Early in the morning of May 31th 2010, Israeli fascist troops boarded the convoy carrying wheel-chairs, cement and other supplies to satisfy basic needs. Travelling by sea, the convoy wanted to take aid to the starved and brutalized Palestinians in Gaza. 19 volunteers of the convoy were reported murdered in cold blood, among them 9 Turkish volunteers. More than 60 were wounded. The Turkish government officials had searched the convoy for weapons and personally searched every member on the boats. Thus, the reports by the Israel media that they were shot at, are blatant lies. There were even some Israeli peaceniks on the convoy that would not have been part of any armed mission. This was a planned massacre against disarmed volunteers, added to the subsequent murder of seven Palestinian militiamen on the border between Gaza and Israel, by the Zionist army. Once more, the fascist Zionist State of Israel provoked a counterrevolutionary action against a ship that in a pacifist way carried food to break with the blockade against the tormented Gaza. In 2006, the Palestinian and Lebanese worker and Peasant masses of the South of Lebanon, with its heroic resistance, defeated the Zionist army troops in a humiliating way. The tragedy was that the bourgeoisie of Hezbollah used this huge triumph of the Palestinian masses in the South of Lebanon -that in a class civil war defeated the regular counterrevolutionary Zionist army – to negotiate its entry in the pro-imperialist Siniora government and share out the business of the re-construction of Lebanon side by side with Italian and French imperialism. A wall built between Gaza and the workers and people of Egypt had been torn down by the Palestinian masses who seek unity with workers of that country. However, such wall was rebuilt again by the army of Mubarak of Egypt-servant of US imperialism-and by the very Hamas that refused to extend and develop a new revolutionary upheaval to free that section of the tormented Palestinian people in Gaza. All this to break the spirit of the most militant working class and masses of the Middle East -as the exploited of the Palestinian nation always have been- with operations like “Cast Lead”, counterrevolutionary pacts, stabs in the backs, and fifth column leaderships. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the US troops, reinforced with new contingents and with the German army defending, with bayonets, the opium route for Bayer, have already committed a new massacre, this time in the Swat Valley in the North of Pakistan to cut off supplies from reaching the heroic Afghan resistance. Enough of crocodile tears on the part of those who massacre and the gendarmes of the Middle East peoples! Out the US and German imperialists troops from Afghanistan! Stop submitting the heroic Iraqi resistance to the Muslim bourgeoisie and Ayatollahs, agents of French, Italian, and German imperialisms! Out the murderous Turkish army from the North of Iraq! Down with the siege of Gaza and the whole Palestinian working class and masses that , enraged, want to enter the combat from Jordan, The South of Lebanon, the West Bank! The Palestinian workers have been sold out as slaves to the factories of the companies of imperialism and Zionism in Israel by the coward Palestinian bourgeoisie , even charging a commission for the workers exploitation! For the Palestinian masses to eat, the blockade must be broken, to re-build their nation and re-gain their land: the fascist-Zionist state of Israel must be smashed by the triumph of a worker and peasant revolution of the Palestinian masses that, breaking with the pro-imperialist government of Siniora in the Lebanon, arm themselves from the Palestinians camps across the region, including Jordan, where the assassin monarchy took away citizenship rights for the children of the persecuted Palestinian refugees. Let the Palestinian masses rise up like in 2001 and 2002 taking over police stations of the PLO and weapons from the lackey and servant bourgeoisie that sold out its own people to massacres and slavery by imperialism, through the Zionist state of Israel! Let the Iranian revolution against the coward Ayatollahs-agents of Merkel and Sarkozy burst forth! Today the masses of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, etc. are rising up, placing themselves in fighting position to defend their class brothers of Palestine and for the destruction of the fascist-Zionist State of Israel. For the immediate creation of workers and peasant militias of the whole Middle East to defeat the imperialist butchers and their gendarme the fascist state of Israel! We call the working class of Egypt, the Palestinian working class and the world working class, to organize themselves immediately to knock down the Rafah border! We call the working class of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria to unite with their Palestinian brothers and sisters to overthrow the borders and the fake checkpoints of Israel state. This will allow the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. We call to an immediate meeting of the Palestine workers and poor peasants delegates of the rank and file committees on either side of the “blue line” and in all the refugee camps from Gaza to West Bank, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and everywhere, to unify the