From UTTALELSER/
TJEN FOLKET:
To all marxist-leninist-maoist
parties and organizations of the world:
We have prepared the following Common
International Declaration for the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties and
Organizations for the First of May in the current year, with the intention that
they adhere to it. Due to the current difficulties in the ICM, which are
obvious, we have taken the initiative to publicize the declaration hereby and
await the prompt communication of the comrades from the different countries to
the following email: perry.jackson@tutanota.com
Editorial Staff of the Magazine El Maoista,
April 2020
First of May 2020
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Cast away the illusions and
launch into fight!
We
already knew, we already felt it in body and soul, that this old world is
nothing more than hell for the international proletariat and the peoples of the
world. We already knew, what in recent months has been showing. Even the most
imbecile dreamer who turned a blind eye has seen all the illusions about the
imperialist world system fall to pieces, disappear like smoke.
The
misnamed “Corona-Crisis” that mostly consumes the poorest and weakest, is a
result of decades of systematic and progressive abandonment of the public
health systems of the masses, of the prevention and preparation systems in
cases of disaster – even though each new pandemic heralded a worse one – on the
part of the old imperialist states and the states of bureaucratic capitalism in
the application of their plans of “privatization” in order to focus on their
gain and profit. This is why the hospitals do not have the capacity to care for
patients during the epidemics and emergencies, why there is a lack of health
personnel and instruments, of equipment and supply; it is why there is a lack
of interest and delay in research and development of new vaccines and medicines
to combat the epidemics that affect the survival of the broad masses in the
world; it is why the early warning systems did not work and why, when COVID-19
was already raging in China in November of 2019, neither in that country nor in
the United States, Spain, Italy or any other country immediate measures were
taken in order “not to harm the economy”. This is the summarized chronicle of
the “Corona-Crisis”, a crisis announced within the general crisis of
imperialism. The “Corona-Crisis” is fundamentally the catalyst and the first
phase of a new world economic crisis – a crisis of capitalist over-production,
which has been announced by the economists of the financial capital for a long
time and which is drastically accentuated by how the COVID-19 pandemic caused
by the “Corona Virus” is used by the reactionary governments all over the world
– principally the Yankee imperialist superpower, the atomic superpower Russia
and the great imperialist powers. It is further deepened by the cynical
competition between them.
It
is a crisis, that means a destruction of productive forces in a form that has
not been seen since the Second World War, where – in the midst of an avalanche
of measures against the workers and peoples by reactionary governments,
“legitimizing” them as necessary to fight the pandemic – as a result of the
political handling of the imperialists, reactionaries and revisionists the
expansion of the COVID-19 epidemic was permitted to become the COVID-19
pandemic and generated something, that is nothing less but a crime of genocide
against the peoples of the world. The misnamed “Corona-Crisis”, that has
plunged the imperialist and landlord-bureaucratic states into an even deeper
political crisis, sharpens all the fundamental contradictions on the
international level and those specific to the type of countries in question.
Those responsible for the crisis and the
plagues are the imperialists and their lackeys
When
the epidemic commenced in Wuhan ,
China Western Europe , schools were
closed, but restaurants and brothels were left open – under the pretext to
avoid the ruining of the smallholders, when all they trafficked for was to
defend the big monopolies of “franchise” and wholesale. It is only when the
factories began to close, only then, that the imperialist States commenced to
release means. It is there, that the states guarantee the existence of the
monopolies at any cost. There they say “Goodbye” to the policy of “austerity”.
There it is the unrestrained development of state monopoly capitalism. The
policy of “austerity”, imposed in the world by Yankee imperialism and within
the “European Union” (“EU”) by German Imperialism, is directly guilty of
thousands upon thousands of deaths in those countries.
