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In Syria, France, Ukraine, USA, Southern Africa, Mexico, Bolivia…

The world workers wage hard battlesA plot of the union bureaucracies together with “the New Left” of Stalinists

and renegades of Marxism prevent exploited from reaching victory

Open the road to socialist revolution!

From the Wall Street crisis to the Chinese crack and the European bankruptcy of Maastricht From the economic war to political clashes among the imperialist powers

The capitalist system in bankruptcy survives due to more parasitism, pillage and wars…

2008-2016

Syria: mass insurrection in Aleppo

Bolivia: industrial workers confront Evo MoralesUSA: “Black lives matter” is the battle-cryagainst Obama’s murderous police

The unending crisis and bankruptcy of the imperialistsystem does not calm. In the past two months therehave been new and important events of the class strug-gle in which the immediate fate of millions of exploitedis decided. Revolutionary Marxism should be at the levelof these real acid tests raising before the proletariat aprogram to conquer victory conditions, regroup its ranksinternationally and expose the opportunist liquidatorsof Marxism which lead to defeat and destroy the best

of the vanguard of the working class. This edition of theInternational Worker Organizer is dedicated to this.

Maastricht has started to tear apart. Great Britain,smothered by Germany and the United States, seeks toagain go it alone at the world... to the Atlantic World,but also to the Pacific one. The partnership of US-UKimperialism and that of the European imperialist powersis in question.

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New rounds of the world crac in China, Brazil and the BRICS... The telltale deflates of the 'new lungs'of the capitalist economy

Before the bankruptcy of the Europe of the Maastricht Treaty, Great Britain seeks to go alone to theworld, while Germany and the U.S. are trying to encircle Russia and China with economic, political andmilitary treaties

The working class engages in hard battles, betrayed here and there by the Union bureaucracies and social-traitor parties

For the working class to live, imperialism must die!

Under the banner of the Fourth International! Open the way to Socialist Revolution!

Bombed Syria

The powers that came out victorious from the globalcrash of 2008, as the US and Germany seek to encircleRussia and China to finish semi-colonizing them. Theworld market has shrunk and imperialist banks only tryto hide their bankruptcy by means of false balances andsecurities without backing in goods.

There is instability in the regime of imperialist dom-ination that prevents this from settling its counter-revo-lutionary offensive that attacked and encircled thebastions of world revolution, as yesterday, Athens, andtoday Syria and rebel Donbass. The global working-class is resisting with heavy fighting and, as in Franceand Bolivia -and more recently in Syria– happen to con-quer heroic mass offensives.

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We present a separate brochure of the IWO on theSyrian question day to day, because there all the con-tradictions of the world situation, the revolution andcounter-revolution are concentrated and it has been putto the test the Marxist program and the centralized ac-tion of the treacherous leaderships of the masses.

The events of early May in Khantoman showed thatthe resistance, the exploited masses of Syria, couldmarch on Damascus and "cut the head of the Snake",i.e. of genocidal Al-Assad. The insurrections of massesin Aleppo in June/July confirmed this notion categori-cally. However, manipulation of generals-without-battlesof the bourgeois leaderships, mounted over the resist-ance, prevented this... for the moment.

You will see in this brochure the definition of thecurrent time of the revolution and the counter-revolu-tion in Syria, as well as multiple reports of the corre-spondents of the Leon Sedov Brigade from the samebattlefield. Readers will also find the work of our corre-spondent in Greece from the heart of the refugees whoare under repression of the Government of New Left’sSyriza.

In this very special issue we addressed developmentsin Turkey. We develop the international conditions thatcaused seizures in that country. Crossed by all the con-tradictions of the revolution and the counter-revolutionin the Middle East, determined by the Maastricht crisisand the place that the world economy gives to it, Turkeyhas become an encircled sub-imperialism, seeking asphere of influence, after an expansive cycle of 10 years,for eluding a new crisis and outburst.

The military coup, which Erdogan allowed to unfold,and the backlash of this are but an evidence that thelarger fractions of the Turkish capitalist oligarchy seekto impose centrality manu militari inwards of Turkey,against its own working class, since they try to leave theclosure and have new opportunities for their business

in Middle East, the Caucasus and Europe.

In our statement on Turkey we are opposed to thefallacy that the Turkish working class would have beenwhich stopped the military coup. The reformist left isunable to distinguish the working class in the processesof civil war and military political clashes. It is a utterlyparliamentary left corresponding to the upper layers ofthe working class.

The Turkish working class was crushed under bomb-ings and brutally repressed in the large actions of thisyear’s May Day. The Kurdish fraction of the workingclass of that country is bombarded daily by Erdogan’stroops, while the Syrian working-class there, amounting3 million refugees, is strangled and working as slaves.

The coup was stopped by Erdogan with his majorityin the armed forces and the bourgeois fractions and themodern rich middle class, on which he sustains tolaunch a real backlash against the Turkish working classbefore this erupts into political mass struggle against theeconomic crisis that has begun.

The program before the Turkish question and thekeys to the time of the world situation in open discus-sion against reformism, is what closes this attachedbooklet of the IWO.

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On this IWO we present as Editorial our letter to theMarxists of the Pacific for their 54th Assembly againstthe war in Japan. Therein we tackle the core issues ofthe world situation, Syria, and clashes between revolu-tion and counter-revolution, separating the waters be-tween reform and revolution. There we discuss the issueof the war in the same class struggle.

Our current, the FLTI, is in the middle of a hardmatch regrouping the internationalist and healthy forcesof the world working class. With the Marxists of Japanwe have conquered a front of international struggle withregard to the issue, in the battles that we have foughttogether against treacherous leaderships and also in theinternationalist struggle for the freedom of political pris-oners in the world.

Our readers may as well see it in this letter, which ispresented as editorial in this material.

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In Latin America there are two key political issues.One of them is with regard to the decline of the Boli-varians in Latin America, attacking the masses on ac-count of the IMF and Wall Street, supported by thereformist left, in moments in which the American work-ing class engages in battle, yesterday fighting for $15

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the hour with marches and strikes across the countryand today with the young black workers rebelling slumsagainst Obama murderous police. The American work-ing class, together with Mexican masses is the vanguardof the fight of the workers in the continent. Further tothe South, the manufacturing workers of Bolivia haverebelled against the Government of Evo Morales, settingthe path to the whole of the exploited of the sub-conti-nent to confront and defeat the Bolivarians in their de-cline, while the Chilean working class and youth returnto combat, thousand times betrayed by Stalinism andsmall groups of Renegades of Trotskyism, which are try-ing to legitimize and sustain the former so that they sub-mit the workers and people of Chile to the infamousPinochetista regime.

We are witnessing extremely harsh struggles of theworking class and great betrayals of its leaderships andthe reformist left which have subordinated to "Socialist"Sanders in the United States; that is, to Clinton whomall their votes will go to. If yesterday we were facing aleft of Obama’s "against fascist Tea Party", today we seea Clinton-Sanders-Bolivarian left "against fascist Trump"that holds the popular front across the continent, as wesaw in its full support to Dilma in Brazil including theinvention of a so-called "coup" against her to submit theworking-class to bourgeois gang when Brazil has al-ready entered into a true economic collapse and themasses are suffering from all the crisis that the capitalistsand imperialism have thrown over them. Submitting theworking class to one of the bourgeois camps, as theLatin American and world lefts do through the PT inBrazil means to kneel the exploited before one of itstorturers, while Temer – Dilma�s former partner- con-tinues the attack on the working class. In Brazil, impe-rialism selects its agents at the beginning of theeconomic crash, and the working class must select theirleaders for combat, but now at half of the road andunder the thick fire of the enemy.

The Renegades of Trotskyism, become into a newneo-Stalinist fraction of the WSF, from friends of the Cas-troes and U.S. Democratic Party to Sanders� partners (asISO, the American SWP) to the Bolivian POR, to the LIT,to the FIT in Argentina, are accompanying the Bolivar-ians, now in decline -as they did yesterday in the latter’sglory.

The new left -as yesterday the world Social Forum-only seeks disorganizing the left wing of the workingclass in the Americas.

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We live in a world marked by capitalist bankruptcy,where a crisis of the regime of imperialist dominationhas burst that permanently open gaps in the heights andat every step the masses are placed in position ofcounter-offensive.

In Europe, under the bankruptcy of Maastricht, thestruggle of French exploited was one of the highlightswith the working class and youth bidding to launch anew "French May". The road shown by the revolution-ary struggle of French workers and young peoplemarked a 180 ° angle with the policy of the reformistleft that has underlined its total bankruptcy with a newwave of social-chauvinism. Before the English Brexit,this left told the proletariat its ally was not in the new"French May", in raising the struggle of 35-hour workingweek for all European workers as demand unifying thewhole of working-class from Portugal to the Russiansteppes... they told the working class that the alternativewas to support their own British bourgeoisie either vot-ing "stay in the EU" or "being independent" under thesingle command in London.

This is social-chauvinism, the worst form of re-formism. This transforms the enemies - the local bour-geois imperialist gang – into “workers’ allies” and the

class brothers and sisters from therest of Europe in their enemies. It isthe greatest cynicism of treacherousdirections which, as they showed inthe two world wars of the 20th cen-tury, subjected the working class ofthe imperialist powers to their ownbourgeois gang and led to physicalclashes among them while theirheads were scrambling for the areasof influence of the colonial and semi-colonial world.

The English SWP is a real centerof organization of the forces of theworld reformist left. It has trans-formed the flag of "UK independ-ence" on a matter of principle of itsprogram. We are facing a real focusMexico: Fight for the 43 high school students to appear alive


of enemies of socialism and lackeys of the Cityof London and the Queen of England.

The London bourgeois gangs treat the Britishworking class equal or worse than Hollandetreats the French working class. "Zero hour"contract has been imposed in England. InFrance the capitalist gang is trying to snatch the35 hours a week from workers. In the SpanishState and the rest of southern Europe, hugeswathes of workers are unemployed and sufferchronic unemployment.

