jueves, 3 de mayo de 2012

URGENT MOTION FROM THE DOCK WORKER ASSEMBLY IN TRIPOLI, IN LIBYA, TO ALL THE WORKER AND STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS OF THE WORLD


SO THAT THIS MAY DAY WE CAN MAKE IT INTO AN INTERNATIOANAL FIGHTING DAY OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE EXPLOITED ONES AND IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR CLASS BROTHERS IN SYRIA, WHO ARE SUFFERING THE SLAUGHTERING OF AL ASSAD ARMY AND THE OPPRESSION FROM IMPERIALISM

“This call is reproduced by the comrades of the Syria Commissionn of ACES (High School Student Assembly TN) who have met during the last weeks. From this commission, with the aproval of the majority of their members, we propose to all the members of our assembly to support it and make it ours, in all its points, this important call that the dock workers of Tripoli are doing.


In this way, the proposal that we do is to extend it in particular tomorrow, May Day, ACES support it and publish this fighting call. This call attempt to prevent to take the internationalist revolutionary sharp out of this May Day, recalling the Chicago martyrs, today represented by our revolutionary brothers and sisters of Syria.”


Adhering ACES –Metropolitan Region in its assembly on Monday 30 pf April 2012.  
April, 25th 2012


Statement of the Tripoli (Libya) dockworkers on the International May Day

We, the dockworkers of Tripoli port, want to voice our unconditional support for the Syrian masses. We call on them to follow our steps, defeating Bashar al-Assad as we defeated Mua'ammar al-Qadafy by fighting physically to confront the army till defeating it, accompanied by prayer. As for us, we would give our blood and also our eyes for a victorious revolution in Syria as well as in Libya, Tunisia and all around the region.
This revolution is one single revolution all over the entire region. Libya was the place where this revolution reached a further level, the revolution in Tunisia and Egypt has to reach there too. But now we see that we need another revolution in Libya.
All the revolutions carried out by workers (like those in France in the 19th C, or in Russia in early 20th C, or these ones in the Arab countries) are for need. There is no food; no decent housing, and no decent salary, so, workers carry out revolutions to solve it.
Today in Libya we need another revolution, and if we have to carry out 10 revolutions, we will do it. And if we need 20 revolutions in Libya and Syria, we will do it too. Either we live well or we die fighting for it. 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.
 We welcome all of them who for this May 1st get organized to fight alongside the worker revolutions of Libya and Syria, we salute those who raise the demands of the workers. In Libya it’s difficult to convene an event for this day since we have suffered a dictatorship of 42 years that only allowed official meetings organized by the Qadafists and this is the first time we get organized on our own.
But we know that in Tunisia for this May Day, some meetings have been organized. We also know that this meeting is not calling to do something for our brothers and sisters in Syria –actually, it is for doing nothing- or for us or the revolution across the region. We call on you for not leaving all these struggles isolated, as all of us need coordinating the combats of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria. We need to coordinate with the workers in Tunisia to advance in our own organization and combat, and for them also to advance in their fights and in the struggle for fighting alongside the Syrian exploited. The revolution is not only taking place in Tunisia. There, the revolution has started -when an engineer sacrificed himself -that we are carrying out here in Libya; and this revolution, which is all over the region- has today the urge of taking a step forward.
We salute and welcome all those who got organized last year to support the combats we launched here in Libya and that today keep fighting for the victory of the revolution in Syria and all across the region. This is the way to get a decent life for all the workers.

General Assembly of Tripoli dockworkers

Proposal of the Venezuelan- Revolutionary Socialist Current (CSR- El Topo Obrero)


We endorse the call of militant solidarity of the Libyan militias



May 5th, 2012



From the Revolutionary Socialist Current (CSR- El Topo Obrero) we salute the public meeting held this May Day with different organizations, among them the UGTT (Tunisia), PCOT, UIT-CI and others to debate on the situation on Syria and approach the task of solidarity with the fight of the Syrian masses.

 On this day, our organization is holding a public meeting with union and political leaders, where we will raise the banners of militant solidarity with the fight of the Syrian masses. Today such solidarity is expressed in supporting the militias who don’t surrender before the TNC. Today, being internationalist means raising the banners against the murderous regime of Al-Assad who is supported by imperialism. That is why we endorse the call published by the Revolutionary Combatants of the Libyan Militia and the Internationalist Volunteer Worker Committee of Libya, where they call to several political organizations that are attending to the public meeting (mentioned above) to call immediately and organize a forceful action supporting the Syrian masses, considering that there, in that public meeting, are represented thousands of Tunisian and world workers.

The militiamen say: “…In your call you denounce those who gathered a month ago in Tunisia to support the imperialist plan in Syria and correctly denounce those who supported Ben Ali and the dictators of the REGION with money and weapons. For the same reason comrades, your meeting (even if you haven’t invited us to unite our forces in a common struggle) won’t be at the same level of the heroic fight of the Syrian masses unless it is put at the service of all worker organizations for collecting money and weapons for the Syrian masses among the worker organizations of Tunisia and the world. This is what the “friends” of the dictators of the region did and it is what we have to do with our friends, the exploited people of Syria…” We endorse this call to put the tools of fight, all the forces gathered by us, the revolutionaries at world level, as we represent hundreds of thousands workers, all our political weapons, at the service of the militant solidarity towards the masses who are fighting against Al-Assad. Solidarity means calling Tunisian Trade Union to call actions in the streets to develop workers and popular force, to break the fence and isolation that want to be imposed to the Syrian masses who have been slaughtered but who are resisting and waiting international support.

From Venezuela we, the CSR-El Topo Obrero, have been defending the banners of the unity of the working class at national and international level, to resist the fierce attack of the world exploiters who, before such economic crisis insist on making us, the ones who produce the wealth, pay the cost of the imperial policies. Masses resistance to the capitalist voracity in Europe, Middle East, North of Africa, USA, Latin America –among others- has red hot places that show the way forward of the fight and how to unify it, and how to empower forward to the construction of socialism. The task of the empire is preventing such unification of wills over the base of common proposals; that why the empire is trying to keep the workers of the world divided, preventing that the defense of the Syrian masses’ fight be taken as what it is: the center of the confrontation of the world working class against international capitalism.

 … “…In the meetings and rallies of this May Day peoples are fighting while they vote resolutions to redouble the fight from May 2nd on. Therefore we propose to call together to set up an International Committee comprising all the worker combat organizations that are really for the defeat of the dominant powers and the exploiting national bosses to ensure the arrival of weapons, medicine, ammunition, and arms that carry them on so that our brothers and sisters in Syria succeed and can throw down Assad, because if we have effectively the will nothing can stop us. You are well aware that if we want it, nothing can prevent it. We insist, there’s no time to lose…”

For an unitarian public meeting to coordinate the effective fight with our brothers and sisters fo Syria!

 CSR – El Topo Obrero