For imperialists, Mandela
is a symbol of “forgiveness”
The imperialist propaganda
now uses the death of Mandela to propagate his ideals of peace and
conciliation, maintaining the social inequality, exploitation, the
oppression of class and race on the masses of black poor and
proletarians in South Africa.
We salute his figure of
fighter, the symbol leader of the struggle against apartheid,
combining mass struggles and armed struggle, the commander of the
armed wing of ANC, the political prisoner struggling against the
racist regime backed by imperialism, because on that line the
oppressed masses of black people have made steps forward for the
abolition of apartheid.
However, his role as
intermediary and negotiator for peace and reconciliation, a role he
played while he still was an important political prisoner and that
later he strengthened as President of South Africa, led to the end of
the armed struggle, guerrilla warfare, sabotage, to ensure
improvements from which only a small minority of the black people
have had benefit, while the majority of the black proletariat was
still suffering poverty, hunger, social exclusion, fierce repression.
Then conciliators have become
the new executioners, because the class injustice remained in all
ways untouched.
Recently, the uprising of
blacks miners in South Africa, against which the new government of
the new phase of transition, that wants to be called the
post-apartheid government of national unity, sent the army and the
police to shoot, has reminded to the world the reality of the
injustice of class and race.
The Mandela who imperialists
and bourgeoisie like is the one who decided the end of the armed
struggle, who accepted to sit at the table with his own executioners,
who had repressed himself and his people, the one who embraced the US
global terrorists, from Bush to Clinton, who opened the doors of his
country to the penetration of trans-national companies, the one who
has sat in the carriages of the crowned heads of Spain and England
while his people still survive in shacks without electricity or
water.
It is the Mandela who
terrorized the bourgeoisie, rather, the one we honor.
PCm Italy
december 2013
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