In England, the "zero hour contracts" meanthat the worker is 24/7 at the disposal of thecompany... and is paid only the hours worked.These scoundrels, betrayers of socialism havecalled for its own working class to vote in favorof the Brexit... the rupture of England withMaastricht. They have submitted it to its impe-rialist bourgeoisie’s business, rather than call it to joinFrench, German, Spanish, Greek, Ukrainian, workers forfinishing with imperialist Maastricht’s Europe and thebanditry of the City of London’s looters of the oppressedpeoples of the world.

Other "Socialists" in Great Britain called to vote tostay in Maastricht. So did the representatives in thatcountry of the French NPA. These undoubtedly defendthe interests of transnational corporations and bankersin Paris. None of the social-imperialist currents hascalled to break ties with their bourgeois gang and go toa common fight alongside their class brothers and sistersin Europe.

In UK’s Brexit of England the rottenness of this newsocial-imperialist left was displayed; it picked up thepolicy and practice of Stalinism, after sustaining foryears the World Social Forum in bankruptcy, whichpromised "socialism of the 21st century" with Chavez,Castro, Morales and the Chinese mandarins... who todayhanded out broken Nations, with hungry and slaveworkers... and the conquests of socialism, to US impe-rialism, as in Cuba.

We publish in this very IWO statements on the fight-ing waged by the French working-class to open the roadto a new "French May" to stop the offensive of theFrance Government, great businessmen and bankers,and face vicious betrayals by the bureaucracy of tradeunions and the social-traitor parties.

Here we present also the persistence in the struggleof the working class in Ukraine. If in Paris the flags ofthe Paris Commune returned to wave (although todaythey want to hide that), the Donbass miners continueto resist to a counter-revolutionary offensive and siegeby NATO, Kiev-Fascist forces, plus the Russian-Stalinistfifth column that tries to surrender them from the in-side.

However, "besieged" Donbass today receives forces

from the uprising of workers and miners in the rest ofUkraine, who take to the streets and openly confrontthe Government of Poroshenko, IMF and NATO's plans.

The international conditions of new knockouts of theimperialist crac create objectively pre-revolutionary con-ditions internationally. The treacherous leaderships themasses have at their head are which prevent again amass offensive internationally widespread.

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Our readers will find in this newspaper we unveiledthe infamous politics of the reformist left to betray therevolutionary struggle of the masses, a true "modusoperandi" of reformist leaderships of the masses whohave put on their shoulders the support of imperialistsystem in bankruptcy. As we said, in France the massesstormed in pre-revolutionary maneuvers and were onthe verge of overthrowing the imperialist Governmentof Hollande to defeat the anti-worker law; in Bolivia themanufacturing workers headed the fight against theGovernment of Evo Morales; in these fights we can seetrade union bureaucracies and reformism operating cen-tralized while they are mounted at the crucial momenton the struggle of the masses and the most acuteprocesses of their mobilizations - as in France, or in the"indefinite strikes" as in Bolivia- for re legitimizing be-fore their eyes and thus subjecting them to Govern-ments and the trappings of bourgeois infamous regimes.

In the case of Syria, amid the civil war, the rebelmasses of Aleppo and Idlib were which in Khantomandefeated the forces of Al-Assad; they were which tookthe center of Aleppo and had in their hands the possi-bility to expropriate the big banks of the bankers of Al-Assad and imperialism... a real insurrection, to whichthe generals of the ESL and Al Nusra imposed the with-drawal. This led to the imposition of the siege of Al-

France: struggle day on May 18th


Assad to Aleppo. The masses returned to erupt againstthis siege, and before these could empty arsenals of thebourgeois generals and ended up defeating the forcesof Al-Assad, Turkey and Qatar, under the orders of im-perialism, the false bourgeois leaderships pooled theirforces to "launch a counter-offensive", and break thesiege with a corridor of 21km in Aleppo.

This modus operandi of imperialism and the treach-erous leaderships of the masses - as evidenced byFrance, Bolivia, the civil war in Syria- is just looking forre-legitimizing those same treacherous leaderships whenthey are surpassed by the masses, so that they comeagain to control and disrupt the latter’s offensive. Amodus operandi that works when the masses break thefences with which the bastions of revolution are be-sieged... fences like that you see in Ukraine, or aroundthe masses of Syria, Libya, Palestine, Athens.

This is the great obstacle that the working class hasin its way to open the path to victory: the overabun-dance of treacherous leaderships.

It is in moments of greatest offensive of masses whenthey break the control of treacherous leaderships. Butto seize that moment, which is what the manufacturingworkers of Bolivia tenaciously sought, what Paris youngand workers vanguard and the rebel young workers ofSyria conquered, it is necessary to set up, in the previ-ous processes, bodies of direct democracy and self-de-termination and coordination of the masses in struggle.Without this, the bourgeois opposition and the bureau-cracy can return to take the control of the masses, bothwith demagoguery and manu militari.

For this end we Trotskyists promote tirelessly a fightfor setting up bodies of direct democracy of the massesin struggle, where they enforce their weight, where allcurrents and organizations that say to speak on their be-half have to submit. Struggles for workers councils, for

militias with direct democracy is what guarantees, alongwith a fierce revolutionary leadership conquered incombat, that nobody will expropriate the struggle of theexploited.

All the brochures of this IWO are dedicated to thisfight, to draw lessons and raise a sharp program to de-feat reformism and help the masses conquer victoryconditions.

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As we can see, the imperialist world system is usedto utilize as squeezed lemons, the leaderships of themasses that it buys and corrupts. After destroying, betrayand expropriating huge struggles of the first years of the21st century, the old WSF leaderships are falling in theswamp of history.

The "New Left", composed of the old Stalinist lead-erships and the Renegades of Trotskyism, comes to takeits turn to prevent Socialist Revolution. Trotskyists de-clare all-out war both to the old and to the "new” re-formist left!

A cynical revisionism has raised its head in the oldankylosed parties of the Renegades of Trotskyism, who"now" have "discovered" that "Trotsky and Gramsci werethe greatest revolutionaries in the 1930s". This revisionof equating Trotsky and Gramsci is a cynicism similarto Leninism counterfeiting Stalin carried out to showhimself as Lenin’s successor.

This is a cruel and infamous review. Trotsky and theleft opposition leaders were the leaders --until 1924 /1925 - of the Third International. From the start Gramsciand the entire Italian Stalinism joined the gang of Stalinagainst Trotskyism and the Bolshevik Leninists. In a let-ter sent to Moscow, Gramsci said: "all our comments are

directed against the oppositions(he refers to Trotsky and Zi-noviev)."

Moreover, in his texts fromprison after 1932, Gramsci reads asfollows: "given the general ap-proach of all the problems associ-ated with his trend (Trotsky�s), ithad to lead necessarily to a form ofBonapartism. Here the inexorableneed to crush his trend."

Pretending to search - cynicallyas a leadership of charlatans andcon artists of Trotskyism as the PTSof Argentina dofor a “conver-gence" between Trotsky and Gram-sci is like wanting to seekconvergence between a victim andhis executioner: a pickaxe.

General Strike in Bolivia: the bureaucracy of COB places itself at thefront of the struggle to make a pact with Morales government


The documents that we present in all thesebrochures of IWO are part of the next Congress of theCollective for the Re-Foundation of the IV Interna-tional-FLTI. The combat and the fundamental obliga-tion that this Congress has before it is the fight againstrevisionism and forgery to Trotskyism which the re-formist left has relentlessly peaked.

The destroyers of the IV International have central-ized and unified under a brutal campaign of falsifica-tion and amalgam around the "unity of Gramsci andTrotsky". In 2007 the leader and "theoretician" of theEnglish SWP, Chris Harman wrote an article entitled"Gramsci, Prison notebooks and Philosophy" under thethesis that "Trotsky and Gramsci are complementaryrevolutionaries and theoreticians"... This campaign hasbeen taken by all the Renegades of Trotskyism, fromthe LIT with its Corriente Roja (Red Current) in Spain -which is looking for a "lost notebook" that would beone of Gramsci's prison notebooks, in which suppos-edly he would have admitted Trotsky was right- to thePTS of Argentina that has theorized about the "hugecontributions of Gramsci in the fight against the bour-geois democracies imperialism expands in the West"...All of this is amalgams, inconsistencies, fabrications tolure hundreds and thousands of young people who arelooking for a way to the proletarian revolution to entera supposedly Trotskyist party, but actually making thementer a Stalinist one.

Neo-Stalinist revisionists, hands off Trotskyism!Gramsci was a militant soldier of the Stalinist fraction,the bureaucracy choking the conquests of the Octoberrevolution and the Third International. He consciouslyproclaimed himself anti-Trotskyist. He fought for theStalinist theory of socialism in one country. And it com-pleted the Stalinist program to support the "democraticstage" in support of the bourgeoisie with which Stalin-ism and its popular fronts strangled hundreds of prole-tarian revolutions in the world.

The Renegades of Trotskyism, with their open pas-sage to a neo-Stalinism and its national-socialist programfor sinking the proletarian revolution, are looking forthe "progressive Stalinist" with whom hundreds of thou-sands of revolutionary workers and young people arefooled.

Already we could see in the aftermath of World WarII those who spoke on behalf of the IV Internationalsubordinating to Tito and Mao, who were sexed up tobe the new "revolutionary"; later in the 1960s and ' 70sYalta "Trotskyists" supported," Castro and Ho Chi Minh...as "new Jacobins of the Socialist Revolution. Today, theliquidators of Trotskyism are still looking for their 'good'

Stalinist... but all of them have already handed out theworker States to imperialism. Therefore the Renegadesof Trotskyism have dusted a dead Stalinist, Gramsci, andwant to “merge” him with Trotsky.

Trotsky faced Stalinism by grouping and organizingall the revolutionary resistance forces in the world, tocombat the degeneration of the Soviet Union and trea-son to the III International. Trotskyism, in the ' 30, trav-elled all across the world organizing revolutionary forcesleft in the III International and then working on the cen-trist forces of the Socialist movement worldwide thatwere turning to the left to found a new revolutionaryInternational, i.e., the Fourth International, before theopen passage of Stalinism to the camp of world bour-geoisie after the defeat of the German revolution in1933.

