Lets stand up together with the black working class that fights

against imperialism in tormented Africa and USA against the

imperialist murders of Wall Street and the war criminal named
Obama
August 16th: Day of struggle of the workers of Marikana in the anniversary of the
killing of 34 of them by the murderous police of the Angloamerican regime of South
Africa
The delegates and leaders of the Workers International League of Zimbabwe travelled to South Africa to organize a joint struggle with
the miners of Marikana and the whole South African continent against imperialism, their transnational companies that starve and
plunder the workers and against the murderous regimes and governments, front men of the imperialist interests

Internationalist worker leaders with the fighters of
the strike committees in the demonstration on
August 16th

Rally and demonstration on August 16th for trial and punishment to the killers of the 34
Marikana miners killed during the strike in 2013
The 34 mineworkers killed in Marikana still claim for justice!
Judge and punish all the murderers!
Worker and popular courts to judge and punish all the CEOs and presidents of Angloamerican and
Lonmin, its puppet regime, the murderous police and the trade union bureaucrats that killed the
striking workers!
Expropriate the transnational companies and the imperialist bankers without compensation!
Unify all the workers of Southern Africa against imperialism, for 12.500 rands for all and right to
education, health and a decent house!

Concentration in the hill where miners were
killed

Miners do not forget their martyrs barred there

Marikana mine. Imperialism is barbarism. It plunders
the sources from Africa and makes workers live in
tents without bathrooms
One single class, one single fight!
Organize and prepare a general strike to unite all the demands of the exploited of the region!
We need to get organized as in Marikana, with rank and file assemblies, strike committees and self-defense picket lines!
This is the way to fight! This is how well open the road for a major fight against those who exploit the working class of
the plundered Africa!
Long live the militant internationalism of the working class of Southern Africa!
They have already begun to unite their struggle
Tens of thousands of workers in South Africa took to the streets in support of the tormented masses of Gaza and they are already
surrounding their class brothers and sisters of Marikana with their solidarity
Today We are all Gaza! We are all Marikana mineworkers!
Open the road for the internationalist workers militancy of the black working class!

Report from WIL of Zimbabwe of the demonstration honoring Marikana workers murdered
August 15th, 2014

It is an honor and joy for us, revolutionary workers of Zimbabwe, being here, not only to join you in this day of fight
supporting the 34 miners murdered of Marikana, but to organize a fight together of the entire Southern African working
class with the exploited who fight all over the world against imperialism.
We have seen in South Africa and mainly in Europe and USA that the streets are being occupied in support of our
brothers in Ghaza. The day we manage that USA, England and European workers fight together against AngloAmerican
and TNCs that starve us, the road to victory will be closer. This is the fight we are carrying on from the Collective for
Refundation of 4th International
In South Africa tens of thousands workers from Zimbabwe and their wives, like immigrants, do hard Works in the mines
and companies we are as brutally exploited as the workers of South Africa, Namibia, etc, by the same boss:
imperialism.
We also bring here the salute from the internationalist revolutionary workers of the FLTI; from the comrades of Las
Heras condemned for life by imperialist oil companies in Argentina; of the comrades who are fighting in Palestina and
the entire Middle East; and from the brothers of rebel militias of Northern Africa. With them we have the aim of unify in a
single revolutionary fight Northern and Southern Africa against imperialism, which brings barbarism, exploitation and
exploits oppressed peoples.
We fight to end with the murderous police that killed Marikana miners, which is guarded by hundreds and hundreds of
military basses where European imperialisms like England and France, prepare and organize counterrevolutionary
coups and massacres all over the continent.
August 16th is a memorial and fight day for our comrades fallen during the miner`s strike last year. They must be a
banner of fight against imperialism of the entire world working class.
What happened a year ago?
Thousands of miners started fighting and went on strike against bloodsuckers companies and leaders who
used to sell out their fight constantly
The miners that first went on strike were rock drill operators, responsible for operating the drills that would carve out
stone before it is cleaned and blasted with explosives to extract the platinum inside. The work requires extreme
concentration and workers are often at risk of injury from rocks falling on them.
Despite all this, they are paid around 4000 Rand a month, and required to work long shifts. We could talk deeply with
many militant workers who participated in the strike. One of them told us: 'According to the law we are supposed to work
8 hours, but we used not to work for 8 hours. We were working for 12 hours and even 13 hours,' one mineworker claims.
Conditions many allege can prove hazardous. 'We work under a lot of pressure
from our bosses because they want production and then there is also intimidation. They want you to do things that are
sub-standard and if you don't want to do that and follow the rules... they say they will fire you or beat you,' claims
another mineworker.
Race also has a role to play in the story. One mineworker attests 'a white person here in the mines gets a better pay
than a black person and they are more eligible for promotion and that oppresses us black people more.' It was
conditions such as these, the miners say, that led them to strike in the first place, demanding a pay increase to 12,500
Rand a month.

