01/31/2019

The US treads its “backyard” in Latin America and launches a commercial war to maintain its economic and political control of the planet...

While the international financial oligarchy and the capitalist gangs fight for control of the world market, they deliver their whole crisis on the workers of the world, through
Layoffs, labor flexibility, wage reduction, high cost of living... namely

A fierce offensive of imperialism

On the other hand, and breaking the containment dikes of the traitor union bureaucracy and social-imperialist partie

The world working class is waging fierce struggles

We present this paper at a time when the imperialist pirates deepen their brutal offensive against the working class and the oppressed peoples of the world. In the midst of economic bankruptcy and a vicious trade war among the various imperialist gangs for control of a shrinking world market, the exploiters have declared an ever worsening war on the world working class to impose the most ferocious conditions of super-exploitation and labor slavery.
This rotten and bankrupt imperialist capitalist system cannot sustain itself without stripping the working class from each and every one of its gains and making progress in imposing a fierce labor flexibilization, wage reduction and endless layoffs producing a sea of millions of dismissed workers, who were left out of the productive process from the monumental crash of 2008 of the capitalist system. This attack is suffered by the workers in France, India, Chile, Brazil, South Africa, Argentina, USA ... No continent has been spared. They seek to finish leading the labor movement to the conditions of slavery that it had in the 19th century, when it emerged as an exploited class worldwide! Their model is the slavery of the workers of the maquilas, who today have rebelled as in Bangladesh, Mexico, Zimbabwe, India or Hungary ... They are the ones who do the worst jobs, like the black and Latino workers in the US and the immigrants in imperialist Europe. Without them there would be neither the “great” Germany, which super-exploits the workers of Eastern Europe, let alone the US, which together with France and England have subjugated China, Africa and all of Southeast Asia and filled them with maquilas.
As part of this plan to throw the whole crisis to the masses and the oppressed peoples of the world, they impose layoffs, attacks on wages, an ever increasing scarcity and a brutal increase in the prices of food, fuel, etc., taking the exploited to unprecedented conditions of hunger and misery.
The attack on the masses is already fierce. At every step, due to the imperialist offensive, all mechanisms of class conciliation are broken. When the masses enter the battle they decisively clash not only with capitalists, but also with governments and regimes in real mass political struggles.
Here there are the brutal and ruthless war that, without a truce or respite, has been declared by the exploiters to the masses of the world and also the answers the latter give ceaselessly.
This attack would not be possible if imperialism and the capitalist governments were not protected by their paid agents, the union bureaucracies and the social-imperialist parties, which are the real internal police within the workers’ movement, aimed at betraying and disorganizing all their fights. It is a socialist-imperialist labour-aristocracy that lives on the crumbs that fall from the banquet table of the transnationals that are plundering the colonial and semi-colonial world. From this labor aristocracy the social democratic reformist parties arise and the remains of Stalinism have survived, sustained here and there by the renegades of Trotskyism.

In the middle of the morass of the world capitalist system, and in the midst of their disputes, the imperialist gangs centralize their attack against the mass movement. To get out of their crisis and make their “productive investment” profitable, they must destroy the wages and working conditions of the labor movement, and the parasitic financial capital must accumulate enormous profits from the national revenues of the semicolonial world, from the looting of minerals, hydrocarbons and other commodities. In the face of the crisis of capital and a market that has shrunk, it is not even possible to share portions of surplus value or national income with the native bourgeoisies of the semicolonial world. The imperialist financial capital goes for everything.
Meanwhile, huge investments go to the war industry, which is the real locomotive of the profits of the transnationals and imperialist bankers. They receive huge masses of capital to develop high technology for destruction.
The stockholders of the world’s stock exchanges distribute profits obtained with zero-rate-loans from the Federal Reserve, the Bundesbank and the Bank of Tokyo and zero investment. These credits, which are only used to self-purchase stocks creating false valuation to distribute profits, are returned with new credits, without dumping them into the production process or creating new values. The capitalist system is sustained by recreating and deepening the crisis and the conditions that caused it to explode in 2008.
The recurrent outbursts of the stock exchanges in the last period indicate the devaluation of capital -which continues to become increasingly parasitic- and that the capitalists continue to ingest the benefits of goods that human labor has not yet produced.
1% of imperialist parasites have appropriated 50% of the wealth produced by human labor. Today they are redoubling more and more their parasitism, while confining the masses to barbarism, as shown by the migratory caravans of hundreds of thousands of exploited people fleeing the counterrevolutionary wars and blows of the Maghreb and Middle East and the hunger and misery of Latin America and Africa, and which go to the USA and Europe, looking for a place to live, as if they were the nomadic peoples of primitive societies.

