THE BEGINNING OF A NEW IRRUPTION OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE MASSES
It must carry out to their end the
tasks of the revolution that have been left incomplete in order to get bread
and freedom by expelling imperialism, and to destroy, together with the
Palestinian masses, the Zionist-fascist State of Israel
The government of Mursi and
the Muslim Brotherhood, together with the caste of officers of the Supreme
Council of the Armed Forces, all of them continuers to Mubarak have tried to
hijack the revolution. With parliamentary traps, fences and tricks, supported
in the blows of the imperialist counterrevolution, as the massacres in Yemen,
Gaza or the genocide in Syria by Bashar Al Assad, the Egyptian bourgeoisie
advances its plan. However, the masses that threw down Mubarak to get bread and
freedom have not yet got anything of what they needed, so they are again
working for opening a breakthrough to go on with their revolution. The world
crisis continues chastising the masses beyond any borders. The price of food,
according to the very same FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations) will escalate to the sky next year at the same time that the Egyptian
debt to the IMF increases beyond any possibility of repayment.
Cornered by the economic
crisis and the increasing fiscal deficit, last November 21 Mursi decreed the
end of the government subsidies to the public services. In order to have the
strength to keep the attack going, he gave himself “full state powers” as an
ancient “Pharaoh” as the masses denounce. At the same time, the
Mubarak-designed judges amnestied the “Camel-men”, that is, the fascist lumpen
elements that in 2011 had attacked Tahrir Square aiming to smash the
revolution. The Muslim Brothers demonstrated to be so much pro-imperialist as
the very same Mubarak! Then the hatred of the masses followed quickly. From the
same day of the decree of “full powers” they rallied in a mobilization to the
zone of the government palace. In their chanting and banners, the masses
proclaimed “The people wants the downfall of the regime” and “The
Muslim Brotherhood must be dragged along the streets as dogs, there is no
bloodless salvation after what they have done to us, Mursi must fall down!” Tahrir
Square in Cairo was again the epicenter.
The working class during many
months was staging a process of strikes in its main concentrated workplaces
(around 1000 strikes in the first two months of the new government), took the
vanguard and attacked and set on fire the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood.
When “Pharaoh” Mursi unleashed repression and the first people’s martyrs fell
under the truncheons and bullets of the police and the fascist gangs, the
working class detached its advanced battalions and realized actions in the
streets at Suez and Alexandria (the cities with the most concentrated number of
workers)
A column of 5000 textile
workers from the gigantic Misr textile state factory and other factories in
Mahalla el Kubri headed by women workers and their pickets, filled with courage
the masses’ hearts in Cairo, which marched to take again Tahrir Square, fencing
the Presidential Palace and confronting the repressive forces. Tuesday, December 4 Mursi fled like a rat from
the Presidential Palace, thanks to the military that covered his escape by
rounding the place with tanks and barbed wire. In several towns in the heartland
the irruption of the masses took the upper hand in the streets and multiple
clashes took place with the police and the fascist gangs of the ruling party;
the repressive forces were led by the officers’ caste of the Supreme Council of
the Armed Forces (SCAF), taking a toll of more than 30 people’s martyrs.
Mursi could not show. The army
had to take the stage again and pose as “friend of the people” to safeguard the
interests of the ruling class (most of which consists of the same members of
the high layers of the army), calling for “calm”, “peace”, “respecting the law”
and “solving the crisis within the constitutional framework”, created by
themselves to support the Egyptian bourgeois state when Mubarak was thrown
down.The objective was that the masses did not take the power and take them to
the trap of the referendum for rejecting or approving the Constitution. So the
army called to assemble a “dialoguing board” formed by the government and the
“opposition”, inducing the masses to be channeled through an opposition front
formed by former presidential candidates with a Mubarakist past -as Abd el-Menem
Abd el-Fatah and El Baradei who returned
suddenly to Egypt when the revolution erupted to try stopping it. This
opposition front as named National Salvation Front (NSF).
In this way the NSF, so much
pro-imperialist as Mursi, all of them try to hijack from the top the
mobilization of the masses and submit it to the dialogue board and to the vote
for NO in the Referendum. Imperialism and the bourgeoisie are conscious that
the proletariat quickly took its place of vanguard to lead the rest of the
oppressed in the streets, and that could signify the beginning of the end for
their power and domination.
