Tribute to Leon Trotsky, 80 years since his assassination by Stalinism
Speech by James Sakala, leader of WIL of Zimbabwe and the FLTI
"As we pay tribute to Leon Trotsky and the founders of the Fourth International, we need all to remember that their struggle and program live, continue and is rooted in the black workers Africa, following the route of the slaves to the black in the US"
Revolutionary greetings from the Trotskyists in Zimbabwe, in the black Africa representing also Southern Africa, from Marikana, where 34 miners were massacred for fighting in strike for wages and decent life against Anglo American.
We are rooted in the workers struggle, which is not only African, it is the same struggle with the revolted workers and black people in the US following the route of the slaves. It is the same struggle with the Black Vests in France, as the immigrants, against the imperialist powers that plunder Africa and the subjugated people and then close the borders, deport immigrants and treat the workers in the imperialist centres as those in the subjugated people.
Imperialism kills us here as the workers in Marikana and also there as George Floyd.
The struggle for proletarian internationalism of the South African workers is side by side with the revolutionary masses who are fighting today in Zimbabwe, Mali and those who are resisting in Syria and in Palestine; those who are fighting in the imperialist countries like the Black Vests of France. The mine workers in Peru. The best allies we have in this struggle are our brothers uprising in USA. With them we blow the imperialist transnationals that plunder here in Africa and over exploits and kill us when we are there in USA. From Portland and Washington to Marikana and whole South Africa same struggle!
In order for us to win and fight for the victory, as the Trotskyist program says, we need to solve the crisis of leadership, that means, remove the leaderships that betray our struggle.
In here we are under a political struggle against Stalinist groups across Africa, which as in South Africa are the main support of the regimes. We also confront the ones that speak in behalf of Trotskyism like in Zimbabwe is the International Socialist Organization, which supports a bourgeois party MDC.
As we pay tribute to Leon Trotsky and the founders of the Fourth International, we need all to remember that their struggle and program live, continue and is rooted in the black workers Africa, following the route of the slaves to the black in the US. Long Live the struggle for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International.
Aluta continua
Trotskyist militants of the Fourth International
in Johannesburg, South Africa 1934
James Sakala in the anniversary
of the massacre of Marikana
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