February 17, 2016
IMPERIALIST BANKERS, MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND THEIR REGIMES AND GOVERNMENTS, WHILE ACCUMULATING HUGE SUPER-PROFITS, PULL THEIR CRISIS OVER THE WORKERS AND OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
With NATO, the UN and their political-military pacts they command large-scale actions to crush the chain of revolutions that shake the world, as it is the case today with the Syrian, Yemeni revolutions and Zionism savagely attacking the Palestinian Intifada, or with the siege to the heroic miners of Donbass in Ukraine.
With a fierce fascist offensive Zionist Occupation State tries to crush the Palestinian Intifada, while Syriza, the left smoke sellers of the imperialist Troika deepens a brutal attack against the Greek working class...
The snake oil vendor of the reformist left and the treacherous Union bureaucracies subject workers to the bourgeoisie and their regimes and anti-labor government on a country-by-country basis, tying their hands to prevent their struggle. Here and there they have signed counter-revolutionary pacts to try to stabilize the imperialist system in bankruptcy and encircle the revolutionary processes. Through the Obama-Castro Pact and the Vatican, Cuba has been delivered to imperialism; the regime of the "Republicrats" is supported by those traitors while the American working class strikes every day for their lost rights. They also support the Geneva Conference that is a true den of bandits and conspirators bent on massacring the Syrian masses.
In Ukraine, from the Covenant of Minsk Obama and Putin seek to disarm the exploited in the Donbass, subjecting them to the "Novorossiya" bourgeoisie and separate them from their brethren in Kiev, to prevent the unity of the Ukrainian working class that could defeat the IMF in all Ukraine and promote the fall of the Government of Poroshenko, representative of the IMF.
A new round of the world crack is here, with the Chinese crack, the European bankruptcy, the fall of the oil price; it is pushing the masses to new actions against the bankruptcy of the imperialist system that throws over them the entire weight of the crisis, while the transnational corporations and bankers earn vast fortunes amassed with the high-tech war industry and a parasitic financial speculation that is unmatched in the history of the rotten world capitalist system, with all the super banks and companies fabricating their balance sheets to prevent the massive fall in their values in the world.
Imperialism is obliged to crush the masses in Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Ukraine, before any new revolutionary hot spots upsurges on the planet by rebellions against hunger, unemployment and the attack on the oppressed peoples.
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OPEN THE WAY TO MILITANT INTERNATIONALISM IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Stop the massacre to the Syrian masses right now! From Athens to the Donbass to Paris to Moscow, we must defeat imperialist Maastricht, together with Putin and all other counterrevolutionary henchmen!
Let’s win the streets for Mohamed Al - Qeeq, Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike in Zionist prisons! We are all Palestinian! For the destruction of the fascist Zionist State of Israel!
Let's put already in place an international network and front of struggle to strike together against imperialism and confront its repressive and murderous Governments!
The world working class must engage in the class fighting by its brothers and sisters in the Middle East: Let’s make ours right now the call by the steelworkers in Argentina in solidarity with the Syrian revolution!
STOP THE BARBARISM THAT 1% OF PARASITES IMPOSE ON THE PLANET WHILE THEY LOOT THE RICHES AND STARVES MILLIONS OF WORKERS OF THE WORLD WITH SLAVE WORKING, UNEMPLOYMENT AND COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY MASSACRES
From FLTI, the assembling of the internationalist Trotskyist that strive to rebuild the fourth international, we make our own -and call upon all organizations of the world working class to make yours- the call by the Syrian resistance and their war cry to break through the siege to their revolution. The Leon Sedov Brigade in Aleppo promote, against this den of bandits and war criminals who met in Geneva, a counter-conference of workers and anti-imperialist organizations around the world to support Syrian revolution against the dog Bashar and imperialism that supports him.
Workers of the steel from Argentina endorsed the motion and from their rank and file in Arcelor Mittal have released a statement calling for the solidarity of the workers of the world with their brethren massacred in Syria.
Imperialism has concentrated its forces to crush the Syrian revolution: invading with NATO, and United States commanding Russia and Bashar the dog... 16 armies have concentrated to punish the masses who dared to stand up for bread.
Those are the same forces that support the Zionist State of Israel to crush the heroic Intifada which started in Palestine. Where the Palestinian prisoners are driving heroic hunger-strikes and in the streets a brave intifada develops against the Zionist occupier of the Palestinian nation.
All those counterrevolutionary forces are under the command of the 1% of Wall Street parasites that own 50% of the wealth in the planet. If they succeed in crushing the revolution in Syria and chastise the exploited there, they will come for all of us.
