Emergency appeal for the worker organizations and the world
June 1st, 2013
The Kirchner government and his judges, those servants of Obama and Wall Street want to condemn workers to life sentence…
A
lynching fabricated with paid witnesses and advance sentences on the
part of the corrupted judges of the imperialist oil companies to punish
the entire working class
Immediate Acquittal for the oil workers of Las Heras!
On
June 17 in the Criminal Chamber of the Second Legal division of Caleta
Olivia the trial against twelve oil workers of La Heras will start
(Province of Santa Cruz). They will be judged by the tribunal and judge
Lembeye, employees paid by the imperialist oil companies. They will be
put on trial because in 2006 they carried on a
historical fight rejecting the taxing on wages and for the unity of the
worker ranks under the war cry “for Equal work, for equal payment!”
They said
the oil workers under the UOCRA (Construction) Collective agreement
must be under the oil collective agreement. During such fight one of
their spokesmen, Navarro, was arrested by the police and jailed in the
city police station and so the oil-workers rallied together with Las
Heras townspeople to protest to the Police Station’s gates and police
responded with a bloody repression using tear gas, rubber bullets and
live ammunition.
In this “pueblada”/popular uprising attacked by the big capital’s hound-dogs, a police died. The oil companies, Cristina
Kirchner government and their judges want to accuse the worker fighters
of such event. For that reason, they want to keep hiding and in secret
the file of the lawsuit, so, they prepare in that way a summary, express
trial of the kind of Videla’s military tribunals to lynch workers. Against
this conspiracy, must demand and impose to set lawsuit and files public
to unmask this trial fabricated using false charges by the oil
companies and
government against the entire working class. And the
worker organizations must launch an appeal to break the fence settled
in the Las Heras City occupied by the Gendarmerie who imposes a terror
regime against exploited.
For
these fabricated charges, 6 comrades remained in jail being under a
regime of systematically tortured for 3 and a half years and other 4
workers were released on parole and were not allowed to leave the city.
By this new blow, Kirchner, and US oil TNC’s –the same oil companies
that applying their oil-war massacred millions of
exploited in Iraq, Afghanistan and keep thousands of anti-imperialist
fighters as hostages in the CIA’s and Pentagon’s jails (like
Guantánamo)- are seeking revenge and trying to punish the whole worker movement, especially, against the 6500 fighters under prosecution for confronting the slave and
misery conditions imposed by the imperialist pirates and their agents of the Kirchnerist government. Because Sayago, the dead policeman, was personal guard of the Kirchners and
in his “record” he has in his list nothing less than violently
repressions against workers like in Caleta Olivia in the plant Termap
where this murderer together with his friends in uniform kicked women on
the floor provoking the lose of their pregnancy.
Today,
the same parasitic and lifelong caste of judges that belong to the
Judicial Power who yesterday sought to become legitimate by giving 15
years prison to Pedraza for the murder of the revolutionary young
Mariano Ferreyra, will be who want to condemn Las Heras workers to life
sentence. Thus, by putting an equal sign between killers like Pedraza
and workers who fight for their family subsistence they are re-editing
the theory of the “two demons” in an attempt to have “legitimacy” to
apply their desired lynching against oilworkers. The working class must stop it!
There
are several of worker organizations of different parts of the country
and student unions as well that have already taken in their hands the
struggle for the acquittal of the workers unfairly attacked. First,
a massive assembly of the oil workers in the same city of Las Heras
that voted by unanimity the acquittal of the 12 workers put on trial the
last April 25.A “Committee in support for the acquittal of the Oil
workers of Las Heras” has emerged in Buenos Aires with workers of
Garrahan Hospital, Linea 60 (bus public transport), and Paty workers at
the head. This Committee gathered first time on April 13 in the office
of ATE-Capital together with dozens of organizations and they have
carried out numerous activities: hand out leaflets, sticking
advertising posters, assemblies in factories, schools, etc., to spread
among the working class and exploited masses the fight in defense of the
comrades. As well different worker organizations have set up in their
provinces like in Neuquén this “committee“ to support the persecuted
workers. In the Zona Norte in Great Buenos Aires, a committee of worker
organizations has also been set up and the meetings are developed in the
SUTNA-San Fernando. On May 28, The general assembly of students of the
Social Science University, UBA, already voted the support to Las Heras
workers and to participate in the demonstration towards Santa Cruz House
located in Buenos Aires the day the trial begins.