Trotskyists founded the IV International and pro-vided it with the theory - program of permanent revo-lution, i.e., of the international character of proletarianrevolution. And the program of the political revolution,whose central point was: Down with the clique of Cain-Stalin! Out of the soviets with the bureaucracy and theworker aristocracy! Civil war to crush the scourge of bu-reaucracy, regain the Worker State as a bastion of WorldSocialist Revolution!

With this program the Trotskyists intervened anddrew lessons from the events in Italy and in the troubledEurope of the interwar years. The Transitional Programwas held by thousands of revolutionaries in the world,where Trotskyism sought to regroup them, from NaziGermany - where he organized revolutionary cells – upto Stalin’s Soviet Union, where the Russian section ofthe IV fought in concentration camps and in the resist-ance against Stalinism.

Lenin and Trotsky

Under the banners of the Fourth International!


The IV International organized their forces in China-occupied by Japan and English imperialism. He organ-ized Trotskyist groups, under conditions of harsh Bona-partist regimes, in Latin America in the 1930s, andfounded in the U.S. its strongest party in the workersvanguard, the American SWP.

Having started the Second World War, he organizedthe resistance in France occupied by Hitler. Trotsky dis-cussed with and struggled to organize Italian interna-tionalists, followers of Bordiga and the PrometheusGroup. He knew perfectly who Gramsci was. Never hadTrotsky left him abandoned to the falsification and thesiege of Stalinism in jail, if he had had even 1% of ex-pectations about the possibility to converge with him.Enough of forgeries and lies! Enough of passing Stalin-ism fractions as revolutionary and allies of the Marxistprogram!

If you have defined for Gramsci and Stalinism, thengo with them!

The battle against revisionism, which threatens notto leave stone on stone of Marxism, becomes crucial.To do this we are preparing a brochure which will bereleased in the coming days. Our battle cry is: "Stalinists,get out of the Fourth international! Out with the revi-sionists and their falsifications of Marxism"!

The III Congress of the collective by the Re-Founda-tion of the IV International/FLTI is all about this; in italso various organizations and currents will feature thatpromote with us a front of international struggle to facetreacherous leaderships and break the fences aroundrevolutionary processes that are underway. A debate in-side the internationalist currents of the world workingclass - even with those that have with us enormous the-oretical and programmatic - differences becomes deci-sive. An international grouping of the cream of thecream of the vanguard workers and the youth aroundthe world becomes essential. For us, who are confidentin the program of the fourth international and its histor-ical validity, it becomes necessary to face this perfidiouspolicy of national-socialism of treacherous new and oldleft currents that submit the proletarians to their ownbourgeoisies.

A new Kienthal- Zimmerwald of the internationalistforces of the world working class becomes again nec-essary. Breaking the siege of imperialist attacks on thebastions of revolution and confronting those who betraythe latter would be the starting points for this interna-tional grouping.

The implementation of the "International Networkfor the Freedom of World Political Prisoners and Justicefor our Martyrs", the joint defense of the Leon SedovBrigade of Syria by fractions of internationalist anarchistcurrents that openly confront Stalinism, and the JRCL ofJapan, as well as Trotskyist groups from Italy, Greece,Turkey, Spain , etc. , open the historic opportunity to

step forward to help break the chains of the treacherousleaderships tying the hands of the workers and prevent-ing them from advancing in their fighting.

The workers vanguard and future generations de-serve a healthy and open debate of the internationalistworking class forces. That would be a serious blowagainst revisionism in Marxism, a trend which is settledin the worst decomposition with which capitalism cor-rupts autocracies and worker bureaucracies.

Combatting the latter is a decisive condition that weTrotskyists raise to advance to a fight-front and a debateamong all currents that promote it.

Towards the III Congress of the Collective for the Re-foundation of the IV International / FLTI we will makepublic all debates and discussions in our own ranks, be-cause without this there is not and will never be life ina revolutionary movement. Let Stalinist and Social-De-mocrats parties suffocate the critical thinking of theirmilitants and their revolutionary personalities. The rev-olutionary program must pass the test of life and of crit-icism. If it does not pass the first it won't ever thesecond. That's the history of Bolshevism about, a historythat is nothing but - as Trotsky said- the struggle of itstendencies and fractions.

We affirm - and that strengthens and unifies ourforces – both theory and program of the Fourth Inter-national have passed the test of history. It is necessaryto group forces and the men who lead them to victory.

The working class has given one and a thousand op-portunities to the revolutionary movement. As the man-ifesto “The Fourth International and the War” held in1940, it is not about preparing for only one revolution,but for a whole period of wars, crises and revolutions.This historical period will give revolutionary Marxismone and a thousand opportunities, as already it has beengiven and has wasted. It is necessary that this does nothappen again. It is necessary to group 10 smart men,said Lenin, and not 10 thousand morons, though heapologized for calling the latter as such.

The working class doesn’t have the leadership it de-serves. It is necessary to conquer that leadership. Openthe way to the fourth International! Open the way toSocialist revolution!

EDITORIAL BOARD


Comrades,From the International Trotskyist

Leninist fraction (FLTI) and from theLeon Sedov Brigade, we Trotskyists ofthe Fourth International in Syria greetthis 54 Anti-war Assembly. Today onceagain we are, as we have always been,with you fighting together against im-perialism, its regimes and Governmentsthat starve, massacre and torture theworld working class. We fight all over

the world against Stalinism, the Rene-gades of Trotskyism and all the Unionbureaucracies on whose shoulders therotten capitalist system in bankruptcy issupported.

As in 2008 (with the crash of WallStreet), today the world crisis tsunamibeats China and is deepening the bank-ruptcy of the Europe of the MaastrichtTreaty. The capitalist system shows the

State of decomposition that it is in, andhow it survives by throwing all its crisesto the masses.

The world working class hasstarted fighting in great numbers. InUkraine again Kiev working-class hastaken the streets to face the looting ofthe IMF, and puts back to the order ofthe day the unity with the workingclass of the Donbass, the fight to re-

From the trenches of the Syrian revolution to the Executive Committee of the 54 Anti-war Assembly in Japan

In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, U.S. dropped two atomic bombs. The first murdered 166,000 and the second 80,000 people. In five and a half years of Obama,Putin and Bashar the-dog massacre, they have murdered, in a real genocide, 600,000 oppressed and exploited in Syria... the equivalent of 4 nuclear bombsthrown by the U.S. in Japan.

LET'S STOP THE MASSACRE! Solidarity in the facts: money, medicines and volunteers to break the

siege to the revolutionary masses

The Syrian revolution of workers and peasants must succeed!

So much blood and heroism of the workers andthe people will not be in vain!

There will be neither forgetting nor forgiveness for all those who, in the name of

socialism, have betrayed and isolatedthe Syrian revolution!

Honor the internationalist Socialists whodied in battle with the heroic resistance

of the Syrian masses!

August 2 2016

Victims of the bombings in Aleppo

Statement of the Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International - FLTIto the 54th Antiwar Assembly of the revolutionary Marxists of the Pacific

The international conditions of the Syrian revolution and the international obligations of the revolutionary Marxists


cover Crimea and the struggle for aunited, independent, and SovietUkraine to be the bastion to recoverthe USSR from the Stalinist scourgethat sold it out long ago.In France, a new French May is in

progress. Despite enormous betrayals,the world working class has not givenup. It engages in battle. In Greece, tens of thousands of

refugees struggle to enter Europe andthere received the solidarity of thou-sands of young rebels who are fightingfor their rights and by pulling them fromconcentration camps that the sinistersmoke-vendor left of Syriza has heldthem to.

Black Lives Matter movement, work-ers and youth take the streets in theU.S., while they fight for USD 15 anhour minimum wage.

The fight against the TransPacificTreaty of United States and Japan to en-slave all the oppressed peoples of thatregion, driven by the Japanese workers,is the same fight the international work-ing class is waging against the imperi-alist beast.

In Africa and Latin America peopleis confronting the native bourgeoisie,partners to imperialism in the sackingof oppressed peoples. In Latin Americathe lie and the infamy has alreadydropped and collapses of the Bolivarianbourgeoisie, which like the Castroes,Lulas, Kirchners, Morales, etc., were

announcing the development of ”21stcentury socialism" though the onlything they have left in their withdrawalis more hunger, looting and repressionon the working class in the continent.So they show - and have proven - to be“left” lackeys to the imperialist powers.

Comrades, From the FLTI, we want to send you

on this occasion a message of solidar-ity and support to your struggle fromthe trenches of the workers and peas-ants who in Aleppo and all Syria faceone of the worst genocides and mas-sacres by the forces of the world coun-terrevolution.

At the moment, when this letterreaches you a revolt of the masses isbeing developed in Aleppo, the capitalof Syria’s resistance, to break the siegeof the mercenary troops of Bashar.

From 11 July, and earlier in Khan-toman in early May, now fighting to re-gain the fenced Aleppo, therevolutionary masses have irrupted inreal insurrectionary processes as in2011 / 2012. This boiling of the massesis threating -and creating the condi-tions- to deliver more defeats to mur-derous Bashar, the policeman of theproperty of capitalists, banks and oilcompanies in Syria.

Our struggle overflows to every step

and breaks the control of the FSA gen-erals and the entire Sunni bourgeoisie,which are sent to the liberated areas" tolock up our revolution and prevent usfrom reaching Damascus. In Syria, andin Aleppo in particular, a new intifadahas started after years of massacreagainst the masses.

Bashar the dog and gunman Putinare doing the dirty work of crushing theSyrian revolution on account of all theimperialist powers.

They use their counter-revolutionaryagents. They have focused on Syria, de-veloping a real genocide. In this countrythey try to give a lesson to the worldworking class and all the peoples of theworld who "dare" stand up against theplans of hunger and looting of the im-perialist gang against oppressed peo-ples. They try to prevent the fights ofyesterday in Tahrir square in Egypt,those of the Palestinian intifada and theSyria today from arriving or unifying ina same fight along with European work-ers. But this already cannot be hid. Hun-dreds of thousands of Syrian refugees,struggling to enter the Europe of Maas-tricht, are spokespersons to the mas-sacre and genocide suffered by theoppressed masses to South Mediter-ranean.