Those
few facts mentioned demonstrate that what has conditioned the handling of the
pandemic on the part of the imperialist states is fundamentally their interest
in profit, acting as the great common capitalist of the imperialist bourgeoisie
of each oppressive nation, guided by their political and military interests in
the inter-imperialist struggle and, in particular, in maintaining the
super-exploitation of the oppressed peoples. Now they call on us to die like
sacrificial lambs to the god of capital. In order to save them, we are supposed
to immolate ourselves.
The
imperialists do not divert from their way, they follow their own logic, taking
advantage of the fact, that the attention of public opinion of the world is
distracted by the drama of the “Corona-Crisis”. The unrestrained aggression of
Yankee Imperialism against Venezuela in the Caribbean, the naval maneuvers of
Russia in the North Sea and in the English Channel, the advance of the “EU”
(headed by Germany) to break the sanctions of the Yankees against Iran, the
threats of Trump against the OPEC + Russia to cut their oil production, to only
mention a few “incidents”, demonstrate that nothing changes their nature as
bloodthirsty beasts. As Chairman Mao has said, imperialism will never turn into
a harmless Buddha.
The
struggle within the “EU”, in the face of the demand of Italy and Spain to
mutualise the debt with the “EURO Bonds”, in which Germany acts as the hegemon
and forces the Spanish and Italian imperialists to kneel in a way that
previously they have only been able to do with countries like Greece, likewise
with the French imperialists who they force to accept the “aid” package for
“Kurzarbeit” (the shortening of the workday to promote economy), thereby
forcing them to eat from the hand of the President of the EU Commission von der
Leyen, demonstrating once again that European unity under imperialism is
impossible. But the most blatant example of the absolute lack of “solidarity”
among the imperialists is how the sole hegemonic superpower, Yankee
Imperialism, literally steals the medical supply of the other imperialists, using
mafia methods as the representatives of the French and Italian imperialists,
among others, have denounced – methods that they have always applied against
the oppressed nations.
Within
the scenario of a galloping economic and political crisis, it is clear who will
pay for all those barbarities. As always in this putrefied system, it will be
the lowest, the workers, principally those “without papers”, and the people’s
masses. Already, dozens of millions have been thrown into unemployment in the
imperialist countries. But the greater burden will fall on the backs of the
worker’s and people’s masses, principally the peasant’s, in the oppressed
countries. In India Chile Ecuador
the dead are left on the streets of Guayaquil
The
imperialist parasites, responsible for the crisis, cynically offer “help”
through the devilish duo, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund,
both dominated by Yankee imperialism. The peoples of the world understand very
well that these institutions mean nothing else but subjugation, oppression,
exploitation, hunger and misery. The slavers assault the slaves, they savagely
beat them until they fall to the ground and then offer their hand in order for
them to get back up, under the condition, that they put on stronger chains.
That is how those miserables handle it.
Oppression
generates resistance and develops this crisis of the imperialist system, a sign
of its further collapse, which threatens to go on for years and will lead to an
immense growth in the people’s protests throughout the world. Once again, the
revolution expresses its character as the principal historical and political
tendency. All the crimes of the imperialists and their lackeys will be more
than punished by the revolutionary masses throughout the world. The struggles
for national liberation will increase even further and great explosions of
people’s struggles will shake the entire world. The international proletariat
and the peoples of the world are going to make great leaps forward in ending
the most sinister plague that is imperialism. The colossus with feet of clay will
be overthrown.
Against imperialism and the old states: Combat
and Resist!
We
communists of the world must understand the current political situation very
well and assume our responsibility with initiative, energy and audacity,
inexorably fighting to raise the red flag with the hammer and sickle to the top
in the front rows of the struggle of the masses, combating and resisting, in
order to direct and channel it in service of the proletarian world revolution,
in the struggle for the democratic and socialist revolutions – according to
what corresponds respectively in each country. The deepening crisis of the
imperialist system generates excellent conditions for the communists to further
unfold the politics of the masses; to deepen, tighten and amplify the roots and
ties with the broadest and deepest masses, as comrades are already doing in
various countries and that allows to advance in the construction of the three
instruments of the revolution, the party, the army and front, concentrically.
