16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties “The role of Communist and Workers’ Parties in the struggle against imperialism and capitalist exploitation – which causes crises and wars and gives rise to fascist and reactionary forces. For workers’ and peoples’ rights and for national and social emancipation; for socialism!”
In this issue Contributions by 3 9 13 19 25 29 33 37 43 47 53 55 59 63 75 79 83 89 93 97 101 105 115 121 125 129 135 139 143
Communist Party of Australia Democratic Progressive Tribune of Bahrain Brazilian Communist Party Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) Communist Party of Britain Communist Party of Canada Colombian Communist Party People’s Vanguard Party, Costa Rica AKEL Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Communist Party of Denmark Communist Party of Finland German Communist Party Communist Party of Greece Hungarian Worker’s Party Party of the Italian Communists Lebanese Communist Party Communist Party of Mexico Communist Party of Norway Palestinian Communist Party Party of the People, Panama Portuguese Communist Party Russian Communist Worker’s Party Communist Party of the Russian Federation South African Communist Party Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain Syrian Communist Party [Uniied] Communist Party USA Communist Party of Vietnam
Other Contributions 147 Phillipine CP [PKP-1930] 153 CP of Israel
Documents
Guayaquil, Equador, 13 to 15 November 2014
• Press Release by CP of Equador • Press Release by Brazilian CP • Conclusion of the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in Ecuador by AKEL
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Press statement of the KKE On the work of the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in Ecuador • Press Statement on the 16th IMCWP by the Palestinian CP
Solidarity Statements • Resolution on the right to the self-determination of the People of Catalonia • Solidarity with Latin America and Caribbean peoples’ struggles • In solidarity with the struggles of the working class and the peoples of Latin America • Resolution in Solidarity with Ayotzinapa • Solidarity Statement with the people of Cyprus by parties participating in the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
Parties that participated
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF AUSTRALIA VINNIE MOLINA
Before I begin my comments on our theme I would like to thank and congratulate the Communist Party of Ecuador for hosting this 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers. I am proud to be a member of the Australian working class and to have taken up a leading role in the Communist Party of Australia but I came originally from Latin America and I have reason to be proud of that, as well. Sweeping changes have taken place in Latin America in the last decade and a half. How to characterise these changes is the subject of some discussion and even controversy in our movement but it is undeniable that deep, progressive changes have taken place that demand our attention and respect. They are providing inspiration to millions around the world. It is a very beneicial thing for we outsiders to come and increase our understanding of this process. In fact, the consolidation of the socialistoriented changes in Latin America is one of the few bright spots on the international political scene as we gather for our Meeting. The economic crisis and the demands by capitalist governments and supranational inancial institutions have imposed hardships on workers and other exploited people. New waves of privatisation are occurring as the bourgeois national state continues apace with its handover of functions and assets to transnational corporations. Trade unions are persecuted, squeezed from workplaces and hamstrung by repressive legislation. “Counter Terrorism” is being ofered as the excuse to increase surveillance and data collection of the people and to remove democratic rights before the law. US imperialism is launching new wars and proxy wars with its usual allies in tow. The US military’s “Pivot” or “Rebalance” to the Asia Paciic and Indian Oceans – in
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preparation for aggression against the Peoples Republic of China – is gathering force. The brutal economic and diplomatic blockades against Cuba and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea remain in place. The ideological warfare against socialism and Communist Parties is not easing but escalating. And while poorer countries already battling the efects of climate change, governments of developed economies refuse to take the necessary steps to avoid an environmental calamity. Fascism and war Unfortunately, the new elements of the international scene are mostly negative. Fascism is on the rise. We have seen electoral gains by Jobbik in Hungary, the National Front in France and anti-immigrant UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) in Britain, to give just some examples. Most confronting of all was the leading role of neo-Nazi groups in the coup against the government of the Ukraine and the utterly reactionary consequences that have lowed from it. The situation in the Ukraine carries grave dangers for the whole world. US and NATO plans to move eastward have reached a major milestone. The battle is now being waged to be able to place their forces and high-tech hardware on the border of the Russian Federation in preparation for their ultimate goal – the breaking up of that entity and unrestricted access to its resources. At the same time, we have the US pursuing objectives in the Middle East by the most cynical means. Not for the irst time, US imperialism has created and armed the forces it now claims it must intervene to defeat. Islamic State is the latest such phenomenon. Regime change in Syria is clearly a major goal but a fundamental redrawing of the map of
