{"id":10118,"date":"2020-09-10T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=10118"},"modified":"2020-09-10T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T10:34:00","slug":"open-letter-from-insurgent-chile-to-the-first-line-of-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2020\/09\/10\/open-letter-from-insurgent-chile-to-the-first-line-of-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter from Insurgent Chile to the \u201cFirst Line\u201d of the U.S…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Escuela Antifascista Cristian Valdebenito \/ Primera L\u00ednea Puente Alto \/Colectivo Rinkonsciente \/ N\u00facleo \u2013 Abril \/ H\u00fasares del Poniente \/ Brigada Popular Ram\u00f3n Ram\u00f3n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


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\nThe \u201cFirst Line\u201d is only one in Chile, the United States, Hong Kong and the whole world! Open letter from the insurgent Chile to the \u201cfirst line\u201d of the United States\u2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The following letter is addressed to the brothers and sisters of the American people who are now rising up and facing police brutality, racism and the imperialist regime administered by Donald Trump. This letter is written by our fellow members and colleagues who are part of the Chilean people\u2019s combat battalions against police repression, and in that sense it is a letter of solidarity, brotherhood and internationalist unity. We call for joint action, across boundaries against the capitalist system that threatens the lives of millions of workers who are exploited and oppressed around the world.
\nGlobal capitalism and social catastrophe<\/strong>
\nThe capitalist system is dragging the entire humanity into an absolutely catastrophic situation. The Coronavirus Pandemic has shown the true face of all governments, in every country in the world. Nowadays, there is no corner of the planet free of social injustices. Hunger, unemployment, environmental destruction, violence against women, sexual and racial discrimination, lack of access to health and education and difficulty in achieving a decent place to live are the daily reality that most human beings suffer. And this situation, which already existed before the pandemic, is now becoming more acute and fully exposed, with dimensions never before seen. The world\u2019s governments, all capitalists, drop their friendly masks, and strive to \u201csave the economy\u201d to the detriment of millions of human lives. Its irrational social system is based on the multiplication of the millions , for a handful of criminal gangs, real economic mafias (elegantly called \u201centrepreneurs\u201d), at the expense of the lives and sweat of millions of people who live in misery every day. And whoever dares to rebel against that reality is relentlessly punished with repression, imprisonment or death. In view of that, in different parts of the world, we began to rise up on the five continents. In Chile we started in October, and you, in the United States, bravely rose up against the cruel murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police racism.
\nYour struggle in the heart of the \u201ccapitalist beast\u201d<\/strong>
\nIn the midst of this deep social crisis, we are very enthusiastic about the enormous struggle that you are fighting in the United States against police racism, repression and, consequently, against the American imperialist state governed by Donald Trump. The eyes of revolutionary people around the world are now set on the streets of Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, Portland, etc. Your struggle is felt as our struggle, and not just in an \u201cideal\u201d sense. We see it as ours because the enemy, there and here, is the same: the capitalists who exploit black and Latino population, and all workers and exploited people of the United States, as well as the peoples of the Third World.
\nThe last one is our case, American companies, and other imperialist powers, steal our natural resources, especially minerals, with impunity, and they do so with the authorization of our governments, all servants of the great capital. In return, they leave ecological devastation and miserable wages. And they do so in Latin America, in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. That is why the importance of your struggle, especially, because it is against the heart of the world capitalist beast: American imperialism, whose claws kill the entire planet. We have also seen how, to face police repression, you have launched the \u201cFirst Line\u201d to defend the fair demonstrations, a subject that we ask to spread throughout the world. The right to defend ourselves, with the necessary means, from repression, we must defend it unconditionally.
