1st
Resolution passed by the Special Meeting of the
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties and Organizations of the
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement – May First 2012
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!
Signed and spread by:
Communist Party of India (M-L) [Naxalbari]
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
Maoist
Communist Party - Italy.