We have now almost 5 and a halfyears of a hard revolution, and no lesscruel counter-revolutionary blows

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against the Syrian masses, as before itwas the military coup and dictatorshipin Egypt, the Saudi invasion of Yemen,the restoration of the rule of Ben Aliregime in Tunisia, and military coups -and imperialist attacks -against the rev-olutionary masses of Libya.

This counter-revolutionary offensiveseeks to crush the masses in Maghreband the Middle East, so then imperialistshave their hands free to attack their ownworking class. Thus we saw them inFrance tearing the conquest of the 36working hour week. We also saw them inGreece, in the Spanish State, in Portugal...

Imperialists now cannot survive inthe middle of the slump and the crisisof the world capitalist system withoutsnatching fundamental conquests fromthe world working class (starting fromthe workers of the own imperialist pow-ers), and arming themselves and lead-ing to new wars of aggression.

Comrades, The WSF and the so-called "New

Left" around the world have announcedthat the so-called enemy in Syria isISIS, while it is nothing more than thekeeper of the hydrocarbons of US im-perialism in the areas in which Al-Assad�s troops have been defeated. Butal-Assad, Putin, ISIS and the same Kur-dish bourgeoisie with its YPG and Stal-inism are which hedge today Aleppo’srebel masses. ISIS is the "perfectenemy" who all want to have in order tojustify their killing and slaughtering theSyrian masses. It is a perfect excuse forshielding the imperialist powers againsttheir own working class.

The FLTI is sending you this letterfrom bloodied Aleppo. We write to youand greet this 54 Anti-war Assemblynext to the Syrian exploited.Here we still watch our martyrs.

Our children and our families live inwar. They are the real heroes of theSyrian revolution. Together with you,we want to pay a tribute to all thefallen of this blood-stained Syria ofworkers and peasants, and to our fel-low Mustafa Abu Juma'a and Hamzaal Twil, recently killed in the most ad-vanced trenches in the combat againstdog Bashar.

As you can see, today already in thestreets of Aleppo, the masses havebegun to raise red flags. They arepainted in the blood of their martyrs, asthe working class thus did since the19th century, by lifting them up as abanner of the blood that the workingclass spilt in the struggle for their liber-ation.

What we are sure is that those redflags that have been painted by theblood of the martyrs of the workingclass and the world revolution alreadycannot ever be carried on their shoul-ders by the traitors to the socialist rev-olution that have soiled them... Theyhave betrayed and handed over to thebourgeoisie any attempt of the massesto pave way for the revolutionary strug-gle against imperialism and its Govern-ments. All of us revolutionary Marxistsare honored to carry them to victory onour backs and our fists.

We still remember that we were withyou in the Anti WarAssembly 4 yearsago. There we gave the same cry thatwe are giving today for breaking thefence to the heroic Syrian revolutionand putting all the forces of the worldworking class to the task of stoppingthe war machine of counter-revolution-ary Putin, Obama and Bashar the dogwhich has massacred all the revolution-ary processes in Maghreb and the Mid-dle East to iron and fire.

UNDER THE BOMBS OF THECOUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY FORCES,316 WORKERS AND POOR PEASANTSDIE IN SYRIA DAILY. COMRADES, IN 5 YEARS AND A

HALF... MORE THAN 600,000 EX-PLOITED HAVE BEEN MASSACRED...IT IS HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKIFOUR TIMES. THE EXPLOITED INSYRIA HAVE RECEIVED THE EQUIVA-LENT TO MORE THAN 4 NUCLEARBOMBS, SUCH AS THOSE THAT WEREDROPPED ON JAPAN IN THE SECONDWORLD WAR.

Comrades, let’s denounce it to-gether! The working class and thepoor people of Syria are being sub-jected to a counter-revolutionary fas-

cist attack by imperialism and its min-ions, amounting to genocide and areal Holocaust against the exploited.

This must not go on being silenced,and much less, hidden before the worldworking class, as does the left ofObama, real traitors to the world work-ing class.

Comrades, the cream of the creamof world revolution is attacked, as-saulted and massacred...

We are Syrian rebel youth! Battle-hardened militant anti-imperialist fight-ers, as those who fight alongside theblack working class in the UnitedStates, or those who shout in thestreets of Paris "we hate the police, webreak everything".We are like the Greek rebel youth,

sentenced to life imprisonment in thedungeons of the regime of the Troika bySyriza smoke-vendor left!We are part of and are fighting as

the rebellious youth of the Zen-gakuren, who lead the fight against USbases in Okinawa in Japan!We are Syrian rebel youth, part of

the resistance, which has not givenup, which does not support bourgeoisGenerals without battles, sellouts of ourrevolution!

We are Syrian militiamen, theguardians of our revolution! We are who fight for the Syrian re-

sistance to become revolutionarycounter-offensive of masses in ourcountry and throughout the MiddleEast!

We know that attacking the interestsof the capitalists, the war Lords,bankers and big business men we'llmark the way to the exploited and theresistance to conquer victory. There areriches that the looters of the work andthe riches of our country have robbedour people iron and fire causing600,000 killed and 10 million refugees.

We know that our revolution hashuge obstacles mounted by imperialismin its way. But, as we say here in Syria,people kill the snake by cutting off itshead. This is in Damascus... it is Al-


Assad and is surrounded by all thecounter-revolutionary forces in theplanet.

We know that to get there it is im-perative to break the siege to Aleppoand expropriate Assadist bourgeoisie,partners to US imperialism and the Cityof London bankers! There are the fundsto conquer bread and weapons, tomarch to Damascus, rebelling the ex-ploited for bread, decent work, land,housing and freedom.

It is necessary to disarm ISIS, theguardians of the imperialist oil compa-nies on the Levant! It is necessary tostand up Raqqa and Deir-ez-Zor againin combat against Bashar the dog!

It is necessary to call the Kurdishpeople to turn their guns against YPGgenerals, who lay the former at the feetof US generals and their military basesin Syria’s Kurdish area!

The revolutionaries know what theconditions for victory are. They are toboldly develop the expropriation of thecapitalists to strengthen the Allianceof workers and peasants, and revoltall the exploited of the Maghreb andMiddle East.

Open the way to workers and peas-ants’ Syria! A single intifada fromTunisia to Damascus to Aleppo toJerusalem!

You, comrades of Japan, should

know that they are not only attackingour positions in martyred Syria with Al-Assad’s barrel bombs and Putin thebutcher’s aircraft and its cluster bombs,but also that when we move forwardand break the ranks of Bashar's merce-nary troops, US drones attack us,which are ultimately the support ofObama and NATO, who have sent Al-Assad to do the dirty work on accountof all the imperialist powers.

We are facing enormous counter-revolutionary forces. And when we fightagainst them and against US drones weknow that when you face US bases inOkinawa, you are fighting against thesame murderous Japanese and Ameri-can generals who, from the Mediter-ranean fleet, command these dronesmassacring our women and children.

When we see you encircling USbases in Okinawa and the Americanmasses fighting against the murdersof black youth, against the war and fortheir wages, we celebrate in the Syr-ian trenches, because we know thatthere the decisive forces are that mustbe set in motion to break through thefence to the Syrian revolution and endwith martyrdom and massacre of themasses of Maghreb and the MiddleEast.

Comrades,Four years ago our representatives

attended your anti-war Assembly; wegave you our fighting banner that was

looking for solidarity and a common in-ternational struggle to break throughthe encirclement to the Syrian masses.Along these years we have fought to-gether the imperialist powers and all theexecutioners of the masses of theworld. We have been part of an interna-tional fighting front against the imperi-alist domination of the planet.

However, comrades, we want youconsider a reflection and are insistingon a proposal that we advanced 4years ago; because we are still intime.Imperialism has concentrated its

forces and its agents with counter-rev-olutionary agreements on the planet,as the Geneva Conference, to encircleand slaughter the Syrian masses. It'stime for the working-class to centralizetheir forces to hit as a single fist the im-perialist bandits and their agents wherethe fate of all workers of the world isbetted on in revolutionary processes.

We are overdue. It is imperative toalready convening an InternationalConference to break the siege to theSyrian masses! Pacific and Atlanticworld won’t be the same with a mar-tyred, crushed Syria and its defeatedrevolution, as it was not after the victoryof Franco in Spain in the ' 30, whichopened, together with the triumph ofHitler, the road to war. Stop the imperi-alist beast, or it will fill the planet againwith even more blood!

The time has come of setting up anInternational Conference against theConference of Geneva of Obama, Putin,Assad, Iranian Ayatollahs, and all thosewhich - as the ESL - assuming the titleof representative of the Syrian revolu-tion have sold it out to imperialism frominside! Let's put up an Internationalcounter-Conference next to the Syrianmasses and against this den of thieves,to put an end to the Zionist occupationof Palestine, and stop the imperialistwar machine!

Let's put up an Internationalcounter-Conference, because solidar-ity, funds, drugs and volunteers arerequired to break through the encir-clement to the Syrian revolution andstop the genocide against the people!Demonstration against the nuclear power plants in Japan


Comrades,Capitalist system’s bankruptcy brings

and will bring about new counter-revolu-tionary wars. Super weapons of theUnited States, Japan, France, Englandalready is being shot recklessly in greatnumbers. China and Russia, which alsomake ostentation of their militarypower, shell their bombs and are arm-ing armies that do not clash amongthemselves or with imperialism. Every-one, from a long while, do unload theirweapons against the revolution and theoppressed peoples of the world that riseup. Syria, Libya, Egypt, Iraq,Afghanistan are proof of what we sayhere.

No doubt if they crush the interna-tional working class, the vultures willpeck each other for a new redivision inthe world.

Meanwhile, among the imperialistgangs it has opened a huge political andtrade war in a world market that isshrinking. There are too many imperial-ist powers. The Southern Europeanpowers are already vassals, such asItaly, Greece, Portugal and Spain. Oth-ers do not find their influence zone.There is Turkey, which US does notallow it to take one square meter of ter-ritory in Syria or anywhere in the MiddleEast, since the imperialist powers havedrawn their influence zone in the firstand second world wars ... and there isno place for a new Ottoman empire.

