August 1, 2019 /New Epoch Media.
Following we publish a declaration of the Committees for the Foundation of the (maoist) Communist Party in Austria
In
July 1944, exactly 75 years ago, comrade Oskar Grossmann was murdered
by the Nazi-fascists in the prisons of torture in Lyon. We designate
following declaration to his anniversary of death, to burn the heritage
of this great son of the Austrian proletariat eternally in our hearts:
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
OSKAR GROSSMANN
IMMORTAL HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT AND THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AUSTRIA.
Declaration in the wake of the 100th year of the Communist Party of Austria
Oskar
Grossmann is the name of one of the 12 immortal heroes of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) that gave their lives
in the struggle against Nazi-fascism. He was also known as „Alexander
Schönau“ and „Lucien“ in the International Communist Movement. Comrade
Grossmann was a magnificent representative of the international
proletariat and an important leader of the working class in Austria. As
Communist organisation of the country in which comrade Grossmann was
most active in, as Communist organisation which struggles for the
reconstitution of the Communist Party, we want to make a declaration in
the 100th year of founding of the Communist Party of Austria, about his
life in the service of the Communist Party and his legacy for the
International Communist Movement.
Comrade
Grossmann came from the broadest layers of society, where everyday life
of families are characterized by financial problems and poverty. Even
facing such difficulties, Oskar Grossmann managed to finish his high
school final exams thanks to an insatiable hunger for knowledge and
discipline, both lifelong strong characteristics of his character. He
wasn’t able to finish his studies, for the poverty he lived under,
forced him to drop out of university not long after he had started.
Shortly before that, in 1920 at the age of 17 or 18 Comrade Grossmann
entered the Communist Youth League (KJV). He took this step during a
period in which the storms of the Austrian Revolution of 1918 calmed
down, the revolutionary wave rolled back and the Communist Party and its
mass organisations lost a great amount of its members. But where others
resignated and gave up the fight, Grossman went to work actively. With
the help of another of the 12 immortal heroes of the Central Committee,
the excellent comrade Alfred Klahr, comrade Grossmann rapidly took over
leading functions inside the Youth League. A memorial text of the
Central Committee of 1945 describes his task inside the Communist Youth
League as follows: „His personal life had ended for him, when he entered
the direction of the Communist Youth League in 1921 (or 1920?). Like
most members of the direction, he worked during the day and held
speeches and presentations for apprentices and young workers at night.
He was a captivating speaker. No phraseur, no speaker that played with
words. Each speech was loaded with the whole weight of the evidence he
was able to find.“ It’s of especial importance to us to uphold comrade
Grossmann’s important leading role inside the proletarian youth, because
the Communist Youth League, which was founded under the leadership and
direction of the Communist Party of Austria, also celebrates it’s 100th
year in 2018/19.
In
1930 after developing his agitatorial and propagandistic talent further
within the lines of the proletarian and revolutionary youth, comrade
Grossmann became an editor of the Red Flag, the central organ of the
party. Within this function, he became an important teacher of the most
progressive parts of the Austrian proletariat, where he never became
tired of teaching the workers within the compass that is the omnipotent
ideology of the proletariat, in those times Marxism-Leninism. He
understood how to present the most complicated relations with a clear
language and convincing methods and played an important role in
developing legions of communist proletarians. As an editor and developer
of the Red Flag he also today serves as an important example for
proletarian journalists and propagandists of the reconstitution of the
Communist Party.
From
the start to the middle of the 1930’s Comrade Grossmann was also the
delegate of the Communist Party of Austria inside the Executive
Committee of the Communist International and represented the party in
the Third International during the 7th World Congress, which would be of
incredible importance for the Communist Party of Austria. Because of
his works, even more attention was paid to important questions of the
Austrian proletariat by the Communist International, which proved to be a
great help to the working class in Austria. Comrade Oskar Grossmann
elaborated the profound and pioneering analysis of the armed uprising of
the Austrian proletariat in February 1934 through the leadership of the
Communist World Movement under Comrade Stalin. Comrade Grossmann wrote
under the command of this very same leadership the first summarized,
systematic document about the history of the Communist Party of Austria,
a document which even today, even though not long in size, is an
indespecible source for the understanding of the historical path of the
Communist Party of Austria.
Comrade
Grossmann was first sent to Czechoslowakia as part of the Central
Committee of the party and representative of the foreign direction.
After the invasion of the Nazi-Fascist beasts, the call of the party led
him to Paris, where he developed the foreign work of the KPÖ with
leadership and built the closest of relationships with the Communist
Party of France (PCF). In this work comrade Oskar Grossmann represented
from the beginning a conception, which did not see France as a „peaceful
Hinterland“ of the KPÖ, or that had a passive stance towards the
struggle of the Communist Party of France, but rather, supported on the
closest cooperation with the PCF, participated on the class struggle of
this important part of the front and correspond to the interests of the
international proletariat. Comrade Grossmann stayed in the
fascist-occupied territories after the German bourgeoisie had assaulted
France with its Wehrmacht. First he developed an enormous propagandistic
apparatus and for a really long time was inside the French anti-fascist
resistance and partisan movement the responsible person for the
agitation and propaganda in the ranks of german-speaking soldiers of the
Wehrmacht.