This is the plan of all the imperialist gangs and their servants, the governments of the semicolonial world, a plan delineated and centralized in the 2017 G20 that took place in Hamburg and then in the Argentina summit last year. For this reason, although they pause momentary truces in their own trade wars, such as the time the US has given to China or the imperialist Maastricht to surrender, all these imperialist gangs will never give workers or oppressed peoples a truce in their centralized attack.
Imperialism comes from achieving important advances and counterrevolutionary victories in the previous period against the most advanced foci of the working class fighting during the revolutionary ascent opened in 2011-2012 that threatened to generalize to the entire planet. At that time imperialism concentrated its counterrevolutionary forces to crush the revolution in Syria and Ukraine and ensure the delivery of Cuba to the capitalist restoration, led by the Castro brothers. With their agents, they desynchronized the mass revolutionary upheaval of the semicolonial world from the offensive of the exploited in the imperialist countries, stepped on Ukraine with the boot of NATO and the pro-Russian counter-revolutionary oligarchy of Putin and provoked a real genocide in Syria, Yemen and the entire Middle East. Thus, imperialism has remained in a position of offensive against the world working class, which is the one that today it goes on driving all over the planet.

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The consequences of the current “commercial war” is the threat of layoffs of hundreds of thousands of workers in the maquilas in Mexico and the growth slowdown in China, which means the loss of millions of jobs, the collapse of wages and the increase of the unprecedented hardships of the masses. The voracious offensive of the transnationals seeks new labor to exploit. They went for India, Bangladesh, for the peninsula of Indochina ... And in all the places where they concentrated their political offensive, of looting and of labor slavery, the working class has presented them with battle. That is the moment that is now opening up in the world situation.

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We are facing a fierce battle of classes.
The workers’ and mass movements openly clash, here and there, with treacherous leaderships, which try to guarantee imperialism its victory in the current attack.
In devastated and looted continents, like the martyred Africa, the masses have entered into a state of insurrection and have revolted in general strikes against the military dictatorship, as has happened in Zimbabwe, a real open-air concentration camp.
In South Africa, large sections of the working class break with the scoundrels of Stalinism, which has long supported an infamous government of the black bourgeoisie that, whip in hand, has guaranteed AngloAmerican business for decades. As part of this process, the metalworking union NUMSA, which groups hundreds of thousands of workers, is setting up a Workers’ Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRWP) that proclaims the fight against imperialism and socialism to conquer even the slightest demands of the masses.

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Also, due to this fierce imperialist offensive, the price of all food increased in a matter of days. This again hit the plexus of the oil-producing countries like those of the Middle East. There, the bloodied Syria is seeing its revolution extinguished in its last dugouts of Idlib, massacred by Al Assad and Putin and sold out by the FSA and Al Nusra. In Yemen, the exploited are watching over hundreds of thousands of their children who die of hunger and under the bombs of the Saudi bourgeoisie, agent of the USA and the State of Israel. But the exploited return to combat. While Zionism does not cease its attack on the masses of Gaza, the workers of Iran, Sudan, Lebanon and Jordan have entered into enormous struggles, while at the same time new uprisings of the Tunisian working class are developing.

