Red Salute to Italian Comrades who have prepared these May Statements for a number of years bringing unity in theory and practice to Maoist Comrades.
1 May 2018
“Proletarians
of all countries, Unite!” Karl Marx
On 1st May
2018 - on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, and on the 170th
anniversary of the first issue of Il Manifesto of the Communist Party, written
by Marx and Engels - is the great opportunity to affirm their relevance and
power, as living weapons of the communists and the proletarians of yesterday,
today and forever.
“The
history of every society that has existed so far is a history of class
struggle.”
“The
whole society splits into two great enemy camps, into two great classes
directly opposed: bourgeoisie and proletariat”.
“The
political power of the modern state is just a committee that administers the
common affairs of the entire bourgeois class.”
This system
produces continuous crises - the Manifesto writes - these are crises of
overproduction that are the manifestation of the fact that “bourgeois relations
have become too narrow to contain the wealth that they themselves produce”.
How does the
bourgeoisie manage to overcome the crises? “On the one hand through the forced
destruction of a great quantity of productive forces, for another with the
conquest of new markets and more intense exploitation of those already
existing”.
But this
only prepares new and formidable crises.
But the
bourgeoisie has not only created the weapons that produce death but also men
who can use these weapons to put an end to their system.
“These
men - the Manifesto writes - are the modern workers, the proletarians, who live
until they find work and find work as long as their work increases capital”.
“Of
all the classes that today are opposed to the bourgeoisie, only the proletariat
constitutes a truly revolutionary class; the other classes are corrupted and
perish and when they want to go back to the previous privileges they are
conservative and reactionary; when they fall into the mass of the proletariat
they are part of the proletarian class struggle”.
“Only
one way can the proletarians seize the social productive forces, which is to
abolish the whole system of existing appropriation”.
“History,
therefore, becomes the history of the class struggle and this class struggle is
the more or less hidden 'civil war' that troubles current society until the
moment it explodes in an open revolution and the proletariat establishes its
domination with the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie”.
The aim of
the communists is clear and precise: the formation of the proletariat in class,
the overthrow of the bourgeois domination, the conquest of political power by
the proletariat.
The task of
the Communists is traced in an eternal and indispensable form by the Manifesto,
they “struggle to achieve the immediate aims and interests of the working
class, but in the present movement they represent at the same time the future of
the movement itself. They work to awaken in the workers the conscience, as
clear as possible, of the hostile antagonism existing between the bourgeoisie
and the proletariat, so that the workers can convert into direct weapons
against the bourgeoisie the social and political conditions”.
“The
communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing
social and political conditions and in all these movements stress the question
of the ownership of capital as a fundamental problem”.
“The
Communists - today more than ever teach us Marx and Engels - disdain to hide
their opinions and their intentions and openly declare that their objectives
can be achieved through the violent overthrow of the whole social order
existing ... because the proletarians they have nothing to lose but their
chains and have a world to win”.
Capitalism,
analyzed by Marx, who has become imperialism in Lenin's development, continues
to go through a profound economic crisis and unload it on the proletarians and
peoples of the world.
They speak
of "recovery" but the only thing that resumes is the race for
profits, wealth and armaments.
For the
proletarians and the popular masses we have unemployment, precariousness,
exploitation and slavery, poverty, robbery of raw materials and energy
resources, devastation of the environment and territories.
Against this
situation, proletarians and popular masses rebel in imperialist countries as in
the countries oppressed by imperialism.
To the
rebellions of the proletarians and the oppressed peoples, the imperialist
bourgeoisie and the ruling classes enslaved to them in the countries oppressed
by imperialism, oppose repression and massacres. States go through always more
reaction and fascism.
Proletarians
and peoples resist and develop their struggles and popular wars to affirm the
revolution as the main trend.
The
imperialist bourgeoisies and the reactionary states enslaved to them intensify
the inter-imperialist quarrels, unleash commercial and through a third party
wars, revive the tendency towards a new world war of division.
To the
imperialist war one can only oppose the transformation of the imperialist war
into a revolutionary civil war and the development on an international scale of
popular wars.
Against the
way of the revolution is opposed within the workers' and popular movement, the
path of reformism, the path pursued by revisionists and social democrats, to
reconcile with governments and imperialist states and to favor the realization
of their plans.
In front of
the crisis of reformism, social democracy and revisionism, new populist
electoral forces that use reactionary demagogy to divide the masses and take
them to the chariot of the ruling classes are advanced in the interest of the
bourgeoisie and the imperialist states. Populism fuels fascism and neo-Nazism.
Communists
and avant-garde proletarians work to turn the rebellion of the masses into a
victorious revolution, of New Democracy in the countries oppressed by
imperialism marching towards socialism, and in proletarian and socialist
revolutions in imperialist countries marching towards communism. The
communists, based on the ideas of Marx, Lenin and Mao applied to the concrete
reality of each country, build and develop new genuine revolutionary communist
parties, united fronts directed by the proletariat of all the exploited and
oppressed masses, combat forces and revolutionary and popular armies.
Only where
the masses have these instruments, their heroic and generous struggles can win.
On a world
scale, the popular wars led by the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties are the
decisive and essential strategic indication.
The people's
war in India, directly affecting one of the main bastions of imperialism and
reaction in the world, is a powerful reference point, along with popular wars
in the Philippines, Peru, Turkey. Today they concretely show the way to
overthrow the system of exploitation and oppression of imperialism and of all
reactionary reactionary forces, for the construction of a new power and a new
society.
The mlm
communists must unite and strengthen their unity, freeing the ranks of the
international communist movement from revisionist and capitulationist
tendencies, without at the same time falling into the sterility of petty
bourgeois revolutionism, of dogmatism.
The
construction of the communist parties is only possible in the fire of the class
struggle in close connection with the masses, as a function of the authentic
revolutionary struggle for power.
In thr 200th anniversary of the
birth of K.MARX declare with force
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is the Marxism of
our age! The essential basis for the unity of communists all over the
world.
“Proletarians
of all countries, Unite!” the great slogan indicated by Marx, it is the red
flag of proletarian internationalism, it is the weapon for the construction of
a new Communist International.
The future
of communism is in our hands.
1 May 2018
signatures
Committee for Building the Maoist Communist Party,
Galicia, Spanish State
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
Communist Nucleus Nepal
Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist)
Democracy and Class Struggle, British State
Maoist Communist Party – Italy
Maoist Communist Party Manipur
Maoist Revolutionary League – Sri Lanka
Organisation de Travail Communiste – Tunisie
Parti
des khadéhines – Tunisie
Revolutionary Communist Party - Canada
Union Obrera Comunista (MLM) – Colombia
Workers Voice – Malaysia
Communist Party of India (Maoist)*
*we cannot if the text arrives in India and when we
know the reply
in all other years indian comrades sign the Joint
Declaration
**the text has sent very
late and it is possible that others
signatures arrive after May Day
can you tell me more about "Workers Voice – Malaysia" I have been unable to find much of anything about them
ReplyDeletethx!