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08/22/2012

SOUTH AFRICA:

Led by the Anglo-American and other MNCs which plunder Africa, Zuma's government perpetrate a new slaughter against the working class.

The Zuma government, a lackey of imperialism, supported by the ANC and the COSATU Stalinist bureaucracy, has just  massacred 34 workers at Lonmin mine!

The Zuma murderous government, a lackey of imperialism together with the African National Congress (ANC), launched a violent repression and savage slaughter against Lonmin mine striking miners in Marikana. On August 16, 38 workers were killed by the police of Stalinism and Mandela’s infamous regime of "reconciliation" with the white bourgeoisie of the Apartheid.

In such a way the Zuma government gave their response against the heroic struggle of the workers grouped in the AMCU, who on Aug. 10 had gone on strike and took the mine demanding a 300% from R4000 to R12500  per month (from 480 to 1500 dollars which is the minimum so a family can survive) pay rise and better working conditions, and rebelling against slavery and the terrible conditions imposed by the bosses that forces them to live in huts which do not even have toilets, electricity and potable water.

This huge strike received a first response: this company of the imperialist pirates of the London City sent their gunmen and the private security of the NUM bureaucracy, belonging to the COSATU trade union, to check the workers’ takeover of the mine through a fierce repression to empty the mine facilities. Private security and COSATU bureaucracy with sticks and shots tried to subdue the strikers. But this attack was repulsed and defeated by the workers who remained firm in their fight.
Then the order of the Anglo-American and Lonmin imperialist bosses was clear: supported by public demand of the trecheroous seller out union bureaucracy, called to "restore order". The imperialist companies employee, Zuma, President of South Africa, did not hesitate and sent thousands of police surrounding the mine facilities and wildly fired the workers and women, taing the lives of 34 workers, while more than 70 workers were injured and 259 were detained by the murderous police and they are still in jail.

As in Austrias and the entire Africa, the miner worler led the fight agaisnt the imperialist transnationals and their murderous government.

This bitter struggle of the workers in South Africa, that even fought agaisnt the trecherous leadership of the union, complicit in the exploitation of workers, threaten all the exploiters and their government.
Their demands find dry wood across Africa, from north to south. Earlier, as part of the same struggle, the African mining movement carry on tough fights in Guinea, Zimbabwe and Zambia. There, the thirst for justice of the working class became unruly: in the mine Collum in Zambia, the workers had begun to execute even slavered bosses.

In Marikana miners climbed another step in this fight. They had already defeated the union bureaucrats, when the very same Jose Mathunjwa, highest leader of the union acted for the side of the bosses by telling the workers to go back to work without any gain and fiercely repressing the strikers; such repression was defeated by the armed workers. In Lonmin mine, workers and bosses faced each other, and women of the miners and workers in South of Africa began to stand up. That is why the police mercilessly slaughtered. Workers before the betrayal of their union leaders chose shop stewards “without face” to negotiate their demands climbing another step to higher stages of organization

Lonmin workers followed the path of their class brothers in South of Africa and take as theirs the fighting demands and slogans of the workers in Asturias and Leon of the Spanish State. They have been resisting strongly for more than two months against the attempt of closures by the imperialist government of Rajoy and the killer monarchy. His warcry was: "If this is not fixed, war, war, war" and "If our children are hungry, yours will bleed." That heroic mine struggle has been diverted for now and is isolated, but today it emerged as strong in the martyred Africa, against the same exploited multinationals. South African Miners fight agaisnt Zuma, the friendly government to Al-Assad, supported by the traitors of the CP, which in South Africa tried to defeat with clubs the struggle and from the government it was called to slaughter. But they did not get it. So the fight of the workers and youth of North Africa spreads to the south of the continent. Even before, in the general strike in Nigeria the war cry against the government was: "Go Jonathan or die like Gaddafi".

Today the killer Zuma tries to wash his face declaring "national mourning" over the death of Lonmin miners, as the worker struggle still continuos. Liers! He, his government and the trecherous bureaucracy, under the command of the company, gave the order to fire and slaughter workers. And now after the slaughter they seek "reconciliation" over the blood of the workers' vanguard. It is enough with the sufferings that the oppressed masses are paying, in terrible conditions, this sinister policy of "reconciliation" that the imperialism, the black bourgeoisie and Stalinism applied with the murderers of Apartheid. They are all under the command of the same master: the Anglo-American and other UK-US imperialist companies.
 And the left currents crying as a baby ... of the losses of the capitalists, they quickly cover the Stalisnim which supports the killer Zuma’s government. They ask to Zuma to make justice! This is to ask the executioner to justice.Enough!

Out with Zuma and ANC! Down with their regime of "reconciliation" with Apartheid and the Anglo-American with their junior partners the Black billionaire bourgeoisie, reaping commissions from the MNCs and the Stalinist mercenaries!