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the Middle East is being pursued. National aspirations of the peoples of the region are not behind the latest intervention of military forces, including those of Australia. The ongoing dispossession and torment of the Palestinian people is evidence of that. So too the changes being pursued for greater access to the resources of the region and the strategic interests of the Zionist government of Israel. In the South China Sea we note tensions, even between fraternal socialist countries over territories and we see the cunning of the US imperialists in taking advantage of the situation. We see the same reactionary forces at work in events in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, at this time of extreme danger to peace in the world the response of the anti-war movement internationally has been woefully inadequate. In many parts of the world, it has lost much of its former vigour. In Australia this appears in part to have resulted from the defeat of its massive mobilisation against the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The regrouping and reinvigoration of the anti-war movement must be a major priority for the international Communist movement at this time. Solidarity with the victims of this military aggression, including new waves of refugees to the shores of countries like Australia, must also be a top priority. A multi-polar world Of course, because of its intrinsic nature, imperialism will always meet resistance. Provided that it doesn’t destroy the planet irst, its defeat is certain. Even in the worst of circumstances, people will struggle. In Colombia the determined struggle of the people, including armed struggle, appears to be on the verge of some breakthrough in the talks taking place in Havana. In Greece, workers
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workers led by PAME are planning a national strike at the end of the month. I have already mentioned the progressive changes liting millions out of poverty in Latin America and the process of integration taking place on the basis of mutual beneit. These developments encourage us greatly. And US imperialism does not have the free hand it had in the immediate atermath of the destruction of the Soviet Union. More and more countries are beginning to question the underpinnings of the post-WW2 global economic framework and the privileged position of the US within it. Libya was pursuing an African trading currency backed by gold before NATO intervened. Other countries are choosing to trade commodities such as oil in currencies other than US dollars. Perhaps most notable is the growing trade between China and the Russian Federation in their own currencies and the building of infrastructure to massively expand that trade. This is not a matter of indiference for the peoples of the world. While entities like BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa), may be comprised of countries at diferent stages of economic development and with diferent social systems, including socialist China, the emergence of such a bloc is a progressive development for the people of the world. It weakens the grip of US imperialism on economies and blunts attacks by the US and its allies on the sovereignty of those countries. It is not a “lesser of two evils” among rival imperialist blocs. It is a positive development in international afairs. It is an example to others that enrages the US imperialists and against which it plots night and day. The US is acting to prevent such initiatives. It is putting pressure on countries not to join a regional development bank backed
by China. It is pushing for the conclusion of the so-called Trans-Paciic Partnership, TPP and other pacts, which would leave governments with far less power to legislate to protect their citizens from the predations of the transnational corporations. Progressive people should support the growth of alternatives to US-dominated imperialism such as BRICS and ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas). Australia and our region The political scene in Australia relects the international situation in which US imperialism struggles aggressively to maintain its hegemony. The Coalition government led by Prime Minister Tony Abbott is pursuing a far more openly reactionary agenda than its Labor (social democratic) predecessor. In conjunction with state government counterparts, it is slashing spending on public services and axing thousands of public sector jobs. It is privatising the few remaining public assets. Lines between the public and private provision of health services and education continue to be blurred with the ultimate objective of destroying the public system for all but the most disadvantaged. An increase to the regressive Goods and Services Tax is being pushed so that the states can meet their inancial shortfalls. Tertiary education fees and student debt are set to sky-rocket as the universities are de-regulated. Degrading cashless social security programs are being implemented, workers’ compensation schemes changed to get workers back on the job quicker and sicker. Aboriginal land rights are under attack to enable their traditional lands to be plundered by mining transnationals. A witch-hunt against the trade unions is