\nThe \u201cFirst Line\u201d in Chile<\/strong>
\nWe write this letter from the barricades of a revolutionary Chile. From Chile that \u201cawoke\u201d on October 18th against the abuses of the capitalist system. That day Chilean people revealed themselves demanding an end to: corporate abuses, the terrible pension system, the increases in basic services, the destruction of the environment and endless things. In short, against the neoliberal model and the capitalist system that has the working class, the exploited and the poor, immersed in misery, indebtedness, long working hours and starvation wages. Faced with this situation, the response of the state and the murderous government of Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era was none other than the most brutal of the repressions. The old \u201cPlaza Italia\u201d, located in the center of Santiago, was renamed \u201cPlaza Dignidad\u201d, and there people self-convened every day to demonstrate for months. But the repression tried to dissolve the mobilizations with sticks, rubber bullets and tear gas. And it was there that the \u201cFirst Line\u201d was born, with thousands of fighters, who kept for hours the repression away from the \u201cPlaza Dignidad\u201d. Our partners lost their eyes, were arrested, tortured, and even killed by state agents. An example of this, among several, was the murder of Cristian Valdebenito, construction worker who, every day, after his hard day of work, came to help fight police repression and came to fight for justice for the working class and all the Chilean people. The front line is nothing other than the working class, the exploited people, putting their lives at the service of social justice.
\nAnd all this sacrifice has not been in vain. The whole country defended this First Line. While the government wanted to criminalize us accusing us of criminals, terrorists, etc., for the conscious Chilean people, the \u201cFirst Line\u201d is the real army of the people. Also, we are preparing for the new fights that are coming, because the repression against our struggle persists day after day. Today, from the different territories of the marginalized periphery we continue to raise the popular protest against the policies of the state, against sexist violence, and in defense of our Mapuches compatriots, people from southern Chile who have been fighting for their lands for 500 years. And their fight is against the same enemy: forestry companies, national and foreign, which steal and consume natural resources, with the consent of the state.
\nWe want the World revolution and not small reforms that continue to give breathing space to this dying system. The solution is the revolutionary struggle to end the capitalist system<\/strong>
\nOur struggle is not simply to reform this rotten social system. For decades they have tried to deceive us by the discourse that, little by little, choosing the right candidates, we will be able to conquer reforms that gradually move towards a more just social reality. These theories, which claim to be \u201cnovel,\u201d have actually been cheating and deflecting struggles for more than 100 years. The truth is that the world\u2019s workers have been voting for \u201cdemocratic\u201d representatives for decades and they have only perpetuated social injustices. Democracy has turned out to be a scam, a democracy exclusively made for wealthy people, while we choose our executioners every year. Different political organizations, which stand up for the same ideas of the Democratic Party in the United States, want us to belive that all the sacrifice we have made, that all the sacrifice we have made and they have subdue us under anti-worker laws, discrimination, and poverty for the working people.
\nBy contrast, we believe that the only way to really solve the problems of misery that are afflicting us is the way to a revolutionary struggle of the workers\u2019 organization, the struggle of women, of the black population, etc. No candidate who thinks he\u2019s a \u201csavior\u201d will give us a solution, because the only solution is to \u201ctouch the pockets\u201d of the great capitalists. As long as we do not destroy the foundations of the capitalist system, It is necessary to radically change the social order, and replace it with one that is based on reason, on the harmony of humanity with nature, on a collective work and not on the individual appropriation of wealth. The path will be difficult, but not impossible. And that path is called Revolution. It has no other name.
\nFor the right to self-defense<\/strong>
\nThe traditional media, spokespersons for the interests of the great capital, are committed to showing those of us who defend ourselves from repression, such as criminals, vandaks or terrorists. That doesn\u2019t surprise us. They are officials paid by businessmen to spread lies and criminalize social protest. We don\u2019t expect anything else from them.
\nWe know that capitalists will not grant even the slightest demand in a peaceful way, for that they must touch their pockets (that is their reason for existence). And we also know that our heroism and courage will not be enough to succeed effectively. We must organize our self-defense, in every neighborhood, in our assemblies, in our unions, everywhere. If people don\u2019t fight, there\u2019s no First Line. At the same time, we must move forward in definitively destroying the state\u2019s institutions of repression, and to achieve that we must push for a struggle to ensure that the base of the state\u2019s armed institutions, coming from our same social class, breaks their subordination to the authorities, and moves their weapons to the people\u2019s side. Otherwise, an inevitable bloodbath will eventually defeat us. Because, they, the state, have a monopoly on guns. And finally, whoever possesses the weapons possesses the power.