A string of mass layoffs hurting oil, steel, mining, metallurgical, and other workers has begun around the world. Steelworks are stopped and mineral, oil prices fall after the Chinese crack and the fall of values of the super banks of Wall Street.
Imperialist parasites that control the world economy shed its entire crisis over the workers and oppressed peoples of the world. They are still eating the benefits that human work has not yet created in the present generation, so they have falsified the balance sheets of their banks and corporations. After accumulating huge fortunes and super-profits they are leaving millions of workers on the streets while they have lost just a couple of points of their earnings.
Maastricht in bankruptcy and its Governments of bankers and transnational corporations continue killing their workers with hunger and unemployment.
In Russia of Putin the murderer weapons are produced large-scale with French and German high-tech, today disputed by Obama, which are used to massacre revolutions in Africa and throughout the Maghreb and Middle East.
Former KGB killer’s Russia the right to strike is banned and thousands of workers are brutally repressed by the Russian secret police. With the rouble devaluation wages have sunk and thousands of oil workers have been sacked. This Putin, a murderous hitman of Citibank is called "progressive" by the entire world Stalinist left; they paint labor’s biggest enemy as an ally.
In China ruled by the officers of transnational corporations, those bourgeois parasites of Chinese PC, only weapons occur in a flourishing manner to prepare to crush the revolts against hunger and unemployment that millions of Chinese workers have started; those strikes and revolts have been and continue being, no doubt, the vanguard of the world working class.
In the United States working class rises shouting “U$S15 an hour!” since 60% of American workers do not cover us$ S20.000 per year needed to avoid falling under poverty line. More than 100 million workers are unemployed or sub-employed and living on U$S 3 per day of alms from the "the world's richest State".
In Greece the 40th strike has just finished, this time against smoke-selling left that is managing the State for the bankers and the Troika.
European working class haven’t yet found a way out to ruin they have been carried to by the imperialist butchers of Maastricht.
The workers from the Old Continent have made thousands of efforts to unite their struggle from Portugal to the Russian steppes; the spark of Athens which threatened to set fire to the entire Continent, was placated by the actions of the perfidious leadership of social-imperialist mass organizations, which submitted the working class to support imperialist Maastricht.
The issue is already becoming clear for broad segments of the global labor movement: the day the workers of the world come back to join forces and hitting our enemies as a single fist will be the day that we step the first steps towards victory in all countries, in all battles.
That’s why we call the working class and its organizations of struggle to deepen an international activity for Mohamed Al – Qeeq, a Palestinian prisoner carrying on 83 days of hunger strike who symbolizes the more than 7,000 prisoners in the fascist Zionist State of Israel.
We call to rise up for the release of Georges Abdallah, imprisoned for fighting for the Palestinian cause in the prisons of French Fifth Republic; for the freedom of imprisoned Alfon in prisons of the Spanish State for the "crime" of supporting a strike; there puppeteers have been detained for questioning the oppressors with their art, while the regime has since long tormented the Basque people having hundreds of Basque prisoners scattered in the Spanish State and Europe.
We call to fight for justice for Michael Brown and Erik Gardner, who like so many black youth were killed by Obama’s police in the United States. We call for fighting alongside the relatives of the 43 teaching school students looking for their missing children in Mexico, and alongside the women of the miners in Marikana calling justice for the murder of their husbands by South African ANC.
We fight for the freedom of the prisoners in Guantánamo, hostages of the struggles of the Maghreb and the Middle East and by the acquittal of the oil workers of Las Heras sentenced to life imprisonment and some years imprisonment for fighting for their wage and their children’s bread.
Those who divide the world working class cannot prevent the whip of our executioners from uniting us; that whip is the same imperialism defending their transnational corporations and banks that starve the workers of the world and support with the fruit of their sacking an enormous military power that today is reducing Syria to rubble.
From Greek prisons an appeal has been issued by the Greek rebellious youth to setting up a network of internationalist struggle of the world working class, that beyond the differences between us and above all borders allow us to hit as a single fist against imperialism and the oppressors in the world. As comrades in Korydallos prison say: "Regardless of which barricade we are fighting in and what kind of oppression we fight against, a thread connects our struggles". We make this proposal ours for setting up a real front of struggle against imperialism and its murderous regimes and Governments.
A true international front of struggle of the oppressed is about to stand and begin to coordinate the fighting against the oppressors.
