A-Infos (en) Chile: On the Late Events of Repression in Arauco Province - by Organización Comunista Libertaria - OCL

Press release of the OCL (Chile) regarding the brutal acts of repression that 
took place on the 3rd of May in the Arauco province, in Southern Chile, in 
which the timber worker Rodrigo Cisterna, aged 26, ended up murdered by the 
Police bullets. We express our deep regret and sympathy towards the family, and 
our scorn towards the henchmen. The government of Michelle Bachelet is already 
stained with workers’ blood, exposing itself as nothing but the continuity of 
the repressive legacy of the previous governments of her coalition 
(Concertación). No crime, no martyr is to be forgotten. Struggle won’t stop, it 
will remain on the rise no matter all of their hitmen come out to the street 
against us to kill us. The people of Chile is waking up from its slumber and 
won’t be stopped by State violence. With Rodrigo Cisternas and all of our 
fallen ones in our memory, to struggle and to triumph we go!!!!!

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In the face of the death of a fellow timber worker, of the dozens wounded and 
arrested as a result of the brutal repression of the Police against a road 
blockade in the Horcones processing facility belonging to Bosque Arauco (VIII 
Region), our party declares:

1.That while the government, parliamentarians and the Catholic church are 
calling to social peace and for dialogue between the workers on struggle and 
the Angelini group, the State is making too evident its class nature by 
defending the bourgeois interests through savage repression towards workers and 
with its calls to compromise while they murder our people.

2.That timber workers are an integral part of the multinational chain of 
production and that their capacity to go in practice beyond the narrow legal 
limits of the Bourgeois Rights, have serious repercussions in the economic 
field for both the Monopolist Capital and the Chilean State; and this makes 
violent repression the natural response of those in power in the face of a 
dignified people that said enough, thus starting a new stage in the proletarian 
struggles in our country.

3.That right now our people are showing that the road to the social victory is 
the unity in struggle against imperialism and its State supporter; this, by 
facing the Monopolist Timber Capital that robs us of our land, our resources 
and our lives, that is giving us starvation wages while the gang of Angelini is 
accumulating wealth of over U$3,193 million. This is, as well, the same road to 
unity with our brethren the Mapuche people.

4.That the people from the Coal district and the VIIIth region suffer on a 
daily basis from the blows of misery and unemployment; this situation cannot be 
tolerated any longer and has to lead to mass mobilization in the pursue of a 
dignified life, the one is already taking shape in the street protest of the 
neighbours from the towns of Cañete, Curanilahue and Laraquete, who already 
have four fellow workers wounded by the bullets of the Police.

5.That the only way to face the employers is going beyond the narrow legal 
constraints as have been demonstrated by our timber brethren, forging unity 
through direct action and the popular direct democracy. Our call to our people 
in this difficult moment is to unity. We call on the workers, the neighbours 
and the students to respond to repression by taking over the streets, to 
struggle, to practice solidarity with our class brethren and to march ahead 
towards the regional and national protest to gain the popular demands about a 
dignified life, denied by both the State and the rich.

¡¡¡ ARRIBA LOS QUE LUCHAN !!!
(UP THOSE WHO STRUGGLE)

¡¡¡ VENCEREMOS !!!
(WE WILL TRIUMPH)

ORGANIZACIÓN COMUNISTA LIBERTARIA - CHILE
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