The victorious imperialist powers ofthe 2008 trade war, as USA or France,Germany and England in Europe havebeen beginning to compete for a worldmarket that does not stop dangerouslyshrink again. They look greedily toChina and Russia, which inherited pow-erful military apparatus of the formerworkers’ states, as they laid theirsources of raw materials and millions ofslave workers to produce for the worldcapitalist system. Thither, to Russia,China, Vietnam, Cuba aim to leave theircatastrophe imperialist gangs. They arelooking to start a semi-colonizationprocess and looting of these new cap-italist states, to keep their banks, theirstate companies and their domesticmarkets.

This is what the current situation ofthe world capitalist system bankruptcyposes. An imperialist power will do wellif the other does not. There is no placefor all, except for new semi-colonies orwars, which will come if the proletarianrevolution does not prevent it.

That's the plan of war and political,economic and military offensive of theimperialist superpowers and financialcapital.

They dispute the world amongthemselves. They make blocks to theAtlantic (as USA with Germany to cor-ner Russia) or towards the Pacific. Inthe latter US is associated with Japan tosiege China. But tensions between themget sharpen.

England did not agree to be subjectedto Europe of Maastricht, as England alsoconsiders itself a Pacific power, with itsfinancial and military bases in Singaporeand Hong Kong. Huge commercial andpolitical clashes have already started,deepening the bankruptcy of the worldcapitalist system.

There is a speed race to see whatimperialist gang manages to give hard-est blows to its own working class tokeep the hands free for new adventuresto oppressed and plunder the world.

ComradesWith the capital crisis, the imperial-

ist gangs will not stop recruiting newagents in the labor movement that de-fend them against the proletarian revo-lution. The emergence of a "New Left"as Podemos, Syriza, with the Stalinistand renegades of Trotskyism lifejacket,has recreated a huge social-chauvinistpoisonous propaganda.

Socialists in words and traitors indeeds of the self-called "socialist" left inEngland openly supports the exit of thisimperialist country to Europe, whilelabor aristocracies and bureaucracies ofFrance and Germany tied the workers tothe forces of the imperialist powersgrouped in Maastricht.

This is called social-chauvinism...The support of "socialist" in words andtraitors in deeds to their own imperi-alist gangs is a crime against theworld working class. The way out ofthe catastrophe for the Germans,

British and the workers across Europetoday is with the workers of Francefighting for the defense of the 36 hoursper week, with banners and with thewar cry of "Let’s the Commune re-turn!", which pose in the agenda thefight to destroy the imperialist Europeof Maastricht in the West and the returnof the USSR and the socialist revolutionin eastern Europe.

Imperialism needs this greening ofan old cancer in the world labor move-ment, which is the social-chauvinismwhere labor aristocracies and bureau-cracies live of the crumbs falling fromthe exploitation of the colonial andsemicolonial world by the imperialistbandits.

For this the renegades of Trotskyismand Stalinism disguise as "socialist"Podemos, supporters of the Bourbonsmonarchy, the expropriators of the rev-olutionary struggles of the SpanishState outraged. Before, and even today,they are defending and covering up theanti-worker government of Syriza,agent of the bankers in Greece. In USA,they presented as "socialist" the scam-mer Sanders, whose speech wasrrreeddd in the Democratic Party pri-mary elections and then gave thosevotes to Clinton and prevented a split ofthe workers with the infamous regimeof the Republicrats. Reformism hasturned into social-imperialism, social-chauvinism... and has turned into thebiggest enemy of the international pro-letariat revolutionary struggle.

Comrades,From the FLTI, we salute your coura-

geous conference of workers andyoung revolutionary internationalists.We salute your struggle. We know thatthere are the revolutionaries of Japanwho fight against their own imperialismat the war cry of: "the enemy is athome". This is an struggle example andprogram for the whole working class ofthe imperialist countries.

"The enemy is at home!" "The work-ing class has no borders!" "We have toturn the gun on the other side, aimingagainst the oppressors and uncondi-tionally support-not only in word but indeeds the struggle of the oppressedpeoples for their liberation from the im-perialist yoke!"


Comrades,It`s time of the militant internation-

alism. It`s crystal clear that reformism,expressed as social-chauvinism andthose who sold out the world proletar-ian revolution, has been recruited by thebig capital to divide the internationalcombat of the working class. They willnot achieve it. The cannot achieve it!Our struggle is about it.

For that, comrades of the 54 Anti-war Assembly, let�s shout and fight to-gether:Let�s break with the fence on the

Syrian revolution! For the victory ofthe intifada against the imperialismand oppressors from Tunis to Egypt,from Damascus to Jerusalem! For theSocialist United States of the Maghreband Middle East!Down with the US-Japan pact to

plunder masses and oppressed peoplefrom the Pacific!Death to the imperialist Maastricht

and the Atlantic agreement of USA andGermany!Down with Putin, hit man of the im-

perialism and down with the Chinesemandarins, the biggest counterrevolu-tionary forces emerged from the Stal-inism, who sold out the world workingclass �gains!For the return of the socialist revo-

lution from Latin America to Alaska!For the Socialist United States of theNorth, Centre and South America!

The struggle for the socialist revolu-tion is at the agenda of the day. Everyimmediate demand for our class to sur-vive in this capitalist system in bank-ruptcy pushes more and more to anopen fight against the oppressors’regimes and states.

The limit the combat of masses haveis the treacherous leadership they haveat the head. The objective conditions forthe revolution are already more thanmature, they are getting rotten. Theseleaderships want to make exploited be-lieve that it’s possible to live and raisethe standard of living under the condi-tions of such rotten system. That`s nottrue! Evidence of this, of the lies anddisgrace of reformism, are the tens ofthousands of political prisoners andcondemned fighters in all the jails of thecapitalist governments and regimes allacross the world. They are hostages inthe jails of the oppressors to contain therevolutionary offensives of the ex-ploited.

Thus, comrades of the 54 AntiwarAssembly, we call on you for fightingand chant together: For the freedom ofthe Greek anarchist youth, the prison-ers in Egypt, in Palestine, in Ar-gentina, for those imprisoned in CIAjails, in Guantanamo!We call on you for fighting together

to do justice for the disappearance of

the 43 students from Mexico and theminers killed in Marikana.We call on you from Aleppo, the

capital of the Syrian resistance, toraise together the red banners, that is,the one of the martyrs of our revolu-tion and the entire world workingclass.

To stop the imperialist wars, theproletariat must succeed in their rev-olutionary wars!Let`s break with the fence on the

Syrian revolution! Death to Al Assad,Putin, Obama and the entire imperial-ism! The head of the snake is in WallStreet, London City, Frankfurt and theTokyo bank. Those are the heads to becut for the world working class and op-pressed people to live!

Open the road for the proletarianinternationalism!Let�s fight together!

ABU MUAD

ABU AL BARAA

CARLOS MUNZER

FOR THE COLLECTIVE FOR THE

REFOUNDING OF THE IV INTERNATIONAL/FLTI

Fight against the military bases of Okinawa in 2016

15International Workers´ Organizer Ukraine

In early July, the masses from Kiev (the Ukrainian capital) foughtin the streets once again, with demonstrations and protestsagainst the increases of taxes on basic services (water, electricityand gas), which will start in September and will affect the alreadylow wages of the workers and exploited masses. The governmentincreased 100% the prices of hot water and heating.

The whip of capital keeps punishing the masses, in the Eastand the West. Imperialism will not rest until Ukraine is tied withdouble chains.

However the Ukrainian masses show that their forces havenot been exhausted yet. The protest against retrenchments wasorganized by the Union Federation of Ukraine, miners and steelworkers unions, with the Federation of Independent Unions.Unions of education and science workers from the regions of Kievand Vinnitsa endorsed the protest. It was held in the streets andavenues where thousands of demonstrators (about 5 thousand

only in Kiev) around buildings of the Government and theSupreme Rada (Parliament).

“If the government talks about European values, so we wantEuropean salaries”, protesters demanded. They demanded thatstarting on October 1st the minimum wage must be equal to theconsumptions, estimated in 3067 grivnas (U$ 123), when todayit is not even U$50. Other demands are related to the increase ofpensions for retired people and students.

On the other hand, in the Rada, the fraction of the OppositionBlock warned on Wednesday that the accumulation of citizen’sunhappiness and vital problems of the populations will lead tosocial uprisings.

The fight of the masses from Kiev is a huge anti-imperialistfight, against the plans of starvation and misery dictated by IMF

UKRAINEUKRAINEThe masses of Kiev fight against the plans of starvation, misery and plunder imposed by Poroshenko on behalf of the IMF and EU

The Eastern and Western Ukrainian masses do not surrender!

Enough of fighting divided: One single enemy, one single fight from Donbass to Kiev!

The crisis of Maastricht Europe is being paid by the European working class and the oppressed peoples

July 10th, 2016

Demonstration of Kiev workers

August has started and Western miners of Ukraine onceagain are fighting for what belongs to them. Most of the

workers in the coal state mines in the Western region, con-trolled by Kiev’s government, have been from 3 to 6 monthswithout getting paid their low wages!

Road blocks, refusing to work on the mines, leaders andminers going on hunger strikes are the ways that workers areusing to fight for collecting the owed salaries and against clos-ing and privatizing mines.

On August 3rd miners’ wives of Krasnoarmeyskugol organ-ized a demonstration of “empty cups” claiming the wagesowed to be paid to their husbands.

On August 5th miners of Chervonohrad protested in Lvivand blocked the international road Lviv-Rava-Ruska.

The last chapter of the revolution has not been written yet.After the huge mass demonstration in the Ukrainian capitalagainst the hikes of Poroshenko’s government on behalf ofIMF…While the miners and exploited people keep resisting the im-perialist offensive.Once again the objective conditions of sufferings and starva-tion are pushing the Ukrainian working class towards itsunity from Donbass to Kiev against the imperialist plunder,its oligarch partners, Poroshenko’s government and his fascisttroops…

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and EU. It is the same fight headed by miners and workers ofDonbass who defend the mines and their jobs that imperialismwants to steal from them. In order to defend them, they set upmilitias disorganizing Kiev murderous army that attacks andbomb them, destroys their hospitals, schools, etc., and also bywinning privates with their fight.