The task of the moment for
conquering bread and freedom, and disband all the general staffs of
imperialists, Zionism and their servile partners of the native bourgeoisie, is
to throw down the government of Mursi with an insurrection of the masses that
destroys the officers’ caste of the Mubarakist army with the worker and
people’s militia and the committees of rank and file soldiers, setting up the
power organizations of the fighting working class and exploited. The ghost of revolution continues running around
the world.
THE WORKER AND SOCIALIST REVOLUCION THAT STARTED IN 2011 IS STILL ALIVE AND
WELL AND REPLIES TO EACH BLOW OF OBAMA’S, ZIONISM AND THEIR SERVILE PARTNERS
THE NATIVE BOURGEOISIES.
LET’S REVOLUTION COME AGAIN IN TUNISIA, YEMEN, LIBYA, EGYPT ALONGSIDE THE
PALESTINIAN MASSES FOR EXPELLING IMPERIALISM, DESTROYING THE STATE OF ISRAEL
AND SMASHING GENOCIDAL BASHAR AL ASSAD!
The worker and socialist revolution that started
in 2010 in Tunisia and runs around all over North of Africa and Middle East,
has put in crisis the bourgeois states and regimes in the region. The down fall
of Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Qadafi, the successive crises of the transition
governments in Tunisia, the heroic fighting that pervives even before the
genocide perpetrated by Bashar Al Assad for the sake of imperialism in Syria,
and the split of the army in Libya where the masses have not yet given up their
weapons, all of that have left in crisis the the counterrevolutionary
devices of imperialism in the region, its states, regimes and governments. These
states, that were true counterrevolutionary devices imposed by imperialism,
Zionism and the native borgeoisies for guaranteeing the oil routes and the
looting of the nations, continue in crisis, becuse they are not able yet either
to get the masses out of the stage, or to
smash them definitively. Those “in the top”, the general staffs of
the pentagon, the Zionist-fascist State of Israel, and the desperate native
bourgeoisies cannot achieve the stabilization of the situation.
Before each attempt of the bourgeoisie to
advance against the working class and put a decisive stop to revolution, the
working class stands up at the head of the whole of the exploited, replying
the bourgeois blows with great revolutionary actions. The mere attempt of
defaming and stigmatizing the culture of the exploited, as was the diffusion of
a video organized by a fascist priest abusing the masses in last September
incensed with anti-imperialist hatred the whole Arab and Islamic world, which
from Morocco to Libya to Bangladesh, went out to the streets marching against
the US, Zionist and other imperialist embassies, and put them on fire. The
Zionist bombings over Gaza under the command of Obama were replied by a huge
rebellion of the Palestinian masses and of the rest of the region, as in Egypt
where the working class took the streets at the cry “Let’s arm ourselves and
march to Gaza”. The steaming of the Palestinian masses -which also in
Jordan took the streets against the Hashemite dynasty’s sudden increase of the
fees and fares- achieved stopping the advance of the armored ground forces of
the Zionist state, which were ready to invade the Gaza Strip as they did in
2008-09 during the Operation “Cast Lead”, under the command of both (former
president) Bush and (then just elected president) Obama. Thus, the Operation
“Defensive Pillar”, namely a “Cast Lead II” aiming to chastise and serve as an
example to the masses of the whole North of Africa and Middle East and together
with the Syrian genocide to stop decisively the revolution, could not achieve
its objective.
With the irruption of the Palestinian masses,
the brutal crisis of the Zionist State of Israel has been exposed, the sharpest
one since its fictitious creation. This is the moment when a decisive assault
of the masses in the region could make blow the Zionist fascist State of Israel
up in the air! That would be a big defeat to imperialism!
Precisely, the background of the new revolutionary mobilization
shaking Egypt is not only the crac and Mursi’s attempt to shield its
government! What encouraged the proletarians and the exploited there, no doubt,
it was the Palestinian masses in Gaza which resisted heroically the
counterrevolutionary offensive by Zionism. The combat of the Palestinian
exploited shook the whole region and particularly the Egyptian masses, which
tried very hard at each step pulling down the Rafah Wall that divides the Gaza
Strip from the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt); Mursi the rascal presently supports the
Rafah Wall as Mubarak did before, guarding the Zionist borders as an agent of
Obama and Ms Clinton.
In Jordan the masses are
confronting the increase of the fuel prices and the shortages and proclaim “down
with the Monarchy!”; in Tunisia the exploited throw down the local
governments and break with the farcical National assembly supported by the
leadership of the UGTT (Central Union); in Libya, where the US embassy burnt to
the ground ad the US ambassador was killed, and where the revolution went
further, destroying the army and arming the masses, the latter do not give up
their fight for bread despite the traps tended by the government of the NGC.
