100 years after the most important Workers’ Revolution of history, the Russian Revolution, and taking the examples of those Bolsheviks who imposed a workers’ government in 1917, members of Izquierda Comunista and independents from several generations gathered for a two-day conference on May 20 and 21st. Among them there were anti-dictatorial activists, young students who were part of the Penguin Revolution, one of the most important student demonstrations from the last ten years; women who have given a hard struggle against male chauvinism and from Ni Una Menos, as well as workers in strategic sectors of the Chilean production; and comrades who traveled from regions, and from the capital. Saturday 21st, early in the morning, delegates and guests began a rich discussion of the documents studied for several months. Practicing a true democracy, we gathered to close the debates and vote for political, organizational and construction resolutions in the re-foundation of an organization. One that will struggle without rest for the socialist revolution, just as Lenin and Trotsky’s party did in Russia, and which has nothing to do with false socialism of the XXI Century that currents like Venezuelan Chavism pretend to impose us. On the contrary, the socialism we defend is one of planned economy, expropriation of the bourgeoisie, leaving companies under workers’ control, with methods of worker democracy.
Latin America and the World Present at this Congress
We are convinced that workers and the people are exploited the same everywhere. That is why we say that since it is urgent to build revolutionary parties in each country, it is also necessary and urgent to build an International organization to deal with businessmen and governments’ plans.
With that conviction, the Congress discussed the Latin American situation. Filling participants with enthusiasm, an international guest gave a report on the struggles in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, and Venezuela, where thousands and thousands of workers and masses are facing the governments, parliaments and union’s bureaucracies, who have been forced due to the demonstrations to call important national strikes.
This point of the Congress reaffirmed the conviction of those present that for MIT it is not possible to defend the rights of the Chilean workers and people without uniting them with the struggles and demands of workers around the world. That is why we are proud of being part of the International Workers League founded by Nahuel Moreno and that has sister organizations in several countries and continents.
Urgent Tasks for the MIT
We assumed this hard work in a historical moment where institutions of the capitalist system can no longer respond to the needs of the working people. Governments increasingly show themselves more clearly as the simple administrators of the powerful ones’ riches. They achieve this with the support of traditional political parties, and options like the Frente Amplio, even though they are new faces, only offer a group of reforms within the same old and worn capitalist system, therefore they are not an alternative for the working people. Thus, in the electoral grounds our effort focus in service of independent worker candidacies that raise a program in the service of the working class. Candidacies that propose the task of struggling for a workers’ government and, in some exceptional cases, we will call to vote critically for non-bourgeois candidates that only have some points in common with our program.
We are happy to have carried out a very productive Congress, confirming the MIT was born to struggle for class independence, workers’ democracy and against all kinds of bureaucracies. These political battles will be tirelessly held in all sectors we act, unions, student unions, and neighborhood councils. Struggling for the renationalization of copper under the workers’ control, for no more AFP, Not One Less, for free education and healthcare, for the Mapuche’s self-determination and autonomy, and for an increase in wages and decent housing. For this, we promote permanent mobilizations on the streets because we do not believe in this bourgeois democracy and we do not believe that through the elections we will solve our problems. That is why we will tirelessly struggle for a General Strike to defeat the policies of the corrupt ones – businessmen and their governments, and establish a government of workers and the people, to seize power and build socialism. These are the reasons that led to the formation of Movimiento Internacional de Trabajadores.
Soon we will publish our new newspaper La Voz de los Trabajadores. We intend to reflect the struggles and the opinion of those who face this and all businessmen’s governments, we will invite you to subscribe. We hope to have a MIT member at your door every month bringing news of strikes, assemblies, and mobilizations from many parts of the country and the world.
With this proposal, we make a fraternal invitation to get to know us, to become part of the MIT. To organize with us or to become a supporter so that, among all of us, we can build a great revolutionary organization that struggles restlessly for the total liberation from all oppression and exploitation, in other words, for the Socialist Revolution.
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Translation: Misty M.
On the Centenary of the Russian Revolution the Movimiento Internacional de los Trabajadores (MIT) is born and organized