The resistance of the masses in Donbass, despite the brutalfence, isolation and the betrayal of Minsk pacts that divide theUkrainian working class; and the demonstrations of the massesof Kiev who came back to the fight in the streets againstPoroshenko and Rada (the IMF’s plans appliers) show that theforces of the Ukrainian masses are not exhausted at all.

They are willing to fight against the plans imperialism and itspuppet Poroshenko. Their lives depend on it. The tragedy is thehuge betrayal of the leaderships, which imposed a divided fightand weakened their forces against the enormous enemy they areconfronting.

Unfortunately, the Ukrainian workers have been divided in dif-ferent unions depending if they work in Kiev or Donbass. Andeven if they have the same sufferings, attacks or increase in thecost of living in the entire territory, the leaderships refuse to or-ganize a joint struggle to confront the same enemy.

Ukraine will not have way out favorable for workers and ex-ploited masses unless they unite their fight from Donbass to Kievand if they defeat the hated Poroshenko government in the cap-ital. This demand for better wages and against the increase in thecost of living unifies the exploited from all over Ukraine. It is thedemand that links their fight with the one of the French, Greekand European workers.

Enough of fighting divided! The same enemy, the samefight from Donbass to Kiev! Down with the counterrevolution-ary Minsk pact and its deceitful ceasefire!In order to end with the IMF and EU and their plans of mis-

ery, starvation and plunder!In order to end with Poroshenko and “Novorossia” oli-

garchy, friends of Putin!

In order to end with the Minsk infamous pact!In order to recover Crimea from the hands of the killer Putin

that imperialism gave him in Minsk in return for his acts!Crimea also belongs to Ukraine! Out with the military Russianbase of Kolchak-Putin that is prepared to attack the masseswho refuse to disarm themselves!In order to get wages, jobs and all the masses’ demands!The councils of workers and soldiers must be extended,

generalized and set up all over UkraineGeneralize weapons for the Ukrainian masses!For a Soviet, Socialist, United, Free and Independent

Ukraine!Let’s make Donbass masses war cry come true:For the return of the USSR!

ELIZA FUNES AND NADIA BRIANTE

THE MINERS OF THE WESTERN

REGION -CONTROLLED BY KIEV- ARE

FIGHTING

A SINGLE CLASS, A SINGLE FIGHT, THE

SAME ENEMY, FROM DONBASS TO KIEV

IN THE ENTIRE UKRAINE!

UNITED INDEPENDENT SOVIET UKRAINEOR WALL STREET COLONY!

August 15th, 2016

The reader could find more about the Maastrich crisis in our website:

www.flti-ci.org

August 8: civil servant worker inhunger strike set on fire himself

On August 9th Viktor Trifonov, from the state complex Seli-dovugol, was on hunger strike and set himself on fire in a des-perate act during a press conference in front of the Ministry ofEnergy and Coal Industry of Ukraine. Despite suffering burns in12% of his body, he kept his hunger strike to protest. Becausethe life of this miner became a true torment! The debt of thiscompany with the workers is over 60 million hryvnias (2,4 mil-lion dollars).

On August 11th the workers of mine Stahanova, the biggestof the state complex Krasnoarmiiskvuhillia, in Oblast of Donetskcontrolled by Poroshenko’s government, started a spontaneousstrike. In their assembly they decided not to work in the mineand stop the production. The same happened in the mines“Ukraine”, “Kurakhovskaya”, “1/3 Novogrodovskaya”, and “Rus-sia”.

When this happened, the workers of Lvivvuhillya were ontheir 8th day of hunger strike in front of the Ministry of Energyand Coal Industry of Ukraine.

The whip of capital does not stop. Living in Ukraine becamea real hell, both in the west and the east. The plans of IMF, WorldBank and EU for Ukraine are to make it a colony controlled byimperialism… this is the “way out” and this is the fate that cap-italists prepared for this country of Eastern Europe.

Imperialism dragged the nation to suffocation since it cannotpay the fake foreign debt and the payment plan includes priva-tization, closing or reconverting all mines. The miners of Don-bass rebelled against this plan and in defense of their lives andwork; they rose as the head of the fight and for that they set upmilitias and soldier committees.

But the imperialist plan is for the entire Ukraine. Misery,hunger and the attack are for the entire exploited people and canonly be confronted with a unified struggle of workers from allover the country, breaking the submission that the treacherousleaderships want to impose to different bourgeois sectors, whichwas sealed in Misnk Pacts to divide the nation: Kiev and the westcontrolled by Poroshenko; the region of Donbass under controlof pro-Russian oligarchy and Putin, who got Crimea as paymentfor the services provided to imperialism.

W o r k e r sfrom all over Ukraineare facing the same suf-ferings and have the same de-mands: bread, work, better salaries.Those demands are denied by the sameenemy that wants to keep everything: the IMF.Expropriation without compensation and placeunder workers’ control all the mines, steel industryand factories of Ukraine! Expropriation without compensa-tion and place under workers’ control all the productive landsthat Poroshenko and Yanukovych sold out to Monsanto andCargill! Renationalization without compensation and placeunder workers’ control Gazprom! Total and BASF must be ex-propriated! For an investment plan to modernize the miningindustry and to make the closed mines or those devastated bybombings to work again! For an emergency worker plan! Foran urgent public work plan to rebuild houses, schools andhospitals, roads and water and power infrastructure!

The tragedy of Ukrainian revolution is that the treacherousleaderships have managed to impose the division among work-ers.

But the last word has not been said yet. This revolution triesto stand up constantly despite huge betrayals. Workers of Don-bass and workers of Kiev refuse to surrender without fighting.Their demands are the same as those of the French workers whoare confronting Hollande’s government attempt to steal the 35working hours a week. The demands are the same as those fromthe British workers who are facing “zero hour” contract wherebosses will have them available 24/7 and will pay them only thetime they work, if they do; they are not different from the Span-ish workers or Greek workers who are confronting retrench-ments, attacks on their conquers and suffering terribleunemployment rates…

In this brutal crisis and economic bankruptcy, Imperialismhas decided that workers and exploited people must pay for thecrisis. The last chapter of the Ukrainian revolution is being writ-ten and will be written in the fights of its most powerful ally: themain battalions of Maastricht Europe working class.

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Demonstration of miners in Kiev

August 15th, 2016EUROPE

Bankrupt Maastricht

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…Paying lip service to Socialism andin fact embracing chauvinism

Yes to Brexit, No to Brexit… It isheard on the streets of London, Edin-burgh and throughout Europe. All acrossEurope left currents also discussed at thesame time than the bourgeoisie if Englandshould or shouldn’t leave the EU, carryingthe UK exploited right to the trap of thereferendum.

Both "stay" in and "exit" from the Eu-ropean Union, are two policies of imperi-alist bands; at the end of the day theworkers always pay for the costs of thecrisis.

While thedifferent capitalist bands in theBritish Empire divided between the "Stay"or the "Leave", discussing over how besttheir transnational could be located in theirdisputes against the other imperialist pow-ers in the EU, the New Left currents enteredthe trap of the referendum and wanted tomake the masses believe that they had twooptions ahead for improving their life con-ditions going behind either band of the im-perialism, be it Cameron or the other Toriesor the Labour Party.

Neither the SWP-in anelectoral frontwith the British Communist Party-, andthe RMT (Transport Workers Union) -thatcalled to leave the EU-, nor the otherBritish left currents linked to the bureau-cracy of the TUC, or the British partylinked to the French NPA, that called theworking class to vote stay in the EU, in a"Maastricht United", have shown the

workers any working class alternative.None of these currents declared waragainst the trap of the referendum,against the deception it meant for the-workers. Not a word was said about thebreakthrough from the hardship sufferedby the UK workers being a fight like andalongsidethe French youth and workersfollowing thesteps of French May, of theParis Commune,whohad gone to thestreets with their factory and action com-mittees in their thousands facing the laborprecarization and the slashing of theirconquests that the Government of Hol-lande wanted to impose. French workersand youth showed the way, taking the so-lution of their problems in their ownhands.

So today all these social imperialistcurrentshave placed themselves as con-veyors of what the bourgeoisie need forbeing more aggressive and disputing

their areas of influence in the world: tohave a social base -broad sectors of thepetty bourgeoisie and the labor aristoc-racy -. I.e. social base that support"British" bourgeois policies so that Britaincan go to the world to dispute against theother imperialist powers with which it isin a trade war. What is to come will not bemore health and education for the Britishpeople and immigrants as the SWP says,but more exploitation, plundering andmisery in the colonies and semi-colonies,and worse life and work conditions for theBritish working class.

English SWP, fervent advocate of im-perialist Britain, told the masses of theworld that the best policy for Britain wasvoting in the referendum for leaving theEU with this rationale: being against “theEU that supports the TTIP (Trans-AtlanticTrade and Investment Partnership)", and"the austerity programs imposed to

SWP, defender of AN “INDEPENDENT” IMPERIALIST GREAT BRITAIN

Theresa May and the queen

“Socialism in words, Chauvinism in deeds”

GREAT BRITAINJuly 13, 2016 BREXIT Referendum

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Greece and other countries under theTroika", among other arguments. TheSWP wants the British and global workingclass to forget that the policy of 'their'British bourgeoisie, which with his Queenand all of their transnationals, super ex-ploit the world workers and plunder entireNations in Africa and all over the Pacific,is part of NATO, and has one of its militarybases in the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands,that is a territory in the Argentina occu-pied by British imperialism.

To give just one example, when theheroic miners in Marikana in South Africarose in 2012 and 2014, the SWP and itssister parties throughout southern Africa,did not raise that the Anglo Americanshould be expropriated at "home" in Lon-don, and that pulling down the Queen ofEngland the oppressed peoples would beliberated. The only thing they did wassending blankets and food to Marikana,such as any NGO.

It is not surprising that today thesesame currents have called workers tovote for "leave" the EU. They seek a moreindependent imperialist Britain… Whatdoes this mean? We are not speakingabout a colonial or semi-colonial country,but of an imperialist power that plundersand exploits other Nations.

