ITALIA: Declaración del PCm de Italia sobre Mandela (versión en ingles)

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