\nThe struggle is international, rich against the poor, all over the world<\/strong>
\nThe capitalist class, to dominate us, not only has its repressive mechanisms, also has ideologies to divide us. Nationalism, including all its variants, is one of those ideologies. We\u2019re not confused. We know how to distinguish between the murderous and criminal politics of the American bourgeoisie, and the just struggle that you, brother nation, are experiencing these days. We are part of the same social class, which suffers the same problems in all countries.
\nThe bourgeoisie wants us to create divisions between peoples and submit us under national flags, to hide the existence of social classes whose interests are totally opposed.
\nBut we don\u2019t disown our historical identity. We are poor, working, unemployed, exploited, oppressed, marginalized, dispossessed. And we have nothing in common with our \u201cChilean\u201d bosses. Our sisters and brothers are you. It is the poor people who rebel in Bolivia against the ferocious dictatorship that tortures the Bolivian people. They are the Argentine, Peruvian and Venezuelan workers. And not their governments. Our brothers are the Chinese workers who generate the riches with which the capitalist dictatorship of \u201cred\u201d entrepreneurs wanders the world. Our brothers are the exploited in Lebanon who rise up against misery and government. And our enemies are the governments and the apitalists of the whole planet.
\nThe fight is not for nations, it is not the United States against China, nor Europe versus America. The fight is poor people against rich people (who live at our expense.) And in that sense, their struggle is our struggle, and vice versa.
\nFighting for the freedom of political prisoners around the world is fighting capitalism<\/strong>
\nChilean prisons today host hundreds and hundreds of political prisoners on their premises. With thousands of defendants, many fellow combatists, our brothers and friends, expect to receive sentences of up to 24 years in prison for exercising the legitimate right to self-defense. We know that\u2019s the cost that everyone pay for rebelling against the system. And we also know that it is not a reality that we only have to live in Chile. The same reality lives thousands of Palestinian people\u2019s fighters at the hands of Israeli Zionism, , a defender of U.S. interests in the Middle East. The same reality is suffering thousands of African immigrants convicted in prisons and \u201crefugee camps\u201d in Europe.
\nIn Chile the Mapuche people also suffer the political prison of dozens of Mapuche\u2019s co-propietors , today they are on hunger strike to protest against the Chilean state and the criminalization of their struggle. Faced with this, the state and its fascist lackeys have organized an offensive against the Mapuche, and we are in full defense of our brothers. The Machi (Mapuche spiritual authority) ,Celestino C\u00f3rdoba, has already reached 100 days on hunger strike, and his life is seriously threatened.
\nThere is also the case of Sebasti\u00e1n Romero, an Argentine worker imprisoned for confronting the government\u2019s plans that sought to steal Argentine workers\u2019 retirements. Thanks to a huge international campaign in his defense, today, he can return home with his family.
\nWe are also making our own fight for the reintegration and the end to the persecution of Erek Slater, a transport workers\u2019 union leader who led workers\u2019 solidarity with the cause of the black population in the United States, refusing to cooperate with the police.
\nThe struggle for the freedom of political prisoners, in Chile and around the world, must unite us on the same flag: the flag of the struggle for the world revolution against the capitalist system.
\nFrom the immortal heroism of fighting in Palestine, from the barricades of Hong Kong, from the streets of Paris, New York or Santiago, from the revolutionary uprising of Lebanon and from the combative Mapuche communities the war cry is one. It is the yell of uprising against an inhumane system, which condemns us to die because of a pandemic or to die because of hunger, without wages or job, without health or education, without housing and without dignity. It is the yell against repression, against prison, against death at the hands of the capitalist states of the world.