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being waged through a Royal Commission into “trade union governance and corruption”. The behaviour of right-wing opportunist elements in some trade union leaderships has enabled the government to further damage the position of unions in public opinion. It has set the stage for police task forces and greater controls over the unions’ own resources. The connection between trade unions and some of the bigger superannuation (retirement) funds will be tested. There is a secret police force operating on Australian construction sites disrupting on-the-job organisation and punishing trade unions and their members daring to organise or struggle. The military is the only sector of public spending not to be cut. Joint Strike Fighters, Air Warfare Destroyers and submarines are on the order books or under active consideration. The US is getting new spy facilities in the west of the country and has a new Marines base in Darwin in the north. Australian service personnel have been sent to bomb targets in Iraq and Syria. Fear and division are being fanned by the government and the corporate media. Muslim communities are under attack from bigoted elements and racist political groups are recruiting strongly. Legislation to spy on Australians’ use of phones and the Internet, restrict their movement and prevent people from speaking out about the government’s covert actions is being rushed through the parliament with “bi-partisan” support. The maximum penalty is life imprisonment, with journalists and whistleblowers the main targets. The federal government has scrapped a tax on the mining sector. It was a small levy on a small number of companies but even that was considered improper by the companies involved and the incoming Coalition
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government. Similarly, the carbon tax that exempted and compensated the biggest polluters in the country was scrapped. Reckless climate change denial is driving public policy. The mining industry has its own rightwing populist party in the parliament – the Palmer United Party named ater coal mining billionaire Clive Palmer who holds a lower house seat. The role of Communists The duty of Communists in the face of all these challenges in Australia is the same as it is the world over – to resist and to organise the broadest possible alliance of forces to resist efectively. The list of attacks and areas requiring a ight back is a long one and the enemy is cunning and well-resourced. However, the scale of the ofensive against people’s rights has already prompted a strong reaction. The biggest marches seen in recent times have taken place on the streets of the major cities. They lack classconsciousness and any sense of how to enhance and widen the struggle and oppose austerity measures and sackings but fail to put forward any alternative policies. That is the role of Communists at the current stage. The ofensive of the international capitalist class and US imperialism is global. The international connections of the struggle need to be made and the hand of solidarity extended to people ighting the same enemy. The international Communist movement is a logical place for such linkages to be made. At some point this will have to be lited beyond the level of joint statements to more practical initiatives. The Communist Party of Australia looks forward to playing its part in those undertakings. There are plenty of campaigns where our movement could focus its eforts. The case of the Cuban Five prisoners comes immediately to mind. Let
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us as a united communist movement strike a blow against imperialism by securing the release of the Cuban Five. In these sorts of ways we can add to the international ight back against the ofensive of capital, against its plan for fascism and war.
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Democratic Progressive Tribune of Bahrain
Permítanme extender mi saludo combativo a todos ustedes y darle las gracias a nuestros camaradas del Partido Comunista del Ecuador como anitrión y organizador del 16to encuentro de nuestros partidos comunistas y obreros. Queridos camaradas El agravamiento de la crisis general del capitalismo mundial desde el año 2008 trajo el mundo a una realidad muy peligrosa. Lo que enfrentamos en la actualidad es la intención del imperialismo norteamericano y el resto de los principales (grandes) países a repartir el mundo a través de guerras regionales subsidiarias o guerras por proxy llevadas a cabo por las fuerzas locales y que podrá convertirse en una guerra mundial que acabaría con toda la humanidad. En estas guerras, se emplean los remanentes nacionales del fascismo en Europa, o se crean unas nuevas organizaciones fascistas, religiosas y terroristas como la organización del Estado Islámico en Iraq y Siria “EIIS” o como se conoce en árabe “Daash” que se ha extendido mas allá en muchos países árabes. Este fenómeno de “Daash” amenaza no sólo la entidad de Iraq y Siria, sino a todo el Medio Oriente y la paz mundial. Esta es la etapa más superior del caos creativo, que los Estados Unidos nos ha prometido lanzar en la región desde el año 2003. Ya que el fenómeno de “Daash”no es sólo una organización terrorista como Al-Qaeda y otros, sino un proyecto ampliado de un estado que no tiene límites geográicos. Es la herramienta eicaz del imperialismo con el in de debilitar la idea del Estado nacional en nuestros países, subdividirlos y luego construir estados sobre la base de sectarismo religioso que justiica la consideración de Israel como un Estado judío, por una parte, y por otra parte, a formar las bases para las
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para el Líbano , lo que equivale al 23% del PIB para el año 2010.
Al mismo tiempo, el imperialismo de los Estados Unidos está tratando de fortalecer su presencia en la región para volver a la política de tratados militares regionales como el enterrado tratado de Bagdad. La llamada alianza internacional contra “Daash” es la entrada principal para el establecimiento de un tratado como aquel y para renovar la presencia militar extranjera en la región, fomentar nuevas carreras armamentistas de los países de la región, y llevar a los países del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo (CCG) a aumentar el gasto militar y la inanciación de la llamada guerra contra “Daash” donde la estimación de su extensión temporal se ha ampliado de meses a un año y a varias décadas de años.