Now the masses in Egypt have retaken their assault Revolution in the North of
Africa and Middle East must be headed by the Palestinian masses to lead it to
victory, destroying the Zionist fascst State of Israel and expelling
imperialism and its servant governmentes! The Libyan workers are rejoicing the
combat of the Egyptian exploited. They tell their Egyptian brothers and
sisters: “You see, the Muslim Brotherhood was not a good choice; it is
necessary that you complete your revolution. You should attack with any weapons
you have now and you may attain along your way to the moment the regime falls
down!”. The exploited in Syria suffering the genocide see in the alestinian
masses and in the new rebellion in Egypt the forces and the posibility of
defeating Bashar al assad the dog, and his army servant to imperiaism.
That’s why today at Tahrir
Square and the streets in occupied Palestine the fate of the working class and
the exploited is atstake in the entire North of africa. Middle East and the
world.
The Egyptian masses aain are
identifying their enemy, they shout “the Muslim Brotherhood has robbed us of
our revolution!”, “Let’s march to fight in Gaza!”
DOWN WITH THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY
AGREEMENT OF CAMP DAVID, SUPPORTED BY THE EGYPTIAN BOURGEOISIE AND THE
BOURGEOISIE OF THE ENTIRE REGION TO GUARD THE IMPERIALIST ENCLAVE, THE ZIONIST
FASCIST STATE OF ISRAEL!
The Egyptian bourgeoisie,
desperate and cornered as it is, is trying to reign over the asses to abort
this new revolutionary irruption. While Mursi is cornered by the masses and
could not talk, is calling for a “dialogue” and to respect the law, preserving
“not repressing” openly. So they send the fascist gangs attack mercilessly in a
selective way the most militant sectors of the working class and the exploited.
They marcherd in “support to the Muslim Brotherhood, to support the new
constitution, the laws, the new order, to workd in order to re build the
country, so on”. They confront the rally of the exploited ones. While the army save the life of Mursi and
the Egyptian bourgoisie institutions through disguises and closing with
concrete fences and barbed wire around the Presidential Palace, and calls he
seeks to put doiwn the mass demosntration and to guarantee “order”. The
objective is obliging the masses to vote at gun point on December 15 and 22 the
constitutional referendum, which is entirely Bonapartist and anti-democratic;
there is a 100% possibility that the results could be falsified, as it happened
in the first run of the presidential elections this same year or even worse.
El Baradei and the National
Salvation Front (NSF) want to pose as “fighters for a true democracy”, and so
they “denounce” the new Constitution that was edited under the control of the
(pro-Mubarak) Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the bourgeois parties
of the Muslim brotherhood and the Salafists (religious ultra-conservatives).
But the members of the NSF are all pawns of imperialism and the MNCs; all of
them are supporters of the Rafah Wall and Zionism; all of them agree on going
on supplying gas to Israel at a subsidized price: all of them guard Zionism its
“peaceful frontiers”, and have agreed with Mursi and the SCAF to realize the
referendum. Down with Mursi! For the dissolution of the fraudulent Constituent
Assembly of the SCAF, the Muslim Brotherhood and the “opposition”! Down with
the referendum and the new pro-imperialist constitution! Hands off the mobilization
of the masses, bourgeois politicians!
US and world imperialism,
genocidal Zionism and the native bourgeoisies, conspire continuously to smash
the working class, which has challenged them with this heroic revolution all
over the North of Africa and Middle East. The government of Mursi and the
entire imperialist media worldwide are intent in presenting the present
developments as a fight between “Islamists” and “seculars”, when it is crystal
clear that it is the working class that has appeared again at Tahrir Square.
The military rattling in Turkey sow that the imperialists consider Bashar al
Assad as having finished off his “dirty work” in the Syrian genocide and now
they seek to impose a well thought-out exit of the old regime so as not to lose
the control of the masses as it happened in Libya. The Free Syrian Army was
devoted to contain the armed fighting of the masses, hoarding the armament so
that the masses cannot use it, and just now, after a whole year of unequal
fighting, the FSA shows that it does have anti-aircraft artillery.
Meanwhile the imperialists are already recognizing a “new government” of the
“opossition” Syrian bourgoisie in exile together with Assad Generals without Al
Assad.
This “dirty work” of smashing
the masses is the same Mursi is playing with the Muslim Brotherhood, and the new governments in the region. The
masses have already thrown down the old autocracies; the pro-imperialist Muslim
native bourgeoisies could impose traps, fences, parliamentary distractions and
submission to the bourgeoisie, supported on the betrayal of the reformist
leaderships of the proletariat and counterrevolutionary blows. However there is
not yet bread: the masses are not defeated and they still want bread!