After
7 years the oil workers of Las Heras have achieved to break the
isolation. It’s time to develop and extend all along the country these
organs that begin to emerge so that in every factory, workplace,
college, University in every province and neighborhood they defend LH
comrades. Side by side the family of the exploited massacred in Ledesma
(Jujuy), the Qom of Formosa and Chaco, the martyrs of the Indoamericano,
comrade Mariano Ferreyra, it is necessary to unify the demands for the
judge and punishment of all the repressors and murderers of workers and
People, and for never again a worker can be put in a tribunal or the
jails of the TNC’s and slavery boss.
Oil workers of Las Heras belong to the entire Argentinean and world working class!
Oil workers of Las Heras belong to the entire Argentinean and world working class!
FIT must break with his passivity and be at the head of the fight to conquer the acquittal of the workers!
However, unfortunately, the “Left Front” composed
by PO, PTS, and IS known as FIT among the militant vanguard have not
declared themselves officially yet to launch this fight, they are not
still integrated in the “Committee of Support” to the comrades.
The
first candidate Altamira in some TV programs-like the interview he gave
in METRO channel- is saying that the combination of the “legislative
militancy and the worker mobilization are a weapon of massive
destruction”. Well, so he must put the militancy and electoral campaign
at the service to call on workers and their fighting organizations to
fight in support of Las Heras oil workers, the political prisoners and
the 6500 fighters under prosecution.
FIT
already has parliamentary seats: a provincial deputy in Neuquén and a
provincial legislator in Córdoba. They must put them at the service of
the defense of the persecuted comrades. LH workers don’t demand amnesty
because they didn’t commit any crime. They don’t ask either for projects
of laws to save them. Unfortunately, the FIT’s parliamentary
representatives that say that the working class can obtain favorable laws
in the parliament by presenting law projects till today have not yet
taken this initiative to support Las Heras workers. What are they
waiting for?
As they did on November 20 in Moyano strike: FIT must propel the Strike and pickets all along the country
FIT
leads and influences hundreds of worker organizations, internal
commissions, delegates’ bodies, student unions. FIT must be at the
service to fight for thousands of workers and militant students to
mobilize against Santa Cruz House in Capital Federal this June 17. For
thousands of exploited to surround the tribunals in Caleta Olivia where
workers will be put on trial. And for all along the country to convene
demonstrations, blockades of routes, strikes, pickets and assemblies.
FIT
can no longer be in silence. Las Heras oil workers have been suffering
this martyrdom more than 7 years. FIT must be at the head of this
struggle against Cristina
Kirchner government and boss justice that both seek to keep the worker
vanguard under discipline by trials and prosecutions. It is no longer
possible to lose time, the
fight for the Acquittal of Las Heras workers is a struggle
concentrating all the most feeling demands of the worker movement and
exploited, that is, the fight against the taxing on wages and the labor
flexibility, for equal payment and decent work, against
the justice and police repression, against the pillage of the
imperialist oil companies, the MERCOSUR’s TNCs, the mining companies and
big planting pool (so-called pool de siembra TN) that plunder the
nation.
FIT
have obtained 600.000 votes in the 2011 presidential elections. They
represent a real force of the worker vanguard. Moreover, many of the
fighters under prosecution belong to the “Front”. For that, FIT has the
duty to be at the head of the struggle for this June 17 to become the
beginning of a Fighting Plan and National Strike to defend Las Heras workers, to free the political prisoners and to impose the non-prosecution (drop the charges) of the 6.500 workers. FIT must demand Moyano, Michelli and other CGT and CTA union leaders to convene it.
