Appeal from the Commission of Condemned Workers, Family and Friends of Las Heras

Las Heras, Santa Cruz,  November 5, 2015

December 12:
INTERNATIONAL FIGHTING DAY IN SUPPORT OF THE PERSECUTED WORKERS, THE POLITICAL REFUGEES AND AGAINST THE GENOCIDES ON THE PEOPLE THAT REBEL AGAINST HUNGER, INJUSTICE AND PILLAGE

LET’S TAKE THE STREETS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD!

Comrades,
This December 12 two years have passed since the brutal life sentence and jail condemned was put on us and our families. We fight to end with the repression and persecution against workers like us-oil workers of Las Heras condemned to life sentence for the only “crime” of demanding a decent salary and to finish the labor flexibility. For that struggle, we are at disposition of exploiters’ justice and at any time we can be jailed while we appeal against the sentence.
After years of isolation, we could break with the fence, hundreds of Argentinean and world workers organizations have supported us, as well as left parties and Human Rights organizations. Together with them, we surrounded the tribunal the day when we received the brutal sentence.

From 2013 we have been propelling on December 12 a fighting day for all the persecuted workers and anti-imperialist fighters all around the world.
In that way we started the international days every day confronting the tribunal together with the organizations that defend the cause of the Palestinian nation occupied by Zionism. There, every day they are imprisoned, killed and repressed- those who fight for their land and right for not to be pariahs in their own land. They are the same Palestinian workers and youth that today  keep taking the streets to confront the occupation; they are who have been side by side us from the first day in our struggle against the same enemies.

Following such a road we have convened a Global Fighting Day in 2014 with the comrades of Human Rights Defender. Friends of this Commission of Condemned workers, and Family of Las Heras travelled to Palestine to take the solidarity for the thousands of political prisoners, even children that suffer the worst hardships in the dungeon of Zionism. We took the solidarity for them and fought together with the Sammer Issawi family. Sammer Issawi at that moment from the jails organized a hunger strike to support us at the same moment when the vengeance Court condemned us.
This Fighting Day was also conquered together with the Committees for the freedom of Georges Abdallah, fighter of the Palestinian cause imprisoned for 32 years in France, and the pro-independence Basques in jail who also rejected their food as a repudiate sign against the brutal sentence against us. Past October 24 we won the streets in a Global Fighting Day for his freedom.
The comrades of the JRCL-RMF from Japan and the revolutionary Zengakuren students in 2013 won the streets against the videlist Court and the oil companies-when they were giving us the sentence- and against the repressor Kirchner government.

We were also side by side the militant students from Chile who carried on protest action in Italia Square in Santiago and with the family of Juan Pablo Jiménez, trade union leader killed.
They were part of that international Day brave fighters for the freedom of political prisoners in England, the Spanish State and Asturias in particular.
In that way we took the streets and started to set up an International Net to coordinate us. We knew from the very beginning that our freedom, despite we our condemned, is thanks to the solidarity of workers and oppressed people around the world and our comrades, workers from Argentina who gave and give solidarity to our cause.
We have been together with the families of the 43 student teachers from Mexico disappeared who have gone through all across the world seeking solidarity and make a common struggle for their children to appear. We fight together the militant trade unions from South Africa and the Marikana widows who keep demanding justice for the 34 miners killed. There workers and exploited fought in Boiketlong for  housing and four comrades were imprisoned and condemned with fake accusations, similarly to what happened to us. At the same time, hundreds of students in South Africa have been detained for demanding free education and are accused under the old Apartheid law of “treason to the mother country” with which they can be sentenced to spend over 62 years in prison.

In Argentina there are already hundreds of workers and students organizations that support our demand. Our struggle is propelled by Internal Commissions and delegates bodies like Paty, Garrahan Hospital, as well as left currents that in Buenos Aires have set up a Committee for our acquittal propelled by the trade union of State workers (ATE).
We have fought with the comrades from Corral de Bustos for our freedom and theirs, who, like us,  have passed years in prison for their uprising against the injustice of the corrupt judges and police.