One of the comrades who head the fight last year told us So it was that on August 11 a group of us striking miners set
out to talk to Lonmin about their complaints. We decided not to consult the official Lonmin- recognised union, the
National Union of Miners (NUM), deciding that the union was no longer representing our needs. Instead we (miners) set
off for the Lonmin offices singing and chanting as we went. We were not armed at this time, 'not even with traditional
weapons.' but a pseudo-commission that investigated the events said that some of us in the picket but the Farlam
Commission indicates that some of us (protectors) were carrying traditional weapons when we approached the
offices. This is completely false.

No incidents of violence occurred at that moment. At the Lonmin office we were told we must speak through our union
and so they made the journey to the NUM offices. When we arrived we claim that security personnel outside the offices
opened fire, killing two of the protestors. bureaucracys gunmen who were paid by the company shot the fighters
A couple of days later, a year ago, a day like today August 16th, workers returned with lances and traditional knifes,
which is part of a tradition and habit on how to fight here, which it does not necessarily means arm aggressively for
battle.


The police claim, however, that the protesters were armed. The protesters had occupied a mountain side near the mine
and were waiting there when the police force arrived in armed vehicles. Fenced us in razor wire, we felt we were being
penned like animals. When some of us tried to leave through a gap in the wire armed police began
firing at the men, both from the ground and from helicopters hovering overhead.
A comrade tell us: There were no warning shots fired, and few rubber bullets used. Instead the police shot to kill many
comrades nod since they were there. Other tell us how tear gas and armored vehicles were used. Tear gas and large
armoured vehicles were used and in the resulting chaos many protesters were crushed under the police's Nyala Patrol
Vehicles.
Thirty four miners were killed that day and 78 injured. A further ten people were killed in the days before, including two
police officers.

The violence stemmed from a dispute between the miners' unions. The NUM had official bargaining rights with Lonmin
but many workers had turned to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to voice their
complaints. However the massacre affected those aligned to NUM and AMCU almost equally, the deaths shows that 11
were NUM members and 17 were from AMCU, the rest were without union allegiances. This suggests that while there
may have been in-fighting among union officials, the protesters themselves were united in their cause.

The police dispatched to deal with the strike were special paramilitary units trained to deal with highly violent heist
situations, not crowd control. In the end the company did agree to a 22 per cent pay increase for the rock driller
operators who were protesting, though only after the strikers continued to picket for days after the massacre.

On the inhuman and slave conditions that all Southern Africa and Marikana miners particularly live, a comrade tell us:
"The living conditions are terrible. The mining companies don't invest in the communities and the people in Marikana live
in shacks with no water, no drainage systems.
We have to dig holes for toilets, and there is no electricity, and people are dying almost every day due to health
hazardous and HIV is the place you can find it."
But the level of intimidation is still very high, Union bureaucracy keeps provoking us, but rank and file workers keep
fighting for unity.

By Workers International League of Zimbabwe-FLTI


August 15th, 2014
Trial and punishment to the killers of Michael Brown of USA!
Lets stand up together with the black working class
in Africa, USA and European immigrants!
They are the most prosecuted, exploited and tormented layers of the
world working class by world capitalist system
Michael Brown was a 18 years old young men who received 8 shots from cop
Darren Wilson on last August 9th in Ferguson in the suburbs of Saint Louis,
Missouri, when he was leaving a store close to his grandmother house with a friend.
Several witnesses told that Michael was holding his arm in the air showing that he
was unarmed when police started shooting him. Michael was about to start university
in a word.
Michael Brown

Michels murder awaked the hate of the youth and working class of
Ferguson, where demonstrations started and travelled fast to New York,
Boston, Detroit, Chicago, etc. On Wednesday one of the demonstrations
in the small town of Ferguson was repressed with tear gasses and rubber
bullets shot by a heavily armed police. They had war weaponry, assault
rifles and armored trucks used against the crow of youth who were
demonstrating. At least 10 people were imprisoned, two journalists were
arrested for filming and taking pictures of the repressive actions and the
TV staff of Al Jazeera America received the shots of rubber bullets.
After the fierce repression on Wednesday Obama spoke in a press conference. He treated the young protestors as
vandals. They also put the road police to calm things down and they put a black chief, a friendly face to deal with the
demonstrators.



Obama's withe police shoots US black working youth
Ferguson is a 21 thousand inhabitant town; 70% of the population is black and 94% of police men are white. Black youth
denounce constant harassment from police. Most of the people are young; average age is 31 and nearly 20%
leave under the line of poverty, among black people is 25%. The average income is 60% lower than white people.

The name of Michaels killer, one of the demands of the demonstrations,
was made published on Friday 15th, six days after the murder, next to a
statement of the police accusing Michael as being the main suspect of
stealing a box of cigarettes!


Police repression to the demonstrations that were demanding justice for Michael