Different organizations, such as the Tunisian UGTT
–central union of that country- PCOT (Workers Communist Party of Tunisia), the
UIT-CI (International Workers Unity) who have groups in Bolivia, Argentina,
Venezuela, Brazil, etc., are convening to a meeting this May Day in Tunisia in
order to “debate the situation in Syria and which task it is to be taken in
solidarity with the Syrian masses”.
We write this letter
to you in our character as militiamen in the Revolutionary Brigades of Libya
and in the Internationalist Volunteer Movement. We fought in the civil war against
Qadafy, and today our martyrs, leaving from Benghazi, Tripoli or Misratah, have
spilled their blood fighting alongside the Syrian masses against murderous Al
Assad.
In Tripoli and Benghazi
streets our women are mourning the martyrs who died fighting in the streets of
Homs.
Our militias have
just held a General Assembly with the dock workers of Tripoli. Together with
them we voted this letter addressed to the meeting in Tunisia. The war cry of
the Libyan workers and their militias who do not surrender to the TNC and its Qadafyist
Generals, is simple: “The spark that set Tunisia on fire and the weapons we rose
up in Libya in order to conquer bread won’t be able to succeed unless we,
alongside the Syrian exploited masses smash Al Assad the Jackal. We are one
nation, that of the workers, the exploited and oppressed, and we are one revolution,
which only as such can win”.
This May Day, in
different countries “public meetings”, “ceremonies” are being held by people that
speak on behalf of the workers and even of “socialism”. Most of them don’t
mention the revolutionary Syrian masses, slaughtered by Al Assad on behalf of
imperialism. A huge wall of silence comes from those organizations that all
over the world, call themselves of the working class, but have erected that
wall to encircle and help cover one of the biggest counterrevolutionary
massacres against the exploited ones committed in the last few years. This
silence tries to be concealed and disguised with “socialist slogans”, but for
the fate of the tormented Syrian masses it means and will ever mean that those
organizations are disguising the murderous and bloodsucking boss Al Assad with
the title of “a socialist and an allied of the workers worldwide”. They did the
same with Qadafy, the representative of ENI, British Petroleum and other oil
companies in Libya, a murderer who stained socialism and in its name exploited
and starved the Libyan workers.
A meeting that doesn’t set up, in this May Day,
side by side with the slaughtered workers of Syria, and that doesn’t become actually
a day for fighting in the streets, surrounding and protesting against the
Syrian embassies -which are real shelters of the murderers of Al Assad in the
world- is a meeting that won’t have the honor of paying tribute to the struggle
of the martyrs of Chicago, who on May 1st, 1886 fought in the
streets and went on a general strike for the demand of the 8 hours shift with a
result of tens of them being killed by the repressive forces of the US
bourgeoisie.
We have left martyrs like the ones of Chicago
in the streets of Northern Africa and Middle East. Martyr Bouzazi killed
himself so we could fight; he was the spark that pushed us to start our
revolutions. We have seen the workers in USA, Europe and the entire world
taking the streets with the war cry of “we must fight like in Egypt and
Tunisia”, or as the Nigerian workers shouted in their general strike “Out
Jonathan or you will die as Qadafy”. That is the war cry to unite the world
working class that some people want to see silenced this May Day.
Comrades, May Day is a day of international struggle
for the working class. We insist, it is not about public meetings, celebration parties
or debating. There was and there will be time for that. This is a day for fighting;
it is a fighting day for the world working class. The US workers are teaching
us, with their example, how to fight this May Day. The workers that occupy Wall
Street together with the workers committees in more than 115 US cities are
calling to the general strike for this May Day in USA. This is the way! They
say: no buy, no banks, no work. In Misratah, as we state in our statement, we
are staging a general strike of workers and our militias. We fight for bread
and a decent health system, against the inflation and against those who want to
expropriate our fight: the TNC.
It is a May Day where the 99% (as they call
workers and exploited ones) make clear that the 1% are all bloodsucker bankers
that have ruined the working class both in the US and the world.
