The imperialist system is going through the most severe crisis since the 1930s. The current attempts to address and overcome the crisis only serve to deepen and extend it.
The structural
crisis that emerged in the field of finance has gradually extended to
the field of production, bringing about a deepening recession. The
crisis proceeds under the law of uneven development within the pursuit
of the maximum extortion of surplus value and the contention on the
world market.
The crisis has its origin in the laws of running of
the capitalist system itself. It is the expression of the limits of
production for profit, and the contradiction between productive forces
and relations of production, including the general and global nature of
the production and private appropriation. In the world scene this means
an ever growing gap between the wealth of a handful of imperialist
countries and the poverty of three quarters of human beings in the
countries oppressed by imperialism, between the wealth in the hands of
the bourgeoisie and the relative and absolute impoverishment of
proletarians and masses in the imperialist countries , between the
overflowing richness of a parasitic and comprador bourgeoisie and the
living conditions of misery and hunger of the proletariat and broad
masses in the countries oppressed by imperialism.
It is clear that a system dominated by these laws, these dynamics, can only go into crisis, and overproduction and capital surplus become factors of crisis.
The
phenomena of heightened and speculative “financialization” are the tip
of the iceberg of the dynamics of the system, which become point of
implosion and explosion.
The “financialization” of the economy – the main immediate cause of the crisis – tends to reject any control.
So the efforts of capitalism and its ruling imperialist powers to get
out of crisis through regulation and control of the financial markets
and use of the opportunities offered by high growth rates, even if
disarticulated, of some countries such as China, India and Brazil have
so far not succeeded. Although these efforts should not be
underestimated, they cannot ensure more than a temporary recovery, one
which opens the door to new and even more distressing crises.
The
world is still faced with two possibilities: the exit from capitalism
or a painful temporary recovery from this crisis by strengthening,
enhancing the mechanisms of capital and thus prolonging the misery of
the masses.
The
imperialist bourgeoisie all over the world take advantage of the crisis
to restructure imperialism on a global scale and save the interests of
their class for their profits.
This
leads to unloading the vicious weight of the crisis on the workers and
masses. In both the oppressed countries and imperialist countries,
unemployment, job insecurity and the cost of living increase,
exploitation is ratcheted up to modern forms of slavery, workers' rights
are reduced, social achievements won through years of struggles are
erased, factories are closed with massive layoffs, peasants are ruined
and driven to suicide, cuts in social expenditures and privatization of
education and healthcare grow, the logic of commodification and profit
is extended even to primary goods, such as water, air, sun, etc..
These
policies are carried out within the contention for domination on the
imperialist world market and geopolitical strategic areas, but the
unitary character of the policies to unload crisis on the proletarians
and the masses is emphatically clear.
The
policy of imperialism accentuates and makes more and more catastrophic
the effects of the system in terms of ecological and natural disasters.
Imperialism transforms factors of development in the field
of science, culture and education, information technology, access to
media, communication, extension of the freedom of young people and the
processes of emancipation of women, into new and more refined chains. In
the context of crisis this results in massive intellectual
unemployment, social control and most extreme forms of barbarism, new
neo medieval attacks on women's rights and the regimentation of youth.
The
balance of power among the imperialists is in a flux. Though the US
still remains the sole super power its capacities have been considerably
weakened, by the resistance of is victims and the crisis. This gave
some room for the EU grouping. However similar factors have negatively
impacted on their position too. Russia had not been affected so much by
the crisis. Through its axis with China and consolidating ties with
erstwhile Soviet Union republics, it has gained some advantage and has
stepped up contention. Overall collusion is still principal in
inter-imperialist relations. But imperialism in crisis, develops within
it contradictions that can become potential sources of a new world war.
Imperialist powers, mainly the US, unleash and accentuate wars of
aggression, invasion, and neo-colonialism in the different regions of
the world where their interests are vital or threatened. In developing
these wars, it continues with the arms race and gets equipped with more
and more devastating military instruments, surpassing all limits
enshrined in international conventions and human rights.
One
or the other form of fascistic control has always been the norm in
oppressed countries, even where a parliamentary system exists. In recent
years, a tendency to modern fascism grows inside the imperialist
countries also. This takes shape according to the characteristics of
history, the reality and the culture of each country. It strives to
establish once again the totalitarian, racist, securitarian and
police-state forms of the rule of the bourgeoisie.
Imperialism is poverty, reaction and war. The crisis reveals that welfare, democracy and peace become more and more words that cover an opposite substance.
The
devastating economic crisis of imperialism and its impact on
proletarians and the broad masses have awakened worldwide a wave of
struggles and revolts.
