September 24 2014 - Yemen

In the heat of the crisis, due to the misery and terrible unprecedented hardships abated on the masses... the shock waves of the revolution in the Maghreb and the Middle East have returned to Yemen
Fighting in the streets, with barricades and violent clashes with the army...
Yemeni masses are starring a revolutionary fighting for bread and their urgent demands

The flame of the revolution is still alive! Long Live Revolution!

Yemen is now one of the centers of the battles of the masses for bread and against the high cost of living. The masses have won the streets of the capital, Sanaa, defeated the police, divided the army and occupied all the Government buildings and military headquarters, forcing President Abd Rabba Mansour Hadi to seek refuge.
From there, this "President" made statements asserting he has not yet resigned, that his regime remains in place and will not give up, when it is a fact that the masses have taken the capital. He has also warned that if those who are occupying government buildings (which -according to him- are Shia) are not removed, he will call "the Sunni masses" in his support and would open a civil war. But these are pure empty words, since the masses, both "Sunni" and "Shiite" are who remain at the center of the fighting in Sanaa, occupying the streets, public buildings... i.e., seeking to solve the problem of hunger with their own hands.

Yemen is the poorest country of all Arab countries. Capita income is less than $2 per day. According to recent news announced by Yemeni hospitals, a quarter of the population suffers from so much famine and food shortages that have already affected their health. The masses are living in misery. Much of its population has to go to work in other countries, especially Saudi Arabia, to support their families.

 Faced with this situation, the exploited masses of Yemen already rose in 2011 as part of the same revolutionary process in the region that had began in Tunisia. But the Yemeni masses were brutally suppressed, isolated from the whole of the world proletariat, and the bourgeoisie could endure in power through a replacement to the former dictator Salah for a transitional Government of the party of reform (Inslah) of Hadi.

After the counter-revolutionary triumph that imposing genocide in Syria meant, the Yemeni bourgeoisie believed the masses had been defeated, and tried to pass new attacks. The government increased 90% fuel prices, which led to a huge rise in food and the cost of living. At the same time, the bourgeoisie of Northern Yemen (Houthi, a branch of the Shia) wanted to use the masses to negotiate a greater slice of national income and began to consider that it was necessary to march on the capital for the opening of the Government (so that this fraction could enter it and hence control part of the business) and rejecting the increase in the price of fuel. This last point was a demand and real need of the masses that if the Houthi bourgeoisie had not raised it, it could not have handled them.

So, while the Yemeni bourgeoisie is disputing around their business, the masses are mired in misery and cannot endure any more the unprecedented hardships to which they are subjected.  

The exploited and starving masses of, in their fights, then came to occupy the capital. While they faced a fierce crackdown by the police that left more than 100 dead, and fought to defeat the Government’s attack, the Houthi bourgeoisie negotiated its inclusion in the Transitional Government. The masses were meanwhile marching to the Government Headquarters and there inside was the bourgeoisie Houthi negotiating!

These heads of the Houthi clans finally agreed with the Hadi Government on last Sunday September 21st, signing an agreement under the umbrella of the UN. But this covenant did nothing to dislodge the masses in the streets, as also the suppression by the armed forces, which was defeated by the insurrected Yemeni masses. These had already escaped all control.  It is clear that, despite the massacre in Syria, imperialism has not even been able to put an end to the revolution in the region with a definite defeat, and today it is back as is shown by the revolutionary combat of the Yemeni exploited.

In response to the Covenant (which included a slight reduction of the amount of the price increases), the masses were able to identify that their demands would not be conquered save they faced and defeated the attack from the Government and its repressive forces. For this reason they prompted to raid the homes of the main commanders of the army and to take all the Government buildings, army barracks and police stations. Not only this, as now they also control the circulation of vehicles in the capital.
U.N. officials are warning the Houthi bourgeoisie about "the agreement includes a cease fire and the public buildings must be vacated", i.e., that they (the Houthi chiefs) should make sure the masses are withdrawn. But they cannot do it because the masses have already broken, they refuse to leave the streets, they deepen minute after minute their bouts with assaults and by looting the houses of the main commanders of the Yemeni army.

A Yemeni bourgeois parliamentarian expresses with clearest words the horror of the bourgeoisie and imperialism at the combat of the masses: "The issue here is not whether an agreement has been signed or not. There is always this or that agreement in Yemen. The central point is that after months of ignoring signals, now it has already become painfully obvious that the transition of Yemen is on the verge of collapse, if it has not done already so. The point is whether both groups involved have been aware of this and take appropriate actions... ". I.e., their main concern is to see how to stop the outbreak of the revolutionary masses. And, although having an agreement signed this yet has failed to impose it.
 
 Long live the Yemeni masses’ revolutionary battles! Down with the transitional Yemeni Government! Down with the deals and agreements which the bourgeois fractions (both Shiite and Sunni) seek to impose upon the masses!  We must develop and centralize the power of the exploited: for the organization and centralization of committees of workers, poor peasants and footmen! For a Congress of workers and rank and file troops, with elected delegates with revocable mandate, to be opposed to the power of the exploiters! For committees of privates and the destruction of the murderous officers’ caste!
 
For a revolutionary provisional Government supported in bodies of self-determination, armed militias and the committees of privates that come to the side of the exploited! Only a Government of the workers and poor peasants can give bread to the workers and the exploited masses and put an end to poverty and shortages and the unendurable cost of living, breaking the links with imperialism and expropriating the MNCs that plunder our wealth as we sink more and more in extreme poverty.

Libya and Yemen are links from a same revolution in the entire Maghreb and Middle East, part of the socialist revolutions for the bread that started with the fighting of the world working class in 2011. This revolution still remains standing, fighting against imperialism and its lackeys. 
A single class, a single revolution!
Out with imperialism and its monopolies, which sucks blood and sweat from Yemen and the entire Maghreb and Middle East! For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist State of Israel, brutal police force of imperialism in the region! Downwith the bourgeois Governments of the region, all of them lackeys of imperialism! For the Socialist United States of the Maghreb and Middle East! 

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