\nEscuela Antifascista Cristian Valdebenito<\/strong>
\nPrimera L\u00ednea Puente Alto<\/strong>
\nColectivo Rinkonsciente<\/strong>
\nN\u00facleo Antifascista Abril<\/strong>
\nH\u00fasares del Poniente<\/strong>
\nBrigada Popular Ram\u00f3n Ram\u00f3n<\/strong>
\nThis letter was written at the beginning of the month of August, before the recent murders that have shaken the political reality of the United States. And these facts only reaffirm the content of this letter. We only add our tribute to the last martyrs of the fight against racism and police brutality. Each killed is a brother that we remember and fight in his honor.
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\u00a1La Primera L\u00ednea es una sola en Chile, Estados Unidos, Hong Kong y todo el mundo! Carta abierta desde el Chile sublevado a la Primera L\u00ednea de Estados Unidos\u2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Por Escuela Antifascista Cristian Valdebenito \/ Primera L\u00ednea Puente Alto \/Colectivo Rinkonsciente \/ N\u00facleo \u2013 Abril \/ H\u00fasares del Poniente \/ Brigada Popular Ram\u00f3n Ram\u00f3n<\/em><\/strong>
\nLa siguiente carta est\u00e1 dirigida a los hermanos y hermanas del pueblo norteamericano que hoy se alzan y enfrentan la brutalidad policial, el racismo y al r\u00e9gimen imperialista administrado por Donald Trump. La escribimos compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros que formamos parte de los batallones de combate del pueblo chileno contra la represi\u00f3n policial, y en ese sentido es una carta de solidaridad, de hermandad y unidad internacionalista. Un llamado a la acci\u00f3n conjunta, por sobre las fronteras, contra el sistema capitalista que amenaza la vida de millones de trabajadorxs, explotadxs y oprimidxs en el planeta.
\nEl capitalismo mundial y la cat\u00e1strofe social<\/strong>
\nEl sistema capitalista est\u00e1 arrastrando a la humanidad completa a una situaci\u00f3n absolutamente catastr\u00f3fica. La Pandemia del Coronavirus ha mostrado la verdadera cara de todos los gobiernos, en todos los pa\u00edses del mundo. No existe hoy ning\u00fan rinc\u00f3n del planeta libre de las injusticias sociales. El hambre, la desocupaci\u00f3n, la destrucci\u00f3n del medio ambiente, la violencia hacia las mujeres, la discriminaci\u00f3n sexual y racial, la falta de acceso a la salud y la educaci\u00f3n, la dificultad para conseguir viviendas dignas, son la realidad cotidiana que padecemos la mayor\u00eda de seres humanos. Y esta situaci\u00f3n, que ya exist\u00eda previamente a la pandemia, hoy se agudiza y se exhibe desnuda, con dimensiones nunca antes vistas.
\nLos gobiernos del mundo, todos capitalistas, dejan caer sus m\u00e1scaras amigables, y se empe\u00f1an en \u201csalvar la econom\u00eda\u201d en desmedro de millones de vidas humanas. Su irracional sistema social se basa en la multiplicaci\u00f3n de los millones para un pu\u00f1ado de bandas criminales, verdaderas mafias econ\u00f3micas (llamados elegantemente \u201cempresarios\u201d), a costa del sudor y la vida de millones que viven miseria cada d\u00eda. Y quien ose rebelarse frente a esa realidad es castigado implacablemente con represi\u00f3n, c\u00e1rcel o muerte. Ante esto, en diversas partes del mundo comenzamos a levantarnos, en los cinco continentes. En Chile comenzamos en Octubre, y ustedes, en Estados Unidos, se alzaron valientemente contra el cruel asesinato del hermano George Floyd a manos del racismo policial.
