The
popular masses want to overthrow the capitalist, imperialist governments and the governments who are
their servants!
Proletarians
want to unite for the Party of the revolution!
Communists support anti-imperialist struggles and develop Peoples Wars for the world proletarian revolution!
Imperialism
is the highest stage of capitalism
—a stage of parasitism and decay (Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism). Now is the time to bury it, as soon as possible. The crisis of capitalism
is like a chronic disease that
torments it. It creates the grounds for its death.
The crisis of capitalism is above all a crisis of overproduction: In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity —the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism. (Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto)
But it is the time when
the bourgeoisie intensify
its efforts to make the
proletarians and masses pay for the crisis. As Marx and Engels have written more than 150
years ago in the Communist Manifesto: The
weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now
turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But
not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it
has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons
—the modern working class —the proletarians.
Today, the
world proletarians have never been so numerous, along with the peoples masses
they represent at least 90% of the population; and these 90% are those who are affected by
the crisis and need a radical change in
the society. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement
of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority. (Ibid.)
The financial crisis of global capitalism deepens and widens. The
imperialists argue among themselves to plunder all types of resources (human
and material) in the backward countries, in addition to increasing the
exploitation of workers and the middle class in their own countries in order to
overcome this crisis.
In Europe and the
capitalist countries, this results in a
restructuring of the production,
trade and services, which leads to the displacement of production
in countries where the cost of labour is lower, a massive destruction of jobs
and the introduction of new and more productive means of
production at the expense of the safety and health of workers.
At the same time, taxes are increasing,
wages are falling and benefits are reduced. In general, the intensification
of the crisis implies that small tradespeople, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen
—all these sink gradually into the proletariat (ibid.).
In countries oppressed by imperialism, the proletariat
and people of Africa, Asia and Latin America are subject to the dictates of the
imperialist powers, who are protected by their local
watchdogs; those powers discard their watchdogs when they no longer defend or
badly defend their interests. The imperialist powers use the policy of divide
and rule and do not hesitate to militarily intervene —both to support
regimes of their servants or to topple those not favourable to them— and
to provoke ethnic and religious conflicts to protect their interests and break
peoples resistance to oppression.
They rely on religious
obscurantism or secular liberalism to maintain by any
means their economic, political and ideological domination. The ruling classes
of these countries, be they rising 3rd world powers
—China, India, Brazil or South Africa—
or oppressed countries, are doing everything possible
to ensure maximum exploitation of the labour force and
access and control on raw materials in the interests of
the imperialist system.
In the imperialist and oppressed countries, the ruling classes use as
watchdogs the reactionary right
forces as well as the reformist, social
democratic and revisionist forces that apply their
policy of exploitation and oppression of proletarians and masses. Official trade unions are working with the various governments to
negotiate austerity measures and privatisation schemes so that the workers
reconcile with them and to stop the struggles that clash against the bosses and
the state. The reconciling always allows capitalists
to strengthen and continue their destructive
work undermining the gains won by the working class
through a hundred years of
struggle.
In imperialist countries, the more openly reactionary right and also the reformist and social democrat left uphold through different forms the national identity, to use it against the immigrants in order to strengthen the division of the proletariat and the masses and thus opening the way to old and new fascism. Many populist, fascist and neo-Nazi parties and organizations are thriving on the fertile land cultivated by all the traditional political forces and institutions. The bourgeoisie defends its system and institutions with the state police and also by using the mass participation in elections. This is why the proletariat and the masses must develop the electoral boycott and intensify the class struggle.
IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL (MAO ZEDONG)
Faced with the crisis,
the proletarians —the workers
from the cities and the countryside— are
rebelling. Workers from factories threatened
with closure are mobilizing against layoffs, the degradation of working conditions, wage cuts and increased working time, because they dont want to pay for the crisis. Peasants and agricultural workers
resist and sometime are occupy land. The
masses are mobilizing against housing evictions, tax increases, attacks on
their environment, the dismantling of public services, attacks on union
freedoms and the rights of youth, women, etc.
