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April , 2012
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Statement of the Revolutionary Fighters from the militias, the Committee of Internationalist Worker Volunteers and the Movement of Workers Assemblies from Libya
Salute to the workers fighting in the world
May Day:
For an international fight day of the working class
Stand up side by side the workers and exploited in Syria tormented by the assassin Al-Assad
for the sake of imperialism
They are the martyrs of Chicago today!
Long live the General Strike of US workers!
Long live the revolutionary General Strike of the Libyan workers and their militias that in Misarrata fighting for bread, health for the war disabled fighters and against the high cost of living overthrew the TNC of that city.
In this May Day from the revolutionary militias of Libya we state together with the assembly of the dock workers of Tripoli that our revolution doesn’t end up with the overthrow of Khadafy but it has just started.
It is the first time in 42 years the dock workers of Tripoli with the metallurgic workers of Misarrata have pronounced showing the way to all the Libyan workers and win the streets fighting during the May Day.
The jackal Khadafy -that talked about a supposed “anti-imperialism”- with his companies called “socialist” exploit us with his friends, bosses and oil bosses, similarly or worse than any country of Africa where our class brothers are enslaved.
We send this statement and letter from Libya where it just finished a huge 3-day-revolutioanry strike in Misarrata. In this city workers and militias defeated the TNC. It has been set on fire the building of that then of thieves, of the Khadafist politicians and generals that came to expropriate our revolution for us not to conquer bread and a decent life. This is why we fight for and die thousands of workers, all militia-men, when we defeated Khadafy following the way marked by our comrades of Tunisia, Egypt and the entire North of Africa and Middle East.
In Misarrata 3 days of a great revolutionary strike has taken place. All those who have slander us in front of the eyes of the world workers and oppressed saying that we that fought Khadafy were “imperialism’ and NATO’s troops” today will have to silent their words. May Day, the International Workers’ Day, is a good opportunity for it.
Today, the high cost of living and the 200% inflation make unbearable to live in a decent way.
We are in the same conditions or worse than when Khadafy was.
The oil companies like the Italian Eni, British Petroleum and others continue plundering our wealth from our docks: the oil. It is in there-the plundered oil- our children’s food, the houses we don’t have, and hospitals and wreck schools.
As yesterday Khadafy did, today all the ex-khadafists in the TnC in partnership with transnationals steal the money that belongs to Libya. And with this money they increase abroad the fortune of Khadafy. The heads of all of them deserves to fall like the Khadafy´s head rolled down in Sirte.
We rebelled for bread and fought for a decent life for our families. Today, when this situation is in the same way or worse for us, Libyan workers have an advantage that the world working class has not conquered yet: on behalf of all of them we have weapons. We have the kalashnikov in our factories and we went on general strike in Misarrata and bombed the building to those usurpers, the khadafist generals of the TNC. And now they say that they want to negotiate with us. Now, they “remember” to negotiate; now they say to “remember” to our mutilated workers. Thus, now the only language they understand is that of the bomb impacting their roof.
The revolution that many considered dead, it is still alive. But it is alive because in Syria workers are resisting, those are the true martyrs of Chicago of the world working class today.
We know that workers in USA also call to a general strike for this May Day against the 1% of the suckblood bankers of Wall Street. Their name is “indignados”. We feel “indignados” (outrage) too, and suffer painfully the massacre against our class brothers in Syria. Thus, in the streets of Libya, our fighters paint on the walls “Today Libya, tomorrow Wall Street”.
Today we fight in Libya like in USA but all of us have a duty: in the rubbles of Homs Al-Assad must be buried who on behalf of Zionism and the dominant powers want to smash the starving poor and worker people rebelled and fighting in Syria.
Now we start to understand what the May Day means. But for it, we had to get rid of the murderous and starver Khadafy as our brothers of Tunisia and Egypt had done with Ben Ali, Mubarak and other bloody governments.
What do we understand? That today is a fighting day of all workers. It means the May Day. According to what we could read in many assemblies with thousands of Libyan workers, it is in honor to the event in 1886 when in USA workers were massacred when they were demanding bread, as we do today. In the streets of Homs, Deraa, Damascus, and all across Syria the fight is for bread and they die for it.
Our salute is for all the workers’ struggles in the world that fight as we do for dignity. We are with you. But if the May Day is a fighting day, so, let’s rise up together and march towards the Syrian embassies, a place of the assassins of Al Assad, since in there the executioners of the today-martyrs of Chicago are and because fighting side by side Syrian masses we’ll conquer the best conditions to attack the new lackeys of the dominant powers that in Libya today are the TNC and its court of khadafist friends.
This is the May Day without Khadafy: there are assemblies in the factories with workers knowing how our ancestors fought; we carry out general strikes with our militias to gain bread and fight in the streets of Homs in a true “holy war” but against the oppressors, their generals, oil companies and all the slavers.