Both those who called to stay in theEU and those that called to vote to leavethe EU are encouraging British national-ism and saying that the breakthrough forthe British is within Great Britain lining upwith a sector of the bourgeoisie. Thisleads to permeate the movement workerwith social-chauvinism: "During the war(the 1WW) most of the worker parties oftheadvanced capitalist countries turned tothe side of their respective bourgeoisies."Lenin called this trend social-chauvinism:socialism in the words and chauvinism inthe facts. … "The ideological-politicalcontent of opportunism and social-chau-vinism are identical: class-collaborationrather than class struggle; support for its‘own’ government when it is in dire straitsinstead of using those difficulties in favorof the revolution." (L.Trotsky: "Lenin andthe imperialist war", 1938).

The bourgeoisie does not defend thehomeland, but markets, the foreign con-cessions, sources of raw materials andspheres of influence. The bourgeoisie

never defend the homeland for the sakeof the homeland. Capital does not ac-knowledge borders. When its profits andits businesses are threatened, it is de-featist in its own nation. UK capitalists de-fend their business with the EU and WallStreet... not the working class of theUnited Kingdom, as the SWP would haveus believe. That is the emergence of thecapitalism about in its imperialist phase:greater decomposition and misery for themajority of the people.

"Imperialism hides its peculiar objec-tives - the conquest of colonies, markets,sources of raw materials and spheres ofinfluence- covering them with ideas suchas... ‘defense of the homeland’, ‘defenseof democracy’, etc. These ideas are utterlyfalse... Whereas none of the imperialistsides wages the war in defense of thehomeland or democracy but to re - dividethe world and enslave the colonies, a So-cialist is not entitled to prefer some ban-dits against the others. .. CombatingPhilistine and bourgeois chauvinism and'patriotism' in all countries should be re-lentless." (Idem)

This is the big lie that the British SWPwants to impose on the labor movement:that a bourgeois fraction "defends thehomeland, the nation". But this is smallsurprise: its policy is continuity of the pol-icy of the Trade Unions, which accordingto the Labour Party, said "British jobs forthe British workers" and left the immi-grants and their children, who fought in2011 for work and better living conditions-to their fate blaming them for the crisisthe capitalists have created.

The New Left endorsed the referen-dum; they were part of this trap, silencingthat the imperialists may unify and di-vorceat will in order to exploit us best, sowe continue paying for the cost of the cri-sis. So did the German social Democracythat on 4 August 1914 voted for the Ger-man government war budget, carryingworkers to that carnage, the 1WW, that is,to kill each other for "their" imperialistgovernments’ business.

Thus, today, the British imperialistbourgeoisie has scored a reactionary tri-umph because it began to develop a so-cial-chauvinist movement againstGermany, France and other imperialistpowers, which they are facing in a trade

war,i.e., lean-ing on theupper layers of theworking class, well-to-do middle-class managed togain support for British imperial-ism with the deception of "defense ofthe homeland". Once again, as Lenin usedto say: "the economic basis of social-chauvinism and opportunism is the same:the interests of a tiny layer of privilegedworkers and the petty bourgeoisie, whodefend their exceptional situation andtheir "right"to receive a few crumbs of thebenefits 'their' national bourgeoisie getsfrom the looting of other Nations, the ad-vantages that gives it its Great Power sta-tus" ", etc." (Idem)

A real class-war by the workers andexploited across Europe is due againstimperialist governments and regimes.The "new left" has raised the opposite, andthus it has isolated the British workingclass -and some time agothe Greek orSpanish State working class-, from their-class brothers and sisters of France, Ger-many and the rest of Europe, when it isprecisely there where the attack on theGreek and European working class can bestopped.

Any revolutionary policy must riseclearly: "The enemy is at home!" So alsois it for the German, French, Greek andBritish working class. This is the only wayto conquer the unity of European work-ers.

British SWP and the Communist Partyend up as spokesmen of the Anglo-Amer-ican and the Queen that plunder Africaand world minerals, over-exploiting theworking class and killing as inMarikana… That’s why UK is in the NATO,and fills the world with military bases, asin the Malvinas (Falkland for UK) Islands,which is sort of a "land aircraft -carrier"aiming at Latin America.

Meanwhile, the NPA acts asspokesman of the imperialist French em-ployers that are for "Maastricht’s union"...The New Left is living its "4 of August"...

PAMELA PARSON AND NOELIA LING

EUROPEBankrupt Maastricht

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open round with Chinese crack.For that reason, the French imperialism, after the self-

attack of "ISIS" and then militarizing France with that ex-cuse launched a brutal attack on the gains of the workingclass. A decisive struggle between the proletariat and thebourgeoisie in 2016 began. With the crisis of Maastricht andthe world economy, nothing could be equal in the imperial-ist France which is declaning, with the disputes of all theimperialist powers discussing how to take a part of theglobal market that has shrunk.

The working class fought taking the streets with pickets,general strikes, setting up the embyons bodies of directdemocracy, action committees, factory committees, show-ing to be up to the level of the war that the great bourgeoisiehas declared trying to wrest their historical conquests.

The working class showed enormousenergies to defeat Hollande and Khomri law

As soon as the bill of the Labour Minister Khomri wassent to Parliament in March to wrest the 35-hour work weekto the workers, the working class and the youth of Francetook the streets. The bourgeoisie understood very well whatit was. He had created the conditions to give a decisive blowto the working class.

The union bureaucracy, in the begining of this law, de-flected the first mass offensive stating that "this law couldbe improved or repeal." They did not prepare the workingclass for the decisive struggle which was established.

Bureaucracies of the trade unions, like CGT (led by Stal-inism), Force Ouvriere (a yellow trade union) and the entirereformist left sought out combat of the exploited to pressurethe parliament to pass the law. But the bourgeoisie was notwilling to negotiate anything. An example of this was thatthe government cleared the lower house of the Congress bydecree. There were no doubts. The bourgeoisie would dofor everything.

On March 31, the first mass action against the law de-veloped against Khomri law. Millions entered to the fight,which exceeded and overflowed the levees of all unions thatdo not represent more than 10% or 15% of workers inFrance.

Youth occupied an important place in the vanguard ofthat movement. The problem is that the law is mainly an at-tacks to the first job, imposing days of unlimited workinghours.

The masses took over the Republic Square. For the re-formist leaderships and the bourgeoisie it was time to pre-vent this square to be transformed into a new Tahrir Squareas in Cairo, as a square of Commoners.

For that reason, all the New Left, social-imperialist cur-rents, as Syriza, Podemos, supported by the renegades of

Trotskyism as the French NPA concentrated their forces inParis talking that such an attack of the capitalists could bestopped by fighting for "real democracy" and a "more socialEurope". They traveled to France to preach a "movement ofcitizens" in general when what was proposed was a brutalclash between the bourgeoisie and the working class.

The bourgeoisie quickly took care to dispel the lies ofreformism and bureaucracy: the government of Hollande-Valls using a Bonapartist decree passed on May 10, the lawdirectly to the Senate without debate in the National Assem-bly (MPs), making clear that there was no negotiation pos-sible.

This decree makes France to explode and begin the de-cisive clash between classes. The bureaucracy was com-pletely overwhelmed by the masses. The lie of "citizensmovement" and "real democracy" crumbled. Bonapartismof the 5th French imperialist Republic showed its true face.

The bourgeoisie showed that it was unwilling to give asingle iota. The working class during the month of May car-ried out massive days of struggle like on 12, 17, 19 and 26.These demonstrations were led by rebellious youth, thosewho "hate the police" and "vandals who break everything"as they claimed. Every day new sectors of the exploited en-tered to the revolutionary fight. After each day of struggle,the exploited carried out new strikes per unions, barricadefights, pickets, clashes with the police, and with the youththey set up action committees and strengthened the coordi-nation.

Facing mass radicalization, their struggle, the setting upof bodies of direct democracy and loss of control of theunion bureaucracy in the labor movement, the governmentand great bosses responded with a brutal repression sendingthe order forces to systematically repress the demonstra-tions, pickets, the occupations of the public buildings andthe struggle. The judges banned the demonstrations and sentthousands of telegrams and letters of intimation with threatsof prison to the workers and students who were seen in thedemonstrations. Despite all this the exploited still werefighting and setting up their bodies, the action committeestended to coordinate the struggle of the exploited ones. Therole of unions and the "socialists" of all kind was to preventthese bodies to develop, centralize and coordinate through-out France by setting up the real power of the exploited.

But despite the leadership, the working class was stillclimbing the ladder in their struggle. In the demonstrations,it was heard furiously shouts of "we all hate the police","everyone hates bankers" and "everyone hates the SP" ...

On June 2 the main workers of power plants went onstrike, the cost of electricity service down was to more thana million homes and returned the service to the houses thatwere cut because they could not afford it. At the same time,they cut service to one of the headquarters of Medef (Frenchemployers' federation) and one of the homes of their leaders.Also they cut power to a railway in support of the strike ofthe rail workers. This is a true example of how the workerswere beginning to take the resolution of the problems attheir hands. And they showed who the real owner of themeans of production was and who makes them work. Thegovernment of Hollande and the institutions of the 5th

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Republic were totally weak, hung by a thread; they hadlost control of the working class, because it had brokenwith the control of the watchdog, the union bureaucracyand its program of putting pressure to the parliamentto moderate the adjustment.

The exploited had the following alternative: eitherthrowing and hitting hard the government who imposed thelaw by decree or they gave in and the law was imposed. Theeconomic struggle leads to a huge political struggle againstthe government.

It received, as we saw, huge blows of the masses. Ulti-mately, it lacked the momentum of a decisive revolutionarygeneral strike to put the law down and with it Hollande.Both tasks were interwoven. From there the great betrayalbegins... a great conspiracy against the masses.

Who supported Hollande in those days? GeneralPhilippe Martinez, secretary of CGT and the entire tradeunion bureaucracy, which began the conspiring with greatbosses organized in Medef, ie, the big bosses of the Frenchimperialist corporations.

A great conspiracy against the masses

The union bureaucracy saves Hollande andthe great imperialist bosses taking out themasses from the revolutionary general

strike path

The government hardened the state repression, withthousands of telegrams, temporary detentions, policeclashes against the masses ... but this only made the situa-tion worse. The workers must learn from this tramps im-

posed by the bourgeoisie supported in the leadership thatthis buys within the labor movement, as the union bureau-cracy.