\nSu lucha en el coraz\u00f3n de la bestia capitalista<\/strong>
\nEn medio de esta profunda crisis social, con gran entusiasmo vemos por los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n independientes la enorme lucha que ustedes protagonizan en los Estados Unidos contra el racismo policial, contra la represi\u00f3n y, en consecuencia, contra el estado imperialista norteamericano gobernado por Donald Trump. Los ojos de lxs revolucionarixs del mundo est\u00e1n puestos hoy en las calles de Minneapolis, de Nueva York, Chicago, Portland, etc. Vuestra lucha la sentimos como propia, y no solo en un sentido \u201cideal\u201d. La vemos como nuestra porque el enemigo, all\u00e1 y ac\u00e1, es el mismo: los capitalistas que desangran tanto a la poblaci\u00f3n negra, latina y a todxs lxs obrerxs y explotadxs de Estados Unidos, como as\u00ed tambi\u00e9n a los pueblos del Tercer Mundo. Este \u00faltimo es nuestro caso. Empresas estadounidenses, y de otras potencias imperialistas, saquean impunemente nuestros recursos naturales, sobre todo minerales, y lo hacen con la venia de nuestros gobiernos, todos sirvientes del gran capital. A cambio, dejan s\u00f3lo devastaci\u00f3n ecol\u00f3gica y salarios miserables. Y lo hacen en Am\u00e9rica Latina, en Medio Oriente, \u00c1frica y Asia. Por eso, la importancia de vuestra lucha radica, sobre todo, en que es contra del coraz\u00f3n de la bestia capitalista mundial: el imperialismo estadounidense, cuyas garras desangran al planeta entero.
\nTambi\u00e9n hemos visto como, para enfrentar la represi\u00f3n policial, han puesto en pie la \u201cPrimera L\u00ednea\u201d para defender las justas manifestaciones, cuesti\u00f3n que reivindicamos y llamamos a generalizar en todo el mundo. El derecho a defendernos, con los medios que sean necesarios, de la represi\u00f3n, debemos defenderlo incondicionalmente.
\nLa Primera L\u00ednea en Chile<\/strong>
\nQuienes suscribimos esta carta lo hacemos desde las barricadas del Chile revolucionario. Del Chile que \u201cdespert\u00f3\u201d ese 18 de Octubre contra los abusos del sistema capitalista. Aquel d\u00eda el pueblo chileno se sublev\u00f3 exigiendo el fin de los abusos empresariales, del nefasto sistema de pensiones, las alzas en los servicios b\u00e1sicos, la destrucci\u00f3n del medioambiente y un largu\u00edsimo etc\u00e9tera. En resumen, contra el modelo neoliberal y el sistema capitalista que tiene a la clase obrera, a lxs explotadxs y a lxs pobres sumidos en la miseria, el endeudamiento, largas jornadas laborales y salarios de hambre.
\nAnte esto, la respuesta del estado y el gobierno asesino de Pi\u00f1era no fue otra que la m\u00e1s brutal de las represiones. La antigua \u201cPlaza Italia\u201d, ubicada en el centro de Santiago, pas\u00f3 a llamarse \u201cPlaza Dignidad\u201d, y ah\u00ed el pueblo se autoconvoc\u00f3 cada d\u00eda a manifestarse durante meses. Pero la represi\u00f3n intent\u00f3 disolver las movilizaciones a punta de palos, balines y gases lacrim\u00f3genos. Y fue ah\u00ed que nace la Primera L\u00ednea, con miles de combatientes, que mantuvieron durante horas a la represi\u00f3n alejada de la Plaza Dignidad. Nuestras y nuestros compa\u00f1eros perdieron sus ojos, fueron detenidos, torturadas, e incluso asesinadas a manos de los agentes del estado. Un ejemplo de esto, entre varios, fue el asesinato de Cristian Valdebenito, aguerrido obrero de la construcci\u00f3n que, cada d\u00eda, despu\u00e9s de su dura jornada de trabajo, acudi\u00f3 a poner el cuerpo y el alma contra la represi\u00f3n policial, para luchar por justicia para la clase obrera y todo el pueblo chileno. Es que la Primera L\u00ednea no es otra cosa que la clase trabajadora, la clase obrera, el pueblo explotado, poniendo su vida al servicio de la justicia social.
