International magazine "TWO LINES STRUGGLE" - n. 4 - strategic articles - Presentation

PRESENTATION - N. 4 

In this new issue of the magazine we reaffirm the editorial of the first issue with which we began this adventure, the magazine Two Lines Struggle:

“It is not the magazine of a party, nor of a bloc, nor of a particular faction or trend within the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, but a decision made by different parties and organizations to promote the two-line-struggle within the communists, as the name and slogan indicate, and to contribute to their unity, in particular, with the preparation of a Unified Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Conference.

“The need for a magazine like Two Lines Struggle lies in the urgency for the International Communist Movement to meet the challenges put by the world situation, in the face of the extreme sharpening of the most important contradictions of imperialist capitalism: the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, the contradiction between the imperialist countries and the oppressed peoples and nations, the contradiction between the different imperialist countries and monopolies.

Contradictions which in turn provoke an upsurge of the world revolution expressed by the uprisings of the masses of people throughout the world, the aggression against the oppressed countries and their wars of resistance, the increasing preparations for a world war for a new division of the world, to which is added the scandalous destruction of nature... facts that indicate the advanced state of agony of imperialist capitalism and excellent conditions for the advance of the revolution, that urge the communists to unify their efforts to form a centre of international revolutionary leadership and advance in the construction of the Party of the working class in each country, crucial to guarantee the triumph of the World Proletarian Revolution.”

The three previous issues of the magazine collected the first texts prepared by the parties and organizations that pronoted the magazine; in addition to other important documents, among which we highlight the one by the comrades in India, “The position of the CPI (Maoist) on the International Communist League”.

It is clear that it needs to combine the the two-lines-struggle with the development of the debate in order to go on the path toward the goal of this two-lines-struggle, that is to organize of a genuine unified international conference of MLMs and, based on unity on principles and the action actually carried out, form a new International Organization as a second step following the first one represented by the foundation of the Revolitionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) -of which we celebrate this year the 40th anniversary- and as a real way out of the crisis of the international communist movement caused by the collapse of the RIM. A crisis that has brought dispersion, fragmentation instead of unity, nationalism instead of internationalism, weakness instead of strength, in front of the big challenges and opportunities that the international and national situations put to the international communist movement today.

The ideological, theoretical and programmatic work we have done is still insufficient to achieve unity in an International MLM Conference. It needs to go ahead in the struggle against both revisionism and “leftism”, the line, extremist in words but opportunist in deeds, which appearantly rise principles but distorts them so to replaces Marxism-Leninism-Maoism with empty phraseology.

We have a lot of work to do on this, with a dialectical method.

The second question is one of theoretical-practical understanding. This two-lines-struggle has to be waged in the fire of the class struggle in close connection with the masses. Therefore, it has to go along and be fused with the battle against the political stands descending from the ideological and theoretical points put forward by that fraction on the major issues that mark the struggle of the communists in the mass proletarian movement both in the countries oppressed by imperialism, the centre of the storm that the world is going through, and in the imperialist countries, the centre of the clash in the belly of the beast. The reason is that, undoubtely, the consequences of these theoretical and ideological stands result in an tactically and strategically wrong line in the face of imperialist war, reaction and new (modern) fascism, as well as for the organization and trade union and social politics of the proletarians and people's masses, both in the countries oppressed by imperialism and in the imperialist countries, that ultimately will determine the victory and advance of the international communist movement and the fate of the proletarian and socialist revolution in the world.

This work corresponds to the proletarian internationalism pointed out by Lenin, based on Marxism, to which Chairman Mao firmly adhered.

Precisely for this reason the two-lines-struggle is fueled by the effort to unite all the MLM communist parties and organizations of the world in the May Day Declarations, both in the diversity of accents, positions and practices, that remain, and in the work of all communists to support the spearhead of the revolution in the world represented by the people’s wars, first of all the most advanced in our field, such as the People’s War in India led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

The two-lines-struggle marches towards unity for a MLM International Conference, striving to establish the line of action in front of the current situation at the international level, supporting the people’s wars with a joint work carried out in different ways, different fields and with different forces, based on the concrete analysis of the concrete situation. All that requires to handle the relationship between unity and struggle, joint steps forward, untied and to be untied knots, on the basis of the effective advance of the communists and in the proletarian and mass movements, in the tactical and strategic aspects, and not on self-propaganda, the repeating stereotyped sentences, the self-representation of linear and surprising advances, which are objectively the characteristics of the subjectivist fraction represented by the ICL.

This new issue shows that the two-lines-struggle is advancing for this purpose, serving the unity of the communists and a new unity of the proletariat and the oppressed and exploited masses.