Las Heras is a city militarized by the gendarme forces of the national government. It is a city in the middle of the province that is under the control of the imperialist oil companies. These oil companies are who organized the big wars in the world for the routes of oil and in the Argentinean south they enslave the oil workers and punish hard to those who “dare” to fight for their rights with their forces of repression. Southern from our city, in the province of Tierra del Fuego, the leaders of the teachers and truck drivers are in court, as the workers of ATE, Rio Gallegos have been judged.

For these hard fights and attacks, and because we realized that without solidarity we would have been condemned and in prison, we and our families tell Argentinean and world workers our truth: the oil companies with the Kirchner government, his genocide Armed Forces, his corrupt judges and politicians demanded our sentence and punishment as it happened in a National Parliamentary Session in 2014.  Those -at the top- have got united to enslave workers and condemn those who fight, and we –below- must unify to stop such disregard and injustice.

This December 12, we will carry on again, among all, such International Fighting Day. But this time we will do with more forces since the brutal repression, wars, genocides and persecution have increased against workers and oppressed people, and for that reason, we unify our struggle and demands.

This 12/12 will be an International fighting Day for the freedom of all the political prisoners, to stop the counterrevolutionary genocides and wars against the oppressed masses and in defense the political refugees that like the Syrians reach Europe running away from the massacre, starvation and cleansing on the part of the murderous governments and regimes.

This December 12 we will be together with the Asturias miners that conquered their freedom by a heroic struggle.
We also get unified with the teachers from CNTE Oaxaca, México, that fight to end with the prosecutions and jails against their leaders.
The Greek youth is in jail for the crime of fighting against the fascists that punch the migrant refugees and workers in struggle in Greece. We see heroic young people like the comrade Nikos Romanos that while was in hunger strike affirmed he was reluctant to withdrawal and his convictions are not negotiable. From the jails the youth call to destroy this system that oppress, plunder, and starve workers and people. We know what these valuable youth and workers are suffering because we have suffered it and for that reason, we are unconditionally with them and all the anti-fascist fighters and with those who confront the Syriza government and the oppressors from Greece.

This 12/12, as we have said, we witness that Europe is full of refugees who are true political prisoners. Tens of thousands coming from the devastated Syria reach the old continent and are welcomed by the European workers with great solidarity.
Children and families drown in the Mediterranean that is full of blood. Hatred of the oppressors, transnationals, and their murderous governments have reach to the point of massacring and put in jails children as it is happening in Syria and Yemen; they sink the refugees ship, bomb the cities as dog Bashar and Putin do; or the bravest children of the world, the Palestinians who fight against the Zionist occupant, are detained, tortured and put in jails, even they are condemned to life sentence.
We are not surprised, this capitalist oppressor system emerged over-exploiting children in the factory and today they massacre children because they cannot even maintain them as salves.
They not only enslave, put in jail and massacre those who are fighting, but they kill and imprison our children. THAT’S ENOUGH! They haven’t touched and killed one, they have touched and killed all of us! We are all refugees!

Comrades, this December 12, unify all the struggles and demands. The comrades imprisoned in Guantanamo, the comrades in jail of Ayo, Ayo and the miners from Huanuni under prosecution in Bolivia, the thousands political prisoners in Egypt, the combatant dock workers from Chile must know that day that they are not alone in their struggle. The killers and repressors must know we have unified and won the world’s streets to say: STOP massacres, repression and prisoners with whom they try to blackmail and punish those who fight for their demands all across the world!
From Spain to England, from Russia of the killer Putin to USA and Europe devastated by the MNCs, from America to Africa and the Pacific must be heard the voice of freedom of all the political prisoners and no more barbarism against the oppressed!

From Argentina, you have all our forces at your disposition. Here we have more than 7000 comrades under prosecution for fighting. At this moment, 34 teachers of SUTEF and truck drivers are in court in Tierra del Fuego, they want to condemn them to demand their rights.            They want to do the same with the teachers and self-organized parents from Caleta Olivia (Santa Cruz). In this way, they submit each condemned before the judges under a single command: of the powerful ones, of the transnational companies.

