The worker and socialist revolution that started in the North of Africa and Middle East put under question the interests of imperialism and his minor partners- the native bourgeoisie- in the entire continent. All of them fear that the revolution get extended all around Southern Africa. That was how Mugabe expressed it in public saying “Anyone who dares to do a Libya in Zimbabwe will be smash”
Imperialism recruited all the agents to prevent the revolution from reaching the whole black Africa. Thus, in 2011 they met the African Social Forum in Zimbabwe and Zambia. The objective was to sustain and legitimize the regimes of the Southern Africa and therefore to fence the ongoing revolution in the North of the Continent and Middle East. The expression of this combat in this continental region was the mining strikes and his vanguard Marikana workers.
In Libya and Syria the masses get armed and set up dual power`s organs. In the South of the continent the Nigerian working class rose up in a revolutionary general strike at the war cry: “Out Jonathan or you will die like Khadafy!” Months ago, we saw how the worker and socialist revolution for bread got extended to the mining strikes with the Marikana workers as the vanguard. The demands for what the mine workers rose up are the demands of the whole worker movement in the region: for bread, rise in salaries, against the high cost of living and against transnationals that plunder the nation. They showed to get the most minimal demand we must fight for everything. Thus, they set up their strike committee called “committee of War” and defeated in a civil war the treacherous union NUM and COSATU bureaucracy. Their war cry was: “R12.500 or we will kill the management!” They knew to identify the enemy inside the worker movement like the bourgeoisie fighting against the scabs, the CP- COSATU-NUM bureaucracy and against the repressive forces of the boss state, transnationals and the Zuma government.
It was a fight to death where they left 34 class brothers during the fight and more than 76 injured and they conquered a 22% increase in salary, compensation to the families of the killed workers and non worker was laid off. But that fight did not end and today it gets extended to the mine workers of the gold, platinum, diamonds, there is already more than 80.000 workers in strike and sectors of the transport workers too. This fight concentrates the fight of the workers in the entire region Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho! They are fighting for R16.000! Their demands are for an increase in salary and they realize that to gain it they must fight for everything and fight like their class brothers of Marikana. It is how we must fight! Fight like Marikana! Generalize such conquest to all the worker movement of the South and Center Africa!

Mugabe and MDC want to mask their government and pro-imperialist regime for workers and exploited not to fight for our immediate demands , that is, bread, land, and the expropriation without payment of the imperialism and transnationals plundering the nation

The Mugabe-MDC government is worried; they don`t want the wave of the heroic fights to reach Zimbabwe. Heroic fights of more than 100.000 mine workers and transport workers rebelled in South Africa. Workers of the imperialist mines have rebelled at the war cry 12.500 Rands, that is, U$S 1500 for all! They could not divide us because in that imperialist mines we work and fight with our class brothers, workers of Zimbabwe, Botsuana, Nambia, Mozambique. We have uinified there against the traitors of the union Cosatu and NUM bureaucracy to fight for our interests in Strike and fighting Committee. We are a same class, all enslaved by the same imperialist master that has given us a life of misery and exile in our own nations.
The slavery boss and imperialist transnationals’ parties are get prepared so that the spark in Marikana does not end up burning the whole Center and South Africa. Because the demand of the mining workers of South Africa and the enemy they confront, the bureaucracy, transnationals and boss parties are the same of us. They have transformed Zimbabwe into a true bedroom-jail of slaves, mostly unemployed taken to their plantations, mines, and companies to work for salaries of misery and our women are servants in the riches’ homes.
They fear effectively that such jail of slaves, Zimbabwe, get rebel and rise up like our brothers in Tunisia, Libya, and Egipt and now the South of Africa.
They have to pose of “democratic” and “pacifist” and for this, they prepare new traps and tricks against the working class. These are smoke screens to keep denying us the bread and land. They are propelling general elections for next year and now discuss to carry out a referendum to aprove or not the New Constitution draft writen by a handful of rich men’s parties and exploiters of Zimbabwe in an anti democratic way, from behind people as capitalists usually do in their companies and direct the country. That means COPAC, an organ of the boss and transnationals’ parties.
Their referendum is a fake and trap, if we vote for “NO” we will fell down in the boiling water that means to keep maintaining this government and anti-worker , pro-imperialist regime oppressing us. Exploiters win, the 1979 Lanchaster constitution will be kept, constitution that have guarateed till now the current regime where transnationals and the native bourgeoisies make huge profits and take all the wealth and for masses there are hunger, misery and unemployment.

