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Final Declaration Of The Workers’ Summit Of The Americas
By Fight Back News - June 16, 2022
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Above Photo: Participants in the Workers’ Summit of the Americas.

We, representatives of Trade Union, Peasant, Political and Social
organizations, gathered in Tijuana – Mexico, June 10-12, 2022, on the
occasion of the realization of the Summit of the Americas of the Working
Men and Women Workers, in immediate response to the exclusion of Venezuela,
Cuba, and Nicaragua imposed by the Government of the United States.

There is a systemic and structural crisis of capitalism in its imperialist
phase. It is in itself a civilizational crisis. The capitalist economic
model and its political arm neoliberalism, as well as its modern cultural
foundation, have put the planet’s life in crisis. If not eliminated,
imperialism’s necropolitics leads us to the planetary collective suicide,
which is more lacerating in the sectors less favored by the current world
system. Our position is a bet for life, and the empire offers us death: it
is either life or death!

We are witnessing a process of recolonization over the people. This is
expressed in the excessive growth of racism, poverty, unemployment, job
insecurity, environmental deterioration of territories, criminalization of
migration, and gender and cultural violence. For this reason, we call upon
the programmatic unity of the American continent’s workers, peasants, and
progressive and popular forces to reflect, debate, and take concrete action
to combat the labor and social violence applied to our peoples by the U.S.
and Canadian governments.

We consider that the working class of the 21st century will only be able to
play an independent and central role if – in addition to fighting for the
most heartfelt demands of the labor movement – it assumes the struggle
against patriarchy together with the feminist movement, the struggle of the
native peoples against climate change and the defense of the biosphere
together with the youth and the broad spectrum of professionals and
scientists.

We must build articulations and alliances in which we structure our common
forces for a unique and global struggle. Globalize the struggles. Build new
organic forms of the working class from the political-cultural to the
socio-productive to overcome capitalism and build socialism.

A robust internationalism is needed to pay adequate and immediate attention
to the dangers of extinction: extinction by nuclear war, climate
catastrophe, and social collapse. *In this regard, we agree:*

To promote active solidarity with the peoples and sovereign nations (Cuba,
Nicaragua, and Venezuela) and the other peoples of the world “sanctioned”
and attacked by economic blockades and unilateral coercive measures imposed
by the U.S. and its allies.

To hold an annual meeting in Tijuana, Mexico, with the workers and social
movements of the Americas to express solidarity with the peoples of
Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua and their revolutions to repudiate
unilateral coercive measures against sovereign governments.

To constitute a Committee for the organization of the Meetings to be held
annually in the North and South of Mexico, integrated by: Unión del Barrio
of the USA, Movimiento Social Por la Tierra de México (MST), Sindicato
Mexicano Electricista (SME), Alianza por la Justicia Global of the USA,
Central Bolivariana Socialista de Trabajadores de Venezuela, Central de
Trabajadores de Cuba, Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo de Nicaragua
(ATC), Movimiento Magisterial Popular de Veracruz Mexico, Fire This Time of
Canada, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) of the USA,
International Action Center (IAC) of the USA, Task Force on the Americas of
the USA and the Plataforma de la Clase Obrera Antimperialista (PCOA).

Demand the immediate release of Alex Saab. He is a Venezuelan diplomat
kidnapped by the U.S. and illegally detained in its territory since October
16, 2021. Saab’s arrest is an action that attacks diplomatic immunity, a
right guaranteed by international law to any diplomatic official in the
exercise of his duties.

Reaffirm the resolutions agreed upon at the Meeting of the Peoples of the
Americas, held June 7-8, 2022, in Chiapas, Mexico.

To ratify our unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian and Saharawi
peoples.

Demand that the U.S. Congress immediately cut off military aid funds to El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti.

Promote a campaign to hold an international day of action in solidarity
with Cuba to be held when the U.N. General Assembly meets to condemn the
blockade against the Caribbean island.

Expand the “Bridges of Love” program to other countries and international
coordinate days on the last Sunday of each month in the form of caravans or
other activities.

Demand the immediate release of comrades Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier,
Iman Jamil Abdullah al-Amin and Julian Assange.

Demand the immediate release of the social fighter Simón Trinidad from
Colombia, who is deprived of liberty in prison in the USA.

To promote the regional integration of the anti-imperialist working class
of Our America and the participation in the strengthening of ALBA TCP,
CELAC, and UNASUR. In this sense, the Bolivarian Socialist Workers Central
of Venezuela will call a meeting for the 3rd quarter of 2022.

To promote a campaign against the U.S., NATO, and Colombia’s policies of
interference and expansionism and to ratify the declaration of Latin
America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace promoted by CELAC.

We reaffirm the Mexican Electricians Union workers’ demands for their
reinstatement in the Federal Electricity Commission.

We stand in solidarity with the Puerto Rican people and their dignified
struggle for independence and sovereignty.

ONLY THE WORKERS’ STRUGGLE WILL SAVE HUMANITY, NATURE, AND THE PLANET!!!!

*Co-sponsors include:*

   - Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ)
   - Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación de Baja
   California (CNTE – BC)
   - International Action Center
   - Plataforma de la Clase Obrera Antiimperialista (PCOA)
   - Freedom Road Socialist Organization
   - Union del Barrio
   - Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC)
   - Centro Community Service Organization (CSO)
   - CODEPINK
   - Central Bolivariana Socialista de Trabajadores (CBST) Venezuela
   - Boston School Bus Drivers Union – Local 8751
   - Fire This Time
   - University of Tijuana
   - Movimiento Magisterial Popular Veracruzano
   - Federación Bolivariana de Trabajadores del Transporte – Sectores
   Afines y Conexos (FBTTT)
   - The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)
   - 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
   - FUNDALATIN
   - The Task Force on the Americas
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