In
the countries oppressed by imperialism, the protests, rebellions and
liberation struggles have found in the revolts in Arab countries and in
the Persian Gulf a new height and a new dawn. Young people, proletarians
and the masses and, in some cases, organized sectors of workers,
attacked and overthrew dictatorial regimes subservient to imperialism
that seemed permanent. This has paved the way for new anti-imperialist,
anti-Zionist, anti-feudal, new-democratic revolutions.
False
anti-imperialist regimes, such as those of Libya, Syria, Iran, and
openly pro-imperialist ones such as those in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain.
Yemen, Morocco, Algeria, as well as the military regimes that have
replaced the reactionary tyrants in Tunisia and Egypt, unleashed
massacres and repression. Hiding under the flag of democracy imperialism
intervened in these struggles and maneuvered to remove unreliable
regimes and replace worn out servitors with new ones. It launched a war
and occupied Libya. But the wave of "Arab springtimes" continue.
Globally they have achieved an important position as a new front in the
battle between imperialism and the peoples. They join those existing in
Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. In these countries, the occupation and
invasions of imperialists and Zionists have faced heavy resistance. This
forced them to reshape their occupation plans and prevented them in a
substantial manner from realizing their aims. Apart from the Arab and
West Asian countries, people in Latin America, Africa and other regions
of Asia have repeatedly taken to the streets to resist the attacks on
their livelihoods. The persistent and growing labor strikes and peasant
struggles in China is notable.
In this new wave of struggle and resistance we must support and strengthen the struggle for the liberation of peoples and for new democracy, towards socialism and communism, and oppose the pro-Western and Islamist currents which ride the tiger of people’s struggles in order to impose new chains and new subordination to the reactionary classes and their masters of all time, imperialism, mainly of the U.S. and Europe.
The
wave of unrest, flaring up of rebellions and struggles involving
hundreds of thousands of youth in the imperialist countries is a
distinguishing feature of the present world. The exciting uprisings of
the proletarian youth, which shakes the imperialist citadels, marks the
entry of a new generation. Facing a life without a future, through their
rebellions they shout "it is right to rebel" and declare that it is
capitalism that has no future. Now fused, now in parallel, this
development is coupled to a rise in labor struggles. General strikes
have summoned to action the whole workers movement, especially in
countries hit hardest by the crisis Greece, Spain, Italy...
The
workers' struggles have had a new development in Eastern Europe, where
to the bite of wild capitalism following the collapse of false socialist
regimes, was added the quick transformation into systems even worse
than before.
New
waves of immigrants flock to the imperialist countries in hope of a
better life. They flee from poverty and war devastations caused by these
countries. To reach their destinations they have to put their lives at
risk through untold suffering which often turn the seas into cemeteries.
The imperialists respond with harsh anti-immigrant laws and racism. The
emergence of modern fascism, of police states, the growing frequency of
wars of aggression and anti-immigrant laws have been responded to by
the masses through the development of anti-fascist and anti-racist
movements, and broad movements against the war.
This
is the context in which a potential new wave of the world proletarian
revolution develops and emerges. It has as its reference points and
strategic anchor the people's wars led by Maoist parties.
To
this we must add the preparation of several new people's wars,
particularly in Turkey and South Asia, with the potential for it in
Latin America, and throughout the rest of the world, with the
constitution of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist (MLM) communist
parties.
In this framework, the new MLM communist parties in the imperialist
countries represent the potential for a quantum leap in revolutionary
struggle and the unity of the two currents of the world proletarian
revolution: the socialist revolution in the imperialist countries and
the new democratic revolution, marching towards socialism, in the
countries oppressed by imperialism.
All this shows that the principal contradiction in the world is that between imperialism and oppressed peoples, while both
the contradictions between the proletariat and bourgeoisie and the
inter-imperialist contradictions also sharpen. In the crisis it is
increasingly clear that the revolution is the main trend.
In
the current international situation the task of communists is to make
revolution in the different countries, because the revolution is the
only solution to the crisis, the only way
out from imperialism and the only road to achieve the ultimate goal of
the struggles of the proletarians and oppressed people.
This demands the
strengthening and building of MLM communist parties in each country, as
a new kind of communist party, as vanguard detachments of the
proletariat and leading core of all the people, as a party fighting for
the revolution.
