds of detainees.
But the masses don't leave the streets
The government ratifies the application of the tax reform.
The announcement is received with more radicalization of the struggle. The fighting reaches Bogotá.
On May 2 a new revolutionary day unfolds.
The government announces that it is postponing the tax reform that attacks the majority of the masses and withdraws it from Parliament… But it is no longer credible.
The people want (president) Duque and the entire regime to go out.
The exploiters and slavers of Colombia and their murderous state lose control of the workers, peasants and all the exploited layers.
Independent mass actions are already beginning to put dozens of cities in an insurrectionary state.
The bourgeoisie sends the army to the rebel cities.
The police are on the brink of being overwhelmed.
The union bureaucracies, the "progressive" bourgeoisies of Colombia Humana party and all the agents of the "reconciliation pact" with the regime of the 9 gringo bases hace been completely overcome. The wave passed them overhead.
Now they conspire, prepare new pacts, "constituent assembly" breakthroughs as in Chile to get the revolutionary masses off the streets.
But the starving exploited can't take it anymore. They attack the citadel of power.
On the night of May 2, the assemblies decided: the indefinite strike wouldn't stop.
In Cali the army is already entering the city. The bourgeoisie doubts. The troop of common soldiers can be turned up ...
The revolution waters the streets with martyrs ... It urgently needs to raise up the armed dual power of all the masses in struggle.
The disarmament of the police, the arming of the picket line and the call to the rank and file soldiers not to repress the people are the order of the day.
That the popular assemblies organize the factory, student, peasant, unemployed, supply, and health committees becomes imperative so that the exploited take the resolution of the crisis in their hands ... To impose a "tax reform" on the capitalists, imperialism, the IMF and corrupt politicians, nationalizing the transnationals, the oil companies, and the banks that plunder Colombia without compensation and under the control of their workers, to bring the poor peasant out of ruin and wrest the land from the oligarchy that has expropriated it by means of a genocide in the countryside that has already been going on for decades.
The Colombian revolution deserves to stand up!
Along with her, the Chile of dignity, Ecuador, Peru will rise again ...
In Colombia the parody and the scam of the farcical “Bolivarian Revolution” that sent millions of exploited in Venezuela into exile and to eat by scavenging in the garbage dumps, and restored capitalism in Cuba is over.
Because…
Either Colombia will be of the workers and peasants and a socialist land, or a US imperialists' colony
Either Colombia will be revolutionary and free, or trampled and starving, betrayed by reformism.
The USA pirates' "backyard" must be set on fire!
We must expel the USA military bases that today are under the command of its new counterrevolutionary general, Biden!
Gringos Go Home!
The dead that fall today in Colombia are martyrs of the entire world working class.
Cali, comrade, Latin America is with you!
Correspondent from Cali
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