From - Revolutionary
Praxis/ Maoist Road:
May Day is International Workers' Day,
the day allocated by the working class movement to celebrate its struggles for
a better world and a memorial for those workers at Haymarket in the United
States who became martyrs in struggle at the hands of the state.
May Day this year should be a time of
reflection on the positive results of our class's struggles of the past and
also of the negative outcomes. The Russian and Chinese Revolutions were the
great high point of the working class struggle for a better world in the
twentieth century and the defeats of these revolutions have been a great
setback for our class.
Capitalism may have had a temporary victory in these
blows to our class but it cannot solve the problems facing humanity. In the 21st century
the need for communism is greater than ever before and the future of our very
species depends upon it. In Britain and the West our
economic
growth is largely based on money laundering, financial speculation and
over-inflated land values. The real needs of the people are neglected and
welfare provision is being daily cut back while wages stagnate, workers are
over-worked and many are thrown into poverty, homelessness and starvation. In
the less developed countries progress is
held back. Many of the people in these
countries and therefore the world live without the basic necessities of life,
their countries chained into debt and interest payments and their resources
bought sold and pillaged by the big powers led by the USA. This state of
affairs benefits a few thousand billionaires whose luxury and wealth is
unparalleled in history at the same time as inequality is rapidly widening
across the world. This at a time when humanity is at its most technologically
advanced and capable of providing food and shelter for everyone.
Britain has a great tradition of working
class struggle. The Chartist Movement was a mass working class movement which
fought for the rights of the people. They waged many heroic battles and even
threatened to march on Parliament and destroy it! Unfortunately in Britain we
do not possess such a movement today. We need to start building one and stop
tailing the Labour Party, a party of support for capitalism.
In the 20th century the
working class movement went from strength to strength gaining many advances and
reforms. The greatest victory for the working class and all the oppressed came
in 1917 with the October Revolution in Russia. This year is the centenary of
the Russian Revolution and the fiftieth anniversary of the Great Naxalbari
Insurgency in India which continues its brave and heroic struggle today, even
more significant now that India languishes under the jack boot of reactionary
Hindu nationalism. The people's wars being waged by the peoples of India,
Philippines and Turkey show the way forward for workers and oppressed people
today.
When the workers and oppressed can take
control and exercise real collective ownership of the world's resources a new
society would in the words of English communist William Morris “be co-operative
in the widest sense. It would of course be subordinate to the real welfare
of society; i.e., the production of wares would not be looked upon
as the end of society (as the production of profit-bearingwares now
is), but it would be regarded as the means for the ease and happiness of life,
which therefore would never be sacrificed to any false ideas of necessity, or
to any merely conventional views of comfort or luxury.”
“Without a Peoples Army, the
people have nothing”
Mao Tse-tung
It is clear to many people that
capitalism is an outmoded and decaying system of waste, inequality, war,
pollution and premature death. It's crap and we need to get rid of it! Armed
struggle is an essential part of the class struggle and the means by which
capitalism and its state, the instrument of its ruling class, can be
overthrown.
In India the Communist Party of India
(Maoist) is guiding the Peoples Army with Marxism-Leninism-Maoism which is the
shining path to liberation. We in Britain can learn a lot from the struggles of
the oppressed masses of India and should ignore the leftist rhetoric of Labour
and trade union leaders. Mao Tse-tung said “the East wind prevails over the
West wind” meaning the revolution against capitalist imperialism has begun in
the poorer east of the planet but will spread west.
All workers, peasants and oppressed
people across the planet have the same enemy - global capitalism - and we all
have one way out and that is socialism leading on to communism. History never
stands still: if we do not move forward then we will move backwards. The choice
before us in the coming period is, as Rosa Luxemburg once put it, “Socialism or
barbarism”.
Workers and oppressed
peoples of all countries, unite!
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