2) To submit the working class struggle against the coup to the political leadership of Obama, the Clintons, Chávez and the Bolivarian bourgeoisie, the Castroist bureaucracy and the Sandinistas – that is to say, to the gravediggers of the revolution in Central America and the entire American continent – is to reject to smash the coupists and all the counterrevolutionary forces united in Hounduras, the most immediate and urgent task facing the proletariat. The ILTF denounces the yankee imperialist butchers, their international financial capital that organizes massacres and genocides in Iraq, Afghanistan and, through the Zionist state of Israel, of the Palestinian nation; yankee imperialism continues these massacres with the disguise of Obama, as an easygoing leader and a pacifist. The Obama disguise covers the worst anti-worker assassins and repressors and their assassin army with which it controls the five continents. The ILTF affirms that the more the imperialist butchers disguise as Obama, the more they need their military base in Honduras to organize this military coup to establish a new counterrevolutionary gendarme in the Central American region; US imperialism has been shaken by the risings in Guadalupe and the Antilles against French colonialism, by the rise of the starving masses of Haiti, occupied by the Latin-American gurka troops of the UNO, and now (drawing the lessons from these uprisings) they need to, above all, strengthen its counterrevolutionary forces to control and guarantee, with its Colombian gendarme –the genocidal government of Uribe– the process of pacts and counterrevolution and the process of restoration of capitalism prepared in Cuba.
The ILTF affirms that the more the capitalists, disguise as Obama to prevent the uprisings of the masses or to deflect their hatred against their governments and regimes, as it was happening in the United States with the struggle of the working class against the war and against the government of Bush; the bigger is the swindle and the sweet words to constrain the hatred of the exploited, and even to flirt with them, and more and more they must prepare a counterrevolutionary layer of officials, which is the fundamental pillar of the bourgeois state, whether imperialist or semi-colonial, as affirmed by revolutionary Marxism of this imperialist epoch.
The North American imperialism is now, with Obama, more and more showing a face of “good neighbour”, supposedly different from that of Bush, in order to go back to its backyard to recover the business it had lost in disputes with the French, German, Spanish or Japanese imperialisms; but more and more it needs counterrevolutionary coups do deal with any threat of revolution on the American continent.
To subject the working class of the United States, Central America and the Latin American sub-continent, to the front of the Obamas, the Clintons, the Zelayas, the Bolivarian bourgeoisies, is to reject to smash the coup in Honduras and, worst than that, to subject the proletariat of the entire continent, if not the entire world, to their worst executioners.
3) Just to use an analogy, we could say that the United State wants to recover the whole of its backyard, using the policy of “New Deal”, that is to say, of “Good Neighbor”, putting aside the annoying and shameful face of Bush and his policy of “shock and awe”, now looking for new pacts and agreements with the native bourgeoisies and even with the French, Spanish, etc… imperialisms (with whom those bourgeoisies, particularly the Bolivarians, have a close relationship). At the same time, it must appeal to “fascism”, to counterrevolutionary coups, to new military bases in the continent, because this is what the regime of the Republicrats in the United States itself is about, this unitary party with two heads, of republicans and democrats, that controls the North American politics in the United States and at a world level, using one or the other, according to the necessities, to constrain, stop or smash the masses, especially when the Bolivarian or other bonaparts are increasingly showing their inability to do so.
4) Honduras is one of the acid tests that concentrates the offensive policy of North American imperialism under the government of Obama and the regime of the Republicrats: that is one of the democratic front of imperialism disguised as Obama on one hand, which is the best way to disorganize the masses and to demobilize them, while on the other hand imperialism imposes its direct counterrevolutionary policy of wars as in Afghanistan, massacres as Gaza – through its gendarme, the Zionist state of Israel – and with coups-de-etat, as in Honduras.
Obama has already been in Africa. He visited Ghana, generating a wave of swindling the black exploited masses. What did Obama go to Ghana for? To cover the installation of the military command base of North American imperialism with which they will control the entire super-exploited black masses in Africa. This is what Obama-mania is about in the last resort: to cover and sustain the military dominance of the world by imperialism, to wash the face of the imperialist butchers of Wall Street that, as the real parasites, squandered 14 trillion dollars, that must be paid by the exploited of the world, with hunger, misery and astounding sufferings, and when the masses revolt as in Madagascar, to prepare a military onslaught to crush their resistance. Signalling this policy, before Obama left Ghana, the Nigerian army massacred 150 of the thousands of workers who were fighting for a wage increase and against the plundering of the oil of this nation by imperialism.