There, in USA, it is not a day of celebration
or public holiday. It is a fighting day. That moves us, since they have raised up
as first demand the unconditional defense of the immigrant workers in USA.
There millions of Latin American workers are treated as slaves by US imperialists.
We wonder, in this May Day, why don’t unions
and worker organizations in Europe call for a day of struggle and for taking
the streets in solidarity with the millions of immigrants from Africa and
Middle East that go to work there to build the imperial Europe of Maastricht?
There is no doubt that if the European workers followed
the example of their class brothers of USA, today the Syrian workers wouldn’t
be isolated and our struggle for bread would’ve already succeeded. In that
case, the European workers would’ve fought as in Tunisia or Libya, overthrowing
their governments, which loot and exploit the entire world, and are so much
killers and as starvers as those we have overthrown in the North of Africa.
The workers of Europe aren’t responsible for this
situation. We have seen with our own eyes how thieves and traitors act who, as
Qadafy, speak in behalf of workers, the people and “socialism”, while all they
do is starving us and killing us when we rebel against them.
We, workers and militiamen from Libya, are
greeting your meeting in Tunisia, because indeed Syria is the key point. This
is a big step forward. It breaks the silence. But it is not enough. The organizations that represent us, the
workers and people from the North of Africa and Middle East, haven’t let us yet
settle accounts of solidarity from our entire region with our Syrian working class
and exploited brothers and sisters.
Those who occupied Tahrir Sq. let their voices
be heard in Egypt. Week after week they carry on, from the Square they have
recovered, rallies to the Syrian Embassy at the war cry of “US, NATO, Al Assad and Hezbollah watch out
the Zionist borders”. We, who have taken as our own the cause of Syria, in
the facts instead of with words, can’t understand why the deliberations on how to
support the heroic masses of Syria are still going on after months of
massacres, torture and repression against them.
Maybe because you still have doubts on what is
the better way for fighting for Syria, you haven’t invited us to your meeting.
But we do have clarity on how to fight, like the Egyptian workers in Tahrir Sq.
They have overthrown the wall of Rafah, set on fire the Zionist Embassy and
occupied several times the embassy of murderous Al-Assad in El Cairo.
In the barricades of Damascus our comrades
speak the same language and have the same sufferings as the poor people of
Syria who see how their women and children die as a result of the bombings by
Al-Assad, the assassin.
We know that in your meeting worker
organizations from the entire world -and especially from Tunisia- are
participating. Even more, your meeting in solidarity to Syria is supported by
the Tunisian UGTT.
You state in your call that “our revolutionary
processes are living one of their most critical moments, with what is happening
in Syria”. You state that “Bashar keeps
murdering his people; meanwhile the big world powers want to take advantage of
this situation”.
Thus, you end up calling to do a meeting of
Regueb Tunisia, on May Day to “discuss the situation” and “to organize a
campaign in solidarity with the Syrian revolution”. You denounce correctly that the “Friends of Syria” chose a month ago Tunisia
to give support to Al Assad. Such a truth! … You state that “they are the same that supported Ben Ali
with their weapons and money as well as every dictator in the region”.
We say, Qadafy too.
Comrades, you know, as well as we do, that over
a month ago the Arab League left from its visit on Homs and Damascus. The
imperialist powers turned the blind eye, the same as the NSC in Qatar, a den of
deserters of the cause of the Syrian masses. Meanwhile Al-Assad, armed by Putin
and Hu Jintao, launched a counterrevolutionary attack of flattened land, razing
men, women and children in every worker and popular district in every city in Syria.
Comrades, the Syrian masses have rebelled for
months and in the last two months a fascist and counterrevolutionary offensive
started against them. From the Assembly of the workers of Libya and its
militias we state before the workers of the world in this May Day, it is
already too late to held meetings and discuss the “solidarity” in the future
with the isolated masses of Syria. You will hold a big meeting. But the over
400 thousand exploited people, the Syrian prosecuted who suffer the cold and the
snow in the borders of Lebanon and Turkey, the blood of over 30 thousand
martyrs slaughtered by Al-Assad, don’t need meetings and discussions to see
what to do in the future. No comrades. You are holding a meeting that
represents organizations of hundreds and hundreds of thousand workers of
Tunisia and the world. Your forces to carry on a strong action in support of
the Syrian masses are already huge enough.
