The Great Crisis of Imperialist World Order
On the Initiative for Building a New International Organization/Forum of Maoists
The
90s began with the collapse of so-called Socialist, Soviet social
imperialism. Though it was a crisis of imperialism itself, but western
imperialists started a worldwide campaign against communist ideology by
propagating it as the “collapse of socialism”. The purpose of this
campaign was to create a false atmosphere of superiority and permanence
of the capitalist-imperialist world system. This contributed to create
confusion about the ideology of communism and increased disillusionment
especially among the middle class.
Under
the situation of the collapse of Soviet social imperialism, the Western
imperialists led by the United States placed a new program called
'globalization', introduced a unipolar world, and especially the
penetration of imperialists especially into third world countries became
very strong. It also played a role in creating a negative impact on
revolutions and mass movements through the development of a privileged
middle class, the development of the comprador bourgeoisies, increased
penetration of imperialism in agriculture and a form of distorted
economic growth in Third World countries. Despite all of these, there is
a strong movement developed against imperialist intrusion, plunder,
exploitation, control, mutilation and destruction of the environment in
the name of “globalization”. In such a situation, the program of
"globalization" could not undermine the forward march of genuine
communist ideology, although it did create various confusions and
opportunism, especially among the middle class. In the 1980s, the
MLM-based revolutionary communist movement that had begun to revive with
the founding of RIM was greatly advanced by the Peruvian People's War
and revolutionary movements in various countries, including India.
Sometime later, from 1996, when People’s War started in Nepal, it made
more progress.
A
new wave of movements and protests spread all over the world against
the unjust war that the US-led imperialists started against the people
of the world through the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. In such
situation, Peruvian PW faced disaster mainly because of its Party’s
internal reason, but under the Maoist leadership, PW of Nepal achieved
many new victories, that started to raise high the direction of
liberation before the people of the world. Protests and movements around
the world against the US's unjust aggression in the name of the "war on
terror" pose a new crisis to the imperialists.
- In addition, the recession conditions of imperialism made its crisis
multifaceted. The US imperialists themselves tried to overcome the
crisis by policies like bailouts in their own countries. But throughout
the second decade of the century, Western countries were hit by one
recession after another.
- This crisis situation of imperialism gave rise to a new wave of mass
movements like "Arab Spring" in various countries including Tunisia,
Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and even Saudi Arabia. All these
contribute to increase and diversify the crisis of the imperialist world
system. As a result of the Arab Spring, many years of autocratic rules
in some countries come to or about to an end. But in the absence of a
revolutionary ideology and program, the mass movements failed to bring
any fundamental change in the system. Rather, the imperialists
perpetuated the system through reforms in some places, and in others by
imposing stronger autocratic rule. At the same time, they effectively
used religious fundamentalists to prevent any change for the betterment
of the people. Militant fundamentalism developed as a result, although
it also led to a renewed crisis for imperialism. Through this, the mask
of democracy of western imperialism is revealed more and more.
At
the same time, it created various movements of working people, middle
class and progressive people against capitalist plunder, profiteers
inside of the imperialist countries themselves. It was manifested in
mass protests and movements called "Occupy Movement" in the home country
of US imperialism and protests against the so-called "austerity
program" in Greece, the imposition of increased taxes on the people,
withdrawal of subsidies for various public welfare programs, lay off,
etc. In addition to these, movements against police brutality, women's
rights movements, movements of black immigrant and homeless, are
permanently present in Western countries including the US. The
above-mentioned periodic economic recession has accelerated these mass
movements.
To
deal with these crises, the imperialists relied on the war economy.
These are seen in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya,
Afghanistan and in Africa. But these wars, instead of solving the crises
of imperialism, have created new crises, one important of them is the
migrant crisis, which has created a serious humanitarian situation for
the whole of Europe. In response to this, the mask of humanity of the
Western imperialists has been fallen down. It even led to the
development of neo-fascism in those countries.