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And the working class engages in the battle...
To enter the fight they must break, as they are already doing, with all the leaderships that prevent their entry into combat.
In France, despite and against the betrayal of the Stalinist trade union bureaucracy and the so-called “anti-capitalists” in word and social-imperialist in fact -who delivered the fight in defense of the 35 hours and against labor flexibilization-, the Yellow vests are not leaving the streets; they have the support of the vast majority of the working class and the exploited, who know that even the least of their demands will only be achieved by defeating the Macron government and the imperialist Fifth Republic.
In Hungary there is the outpost of the workers of Eastern Europe, converted into cheap labor for the transnationals of Maastricht.

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There are hard battles of the Chinese working class that are concealed by all imperialist bourgeois media and also by the currents of the reformist left. A cloak of darkness that allows the fascist government of the “red businessmen” to imprison, massacre and persecute millions of workers who have rebelled against that infamous dynasty of old Stalinists and miserable new bourgeois today, enslavers of the Chinese workers’ movement.
This tendency to the rise of workers in the most populated country on the planet, finds the workers fighting for independent unions and breaking with the official fascist unions, while thousands of students go to support the workers movement and their struggles, also looking for a way to return to the fight for socialism, which long ago Stalinism handed out to capitalism. This is a key problem for Chinese slavers and the transnationals that plunder that country, superexploiting the Chinese labour. This is what explains so much viciousness and repression at the beginning of each of these battles.

Meanwhile, Putin’s Bonapartist regime, after massacring Syria, only hardens. It is crippled by an acute economic crisis, by the imperialism that asphyxiate the Russian oligarchy to take their business, while using Putin as the great butcher and hit man in Eurasia. This and no other is the role he played yesterday against the uprisings of the Chechen and Georgian masses, and today by splitting Ukraine with NATO, and playing a decisive role in the counterrevolutionary genocide in Syria.
Putin increased the retirement age and has put the masses of that country in a state of effervescence in opposition to the government. The situation of the Russian exploited is closely followed by imperialism worldwide. Every survey of the bourgeoisie suggests that 70% of the Russian population wants to return to the former USSR. Imperialism in ‘89 offered “overflowing supermarket shelves” to the masses of the former workers states, but the only thing that it has given them are ever worse and unprecedented hardships.
The Russian bourgeoisie fears a new mass attack that would shake the entire imperialist Europe. The attack on them can only be deepened. The regime is increasingly armored, while the old bourgeois-worker Stalinist party, and all its neo-Stalinist repetitions, are supporting Putin.

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The entry into combat of the working class of Asia is shaking the world. The majority of the planet’s inhabitants live there. In that area of the planet there are installed, superexploiting slave labor, large transnationals and bankers doing juicy financial business.
Decisive battles have begun against Wall Street, the European and Japanese imperialist gangs.
Next to the combats of the Chinese working class is the heroicity of the struggles of the Bangladeshi female workers, one of the most exploited sectors of female labor in the world. The comrade female workers live in factories-prisons whose roofs collapse and kill them by the thousands, as has already happened. Nothing different from the slavery of the Chinese workers, who produce in concentration camps... barefoot, in undergarments and without documents - so they do not escape - and tied to the machines.
The textile workers of Bangladesh, mostly female, surpassing the limits of the treacherous bureaucracy of their unions, won the streets and erected powerful pickets and strike committees. The union bureaucracy had signed miserable salary increases, which put it at 83 euros. This was rejected by the workers and the general strike was unleashed. They produce enormous wealth of consumer goods, such as textiles, etc. with which the imperialist bourgeoisie obtains fabulous profits. Salary increase equal to the cost of living is required by the workers.
Key battalions of the working class are thus entering the struggle, as we have seen in India and China, the most populated countries on the planet.

