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Friday, May 08, 2020

EL COVID-19, A NEW BLACKMAIL OF IMPERIALISM TO DISASSEMBLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE PEOPLE'S WARS

I especially found this article helpful in its analysis of the Coronavirus pandemic and its relationship between governments of the third or second world and those of the first. There are some suspicious feelings between those operating in small third world parties and those of the first world. Profiteers and exploiters of the first world take advantage of those who have gotten behind, economically, in the poorer countries. There are those in the first world who can’t resist feeding off of those who can’t defend themselves in the less developed countries. They are criminals who usually operate freely in our society. Abusing people in the US is not only legal, it is encouraged. That is why I like this article, because it exposes such exploitive relationships. –SJ Otto


Translated from Spanish to English by Google:

For the Spanish translation click here.


In the 60's of the last century, Khrushchev, in relation to the nuclear issue and the way he managed with his US counterpart J. Kennedy, maintained: “We (the US and the USSR) are the most powerful countries in the world; if we unite in the name of peace, there will be no war. So if some crazy person wants war, it will be enough for us to threaten him with our fingers to make him calm down. ”

"What are principles for if you lose your mind?" (Pravda, 1963)

It is with these kinds of statements that the Khrushchev's Soviet revisionism and his clique tried to argue their dire thesis of "peaceful coexistence" with Yankee imperialism. In other words, before the so-called threat of a third world war, revisionism considered a truce with Yankee imperialism and obviously part of that commitment determined that the USSR renounce proletarian internationalism, to support popular revolutions and national liberation under the pretext of not to carry out acts that may eventually provoke the United States. And not only that, it   is appropriate to recall how Khrushchev's revisionism vehemently attacked Chairman Mao's China for  to support the popular and National Liberation revolutions that were unleashed in Asia, who he said was an irresponsible act and that endangered world peace.

In other words, the tale of nuclear war by the imperialist social revisionism of the USSR turned into vile blackmail for the oppressed peoples of the world to desist from their revolutionary processes, and in them, from the class struggle.

The blackmail of nuclear war was intended to devour the class struggle!

Today, imperialism of all kinds: the United States; China, Russia, Germany, France; etc., their puppets in third world countries, and in them the revisionists, reissue these Khrushchev's green vomits of conciliation, of "peaceful coexistence" using the pandemic as a Trojan horse.

This new version of the nuclear blackmail shown in the "unit against COVID-19", to some extent tries to put us in the "same box" of the 60's of the last century, where   the struggle of the communists in the world and its various forms how it manifests itself in the different countries (people's war; bloody, non-bloody class struggle) treats or pretends to be subordinated to an apparent main contradiction that is exposed in the "fight of humanity" against the pandemic.

Today, the health emergency generated by imperialism itself, be it Yankee, Chinese or Russian, has even more vehemently exposed how weak imperialism is in its guts, a true paper tiger; capable of developing nuclear weapons,   traveling off the planet; to attack any country in any part of the world, however, unable to cope with a crisis within its borders that, as in the case of the United States,  it has already claimed the lives of more than 80,000 Americans, representing 15% of the Yankee soldiers who died in World War II; more than the number of casualties suffered by imperialism in the Vietnam War (53,000); more than those who died in Korea (33,000); many more of those who happily had to leave blood on Iraqi land (5,000 casualties); To this, add an unstoppable rise in the number of infected (approximately one million people) that will surely double the number of deaths in the coming weeks.

But no, even under these conditions, imperialism bellows calls for "unity", for "peace" that are replicated in all the countries subjected by the different manifestations of imperialism in the world; however, these same powers are still in violent conflict in the Middle East: Syria, Iraq, Iran; also in Afghanistan; Yemen and Palestine, increasing the pain of the peoples who are subjected to the most abject misery and destruction.

Nor do they remain militarily inactive in America. Just these days they attempted an armed incursion into Venezuela from Colombia.

Imperialism and its lackeys call us to unity in the same way as they did in 1963, using the same tactics: “ one of them is the trick in the style of the priest and the other is repression in the manner of the executioner. Imperialism's deceptive peace policy and its war policy have always served and complemented each other. "

In this and any context, is it appropriate to call a truce in the midst of the development of the people's war in the countries where it is carried out by the communist parties?

Is it convenient to fall into the hook that governments and old states throw at the proletariat and other exploited masses with euphemisms for unity, for a truce of "partisan, ideological or group interests" in order to attend to the crisis caused by   the pandemic?
Not impossible!

Suddenly it is important to remember how in the development of the people's war in Nepal and particularly before the attack on Dunai, February 2001, the CPN-M had its Second National Conference held in India, where the betrayal of the GP, since from that “event” a truce proposed by the government was accepted. As an act of "good will" the CPN-M handed over the prisoners of war to the regime and it was from these events and from that Conference that "tactical" actions calling for a truce, for negotiations were consolidating. It is not long and the "Prachanda way" nested in the direction of the Party and took it to the cliff of history, of capitulation. The people's war was vilely betrayed.

That is to say, it was enough for a moment, a specific scenario and the revolutionary forces, through their traitors, revisionism and opportunism, gave the initiative to the enemy. The rest is practically a matter of time.

