Statement of the Collective for the Refounding of the IV International (FLTI) Tens of thousands of workers and exploited reach Europe as consequence of the massacre on the part of the imperialist powers and his hitmen in the entire Maghreb and Middle East Since years Tens thousands died in the attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea… In the Maghreb and Middle East it was bloody smashed a chain of revolutions from Tunisia to Damascus that since 2011 masses led fighting for bread and freedom and against the pillage of their huge oil wealth
So much silence can no longer be hidden as well as the siege on the tormented masses of Middle East and North of Africa. They march and tell the truth in the own heart of the imperialist powers
A great solidarity on the part of the working class from Germany, Spain, Austria, and England with the political refugees has been installed in the entire Europe. They have shocked millions of workers all across the world… Today we are all “refugees”! Today we are all combatants of the heroic mass resistance in Maghreb and Middle East! The photo of AylanKurdi, a Syrian 3-year-kid, lying dead on the Turkey costs has shaken the world. The family of the child Aylan was part of the thousands of workers-refugees who try to reach Europe. In rafts, on foot, swimming…as they can they leave behind their countries to keep safety from the massacre, starving, and destruction.
The refugees from Syria and the entire Maghreb and Middle East today arriving Europe are part of the masses that in 2011 got upsurge in a chain of revolutions for bread and liberty shaking from Tunisia to Libya, Egypt, Syria and all across the region making the head of dictator men roll down. But such revolution suffered deceits, diversions, sieges, and counterrevolutionary blows. The power was not seized. Now, with tens thousands of refugees trying to enter Europe, the imperialism wants that everybody only witnesses the result of the counterrevolutionary blows inflicted on the revolution of the exploited. The imperialism wants that in the working class memory to be remained the image of the children drown in the sea, millions of exploited dying in the Mediterranean Sea to give the working class and world masses a punishment. But despite the obstacles the European imperialists have imposed by militarizing the borders and launching a brutal repression, the “refugees” have achieved to open the road demonstrating through the European highways using the method of the worker mobilization. This provoked a huge solidarity on the part of the old continent’s working class. Frightening the solidarity action to grow up at a superior level, with political struggle in the streets, the fascist Hungarian government sent buses and means of transport for the refugees to reach Germany. Merkel and Cameron also announced in public they would be in charge of giving shelter –nonetheless to a limit amount- to “the war refugees”. The sacrifice of thousands of refugees make layers of the European working class mobilize who went to give them food and medicine. Thousands of German workers in Dresde demonstrated in defence of the refugees against the attacks of Pegida- the fascist ultra-right wing Party. Other thousands protested in Vienna, Austria Capital as well as in other European countries. This proves that the working class in kind and full of solidarity with his brothers. Until yesterday, the massacre on the mass uprisings in Maghreb and Middle East and its unprecedent sufferings were hidden before the eyes of millions of exploited in the World. Meanwhile, imperialism put Turkey and the Saudi bourgeoisie in the conferences made over the last years, like in Geneve and in Viena, as well as the rest of its agents in the region to “Lebanon-ize” Syria, Iraq, Libya and to send other “Trojan horses” to smash insurrections and mass uprisings such as ISIS, or Peshmerga to control the Kurdish masses. Today such silence and siege were broken, but at the expense of a huge tragedy and unprecedented sufferings of the masses. Hundreds of thousands of European workers and youth welcoming and giving solidarity to the hundreds of thousands of political refugees are a proof of what we say here. It is because of the blood and massacre, which today is coming out at broad daylight, that the exploited of Maghreb and Middle East are getting united with their class brothers and sisters of Europe. It is clear that if this huge solidarity of the masses of the world had taken the form of struggle and actions on the streets in the five continents since 2012-2013 and if the current solidarity of the European and American working class had developed further, the massacre of Bashar the dog, Khadafy, Mubarak’s generals of Egypt and the Zionist terror over the Palestinian nation wouldn’t have lasted a single day. Why was Aylan Kurdi drown in a Turkish coast? Ayaln Kurdi, drown in the Turkish coast, was the post card that showed the tragedy of the exploited. Just that painful picture told the huge massacre and barbarism imposed by the transnational companies, bankers and pro-imperialist regimes on the masses of Maghreb and Middle East for them to steal oil, wealth and starve the people. The tears of the capitalists, their governments and other pacifists are fake!