From Aleppo, the Leon Sedov Brigade as part of the resistance of this city -encircled by the troops of Bashar, the pro-US Kurdish YPG and the bombings of NATO and Putin has made an appeal to put up an international counter-conference to break the siege to the Syrian revolution.
Likewise, an international network for the freedom of political prisoners in the world has already carried out its internationalist journey on past December 12, 2015 promoted by the oil workers of Las Heras, Argentina –convicted to prison for fighting for their rights- the Palestinian prisoners, Human Rights Defenders, the JRCL of Japan and the Zengakuren youth movement, among dozens of organizations.
Our commitment is to put to our forces as a pivot to collaborate and strengthen the international unity of the struggles of the exploited, without which it is unthinkable to beat the enemy.
We know that the smoke-selling reformist left tell the working class that we may resolve our miseries and our hardships country-by-country, without uniting our struggles. THEY LIE! They want to get us on our knees country-by-country before the oppressive regimes.
There is the appeal of internationalist revolutionaries in South Africa calling to join in a common international struggle in defense of brave mining working-class in that martyred continent that featured huge bouts in Marikana for 12,500 RAND, with the miners in Chile, Peru and Bolivia; with mine workers in China now being brutally laid off and worldwide against the same transnational that kill them when they fight as in Marikana or kill them in slavery as now when 3 workers are trapped in the mine tunnels.
The parents of the 43 teaching school students disappeared in Mexico have given an example of internationalist struggle when travelling the world in search of their children and received enormous solidarity of all workers in the Americas.
The masses in their decisive battles fought despite and against treacherous leaderships which surrendered their struggles, have erected milestones of a revolutionary program to be taken as a flag by all the internationalists in the world, as a real starting point for setting up a front of international struggle to hit imperialism as a single fist.
“Que se vayan todos, que no quede ni uno solo” (All of them have to go away, don’t let even one to return!, NT) was the war cry in Argentina and Greece... “Immigrants, you are the sea of Madrid!” It was the cry from the working class of the Spanish State that was struggling to unite their ranks in the fight against the monarchy; at the same time they surrounded with their solidarity the struggle of the miners of Asturias who shouted “If our children starve, yours will shed blood!”
Here and there the cry “Bosses are murderers! Their State is a killer!” was heard in Mexico and Greece...
“Our dreams don't fit in your poll-boxes!”... the masses cried against parliamentary cretinism which numb the struggle of the masses.
Down the trade union bureaucracy! You do not represent us! For rank and file assemblies, picketing and strike committees! So the workers were fighting in Marikana and in the strike-pickets in Tonghua and Linzhou by rolling the heads of employers who wanted to lay them off.
“Red Pacos (red cops, that is the treacherous Chilean Communist Party leaders, NT) are dangerous!”, the Chilean rebel youth denounced in their fight in defense of education.
Out with imperialism! Gringos go Home! Let’s expropriate the 1% Wall Street parasites! U$S 15 per hour minimum wage!
Libya today, tomorrow in Wall Street! Let's make Paris a Baghdad every night!
Or as yet keep crying in the tough resistance in Syria, or against the dictatorship of Al-Sisi in Egypt, or against the invasion in Yemen or in Tunisia looted by imperialism: “That the regime falls right now!”
The masses in their fighting proved to have more level, awareness, cunning and selflessness than all leaderships that speak on their behalf, which have only shown cowardice and submission to the oppressors and their murderous States.
They disorganized all the decisive battles of the working class; they concentrated their forces as they did in the WSF to hand out Cuba to imperialism and divert the Latin American revolutions with the scam of the “Bolivarian revolution”, supporting killers Khadafy and Al-Assad, and also supporting to Zionism with their disastrous “two-states” policy in occupied Palestine, as they did in WSF last two congresses in Tunisia in 2013-2014.
In these demands of the masses, in their most advanced milestones the starting point lays to regroup the international working class forces and give decisive battles to hit imperialism as a single fist in key centers of its domain, in defense of those who fight around the world. Nothing is more immediate than this task.
We Internationalist Trotskyists of the FLTI do not disclaim or renounce our fight to rebuild the Fourth International, the World Party of socialist revolution, to recover it from all hands that have marred its program. We are aware that this will not be possible if we don't put all our forces joining all the internationalists of the planet to recreate a militant internationalism in the ranks of the world working class. We are ready to move forward with all those who are in favor of walking even a step on this path. We don’t want to hide the theoretical and programmatic differences that we have with the anarchist currents and with other movements which claim to be Trotskyist.