There can be no peace, not even circumstantial between the revolution and the counterrevolution !; between the oppressed countries and the oppressing countries; between bourgeoisie and proletariat, between masses and feudalism. The pandemic does not justify handing over the initiative to the enemy of the class, the people and the nations; You cannot be allowed to take a breath. The old State is shaking, it is weak, it is when we must propitiate its fall, this is how the present Mao taught us in the 6 Military Writings. We must not allow the old Power since its bankruptcy to try to be generous, "humanitarian"; above all, have the opportunity to sell the idea that the State does not belong to a particular class, but to the people, thus recreating,

Definitely, the pandemic rages against the most vulnerable, with the most miserable, the poor, the outcasts, the landless, those who are not only oblivious to receiving decent hospital care; those who live daily and who are now forcibly confined to being locked up without the old states being able to attend to their most basic daily subsistence requirements.

There can be no peace with the old states and their governments when they discharge all the responsibility of bearing the social, health and economic crisis on the shoulders of the workers, as it happens just now in Ecuador.

There can be no peace with the repressive apparatuses because they serve the interests of the old state. It is evident in such elemental things as the violent reaction they have had against our people that they have been physically, psychologically and even in their dignity attacked by those miserable guardians of the old Power.

There can be no peace in Colombia when paramilitaries sustained by the Armed Forces and the old State as a whole continues to murder peasant leaders in Cauca, Putumayo and other departments. And in this we must consider that those who put a high death toll are precisely peasant / indigenous leaders who are at the forefront of the fight for the defense of the land and who to a large extent are already fed up with armed revisionism and paramilitary violence / state. But armed revisionism also "takes its toll", which without going beyond its ideological tirade, typical of the principles and laws that govern revisionism, led to a peace process that was fueled by permanent Christmas truces; truces for prisoner swaps; for new years, for holy week, for floods, “humanitarian” truces and thus, a series of pauses under any pretext that ended up giving the initiative full force to the reaction. The sum of small truces became a capitulation that, as an avalanche that took everything, lives of poor peasants, of combatants, of demobilized people, which were ultimately used by their leadership so that it ends where opportunism and revisionism always end. : Congress, the Assembly or any political dignity of the old State.

There can be no truce in countries where the class, the poor peasantry and the masses have carried out people's war on the pretext that these, the masses, are treated healthily, when we know that such attention, if it comes, will be inappropriate, deficient and Obviously it will be  instrumental zed to undermine the base of support that the people's war has within the poor peasantry.

The latest experience of the Philippine comrades in relation to the unilateral truce decreed between April of this year says it all. The enemy, taking advantage of the truce due to the pandemic, mounted 36 attacks on the NPA in which 18 comrades died and 8 wounded. Although it is true that the timely reaction of the people's army caused 56 casualties to the enemy, in itself the facts show that imperialism and the old states always, always attend truces, agreements, basically with the intention of destroying the revolution. , either from the annihilation of the living forces, such as stripping them of support bases or influencing their political and ideological line to drag them into political annihilation.

Lenin well pointed out about the attitude that we revolutionaries should have in the case of pandemics and the impossibility of renouncing the fight against the enemy of the class, since it is obvious that behind this world crisis it has been generated precisely by them, by the enemies of the class and the people.

We must do precisely what Chairman Mao did in 1963 when Khrushchev intended to blackmail third world countries with the spiel of nuclear weapons and the third world war; unmask them, combat them; Denounce their fallacy, their lie, their strategy. Combat-resist and persist in the class struggle, in the people's war, but also in the two-line struggle within the people; not attending, not understanding this situation will lead us to live defeats for the international proletariat.

The people's war has made important leaps in Turkey, the Philippines, India and Peru. Falling into the blackmail of COVID-19 will leave open fissures that will surely make the people's war vulnerable, because what is gained will be easily delivered to the enemy and yes, contrary to what the publication by Pravda supporting the Khrushchev thesis in 1963 said. , the principles count so let us lose our heads because this has been the case throughout history, because this is how they “lost their heads” in the commune of Paris, in the revolution in Russia, in China, in the same popular wars that are taking place in the world those communists convicted of its principles and who have shown us the correct route to follow if indeed the Revolution of New Democracy, Socialism and communism is on our program.

We cannot and should not propose truces since the people's war, or the class struggle for an elementary fact: we still do not have power in our hands, and that, in truth, is the biggest and most solid argument.

Today there is no wind that comes from the East to prevail over the West; today there is an unstoppable whirlwind emerging from the very bowels of third world countries and that there will be no nuclear war, military aggression, reaction, pandemic or any social or natural phenomenon that can stop it.

Not to truces; not to covenants; no to the talks yes to the people's war up to communism.
No to the teguas because the imperialist oppression of the semi-colonies does not stop, it does not stop for a single minute; because capitalism is predatory, inflexible and exploitative with the workers; because the great landowners second by second, minute by minute, bleed the poor peasantry; because revisionism and opportunism do not waste a single moment to sink their poisonous darts to dismantle the revolutionary scope of the proletariat and its strategic allies.

No to the truce in the class struggle in the countries where war is carried out without bloodshed; no to class reconciliation; yes   to the open, determined confrontation, that which, even from the protest struggle, contributes to the prompt and urgent development of the people's war.

No to passive fighting; no to dialogue; if to the active, revolutionary struggle, otherwise, we will not be what we are.

LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN PERU, THE PHILIPPINES, TURKEY AND INDIA!

NO TO TRUCK WITH THE ENEMY OF THE CLASS, THE POOR PEASANT AND THE PEOPLE!

NO TO CLASS CONCILIATION IS A PRETEXT TO FIGHT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC!

IF WE DO NOT FIGHT REVISIONISM, WE WILL HAVE NOTHING DONE!
TO CONQUER THE RED SUN OF LIBERATION: COMMUNISM!

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