Per se, and it can not be otherwise, the principal thing is to focus in the
construction of the Communist Party itself whether it is in the process of
reconstitution, constitution or already reconstituted, but even so, the
construction of the front – the United Front of the revolution, be it
democratic or socialist, led by the proletariat – deserves special attention.
The front must be shaped according to the moment of development of the
revolution in each country, as a class front that corresponds to the central
and highest task of the revolution, the revolutionary armed struggle, that is
People’s War, in order to conquer and defend the power for the proletariat and
the people, based on the fact that the revolution in each country is different
according to the particular conditions and that the front in a country is not
the same as the front on world level. It should make us think about: Unite,
differentiate and lead! A good handling of the policy of the front allows the
communists in all countries to take gigantic steps in advancing their positions
and – according to their particular conditions and the current moment of the
revolutionary process in the respective countries – to unite the broad masses
under their leadership that experience first-hand the plague that is imperialism.
Our problem is to differentiate, not confuse. Only by sharply differentiating
us can we handle the polarization of classes that is unfolding and will be
greater. If we do not differentiate us, then we will blend in and develop that
vulgar “frontism” of those hodgepodges that serve ends contrary to those that
we serve. This has to be done also, because the Party has to persist and do
everything necessary in order to be the sole and recognized center so that the
revolution can be really developed according to what Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
principally Maoism, has established.
In
moments of great sharpening of the class struggle, it must be unfolded as a
prolonged one and carried out long term. Keep in mind, that everything can not
be developed on equal level, that there is uneven development. It is a law. The
development is uneven and it always will be. It is obligatory that the
communists give clear and concise slogans to guide the struggle of the masses,
accompanied by forceful actions that reverberate in the minds. In this case
that is to break the “political truce”, the “national unity”, that the
governments try to impose under the pretext of “fighting the Corona-Virus” in
order to crush the revolutionary and people’s struggle. The communists have to
unmask the corporatist measures and blow away all illusions in the old states,
otherwise they will fall into the trap of serving the great reactionarization
of the states. They have to focus the agitation and propaganda on putting
forward the fact that the only way out from the iron cycle of exploitation is
the revolution under the direction of the proletariat lead by its Communist
Party. The struggle for daily demands is necessary and must be developed in
service of the struggle for power for the proletariat and the people. What has
to be seen here, is that the political struggle is principal and that the
economic struggle of the proletariat and the workers in general is the basis.
The problems of wages, working hours, conditions and rights – such as the right
to unionize, strike, of assembly, of association, of expression, of opinion and
movement, etc. – are problems, of vital importance, that we can not get around,
because if we avoid them, we can not develop the mass work for the revolution.
It must be raised, giving an impulse to stoppages and strikes, handling well
their interrelation according to the specific circumstances of the struggle.
In
the face of the pandemic, the communists cannot abandon the masses in the face
of the blackmail and threats of the “social isolation tax” of the reactionary
authorities and the crumbs that they offer them as good Samaritans (“social
measures”). They must lead the organization of the defense of the health of the
people, guided by a class line, as political organisms of the people of the
masses in order to fight for the basic needs of protection against
contamination and in order to guaranty by all means the supply of food and
health personal; for medicines, instruments and equipment for emergency care
and sanitation of centers of infection; for canceling the payments for water,
electricity and transportation of the masses. Rejecting that it is the
organisms of the old state and the imperialist NGOs that are in charge of
delivering “aid”, demanding that it must be the organizations of the people who
assume administration and distribution in order to crush the
counter-revolutionary and manipulative use that is being forced by the old
state through its own internal orders and laws of war.