As a part of this role-played
by the bourgeoisie of the region we saw the return of the highest leader of
Hamas, Jaled Meshal to Gaza, after being exiled in Egypt under the protection
of the Muslim Brotherhood; he performed an ultra leftist phrase-mongering act
calling to strengthening the ‘holy war” against the Zionist Occupant. If we
analyze his speech, Jaled Meshal has left the renegades to Trotskyism clearly
to the right wing embraced to the Zionist “indignados”.
What is the meaning of this
maneuver? Precisely, in this moment the Palestinian masses in Gaza are in a war
footing and on the other side of the Rafah Wall their allies the Egyptian
masses have started to irrupt. If Hamas does not “radicalize” its (verbal)
standing, it risks losing the control of the masses.
Hamas radicalizes its verbal
standing because while the Palestinian masses fight against the occupier
Zionist, the ones that said to be from their own party, the Muslim Brotherhood
are in the Egyptian government repressing the workers and watching out the
borders of Zionsim. The disguise of Hamas is, while it keeps an anti zionist
discourse, it calls to Al Fatah in West Bank to a “Palestinian National unity
government”. In this way, Hamas trys
to subordinate Gaza to the imperialist plan of “two states”, supported by
imperialism who have already finished to make up a “Palestinean state” that the
UN recognizes. This was the last step of the countrarevolutionary policy of
agreements in North of Africa and Middle East.
It is an agreement between imperialism, the Arab bourgoisie and Zionism
in order to smash the revolution. These bourgeoisies have been exposed as
the guarantors of the continuity of imperialism and Zionism by supporting with
their full forces the Camp David Accords.
The military rattling in
Turkey sow that the imperialists consider Bashar al Assad as having finished
off his “dirty work” in the Syrian genocide and now they seek to impose a well
thought-out exit of the old regime so as not to lose the control of the masses
as it happened in Libya. The Free Syrian Army was devoted to contain the armed
fighting of the masses, hoarding the armament so that the masses cannot use it,
and just now, after a whole year of unequal fighting, the FSA shows that
it does have anti-aircraft artillery.
Meanwhile the imperialists are
already recognizing a “new government” of the National Coalition of
Revolutionary and Opposition Syrian Forces (NCROSF) in exile together with
Assad Generals without Al Assad. This “dirty work” of smashing the masses is
the same Mursi is playing with the Muslim Brotherhood, and the new Islamist
governments in the region. The masses have already thrown down the old
autocracies; the pro-imperialist Muslim native bourgeoisies could impose traps,
fences, parliamentary distractions and submission to the bourgeoisie, supported
on the betrayal of the reformist leaderships of the proletariat and
counterrevolutionary blows. However there is not yet bread: the masses are not
defeated and they still want bread!
As a part of this role-played
by the Islamist bourgeoisie we saw the return of the highest leader of Hamas,
Jaled Meshal to Gaza, after being exiled in Egypt under the protection of the
Muslim Brotherhood; he performed an ultra leftist phrase-mongering act calling
to strengthening the ‘holy war” against the Zionist Occupant. If we analyze his
speech, Jaled Meshal has left the renegades to Trotskyism clearly to the right
wing embraced to the Zionist “indignados”. What is the meaning of this
maneuver? Precisely, in this moment the Palestinian masses in Gaza are in a war
footing and on the other side of the Rafah Wall their allies the Egyptian
masses have started to irrupt. If Hamas does not “radicalize” its (verbal)
standing, it risks losing the control of the masses. The Muslim bourgeoisie
has been exposed as the guarantors of the continuity of imperialism and Zionism
by supporting with their full forces the Camp David Accords.
Precisely, the immediate task
for the revolution in the North of Africa and Middle East is to destroy the
counterrevolutionary Accord of Camp David signed by Egypt and the Zionist
fascist State of Israel in 1979 with the underwriting of UNO and the Arab
League, an agreement that was guaranteed by world imperialism and the class
collaborationist leaderships of the proletariat. This agreement, together with
that signed by the Zionist State and Jordan, is what allows the State of Israel
to control its borders with the support of the native bourgeoisies in the
region. All the Arab bourgeoisies, without exception, as true hound dogs of
Zionism have protected its borders with their armies and condemned to the
Diaspora of the Palestinian people to the “refugees’ camps” where they have had
to suffer unheard of massacres, unemployment and misery.
