The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has recorded its disgust at the French with the military, deadly and arrogant intervention in Mali.

“FITUG, whilst respecting the United Nations Security Council resolutions and even the good intentions of the West African bloc – ECOWAS, cannot condone the naked, rampant aggression by a Western power like France, seemingly eager to demonstrate the colonial domination it once had in that part of resource-rich Africa, FITUG said in a press statement yesterday.
“We know that the real objective of the France-NATO-American alliance is the minerals in Mali. Like the World Peace Council, FITUG understands that their “goal are the energy resources which are object of fierce rivalry between imperialist forces and centres, which however, go hand in hand with the slaughter of the peoples under various pretexts each time.
“We must express our outrage about the new crime of imperialist France, which in recent years, particularly, has earned a reputation of being one of the foremost imperialist war-mongering countries, together with London and Washington. This latest venture in Mali calls to mind French intervention in Cote d’Ivore, Libya, Syria/Lebanon and its presence in other previously French colonial enclaves in the African continent.
“Clearly this aggression is in keeping with imperialism’s new ‘Scramble in Africa’ aimed at plundering its riches further, set up or prop up neo-colonialist regimes and exercise world hegemony.
“Like our esteemed international trade union body, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), we echo their sentiments that:-
The military intervention was presented as a response to the request of the Malian President, Dioncounda Traore, the President who was appointed in his position after the military coup of last March.
“This French-led military operation in its former colony has been joined by Britain, Germany and the European Union, as well as USA, Canada and ECOWAS, all of whom have already been sending troops and air force to Mali and have been providing their support according to the December resolution of the United Nations Security Council.
“After the genocide in Rwanda and the demolition of Libya, France continues to use the military bases it maintains in Africa in order to strengthen its role in the inter-imperialist competition and to serve the interests of its monopoly groups who are plundering the wealth-producing resources (gold, uranium etc.).
“This orchestrated conflict between all the belligerents is another bloody show in the wounded African Continent, with the African people paying a heavy toll, aiming for the protection of the French interests in the uranium mines found in Tuareg areas of the West-African Region, the inter-imperialist competition for the control of the wealth-producing resources of Mali and the placement of puppet-governments in the African countries serving the leading imperialist forces.
“FITUG joins all international working people representative bodies in denouncing this openiy imperialist intervention in Africa.
“France and its greedy allies must vacate Mali now. Let the Malian people solve their internal challenges as the independent nation which they are.”