September 6th, 2012

The bosses and the killer police, supported by the trecherous COSATU threat with a new slaughter agaisnt the mine workers of Lonmin

“The workers do not give up and promised that they are going to kill the management of the mine if they do not get their demands!”

See second Correspondence from the Mine of Marikana (September 7th, 2012) SEE

Comrades of the FLTI, we write you from the heart of Marikana, where the vanguard of the colour working class fight agasint so many centuries of exploitation.
There are a strong police presence around the mine: the workers promised thet are going to kill the entire management of the mine if they do not give the workers demandas!

The workers are not going to work and are looking forward the result of the conversations between their representatives and the management. If they do not agree and if they do not get the R 12.500 that btbey are asking for with right, the workers are going to act and they are going to kill from Monday of next week.
We talked with many workers of the picket. The workers are tired by the treason of the COSATU and the CP, at the beginning they did not trust. The biggest challenge was the languague as most of the comrades did not speak English. Anyway we could talk and break the first impression, they treat us as one of them.

Getting into was difficult, as the mine and their opperatins is an area where we could not reach. The police forces are around the place as the threat that the mione could be totally burnt for the furious mine workers.

There are many workers that take ahead their daily task together with their relatives. There are young workers that work in the mine with their parents. Other comrades, for example, with tears in their eyes and showing a deep rage told us that his uncle was murdered in the shoot by the police and he was going to be burried on Friday.

The Trotskyist worker will go to the funeral. Of course it is our responsibility to make the world working class know the motion launched by the heroic workers of Marikana agaisnt the management ofLonmin: “If we do not get R12500, we will kill the entire management!” This is the fight agaisnt the capitalist and their managers! And against the trecherous bureucrats! World Workers, take this fighting banners in your hands!

Worker delegates of Zimbabwe in South Africa
Committee of the FLTI in Marikana
Worker International League (WIVL) of Zimbabwe

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