Keep
in mind, that the old states in the face of the deepest crisis unload its
weight on the backs of the masses. The exploitation and oppression are bolted
fast with mayor cuts in the rights, liberties and benefits earned with the
blood of the masses. To apply it, the reaction needs to have its “social
measures” or “reforms” and these will only bear fruit for the reaction if we
allow our flags of combat to be snatched away. We communists are advancing and
we will not allow them to snatch them, nor will be depose them. We have to hit
them to make them fail, in order to pull the rug out from under the
counterrevolutionary action. The masses know where their interests are. Have
confidence in the masses, confidence in the people. Always recall: “The people
and only the people are the driving force of history.”
The
current situation in the world from the side of the people is condensed in: THE
EXPLOSIVITY OF THE MASSES INTENSIFIES IN THE WHOLE WORLD AND WILL UNFOLD MORE
POWERFULLY. Our obligation is to be clear about this explosive situation and to
use it according to the interests of the proletariat and the people, in service
of the initiation and development of the People’s War. You have to know how to
fight. You have to apply the principles of war. Then you have to apply what
Chairman Mao says says for all kinds of struggles in general: Fight with
reason, advantage and limitation.
As
the imperialists, reactionaries and revisionists throughout the world with
overbold cynicism try to use the sharpening of the imperialist crisis in order
to advance their own particular interests, attacking the international
proletariat and the peoples of the world, bringing out their iron claws to
steal, kill and seize the greater part of the loot, which are the oppressed
nations, the proletariat and the peoples must do the opposite. The communists
have to put forward a single answer, a united response from the international
proletariat. We must uphold proletarian internationalism, in theory and in
practice, and struggle for the unity of the International Communist Movement
(ICM), based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally the Maoism, the fight
against revisionism and in serving the proletarian world revolution, wielding
the people’s war, developing those who have been initiated – such as in Peru,
India, the Philipinies and Turkey -, preparing and, principally, as soon as
possible starting new ones in all countries.
Today,
the communists are advancing in the unity of the ICM, advancing decisively
towards the realization of the Unified Maoist International Conference and that
will bring about the birth of the new international organization of the
proletariat.
This
is the moment for unity. Enough of the splitism, sabotage, trafficking and
dirty fighting. Those who are for Maoism and the People’s War and who have made
grave errors of principle must assume self-criticism, breaking not only with
those methods, but mainly with their source, the convergences with the
approaches of Avakian and Prachanda, well understanding that none of these two
rats have made any contribution to Marxism but are, and have always been,
simply revisionists. In the ICM an increasing number of Parties and
Organizations clamor for the reconstitution of the glorious Communist
International guided by Maoism, some still hesitate and a few have other criteria,
but that does not cancel out that his long road has already been taken and that
there is no turning back and over time, and particularly with more People’s
War, the unity of the communists of the world on the basis of principals will
be forged.
It
is time for action. We must redouble our activities, give an impulse to the
rebellion of the masses and struggle to transform spontaneous struggle into
conscious struggle under the leadership of the proletariat. Now is not the time
to cry about our failures and limitations, but in the midst of the struggle we
must rise to the necessaries of the moment. It is for this we prepared
ourselves, now there is no other option but to launch ourselves into the fight.
Those who doubt or hesitate in this moment loose the confidence of the masses.
This First of May will be a great manifestation of the vigor of communism, our
brilliant red flags with hammer and sickle are the symbol of hope, of the
luminous future of communism, which proclaim by their waving the war on the
world of oppression and exploitation, of the old order.
And to emphasize: This First of May we
also celebrate a very important anniversary. It is the 130th anniversary of the first Mayday
demonstration. This first demonstration was implemented and guided by the great
comrade Friedrich Engels, whose 200th anniversary
of his birth we are celebrating this year. Forward, comrades!
LONG LIVE THE FIRST OF MAY – THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE
PROLETARIAT!
UNITE UNDER MAOISM!
HAVING THE PARTY, HAVING THE MASSES, ALL MIRACLES WILL BE DONE!
PROLETARIAT AND PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: UNITE TO SWEEP AWAY THE
PLAGUE OF IMPERIALISM FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH WITH PEOPLE’S WAR!
Signatories:
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