Down with the strike breakers union bureaucracy of COSATU and of all workers’ organizations! They are all defenders of the property and the superprofits of the transnational!

We must expropriate without compensation and under workers control all the mines of the imperialist pirates who plunder Africa, all their lands, banks, properties and factories!
From Namibia to Zambia, from Botsuana to Mozambique and from all over Southern Africa let’s send delegates to surround with solidarity to the miners of Lonmin!

One class, a single demand in the entire enslaved Africa
GENERAL STRIKE NOW IN THE ENTIRE REGION

For workers and exploited people militias! For soldiers committees!
We must smash and dissolve the killer police of Anglo-American and transnational!


Down with the farce of " commission of enquary" of Zuma! There is nothing to investigate!
Workers and Popular Trials to judge and punish all the killers of Lonmin miners!
They are the martyrs of the entire working class!
Immediate and unconditional release of the 259 comrades imprisoned!

The workers supported by their wives and children, and the solidarity of the working class, the heroic struggle of Lonmin miners continues.Their demands are the ones of the entire labor movement in South of Africa and the region!Their warcry is the one of the whole working class!
Their valiant battle can not be isolated! The working class of South of Africa must regroup their ranks together with the miners that are fighting and their demands. In order to do this, we must expel from COSATU and unions the strikebreaker bureaucracy!
A 1000-manned strike committee of workers from the Royal Bafokeng Mining corporation base on the rank and file direct democracy and confronting straightforwardly the Stalinist traitors of COSATU and NUM, have gone out to fight raising the same program than the Lonmin mineworkers.
Workers from the Anglo American are already revolting, coming out of the mine pits while applying the same direct democracy and raising their list of demands!
Long live the revolt of all the mineworkers in the South of Africa! Its urgent to expropriate all the expropriators!

For a common Strike and Struggle Committee of all the mineworkers and other proletarians across Central and Southern Africa! With assemblies and strike picketing, the miners’ rank and file fight its way  forward to confront its exploiters and to weld its proletarian unity!

THIS IS THE WAY TO FIGHT against the mining transnationals, which as the real slaveholders they are, take workers from Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, etc.. to enslave them in the South African mines, and use their women as servants in their homes. Enough with slavery!

All to Marikana to set up a Congress with rank and file delegates from the labor movement and the exploited masses to fight together with Lonmin workers, the strike picketers in the Royal Bafokeng Platinum mine and the workers from Anglo American that are starting to revolt! It is urgent to coordinate now everybody who is fighting!  

A same demand for all!
Enough of workers living with miserable wages! 300% increase of wages for the entire labor movement in Central and Southern Africa!
No more super-exploited to the immigrant workers in the mines of the slavery bosses! Equal pay, equal work across the region!
Work, education, health and housing for all now!

Out with imperialism from enslaved Africa!

In order to end with the transnational and its regimes and, we must fight as in Libya, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt, as the miners of Spain fight, as the revolutionary strike in Nigeria before, and executing the bosses of the workers as in Zambia .Africa must set on fire from North to South! The exploiters and their governments deserve the socialist revolution!

For a Federation of Soviet, Worker and Socialist Republics of Southern Africa!

We must expel from the labor organizations the supervisors of the MNCs. the union bureaucracies and Stalinism, the mercenaries (hitmen) of capitalism!
We must expel from the labor organizations to corrupt leadership and agents of great capital! They divide the struggle of the world proletariat country by country, submit that struggle to the bourgeoisie and prevent the international unity of the exploited from developing so that they are not able to confront in a united and centralized way the MNCs and the treacherous leaderships that defend the imperialistic interests all over the world.

US working class and their vanguard the Black workers must head this combat against JP Morgan and the Anglo-American, together with the British workers who must break with their treacherous trade union bureaucracies and face openly the MNCs that thrive in the City in London, which as in Lonmin, use to slaughter the South African workers and make the British workers starve. Let’s besiege Wall Street and the Financial City of British pirates’. Let’s incense the immigrant workers and youth in the Cités in France and all over imperialist Europe to get them revolt against their oppressors. There the forces exist to defeat definitively the imperialist MNCs. This fight, which is a common fight of the world proletariat, has been up to now blocked by labor aristocracies and bureaucracies who live from the crumbs that fall from the plunder that MNCs do over the colonial and semicolonial world.

The World Social Forum, the miserable imperialist NGOs, the Stalinist hitmen of the capital and other currents of the reformist left in enslaved Africa preach that "another world is possible", the "market socialism" and "socialism of the XXI century", with their governments repressing, imprisoning and killing workers. They all supported Zuma, as they did yesterday with the killer Gaddafi and today with the genocide Al-Assad. Enough! From North Africa, from Syria, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt to the south of the continent, the working class needs to set up a revolutionary leadership to fight and win. It's time to refound the Fourth International!