If we vote for “YES” we will only do formal changes to the pro-imperialist regime, we would be only discussing if our executioners are re-elected permanently or if they can only have two periods. ENOUGH! Enough deception and smoke screen! We, workers of Zimbabwe, want to discuss and vote a fighting plan and an organization to conquer the end of unemployment; that is our program. The 85% of workers who can’t work, used as slaves in the entire Africa by TNCs, that is our problem! The miserable wage we don’t receive! That is our problema we have to solve!

The land is owned by a bunch of white exploiters and friends of power. That is our problem because that is our land! With that land we would be able of feeding the entire people of Zimbabwe, giving decent jobs and houses for everyone.

What we (workers, exploited and poor peasants) need is a National Congress of employed and unemployed workers, organized in Committees by district, city and region of poor peasants, privates who defect from the commands of the millionaire killer Generals.

To the democracy for rich people, rigged and for a few, which only envelopes the fiercest and most opprobrious dictatorship of capital and imperialism that bleed our nation, we must oppose a National Congress of all the exploited to organize a big fight to conquer and fight for our interests. The workers and our organizations can’t defend bosses’, TNCs’ and landowners’ profits; we must defend the bread for our families.

We want decent jobs for all, public works’ plan and decent housing for all by expropriating without compensation the landowners and imperialism which plunder our nation. We want the land in the hands of the worker and peasant organizations to put them to work and conquer bread for everyone. There is plenty of money. The bankers and capitalists have it. They have expropriated our people for decades; let’s recover what belong to us. Nationalization without compensation of the banks under worker control.

They discuss if their mandate, as managers of the TNCs (i.e. the government) last two periods or more. We, the workers of Zimbabwe, want a Workers and Peasant Congress that proclaims: Everybody out! Nor Mugabe, MDC! Dissolution of COPAC! Neither a period of mandate, nor two periods of mandate, nor periods for life! Workers and peasants must rule based on the pickets as in Lonmin, with the rank and file soldiers!

South African workers in Marikana mine

Let’s turn our back to the referendum of the imperialist bosses and let`s embrace the fight of the workers of Marikana and all the miners of South Africa and their demand of 16,000 Rands for all
 

This weekend the unions of Zimbabwe are gathering. They have in their hands the chance of calling for such Congress of workers and peasants, to conquer bread, dignity, jobs and against imperialism. This Congress should call to boycott the referendum because we, workers, will do it fighting as our class brothers of Lonmin and the mines of South Africa do.
The first thing that this meeting must vote is an unified fight with all the workers of Central and Southern Africa with a Committee and Picket of Strike and Fight without treacherous bureaucrats and scabs of COSATU and NUM.
We don’t want any referendum; we want a fight plan, general strike to fight for 16,000 Rands for all.
They want to deceive us; exploiters lie to us; they use us. Their referendum is a smokescreen, a deception. Their constitutional reform is even completely anti-democratic. Because, who is COPAC but a minority of bosses and slavering politician? They will never give the land to those who work it and they won’t expropriate the landowners and those who exploit the land and therefore there won’t be decent jobs for all. Anglo-American, Lonmin, landowners, imperialism and their native partners have divided us among nations to split, expropriate and plunder us and our sources.
We, the workers, are a single class. We are unemployed in Zimbabwe and enslaved in the mines in South Africa, in their plantations or we are taken as slaves to work in Europe and USA, as centuries ago did the slave dealers with our ancestress.
We are a single nation. We are a single class and in order to free ourselves we must expel imperialism and their bosses and jailers of exploited workers in Central and Southern Africa. We must fight as in Syria, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia.

