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.