Adding
to innumerable leaflets, brochures and articles he wrote, he built the
illegal, anti-fascist newspapers „The Soldier in the West“ (Der Soldat
im Westen) and „The Soldier at the Mediterranean Sea“ (Der Soldat am
Mittelmeer), which under illegal conditions were produced in quantities
of 50.000-70.000 and were decisive instruments for great successes in
undermining the fascist troops. Further was under his instruction, with
“Nouvelles d’Autriche”, the central organ of the antifascist, national
freedom movement of Austria in western Europe created. Based on the line
of the Communist International, the Communist Party and the Propaganda
which he developed, comrade Oskar Grosssmann was an great Leader and
Instructor of the partisan struggle. Here as well he took within the
Résistance, as part of the Mouvement Ouvriers International (MOI), the
responsibility for the partisans from Austria which joined the French
resistance and organised hundreds of them for the partisan struggle in
France. Under his instruction not only the Austrian Section of the
Résistance was developed, but also the Belgian Section of the “Austrian
Freedom Front” (“Österreichische Freiheitsfront”, ÖFF) got consolidated
and developed (The communist resistance in Belgium was led out of
France, according to the directive of the Communist International). The
from comrade Oskar Grossmann excellently applied line of the Communist
International, his deep military understanding, allows the ÖFF not only
to frequently send important cadres of the Communist Party secretly from
Belgium to Austria, like the immortal hero of the Central Committee,
the excellent comrade Hedy Urach, but also that Battalions of Austrian
partisans confirmed in the Belgian freedom struggle their proletarian
internationalist attitude so far, that the city Arendonk was liberated
by hundreds of partisans of the ÖFF in 1944.
Probably
through lacking reports and serious mistakes in the communication
between partisan units, Comrade Oscar Grossmann stayed on the 27th of
May 1944 in Lyon in the near of a destination of attack by an partisan
operation. The bomb which was placed by the partisans, which brought
numerous fascists their justified punishment, also wounded comrade
Grossmann seriously, so that he lost his eyesight. Blind and seriously
wounded, he got arrested by the fascists while he lay on the streets in
his own blood. After they got to know his real identity, despite his
insurances, he got tortured and questioned hardly by the Gestapo. Out of
the protocols of the questioning and torture which were kept is known,
that he persistently
kept
silent. Neither he confirmed his true identity, nor he said a single
secret. Under arrest and torture, under the hits of the Gestapo comrade
Oskar Grossmann died under the kicks of the fascist executor. But he
died as in important leader, as partisan, as faithful child of the
international proletariat, as devoted servant of the International
Communist Movement and and member of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party. This gave him the place as one of the 12 immortal
heroes of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Austria. As
one of those the international proletariat, especially its advanced
forces, represented threw maoist Communist Parties, reconstituted or in
the struggle for reconstitution, will eternally keep him in mind.
The live of the immortal hero, of comrade Oskar Grossmann, gives the communists today important teachings:
Although
comrade Grossmann was a child of Austrian proletariat and could get his
forging in Vienna from little age on, he also was, fallen as partisan
in France, a child of the international proletariat, whom he gave his
life to. Comrade Grossmann represents a consequent application of
proletarian internationalism and gave his life for the interests of the
international proletariat. His life, his effort and his death call
especially the most progressive parts of the Austrian Proletariat to be
clear about, that without an new international organisation of the
communists, which is based on and under the command of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, there can be no international leadership of the
communist movement.
As
an powerful agitator and propagandist he is teaching the proletarian
revolutionaries today, to also explain complicated conditions in a way,
where the peoples masses can understand, without degeneration, without
the deformation of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism threw false concessions.
Comrade Grossman is teaching, that the communists in every situation are
able to develop propaganda, that it is no question about “the
circumstances”, but about the the correct line which is applied.
Comrade
Oskar Grossman gives an example of ongoing struggle against eclecticism
and spontaneity, for systematic and planned work in the political
tasks, for that, that sometimes it needs patience, but therefore the
steps have to be solid and correct, serving the development of the
Proletarian World Revolution.
Comrade
Oskar Grossmann gives us a shining example of implaceable hardness
towards the class enemy. He kept his silence towards the fascists
despite hardest torture and gave with that his last swear on the
proletariat. Comrade Grossmann therefore stands on the side of all
comrades worldwide, which also today face the repression of the reaction
bravely, which take their responsibility and also not forget the
mission of their class in these situations.
The
deep military understanding of comrade Grossmann gives the communists
today many advises and inspirations, on their way to reconstitute the
Communist Party, under the command of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, as
militarized party. Comrade Grossmann has an excellent understanding of
the task, fighting putschism and sectarianism, to base the military work
on the masses and to draw courage from the deepest and broadest masses
in the development of this work.
With
this declaration, given in the 100th year of the Communist Party of
Austria, upholding the live of the 12 immortal heroes of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party, we acknowledge the good example, with
which Comrade Oskar Grossmann is marching forward and we confirm that we
will hold on it.
Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Long live Proletarian Internationalism!
Long live the International Communist Movement!
For the reconstitution of the Communist Parties!
Long live the heritage of the 12 immortal heroes of the Central Committee in the 100th year of the party!
Committees for the Foundation of the (maoist) Communist Party in Austria, July 2019
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