We have not or will hide it. We only ask a place to meet our obligation to be at the top of the fight against imperialism, its Governments and regimes. Only from there we'll fight for our program of international socialist revolution, because we are convinced that it is the only one that gives an historical breakthrough to the catastrophe that this capitalist system in bankruptcy generates.
New generations enter the struggle; they need to understand through their own experience raw differences that shook the world revolutionary movement. But that cannot be done outside of the battlefield. As the letter from anarchist youth in Greek prisons reads: "our point of view is not to ignore the differences in order to homogenize us, but let us know and discuss them to connect us". We agree! ... It is to reaffirm that our diversity can be our strength if we can strike together imperialism and all the enemies of workers at specific points.
It's about fighting together against this rotten system that keeps captive us all; that is claimed from the dungeons where the left Syriza, advocate of the imperialist banks, is keeping prisoner the best of Greek youth.
Reformism, the left of the smoke-sellers, the sellouts of the conquests of socialism are those who have made the working class cave in to their executioners country-by-country while imperialism centralizes its policy and the global economy and launches its counter-revolutionary offensive each day, each second and every millimeter of the planet.
Let’s stop right now Operation Final Massacre in Syria, which drowns in blood and mourning the entire world labor movement
Nothing prevents us to do this and there are too many conditions, except that you want not to do what you are proclaiming; so it is possible and urgent to gather now all the forces claiming to be for the Syrian revolution, to stop the Operation Final Massacre that has begun.
Not a day, not a second more should be delayed. Hundreds of support committees to help refugees are held in Greece, Italy, Germany, etc.
The Palestinian Intifada will be crushed blood and fire the day the last of the cities controlled by the resistance falls in the hands of Bashar the murderous dog.
Huge swaths of Syrian exiles do not bear any more to see their people being butchered. Millions of refugees are stay at martyred Syrian border. A dozen of our best militants of the Maghreb and the Middle East have fallen alongside the 500,000 massacred by the counter-revolution by Assad, Putin and imperialism. Our companions are an inseparable part of hundreds of thousands of students, workers and poor peasants which fight against 16 armies invading Syrian to crush resistance.
From there Leon Sedov Brigade comrades have called to regroup forces of all that as we do, support the Syrian revolution in order to break the siege of Al-Assad, UNO and imperialism.
Currents as the LIT-CI, Solidaires of France, among others, have gathered together more than 70 trade unions of the world last June in a statement of support for the Syrian masses. We will not hide that we have differences with them or with other currents such as the UIT-CI which has also put itself in the trenches against Al-Assad, on what are the conditions, the immediate tasks and the program for the Syrian revolution to succeed.
We affirm that without expropriating the capitalists, without expropriating the businessmen who profit from the war in the rebellious areas, it’s impossible for the exploited and starving masses to be able to eat... We affirm that without calling to expropriate the imperialist bankers, their oil, to take out impoverished Syrians from hunger, becomes increasingly difficult to reach Damascus; and even to defeat the same ISIS, which is the guardian of the imperialist pipelines and refineries in rebel areas where the masses have defeated Al-Assad.
An anti-capitalist program to win the civil war would allow the resistance to challenge the leadership of the Kurdish masses to the YPG, which have submitted that people’s fate to the will of the US imperialists and Al-Assad.
We affirm that without the solidarity of the international working class which stop the imperialist war machine and the capitalists support to this murderer Al-Assad, the Syrian revolution will be fenced. So that in Paris, London, New York, Russia and other countries where pawn troops are part of the offensive by the counter-revolutionary forces of the UN and NATO that invade Syria the working class war cry cannot be other than: “the enemy is at home!”
Without the cry: “weapons for the Syrian resistance!” -which means all dock workers loading all ammunition, food and weapons for the resistance and boycotting and destroy everything that is military equipment and supply for the murderous troops of Al-Assad, the fence cannot be broken that closes on Syria and on each of the rebel cities.
Unfortunately the LIT-CI, fight only for the victory of a "democratic" revolution and the fall of Al-Assad, as if it were possible to get 'democracy' and 'freedom' without fighting with the method and program of the Socialist Revolution.
They create illusions that "democratic" Governments or arch-reactionary Islamist regimes in the region may be the military support to the resistance. This is not true; every missile launcher or heavy war equipment that countries of the region could send to the resistance, only is for arming FSA bourgeois officers and other Islamic militias and disarming the millions of exploited who yearn to fight against Al-Assad though not having even a stone already on hand are confined to refugee camps, real prisons in the open at the borders of Syria and Europe. Saudi Arabia and Qatar only sent weapons to organize the Sunni high bourgeoisie which command the FSA, as a true Trojan horse in the rebel cities and "democratic" guardians of property, quick to agree with Al-Assad on the peace of the graveyards and the disarmament of the Syrian resistance.