5) In Latin America we are seeing the results of the French-US provisional agreement forced on French imperialism by US imperialism to regain control of the sub-continent as its “backyard”. A first act of this new offensive was signalled by the Summit of the Americas early this year in Trinidad-Tobago, where Obama, supported by all the “Bolivarian” bourgeoisies laid out very clearly his policy to complete capitalist restoration in Cuba. The Honduras coup is a new act in this offensive where the US using its two handed policy –either through the continuity of Micheletti and his coup makers, or by means of an agreement between Zelaya and these same coup makers– wants to turn Honduras into a beachhead for further counterrevolutionary actions in Latin America, i.e. an intervention in Cuba, or Guadeloupe or any country where the masses rise up against their exploitation and oppression.
6) Honduras is a country tied to US imperialism by three chains because of the CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement). Also, is a country transformed since the ‘70s into a virtual US protectorate, thus Honduras was the site of the barracks and camps where the “contras” –the paramilitary gangs planned financed by US imperialism against the Nicaraguan revolution– were armed and trained. Honduras was the place where the counterrevolutionary agreements of Esquipulas and Contadora –which strangled the Central American revolution in the ‘80s– were guaranteed, while the Honduran armed forces, actually an “occupation army” commanded from the US military base in this country, massacred the masses of poor peasants that were fighting for their land and against the United Fruit. Today, the US military base remains one of the most important ones in the region.
The coup in Honduras shows how the global economic crisis is being downloaded onto the Latin American masses. Like the massacre in Bagua, Peru, last month, the Honduras’ coup is the result of the inevitable violence that goes together with the parasitism of the North American imperialism. The global economic crisis with its epicenter in the US has hit Latin America nations very hard, especially those tied to US imperialism by FTAs. Peru and now Honduras are at the moment the hot spots in this offensive.
Honduras has experienced 3 years of rapid GDP growth at 17% per year, the result of the massive expansion of maquilas (sweatshops) producing for export to US. Of course this short period of growth did not improve the living conditions of the Honduran masses. On the contrary it increased their superexploitation and worsened the already miserable conditions they were suffering.
In 2008-2009 the crisis hit Honduras heavily. 80% of Honduran exports mainly corn, bananas, coffee, sugarcane, gold and silver, go to the US. The crisis in the US and in the world economy radically cut the demand for Honduran exports. At the same time the crisis brought the expulsion of thousands of Central American workers, including Hondurans, from the US. Thus thousands of workers have been deported to Honduras where they add to the numbers of unemployed already about 28% (official figures). The remittances from these deported workers running at around $2.5 billion a year has of course stopped. To this growing pool of unemployed are added those suffering massive layoffs from the imperialist owned maquilas, plantations and mines in Honduras, now closing down because of the crisis.
So, at the same time that the dollar reserves in the Honduran National Treasury fall, a huge trade imbalance has arisen. Honduras exports to the US are now $6 billion annually while imports are $10 billion creating a deficit of $4 billion.
Honduran workers and poor peasants, like in the rest of Central America, are being forced to pay for the crisis with increasing poverty, starvation and mass layoffs. The burden of inflation, around 12% annually, is rising every day. The international price of the staple food corn, as well as sugarcane, remains relatively high because both are used also as raw material for biofuels.
The situation of the exploited masses is desperate. In a country that produces food –corn, sugarcane, coffee, bananas, etc.- most of the population made up of workers, poor peasants and their families, are starving because they cannot afford even a handful of corn to eat.
The switching of production from the food staples of corn and beans in favour of exotic fruit which the transnationals such as Chiquita Brand, Dole, Standard Fruit, etc. can sell at premium prices in the US, has forced Honduras to start importing food from the US at the very high prices dictated by the big food and agro-transnationals.
Moreover, Honduras imports 100% of its oil which adds to its trade deficit. And if that were not enough for the masses to suffer, Honduras was hit in 2008 by Hurricane Mitch, which left 34 dead, many injured, 70,000 workers and poor peasants homeless, and caused $154 million in damage to the economy. This tragedy prevented the sowing of beans and much of the corn. The prices of food and fuel has skyrocketed caused massive starvation. 70% of Hondurans live below the poverty line and 40% are starving. Even Zelaya himself had to acknowledge publicly that 2 million Hondurans eat only once every three days.