We can’t keep wasting time. We have witnessed
bloody slaughtering going on for months and the UGTT, which represents hundreds
of thousand Tunisian workers, hasn’t called yet to a single action in
solidarity with the exploited masses of Syria.
Those who call that meeting in Tunisia today
have a huge advantage if compared with the rest of the workers of Northern
Africa and Middle East. This advantage is precisely that UGTT will be there; it
leads millions of Tunisian workers. Today the UGTT leadership don’t have a
single argument to stay away from calling the Tunisian workers and exploited
masses to win the streets and face the ravenous government of Tunisia in a big
mass action and to carry on a militant solidarity in the deeds with the tormented Syrian masses.
Too much blood has ran and UGTT hasn’t called
yet to that heroic and militant Tunisian working class (we know they have fought
with pickets, demonstrations, setting on fire police stations and clashing with
the police, against the government that came to expropriate the revolution) to
fight in support of the Syrian workers and exploited masses. What are the
leaders of UGTT going to do? How much longer are they going to wait? How many
more martyrs do we need to mourn on so they decide to start an action to help our Syrian brothers
and sisters? Comrades, enough of talking, it’s high time to do the walking. Now
you have the floor.
We insist. 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.
UGTT and tens of Tunisian worker organizations
that will participate in your meeting represent the workers of Tunisia who know
a lot about solidarity. Your men and women fed our women, our children and our
fighters when they escaped from the fierce prosecution of murderous Qadafy.
Every Tunisian worker remembers what they shouted in their combats: “If Libya is defeated, they will come for
us”. Our militia men were treated by your doctors in the hospitals around
the borders.
On this May Day we can’t forget this, we can’t be
looking for going to struggle divided. Together we have to take the streets now
with the war cry: “if Syria is defeated,
they will come for us in Egypt, Libya and also in Tunisia”. If that
happens, the workers of the world will suffer a huge defeat. We can’t allow
that.
We must merge in a
single fight, because if we don’t do that, in your public meeting in Tunisia we
will waste a great opportunity to join forces and hit as one fist Al-Assad the
assassin.
We, the workers from Tunisia, Libya, Egypt,
North of Africa and Middle East, have put thousands of martyrs in the road and spilt
our blood and our children’s so that the revolution succeeds. We don’t deserve
this failure.
The organizers of that meeting in Tunisia have
plenty of forces to march over the Embassy of Syria like the Egyptian exploited
did, and they also can call all the Tunisian workers to win the streets with
the claim that if Syria is smashed, we will be defeated.
There are plenty of forces to break the
isolation of the Syrian masses. In our country the murderous regime of the
shameless puppets of the TNC, settled on the Qadafyist officers, is trying, through
blackmailing, oppression and even corruption, to prevent the workers and
militias of Libya from being at the same level that our class brothers and
sisters. They haven’t got it and they won’t. From our hearts have already left the
brigades of Libyan exploited who are fighting against the murderous Al-Assad
troops and hitmen, in Homs and in the borders of Turkey and Lebanon. Long live
our martyrs who died fighting in Homs and Deraa! For their honor and for the
honor of the heroic Tunisian workers we, together, must state that the talking time
is over and it is time for the walking, for the truth, for concrete solidarity
with our brothers of Syria. Concrete action is at the tip of our fingers.
TNC hasn’t prevented us from continuing our
fight. In Misratah we have already rebelled, even yesterday we held a
revolutionary general strike. We have started to fight to recover the
revolution that those thieves of the TNC (guarded by the Qadafyist Generals) expropriated
us.