For that reason, along with dozens of workers and student organizations, we fight for a Coordinating Board for all accused to unite in a single demand. So we have been launching with the relatives of our comrades Corral de Bustos who have been imprisoned over five years, with Paty workers, metallurgists and workers of Acindar of ATE.
Here also in Argentina, the murderous police killed the youth and minors for the crime of not having a job and education in a real slaughter of "easy trigger" (Translation Note people killed by the police), preparing the most ferocious state repression against workers who go on fighting.
The Kirchner`s government of Argentina leave the office with the hands full of blood. So the families of the workers still cry for justice for the colleagues killed on December 20, 2001 as Teresa Rodriguez, the protesters killed in northern Salta, the comrades Fuentealba, Mariano Ferreyra, Kostequi and Santillan, and the comrade Angel Veron who have just died handcuffed to a hospital bed after a fierce beating by the police while he was fighting for decent housing.

On December 12, we will have the opportunity among all of us to unify and to show to our executioners we are not alone. If even our enemies keep ours in prison, it is because we have not joined our forces worldwide. It's time to do this December 12 and every day of the year!
Let's unite over the borders, as do the large banks and companies to exploit and repress all of us. We will fight for our rights. Because the rebellion of the slaves is not a crime, it is justice!

In Buenos Aires we will make a press conference of the colleagues of Las Heras who are sentenced to life sentence and prison. We hope and we know that that day, you all make dozens of actions around the world. We will act on the central streets of Buenos Aires and demonstrate to the embassies of Israel and Syria that represent the worst of the attacks and genocides against the workers and oppressed peoples of the world.

We call on all those who fight for the freedom and against oppression and plunder of peoples to conquer December 12 a day of international struggle.
LET’S FIGHT ALL UNITED!
Workers and oppressed people of Argentina need to unite to fight agaisnt persecution, fighting for our demands and join together with our class worldwide; along the Syrian and Palestinian resistance and all committees of solidarity with our brothers who are refugees in the planet; together with the family members and committees of solidarity with the comrade Abdallah and the separatists Basque; with student organizations who fight for free and quality education as in South Africa, Chile, Mexico and Colombia; with African labor organizations fighting against looting and exploitation of Anglo American and other monopolies; alongside the heroic workers and students facing Japan Abe's government; with Chinese workers who fight against sweatshop conditions in the prison and maquila factories; with Mumia Abu Jamal and young workers struggling for $ 15 an hour in the United States and the black and Latin workers struggling against racism and the murderer police of Obama; together with the workers of SIDOR in Venezuela; along with health workers and miners in Peru; with miners and exploited of Donbass in Ukraine; along with state workers and students in Spain as Asturias en Pie  and all the organizations  who fight against the persecution, repression and jail against the Bourbon and its murderous police.

This December 12 should have a privileged place in our demand, the struggle to end the slaughter, repression and even jail against children and young people at international level. They are the vanguard of the struggle of the oppressed people around the world. This 12/12, together with convicted prisoners and condemned to fight, political refugees have a place of honor. For them we demand housing, health, education, work. They come from nations like Syria, Yemen and throughout the Middle East, which are plundered by the big oil companies of the imperialist powers also thrown into misery and attack all the wealth of European workers. Let stand a day of struggle of the exploited workers and youth to end the slaughter of the children of the people who stand up with political refugees worldwide!

A SINGLE CLASS, A SINGLE FIGHT!

Comrades, Let’s unite every link of the oppressed into a powerful chain that once can put the shackles and impose justice against the worst murderers and oppressors of this planet.

NEVER AGAIN A WORKER THAT FIGHTS FOR OUR RIGHTS MAY BE ALONE FACING THE ATTACKS OF THE STATE AND ITS JUSTICE!
DECEMBER 12TH LETS’S TAKE THE STREETS!
LET’S SET UP AN INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY NETWORK FOR JUSTICE AND FREEDOM OF THE ONES FIGHTING!

Commission of the Condemned Workers and Relatives and Friends of Las Heras