In the countries oppressed by imperialism the perspective of people's war is advancing. In India, the people's
war led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) successfully
withstands unprecedented attacks by the enemy and is able to expand and
advance. The people's war in the Philippines led by the Communist Party
of the Phillipines advances and establishes itself as an important part
of the wave of world revolution. The people's war in Peru, initiated
under the leadership of the Communist Party of Peru led by chairman
Gonzalo remains an ideological and strategic beacon for the whole
international communist movement. Though it faces setback due to the
attacks of the enemy and from revisionists within the party, the
struggle to overcome these hurdles persists. In Nepal ten years of
people's war enriched the history and experience of the international
communist movement and made significant advance towards the victory of
the new democratic revolution. In recent years, however, a revisionist
line that betrays the people’s war and the revolution emerged, headed by
Prachanda and Bhattarai. The Maoists within the United Communist Party
of Nepal (Maoist) [UCPN(M)] must save the revolution and resume its
march by revolting against that line and standing firm against centrist
vacillations, inside and outside the party. In Turkey, the revolutionary
struggles led by the Maoists are advancing in the pursuit of the
people's war strategy suited to the conditions of this country, placed
as it is amidst two international theatres, the European imperialist
countries and the regimes ruled by the reactionaries in West Asia. In
other countries of South Asia and Latin America, the people's war is in
preparation for new beginnings and progresses. It is a task of
communists around the world to put into the practice the proletarian
internationalism, popularize and support the people’s wars and
revolutionary struggles.
In
the imperialist countries, electoralism, parliamentarism and political
and union reformism are increasingly in crisis and, through this,
revisionism is bankrupt. The need of a revolutionary organization and a
revolutionary strategy to overthrow the bourgeoisie and seize the power
is increasingly advancing and strengthening in the workers and people's
movements.. The idea that as long as the proletarians are not in power
it is an illusion to think that their lot will improve
is
growing. The workers' struggles and the uprisings of proletarians and
young people must coordinate and grow within a perspective of
overthrowing the governments and states of the imperialist bourgeoisie,
for the seizure of power by the proletariat.
In
order to transform these needs into reality, these movements into
revolution, we need to build MLM communist parties, in the fire of class
struggle and in close link with the masses, for the proletarian
revolution, with the MLM strategy of the revolutionary war culminating
with the insurrection, adapted to each country according to the concrete
conditions.
In all countries
we
need communist parties based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, able to lead
the class struggle in all fields and aimed at seizing the political
power. In each country the Maoist communists strive to answer this need
for a scientific and determined leadership for the class struggle, by
fighting all kinds of revisionist and reformist, or dogmatist and
extremist deviations, in all their forms.
Our class can rely on the huge amount of experience through 140 years of struggles and revolutions, from the birth of the glorious
Paris Commune through the peaks of the October Revolution, the Chinese
revolution and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We must learn
from both our victories and defeats, from our correctness as well as
from our mistakes.
Always
in their entire history, the communists have built, participated and
counted on an international organization of the proletariat and the
oppressed masses. Without the First, the Second and Third International,
the communist movement would not have spread to every corner of the
world, neither would it have achieved its great victories, and would not have learned the lessons from its temporary defeats.
The battle of Mao Tsetung
was an international battle that paved the way to the revival of
communist parties after the establishment of Kruschevite revisionism in
the international communist movement.
After
Mao's death and the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution,
the formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM)
has allowed the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists in the world to begin to unite
on an international scale, to resume the march towards a new Communist
International.
Today,
facing the crisis and the collapse of the RIM, we must rebuild the
international organization of MLM parties and organizations on the basis
of the positive and negative experiences of the RIM.
The current situation presents the need to unite in this new
organization all the MLM parties and organizations, inside and outside
the RIM, for a political and organizational leap. This is necessary to
put the communist movement at the height of the class struggle in the
new century. Thus the needs of the proletariat and the oppressed masses,
facing the impact of the crisis of imperialism, can be met.
The
new international organization must unite in its ranks the genuine MLM
parties and organizations that exist and operate in the class struggle,
that transform the revolutionary theory into revolutionary practice,
that are able to be an advanced and integrant part of the proletariat
and the oppressed masses, getting rid of all the old and new waste, not
only of revisionism but also of the petty bourgeois revolutionaries and
the self-referring "virtualism".
To
build this new international organization we must break with
revisionism in all its aspects and particularly with those that have led
to the current crisis and collapse of the RIM, namely the post-MLM 'new
synthesis' of Bob Avakian in the Revolutionary Communist Party,US and
the revisionist line established by Prachanda/Bhattarai in the UCPN(M).
The new international organization should have an executive centre, whose internal life must
correspond to the stage and methods shared by the political parties and
forces that give life to this organization, particularly taking lesson
from the positive and negative experiences of the CoRim.
The
international organization of MLM communists is and should be the core
of a front, of an international anti-imperialist alliance of the
proletarians and oppressed peoples.
It
is this that will allow the MLM communist parties to establish and
develop Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, realize a new unity of the
international communist movement, place it at the van of worldwide
people’s struggles and fully unleash and realize the potential new wave
of world revolution.
Imperialism has no future! The future belongs to communism!
for SM of RIM
signed and diffused from
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan;
Communist Party of India (M-L) [Naxalbari];
Maoist Communist Party - Italy;
May first 2012
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