Today Hamas radicalizes its
standing –in the words- because, as the Palestinian masses are fighting against
the Zionist occupant, the Muslim Brother, who are the leaders of Hamas, repress
at will the Egyptian and Tunisian working class to guard the Zionist borders
for the sake of the Zionists. The trap mounted by Hamas consists in calling
Fatah in the West Bank to assemble together one “United Palestinian National
Government” while it (Hamas) embraces an anti-Zionist speech. In this way,
Hamas will aim to subordinate Gaza to the “two-states” imperialist plan supported
by the US imperialism that has just invented a “Palestinian state” recognized
by UNO. This is the last link of a chain of counterrevolutionary deals in the
North of Africa and Middle East. It is a pact among Imperialism, the Muslim
bourgeoisie and Zionism to smash the revolution.
DOWN WITH MURSI! IT IS NECESSARY TO DESTROY THE CASTE OF OFFICERS
OF THE MUBARAKIST PRO IMPERIALIST EGYPTIAN ARMY! DOWN WITH THE FRAUD OF THE NEW
CONSTITUTION DICTATED BY THE MUBARAKIST GENERALS! NEITHER ‘YES’ NOR ‘NO’! FOR
THE ACTIVE BOYCOTT TO THE REFERENDUM!
To stop the siege of the
revolutionary masses, the government of Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood have
launched a referendum to approve or not the new Egyptian constitution edited by
the president and his cronies, with the blessing of the Mubarak’s army that
only allowed for some few amendments to the old constitution of Mubarak. To the
bourgeoisie it is indifferent if the winner is the “yes” (Mursi and the Muslim
brotherhood) or the “no” (NLF, el Baradei, and all the bourgeois opposition
with the collaboration of the “April 6th Movement” and the reformist left)
position. Both with the “yes” and the “no” the essential of the old
constitution is maintained, therefore all the businesses are beneficiated of
the MNCs and the officers caste, the Mubarak’s generals that posses and manage
thousands of businesses, as the gas with which they supply the state of Israel
and the USD 1,3 billion that they receive directly from USA.
They need to call this
referendum to channel the fury of the exploited, take them out of the streets
and barricades, so that the Egyptian masses are deviated from their current
revolutionary course. Therefore. The real trap of the bourgeoisie against the
people is the very same referendum, which is in itself a totally antidemocratic
and Bonapartist mechanism where the organizations of the fighting masses are
dissolved in individual ballots, i.e., where a vote by a social parasite that
produces nothing has the same value than the vote of a worker or toiler.
Moreover, the poll days have been divided into two dates for votation (Dec 1
and Dec 22) where in those 7 days the bourgeoisie wil rigg the votation. In
this referendum the workers and other exploited are obliged to “choose” between
only two bourgeois alternatives: either you vote for “yes” (Muslim Brothers) or
for “no” (the bourgeoisie of el Baradei and the NLF). Whichever wins, the
bourgeoisie will keep control of the state and the bosses and the imperialist
MNCs will have guaranteed their interests and property: no one of the bourgeois
fractions will lose.
All the reformist currents
subordinated to the leadership of the “April 6th movement”, the only attitude
possible before the referendum is campaigning and voting for NO to “weaken
Mursi”. Under different arguments they try to hide their servile attitude
before the institutions of the bourgeois regime. And this is twofold
criminal in a moment when in Egypt some hundred thousands of workers and youth
are refusing to participate in the referendum trap and are, contrariwise,
seeking for an independent way to advance towards revolution. Today in Egypt
all the fighting organizations of the working class and the masses have before
them the task of calling for and organizing the Active Boycotting against this
true trap and deception. Just now the fighting organizations of the masses, the
unions, etc., must call to organize this action with pickets, walkouts,
strikes, mobilizations and calling to set up worker and people’s militias to
confront the counterrevolutionary gangs of Mursi and the Mubarakists, dissolve
the police and win over the rank and file soldiers for the revolutionary
fighting for seizing power in the hands of the exploited.
This is why the reformist
leaderships hide which support the raps of “parliamentary distraction” of the
revolution; what is before us is not “more democracy” but the traps of the
electoral referenda to prepare the conditions for new blows of
counterrevolution. The recent developments in Tunisia are a proof of what we
assert here, where a demonstration by the UGTT whose leadership supports the
fraud of the National assembly, was dissolved by means of the truncheons of the
fascist gangs on account of the government and its anti-worker regime. The
dilemma continues being either revolution or counterrevolution in Maghreb and
Middle East.
