Solidaridad desde Sudáfrica con la rebelión griega

Dear Comrades

From the Workers International Vanguard League (South Africa), we hereby pledge our solidarity with the struggling masses in Greece. The problems in Greece faced by the working class and poorer sections of the middle class, is part of the global onslaught by imperialism. Imperialism can find over $US 1000 bn to bail out the capitalist banks but cannot find the $US 6 bn needed to feed the starving masses of the world. There is enough food but everywhere the masses are starving.

We condemn the brutal killing of 16 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos. The entire police are the 'rogue' defenders of imperialism. At times of capitalist crisis their true colours is more sharply exposed. We condemn the role of the stalinist leaders and the trade union leaders who do their best to keep the masses off the streets and to turn the struggle into a parliamentary route.

We urge you not to forget the tragic mistakes of the 1871 Paris Commune when the masses avoided the occupation and taking over of the banks. Now more than ever need to be raised the question of the expropriation of the banks and for them to be placed under working class control, to meet the immediate needs of the masses.

we urge you also not to ignore the lessons of the student struggles in South Africa where the student revolts of 1980 realised that students can only play a supporting role in the struggle to overthrow the state. What was needed was the setting up of councils of workers in every working class area and in every industrial area. What was needed was to make propaganda among the military to win them over to the side of the revolution. Of course side by side with this is needed to build, even at this rapid pace a revolutionary network of fighters, a revolutionary working class party. In South Africa in the 1980's we failed to build the required fighting organization and are paying for it now. However the conditions are now ripe for this task once more.

Please keep us informed of developments and of any assistance that we may be able to offer.

DOWN WITH STATE TERROR

EXPROPRIATE THE BANKS

FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

DOWN WITH THE GREEK GOVT

FORWARD TO WORKING CLASS POWER

Yours in the struggle for Socialism

Shaheed Mahomed

Workers International Vanguard League (South Africa)