Misratah received those injured during the war
that were supposed to be sent abroad to receive treatment. Then we found out
the horror. They were sent… actually expelled from Libya, so they die in the
surrounding countries. That is why they were the first ones who won the streets
of Misratah.
Facing this situation our people was shocked.
They went out because of them the mistreated wounded and because wages weren’t
enough to live even a week, due to the inflation which has started in Libya.
The prices of our food are already too high; they are as expensive as or more
than in Qadafy’s time.
Workers went on strike and occupied downtown Misratah
with their weapons. They are the militias and they are the ones who support our
brigades in the fights. They are the armed people. It is the people who
expelled TNC from Misratah and with their missiles set on fire the den of hidden
bandits who starve the people, just like Qadafy hided from our justice.
The heroic Syrian people sell their houses,
their furniture, and their few belongings to buy bullets for their rifles and
fight again. Around mid April, just 10 days ago, they conquered the streets
again among the rubble in Homs, Deraa and an even in Damascus. We cannot waste
more time. All the organizations that will meet there, as the ones from Libya
who are fighting and are against this infamous regime of TNC and its Qadafyist
Generals must unify our forces in a day of fighting on this May Day to shout to
our class brothers and sisters of Syria that they are not alone; that they will
have bullets for their rifles, they will have doctors in the hospitals placed
at the border where their children are dying of the extreme cold of winter.
Nothing prevents us from organizing a vast
fundraising drive in all the unions and worker organizations of Libya and
Tunisia and among our brothers and sisters of Tahrir Square to send money,
weapons, medicine and also to list volunteers to form international brigades,
together with the militias from Libya who are already there, together with our
class brothers and sisters of Syria.
This is what they need this May Day, not only
the workers of Syria but also us, all the exploited people of Maghreb and
Middle East, if we want to save the revolution that we started.
Together we have to call all the worker
organizations who speak on behalf of the European working class, to put their
whole forces to the service of collecting money, medicines, food for the rebel
masses of Syria. Convoys are leaving England with food to break the fence of
the tormented Palestine masses. Let’s do the same from Tunisia, from Tripoli
and Egypt, and let’s call to the European workers and the entire world to organize
a convoy to reach Syria and break the blockade imposed by murderous Al-Assad to
the fenced and tormented masses of Homs and Deraa.
You have the chance, like us, to reach Syria.
It will be enough if UGTT pose it to themselves and call all worker
organizations in the north of Africa together with us the militias of Libya
that don’t surrender to TNC, to make this come true.
Comrades, just a meeting? Why don’t you call to
fence and fight against the Embassy of Syria in Tunisia? There are plenty of
forces. We know the militant Tunisian workers have fought the police and the
salafist gangs who were setting on fire the most militant offices of the UGTT.
Four thousand Tunisian workers took the streets and fought with pickets and
worker self-organization against the murderous police and they forced many
leaders, who were in their comfortable chairs, to go out to fight. We know that
despite the electoral fraud held by your government and your ruling class, the
fire of revolution isn’t extinguished yet among you because the fire of martyred
Bouzazi is still burning our skin and flesh.
May Day is a day of fighting and your meeting
needs to be at the level of the ones who fight in Homs and our brothers and
sisters of the militias who are leaving their life there. In your hands you
have powerful tools and a very powerful weapon to fight, which is the representation
of hundreds of thousands and why not millions of workers. It is up to you using
them to shoot against murderous Al-Assad.
Workers organizations that claim being in
solidarity with the Syrian workers will be attending your public meeting. But they
have two different speeches. They speak by the two sides of their mouth.
Contrariwise, we use to speak clearly among workers and fighters. We don’t hide
the truth.
There are organizations that on one hand they
say they defend the masses of Syria and Libya and they call to participate in
your public meeting. But in their countries they hold public meetings where the
Syrian masses don’t exist. This happens in Argentina with the so called “Front
of Left and Workers”, which Izquierda
Socialista (member of UIT-CI) is part of and also one of those convening to
your meeting.
For what we know they do the same in Bolivia.