7) Since 2007-2008 the Honduran masses have begun to rise against exploitation and oppression. In 2008 Zelaya has faced three general strikes against his government, demanding an end to the rising cost of living, for higher wages, against the FTA, etc. Zelaya responded to these massive mobilizations with repression, killing at least four leaders of the workers and poor peasants. Following the strikes, Zelaya then tried to win over a layer of the civil servants to support him by increasing their very low salaries marginally to the still very low US$230 per month which barely pays for the basic family food basket. But to the rest of the workers, such as the striking workers of the maquilas and the plantations, Zelaya only offered more layoffs and repression.
In 2008, Zelaya, a wealthy landowner and businessman, coming from the center of the pro-US Liberal Party, “moved” to the ranks of the “Bolivarians” and signed-up Honduras to the ALBA (Alternativa Bolivariana para las Americas) the supposed ´Chavista´ alternative to the US imperialist ALCA, (Free Trade Agreement initiative for the Americas).
This turn was the expression of the emergence of a sector of the Honduran national bourgeoisie that began to demand the renegotiation of deals with US and US monopolies to gain a larger slice of the super-profits expropriated from the masses for the pockets of the national bourgeoisie.
As a result of this turn, Zelaya and this pro-Chavez bourgeois sector got a loan from Venezuela in “petro-dollars” to finance the Honduran state deficit and cheap and subsidized Venezuelan oil.
Thus the Zelaya administration took on strong Bonapartist sui generis (with special) features. As a national bourgeoisie in a semicolonial country it is extremely weak in relation to the imperialist master. So the only way it can bargain the imperialism is by backing on the workers and the poor peasants, using the threat of a revolution to blackmail imperialism. Of course and at the same time, the weak national bourgeoisie must control those masses with an iron grip to prevent a revolution and the seizure of not only imperialist property but the property of the national bourgeoisie. It exercises this iron grip through the statization of the unions to contain any uprisings and by openly and violently attacking the most militant vanguard.
8) These are the conditions that brought about the split of the Honduran bourgeoisie. The Zelayaist fraction of the Honduran bourgeoisie attempted to contain the anger and frustration of the masses with “Bolivarian” demagoguery and miserable crumbles from the state treasury. The other fraction of the Honduran bourgeoisie prefers delivering the masses real bullets instead of Bolivarian “carrots”. Zelaya was unable to put an end to this huge crisis, and the Honduran bourgeoisie split, not only to gain a bigger share of the shrinking profits hit by the crisis, but because of the disagreement about how best to deal with a mass upsurge and forestall a revolution.
9) Obama and the Republicrats regime took advantage of this split in the Honduran bourgeoisie to promote the civil-military coup on June 28 that dethroned Zelaya and dumped him in underwear in the main Costa Rican airport.
In front of the crisis and once the “general staff” of US imperialism had been reconstituted with Obama’s taking post as president, and defining the new political strategy, US imperialism could not go on allowing for a country as Honduras –site of a US military base and signatory of one of its FTAs– to continue haggling with the paymaster and flirting with the Bolivarian alternative of Zelaya and his fraction of the national bourgeoisie. So the Republicrats regime, from the US military base and together with the top of the Honduran armed forces, both the Catholic and Evangelist clergy, the parliament and the Supreme Court, organized the coup against Zelaya.
But the crux of the strategy of the US imperialist butchers is maintaining camouflage for Obama. Washington needed to disguise the coup as a “constitutional dismissal”. It was necessary that Zelaya renounced so the parliament could install Micheletti “constitutionally”. But they could not because the top Honduran generals, long used to stage coups absolutely unpunished, overacted; instead of staging an “elegant” pas de deux as it was planned, kicked their way into Zelaya’s home at dawn and left him half naked in Costa Rican air strip.
However, leaving aside this “untidiness”, it is now clear that unless a revolutionary irruption of the masses takes place, imperialism will succeed: either through Micheletti and the leaders of the coup keeping the power up to the elections, or by means of a counterrevolutionary deal between Zelaya and the coup leaders under the blessing of the OAS, Obama and the whole Bolivarian team.
10) The World Social Forum and its “left” wing of Stalinists, populists and fake Trotskyists have come to the fore screaming that it was the US “right” which made the coup, not only against Zelaya but also against “Obama-the-democratic-champion”.
This crude lie is used to decive the workers of the whole Americas and the rest of the world. The White House today has two players to protect its interests and the property of Chiquita Brand, Dole and the US maquilas in Honduras: on the one hand the coupist government of Micheletti, the armed forces, the parliament and the Supreme Court, backed by the US military base; and on the other, a real “democratic front” that starts with Obama, includes the UN, OAS, EU, the “Bolivarian” bourgeoisies, the Castroite bureaucracy, the World Social Forum (WSF) and the fake Trotskyists in the US, Latin America and worldwide who all together call on the masses “to pressure” Obama asking him to be “consistent” by calling home his ambassador in Honduras and applying “all the necessary measures to reinstate the legitimate government” of bourgeois murderer and exploiter Zelaya.