\nY todo este sacrificio no ha sido en vano. En todo el pa\u00eds se defendi\u00f3 a esta Primera L\u00ednea. Mientras el gobierno quiso criminalizarnos, acus\u00e1ndonos de delincuentes, terroristas, etc., para el pueblo chileno consciente la \u201cPrimera L\u00ednea\u201d es el verdadero ej\u00e9rcito del pueblo. Asimismo, por estos d\u00edas, nos preparamos para los nuevos combates que se avecinan, porque la represi\u00f3n contra nuestra lucha persiste d\u00eda tras d\u00eda. Hoy, desde los distintos territorios de la periferia marginada seguimos levantando la protesta popular contra las pol\u00edticas del estado, contra la violencia machista, y en defensa de nuestrxs hermanxs mapuche, pueblo originario del sur de Chile que no ha dejado de luchar en defensa de sus tierras desde hace 500 a\u00f1os. Y su lucha es contra el mismo enemigo: las empresas forestales, nacionales y extranjeras, que saquean y devoran los recursos naturales, con la venia del estado, en las ancestrales tierras mapuches.
\nQueremos la Revoluci\u00f3n mundial y no peque\u00f1as reformas que sigan dando respiro a este sistema moribundo. La soluci\u00f3n es la lucha revolucionaria para acabar con el sistema capitalista<\/strong>
\nNuestra lucha no busca simplemente reformar este putrefacto sistema social. Durante d\u00e9cadas se nos ha tratado de embaucar con el discurso de que, poco a poco, eligiendo a los candidatos id\u00f3neos, podremos ir conquistado reformas que avancen gradualmente hacia una realidad social m\u00e1s justa. Estas teor\u00edas, que pretenden ser \u201cnovedosas\u201d, en realidad vienen enga\u00f1ando y desviando luchas desde hace m\u00e1s de 100 a\u00f1os. Lo cierto es que las y los trabajadores del mundo llevan d\u00e9cadas votando representantes \u201cdemocr\u00e1ticos\u201d que s\u00f3lo han perpetuado las injusticias sociales. La democracia ha resultado ser una estafa, una democracia exclusiva para ricos, mientras a nosotros nos toca elegir a nuestros verdugos cada algunos a\u00f1os.
\nAc\u00e1 distintas organizaciones pol\u00edticas, que defienden las mismas ideas del Partido Dem\u00f3crata all\u00e1 en Estados Unidos, quieren hacernos creer que todo el sacrificio que hemos hecho tendr\u00e1 frutos vot\u00e1ndolos a ellos en las pr\u00f3ximas elecciones, cuando son las mismas fuerzas pol\u00edticas que han gobernado los \u00faltimos 30 a\u00f1os, y nos han sometido a leyes antiobreras, a discriminaci\u00f3n, y pobreza para el pueblo trabajador.
\nPor el contrario, nosotros pensamos que el \u00fanico camino para resolver realmente los problemas de miseria que nos azotan, es el camino de la lucha revolucionaria, de la organizaci\u00f3n obrera, popular, de la lucha de las mujeres, de la poblaci\u00f3n negra, etc. Ning\u00fan candidato \u201csalvador\u201d nos entregar\u00e1 soluci\u00f3n, porque la soluci\u00f3n est\u00e1 en tocarles los bolsillos a los grandes capitalistas. \u00a1Ah\u00ed est\u00e1 la plata para la vida digna de todos! Mientras no destruyamos los cimientos del sistema capitalista, la existencia de clases sociales antag\u00f3nicas seguir\u00e1 su reino de pobreza y represi\u00f3n. Es necesario cambiar radicalmente el ordenamiento social, y reemplazarlo por uno que se base en la raz\u00f3n, en la armon\u00eda de la humanidad con la naturaleza, en el trabajo colectivo y no en la apropiaci\u00f3n individual de las riquezas.
\nEl camino ser\u00e1 dif\u00edcil, pero no imposible. Y ese camino se llama Revoluci\u00f3n. No tiene otro nombre.
\nPor el derecho a la Autodefensa<\/strong>
\nLos medios de comunicaci\u00f3n tradicionales, portavoces de los intereses del gran capital, est\u00e1n empe\u00f1ados en mostrar a quienes nos defendemos de la represi\u00f3n como delincuentes, v\u00e1ndalos o terroristas. Eso no nos extra\u00f1a. Son funcionarios pagados por los empresarios para esparcir mentiras y criminalizar la protesta social. No esperamos otra cosa de ellos.
