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Beginning on the
23rd of May the elections of the European Union are going to take place,
lasting until the 26th. Preparing for a couple of months, the propaganda of the
bourgeois parties is now fully on the way, with their poster, slogans and
campaigns about the greatness (or not-so greatness) of the EU. However, an eye
catching similarity in between the countries of the EU is not only the common
propaganda for the EU Elections, but also the deep rejection of the masses, who
- venting their anger - commence everywhere to destroy and trash electoral
materials in great numbers. Revolutionaries in different countries – such
as Sweden for example - have already started
to develop their own boycott campaigns against the EU. Now a joint declaration
of several Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties and Organizations follows suit,
kicking off a joint campaign to boycott the elections with common posters,
slogans, declarations, etc.
In the following, we document the
declaration, some posters and the poster layout files provided by the comrades
of New Epoch Media:
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Elections no, Revolution yes!
From the 23rd to the 26th of May, 27
European countries members of the European Union will hold elections for the
European Parliament. These so-called “European elections” are a joke, since the
European Parliament is a travesty of bourgeois democracy. It is a Parliament
that decides nothing, and that just serves to fund handsomely the more than 700
members of parliament who sit there playing make believe democracy.
This truth is well understood by the masses
in the countries of the European Union, since during the 2014 elections, nearly
56% abstained. This shows that the majority of the masses understand that this
election is only smoke and mirrors, like the others in capitalist regime.
The revisionists have chauvinist and
liquidationist tendencies that encourage them to participate in these
elections, even though the reality shows that the masses reject them totally.
The role of the communists, of the Maoists today, is on the contrary to
correctly apply the mass line and accentuate the correct ideas in the masses,
and not to convince them to go to the ballot box.
This is why the Communists of Europe call
for a boycott of the European elections, which are just a smokescreen for all the
peoples of Europe . The communists must go to
the masses during this “campaign”, and propagate the correct idea of the
boycott. In this way, the abstention shown everywhere in Europe
in 2014 can become an active boycott movement and raise the consciousness and
combativeness of the masses.
We unite under the slogan “Elections no,
Revolution yes!”, Which breaks the conciliatory tendencies and argues that only
the revolution following the strategy of Protracted People's War, led by the
Communist Parties, can allow us to have power for the working class and the
masses, in the form of proletarian dictatorship and not an election.
Acknowledging the uneven development of proletarian revolution, we also
strongly reject the revisionist theories such as a “European revolution” which
tries to implement liberal ideas into the revolutionary movement and therefore
liquidates the struggle for destroying the EU.
We join our efforts in Europe under the
motto “Boycott the European elections!” to cut clearly with all liquidationist
lines that do not analyze what the European Union is and submit to the order of
the imperialists.
Destroy the EU, an alliance of the
imperialists!
The EU is an alliance that has a class
character, like all subjects in the class society in which we live. The latest
conception of a “European Union” of the capitalists was born in the midst of
the cold war, to extend the internal market to Europe and to react to the
heroic victory of the Soviet Union and the partisans of Europe
on the Nazis. The EU was created after the war in the 1957 Treaty of Rome
between six imperialist countries in Western Europe: the French
State , the FRG, Italy , the Netherlands ,
Belgium
The successive “enlargements” of the EU are
also the result of the nature of this alliance: imperialist powers from
Northern, Southern and Central Europe, such as Sweden
and Austria , entered the EU
in during the 1970-80-90 decades, with some oppressed countries like Greece Yugoslavia
The imperialist states at the origin of this
project have a dual relationship to the EU: they defend it ardently when it
allows them to advance the pawns of their own imperialism in Europe
and in the world, and they reject it when their imperialist interests are
thwarted by the constraints of the alliance. This is the case for example of
British imperialism, where the bourgeoisie is in contradiction on the
"Brexit". Besides that, the so called "Brexit" plainly
shows the attempt made by the bourgeoisie to channel the rebellion, resulting
from the deep rejection of the masses in the various countries against the EU
alliance, into the parliamentary system by presenting some electoral choice.
European identitarians, on the other hand, fantasize a Europe based on
religious and cultural criteria, and serve only as useful idiots for the most
reactionary fringes of financial capital in Europe .
The general crisis of imperialism today
touches the brunt of alliances like the European Union. The so-called
“Eurosceptic” voices rise, and testify to the inner contradiction of the
bourgeoisie on this subject. With each passing day, accumulating scandals like
the almost colonial management of the crisis of imperialism in Greece , the imperialist powers of Europe who lead the EU reveal their true nature and that
of their project.
These imperialist powers, the oldest in the
world, born with the development of capitalism in Europe ,
oppress people all over the world. The European Union serves as a relay in
Europe for them, especially to oppress the peoples of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe , who serve as cheap labor. As such, the
imperialists within the EU profit from the exploitation of the semi-colonial,
semi-feudal countries where they apply any means possible to subdue the
rebellious peoples and serve their interests. Poverty, massacres, an increasing
fascization and arming of the states as well as oppression of millions are the
result.. Through the construction of military bases, investments into weapon
manufactures and active arms deals, particularly German imperialism, in direct
coordination with the Turkish government, tries to quell the struggles of the
peoples. And not only is the reactionarization promoted in the oppressed
countries, also in the imperialist countries attempts are made to silence
revolutionaries such as from Turkey Europe .
Proletarians of all
countries, unite!
Our boycott of the European elections, since
it highlights the nature of the imperialist alliance our enemies have formed
with the EU, must always put proletarian internationalism at the forefront.
Lenin brilliantly explained that the “United
States of Europe” of the capitalists, which was the name given to the European
project at the time, would be only like an agreement for the division of the
colonies. The EU is nothing but a permanent conflict of power between the great
imperialist powers, which only ends in rupture when the balance of power
changes, as Brexit shows.
The proletariat is an international class,
which capitalist development in Europe has
particularly prepared for the political direction of society. In the face of
the European Union, which only serves as an organization for the imperialist
reaction, whether for the “United States of Europe” or a so-called “Europe of nations”, we advance the line of the
proletariat.
We unite under the correct slogan of Marx
and Engels “Proletarians of all countries, unite!” which they expressed just
before the People's Spring of 1848 in Europe ,
where the proletariat emerged for the first time as a politically independent
and revolutionary class on a continental level.
Facing the imperialist enemies in their
tactical alliance of the EU, we must adopt a clear class line: denunciation of
our own imperialism, for communists organized in States of this type, resolute
support for the oppressed peoples of Europe and the world that the imperialists
of Europe are plundering, and fierce struggle until the victory against the
Union of the imperialists, for the proletarians of all the countries to unite!
Boycott the European
elections!
Elections no, revolution yes!
Destroy the EU, an alliance of the imperialists!
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Elections no, revolution yes!
Destroy the EU, an alliance of the imperialists!
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Peru People’s Movement
Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist
Committee Red Flag, FRG
Committees for the Foundation of the (Maoist) Communist Party of Austria
Maoist Communist Party, French State
Tjen Folket - Communist League, Norway
Red Flag Collective, Finland
Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist
Committee Red Flag, FRG
Committees for the Foundation of the (Maoist) Communist Party of Austria
Maoist Communist Party, French State
Tjen Folket - Communist League, Norway
Red Flag Collective, Finland
Committee
for Construction of the Communist Party (Maoist) Galicia
(Spanish State
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