Solidarity of Cheo, former member of the internationalist brigades Simon Bolivar, member of the Nucleo Obrero Internacionalista (Internationalist Workers Nucleus)

 

LET'S TAKE TO THE STREETS FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

IN SUPPORT OF PERSECUTED WORKERS, POLITICAL REFUGEES AND AGAINST GENOCIDE TO PEOPLE WHO RISE AGAINST HUNGER INJUSTICE AND PLUNDERING

From the tormented Colombia we want to show our solidarity with the call for this new 12/12, International Day of Persecuted Worker, called by our fellow oil workers from Las Heras and the Commission of Family and Friends after 7 years of the terrible sentence to life imprisonment and imprisonment by a court led by the imperialist oil companies and the employer justice ordered by the Kirchner government, today again in power headed by Fernandez.
For going out to fight against the labor flexibility and the tax on wageand to punish the workers as a whole, a true court of revenge was set up against them. Although it managed to convict them, it could not imprison them as a result of the international campaign they called from the beginning of the trial and to which numerous national and international organizations joined, surrounding these new martyrs of Chicago of the XXI century with solidarity and militant internationalism. On that day, the Persecuted Worker Day was born, fightingfor their final acquittal and to fight as one single fist for all political prisoners and for justice for the martyrs of the world working class. In addition, it was established so that never again a worker who goes out to fight for his rights is left alone and isolated at the mercy of the employers and the state.
Together with them, our call is to support and show solidarity with the political refugees that fill the cities and towns. We call to denounce the genocides against the peoples who rise up in daily struggle against hunger, injustice and the looting of their natural resources by the imperialist multinationals. We will participate this December 12 in Colombia, where there are thousands of political prisoners and also popular leaders are persecuted, imprisoned and murdered daily, all across the country, at the hands of paramilitarism and in complicity of the State, despite the surrender process to which the oldest insurgency in the world has submitted, in a sinister pact signed by the FARC leadership with the Castros and the US imperialists, making it clear that the Peace that has been imposed and will continue to be imposed in Colombia is THE PEACE OF THE GRAVEYARDS!
On December 12 we will be with the widows of the 34 miners from Marikana, brutally murdered by the South African government and the mining transnational companies. In Zimbabwe, we will be supporting workers and political activists who are tortured for defending their rights. In India, we stand with those who rot in jail and whose only "crime" is to fight not to be slaves of transnational corporations. In the Spanish state, under the Bourbon monarchy, Basque prisoners have been incarcerated for years, while many are in prison for fighting for workers' rights and hundreds of fighters are under trial. In Greece, we will fight for the freedom of fellow anarchists who are condemned in their prisons. In Syria we support the struggle of the revolutionaries and the people, against the criminal regime of al-Assad, backed by the US imperialists, the hitman Putin, Hezbollah and Zionism. In Palestine, we stand with the more than 7000 prisoners and the resistance to the Zionist invader. In Iran, we stand with the hostages of the murderous Iranian theocracy.
In the US there are hundreds of political prisoners among immigrant workers, while the African American movement, which also suffers repression and murder at the hands of the American police. The prisoners in Guantanamo, the thousands of political prisoners in Egypt, must know that that day they are not alone in their struggle. In Mexico we will accompany the relatives of the 43 high school students disappeared in Ayotzinapa, for the freedom of the CNTE teachers, who are in the government dungeons for fighting against the attack on workers and the teachers' movement. In Argentina, while the oil transnational companies and the government sentence the workers of Las Heras to prison and life, there are also hundreds of workers imprisoned for confronting the union bureaucracy, the workers of Tierra del Fuego continue to be sentenced for fighting for their rights and thousands more fighters continue to be prosecuted. In Bolivia, the relatives of those wounded and killed in the Senkata massacre express their solidarity. We stand in solidarity with them, the poor peasants in prison and the prosecuted factory workers and miners. In Chile, we stand with the more than 2,500 comrades who are imprisoned by the Pinochetista regime and are fighting for their liberation alongside poor Mapuche peasants.
We call on the workers, youth, student and militant organizations in the world to takethese political prisoners of these organizations as honorary members, to take the fight in their hands for the freedom of all of them, and to participate in the meetings scheduled by the INTERNATIONAL NETWORK, as part of the international unified action calledDecember 12, INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL THE POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE WORLD.
From the Spanish State to England, from the murderer Putin's Russia to the United States and the imperialist Europe of Maastricht ... from the Americas to Africa and the Pacific, devastated by transnational corporations, the voice of freedom must be heard from all political prisoners, and let's end with barbarism against the oppressed!
Let's unite across borders, like the big banks and companies do to exploit and repress us. We will do it to fight for our rights. Because the rebellion of the slaves is not a crime, it is justice!
Fraternally,

Cheo, former member of the Simón Bolívar Internationalist Brigade
Grupo Obrero Internacionalista (Internationalist Worker Nucleus)
of Colombia.