The
withdrawal of US troops while there is still the conflicting situation
in Iraq, the forced retreat from Afghanistan, the Russian military
threat in Syria, have created new pressure for US imperialism. Russia
has re-emerged as a superpower after 30 years. Social imperialist China
is also a superpower. Both countries are aligning against the United
States. In the current situation, China & Russia have become a
serious obstacle and opponent of the interest of US. That is why US
imperialism, to establish itself as the sole superpower against them and
their allies, has plans in hand to maintain its geopolitical hegemony,
which is inevitably resulted in a proxy war in Ukraine. US is determined
to strike in any form anywhere in the world to satisfy its own
interests. So, their motive is to weaken China and Russia, militarily
and economically, in such a way, so that they can no longer challenge
the US.
In
addition, the aim is to send a message to the European NATO countries
that their (Europe's) separate security thinking are irrelevant, which
they have been taking in consideration for a long time. The war in
Ukraine put that thought to rest.
Ukraine's
US-backed Zelenskyi government is desperate to join NATO. And, that is a
big threat to the existence and development of Russian imperialism. The
war in Ukraine in the form of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022
is essentially an imperialist war. The war is actually between rival
superpowers. Only the battlefield is Ukraine. The military campaign of
Russia is targeting the Western world more than Ukraine.
Recently,
due to the emergence of US rival China and multiple crises in the US
empire, the US-led unipolar world has broken down. The conflict between
China-Russia and the US bloc over world supremacy has intensified. Due
to the crisis of the US-led NATO alliance, the social imperialist China
has now openly declared its share in the world division and has
expressed the hope of conquering the world within 2050. Russia has also
already developed good relations with China. And it is trying to rebuild
its empire and recapture the countries it lost in Europe, daring to
launch military aggression if necessary. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is
a reflection of the Russian-US inter-imperialist conflict.
Xi
Jingping's re-election as General Secretary at the recent 20th Congress
also aims to challenge the US-led imperialist world order and to
establish China as the world's number one superpower.
This
new global situation is creating a multilateral world that will
undermine the one-sided unstoppable monopolistic hegemony. Both the
countries began world trade primarily with the Russian ruble and the
Chinese Yuan as alternatives to the dollar, with the aim to break the
monopoly of the US dollar. Many countries of the world, including
Europe, are dependent on Russian wheat and oil and gas. Meanwhile,
Hungary, Italy and Germany are buying Russian oil and gas in rubles in
defiance of the US sanction. Saudi Arabia bypassed the US to sell oil to
China in Chinese currency. The war in Ukraine has plunged the entire
world into a crisis.
Europe's
largest country, Ukraine, is shrinking as four regions of Ukraine
became part of the Russian Federation. But this war is no longer limited
to the shrinking of Ukrainian territory or Russian territorial
expansion. It has and will affect every corner of the world. The
suffering of the middle block countries has reached its peak. The
Russia-Ukraine war and Putin's threat of nuclear war were the main
topics of discussion throughout the recently concluded 77th session of
the United Nations.
Gradually,
the war in Ukraine became a threat not only to the two countries
concerned, but to the whole world. Iran's women's and mass movements,
North and South Korea's war rehearsals, China and Taiwan's war drills,
Azerbaijan and Armenia and Tajikistan are also in a state of war. There
are mass movements against military/civilian governments in Sri Lanka,
Pakistan and Myanmar and repressions on the mass movements have created a
horrifically inhumane situation. The conflict between the two
imperialist blocs allowed Indian expansionism to intensify the
exploitation and oppression of the peoples of South Asia through
Hindutva fascism. With the blessing of Indian expansionism, Hasina's
Awami fascism also got a chance to live longer in Bangladesh. On the
other hand, there is fuel crisis, food price hike in countries, supply
shortages, import and export cartels, economic sanctions, political
polarization.
The
impact of this war created a major economic crisis in Europe. Food and
fuel crisis has become severe. Governments are repeatedly falling in
Italy, France and Britain. Imperialist state like Sweden, a
self-declared welfare state, is facing social security issue.
