[UAH] THIS WAS ADOPTED JUNE 26TH IN ALGIERS

MOTION ADOPTED BY ACCLAMATION

 

We -- political activists, trade unionists, elected officials, workers, and youth, coming from 48 wilayas [provinces] throughout Algeria -- met on June 28, 2013, in the Great Hall of the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA) in an internationalist rally, co-chaired by the general secretary of the Workers Party (PT) and the general secretary of the UGTA, in defense of the integrity, unity and sovereignty of Algeria.

 

We welcomed the presence at our rally of speakers from the United States, Spain, France, Turkey, Haiti, Pakistan, and a representative of the Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OUSA), which regroups 53 African trade union federations. All came to express their support to the Algerian people and to affirm their commitment to organize the broadest-based mobilizations in defense of Algeria against any possible foreign military intervention, any attack on its sovereignty and integrity, as announced by the deployment of U.S. Marines and U.S. fighter aircraft in Seville, Andalusia (Spain), and in the south of Italy under the pretext of fighting against terrorism and chaos.

 

This intervention is also being actively prepared by the sneaky and aggressive campaign by NGOs, CANVAS, Freedom House, NED, etc. -- all promoted by the CIA. These NGOs are seeking to interfere in Algeria's affairs with the aim of destabilizing our country in the framework of the so-called Arab Spring, thus preparing the conditions for a military intervention.

 

And the threat comes at a time when, as a result of their mobilizations and struggles, the workers and youth of Algeria are reconquering social rights that had been crushed by the Structural Adjustment Plans (SAPs) imposed by the IMF and the World Bank.

 

We know it: These gains run counter to the dictates imposed by the institutions of capital and as such are bound to disturb the governments and institutions in their service.

 

At a moment when the Algerian people are preparing to commemorate on July 5, 2013, the 51st anniversary of Algeria's independence, a date that coincides with the end of the 50th anniversary celebrations, and faithful to the traditions of the Algerian Revolution, while also convinced of the need to organize and strengthen solidarity and mutual assistance between the workers and the peoples to stop the rampant barbarism, we reaffirm our commitment to defend our nation and to oppose the imperialist wars of occupation and plunder, all of which, far from liberating the peoples from dictatorship or terrorism, in fact sow chaos, destroy nations, and mortgage every chance of progress and democracy. This is the case in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Mali, Libya, and many other countries in Africa and Asia.

 

We take a stand for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Africa and elsewhere.

 

In agreement with the representative of Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OUSA), we reaffirm our commitment to national sovereignty and peace, as well as our rejection of the plundering of natural resources in our continent through foreign debt and the SAPs.

 

We heard the testimony from the president of the All Pakistan Trade Union Federation (APTUF). We declare that U.S. imperialism is guilty and responsible for the bloody chaos in Pakistan, a country that was dragged into a dislocating war in the immediate aftermath of the aggression perpetrated in 2001 against Afghanistan by NATO, under U.S. leadership, in the framework of the so-called Greater Middle East plan, which aims to carve up nations from Pakistan to Mauritania on ethnic, religious and communitarian bases.

 

U.S. officials justify the deployment of U.S. Marines in Spain and Italy on the basis of the instability in North Africa. They have targeted Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt .... But the fact is that the proliferation of terrorist activity in the region is the direct result of the NATO intervention in Libya in 2011 and more recently in Mali; this latter intervention having transformed the Sahel region into a literal tinderbox.

 

And despite the deadly consequences of arming the rebels in Libya -- and by extension in Mali and Syria -- U.S. imperialism and its European and Arab auxiliaries (Qatar and Saudi Arabia) decided to arm an opposition force in Syria, which includes a branch of El Qaeda as an essential component of its military contingent, thereby setting into motion a generalized civil war in Syria, but also in Lebanon.

 

Down with the terrorist international war that is aimed at dislocating nations in the service of imperialist appetites!

 

A Haitian Senator at our rally described the tragedy of the Haitian people. We add our voices to those of the Haitian people -- and of the workers and peoples of the Americas and the Caribbean -- all of whom are demanding the withdrawal of the UN-MINUSTAH troops that have been occupying Haiti for the past nine years.

 

After hearing the speakers from the United States, France and Spain, we declare our full solidarity with the workers and peoples of Europe and the United States, who are taking a stand to defend their rights and conquests against their own governments -- all of which have unleashed wars against the nations, interfering in the internal affairs of the countries to subject them to the looting by the multinational corporations.

 

After hearing the intervention of a Turkish member of Congress, we extend our fraternal greetings to the youth, the workers and the popular sectors who are mobilizing in Turkey and Brazil for true democracy and for the reconquest of their social rights.

 

We -- political and trade union activists, workers and youth, faithful to the 1.5 million martyrs who sacrificed their lives so that Algeria could reclaim its freedom and sovereignty -- wish to recall the following:

 

The Algerian people have sacrificed so much to be free from the yoke of colonialism, from oppression and exploitation, in order to establish for themselves a sovereign state, and to reclaim the conditions for a dignified life, with the recovery of their freedom and peace.

 

That is why, despite the 10 years of war of terrorism in the 1990s, the Algerian nation did not fall, having drawn its strength to resist in the Algerian Revolution.

 

We denounce the relentless foreign pressure on the Algerian government to renounce its economic sovereignty and foreign policy with the aim of making Algeria play the same role imposed on Pakistan in the region, that is, involving Algeria in the wars of occupation-looting.

 

We refuse to grant the imperialist powers the right to decide, in the place of the Algerian people, the form and content of the institutions that Algeria needs to exercise its sovereignty, to choose its representatives and leaders, and to define the economic and social policies that correspond to its own needs.

 

We pledge our unwavering commitment to defend, side by side with all the components of the Algerian people, the integrity and sovereignty of Algeria, as well as the right of the Algerian nation to decide how to determine the use of its plentiful resources, its present and its future, without interference or external threats.

 

Algeria will live free, proud and sovereign over the whole of its territory. We so solemnly pledge.

 

- Algiers, June 28, 2013

 

 

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