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Honduras is the “most dangerous country in the world for environmental advocates,” according to a report by Global Witness, an NGO based in London. In 2014 alone they murdered 12 environmentalists. The killers are either the death squads of the government or of the Honduran capitalists and the imperialists, mainly the US, who own the government.
On March 3, Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous and environmental leader was shot and killed by these capitalist gunmen. Days later in an eviction, they murdered Nelson Garcia, another Honduran environmentalist and Berta’s friend.
From 2002 until today, 121 Honduran environmentalists have been killed. “More than 80 of these murders took place only in the last three years in one region, Bajo Aguan,” said Chris Moye of Global Witness.
“Nothing protected Cáceres,” says Vasquez, another Honduran environmentalist, “neither her international ‘high profile’ (winner of the Goldman Prize) nor the precautionary measures (issued in November of 2015 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights demanding that the Honduran government protect her).”
And it was to be expected. The capitalists-imperialists (including the Chinese imperialists) will not allow anything or anyone to prevent them from reaping the obscene profits that the mines and hydroelectric plants generate. For them, displacing entire villages and destroying forests, rivers, and human lives is nothing.
That is why the Honduran working class, and that of world, need to fight directly for communism: a society without capitalists-imperialists, without money or wage slavery, without racism, sexism, borders and wars for profits and empires.
Communism is based on meeting human needs, not in producing profits. Therefore, workers’ lives—together with the environment—will be what communist society will most care for and value.
In communism we will plan collectively—in a healthy and renewable ecological environment—what to produce, how to produce it and how to distribute what we produce according to the needs of the world’s workers.
Berta Cáceres and the other dead environmentalists and the mass movement they helped build did not and do not fight for this. They fought and still fight to reform capitalism-imperialism. This is the cause of their fatal illusions!
These illusions persist nationally and internationally:
Many mass organizations, nationally and internationally, condemned the murder of Cáceres and asked to demand that the Honduran Government “punish those who committed this vile murder and protect the defenders of the earth, territory and human rights in Honduras.” They also appealed to the UN and the OAS to intercede in the case.
They also demanded that the Mexican government intercede with the Honduran government to save the life of Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro, wounded and taken prisoner when they killed Berta.
Here it is worth recalling a very popular proverb among Central American farmworkers:
“Do not ask hunger for bread or the cold weather for blankets”
This very wise proverb—used to say that we shouldn’t ask anything of adversity—is perfect for the political class struggle: it tells us not to expect protection or mercy or justice from our executioners or their governments.
Expecting this is playing the capitalists-imperialists’ game. It is building illusions among the masses that this inhuman system can be reformed to meet our needs. It will lead the masses to the slaughter house of these fascist butchers.
But workers’ historical task is to be the gravediggers of the capitalist class and the architects of a communist world. This will be the final result of the class struggle—a fight to the death between workers and capitalists.
We are locked in a war without quarter against our exploiters. To win it we need to understand clearly that there is no good capitalist-imperialist or their government, and that our struggle has to be directly for communism, not socialism, which is state capitalism.
Neither can we win this war without organization. We need a communist party—the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP). This must incorporate into its ranks and those of its Red Army the masses of farmworkers, industrial workers, soldiers and youth.
To minimize casualties and guarantee the functioning of the Party under all conditions, it must be clandestine. In some countries, with less repressive governments, our Party functions more publicly. However, we understand that we are an illegal Party, and that we must build a parallel clandestine organization.
Join ICWP and help organize it massively and clandestinely. Let’s guarantee the victory of communism and the end of capitalism-imperialism by helping to mobilize the masses for communism.
The two most dangerous countries in Latin America for environmentalists are Brazil and Honduras. Peru is next and then Colombia. According to the magazine Global Witness, from 2002 to 2013, 908 environmentalists have been killed. The majority of these deaths have gone unpunished. To this should be added a long list of social environmentalist activists in sectors like mining, the struggle in defense of water, in defense of the land, the struggle against genetically modified organisms, among others, who are subjected to threats, intimidation, beatings, forced disappearances, and imprisonment.