Differences are clear. But it is also clear that we are on the same military front fighting against Al-Assad.
These differences have already been discussed and we continue to do so with them and with all the currents that are in the trenches fighting for the defeat of the dog Bashar, the UN, NATO and the den of bandits in Geneva.
Conditions to call together an international counter-conference to Geneva, that fights for weapons for the resistance, for international brigades, for breaking the siege of hunger and misery are ripe. Such a call would fall on fertile ground, in the first place in Europe where hundreds of Palestinian and Syrian masses support committees have arisen when thousands of refugees arrived in Europe.
Nothing prevents 70 unions who signed a statement of support for the Syrian masses, last June from convening rank and file assemblies for funds-and-food-raising and organizing volunteers to go to fight with our brothers in the Maghreb and the Middle East. They would say that there are no conditions. But if this were the case the Syrian revolution would be defeated beforehand; conditions must be conquered, no one gives them free!
We have already seen millions of European workers to adopt as their own son Aylan Kurdi and all the children that daily appear floating in the Mediterranean. An immense solidarity toured Europe to stop the massacre in Syria and in solidarity with the refugees. French regime staged a self-attack in Paris, and quickly the social-imperialist parties raised a cry that the enemy was ISIS.
They quickly buried Aylan Kurdi to cover and amnesty his murderer: Bashar dog and all imperialists and their agents that support him.
Conditions for uniting and coordinating are enough, more than enough! You just need to be willing to break through the siege to the Syrian masses.
Nothing prevents us from hitting as a single fist and breaking the siege that closes on the cities controlled by the heroic Syrian resistance. A fence under bombing by NATO and Putin the killer with mercenary troops of Bashar Al-Assad, Iran and Hezbollah... A siege that is completed by imperialism-funded Kurdish YPG closes to strangle every city controlled by the Syrian resistance by famine and genocide.
Fellow Mohamed Al - Qeeq carrying 83 days of hunger strike demanding to be released in Palestine cannot be left isolated. His is an example of dignity for all workers and oppressed. It does this while 7,000 prisoners, among them women and children are tortured in the prisons of Zionism and the Mossad.
The oppressors hit hard because in Syria, Tunisia, Egypt and Palestine one and only Intifada is expanding, as a flame of fire.
We must coordinate to free each of the young Greek rebels in the dungeons of Syriza, the young anarchists, the companions of the Cells of Fire and its valuable fighters such as Nikos Romanos, Panagiotis Argirou and all their comrades imprisoned by the regime of the Troika and the Syriza Government. We must coordinate to snatch from the clutches of imperialism and bourgeois regimes comrade fighter for the Palestinian cause Georges Abdallah, the Basque prisoners, Alfon, the anti-imperialist prisoners from Guantanamo, among thousands of comrade prisoners.
The combat for U$S 15 minimum wage by the US working class is the same as the entire world working class, from Lisbon to the Russian steppes to Africa and the five continents: U$ S 15 an hour, no dismissals, enough of imperialist looting! The struggle is the same.
We must recover the internationalist consciousness of the working class; yesterday social democracy submitted the working class to its own bourgeoisie and the slave traders in the world. Stalinism has handed out to imperialism all the revolutionary victories of the world working class of the last 100 years.
As they did so, the Renegades of Trotskyism were covering its back and washed its dirty laundry, holding that “left” garbage of the WSF and the left smoke vendors of Syriza and Podemos.
Wives of 34 miners killed in Marikana cry for justice, as well as the parents of the 43 teaching-school students disappeared in Mexico; there are still in Las Heras-Argentina workers sentenced to life imprisonment for fighting for betters wages.
In the Spanish State, under the control of the monarchy of the Bourbons and their infamous regime, they arrest puppeteers for the crime of expressing critical positions against the ruling regime.
In Argentina, workers Macri anti Government prepares laws including banning demonstrations in the streets.
In Palestine Mohamed Al - Qeeq is putting his life at stake in the Zionist prison Zionist; if he lives we live, if he dies, we all die.
The world capitalist system is shielded; it prepares to deliver hard counter-revolutionaries blows. The struggle of the working class can no longer be divided country by country.
There's no time to lose.
Open the way to the militant internationalism in the workers movement!
Committee for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International (FLTI) |