Let’s not be deceived; let’s defeat the smokescreen, boycott the referendum. Let’s call the workers and peasants Congress. On it the workers from the Struggle Committee of the miners from South Africa; let’s send delegations to look for them and coordinate the fight with them. Let’s call the workers of Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia, Mozambique, etc. to do the same. Let’s put our sticks and machetes and our forces together with the miners of Lonmin, Anglo American, Acuarios Platinum, Gold Field, among other miners.
A single picket a single strike committee all over Africa; let’s expel imperialism and defeat all the bosses’ governments in Africa.

As the fight of the miners of South Africa proves, if we unify our fight we will be invincible

We don’t want to be slaves any more. We don’t want any more deceptions; let`s not allow it.
Africa is plunder by imperialism: we must expel US, French, German and all imperialisms from Africa! They command the massacres in the entire continent! Out with the French and US imperialist military bases from Africa!
The real national Independence, expropriation of the lands owned by TNCs and all our demands can only be conquered if we set up the power of the working class and exploited self-organized and armed in Central and Southern Africa!

Out with Kaddafys and Jonathans from Africa! Down with Zuma and ANC, Mugabe, FRELIMO (Mozambique), Dos Santos (Angola), LNC (Libya) and all pro-imperialist governments of the continent! Out with World Social Forum of Africa that came to impose surrender and submission of workers to imperialism! Out with imperialist NGOs! Corrupted leaderships and agents of capital must be expelled from the workers organizations! They divide the world working class country by country; they submit the working class to the bourgeoisie and prevent the international unity of the exploited from confronting together and getting centralized against TNCs and treacherous leaderships that defend their interests all over the world.
The labor aristocracy and union bureaucracy and the social imperialist currents of Europe divide and betray our fight as the traitors of COSATU and NUM do in South Africa. Millions of color workers of the African continent make the worst jobs in Europe and die in the Mediterranean trying to run away from the sufferings and slaughters. But we are also part of the European working class, we fight and die with it and we are the Afro-American workers of USA. We are not weak, we are strong. We have our strong forces to unify with the workers of the imperialist metropolis so we fight with them. In order to siege Wall Street, as the occupy movement does, to fight with the Spanish, Italian, French and Greek workers who suffer the same attacks that we suffer in Africa. We are strong. The problem that we have is the paid leadership by the boss and imperialism that betray and divide us, not only country per country but in each country submitting us to the bourgeoisie, the transnational and their parties. ENOUGH!
Out the collaborationist union bureaucracy of imperialism that slaughter like scab and strike breakers the miners in South Africa, who support, as the AFL-CIO, this colored Bush that is Obama, chief commander of the US imperialist butcher and that betray the European working class humiliating and prostrating the color workers making the worst jobs in the imperialist Europe. That they don’t divide us anymore!

The meeting of unions in Zimbabwe has two options, either keep submitting the working class to the boss politicians and slaver or to stand up the working class of Zimbabwe at the war cry of We are all Lonmin workers, we are all strikers, and we all fight for R16.000! Out with the imperialism! Expropriation without payment of the transnational and under worker control!
We do not need to be in the hot ember of “Yes” neither in the boiling water of “No”. National Congress of workers and poor peasants to fight with the workers of South of Africa, because against the democracy of the rich people what we need is the democracy of the ones from below in order to succeed!
Boycott to the referendum, struggle plan and general strike! Nor Mugabe neither the MDC, worker and poor peasant government based on the struggle fighting organizations of the exploited ones.
In Zimbabwe the working class needs a Revolutionary Internationalist Party which fights to unify the working class of the African continent and around the world against capitalism, imperialism in bankruptcy and for the International Socialist Revolution.
This party is not other than the 4th International, that the revolutionary member of WIL fight to re-found and for their banner and fighting program to be taken to victory by the enslaved workers and the revolutionary masses of the world that fight against the capitalist barbarism, imperialism and for the dignity of the workers.  

“A SINGLE CLASS, A SINGLE FIGHT
THE FREEDOM OF THE WORKER WILL BE WORK OF THE WORKERS ITSELF”

WIL (Worker International League)

The referendum of the Zanu-PF and MDC, an anti democratic fake of the boss parties and imperialism