In China and Bangladesh, as in the Middle East or in Africa, the masses can enter the battle because first of all they have destroyed all control networks of union bureaucracies and social-imperialist parties.
In other places, as in India, they have forced union bureaucrats to go far beyond the latter want. In that country we have witnessed the second mass general strike, one of the largest in the world, in the last two years.

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US imperialism, in its “back yard” comes for all.
The US must step on Latin America, since they are getting prepared and launching brutal superior offensives to keep its control of the planet.

In Brazil Bolsonaro, the new whip of imperialism, has come to office after Lula and the PT, blessed by the church, kneeled down to judge Moro, spokesperson of the US. They’d rather go to jail before calling the working class to decisive fights to defeat the old regime and the capitalists. They know that the mobilized armed working class not only would confront the imperialist offensive but also it would put into question all the business deals of the “state contractor bourgeoisie” and the PT bourgeoisie. Lula’s allegiance is with his class, the bourgeoisie, not with the leftist servants that kneel down before him.

Morales government has long been the best student of Citibank and Morgan bank in Bolivia. Let alone the Castro brothers that sold out the Colombian resistance and Cuba to imperialism.
In Argentina, the Kirchners together with the PJ are the ones that support Macri government, refraining and disorganizing the tough struggles of the working class. Miserably, they handed over the fight for punish those who murdered comrade Santiago Maldonado to the bourgeois justice. And now, the gendarmerie officers that killed him are free.
From the parliament, Kirchnerism and the PJ keep a ruling pact with Macri, while the Peronist union bureaucracy disorganizes every attempt of the workers to overthrow the government of the transnational companies on the streets, as it happened in the huge struggles of December 18th and 19th 2017 and in hundreds of struggles against the closures of factories and dismissals, which were isolated and hardly attacked by the capital’s offensive.

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In Venezuela, today it is focused the most advanced of the US imperialist offensive that seeks to re-take full control of its businesses deals in Latin America.

When this paper is released, Venezuela is shocked by a huge political crisis. Next to this statement, we publish a breaking news statement of the Collective for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International-FLTI, written together with the comrades of the LCT (Communist Workers League) of Venezuela.

In that country, the catastrophe and sufferings of the masses are unprecedented. There is no good times or high prices of oil or business deals to distribute among the Bolivarian bourgeoisies and imperialism. In Venezuela the decisive element is that, whenever there’s a new imperialist assault that comes for all, the Bolivarian bourgeoisies have contained, deflected and crushed the anti-imperialist revolutionary process that the Latin American masses staged over the last years.
As we said before, Evo Morales turned out to be the most diligent executor of the imperialist plans in Bolivia, being the guarantor of the mineral plundering. The government of Kirchners in Argentina was one that paid most dollars for the financial interests and the foreign debt to the IMF. Lula and the PT have surrendered to the US long ago, with the church’s blessing. In Venezuela and Cuba the two greatest tragedies that this parody of “Bolivarian revolution” meant for the Latin American masses are concentrated. In those two countries, together with Colombia, the Bolibourgeoisie and Stalinism caused the cruelest defeats for the workers movement, which paved the way for imperialism to deal decisive blows in the sub-continent.
The Bolivarians have surrendered long time ago and they opened the doors for the US current offensive upon Latin America.
In 2008, with Obama-Castro pact, they handed over the Colombian resistance and they marked the trade agreements that introduced the right to heir and for foreign investments in Cuba, which allowed Castroism to become a new bourgeoisie in the island. The most serious of this is that they made Obama look nice, when he was the one that laid off hundreds of thousands of workers in USA or imposed the worst plans of labour flexibilization to keep their jobs. This very Obama, who state-ized the debt of the bankers for it to be paid by the workers and the people of USA with starvation and misery, was received with honors by Castro and Chavez.
This is the cause of the rising of a white working class, which is dispossessed today and follows Trump’s demagogy, thus dividing the working class. The result is that the US flag waves in Cuba and Castroism has proclaimed “socialism is no more, not even in the island”. THIS IS THE HEAVIEST BLOW, the most brutal and cruelest shot in the back of millions of workers and peasants that seek to open the road for the revolution in heroics fights in Latin America, both in the 20th century and the years passed of this 21st century.
But this is not all. The servile Bolivarians to imperialism have gone further away. They supported the massacre of Putin and Al Assad to the Syrian revolution. They also support the Iranian theocracy in the Middle East and they recognize the Zionist-fascist state of Israel and take good care in not shutting down their embassy.