What had to be done to divert this huge mass upsurge?The bourgeoisie understood exactly the situation, its weak-ness and its strength (the bureaucracy). But that strengthwas still on, because the bureaucracy had also lost controlof the working class. The government was hanging by athread. But the working class had no leadership alternativethat was going to tell the truth, the strength that had wontheir struggle in the streets and the weakness the govern-ment was left. The conditions for a general strike were morethan ripe, they were decomposing.

The NPA and current union Solidaires only lent him hisleft shoulder to a weakened Martinez to cover it. The irrup-tion of the masses was there ... and it was inevitable. Beforethis happens, the employer, at the time of greatest weaknessof his government announced it would not allow the Senateany negotiations with the strikers and their senators an-nounce that void directly the law set at 35 hours a weeklabor.

At the same time, sends bureaucracy to call and to putat the head of a national demonstration, because if he did,no one would control. For the first time, the bureaucracy ofall unions fell to the factories to make assemblies of all sec-tors to organize the march.

Employers’ class hardens in the Senate and instructs itsagent, the bureaucracy, to be mounted on the coming inde-pendent action, to recover its prestige. This happened onJune 14, a huge and historic mobilization of the Frenchworking class, which was controlled by the bureaucracy inits major part, while huge swathes of the working class andyouth clashed against the police in the streets of Paris.

This was the contradictory character of that march. Thebureaucracy, pushing the people, took control of the mobi-lization and contained the independent mass action, in mo-

Worker pickets in the refineries



ments in which the bourgeoisie was weaker, and showed inthe Senate a fortress that it hadn’t.

What returns to strengthen the Government is that thebureaucracy took the control again of the mobilization, put-ting itself to its head, taking advantage of the committeesof action, the committees of factory still not having devel-oped, or extended, or coordinated among them, and thesame Place de la Republique had neither been transformedinto an institution of centralization of fighting sectors of theworkers and youth.

From here, "the great maneuver" began. Summer wasapproaching. The working class rested in confidence thattheir huge mobilization could stop the law and rein in thegovernment. Though, it did not. The union bureaucracy soldit out. Union bureaucracy begins to walk again through thehalls of the parliament going to the Senate to demandchanges in the law... The working class gives it a respite, tosee what is achieved after so many days of struggle, withoutperceiving that the essential combat was still lacking, whichwas the general strike that defeat Hollande, or as a result ofthis, achieve the withdrawal of the law as a minimum.

The betrayal of the bureaucracy consisted of making themasses believe that the fight had already been enough towin. It was enough time and timely day to betray, and ma-neuver and conspiracy to give its fruits.

On June 23, the bureaucracy was calling a new action.The masses do not completely understand why after suchstruggle and the June 6 mobilization they had promised thateverything was to change, but the employers remained verystrong in their positions in the Senate.

The bureaucracy of the 3 trade unions meet the Prefec-ture "to warn" that the march would be carried out on June23. The Government had said that it would ban it... The re-sult was the realization of a march with a tour of 8 blocksin one direction and its return, controlled by the police andby the services of order of the union bureaucracy. Not morethan 16,000 people could enter that mobilization, and who-ever wanted to march on the outside of the limits of the bu-

reaucracy were ground with sticks by police or by the serv-ices of order of the Communist Party. That was the same asyesterday in Greece, where the same bureaucracy of theCommunist Party clubbed workers who surrounded the Par-liament of the Troika, disbanding the best of the vanguard.

Treason and conspiracy were consummated. Then came a new march like that, i.e. also a restricted

and agreed upon one, on June 28. Thus the bourgeoisie got,through the bureaucracy, a relationship of forces that it hadnot conquered.

The Government sends back the bill to the Assembly,i.e., to the lower House, from this new relationship offorces. The bureaucracy poses that there changes can be ne-gotiated. This means a betrayal, a detour back to the startingpoint... where the original Khomri law will be approved per-haps with some cosmetic reforms.

They created illusions among the masses that you canstop the Bill in the lower House. But they had already takenthe masses from the streets. In the Assembly the Decree ofHollande-Valls turns to be applied so that nobody can ne-gotiate anything. Thus, the El Khomri law is about to be ap-plied: A vast conspiracy and a huge betrayal.

The social-imperialist left supported thetrade union bureaucracy

What does the European and French "anti-capitalist" leftdeclare? That this is the maximum that could be, that therewere no conditions for a "French May", that that was theutmost limit the masses could reach, because "there wereno forces"... (as can be read in NPA’s articles on July 6).Great traitors! They are complicit in the betrayal of theUnion bureaucracy, of which they are part, working foryears as left leg of the French imperialist Fifth Republicwhich they have served for decades as squires to Stalinismand the trade union bureaucracy.

Demonstration on May 12, 2016

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And not only there is the Mandelite fraction-the oldPabloite current of the Fourth International- in the NPA, butthere also are small groups of followers of the PTS and ofall the European social-imperialist left currents.

In the March on June 23, the march of the betrayal,which had a restricted route agreed with the police andguarded by the caned order services of the Communist Partyand the police, the CGT, FO and the NPA’s Solidairesmarched proud at its head. They were and continue beingaccomplices of that betrayal.

They played that role of bureaucracy’s cronies through-out the process of mobilization. They never prepared theworking class for the decisive political struggle that wasdue. When the masses began to change posters of the“Square of the Republic” for those of the Commune, theywore reddish and “May of 1968” drapes. And when the bu-reaucracy agreed the betrayal with the Government, theywore yellow and accompanied from the left such treason.And now, again, they blame the masses.

At the moment when the action committees arose andthe task was to develop them -so that they become organsof dual power and direct democracy- and sweep the tradeunion bureaucracy, instead they supported the latter. It wasnecessary to call to set up fighting bodies that were inde-pendent from the bureaucracy and the State so to pull downthe treacherous leaders of the CGT and FO for recoveringthe unions and putting them to the service of organizing thefight. But these currents always want to make the workersbelieve the bureaucracy won’t be defeated in the streets, inthe fight, but through elections... They kept a unified frontwith the trade union bureaucracy up to the defeat. The NPA,for example, accompanied the CGT until it submitted themasses to the negotiation.

The task of the moment is to ignore the lawand the infamous agreement of the tradeunion bureaucracy with the Government

It is necessary to retrieve the path to thegeneral strike

The last word has not been said. The offensive of themasses has been dispersed by the betrayal of their leader-ships, not by the strength of the Government. The masseshave been robbed their victory. The employers will pass tothe offensive factory by factory, trade by trade to imposethe increase of the work day.

What does the bureaucracy want?... that the trade unionsare present in every negotiation. This is to consummatetreachery. They mean to go to all the factories and guaranteethat nobody rebels again so that the law is applied, prevent-ing any centralized action of the working class.

It is necessary to prevent this road that the Governmentand the union bureaucracy want to impose. No negotiationby factory! Down with El Khomri law! This is the motionthat all factory assemblies or trade union sectors should voteanywhere this law tries to be applied and the 35-hour weekis in danger of being applied. With assemblies, factory com-

mittees andaction committeeswe must ignore the"Hollande-Martinez" law toprevent it from being appliedand the worker ranks to be divided.Let’s vote in factory assemblies and com-mittees to set up again the action committeesto break the wall imposed by the bureaucracyUnion and return to unite the workers’ ranks in newmass actions.

The masses who entered the combat must decide. Mar-tinez, Force Ouvriere and all of the bureaucracy do not rep-resent the workers or the million that entered the fight. Theywork for a defeat, as in Greece. They are social-imperialistagents of Maastricht, whom the French imperialist bour-geoisie maintains and decorates with coins falling from thesuper-profits that imperialist bandits obtained by sackingthe semi-colonial world.

The French working class should look at themselves inthe eyes of the sufferings of the immigrant working class,the refugees and peoples oppressed by imperialism.

It’s them or us... we must return to regroup the laborranks to give a decisive battle, which will be possible if wedefeated the Union bureaucracy, with factory committeesand action committees! Open the way to the base assem-blies, direct democracy and the factory committees! Forself-defense committees to deal with the attacks of the mur-derous police and the security corps of Stalinism and thetrade union bureaucracy! Open the way to the youth! Openthe way to the action committees!

Down with El Khomri-Martinez law!

Out with Hollande!

Let’s bring back the French May!

The French working class fighting shook imperialistMaastricht. Only if they are unified with the Europeanworking class and face the looting of French imperialism inthe semi-colonial world may workers in France maintaintheir conquests.

There is no other way. Open the way to militant interna-tionalism! Long live the international unity of the workingclass! France cannot be a new Greece betrayed by thesmoke-vendor left and the trade union bureaucracy. Plentyof water has been let fall over the spark of Athens to turn itoff, and tons of sand and water to try to extinguish the firethat went on in Paris.

The international revolutionary movement has an enor-mous commitment ahead, which is to fight out the treach-erous leaderships that have hand-tied the French proletariat.



The French working class is carrying out in the last 4months huge fighting days the streets fighting against theattack which was declared by Hollande’s government of andthe great French booses seeking to wrest the 35-hour work-week with the Khomri law.

The class clashes developed. On the one hand, theFrench imperialism needs to impose to its own working

class terrible conditions of labor outsorcing imposed on theoppressed masses of the colonies and semicolonies, the ex-ploited of its overseas colonies and immigrant workers intheir guts. The transnational companies need a Frenchmaquila to compete with the rest of the imperialist powersin a global market which shrinks that due to the crisis of theimperialist capitalist system opened in 2008 and the new

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The union bureaucracy has conspired to disorganize the mass offensive does not represent the millions of workers who entered in the fight

Out with the union bureaucracy! Open the path to the assemblies, factory committees and action!

To defeat Khomri law and Hollande’s government

WE MUST RETURN TO THE PATH OF REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL STRIKE!

Demonstration on May 14, 2016


There were plenty of conditions and energies of the revolutionary masses to succeed...

The union bureaucracy saved the capitalists taking the masses out of the revolutionary general strike, Hollande's defeatand Khomri law

Masses started to fight as in the French May and for the Commune of Paris

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