July 29, 2019

Special motion to the 57th International Anti-War Assembly of Japan

Let us deepen the international struggle for the freedom of all political prisoners in the world and for justice for the martyrs of the working class!

 

Comrades:

For years we have been fighting together against the governments and regimes of the powerful who are dedicated to imprison and persecute the workers and oppressed who "dare" to face their anti-worker plans, as we do every December 12, on the International Day of the Persecuted Worker, when one more anniversary of the sentence for life imprisonment and jail to the oil workers of Las Heras (Argentina) is observed.
Today, when imperialism needs working class hostages to deepen its plans against the exploited, it is more necessary than ever that we redouble this fight.

There are the 7,000 Palestinian prisoners in the dungeons of the Zionist occupier, the 40,000 ones in Al Sisi prisons in Egypt and the hundreds of thousands who are tortured in Al Assad prisons in Syria. In Iran, hundreds of fighters populate the prisons of the murderous theocracy regime while thousands of anti-imperialist fighters remain in Guantanamo and the CIA secret prisons. In France, Georges Abdallah, a fighter of the Palestinian cause, remains imprisoned just like Mumia Abu Jamal in the US.
In China, the government of the Communist Party “mandarins” persecutes brutally the workers and students that fight for their demands, as Jasic workers that were fighting for independent unions and were terribly repressed and incarcerated, just as the students that stood in solidarity with their struggle.

The Basque prisoners are hostages in the jails of the Fifth French Republic and also in the Bourbon prisons in the Spanish State, the same ones that keep comrade Alfon imprisoned for participating in 2011 March general strike.
Also, dozens of Mapuche ethnic origin prisoners, such as Facundo Jones Huala, are imprisoned in the dungeons of the Pinochet regime in Chile.
The young anarchists are still imprisoned in Greece, but with the struggle we achieved the freedom of Nikos Romanos, while Giannis Michailidis has conquered his own freedom by escaping from the dungeons of Syriza and Troika.

In Argentina, comrade Daniel Ruiz, a former oil workers’ delegate, continues in prison for being part of the revolutionary figh of December 18, 2017, against the theft of the retirement funds. Together with him, 4 former drivers of the East bus line of the city of La Plata (in Buenos Aires province), Emanuel Lazzaro, Sebastian Mac Dougall, Luciano Fiochi and Pablo Varriano are under house arrest for fighting. They were just demanding a snack and a toilet in their 12 hours shift. Also the workers of Las Heras are still condemned by the courts servile to the imperialist oil companies.
In addition, there are already more than 7,500 workers and popular fighters prosecuted, as is the case of Alejandro Villarruel and other persecuted workers of the Río Santiago State Shipyard.
And while the employers' justice persecutes the fighters, it guarantees the absolute impunity of the murderers of the martyrs of the working class such as Rafael Nahuel, and Santiago Maldonado, for whom the next August 1st  will be two years after his disappearance and murder at the hands of the gendarmerie and the government of Macri.

Given this, comrades, the task of the moment is to promote an international campaign for the freedom of all political prisoners in the world and for justice for the martyrs of the working class. We have to deepen the solidarity and international struggle over borders! This is the way for all the workers' organizations of the world to take this fight into their hands because we cannot fight with hostages in the jails of our executioners.

Freedom to all the political prisoners in the world!
Judgment and punishment of all repressors and murderers of the working class martyrs!
Slave rebellion is not a crime. It is justice!

Claudia Pafundi, member of the Commission of Convicted Workers, Families and Friends of Las Heras
Alejandro Villarruel, for Workers Advance – “Black List” – Rio Santiago Shipyard (Argentina)
Sasha, for the Youth of “The Fourth”
Workers Democracy (LOI-CI) from Argentina