IN EGYPT, THE ONLY POWER WE MUST
RECOGNIZE IS THAT OF THE FACTORY, STUDENT, UNEMPLOYED AND RANK AND FILE
SOLDIERS’ COMMITTEES, REUNITED IN A CONGRESS OF DELEGATES OF ALL THE FIGHTING
EXPLOITED, AT TAHRIR SQUARE!
It is not a coincidence that
the textile workers and particularly the women workers are the revolutionary
vanguard.
Those workers gestated the
revolution that irrupted in 2011 with historical strikes that shook the entire
population; even the so-called “April 6th Movement”, notwithstanding
its conciliator leadership, was called after the grandiose strike of the
textile workers on April 6th, 2008.
The downthrown of Mubarak, among other things, allowed the
Egyptian working class to break with the fascist unions completely embedded in
the state and to found new unions, most of them backed by factory assemblies
and factory committees that are a true dual power in the heart of
production, confronting the manager-generals of the army. The most
outstanding of this process was the revolutionary appeal of the Revolutionary
Association of Textile workers of November 29, 2011, which was hidden under
the carpet by the entire reformist world unionism. In it, the workers
proclaimed:
“Now, after ten months, we see
the remains of the old system recycled, and opportunist attempts of the
political forces with religious authority to ignore the revolutionary
legitimacy of the masses at the Squares (…) The Military Council and its allies
in the corridors of power and the political parties are preparing a Parliament
to widen their presence and legitimacy.
The hour has come for the masses in the Squares to set up in place
organizations of popular revolutionary democracy in Tahrir, Alexandria, Suez,
Mansoura and Sohag (…)
·
Public vote of the fighters in the barricades at Tahrir Square in
order to create the first Revolutionary Popular Council electing 100
revolutionaries from within those in the Square to express the demands and
legitimacy of the revolution
·
The Revolutionary Popular
Council should form elected committees, which should take their decisions by
vote… (…)
·
Revolutionary Popular Councils
should be set up in Suez and Alexandria, after Tahrir, and they should coordinate
for achieving the objectives of the popular revolution.
·
The Revolutionary Popular
councils are the most mature form of democratic expression of the aspirations
of the people to justice, Equality and Freedom. They represent the
revolutionary legitimacy against the “legitimacy” of Mubarak’s and of the
council that he held together with his allies (…)”
There were these same workers
–whom the reformist leaderships prevented from conquering that way trying to
make them go back to economical struggles of pressure on the bourgeois state-
who irrupted in Tahrir Square and guaranteed again that the masses “take
preeminence in the center of the ring”. With their struggle they have
conquered milestones of a new revolutionary program for the offensive, as are
the exemplary anti imperialist actions against the US embassies, the setting on
fire of the offices of the bosses’ parties, as is the Muslim Brotherhood.
Today more than ever this
program must be taken to victory. Only the working class with its self-organization
bodies independent from the bourgeois state, irrupting with its own methods of
struggle, fighting mercelyless Mursi´s government and the SCAF will be able to
head and lead the exploited and impoverished masses of city and countryside. It
is necessary to centralize the fighting organizations that the masses have
already conquered, their unions and factory committees, organize the committees
of unemployed and of revolutionary students with a working class program of
emergency.
Expropriation without
compensation and under worker control of the Suez Channel and of all the MNCs!
Out with imperialism! Disavowal of all the debts underwritten with the IMF and
the International Banking system! Worker control and starting production of all
the factories which have shut up or are closing their gates, suspending or
laying off personnel! Sliding scale of wages and working hours! Expropriation
without compensation of all supermarkets! Elimination of the entire chain of
middlemen and trade brokers to guarantee cheap food! Workers and popular
committees to control prices and supplies! Public works plan under control of
the worker organizations to guarantee housing for everyone! Expropriation
without compensation of the land to give plots to the poor peasants that want
to produce without exploiting other workers! Expropriation without compensation
of all the Banks! For a single state Bank under worker control and cheap credit
for the ruined middle classes of city and countryside! Freedom for all the
political prisoners! Worker and popular courts to punish Mubarak, his cronies
and accomplishes and all the murderers of the people! The power of the exploited is irreconcilable
with that of the exploiters. So that the only power we should recognize is
that of the factory, unemployed, students, rank and file, committees, gathered
together in Tahrir Square in a congress of delegates, voted 1 out 100 fighting
exploited. Everyone to Tahrir Square to organize our own power!