If
they don’t do it, FIT will continue leaving Las Heras workers in
isolation; workers who have been a great sample for the entire
Argentinean and world working class showing in their struggle how to
fight against capitalists, their governments, and imperialist TNC’s.
In
2006 when the repression against Las Heras oil workers’ strike was
carried out, more than 200 worker organizations gathered in a meeting
taking place in Bauen Hotel located in Capital Federal and declared
their public support for workers. Today, in 2013, these same 200
organizations and FIT, together with the very same Navarro- to whom Las
Heras workers set free that night- must put immediately at the head to
confront this fake trial and send delegations to surround the oil
workers and their families with effective solidarity. At the same time,
it is urgent to set up again the Delegates’ Body that unified the oil
workers with construction workers to again guarantee the oil strike to
defend the comrades.
This June 17 the CGT and CTA of Moyano and Michelli must call a
FIGHTING PLAN and NATIONAL STRIKE!
Moyano
and Michelli, who have call to fight against the “wage taxes” and say
to be opposite to the government, must call the CGT and CTA this June 17
a beginning to a Fighting Plan and a National Strike in support to the comrades of Las Heras. Nobody
can allow that the oil companies who plunder thousands of dollars, want
to condemn to life sentence the workers who upsurge in order to defend
their wages and against the outsourced work.
The truck workers, the civil servants and the entire worker movement must go out to take the streets. As they did last November 20th. It is necessary to block all the roads and highways of the country. The
Picket movement must go out and block the Pueyrredon Bridge in
Avellaneda to fight back for Trial and Punishment to all the responsible
of the murder of Kostequi and Santillan. It is
necessary to paralyze the country and start a great fight against the
government, the bosses, the oil companies and the corrupted judges. This is
what the ones who live from the work and effort of the working class deserves.
Freedom
to all the prisoners for fighting! Drop the charges to the 6.500
comrades chased! Trial and Punishment to all the responsible of the
murder of Mariano Ferreyra and other martyrs of the working class!
Down
with the wage taxes! No limit to the family asignaciones! 10.000
minimum indexed wages! Decent work for all! Full time worker the ones
that are with contracts, outsourced and paid under the table! 6 hours of
labour shift and an extra shift in all the factories and establishments
so the unemployed workers have work!
This June 17 the world working class must demonstrate in the Argentina embassies and consulates!
The
oil workers of Las Heras with their fight were part of this
anti-imperialist vanguard of the world working class who fought against
the oil workers and their war of conquest, looting and colonized.
They
were brothers of the fight of the workers that in Iraq resist the
occupation of the US military troops, and also part of the US worker
movement who went out in the fight against the imperialist war.
They
were part of the fight of the Bolivian workers and peasants when the
Bolivia insurrected they up rose against the US imperialism and the
transnational companies at the war cry of: “Nor 30%, neither 50%: nationalization of the hydrocarbs!”
They
were and are brothers of the fight for the freedom to the 4.500
Palestinian prisoners kept as hostages for this military enclave at the
service of the US imperialism which is the fascist Zionist state of
Israel.
They
were and are brothers of the fight for the freedom of the
Anti-imperialist fighters who are in Guantanamo jail, that are keeping
them as prisoners for more than 10 years in inhuman conditions.
The world working class cannot allow that this 12 comrades, who will be taken to the court in Caleta Olivia (Argentina), and will become the current “Chicago martyrs”.
The world working class cannot allow that this 12 comrades, who will be taken to the court in Caleta Olivia (Argentina), and will become the current “Chicago martyrs”.
In
all the countries this June 17 the working class must be present and
demonstrate to all the Argentina Consulates and Embassies to fight for
the acquittal of the oil workers of Las Heras!
Freedom to the 4.500 Palestinian prisoners kept by the fascist Zionist state of Israel!
Freedom to the prisoners of Ayo-Ayo in Bolivia!
Freedom to the anti imperialist fighters in Guantanamo jail!
Freedom
to the 147 workers of Suzuki in India and all the world worker
prisoners to fight against capitalism and its world of oppression and
misery!
Editorial Board of
Democracia Obrera
Democracia Obrera
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