Aunque la inanciación de “Daash” y otras fuerzas extremistas viene de los países del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo (CCG), estos países empezaron a sufrir de los efectos negativos de la violencia que prevalece en la región. Aparte de que esta violencia está amenazando la existencia de los regímenes desde el punto de vista de seguridad, los efectos económicos y sociales negativos de la crisis del capitalismo mundial esta combinada con el deterioro de la seguridad. El desempleo, especialmente entre los jóvenes va en aumento, donde en Bahréin la cifra va entre el 15 y el 20%, según estimaciones del Banco Mundial. Esto es lo que hace que los jóvenes sean vulnerables al reclutamiento de organizaciones religiosas extremistas.
tre los pueblos de la región.
Durante estas décadas se continuará la destrucción de las sociedades y la economía de la región. Los datos del Banco Mundial estiman que el costo de la violencia en los países árabes (con excepción de los países del Golfo e Iraq) entre 2011 y 2013 fue de alrededor de 168 billones de dólares, o el equivalente a 19% del producto interno bruto (PIB) de estos países. Esta violencia tuvo efecto sobre más de 10 millones de personas entre muertos, heridos y desplazados. La violencia causó que el 75% de la población de Siria cayera en la pobreza, incluyendo 45 por ciento en una pobreza extrema. Además de Iraq, la producción de petróleo ha disminuido de manera signiicativa en países como Libia, Siria y Yemen. También, las milicias terroristas y “Daash” tienen bajo su control algunos pozos petroleros, de los cuales recibe millones de dólares de ingresos petroleros al día. Aparte de los efectos directos sobre el Líbano, este país acoge la carga de casi 1,6 millones de refugiados, este número es alrededor de un tercio de su población. Además la guerra en Siria, trae un costo de 7 billones de dólares
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Tomando en cuenta que enfrentarse a estas situaciones, requiere un gasto incrementado y enorme de los presupuestos públicos, la economía los países del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo sigue dependiendo principalmente de la rápida extracción de petróleo y de sus ingresos inancieros. Sin embargo, los precios del petróleo en las condiciones del mercado global probablemente disminuyan aún más. Durante la semana pasada acaba de caer el precio del crudo Brent a su nivel más bajo en 47 meses a menos de 84 $/b. A esto se añade el descenso entre el 40 y el 45% durante el último período del poder adquisitivo del dólar como unidad de cuenta para las transacciones petroleras. Al hacer el cálculo de la combinación de estos factores, el descenso en el precio del barril por debajo de ochenta dólares pondría en peligro los presupuestos de estos países. Tanto el Fondo Monetario Internacional como la Inversión Árabe de Petróleo y el Deutsche Bank tienen por unanimidad que el precio de equilibrio de un barril de petróleo necesario
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para equilibrar el presupuesto en 2014, en Kuwait, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Arabia Saudita y Qatar es 75,70, 93 y 65 $/b respectivamente. El precio de equilibrio para Bahréin fue el más alto, donde llega hasta el 123 $/b. Esta imagen oscura indica un mayor deterioro de las condiciones socio-económicas en los países del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo (CCG), y por consecuencia, en el resto de la región árabe, si la situación de seguridad se ha deteriorado, el desarrollo socioeconómico continua descendiendo la crisis mundial del capitalismo sigue golpeándose. Desde el principio, las fuerzas de la oposición nacional en Bahréin ha dado cuenta de las dimensiones de estas amenazas. Y propuso durante el diálogo nacional diversas iniciativas prácticas de solución política con el objetivo de sacar el país de la crisis asixiante desde el año 2011, salvarle de los conlictos sectarios internos y violentos que se llevan a cabo en varios países de la región, evitar ser el escenario de tensiones y disputas territoriales entre los principales países de la región, e impedir la salida del conlicto de Bahréin del marco nacional. Pero la mayor tensión de seguridad que arrojó una sombra sobre la atmósfera de diálogo y al mismo tiempo el gobierno ha abandonado sus puntos de vista, como las únicas formas de salir de la crisis, vació el contenido del diálogo y lo hizo insigniicante. Las autoridades comenzaron a preparar las elecciones municipales y parlamentarias que tendrán lugar en el 22 de Noviembre sin ningún tipo de respuesta a las mínimas reformas constitucionales y políticas necesarias, y sin causar una distensión de seguridad por retener a miles de detenidos y el restricción continua a las libertades. Esto ha obligado a las fuerzas de la oposición anunciar diversas formas, para boicotear o no elegir sus candidatos a estas elecciones, a pesar de la