In either case it will be a win-win for the US imperialism: if the coup emerges victorious, the government that stays would be directly managed by imperialism in Honduras; if Zelaya returns with limited powers up to the next elections (to be held in 4 months) he has already guaranteed Obama that no Constituent Assembly is to be convened, the officers that conducted the coup will be amnestied and no one of them will be removed. In short, both ways guarantee US imperialism to keep Honduras submitted to the US military base, as a beachhead for counterrevolution in the continent. For the Pentagon this is essential, especially in a moment when the conditions in Honduras are generalized throughout the rest of Central America. There is a great risk for imperialism that Nicaraguan, Salvadoran and Guatemalan masses begin again an upsurge, overwhelming the control of their governments which are presently preventive popular fronts imposed by the former “commanders” of the Sandinista and the FMLN movements, now turned direct agents of the US imperialists and managers of the FTAs and of the worst attacks against the Salvadoran and Nicaraguan masses.
11) Three weeks since the coup has witnessed the huge mobilizations of the Honduran masses, general strikes, pickets, roadblocks, etc., which have been subordinated by their leaderships to the infamous politics of the democratic front. Each day this goes on, while Zelaya calls for “popular insurrection” from his safe haven in Guatemala, the workers and the poor peasants give their blood and who have their bones shattered in the Honduran jails.
Meanwhile the two bourgeois fractions confronting each other and US imperialism gauge precisely the situation, so as to know when to best seal the deal or how to close the gap open in the Honduran ruling class. All bourgeois factions coincide in the task to prevent by any and all means the combat of the masses from turning into an independent irruption that defeats the coup in the streets giving rise to revolutionary processes.
12) We, revolutionary internationalists, have to say crystal-clearly the truth to the masses: the working class and the exploited cannot be neutral in this confrontation between the two bourgeois camps. We have to say that even though bourgeois democracy and fascism (in this case, a military coup) are both imperialist-national bourgeois policies, they are not exactly the same for the working class and the exploited masses.
Bourgeois democracy leans on the control of the working class organizations, in corrupting them, in bribing and buying their leadership; while fascism –and in this case the military coup– attacks with the intention of smashing physically the working class and the exploited and has ultimately the aim of destroying the worker organizations. Activists and fighters of Honduras denounce that those on the side of the coup kidnap and make disappear the leaders of the popular and workers organizations with black out at night entering the houses of the popular and workers’ houses with squads to kidnap them. We know without a doubt the death squads which come in the black of the night breaking into the workers’ and popular leader’s homes to kidnap them are trained, through the “School of Assassins in Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA.
Therefore, while this gap between the two bourgeois camps continues, we call the working class to defend democracy against fascism, but only in the way that Trotsky and the Fourth International held for Spain in 1936: i.e., the working class must not defend democracy with the methods of bourgeois democracy but only with the methods of proletarian revolution.
Furthermore we call the Honduran workers and peasants to smash in the streets the civic-military coup. Build a revolutionary general strike! Build worker, rural worker and peasant armed committees to confront and defeat the coup in the streets! Armed workers and peasants: March to the garrisons and call upon the rank and file soldiers, children of the workers and peasants in uniform, to disavow their officers who staged the coup, and call them to set up rank and file soldier committees to join with their weapons the committees of the fighting workers and peasants and to workers and peasants militia to smash the coup!
Armed workers and poor peasants: march on and dissolve the parliament and the Supreme Court responsible for the coup! March on the US military base to defeat and drive out the US marines, murderers of the Latin American peoples, murderers of the Iraqi, Afghani and Pakistani people!
It is necessary to direct of all fire at the imperialism which prepared and is funding the coup; it is urgent to hit Wall Street where it hurts the most. Therefore we call for expropriation without compensation and under workers control of Dole, Chiquita Brand, all the transnationals of the maquilas and the mines! Down with the infamous FTA’s that crushes under a heavy imperialist yoke the Honduran nation!
Both Zelaya and Micheletti are plotting together against the masses and will end up embracing each other while the blood of the Honduran workers and peasants is still fresh in the ground, as it was still fresh the Colombian resistance’s blood when Chavez and Uribe embraced each other a year ago!