We know that all around the world there will be meetings, debates and in some places, celebrations for the May Day. Workers don’t have anything to celebrate today. It is the day of stoppage, strike, struggle, fighting in the streets. This is what we are learning and understanding.
In our cities we already have heroes. They are none of us; they are our brothers of Libya and the entire Middle East who have gone to fight and died in the streets of Deraa and Damascus and those who keep fighting there.
This is our war cry in the May Day but it is also in our denounce to those who speak in the name of workers and in this May Day silence the massacre of Al Assad and leave in isolation the Syrian masses. We denounce them because they are leading their own workers’ organizations to the isolation and defeating. They throw dust over the working class’ eyes as Khadafy did with us that made us believe that he was our ally and not the poor of the world. He always was our enemy; we have him here. And we start to learn it when the youth sacrificed itself in Tunisia, get martyred in Egypt and pray but fight in Yemen. In this way we learnt what today we affirm: long live the unity and fight of the world workers!
This is our greeting to those who are fighting. From the steal factories of Misarrata, from the concrete companies in Bengasi and from the docks all around Libya, we raise the same demand of 8 hours of labor shift and decent salary for all the workers. Here we never had these gains. But according to what now we know to gain these demands is our aim.
For this, heaven and power must be for us. As the humble sacrificed Tripoli dockworkers have said in their assemblies- the dockworkers were the first ones taking the streets and giving their deaths in February 2011 when the assassin Khadafy and his sons massacred and crushed them violently: “Today in Libya we need another revolution and if we need to carry out 10 revolutions, we’ll do it. Either we live well or we’ll die fighting for it”
We are learning. Khadafy and his friends of the world did not teach it since it would mean to teach us how to cut their head and do justice as we did in Sirte.
Our partners, the dockworkers, in their assemblies have also set a war cry that we are sure it is what workers fighting in the world feel and desire: “Let it be known by all the managers, bosses and chiefs: we will not rest till we get our demands; and if we have to close the dock preventing the entry and departure of goods, we will do it; and if we have to go out with our riffles to settle accounts with all the bosses, we will also do it. We will not give away our martyrs’ blood.”
And we together with them and from their assembly affirm: we will not leave Syrian workers alone. Their revolution is our revolution, as well as of Tunisia, Egypt and the entire Magreb and Middle East. We know that many people have left them alone, not us. Our rifles and ammunitions are already shooting in Syria. As yesterday they shot Khadafy, today they shoot against Al Assad.
We are part of a single revolution that will not end till we conquer bread, overthrow the power of rulers and recover the control of our oil by expropriating without payment and charging compensation to all the oil companies that plundered our countries and expropriating our wealth from the hands of the bloodsuckers as it is said in Wall Street. We will not end it till the banner of Palestine waves in Jerusalem and stop Zionism and all its lackeys as all of us dreams- the Arab and Magreb Peoples-.
In the streets of Misarrata shaken by the general strike, the vanguard of the struggle that settled accounts with Khadafy has go out to fight again as they did yesterday. Today they are who gave the first step forward to overthrow the TNC and its khadafist generals in that city.
There, the militia-men have also painted on the streets: “Today Libya, tomorrow Wall Street”. Today the revolution keeps alive in Libya, in Syria we are resisting and fighting and in Wall Street we are fighting by the general strike.
Our call on the world working class is to set up international brigades from the worker organizations to go to Syria to fight against the assassin Al-Assad. We call on them to get rebelled against the governments that sustain the jackal’s hand in Syria that massacres his own people. We call on them to collect money, collect medicine, and send doctors and nurses for the refugee camps and the heroic combatants of the Syrian masses.
They sell their possessions even their houses to buy weapons and ammunitions to fight. In this way, the exploited combat to win the war against the exploiters. They neither sell out nor sell their factories, banks, or companies to win the war. Thus, don’t leave isolated -not even one more second- the workers of Syria.
The siege over the Syrian masses must be broken and the world working class must be rebelled side by side them!
Long live the May Day!
Revolutionary Combatants of the Libyan Militia
Internationalist Volunteer Workers Committee
Adhering: Fracción Leninista Trotskista Internacional, integrated by:
-Workers International League, Zimbabwe
-Liga Trotskista Internacional, Bolivia
-Partido Obrero Internacionalista – Cuarta Internacional, Chile
-Grupo Socialista Revolucionario Trotskista Leninista, “Los Comuneros”, Colombia
-Comité pela Refundacao da IV Internacional, Sao Paulo, Brazil
-Liga Trotskista Internacional, Peru
-Núcleo Obrero Revolucionario, Peru
-Liga Obrera Internacionalista – Cuarta Internacional, Argentina |
