Yemen – January 13th, 2017

A brutal genocide due to starvation is getting worse as there is a siege imposed by the international coalition of 9 countries led by the Saudi kings, commanded by imperialism and NATO from the Pentagon.
A true counterrevolutionary catastrophe is getting worse in Yemen. Millions of Yemeni people are very close of dying due to starvation if the international working class doesn't do something.

NO MORE BARBARISM AND IMPERIALIST GENOCIDE!
STOP THE MASSACRE MADE BY THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY FORCES OF THE SAUDI ENSLAVERS UNDER NATO'S COMMAND!

Yemen was a link of a single chain of the huge revolution for bread that shook the whole Maghreb and Middle East, from Tunisia to Syria and Libya to Bahrain, from Egypt to Yemen.
Today the counterrevolution goes through this same route, with the genocide in Syria, the military coup in Egypt, the massacre in Bahrain and the fascist coup attempt in Libya and the partition in result. The invasion to Yemen to smash a great revolution for bread and against imperialist plundering, the huge sufferings of the Yemeni masses and the whole region were multiplied by thousands.
Under the bombs of the Saudi led coalition, the agents of counterrevolution are advancing in imposing a true genocide for starvation. There is no hiding such a catastrophe anymore!
From a population of 26 million:

• 3 million were displaced
• 14 million eat only a piece of bread a day
• 7 million have nothing, absolutely nothing, to eat
• 9 million don't have access to water
• 2 million children need urgent medical care and 500.000 are suffering of severe deep malnutrition
• 1000 children die every week, 1 every 10 minutes
• 62% of the Yemeni exploited live with less than 2 dollars a day

This is getting worse and worse. The hospitals were demolished by the coalition bombings. There is no water or electricity and there is a brutal shortage due to the blockade of the ports made by the coalition. The typical basket today only has flour and rice and last year increased its price more than double. Bread, main food of a Yemeni exploited, is extremely rare to find. Even so, the Yemeni exploited that may have some money to buy some food has to travel in tens of kilometers to find some place that is selling.

This situation is the result of a huge counterrevolution that is underway in the country, of the role played by the Houthi bourgeoisie that tries to place itself on top of the mass movement so the masses don't take over power, and the slanders of the world left that completely isolated this revolution of the oppressed. The exploited masses of the poorest Arabic country, were fighting for bread while the reformist left claimed they were "backward" "barbaric" and "terrorist" masses, that were in the middle of a "inter-ethnical dispute" or "interreligious" war or "disputes between Shiite and Sunnite commanded one by Iran and the other by Saudia Arabia"... This is a true infamy.

In 2011 the masses had overthrown the president at that time, Ali Abdallah Salah and defeated the hikes in the prices of fuel, food and other basic products that he wanted to impose. But their fight was diverted after a brutal massacre. All the bourgeois parties of Yemen gathered together and agreed an "ordered" exit of Salah from the government and imposed a "transitional" regime, provisory expropriating the revolution. In 2012 they named Abderabba Mansour al Hadi as a president.

In 2014 Hadi started to try and pass on the attack with price hikes that Salah couldn't. He decreed a 90% increase in fuel prices and this led to the increase in the costs of living. Under this situation, the masses took the demand of "Down with the huge hikes in the prices of fuel and food!" and they staged again new demonstrations. Thousands and thousands in the streets of Northern Yemen, an area of poor peasants and sheep shepherds, mostly Shi Muslims, marched over Sanaa, the capital city, uniting themselves with the workers of the capital city, whose majority was Sunni Muslims. This was a workers and poor peasants alliance.
It was the masses who took over the capital city and the government palace. They defeated and split the armed forces. They set up shoras of peasants, workers and armed soldiers. After this, the Houthi bourgeoisie came to try and contain the uprising, while imposing a bigger inclusion of them in the business deals in Yemen, just as the Sunnite bourgeoisie did with the FSA generals in Syria. They try to be at the top and appear as the leaders of the process.
The houthis met with president Hadi and signed a pact of "national unity government" under UN coverage. Houthis and UN insisted that they needed to establish a government of Hadi, the Sunnite bourgeoisie of the south and the Houthis and evict the capital city. But the exploited besieged the houses of the prime minister and the president so later they marched to took over the presidential palace.
Houthis declared they didn't want a "coup d'état" or "topple the president" but more participation in the government. UN declared Hadi as the legitimate president and urged both sides to solve the situation. Hadi accepted the agreement of a joint government. So did Houthis and they called the masses to evict the presidential palace and go away from the streets to open the road for this "new government".


Es decir, no había ninguna motivación religiosa en las enormes acciones de las masas, sino que una revolución de explotados, sunitas y chiitas uniéndose contra semejante ataque de la burguesía y el imperialismo en una verdadera alianza obrera y campesina, mientras entre la burguesía Houthi (chiita) y el presidente Hadi (sunita) había de hecho un verdadero pacto de clase para impedir que los explotados se hicieran del poder, un pacto para preservar el gobierno de transición y el Estado burgués. De ningún modo hubo una disputa inter-religiosa entre chiitas y sunitas patrocinados por Irán y Arabia Saudita.

In September 2016, Hadi changed the main office of Yemen Central Bank from Sanaa to Aden, as he couldn't get inside the capital city and had to rule in Aden. He deepened the air blockade and naval blockade together with the coalition, while the Houthis confiscated food and medical supplies from civilians.

The coalition is a foreign force and cannot recruit soldiers from the Yemeni people, let alone stabilize areas under their control and they have to advance in a brutal counterrevolution with daily bombings, using cluster bombs and starvation and the needs of the masses as a weapon against them. The masses have already claimed they wouldn't be subjected to any invader of their land. Every men, women and children were ready to confront the invader troops until death. It is a heroic act of the masses. They refuse to give up until they see the victory of their revolution and the demands for which they came out to fight.


The only thing left for the bourgeoisie was to make the Yemeni masses lives into a desperate daily quest for bread and survive another day. The control of the Yemeni Central Bank by Hadi meant that the salaries (which were already low) were not paid (now is the fifth month without payment) and 6 million Yemeni exploited are without any income, since their payroll consisted in 1.2 million households that provided their families.
The counterrevolutionary coalition led by Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen the dirty work for all the imperialist powers of massacring the exploited, as in Syria is doing the fascist Bashar al Assad. Just as in Syria, they count with the silence of the world reformist left and the complicity of the treacherous leaderships that isolated the Yemeni masses and those from the entire region from the working class of the rest of the world, especially from their class brothers and sisters in the imperialist powers. They prevented the biggest class solidarity in the imperialist countries with their brothers and sisters from the Middle East by encouraging islamophobia and anti-muslim propaganda, poisoning the masses' consciousness, when imperialism and their agents were the ones committing the worst atrocities against the masses. They said the workers fighting for bread since 2011 were jihadists. THE ONLY JIHAD IS THAT OF THE OPPRESSED AGAINST THE OPPRESSORS!
No more deceptions and lies! What has risen in Maghreb and Middle East are the workers and poor peasants that cannot stand anymore to live under conditions of slavery and starvation when they have black gold wealth under their feet with which the world capitalist system works. In Yemen, they are the main reserve of labour force for construction of fancy infrastructure of Arabic lords in Dubai and their artificial islands and 5 and 6 star hotels.

Enough is enough!
No more imperialist barbarism!
Let's take to the streets in USA and Europe from the working class to stop the massacre on the rising workers and peasants in Yemen!
That's our strength, as well as the whole world working class, to stop the massacre

Correspondent for Rudolph Klement Socialist Publishing House