In Venezuela, Maduro and the notorious caricature of revolution, the so-called Bolivarian Revolution, not only paid imperialism until the last penny of the foreign debt, but also they imposed all the plans of hunger and misery to the Venezuelan working class. They didn’t touch a single interest or business deal or lands to the oligarchy, which controls the food and the entire trading network of food. As a result of this, they unleashed a devaluation of more than 1000% of the currency, which sent the masses to hunger and desperation. Today, millions of refugees flee from Venezuela.

The fraud of the Bolivarian government to the Venezuelan masses is unparalleled. It has handed over the entire Orinoco basin to imperialism and all the mining of the nation to the imperialist mining companies, while today on his knees he cries out for the US to continue negotiating with him.
The IMF collected the foreign debt on time. The imperialist advance is based on a fact that no one can deny: it was the government of Maduro who, on behalf of imperialism, defeated the masses by burdening all the crisis and economic crash on their shoulders. This caused the exodus of 3 million exploited from that country, which today are slave labour in all Latin American countries.
Maduro imposed this offensive with workers eating from the garbage dumps or alms of the Chavezist bourgeoisie and their missions in the popular neighborhoods, while the Bolivarian Armed Forces and their organs of repression acted as a shock force to discipline the masses.

The government of Maduro has been a big “squeezed lemon” that imperialism used as a decisive ram to deceive first, then divert and finally defeat the fights of the Venezuelan working class. The result of this Bolivarian adventure is 300.000 million dollars that the Bolivarian bourgeoisie has in Miami bank accounts, while millions of Venezuelan workers live in hunger. How can imperialism not advance in Venezuela, if Maduro has already paved the way and cleared it from the masses, to which disorganized and imposed a brutal attack on them?
Maduro has played his role. For imperialism, there is not a single drop of juice left in the squeezed lemon.
Let’s be clear. This imperialist offensive has the way free, because of that parody and scam of the “Bolivarian revolution” that sold out the anti-imperialist struggle of the Latin American masses and handed over Cuba to imperialism. If there was an anti-imperialist revolutionary workers movement as that one which broke out in Venezuela in 1989 with Caracazo, the US wouldn’t even dare to set a single foot in that country.
This coward Bolivarian bourgeoisie and the entire Stalinist left, the former Trotskyists and social-democrats that supported it are co-responsible of leaving the masses in the worst conditions and defensive before the brutal imperialist attack.

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The government of Maduro, in crisis, regrets that the US does no longer consider him as the agent to continue guaranteeing the business of imperialism in Venezuela and the entire region. He threatened to suspend the relationships with USA in 72 hours but it keeps a blood bond with imperialism paying until the last penny the fraudulent foreign debt to the IMF at the expense of the starvation of the people, as we have said.

Decades ago, at the end of the ‘80s and beginning of the ‘90s, the governments of the Punto Fijo pact regime, the traditional parties in Venezuela, tried to impose such conditions of generalized famine of the Venezuelan people to pay the IMF.
All these offensives were defeated in the late ‘80s and beginning of the ‘90s by the Caracazo, a huge mass semi-insurrection which was the first Latin American masses’ clash against the imperialist plundering through the foreign debts, together with that of Mexico in 1986.