US-European western democracies are heading straight towards fascism.
Taking that opportunity, their rival China-Russia has also matured their
fascist regime and is doing so. Governments and ruling classes of the
countries of the periphery of these two imperialist blocs also have
established or establishing fascist regimes in their own countries.
Spontaneous
mass protests against the government and the ruling class are being
organized to counter all these evils. People’s Wars are going on in
India and the Philippines. In some other countries including Bangladesh,
the Maoist parties has continued its organization-struggle,
anti-imperialist protest-resistance based on the revolutionary politics
of the People's War. But due to the weakness or lack of revolutionary
program, ideology, party and struggle, the ruling-bourgeoisie and
imperialists have been able to continue their system by suppressing the
spontaneous mass movements.
In
the absence of an international center or forum of communists on the
basis of MLM, the Maoists are more hindered in strengthening, sustaining
and developing their struggle in small scope and failing to
participate, lead and win the liberation struggle of the oppressed
nations and peoples of the world.
From
the end of the 80’s to the beginning of the new century, the people's
struggles under the Maoist ideology in the countries oppressed by
imperialism, like Peru-Philippines-India-Nepal-Turkey-Bangladesh,
instilled confidence in the proletariat and the oppressed people,
instilled optimism and energized the international communist movement.
Although the revolutionary movement has been disrupted due to various
reasons, it is moving forward in a zigzag way.
In
this regard, from the end of the last century to the first decade of
the new century, the role of "Revolutionary Internationalist Movement"
(RIM), the international center of Maoist revolutionaries, was very
significant. The formation of "RIM" as the international center of the
Maoists after the 3rd International was a step forward in uniting,
consolidating and triumphing the international communist movement
against imperialism.
Maoist
parties and organizations outside of the RIM also played a significant
role. Especially the continuation and strengthening of the people's war
in India and the Philippines.
But
RIM became ineffective due to the right opportunist line (ROL) in Peru,
the betrayal of the Prachanda-Baburam clique in Nepal and the deviation
of the RCP led by Bob Abakian in USA from the MLM by adopting the 'New
Communism'. As a result, the subjective ability of the world
proletariat, in contrast to the imperialist system, became disorganized
and greatly weakened.
Since
RIM became inactive, Maoist parties and organizations in various parts
of the world have taken various initiatives to unite internationally.
Although that process was greatly interrupted by the corona pandemic,
the joint statement continued to be published online on the occasion of
the May Day. Our party could not participate in those processes.
However, bilateral relations and discussions with some fraternal parties
and organizations continued.
During
the situation of the grave crisis of imperialism, when the
revolutionary situations is becoming more favorable, the importance of
establishing a united organization/forum of the international
proletariat has increased manifold. Today the international role of the
proletariat in the present world reality appears more urgent than at any
time in the past. Many parties and organizations have realized the
necessity of this situation. However, it has not yet been possible to
take any effective and visible initiative.
The
position of our party is that, the Maoist organizations who agree to
form an international organization should take steps towards that goal
at this moment. However, the form/type etc. of the international
organization should be determined through collective consultation. The
consensus of the party and organization should be highlighted. And the
differences of opinion must be resolved through debate-review-struggle.
At the same time, efforts should be made to keep open the way for the
Maoist forces that are not joining the organization/forum at this very
moment. A specific plan is necessary for all these.
In
May 2022, the parties and organizations of various countries, including
the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the Communist Party of
Maoist-Italy, the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan, the Communist
Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist) called for an international forum
in the current world order under this title of "International May Day:
Long Live the Red May Day!" and we accept the joint declaration and
calling on all parties and organizations to include our party in this
process of making this effort a reality in the future.
International Department,
CC, Proletarian Party of East Bengal (PBSP)
Great Crisis of Imperialist World Order
On the Initiative for
Building a New International Organization/Forum of Maoists
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