There they sign agreements to build unified parties with bureaucrats like
Solares. He is the one who in a Congress of our mineworker brothers and sisters
called to support Qadafy and to smash the Libyan militias. How can these people
do something for Syria?
Also in Venezuela, ruled by “Qadafy” Chavez,
there are sectors of the left who claim being with Syria, but they lead unions,
like wide sectors of the UNT (Venezuelan Trade Union) and worker organizations
to which they haven’t called to win the streets in support of the Syrian
masses. Meanwhile Chavez and his state have mobilized in that country and have
traveled around the world celebrating the massacre of Al-Assad in Homs, and
also send fuel to his tanks.
The organizers of this meeting that supports
Syria should ask for their class passports to those organizations at the
entrance of the meeting.
The meeting must define if it has been convoked
to fight or just to send a talking solidarity to the Syrian masses and thus let
them keep fighting alone.
Because today one can’t be with Syria only with
the talking, after months of torture, repression, common graves, slaughters and
razed land, where Homs and Deraa have become “a new Gaza”, as that one
devastated by Obama and the Zionists with their Cast Lead Operation.
This My Day your meeting would have to convene,
together with the UGTT, to fighting actions in the streets fr the Syrian
exploited and for the victory of the revolutions that together we have started
for bread, for dignity and against the looting of our nations; because May Day
is a fighting day. Thus we Libyan workers have learnt to consider after 42
years of a dictatorship by Qadafy.
You and we ought not to allow those that claim
to speak for the sake of the Syrian people, to shut up about Syrian people’s
martyrdom on this May Day- This would amount to expelling from your rallies and
meetings the Chicago Martyrs of today. For example, in Brazil hundreds of
unions and worker organizations from all over the world meet… from France,
Brazil, Bolivia, Haiti, Ecuador, UK, Germany and some of the so called
“independent unions” from Egypt. All of them are saying they “want to
coordinate the struggles of the working class all over the world”.
But how dare these organizations claim to be
uniting the fight of the workers of the world, while in their own countries
they neither fight like the Syrians nor fight for the martyred Syrians? Alas, they
are not fighting as in Egypt, where the oppressed people are going from Tahrir
Square and surround the Syrian Embassy, shouting "US, NATO, Assad and Hezbollah are caretakers for the Zionist
boundaries" to make it heard around the world!
How dare we say we want to unite the workers of
the world if we do not fight as the “indignados” of Occupy Wall Street, fencing
the bankers? Or if we don’t combat like the Libyan masses that are bombing the
CNT?
How can these people speak about "unity of
the workers”, while they are actually breaking with the rebellious masses in
Syria? What unity they speak of? If yesterday they left us isolated when Qadafy
and NATO were butchering us in Brega and Misratah? Because those who claim to
be "anti-capitalist" in France did nothing yesterday against French
imperialism, neither we saw them fighting here in Libya when Sarkozy's
Government sent tanks to Qadafy for us to be massacred when we wanted to enter
Tripoli. Who talks about uniting workers when none of those organizations fought,
or even called to fight alongside us …and today they still elude to put all their
strength to the service of breaking the siege surrounding the Syrian masses?
Perhaps they tell us that this could not be
done. Please, don’t tell nonsense. The insurrection of the masses in Libya
opened the borders. Here there was a rifle and a piece of bread for everyone
who would like to come to fight alongside us. And the internationalist workers
who are in our teams and our factories are witness of that. They unfortunately
came under the worst conditions, however, they could and arrived on their own,
as our comrades are going today to fight and die in Damascus. When there’s a
will there’s a way!
If both of us unite, you from your meeting and
we, the revolutionary fraction of the working class and militias from Libya, if
we unite we have in our hands the conditions so that we can now break the siege
around the Syrian masses and go to combat in Syria in the best conditions.
