Blood for Gold: Capitalist Genocide in the Americas here ♦ Costa Rica: State Impunity in “Indigenous Leaders’ Murders here ♦
Blood for Gold: Capitalist Genocide in the Americas
On October 12, 1492, known in the US as “Columbus Day,” America was not discovered; it was massacred. That date was the beginning of the invasion, destruction, devastation, and colonization of the American continent. With the conquest of America, capitalism developed and spread like a lethal virus worldwide.
It is the story of a mass genocide, shedding blood for gold and enriching the powerful that has continued to this day, both by the European imperialist powers and by the US imperialists. It was an occupation accompanied by ethnic cleansing, exploitation, and enslavement. It is not a date of commemoration or celebration. It is a date marked by blood.
We must reject old, misguided policies. No nationalist movement with its protests has returned the land to the Indigenous peoples. Nationalism won’t liberate any workers. It is a dead end for the working class. This cycle of slaughter can only be ended by a communist revolution. By building a mass International Communist Workers’ Party that fights directly for communism. We now have the correct political line: mobilize the masses for communism and nothing less.
We are an international party which rejects all forms of nationalism. Throughout history the struggles of our class show that we can win. With the unity of the entire working class, industrial workers, farmers, and all “races.”
Join ICWP and help build it worldwide to get rid of capitalism, imperialism, all nationalism, completely eradicating racism, sexism, xenophobia, slavery, and genocide.
Costa Rica: Outrage at State Impunity and Complicityin the murders of indigenous leaders Sergio Rojas and Jerhy Rivera!
Costa Rica is a State that supposedly prides itself on being respectful of human rights, protector of the environment and an authentic expression of social, political and economic stability. Yet as a result of historical structural violence, indigenous peoples here continue to be victims of a systematic wave of aggression in all dimensions of their lives.
In the recent ruling of September 19, 2024, the Court of Appeals of Pérez Zeledón acquitted Juan Eduardo Varela, confessed murderer of Jerhy Rivera. This decision violated human rights and also the ancestral rights of native peoples.
We denounce this ruling that responds to the interests of the usurpers called landowners. They represent voracious, invading and extractivist capitalism in indigenous territories. These territories have been legitimately ratified at the national and international level. Thus, this vile murder, like a year earlier when the indigenous leader Sergio Rojas was gunned down, is a dialectical synthesis of the intentions of the economic power – including the State – to snatch the territories of indigenous peoples. This is a political scenario where the lack of will and the ineffectiveness of the judicial system and organs of the State increase day by day. The government is ignoring binding national and international legislation.
The Collective in Support of Doña Digna (Jerhy’s mother) has accompanied and followed this long judicial process and has drawn up a vote of censure in the respective Criminal Court. More than 900 organizations, collectives of the social, popular and trade union movements, and activists at the national and international level are supporting this struggle. They are demanding that the Costa Rican State cease impunity in these cases.
Recently, on Friday, October 18, this vote of censure was delivered in Chamber I of the Supreme Court of Justice and presented at a press conference in the Legislative Assembly. Comrades Fanny Reyes Ortiz, Bröran indigenous leader of the Network of Rural Women of Costa Rica; Zeidy Brukwä Rodríguez Guerra, Ngöbe indigenous leader of the National Front of Indigenous Peoples participated. They did so under the moderation of Rocío Alfaro Molina, deputy of the Broad Front, in solidarity with this struggle.
We join the indigenous communities in general, and Doña Digna in particular. They and we will not rest in defending their rights. They are turning Sergio and Jerhy, murdered for defending their territories, culture, rights and their lives, into seeds of struggle and resistance, in the face of a capitalist, patriarchal, colonialist and racist State.
Movement of Workers and Peasants – MTC
Costa Rica
No more impunity!
Justice for the indigenous Sergio and Jerhy!
Respect for the autonomy of the native peoples of Costa Rica and the world!
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