Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu)

August 25th, 2015

To AMCU

We come to bring you our solidarity, your fight must be known by all the workers in Africa.
We are here because we think that your struggle cannot be left alone. We, the WIL of Zimbabwe, are part of an international current which fight for the black workers worldwide. For that reason, we bring you our solidarity. And we believe we cannot fight alone any more. Marikana cannot be left isolated from the rest of the workers from South Africa nor from the rest of the workers from Africa. We took your sample of the struggle to organize in that way the Zimbabwe worker movement. We learnt a lot from you, from your fight for 12.500 R, from your rank and file assemblies where you decided raising your hands with worker democracy the steps to follow in the struggle. We took your experience to Zimbabwe where at the moment workers sectors are fighting such as the railworkers, teachers, civil servants, vendors, students. We are being attacked as you are. For that reason, we are here to support you, so we are not left alone fighting against the same imperialist companies that plunder both side of the borders.

We are facing an offensive of the imperialism and bosses against the workers in the entire Southern Africa. We, workers, must prepare and organize a huge fight against the mining TNCs. We must unify all the sectors of workers in South Africa because the demand for 12.500R is needed by everyone.

It is tiring to hear from Zuma and all the politicians that there is no money. This is not true! The imperialist TNCs plundered for hundreds of years and still plunder our nations, they have stolen our families enslaving them to build this starving system. Let’s nationalize without payment under workers control of the mining TNCs. There is our wealth stolen from our nation.

We must fight again like we fought in Marikana but this time all the mining sectors altogether to prevent to be defeated sector by sector.

It is necessary to coordinate and organize our fight against the bosses. Let`s set up a National Fighting Committee of all the miners and all the workers that take in their hands to organize a huge struggle. For a general strike to fight for all our demands: decent housing, salary, education and health and justice for the 34 miners.

There will not be justice with the judges of Anglo American and Zuma’s murderous government! Only with the unity and the fight of the workers, we can conquest the justice for our fallen comrades.

International Workers League- Zimbabwe members of the International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction

Jussa Kudherezera
cell +263772351138