Also from Brazil we have received a statement in
favor of struggling in support of the Syrian masses and committing the militant
Brazilian working-class to break the silence of their leaders; that statement
has been edited by the International Committee for the support to the
revolutionaries of Libya, Syria and the rest of North Africa and the Middle
East in Brazil, formed by the comrades of Revolutionary Movement (member of the
International Revolutionary Current) and the Committee for the Re-foundation of
the Fourth International - Sao Paulo (member of the FLTI - International Leninist
Trotskyist Fraction). Such a courageous Declaration calls all worker
organizations worldwide and, in particular, in Brazil to perform "unitary actions against Syrian
embassies in our countries to demand an end to the massacre and for the victory
of the (Syrian) revolution in progress"; it also calls to develop "an extensive network of solidarity,
both through financial campaigns and international convoys for the shipment of
food to the Syrian revolutionaries", as well as for "organizing international brigades that
can join the militias and the resistance that today calls for international
support"; the statement ends up raising: "It is high time to break the siege and end the isolation descended
on the Syrian people. This is the only way to put an end to the bloodbath. Enough
of silence and failure! Long live the Syrian revolution! Out with Al - Assad!
". This is a great example to follow.
Comrades, passivity and solidarity of words
only are no longer enough. The mass graves in Deraa have been there for a
while. Homs has already fallen. But from its ruins and from dynamited borders,
the masses will return to combat.
We who are for real and effective solidarity
with Syria must denounce these Qadafyist that call themselves "Socialists"
as the Chávez, Morales, etc. who are trying to get their people to the streets
in support of the murderer Al Assad. But we all know that they fire hundreds of
workers without mercy, beat them up with clubs, massacre them, and in the name
of "socialism" apply the same plans of hunger that Qadafy and Assad,
who did not have anything to envy to his friends Ben Ali and Mubarak.
It even turns out now the Castro brothers
themselves, with rosaries and crucifixes, have already blessed Assad and condemned
to hell to the exploited of Homs and Deraa. To join them and with the
executioners of the Syrian masses is to break the unity of the workers of the
world.
It is not possible to remain silent before the
massacre which the exploited in Syria are suffering. We must break this wall,
but it must be broken in the streets. Enough with meetings that with good
intentions become diplomatic, and that when they end, everyone returns to their
countries without committing to do anything. Enough of words. There's no time
to lose. Martyred Syria cannot be defeated.
The Syrian masses fight isolated and under the
worst conditions, but their struggle lives on. We have to pound on the table
and tell the truth. Assad can get away with massacring the exploited in Syria
because many of those who speak in our name, that of workers, have quarantined
their struggle and while claiming to be with them, only do so in words. If it
wasn't so, Governments of the dominant powers who support the murderer Al
Assad, would feel firsthand the rigour of workers preventing them to support
him not even for a day longer, at the risk of them falling with him.
We call on you to conquer a joint and
centralized struggle of the workers of the world to crush Al Assad and break
the siege of the Syrian masses. We call on you to break the wall of silence,
that unworthy and cynical silence that arose while Assad massacred the people
of Homs with his guns and his bombings.
Fighting thus we will create the best
conditions to rid ourselves of the [Libyan] CNT's; of Egypt’s military Juntas,
of the Governments which have expropriated our revolutions. This is the way to
ensure that the workers of Europe stop the attack suffering from the same
dominant powers that send Al Assad to do the "dirty work" for them in
Syria. This is the way to ensure that the workers of United States, of Europe
and Japan, i.e. of the dominant powers, stop the attack that they exercise in a
harsh and violent way against their own workers.
We must break the wall of silence, because
otherwise all that the workers of the world will hear this may 1 will be
insults, attacks, slander and lies against the Syrian masses. That is what
happened to us, when this same people who call themselves "leftist"
supported Qadafy (the exploiter and slave-owner friend of the Queen of England
and a member of the European oil companies). We were told that we were
"agents of NATO and the CIA", and threw us other attacks in the back
while we gave our lives in Brega, Misratah, Tripoli and Benghazi, including
when meted out justice with the Qadafy, that dog.
