Resolution adopted 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 Philippines 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 theaters, 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 integral 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
(Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
Communist
Party of India (M-L) NAXALBARI
Maoist
Communist Party - Italy.
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