\nPara nosotrxs, el derecho a la autodefensa contra la represi\u00f3n es incuestionable. Mientras los capitalistas, enemigos declarados de la vida humana, cuentan con ej\u00e9rcitos y polic\u00eda profesionales para reprimir todo cuestionamiento al orden social imperante, nosotrxs, lxs despose\u00eddxs, solo contamos con nuestro coraje. Defender nuestro derecho a protestar, a tomar en nuestras manos lo que es nuestro, es fundamental. Sabemos que los capitalistas no conceder\u00e1n ni la m\u00e1s m\u00ednima demanda de manera pac\u00edfica, pues para eso deben tocar sus bolsillos, su raz\u00f3n de existencia. Y tambi\u00e9n sabemos que para triunfar efectivamente no bastar\u00e1 con nuestro hero\u00edsmo y valent\u00eda. Debemos organizar esa autodefensa, en cada barrio, en nuestras asambleas, en nuestros sindicatos, en todos lados. Sin las masas en lucha no hay Primera L\u00ednea. Al mismo tiempo, debemos avanzar en destruir definitivamente las instituciones de represi\u00f3n del estado, y para eso debemos impulsar una lucha para que la base de las instituciones armadas del estado, provenientes de nuestra misma clase social, rompa su subordinaci\u00f3n a la oficialidad, y se pase con sus armas al lado del pueblo. De lo contrario, un ba\u00f1o de sangre inevitable terminar\u00e1 por derrotarnos. Pues ellos, el estado, poseen el monopolio de las armas. Y, finalmente, quien posee las armas posee el poder.
\nLa lucha es internacional, de ricos contra pobres en todo el mundo<\/strong>
\nLa clase capitalista, para dominarnos, no s\u00f3lo se vale de sus mecanismos represivos, sino tambi\u00e9n de ideolog\u00edas para dividirnos. El nacionalismo, incluyendo todas sus variantes, es una de estas ideolog\u00edas. Nosotrxs no nos confundimos. Sabemos distinguir entre la pol\u00edtica asesina y criminal de la burgues\u00eda estadounidense, y la justa lucha que ustedes, pueblo hermano, libran por estos d\u00edas. Somos parte de una misma clase social, que sufre los mismos problemas en todos los pa\u00edses. La burgues\u00eda nos quiere enemistar entre pueblos, y someternos bajo las banderas nacionales, para ocultar la existencia de clases sociales cuyos intereses son opuestos totalmente.
\nPero nosotrxs no renegamos de nuestra identidad historica. Somos pobres, obrerxs, desocupadxs, explotadxs, oprimidxs, marginadxs, despose\u00eddxs. Y no tenemos nada en com\u00fan con nuestros patrones \u201cchilenos\u201d. Nuestras hermanas y hermanos son ustedes. Son lxs pobres que se rebelan en Bolivia contra la dictadura feroz que tortura al pueblo boliviano. Son lxs obrerxs argentinxs, peruanxs y venezolanxs. Y no sus gobiernos. Nuestrxs hermanxs son lxs obrerxs chinxs que generan las riquezas con que la dictadura capitalista de los empresarios \u201crojos\u201d se pasea por el mundo. Nuestrxs hermanxs son lxs explotadxs de El L\u00edbano que se sublevan contra la miseria y el gobierno. Nuestrxs hermanxs son lxs parias de todo el planeta. Y nuestros enemigos son los gobiernos y los capitalistas de todo el planeta.
\nLa lucha no es por naciones, no es Estados Unidos contra China, ni Europa versus Am\u00e9rica. La lucha es de lxs pobres contra los ricos que viven a costa nuestra. Y en ese sentido, su lucha es nuestra lucha, y viceversa.