And they dare tell that to us, to workers that
like the stevedores have missing fingers in the hands and missing toes on our
feet for having to work barefoot in the dead of winter in "Socialist"
Qadafy enterprises, a single bathroom for 1,500 of our own, with directors who
call themselves "Socialist" who earned millions of dollars while
hungry workers earned $200 a month.
We, in our factories and our ports, count the
martyrs who gave their life fighting the killer Qadafy. Sure, to slander and
shoot combatants in the back and isolate them from their brethren in the world
they have many "Qadafy" that pay them. So have divided and confused
the workers of the world; that is why Assad can kill with impunity until now.
The division of the world's workers is leaving the
masses of Syria outside the ranks of the working class. That is why the call
for your meeting: we cannot allow one more day that this situation continues
deepening between the workers and the world's poor. It is that fight against
the masses of Syria is to divide the workers of the world, and to silence their
struggle is being an accomplice of Assad. Say you are with the struggle of the
exploited Syrians, but let them fight and die alone every day, is NOT to be
with them and is NOT to be for the crushing of Assad.
No more words, the time has come for a unified,
effective and concrete action.
That is why we are speaking to you from the
militias of Libya that do not surrender, that do not allow ourselves to be
corrupted by the CNT, that do not return our weapons, we who fought in
Misratah, and that have already evicted the CNT from there, and that are
regrouping so not to stop our revolution until we conquer our bread by
overthrowing the CNT in all Libya. We are those who seek to expropriate the oil
companies who take our wealth and who will force them to give back all the
billions that were stolen. We are addressing you on behalf of the gritty port,
metallurgical, and construction workers, many of them brothers from Egypt and
Tunisia (whom we propose to organize and struggle alongside them in the first
place for their demands, as do American workers with immigrants), in this May
Day we shout: weapons, doctors, medicines and food so that the resistance in
Syria may succeed!
We propose your meeting to demonstrate to the
Syrian masses that they are not really alone. The UGTT must win the streets;
call our Tunisian class brothers and sisters to besiege the Embassy of Syria in
Tunisia and to put themselves at the head of a call, together with us, to
organize brigades from the Maghreb and the Middle East to fight alongside the
Syrian masses.
We propose you to welcome together the general
strike of our American brothers struggling for their demands for jobs, against
dismissals and in support of the immigrants walling the 1% of parasites of Wall
Street that oppress all our peoples. We call you to rise up with us around the
world what are already writing our children in the streets of Misratah: "today in Libya, tomorrow in Wall
Street!"
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.
And if you still insist on having a meeting to only
debate, we invite you to send a delegation from the meeting to come with us to
a place that together we could agree on to coordinate an unitary and
centralized action for the sake of the martyred masses in Syria.
You say in your call to your meeting, to which
we have not been invited, that you are interested in "discussing the tasks
and solidarity due to the Syrian masses". We are handing you this proposal
in writing. Surely you will be able to enrich it and contribute many more
actions to take. We are kindly waiting for your response.
We affirm that our struggle ought not to stop, until
Al Assad dies and the revolutions that we started succeed with the power of the
exploited. Our struggle will not stop until the flag of Palestine does not fly
high in Jerusalem and until the 99% has expropriated the 1% of Wall Street
parasites and substitute the power of the exploited where the financial
oligarchy and parasites of international financial capital now govern.
Comrades, we propose you for this May Day to
fight and raise our voices together:
That
the global working class get up in a single, unique struggle this May Day in
support of our Syrian brothers!
Now in Egypt, Tunisia
and Libya we must also fight like in the United States. LONG LIVE THE GENERAL
STRIKE! Down the TNCs! We want to subject to trial and punishment the murderous
Egyptian Military! Out with the parties that participated in the electoral
fraud in Tunisia; they are faithful followers of the plans of starvation and
repression of Ben Ali! Death to Al Assad! That Greece gets again insurrected,
where the spark was lit, as in Tunisia, to set fire to the Europe of the mighty!
HONOR THE MARTYRS OF
CHICAGO! HONOR THE MARTYRS OF SYRIA!
