Revolutionary Workers and Youth Committee for Self-organization
(CROJA)

December 11, 2020

On the International Day of Persecuted Worker, 12/12, once again the workers of Las Heras condemned by the oil companies in Patagonia call us to stand up and rise up against the jailers, for the freedom of our comrades and for justice for our martyrs.

We did so and we will continue to do so since we started this fight together in Las Heras in the summer of 2006; we suffered together the terrible torments with our imprisoned comrades and tortured together with their children. We have been together since we won their freedom, tirelessly fighting side by side alongside the working class and the imprisoned fighters of the entire world. We were together in the Videlista court that convicted them in 2013 as they wanted to punish all the workers by condemning the oil workers. But we are still standing, from Gaza and the West Bank from the prisons of Zionism, from the Syrian resistance and from the industrial Cordons of Toqui and Santiago. We will continue together and stand today more than ever in this new INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE PERSECUTED WORKER.

Today we embrace you and fight together with all of you from Brazil battered by Bolsonaro, the whip of imperialism, which starves us, plunders us, imprisons us and kills us. We are standing from Brazil together with all the comrades who fight in the prisons, in the streets and on the barricades in various parts of the world, shouting "An injury to one is an injury to us all!"

The Brazilian working class is under a ruthless attack. Almost 4 years ago, our comrade Mariele Franco was murdered with impunity, which was a clear example of the daily massacre against the black people and the exploited of the favelas and the countryside in Brazil, assassinated daily at the hands of the Military Police and the paramilitary gangs, in the working-class neighborhoods and by fascist gunmen in the countryside.

Thousands of black exploited are killed each year by the murderous police, as happened a few weeks ago with the 40-year-old black worker JoãoBetoSilveira Freitas, brutally beaten to death and suffocated to death, just as the fascist police of the US imperialists did to our brother George Floyd. Not to name the hundreds of children killed by the “stray” bullets of the Police, such as Rebeca (7 years old) and Emily (4 years old) and hundreds of children from Rio de Janeiro and from all over Brazil murdered per year.

Here the prisons of the exploiters are overcrowded with black exploited and every moment that they try to go out to fight, the repressive forces do not hesitate to brutally attack the fighters, persecute them and murder them.

This is what happens daily with dozens of Homeless and Landless fighters in the Manaus region and also, as was recently seen  with the murder of one of the main leaders of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), ÉnioPasqualin, kidnapped, tortured and recently assassinated in Iguazú, Paraná.

ENOUGH NOW! STOP KILLING US! BLACK LIVES MATTER! FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! JUSTICE FOR MARIELE, BETO SILVEIRA, ÉNIO, REBECA, EMILY AND ALL OUR MARTYRS KILLED BY THE REPRESSIVE FORCES OF THE STATE AND THEIR ARMED MENGANGS!

FROM BRAZIL, WE RAISE THE FIST FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL PRISONERS AND FOR JUSTICE FOR OUR MARTYRS, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE FIGHTERS OF THE WORLD FROM ARGENTINE PATAGONIA TO BLOODY SYRIA TO SAN PABLO TO MARIKANA TO NEW YORK TO PARIS TO TOKYO!

THE REFBELLION OF THE SLAVES IS NOT A CRIME, IT IS JUSTICE!

São Paulo, Brazil

Hugo Parreira, Silvia Andrade, Maria Batista, Cícero Santos, WillianGrilado.

Revolutionary Workers and Youth Committee for Self-organization (CROJA)