Dear comrades of Anti-Imperialist Action, dear comrades all here,
I bring you revolutionary greetings from maoist Communist Party - Italy PI.
It is an honor for us to
participate in this important commemoration, which marks a
significant milestone in the liberation struggle of the Irish people
in particular, and in the struggle of the peoples of the world and of
the class struggle in general.
These have been three significant
days in which we have honored our martyrs, of us all, because those
who shed their blood for the freedom of the Irish people have
contributed to the struggle of all peoples and of the international
proletariat, and have contributed to a step forward for the
PWR.
During these three days, we have not merely commemorated,
but rather reaffirmed our commitment to the path shown by the Irish
Citizen Army in 1916, which is still valid today: the proletariat and
the peoples need their own organization and their own people's army
to free themselves from the imperialist yoke and to conquer political
power.
The experience of 1916, though bloodily repressed, sent a
clear message: we must take advantage of the contradictions of the
bourgeoisie, particularly the inter-imperialist contradictions, and
strike at the enemy. In this context, the following year the
Bolshevik Party, led by Lenin, succeeded in seizing power and,
through the Red Army of workers and peasants, crushed the White
reaction and the imperialist invasion.
In the current phase, the
tendency toward a Third World War is advancing, manifesting itself in
wars of aggression against peoples, from Ukraine to Iran, and
Palestine too. At the same time, we are witnessing reactionarization
and fascism in both the PI and the Podal I, with the increased
oppression of the masses and the proletariat, and the intensification
of the exploitation of the working class. But where there is
oppression, there is rebellion!
Mao said, there are just
wars and unjust wars; that is, the former are revolutionary, while
the latter are reactionary. The former are revolutions and national
liberation struggles, while the latter are those of aggression and
plunder against the peoples of the world, which cause proletarians to
massacre each others.
Communists can and must be an active
participant in this contradiction.
As the glorious experience of
the October Revolution led by Lenin's party teaches us, the point is
not to be "against war" but rather how to act, how to
counter imperialism's plans, or if war breaks out, how to manage
it—precisely how to manage this contradiction to advance the
Revolution's plan.
Today, faced with the military aggression against Iran by Yankee imperialism and the Zionist entity, our watchwords in Italy are:
On the side of Iran, on the side of the proletarians and popular
masses of Iran, with the Palestinian resistance and all the Arab
masses of the Middle East under attack.
Support all the blows
inflicted on US imperialism and the Zionist state of Israel,
aggressors, warmongers, and genociders.
Denounce the complicity
and participation of all imperialist governments and states.
Against
the Arab bureaucratic-comprador bourgeoisies, servants of imperialism
and Zionism, enemies of their peoples.
For the
international unity of the proletarians and peoples of the region,
for the unity of the proletarians and popular masses of the
imperialist countries and the proletarians, nations, and peoples
oppressed by imperialism.
Against the global
inter-imperialist war.
Against the Meloni government, complicit
and servant of US imperialism/Trump, and the Nazi-style Zionist
state/Netanyahu, which drags the country into war and unloads the
costs of rearmament and wars on the Italian proletariat and masses:
high living costs, jobs, and an attack on the democracy, peace, and
freedom desired by the masses.
As in the aftermath of October 7th, our main political
action nowadays is against the Meloni government and the Italian
imperialist state, which supports Zionism in Italy and around the
world and is a member of NATO.
Within the general framework
of uneven development among imperialist countries—and this is the
key point—the Italian imperialist bourgeoisie derives a relative
benefit from being complicit and part of NATO. In an imperialist
country like Italy, anyone who adopts the slogan "NO NATO, NO
EU" is adopting a chauvinistic and nationalist position and
confusing workers and the masses by directly or indirectly assuming
that Italy is an oppressed country, which it is not.
While we
oppose our domestic imperialism and imperialism in general, at the
same time we must support all the just wars i.e. the national
liberation struggles and the people's wars being waged in India and
the Philippines led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the
Communist Party of the Philippines respectively because they
represent the most advanced struggles of the communists with the aim
of size the political power, in a context where the ICM is divided
into numerous streams, there is no socialist country to serve as a
red base for the World Proletarian Revolution, and the People's Wars
themselves and the armed struggles led by Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
communist parties in India, the Philippines, Turkey, and Northern
Kurdistan are all in the strategic defensive phase. Finally, in
imperialist and capitalist countries, we are still struggling to
emerge from the ebb that began in the 1980s.
In this difficult
context in which we find ourselves operating, however, the
opportunity to make a qualitative leap forward from a subjective
point of view is provided precisely by the contradictions generated
by the global capitalist-imperialist system. To quote Antonio
Gramsci: "when all is, or seems, lost, one must calmly return
to work, starting again from the beginning."
This
beginning is actually a "new beginning." We are not
starting from 0, but must treasure the positive and negative aspects
of the entire experience of the proletariat and the people, starting
with the victories (the Paris Commune, the October Revolution, the
Chinese Revolution) and, all the experiences of our class, as we
mentioned earlier, the insurrection of the Irish Citizen Army.
We
believe that today, the first step for communists is to found
revolutionary Communist Parties of a new kind, that is, through a
process of construction that takes place in the fire of class
struggle and in close connection with the masses, because it is
only in class struggle that party cadres are forged. The masses
produce the vanguards of struggles that can become potential
communist leaders, and furthermore, the process is dialectical, as
Mao said, "from the masses to the masses." The experience
of the masses in the class struggle is an objective and continuous
fact. It is up to the communist vanguards to first "learn from
the masses" and then rework this experience at higher and more
theoretical levels, returning it to the masses as an invincible
weapon to fight the imperialist system.
The new type of
communist parties to be built, guided by Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
ideology, are first and foremost vanguard parties of the working
class and can undertake this process of construction only if they
organize and lead these proletarian and popular struggles,
particularly workers' struggles, the true breeding ground for the
social revolt needed today.
At the same time, it is necessary
for Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communist parties and organizations to
organize an international MLM conference, with an agenda appropriate
to the current world situation and the concrete tasks of the
proletariat.
We believe that an international conference of this
kind should aim to create a new international MLM organization, which
has been lacking for 20 years following the collapse of the RIM.
Such
an organization, understood as a revolutionary political center, not
merely an anti-imperialist coordination body, would not only be
better able to conduct the revolutionary and anti-imperialist
struggle globally, but would also provide a boost to the struggle of
all comrades in different countries, as the history of the RIM has
demonstrated.
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Long
live the struggle of the proletariat and the oppressed!
Long
live the immortal example of the Irish Citizen Army!