The Caracazo disorganized the entire imperialist offensive on Venezuela.
Chavezism and Maduro re-organized the business deals of the capitalists and imperialism not only in Venezuela but also, as we have seen, in the entire region. They managed to impose the same plans of famine, increase in the cost of living, hikes in prices of fuel, IMF plundering that not even Carlos Andres Perez, supported by the repressive military couldn’t impose back then.
Now, the followers of Carlos Andres Perez and other repressors of Caracazo will come to continue their work… and the one of Maduro, as he has finished his job, after decades, to settle the full American dominance and finish the colonization of Venezuela, chastising the Latin American masses with it.

Under the orders of OAS and Trump, the National Assembly appointed Guaido as Venezuela’s president. Maduro insists in that he is the only one that can control the masses. In a shameful speech that lasted for hours in Miraflores palace he promised the masses “more missions”, “more houses”, “more food ration” and a vague promise of “reconstructing Venezuela”. Miserable! Venezuela cannot be rebuilt without expropriating the capitalists and the entire Bolibourgeoisie that stole the money away and put it in Miami; without breaking with the IMF that takes 18 thousand million dollars a year from Venezuela, guaranteed by Maduro with devaluations that took the wages to 19 dollars a month. The promises of Maduro is a pack of rice per week. That’s the only thing the scam of the Bolivarian revolution can give to the starving people.
This cynic anti-worker policy of Maduro, which takes the masses to despair, not only weakens him and leaves him “hanging from a paintbrush” but mostly paves the way for US imperialism to start planning his overthrowing and prepare huge businesses with slave labour force and hunger wages, and what’s even more important to keep the oil entirely, as Maduro has already started to give it to the US.

While the masses eat from the trash and millions run away from Venezuela, the bourgeois gangs of imperialism define which government will come tomorrow, counting the amount of officers and barracks that each bourgeois gang has. This count started on Monday, January 21st, with the putsch attempted by a detachment of the Bolivarian National Guard in Cotiza barracks in Caracas.
Meanwhile, Trump launched a powerful missile, expecting a full definitive rendition of Maduro. He confiscated all the funds of the Venezuelan oil that are in USA, announcing that he will only give them to Guaido, who is sheltered in Colombia’s embassy of Venezuela. Maduro and the Bolibourgeoisie? They hadn’t touch a single centimeter of the US property. They are brave to suppress the working class and submissive to imperialism, of which they are junior partners.
Today, the future of Venezuela is not decided in the Constituent Assembly or in the National Assembly or Miraflores palace or the Embassy of Colombia, where Guaido is sheltered.
The “coup d´état forces” that are being prepared won’t arrive to Venezuela in a UFO nor by an invasion, for now. These counterrevolutionary forces come out from the heart of the bourgeois officers of the Bolivarian Armed Forces, which is the only institution that still stands of the bourgeois gangs and imperialism as a whole, and it is openly disputed. They will decide if it is Trump’s time or Maduro to continue for some time.

The currents of the reformist left, Podemos, Syriza, Stalinism, the murderers as Putin or the Chinese mandarins that are presented as “friends of the subjugated people”, etc. call the Venezuelan people to stop this coup by tying their fate to the anti-worker pro-imperialist policy of Maduro, who is settled in nothing more and nothing less than the officers caste that is preparing the coup.

For the revolutionary socialists we cannot even dream with stopping a single coup tank or the uprising in the barracks that has started without disarming, as we say in our statement, to the entire officers body of the Bolivarian armed forces that both Maduro and Guaido Trump.
To disarm the officers caste of the armed forces and arm the people, disputing the rank and file soldiers from the officers is the task. The struggle for the army has started. The bourgeois gangs dispute the officers among themselves. The workers must win over the rank and file soldiers. This is the decisive battle and the starting point of the entire revolutionary program.
To arm the people, expropriate the capitalists and break with imperialism to be able to eat is the only way that can assure the defeat of this evil plan of imperialism that is underway and the miserable rendition of the native bourgeoisie before their major partner.