fight for the destruction of the Zionist fascist state of Israel. We call on the Jewish workers with class consciousness (i.e. not Zionist or those who had broken from Zionism) to break with Histadrut, to join the Palestinian unions and move with his weapons onto the trench of the Palestinian working class and people for the destruction of the Zionist state of Israel. Thus, Middle East will be the graveyard of imperialism. The key to break the siege imposed against the Palestinian masses is in the hands of the proletariat of the imperialist centres, i.e. USA, Europe and Japan, to defeat the imperialist beast from within as yesterday in Vietnam, to paralyze the war machine, and to supply with food, medicine and weapons the heroic Palestinian, Afghan, Pakistan and Iraqi resistance, and crucially to rise up against your imperialist masters. All the reformists all promote the myth that the boycott and sanctions helped liberate South Africa. This is a lie. Imperialism only started taking their funds out of South Africa when the threat of revolution was upon them and they risked losing everything. BDS (Boycott Disinvestment sanctions) was used as a mean to isolate the revolutionary masses in South Africa because the world working class was lulled into passivity by boycotting SA apples and having several ‘feel-good’ protests outside some embassies. Strike action against ‘apartheid’ SA was a rarity. It is time to end with the impotent pacifism and to call for an immediate international general strike against the siege of Gaza, the wall and the checkpoints in the West Bank, for the return of all Palestinian refugees, for the destruction of the fascist state of Israel and for a united Palestine. We call for workers of North America and Europe to spearhead the movement against the imperialist butchers and the fascist state of Israel, uniting the migrant and local workers as well as rank and file soldiers, to lead a general strike against the fascist Israel. This should be transformed into fighting, co-ordinated international action, that attacks the private property of the bankers, oil companies and the other imperialist parasites, because they are the ones that sustain the siege on Gaza and plunder the people in the Middle East and the world. The international working class must understand that the war drums are sounding. The German president had to resign because he publicly revealed the great number of German troops in Afghanistan, defending the interests of the German imperialism in that region. For the defeat of the US and German imperialist troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and in all Middle East! The working class has the power in its hands to break the siege on Gaza. It is necessary to break the subjugation imposed by ELAC, WSF and their manipulation of the movement against the war in USA and the march of the million workers, in tow to the imperialist Democratic Party and that counterrevolutionary follower of Bush policy, Obama. Let’s set up again the Million Workers March! The US workers have the obligation to rise together with their class brothers and sisters in the Middle East, loading all the ships that carry food, medicine and weapons for the Palestinian, Afghani, Pakistani and Iraqi resistance. Let’s stop again the docks in San Francisco and the West Coast so that not even a single boat should be loaded with military supplies for the Zionist army of Israel and other counterrevolutionary armies which massacre the exploited masses in the planet! Once again, stop the docks in imperialist Greece but this time with pickets and workers militia. It is from Greece that the Zionist army gets supplies from US-UK imperialism! Let the Egypt working class rise up, demolishing the opprobrium and slavery wall that divides the Palestinian workers from its Egyptian class brothers and sisters! One single class, one single fight against the Zionist state and world imperialism! We call to a united front of all workers organizations who speak in the name of the working class, to take forward the fight to break the siege of the Palestinians, to make the call and actually organize a general strike and immediately blockade fascist Israel. The working class of Europe is already fighting against the attack of the imperialist gangs that want the working class to pay for the costs of the crisis, by cuts in jobs, wages, pensions, education, health, etc. The labour aristocracies and bureaucracies try to besiege and isolate the vanguard: the Greek proletariat that has immediately fought, together with the French, Spanish, English, Turkish, Italian proletariat, to win the streets condemning the attack of the murderous army of Israel. That is the way! It is necessary to break siege on Greece so that the European working class can fight alongside with its brothers of the Middle East! It is necessary to break the siege on Gaza! For a unified action of international working class to attack the property of this gang of parasites that are the bankers and monopolies, blood suckers that kill and plunder the masses of the world! For the destruction of the Zionist fascist state of Israel, gendarme of the imperialism in the Middle East! International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction Integrated by: • WORKERS INTERNATIONAL VANGUARD LEAGUE (WIVL), SOUTH AFRICA |