To impose the break with
imperialism and conquer bread for the exploited, let’s go
FOR A WORKER AND POPULAR GOVERNMENT, SUPPORTED IN THE FIGHTING
ORGANIZATIONS OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE EXPLOITED, AND THEIR GENERALIZED
ARMAMENT!
The question of the moment can
only be solved through fighting for the seizure of power. World reformism,
before the fighting for demolishing the bourgeois state, is devoting its forces
to shove sand on the eyes of the exploited. They seek to prevent a “new Libya”,
where the armed masses destroyed the bourgeois state. The caste of officers of
the Supreme Military Council is financed by imperialism, besides it is the
owner of big businesses in pilfered Egypt. Their property those officers will
defend guns in hand. Therefore from the fighting organizations of the masses
and their pickets of self defense we must surround the barracks, with the
Revolutionary General Strike, calling the rank and file soldiers, sons of
workers and peasants in arms, to break with the officers and to organize their
own committees of rank and file soldiers. For the immediate dismissing and
disarming of all the Mubarakist officers! For Committees of rank and file
soldiers and for workers militias! For the dissolution and disbanding of the
police forces and of all the repressive forces! For a Worker and Popular
Government supported in the fighting organizations of the masses and their
generalized armament!
The route of revolution leads to Jerusalem
FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL! FOR A DEMOCRATIC, SECULAR, FREE
AND SINGLE PALESTINE, GUARANTEED BY A WORKER AND PEASANT GOVERNMENT OF THE
SELF-ORGANIZED AND ARMED MASSES, WITH JERUSALEM AS ITS CAPITAL!
Revolution in Egypt can only
succeed as a part of a single revolution in the entire region. The route of
revolution leads to Jerusalem, no partial victory would be sure until the
Palestinian flag waves very high in Jerusalem. The masses in Egypt, the whole
Middle East and the North of Africa need to unite their ranks and march to the
Rafah Wall, to untie completely the Palestinian masses’ hands and assault the
State of Israel. From the independent unions conquered in Egypt when Mubarak
was overthrown, it is urgent to call now to hold a great International
Conference in Tahrir Square of all the combative unions and worker
organizations worldwide for breaking the fence imposed to the masses of Libya
and Syria, and organize the assault against the Zionist State, pulling down he
Rafah Wall and making the masses of the whole region revolt. This
Conference the revolutionary militias of Libya will no doubt attend, as well as
the Tunisian unions attacked by the Salafists gangs; the fighting worker
organizations of the whole region, as well as the fighting unions of the entire
Europe that everyday have to confront the merciless attacks to their gains on
the part of the imperialist Maastricht governments. The self-proclaimed
Revolutionary Socialists that lead and influence the independent Egyptian
unions must demonstrate why they call themselves so, and break with the British
Trade Unions; they must put themselves in disposition to advance these tasks
and make this international appeal.
Down with the Rafah Wall! Down
with the Camp David Agreement and all the economical, political and military
agreements with Zionism and imperialism! Down with the monarchy in Jordan! Out
of Syria Bashar al Assad and the imperialists, all the power to the
coordination committees of workers exploited and rank and file soldiers!
For a National Palestinian Assembly of delegates from its entire
historical territory without bosses and class collaborationists, for
sweeping away the fictitious borders that the native bourgeoisies grant to the
Zionists and disarming the Palestinian police of Hamas and Fatah and guarantee
the armament of the exploited! For the destruction of the Zionist fascist State
of Israel! For a single Palestine, a free, secular democratic one under a
worker-peasant government of the self-organized and armed masses with its
capital in Jerusalem! For a Federation of Socialist Soviet Republics of the
North of Africa and Middle East!
In order that the revolution in the North of Africa and Middle East
succeeds, the European and US working class must raise their banners in the
heart of the imperialist beast!
DOWN WITH MAASTRICHT AND THE REACTIONARY
EUROPEAN UNION! FOR AN IMMEDIATE EUROPEAN GENERAL STRIKE! IT IS IMPERATIVE TO
DEFEAT THE 1% OF PARASITES, THE BANKERS AND YUPPIES OF WALL STREET THAT PLUNDER
THE WORLD UNDER THE PROTECTION OF OBAMA AND THE PENTAGON!
The Tunisian, Libyan, syrian,
Egyptian, Yemeni, etc., working class is staging one of the most significant
pages of the History of the world proletariat. With their revolutionary
actions, in these almost two years of revolution they have thrown down bloody
dictatorships, broken armies and armed themselves; they have set up their own
fighting organizations through self organizing; they have confronted Zionism
and imperialism; they have soaked the sands Of North of Africa and Middle East
with the blood of their martyrs.