From the trenches of the combat for smashing the coup in the streets, we have to confront recklessly the perfidious politics of the democratic front. Hands off Honduras Obama and the murderous regime of the Republicrats, the UN, the OAS and the rest of the institutions of the imperialist butchers! No deal with those responsible of the coup! Down with the deal between Zelaya and Micheletti that is being hatched in Costa Rica!
If Zelaya returns as a product of a reconciliation deal with Micheletti and the coup leaders, with the blessings of Obama, Insulza and the OAS, the outcome will result neither more democracy nor any national independence for the Honduran people, or even less, more food, jobs, land or anything favourable for the exploited masses. Contrariwise, what will result is either Zelaya or another puppet in its place supported in the same caste of pro-coup armed forces officers, supported in the same weapons of the US military base to deepen the FTA, tie Honduras to imperialism with new chains, make the Honduran masses pay for the crisis and secure the country again as in the ‘80s as a beachhead and a key garrison for counterrevolution in the continent for the sake of the US imperialist interests.
Smashing the coup, defeating the class collaborationist policy of the democratic front, would open the way for the only real solution for the Honduran workers and peasants to conquer the national independence, land, food, jobs, health and education, so they can live in their own country without having to migrate and be enslaved as outcasts in the US. That solution is the building of a workers and poor peasants’ government based on their self-organization and armament, the only one that can free the nation from imperialism and expropriate the expropriators of the workers and the exploited masses.
13) Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador, Panama and the rest of the Central American nations are invented countries; their frontiers have been delineated in the 20th century by the United Fruit, the transnationals and the rest of the US monopolies to control and exploit the masses in the whole region.
The Salvadoran and Nicaraguan masses have paid with their blood, with starvation, with 25 years of sufferings and submission of the nation because of the betrayals to their revolutions by their leaderships, i.e. the imposition of the counterrevolutionary deals of Esquipulas and Contadora which meant the strangling and the surrender of the Central American revolution in the ‘80s. In those years, Fidel Castro and the Stalinist Cuban bureaucracy sought to put off the Central American revolution telling the proletariat and the popular masses that neither Nicaragua nor Salvador should be “new Cubas”.
Today we revolutionaries say clearly: for a new Cuba in Honduras, for a new Cuba in Nicaragua, for a Cuba in Haiti, in Guadeloupe and Martinique, in the whole of Central America and the Caribbean! Not a Stalinist new Cuba but a new Cuba under a genuine revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat ruled by the Soviets of the workers and the peasants! For a political revolution in Cuba in order that Cuba goes really revolutionary, without Castroite bureaucrats that are getting ready to consummate the capitalist restoration in the isle hand in hand with Obama!
For the Socialist United Sates of Central America and the Caribbean where the working class and the exploited speak Spanish, Creole and French as in Haiti-Dominican Republic, the Antilles, etc., English as in Jamaica, Trinidad-Tobago, Grenada, etc., Dutch as in Aruba and Curacao, but free from the French, British, US, Dutch imperialists and also having their mainland and island nations (Cuba included) cleared of imperialist military bases and murderous armies! Hands off Central America and Caribbean US imperialists! Hands off Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana, etc., French imperialists! Hands off Guyana, Belize, Trinidad Tobago, etc., UK imperialists! Hands off Aruba, Curacao, Surinam Dutch imperialists! For the military defeat of all the occupation troops under the commando of the UNO in Haiti; both, the imperialist troops and those sepoy troops sent by the Bolivarian bourgeois Lula of Brazil, Kirchner of Argentina, Morales of Bolivia and Bachelet of Chile!
In order to open de road to the Socialist United States of Central America and the Caribbean, the first step today is smashing the coup in Honduras. General Strike in Nicaragua, Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the rest of Central America and the entire American continent! For a Day of Struggle of the world proletariat in support to our class brothers and sisters in Honduras!
In response to the military coup in Honduras and while the workers and the exploited masses are being repressed, murdered, jailed, the various reformists, as syndicalists, anarchist and fake Trotskyists grasp at the coattails of the democratic front and raise a criminal and perfidious pacifist policy, which leaves the masses confronting with sticks and stones their enemies - the murderous Honduran army- armed with tanks, airplanes and machineguns provided by the US military base. No one of this reformists demands: Arms for the workers and the exploited in Honduras so they can smash the coup in the streets!
To the contrary, we revolutionaries call for all the worker organizations in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Venezuela, Salvador, Cuba, the entire continent to mobilize and to convene immediately for the recruitment of international worker brigades to go to Honduras and fight for smashing the coup.