Enough of slandering and backstabbing the Syrian
workers! It is Al Assad who works as a NATO and the CIA agent, under the orders
of all the powerful in the world! He and his family manage the Syrian banks; they
are in control of all kinds of businesses, telecommunications, transport, construction,
etc., associated to the millionaires of Hezbollah in Lebanon. We have had
enough of slandering the heroic Syrian workers! The revolution in Tunisia began
when even our engineers and programmers were out of work, when we could not
even sell vegetables in a street stand to survive on our own hands and effort. That
is why we took the Tahrir Square in Egypt. As our young people do not have work,
we rose up in Bahrain, in Yemen, the same as the youth and workers in the
Europe of the dominant powers. For this reason, people fight in Syria.
In Libya we broke the army, workers and
soldiers united and burnt the police stations of Qadafy’s because the price our
food was increased a 200% while Qadafy, his family and friends lived surrounded
by luxury and all kinds of magnificent goods. This happened and is still
happening in Libya. Therefore the general strike and the destruction of the
headquarters of the CNT in Misratah must be the beginning of the general strike
and the defeat of the CNT and its Qadafyist Generals all across Libya. Now the
time has come to set up and coordinate our own power. From all the Libyan factories
and militias, along with the students of our schools and our hospitals’ doctors
and nurses, we must stand up our power and coordinate and centralize it because
it deserves to succeed so that our revolution succeeds.
The liars must stop lying! Syrian revolution
began when al Assad’s dictatorship in the name of “market socialism” applied on
Syrian people attacks like those by Mubarak, Qadafy and Ben Ali. He privatized
the state enterprises that rendered profits in partnership with the bankers of
Wall Street, and laid-off 85,000 workers, closing up 187 factories so that a
bunch of parasites of his entourage, allied to the bankers, could get huge
benefits.
Workers and toilers all over the world: in
Syria your brothers and sisters are dying, but also your hopes of justice and
dignity may die if they are smashed. LET’S
NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN!
Brothers and sisters in Tunisia, you have the
floor…! Our weapons and our life have been already put to the service of the
insurrected masses in Syria. We will fight and die alongside them. For bread,
for our dignity, for the independence of our nations and for the power for the
exploited all over the world! We are neither Big Oil businessmen, nor bosses
and dictators: we are workers that have revolted like those on May Day, 1886,
to get bread and dignity!
In Greece and the whole Europe, it is necessary to paralyze all the ports
and ships that transport weaponry and food to murderous al Assad, and instead
ship food and weaponry for the heroic Syrian resistance!
The Russian and
Chinese working class has to revolt against the assassins Putin and Hu Jintao
just now! It is urgent to stop the counterrevolutionary war machine of Putin
and Hu Jintao’s that are arming to the teeth genocidal al Assad! It is urgent
to send weapons, equipment and food to the masses that are fighting in Homs,
Damascus, etc.!
Neither the Arab League nor the SNC, all of
them lackeys to imperialism! Out with that den of bandits of the UNO in Syria!
For the destruction of the fascist Zionist State of Israel! For a single
and united, free, secular, democratic, non racist Palestine under the
government of the self-organized and armed masses! Out imperialists and their
murderous troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, the entire Middle East and the North
of Africa!
For a unitary meeting
that coordinates the effective fighting with our class brothers and sisters in
Syria!
Revolutionary
Combatants of the Libyan Militia
Internationalist Volunteer Workers Committee
Adhering: Fracción Leninista Trotskista Internacional,
integrated by:
Workers
International League, Zimbabwe
Liga Trotskista Internacional,
Bolivia
Partido Obrero
Internacionalista – Cuarta Internacional, Chile
Grupo Socialista
Revolucionario Trotskista Leninista, “Los Comuneros”, Colombia
Comité pela
Refundacao da IV Internacional, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Liga Trotskista
Internacional, Peru
Núcleo Obrero
Revolucionario, Peru
Liga Obrera
Internacionalista – Cuarta Internacional, Argentina