espera de una iniciativa positiva de las autoridades hasta el último momento. La crisis en el país probablemente va empeorar, especialmente porque se ha creado un terreno fértil para el surgimiento y crecimiento acelerado de fuerzas extremistas al estilo de “Daash”. Entre los cuadros avanzados de “Daash” en Siria e Iraq se encuentran bahreiníes que comenzaron a moverse para difundir sus actividades en Bahréin. En los últimos días fue anunciado el descubrimiento y la redada de unos sitios de células terroristas. Queridos camaradas En esta compleja situación con clara falta de países socialistas potentes que tienen un impacto en el equilibrio global, ya la luz del creciente impacto inanciero de la región del Golfo opuestos entre sí sobre una base sectaria, y con el regreso de las tratados militares regionales y el aumento de los gastos militares, y con el surgimiento de nuevas fuerzas religiosas del fascismo y su afán por establecer estados religiosos como ellas, pone a las fuerzas progresistas en el área del Golfo frente al reto de la supervivencia y la capacidad permanente para defender los intereses de los trabajadores y evitar los peligros de guerras destructivas y promover el sueño de nuestros pueblos, al igual que otros pueblos del mundo en una mañana brillante Socialista. Las fuerzas progresistas en la región no ahorran esfuerzos para reconstruirse ellas mismas y su papel en la lucha independiente progresista guiadas por ideas del socialismo cientíico. Hace sólo unos días, la corriente Progresista de Kuwait celebro su primer congreso, el que aprobó importantes documentos de lucha intelectual y política. Así mismo nuestro partido está preparando la celebración del 60 aniversario de la fundación del Frente de
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12Liberación Nacional de Bahréin, primera organización marxista-leninista en la región, en febrero 2015. También nos esforzamos por desarrollar una corriente de izquierda que plantea las alternativas requeridas frente el surgimiento del nuevo fascismo religioso, las fuerzas políticas reaccionarias y los anquilosados sistemas políticos. Encontramos en la unidad del movimiento comunista y obrero internacional un irme apoyo a nuestra lucha dura. Y creemos que el trabajo para llegar a una visión común sobre los diversos aspectos de la realidad de nuestro mundo en sus diversas contradicciones, su polaridad y las formas de su desarrollo hacia el socialismo, requiere grandes esfuerzos para promover discusiones e intercambios de puntos de vista y argumentos dentro de los marcos habituales y el logro de documentos compartidos que relejen estas visiones. Una vez más agradecemos al partido comunista del Ecuador por la preparación y organización de este encuentro Viva el Internacionalismo Proletario Viva el movimiento internacional comunista y obrero
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BRAZILIAN COMMUNIST PARTY EDMILSON COSTA
The Central Committee of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) salutes all of the workers and communist parties present in this event and especially the host party, our dear Communist Party of Ecuador. The capitalist system lives one of the most serious crisis in its history. For more than six years this crises bursts and the managers of capital aren’t able to ind an exit for the retaking of economic growth and overcoming the crisis. On the contrary, measures being taken by central governments in order to keep the privileges of capital, such as public spending cuts, reduction of wages and beneits, deepen further the crisis since provoke unemployment, reduce the peoples gains and bring recession. This systemic crisis encompasses the global economy – a crisis of over-accumulation combined with signals of overproduction and inancial anarchy – condensates the same phenomenon analyzed by Marx: as much the capital grows, more crisis is produced as a consequence of its nature. As always, the dramatic efects of crisis are transferred to workers, since capitalism reproduces itself promoting new forms of exploitation of the labor power and renewing the mechanisms of domination. The contradiction between capital and labour is reairmed in a global level as the fundamental contradiction requiring the organization of the workers class in struggle with the dominant system. The crisis enhances inter-imperialist contradictions, intensifying the arms race and the violence in dispute for natural resources and markets. In Ukraine a conlict arises with a coup promoted by USA and EU leading to the establishment of a reactionary government in the frame of competition with capitalist Russia.