In the ’80, Reagan had no problem arming the Contras from Honduras in order to smash the revolution in Nicaragua and Salvador. We claim the same right for the working class! The Nicaraguan and Salvadoran workers that had their parents, brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts massacred by the Contras, have all the right and legitimacy to make an appeal to the whole Latin American working class and build up from Nicaragua and Salvador international worker brigades to go and smash the coup in Honduras!
14) The coup in Honduras poses immediate international tasks before the North American working class, because, as it has happened with Afghanistan and Iraq, each counterrevolutionary triumph of Yankee imperialist bourgeoisie against the exploited peoples of the world, has reinforced its power and has led to further attacks against the gains and the standard of living of the North American working class itself, extremely deepened under the bankruptcy of the world imperialist economy, and the North American economy in the first place.
It is necessary to clearly denounce, before the eyes of the North American workers and its combative vanguard, that the regime of the “Republicrats” and the government of Obama have propelled the coup in Honduras and that they are also responsible for the democratic front to restrain the Honduran workers and exploited masses from smashing the coup in the streets with the revolutionary general strike, the armament of the masses and the workers and soldiers committees. It is a central task for the internationalist Trotskyists to denounce the two policies of the Yankee imperialism – New Deal and fascism [see point 3 above - HRS ed.] – before the North American workers. Internationalists must confront the reformist left of the United States, and particularly the renegades of Trotskyism that subordinated before the democratic front and limit the worker’s movement to a policy pressure on Obama.
The North American working class must stand up once more, supporting its brother workers and poor peasants of Honduras! The North American working class must rise up breaking with the subordination to the government of Obama and the Democratic Party, and fight to smash the pro-imperialist coup in the streets by the Honduran masses! We call on the Million Workers March to unite with the dock workers of Oakland, and other fighting workers organizations against the war to build strikes and demonstrations against the pro-imperialist coup.
Down with the coup in Honduras driven by the regime of the “Republicrats” and the Yankee military base of the SouthCom! Obama hands off Honduras! Down with the pact prepared by Obama, the UN and the OAS, between Zelaya and Micheletti! Go into the streets of the United States supporting the Honduran workers and exploited masses! Call for strikes, boycotts and mobilizations to stop all delivery of arms, supplies or troops for the Yankee military base in Honduras and those directed to the coup regime! Arms for the Honduran masses to smash the coup! The Dockers workers of Oakland and other combative organizations of the working class in the United States can call for setting up international brigades to go into Honduras and smash the pro-Yankee coup! If the Yankees can go forward with the coup in Honduras, they will be closer to imposing, jointly with the Castroist bureaucracy, the capitalist restoration in Cuba: The North American workers cannot allow that!
The struggle for the defeat of the coup in Honduras with the methods of the working class is inseparable from the struggle for the military defeat of the Yankee imperialist troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the victory of the mass resistance in those nations; from the struggle for the defence of millions of immigrant workers –mostly Latin American– under slavery in the United States, who are massively expelled or confined in the dungeons of the “Republicrats” regime. For the military defeat of the Yankee troops in Afghanistan and Iraq! Free the anti-imperialist prisoners of Guantanamo Bay! Immediate and unconditional liberation of Mumia Abu Jamal and the thousands of immigrant workers imprisoned by the regime of the “Republicrats”! Punishment for BAR police, assassin of the young black worker and father Oscar Grant in Oakland!
Down with the chauvinist trade union bureaucracy of the AFL-CIO, servant of its own imperialist bourgeoisie! Down with its reactionary cry of “American jobs for the Americans”! Immediate North American citizenship, full economic, political and social rights and equal wage for equal job for all the immigrants in the US! Down with the NAFTA, CAFTA, and FTA’s that submit the Latin American nations to the Yankee imperialism and enslave the Mexican, Honduran, etc. workers in maquilas! In the plants and maquilas that the multinationals of the United States have in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean: equal wages in dollars and equal working conditions as in the plants of these same multinationals in the US!
Only by breaking with the subordination to the Democratic Party and Obama, defeating the bureaucracy of the AFL-CIO and rising all the demands of their class brothers and sisters of the semi colonies oppressed by the Yankee imperialist bourgeoisie and of the nations occupied by its troops, as well as the demands of the superexploited immigrant workers in the United States, can the North American working class join its ranks to effectively confront the attacks against its gains and wages and open the way for a counteroffensive in order to make the capitalists, the parasites of the superbanks and of Wall Street, pay for the costs of the crisis.