In the entire American continent they want the working class to believe there are two alternatives: Trump or the “progressive” Democratic Party of the imperialist bandits of USA; Lopez Obrador or PRI; Lula of Bolsonaro; Cristina Kirchner or Macri. The reformist left wants to take the American working class to the feet of the counterrevolutionary “democratic” gangs of US imperialism or their “leftist” servants.
We Trotskyists affirm that there are not only these two alternatives but three. There’s also the powerful Latin American working class (a thousand times betrayed by parliamentary left chatterboxes and Stalinists that sold out the biggest gains) that strongly resists this imperialist offensive and its allies, the US workers.
The iron alternative in Latin America is between the workers and poor peasants fighting against imperialism, getting rid of the parasites of the native bourgeoisies to open the revolution… if not, the cruelest defeats will come by the hand of these bourgeoisies and imperialism.
The Latin American working class hasn’t given up. Each time it intervened, it defeated tens of imperialist offensives. Even today, with too many betrayals, it doesn’t give up. In the very borders of Rio Bravo, 70,000 workers of the maquilas have risen, while 4000 starving and disposed in Central America go to seek what’s theirs to USA, where the imperialist bankers that plundered their wealth are. The dock workers of Chile have shaken that country with huge strikes.
In Argentina, the hot coal of the revolutionary uprisings of December 18th and 19th 2017 are still burning, while the bourgeoisie and the reformist left seek to open the electoral year and take the masses off the streets.
The Brazilian working class hasn’t said its last word, let alone the US working class.

The fight against the imperialist wars, to paralyze the US war machine, to recover Cuba sold out by Stalinism, to retake the anti-imperialist struggle to expel the IMF, dissolve that bandit cave of AS, end with the capitalist markets of the transnational companies (as FTA, Mercosur and ALBA) and sweep away with the capitalist regimes of Latin America is in the hands of the working class and the poor from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.
The US offensive in Venezuela is stopped and defeated with Caracazo, Argentinazo and the workers and peasants revolution in the entire continent. Bolsonaro and its Bonapartist semi-fascist risings are confronted by committees of workers, poor peasants, rank and file soldiers and workers militias. The onslaught of USA in the Caribbean and Central America is defeated by fighting as the workers in the maquilas installed south of Rio Grande. The rhetoric of Trump “the cowboy” is fought by setting up against the anti-war movement, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Black Panthers, and breaking with the imperialist parties of the counterrevolutionary US Democrats.

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The battlefield of the Latin American continent is full of betrayals, and so are the big revolutions of Maghreb and Middle East and all the decisive struggles of the world working class.
The imperialist offensive has managed to be imposed where the treacherous leaderships, the Stalinists, the former Trotskyists and the social-imperialists have saved their businesses, profits and states.

However, the working class hasn’t said its last word and wages battle against imperialism wherever it gets free from the restraining vest of the traitors, conquers workers democracy and self-organization organs and enters the fight. They are the workers and the youth, that are in a huge struggle across the planet.
These forces of the exploited that strike against the citadel of power leave reformism and the treacherous leaderships in crisis… Fighting for the demands of the most over-exploited sectors of the world working class we can get the unity of the exploited. To organize a Marxist program following the interests of the labour aristocracy and bureaucracy means to close this path, to divide the workers ranks and to subordinate the working class to its executioners.
In the most exploited sectors of the working class that today enter the fight, which is the majority of the world working class, there will be a place to deploy the banners of the Fourth International. In there, the forces to build up once again the world party for the world socialist international revolution, which was handed over by former Trotskyists to imperialism and Stalinism, are there.
This is the fight of the revolutionary nucleuses that know that this fierce class war that has started either it advances taking giant steps forward of the entire civilization will be taken to disaster, war and fascist barbarism.
The fierce class struggle is cornering reformism. The working class wages battles. It is time for the revolutionaries to be at the level of these battles and regroup our forces around a program of the Fourth International.

Carlos Munzer
for the International Secretariat
of Coordination of the FLTI