With 35 people, the back room of
Café Commune in Kreuzberg was filled up for our event about the
Revolutionary Student Movement (RSM) in Canada.
Following an introduction by
Jugendwiderstand, which stressed that universities (especially in
Germany) are a hotbed for agents of imperialism with only a minority of
proletarian students who nevertheless should be considered, organised
and mobilised within the class struggle by revolutionaries, the visiting
former member of the Revolutionary Student Movement from Canada began
his presentation.
He explained the character, position,
methods of work, evolution and perspectives of the RSM, which has become
the largest anti-capitalist student organisation in Canada with
sections from coast to coast, having even mobilised tens of thousands in
the Spring of 2015 in Canada-wide protests. This enormous revolutionary
development began as an initiative of the Maoist Revolutionary
Communist Party (PCR * RCP) and grew through a creative application of
the mass line. Interestingly, in addition to the generally different
economic conditions of studying in Canada (high tuition fees, direct
presence of monopoly capital at the top decision-making level of
universities), the greatest opposition faced by the comrades so far has
come from the supposed “Left”, namely revisionists, Trotskyists, and
social-democrats. However, there is positive cooperation and solidarity
with anarchists. The RSM also works as a mass organisation for the
theoretical and practical training of revolutionary cadre, who having
fulfilled specific conditions may then join the revolutionary party.
Core principles of the RSM include unity
with the general class struggle of the proletariat and with the
struggles of the various peoples of the world, struggling for reforms
openly with the aim of revolution, proletarian feminism, and the refusal
to collaborate with the Canadian state – since it is an instrument of
oppression of the bourgeois class and was built as a colonial state on
the blood of the First Nations.
After a few questions and some
discussion, the event came to a close around 9 pm. Additionally, there
was an information table with materials for the election boycott and
copies of the book “The Communist Necessity” by Canadian communist J.
Moufawad-Paul were available for sale. We were also particularly pleased
by the greeting from the Coordinating Committee of the RSM addressing
the event and Jugendwiderstand.
This event was a good internationalist
exchange and very interesting for proletarian and revolutionary youth in
Berlin. In addition, it served – as requested in the greeting of the
RSM – a greater unity between the struggles and organisations of the
youth of the working class and the people at the international level.
Solidarity and comradely greetings to
the MER-RSM and Canadian revolutionary youth inside and outside the
universities! Long live proletarian internationalism!
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