Capital has no borders for its Business and plundering the subjugated people of the world The transnational companies and the world finance oligarchy has taken over 50% of the world wealth. They have free mobility from one country to the other to go to the subjugated people to starve the masses and plunder the semi colonies. The governments of the finance capital of Europe, Japan and USA treat their working class just as bad as the workers of those countries they subjugate. So, they have no legitimacy or authority to close the borders so the exploited of Maghreb and Middle East don’t enter. The European working class has no time to lose. As the days pass, the capitalists and their governments will use the refugees as an excuse to plunge the wages of the European workers, to separate the refugees from the unions and the workers and struggle organizations of the exploited in Europe.
We can’t let this! The war refugees, killed by the European imperialist Powers and the migrant workers that do the worst jobs in the imperialist Europe must have the right of legal status and the nationality they want, to move freely all across Europe. This has to be a demand and a banner of struggle of the whole world working class. For these minimum demands we have to take to the streets. The workers are strong enough to paralyze the imperialist Europe and impose their mark against the atrocities and genocides committed against their class brothers and sisters in Maghreb and Middle East. General strike in Europe! Let’s take to the streets! Surround the Syrian embassies! Let’s besiege Wall Street! To end with the refugees’ torment Smash the counterrevolution of imperialism and its hitmen in Maghreb and Middle East
Los refugiados de Siria, Yemen, Irak, Afganistán, etc. no están de paseo en Europa ni están dónde quieren estar. Huyen para salvar su vida de las masacres de las petroleras imperialistas. Su lugar es en sus casas, que deben ser reconstruidas. Ellos deben volver a sus países en paz. Ellos deben recuperar sus vidas. Y eso sólo se logrará derrotando a los gobiernos asesinos de la región. The refugees from Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. are not in Europe for tourism. They aren’t in the place they want to be. They’re running away to save their lives from the massacres of the imperialist oil companies. Their places is where their houses are. Those houses need to be rebuilt. They have to return to their countries peacefully. The European working class, which today is giving its solidarity to the refugees, has the chance to stop this massacre, if it takes to the streets and confronts its imperialist governments, which are the ones who really arm and support the murderous jackal Bashar Al Assad, the military government of Al Sisi, the Saudi invasion to Yemen, the US invasion to Afghanistan, the French invasion to Mali, and the massacres of Zionism on the Palestinian masses, among others. Break the fence on the heroic mass resistance in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and the tormented Palestinian people! We need to take to the streets against the bankers and the transnational companies which have made huge superprofits plundering Maghreb and Middle East and the whole semicolonial world; and they have also starved and taken away the gains of the European working class! Down with Maastricht and the European Union, which enslaves all the European workers! In Europe, We are all Syrian refugees! What else could it be when we see extreme unemployment conditions in Greece, Spain, Italy… the loss of gains of the German and French working class… the loss of the US working class houses? Organize a big unified fight against imperialism for decent work, and for having equal pay for equal work! Share the working hours! Reduce the shifts! One extra shift in every factory! The US workers have to take to the streets. Their battle-cry should be: USA out of Iraq and Afghanistan! Let the million men march against the war return in USA! Down with the conferences of Geneve, Viena and all the counterrevolutionary pacts with which Obama, the chief of the imperialist butchers, organizes its agents and hitman from behind the scenes to smash the masses in the entire Maghreb and Middle East! Imperialism and its hitmen are its true terrorists! Stand together with the heroic struggle and resistance of the workers and peasants masses in Yemen! Death to Saudi clan, a partner of Zionism and agent of the US-UK imperialism! Long live the Syrian resistance! Defeat Bashar the dog! The Iranian guard and Hezbollah, the praetorian guard of the murderer Al Assad, must get out from Syria! Paralyze the oil pipes! We need to re-take the control of the imperialist oil companies in Libya. Shut down the docks! The working class in Maghreb and Middle East has that power. That’s the road to march to Damascus, fight together with the Palestinian masses in Jerusalem and spark again the revolution that Mohamed Bouazizi lit yesterday when he set himself on fire in Tunisia. One single struggle, one single fight for conquering Damascus and expel the Zionist state that occupies the Palestinian nation! Down with the murderous NATO government of Erdogan, in Turkey! Free all the Palestinian refugees and the Fighters of the Syrian revolution, tortured in Al Assad’s jails! Free all the political refugees and the migrante workers imprisoned as hostales of the European regime! Out with imperialism! Expropriate without compensation the oil companies, the bankers and the transnational companies in Maghreb and Middle East and in the entire Europe! Place them under workers control!
