France - August 09th 2019

Long live the struggle of the Black Vests and the revolutionary workers of the black Africa
For internationalist unity and solidarity among the oppressed!

From the tormented black Africa, the revolutionary workers of the WIL (Workers International League) of Zimbabwe send their fraternal greetings in solidarity with the struggle of the Black Vests, immigrant undocumented workers, who fight for housing, work and decent life in Paris, inside the  imperialist Fifth Republic.

Through a correspondent of the paper The International Workers Organizer and the paper Truth of the Oppressed, the workers and fighters of Southern Africa sent their solidarity and endorsements to the statement of the Black Vests.
This is a first step to deepen the internationalist solidarity among the super-exploited workers of Africa and Latin America with the immigrant workers within the imperialist powers.
It is time to advance into a joint struggle against Macron and the French bankers, i.e. the same transnationals and governments that exploit, invade and plunder the colonial and semicolonial world, while applying a brutal attack of conquests removal, with labour flexibility, to the same working class, deepening the atrocious offensive on immigrant and undocumented workers even more.

The Chapelle Debout Collective, which emerged in 2016, has participated in various struggles since then, defending and fighting alongside the immigrant undocumented refugee workers.
Fighting against the infamous "detention centers" of the French government, which are nothing more than prisons in which they keep the immigrant workers overcrowded when they reach France or other countries of the imperialist Europe, seeking a decent job and life.
The comrades of Chapelle Debout organize actions in solidarity and they struggle through civil disobedience, preventing deportations at airports and demonstration to Detention Centers.
They organize demonstrations and fight against the murderous police of the imperialist Fifth Republic.
In addition, they help workers in Africa, Maghreb and Middle East to overcome the bureaucratic impediments that the French government imposes on every immigrant worker to work, study and have a decent life in France.

We salute the struggle of these comrades and hope to strengthen revolutionary ties in this fight for the entire working class and its most oppressed sectors, such as the immigrant, refugee and undocumented workers, to have work, housing and decent living conditions!

Long live the fight of the Black Vests!
One single class, one single struggle across borders, races, languages ​​and cultures!

Correspondent for the IWO and The Truth of the Oppressed.