These struggles are taking place in all the countries
in the world, like those of the auto and metallurgy workers in France, Belgium,
Germany and Italy, of the miners In Spain, while masses are fighting against
housing evictions, and the great students struggle in Canada, and in other
countries also, against attacks on education and tax increases.
And, moreover, like those in India where hundreds of millions of
workers went on strike, or South Africa, where miners rebelled against the black and white ruling classes who exploit and oppress the workers, or Brazil, where poor peasants
and landless are occupying the
land they work.
In the Arab countries, particularly in Tunisia and
Egypt, despite the manoeuvres of imperialists to protect their interests and
support the new watchdogs, despite the fact
that these watchdogs are hiding themselves under the mask of religion in order to exploit
workers and people, to suppress the just rebellion before it becomes
revolution, the masses are finding their way and learning from their mistakes, for a genuine New Democratic
revolution, that cannot be achieved without the leadership of the working class; this
raises the questions of the revolutionary strategy, of armed
struggle, and the building of a vanguard party.
Imperialists and their interventions are not able to stop and extinguish the anti-imperialist struggles in the world, from Palestine, to Iraq, Afghanistan, Latin America, nor against the new imperialist interventions in Libya, Syria, Mali.
YOU CANNOT MAKE REVOLUTION IN A PEACEFUL WAY!
The world is in
turmoil; the ideological
understanding operates bit by bit or with leaps, with advances and setbacks, in the ranks of the proletariat and the masses and on the consciousness of the crisis and the nature
of imperialism, the need to overthrow it and build a new society on the ashes of the old one.
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. 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 peoples wars led by Maoist parties.
Peoples War is the most advanced way to make revolution, so we must
support in every country in which it is being organized, prepared by
accumulating forces, and applied to the concrete conditions of each country.
Led by the CPI (Maoist), the Peoples War in India is successfully resisting
attacks from the enemy and is managing to expand and grow. The Peoples War is
also unfolding in the Philippines under the leadership of the Communist Party
of the Philippines, which upholds Maoism. In Peru, it is continuing despite the
action from a liquidationist current. In Turkey, the
revolutionary struggle led by the Maoists is advancing in accordance with the
peoples war strategy. In other countries, new initiatives and advances are in
preparation.
We must
build and consolidate the proletarian parties for the revolution, parties of new type, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
communist parties, in our respective countries, taking
into account our past experience and applying it to the current conditions of the imperialist system
of today.
This was clearly expressed the 24th November 2012 in
Hamburg by the great International Conference in Support of the Peoples War in
India, in which hundreds of representatives of revolutionary and
anti-imperialist organizations and Maoist parties and organizations from more
than twenty countries have called to unite and strengthen the class struggle in
each country. It was a great example of internationalism. We must advance to
further strengthen and give organisational form to proletarian
internationalism. We must pursue
the international unity of the
communists in the world towards the
construction of a new international organization to fight together against imperialism
and reaction and march together towards
a new Communist International, for
socialism and communism.
Proletarians
and oppressed people of all
countries, unite!
Down with imperialism and all its watchdogs!
Long
live proletarian internationalism!
Long live world proletarian revolution!
Communist
(Maoist) Party of Afghanistan; Communist Party of India (M-L) Naxalbari; Maoist Communist Party–France; Maoist
Communist Party–Italy; Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR-RCP Canada);
Maoist Communist Party (MKP) Turkey and North Kurdistan – France; Maoist
Communist Movement, Tunisia; Democracy and Class Struggle, Wales, British
state; Committee for Building a Maoist Communist
Party, Galicia – Spanish state; Long March Towards Communism (Madrid, Spain); New Marxist Study Group (NMSG) Sri Lanka; Solidarity of
People Struggle Indonesia; Communist Organization Futur
Rouge – France; Servir Le Peuple
– Sheisau Sorelh
– Occitany – French state; Marxists
Leninists Maoists from Morocco; Maoist Communist Party, Manipur