The working class sets up and starts organizing its armed factory committees

Like yesterday in Tripoli, today the workers in the port of Misratah begin to unleash their struggle to prevent the CNT and the employers from robbing them the conquests of the revolution

The echoes of the strike carried out by the port workers of Tripoli are still ringing in the warehouses of the port of Misratah. There, the workers say that they learned too late about that strike, even once it had ended, and that they did not know the full list of demands. But when they learned of the events, they felt filled with indignation, to see that the wage issues, and the housing and working conditions, were not yet resolved though they workers had made a revolution. They know that the port is handling about 30 million Libyan dinars, i.e. it is not a question of having no money, but someone is stealing it, they say.

They see this situation not only in Tripoli, but also in Misratah. There the port workers share nearly all their claims with the workers in Tripoli as the thirtieth month salary, work clothes, housing, the lack of proper offices, the need of health insurance, etc. Faced with this situation, in Misratah the workers have met and raised a request to the management of the enterprise, which was immediately responded with an increase in salary, ignoring all the other claims. This was clearly a way for trying to make uncoordinated the efforts of getting their demands in the ports of one and another city.

For carrying on all their claims, workers have a kind of organization or association called Naqaba, but it is only empowered to resolve wage/payment issues. For this reason, and because the Naqaba is still not working with all the delegates, the port workers began to organize themselves in meetings, which work as embryonic assemblies .

They believe that the assemblies are a form of legitimate organization and taking control measures also are. Therefore, they agree 100% with the strike made in the port of Tripoli, and have warned their own management that they will follow the same steps if their demands remain unanswered. They are even shuffling the various possible actions, because a sector is opposed to the strike, as they see that that would harm the whole of the people and instead intends to organize an action of protest against the company to remove the current heads and put others in their place, who should be elected by the workers in struggle. Some see the strike as a method of struggle to force through early elections, to change their leaders. That is because in this company the chiefs are elected (in fraudulent elections) by all employees, once every four years.

As well as in nearly all factories and workplaces all over Libya, these port workers come from having fought in the militias that defeated the dictator, and the balance of the fight left them with several martyrs. Moreover, many workers have not yet returned to their activity, because they are still organized into militias.
With regard to their class brethren in Syria, these workers raised their total solidarity with them, and are fully prepared to organize actions, send brigades, weapons, ammunition, etc. But, at the same time, they see that an action only from Libya is destined to fail, as for the exploited masses of Syria to get victory, the intervention of the whole world proletariat is necessary.

For this they propose forming an organization or a party of the world working class, that groups, centralizes and coordinates all workers in Africa, Europe and other continents, in order to intervene in the revolutionary processes and to free from hunger, poverty and exploitation this class always oppressed. They put as an example "…the international organization that coordinated sending labor brigades from around the world to fight against Franco’s fascism in the Spanish civil war of the '30…", which is neither more nor less than the Foundational program of the Fourth international in 1938.