Enough of fake tears! There are still 8 million Syrian refugees wondering through the dessert. Gaza is besieged and the Zionist settlers burn children, killing them as Aylan Kurdi. The murderous dictatorship of Al Sisi guarantees the widening of Suez canal in favour of the French and Greek shipyard owners, who control the logistics of the world trade, while it kills their own people and drowned Tahrir Square in blood. With US and British weapons of last generation, the Saudi army tries to take over Yemen and the masses heroically resist. Retaking the experience of the Spanish Civil War against Francoism, in the ‘30s, we need to recover the militant internationalism in the world workers movement! We have to continue the path of July and August of 2014, when the masses of the world marched by millions to stop the Zionist massacre with his operation “protective edge” against the tormented Palestine. Let’s take to the streets in the world to stop the massacre on the masses of Syrian and the whole Maghreb and Middle East! Let’s besiege the Syrian, Egyptian, Saudi and Zionist embassies to kick out the war criminals of all the countries of the world! From the unions and workers organizations, from the currents that claim to be socialists, we have to set up solidarity committees in Europe and the entire world with the masses in Maghreb and Middle East. The refugees in Maghreb and Middle East arrive at Europe and the world… now the world working class must go to fight to that region. All the workers organizations of the world should send weapons, medicines and workers international brigades to fight together with the resistance of the masses in Syria, Yemen, Palestine and the entire Maghreb and Middle East! Food and funds to stop starvation and plagues that are being developed in the refugee camps in the desert! Imperialism has declared a total war on the workers of the world.
To stop the imperialist chain of counterrevolutions: Defeat Al Assad, the killer, in Syria and his henchmen from the Iranian Republican Guard which supports him under the command of Obama! The Syrian refugees that today arrive at Europe are a minority, because only a minority can get the 2000/2500 euros charged by the slave traffic bourgeoisie to cross over the Mediterranean Sea. It is a small minority the one who can “choose” not to die in Syria and risk their lives trying to get to Europe. Out with the Kurdish bourgeoisie that agreed with Bashar Al Assad and the US invaders of Iraq! The Kurdish masses need to tie the fate of their struggle for liberation to that of the Syrian exploited masses and the revolution in Maghreb and Middle East! Defeat Erdogan, the repressor and killer of the Kurdish masses! The Palestinian masses should take to the streets! They want to go in support of their Syrian class brothers and sisters. Their leaderships have told them “don’t get involved in other countries’ conflicts, because that would decrease our support”. The result was that Zionism got stronger, multiplied its massacre, imprisonment and occupation of Palestinian lands. Nevertheless, there are Palestinian fighters in Hebron who are starting to denounce Assad, while being in the frontline of the fight against the Zionist settlers. The fate of the Syrian and Palestinian masses is the same! For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel! Today, the masses of Lebanon are rising against the infamous government of millionaires, of Hezbollah, the Sunni bourgeoisie and the Maronite bourgeoisie. They have made huge business deals and stole the money even from what is needed to pick up the trash. Long live the Lebanese masses uprisings! There are the forces so the Palestinian resistance gets stronger as well as the Syrian struggles. Long live the heroic resistance of the masses in Maghreb and Middle East! The spark of Maghreb and Middle East must light Athens again to bring down the imperialist Maastricht! Down with the murderer Obama and the finance oligarchy of London and Wall Street! To stop the massacre and the sufferings of the masses, imperialism must die! Collective for the Refoundation of the
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