Call to defend Gwisai and 51 others

Gwisai and 51 others were arrested on 19th February 2011 by the hated security forces of Mugabe. We, the Workers International League (Zimbabwe) and the Workers International Vanguard League (South Africa) call for their unconditional release of all those arrested and for all charges to be dropped.

We call for the international working class to rally to the defence of the activists. In particular we call for workers at all Anglo American companies around the globe to consider strike and other protest action due to US imperialism being the main power that today controls Zimbabwe. The
hated regime of Mugabe-Tshivangerai are the current brutal managers on behalf of US imperialism. Mugabe is the point man for JP Morgan Chase in Zimbabwe.

The arrests of the activists in Zimbabwe is an extention of the attacks imperialism and in particular US imperialism has launched around the world to try and prevent mass uprisings against their puppet regimes. Gwisai and others have participated in the fraudulent 'constitution-making' process of Mugabe-Tshivangerai, and has created illusions that the process could lead to workers liberation. Gwisai opportunistically seeks to ride on the back of the mass anger of the working class against the murderous regime, seeking a place within the capitalist system.

The arrests of Gwisai and others show that in Zimbabwe, imperialism will not hesitate to crush even halfway democrats. Such is the level of barbarism in the world today. When the revolution flares up again in Zimbabwe, and it will, if imperialism has no other choice, they will turn to Gwisai and others, to help contain the revolution.

The groundwork should be laid for a political general strike in Zimbabwe: Out with the US imperialist puppet regime of Mugabe-Tshivangerai! Expropriate all the assets of imperialism,
without compensation, place them under workers control! Forward to workers power!

Equal pay for equal work across the Southern African region! Integrate all casual and immigrant workers into the unions! For a general strike across the region to defeat the swaziland and Lesotho imperialist puppet regimes!For workers and rank and file soldiers committees
across the region! For workers’ self-defence committees!

It is high time to build independent revolutionary working class parties across the region as part of a revolutionary International! We call on workers to break with the capitalist ANC regime!

issued by the WIL(Zimbabwe) and WIVL (SA)