To these heroic masses, the
reformist and social imperialist leaderships, from their comfortable balconies
of worker aristocracies and bureaucratized unions, from the University
fellowships and academician offices, are now “counseling” the Egyptian
exploited to take a “true independent actions”. These “magical formulas”, these
recipes launched today, are hollow phrases: the masses have already realized
those “independent actions”; they have already conquered milestones of
socialism with their combats. Nothing more can be demanded from them. The
social imperialists are only covering the backs of their own bourgeoisies, for
the only “independent action” that the
working class of the North of Africa and Middle East -which is a fundamental
battalion of the European working class- need is the revolutionary irruption of
the European, the US and Japanese working class, marching to the embassies of
the countries of their class sisters and brothers, organizing the general
strike in their own countries, boycotting the help that the imperialist powers
lend to the native bourgeoisies for them to smash their working classes, and
setting up on their feet from the combative worker and student unions and
organizations, international brigades for guaranteeing help to the exploited
with weapons, food and medicines. This is the way the working class of the
imperialist powers must take in order to defeat the attack against its gains
from the part of the parasite governments and bankers.
For a European General Strike Now from the Atlantic coasts to the
Ural Mounts! Down with the Troika in Greece! Down with Merkel and Bundesbank’s
Germany! Down with the Fifth French Republic! Down with the British Crown and
the Bourbons in Spain! They are who attack the European working class and
support genocidal Zionism and the servile native bourgeoisies! For the
Socialist United States of Europe! In Japan, the movement against the US
military bases and the imperialist war must take the streets and rally to
besiege the Egyptian and Zionist embassies. In USA it is necessary to put up
again the March of a Million Workers movement and together with the youth of
“Occupy Wall Street” and the rest of “Occupy” groups, they must confront that
1% of bankers and Yuppies of Wall Street that loot the world under the
protection of Obama and the pentagon. As the Wisconsin striking workers said in
2011: “We must fight as in Egypt!”. For the Socialist United Sates of
North America!
The working class in the North of Africa and Middle East need a revolutionary
leadership to achieve victory!
FOR THE FOUNDATION ANEW OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL!
The reformist left worldwide
has devoted to salnder the Libyan worker militias affirming that they were
“NATO ground troops”, or that the Syrian revolution was “fueled by
imperialism”. In that way they fenced and isolated the masses in the region
from the European and world proletariat. Tday before the events in Egypt the
appear with their pacifist of
“constituen assemblies”, “organizing democratic unions”, or with their theory
of the “Spring of the Peoples”, deceiving the proletariat with the worst of
fake democratic illusions. They have kept as a secret that the working class
must arm itself in order to succeed, it must destroy the army and put itsef to
the head of an armed insurrection in order to be able to conquer bread by
expropriating the expropriators. Those traitors have concocted in orter that
never more there could be a “new Libya” able to destroy the bourgeois state.
They are against raising the program of the mineworkers in Marikana – “a wage
rise or we kill the managers!”-, of the Asturias mineworkers -”if
this is not put upright, that means war, war, war!”-, and against uniting
the world working class against that “1% of Wall Street parasites”.
The defenders of Qadafi that
are still weeping for his death, the supporters to Bashar al Assad, the
servants to the Zionist “indignados” (that rally to demand more Palestinian
land -and corpses) in fascist Israel, the champions of the “democratic revolutions”
are biting the tip of their tongues and write rivers of ink to justify their
negative to demolish the bourgeois state and unify the world working class,
which in a way is putting to stake the fate of the revolution in the North of
“Africa and Middle East in the streets of Palestine and Tahrir Square.
We Trotskyists that are
combating hand in hand with the masses in the Region in the Sevian al Laith
(Leon Sedov) Brigade in Syria, in the Revolutionary Militias in Libya and
alongside the Movement of Internationalist Volunteer Workers of the North of
Africa and Middle east, are fighting for founding anew the fourth international
that is the leadership the working class and exploited of the region need and
deserve for getting victory. For breaking the siege imposed to the heroic
masses of Libya and Syria, and to fight for the destruction of the State of
Israel we call to set up on its feet immediately a International Conference
of the forces of Principled Trotskyism and the revolutionary worker
organizations.
Revolution is live and well!
Long Live Socialist and worker Revolution!
FRACCIÓN LENINISTA TROTSKYSTA INTERNACIONAL (FLTI)
(International Leninist Trotskyist
Fraction)