\nLuchar por la libertad de los presos pol\u00edticos en todo el mundo es luchar contra el capitalismo<\/strong>
\nLas c\u00e1rceles chilenas, hoy, albergan en sus recintos cientos y cientos de presas y presos pol\u00edticos. Con miles de procesadxs, muchos compa\u00f1eros de combate, nuestras compa\u00f1eras, nuestros hermanos y amigas, esperan recibir condenas de hasta 24 a\u00f1os de c\u00e1rcel por ejercer el leg\u00edtimo derecho a la autodefensa. Sabemos que es el costo que se paga por rebelarse contra el sistema. Y sabemos tambi\u00e9n que no es una realidad que s\u00f3lo nos toca vivir a nosotros en Chile. La misma realidad padecen miles de combatientes del pueblo palestino a manos del sionismo israel\u00ed, defensor de los intereses yanquis en Medio Oriente. La misma realidad sufren miles de inmigrantes africanxs condenados en c\u00e1rceles y \u201ccampos de refugiados\u201d en Europa.
\nEn Chile el pueblo mapuche tambi\u00e9n sufre la prisi\u00f3n pol\u00edtica de decenas de comuneros mapuche, hoy en huelga de hambre en reclamo contra el estado chileno y la criminalizaci\u00f3n de su lucha. Ante esto, el estado y sus lacayos fascistas han organizado una ofensiva contra los mapuches, y estamos en plena defensa de nuestrxs hermanxs. El Machi (autoridad espiritual mapuche) Celestino C\u00f3rdoba ya cumple 100 d\u00edas en huelga de hambre, y su vida est\u00e1 seriamente amenazada.
\nTambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 el caso de Sebasti\u00e1n Romero, obrero argentino encarcelado por enfrentar los planes del gobierno que buscaba robar las jubilaciones de los trabajadores argentinos. Gracias a una enorme campa\u00f1a internacional en su defensa, hoy el compa\u00f1ero vuelve a su hogar junto a su familia.
\nTambi\u00e9n hacemos nuestra la lucha por la reincorporaci\u00f3n y el fin a la persecuci\u00f3n de Erek Slater, dirigente sindical de trabajadores del transporte que encabez\u00f3 la solidaridad obrera con la causa de la poblaci\u00f3n negra en Estados Unidos, neg\u00e1ndose a colaborar con la polic\u00eda.
\nLa lucha por la libertad de lxs presxs pol\u00edticxs, en Chile y todo el mundo, debe unirnos en una misma bandera: la bandera de la lucha por la revoluci\u00f3n mundial contra el sistema capitalista.
\nDesde el hero\u00edsmo inmortal de la lucha en Palestina, desde las barricadas de Hong Kong, desde las calles de Par\u00eds, Nueva York o Santiago, desde la sublevaci\u00f3n revolucionaria de El L\u00edbano y desde las combativas comunidades mapuche el grito de guerra es uno solo. Es el grito de sublevaci\u00f3n contra un sistema inhumano, que nos condena a morir por una Pandemia, o morir de hambre, sin salario ni trabajo, sin salud ni educaci\u00f3n, sin vivienda y sin dignidad. Es el grito contra la represi\u00f3n, contra la c\u00e1rcel, contra la muerte a manos de los estados capitalistas del mundo.
\nEscuela Antifascista Cristian Valdebenito
\nPrimera L\u00ednea Puente Alto
\nColectivo Rinkonsciente
\nN\u00facleo \/ Abril
\nH\u00fasares del Poniente
\nBrigada Popular Ram\u00f3n Ram\u00f3n
\nPD: Esta carta fue escrita a principios de agosto, antes de los \u00faltimos sucesos que sacuden la realidad pol\u00edtica de Estados Unidos. Y estos hechos no hacen m\u00e1s que reafirmar el contenido de la carta. S\u00f3lo agregamos nuestro homenaje a los \u00faltimos m\u00e1rtires de la lucha contra el racismo y la brutalidad policial. Cada ca\u00eddo es un hermano al que recordamos y luchamos en su honor.
\nAgradecemos al trabajo solidario de traducci\u00f3n de A. Carvajal<\/em><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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