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consequence of USA and NATO aggression for the control of Iraq, Syria and Kurdish lands, now using mercenaries in behalf of western powers, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and satellites. This aggression has the purpose of seizing the energy sources of the region and occupation of strategic positions around Iran, Russia and China. The escalation of the Zionist aggression to Palestine is part of this imperialist position war, in a region where Israel is a bridgehead of imperialism. In Latin America, Paraguay is being transformed in a strategic platform for imperialist action in the South Cone. Starting with the coup that ousted President Lugo, a structure is being assembled with military purposes and for spying and provoking countries of the region. In Venezuela the rightist push continues. It is necessary to strengthen our solidarity with President Maduro and the political forces that support the government, specially the Communist Party of Venezuela and Venezuelan proletariat. The blockade to Socialist Cuba still subsists, in spite of, again and again, being condemned by all but two of the countries in the General Assembly of United Nations. The Dialog Table in Havana is not only a problem of Colombians but of all the peoples in Latin America. The interests of the Colombian people and the Insurgents, molten together at the Dialog Table, are that of a paciic solution with social and economic justice, consolidated by a sovereign Constitutional Assembly. The shameful occupation of Haiti reaches 10 years. Armies of subaltern governments, under command of Brazil, are obeying determinations of USA and UNO Security Council to occupy Haiti and give support to the coup held by imperialism in 2004.
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In a study of Brazilian capitalism, in a rigorous Marxist stance, PCB reached the conclusion that the country has a fully developed economy, with an integrated industrialization and operating bourgeois institutions. With this analysis we reached the logical conclusion that the fundamental contradiction in Brazilian society is between Capital and Labour, leading to the conclusion that the Brazilian revolution has a socialist character. This doesn’t mean that in our country socialism is at hand, since objective conditions are given but we lack subjective conditions. These are deeply made diicult, among other reasons, by the hegemony of reformist and opportunist forces in the ield of the so called “let”. In the view of PCB, there are not signiicant contradictions between the Brazilian bourgeoisie and imperialism. In the case of Brazil, imperialism is not a foreign enemy to be faced by the nation in a front of class conciliation between proletariat and the “national” bourgeoisie. On the contrary, Brazil is a part of the world imperialist system, in spite of internal contradictions and of still being a co-adjuvant actor in ascension. The development of monopolies and oligopolies, of fusions, of concentration and centralization of the main means of production at the hands of big monopolist corporations, in the industrial, inancial and commercial sectors, make impossible to separate capitals of Brazilian or foreign origin. It is also diicult to distinguish productive to speculative capital, since in this phase the inancial capital melts its investments both in the direct production as in the so called interest holder capital. It lows form one ield to another, according to the necessities and interests of private accumulation, being enemy of any kind of planning and control. For this reason, the anti-capitalist struggle in Brazil
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is necessarily an anti-imperialist struggle. From the point of view of politics, it is necessary to end the illusion that the Brazilian government is progressive and anti-imperialist. The Workers Party (PT) is, today, a party of the capitalist order, at service of “neo-developmentism”. In the last 12 years of government it worked in cooption and demobilization of workers, depoliticized the society and created a passive mood deeply jeopardizing the class struggle. This picture becomes even more complex if we consider that the media, the social communications network, is dominated by nine families constituting a political power conducted by the most reactionary sectors of capital. Besides this, the bankers, agribusiness, monopolies and industry tycoons had never had so much proit. The economic and the external policies of the Brazilian state are oriented to make Brazil a large capitalist world power, in the frame of imperialism. The Brazilian government, today, is the organizer of the transference of a larger part of income and wealth produced in the country to the bourgeoisie. A large part of the budget is directed to pay proits and amortization of the debt (internal and external) to the satisfaction of national and international bankers, as well as Brazilian proiteers (rentistas), less than 1% of the population. The consumption is warmed up by easy (and expensive) credit, not by wage increases. The result is a serious debt of the Brazilian families. Alliances to the center and right-of-center parties in order to obtain institutional governability made this government, in 12 years, to be capital oriented and provider of compensation policies to the poorer, taking
less than 10% of what is paid to the bankers for these policies. On the contrary, they provided contra-reforms. We can not consider the Brazilian government even reformist: it is a socialliberal government managing capitalism, adopting palliative measures to alleviate extreme misery. The results are new privatizations in large scale, under the form of concessions to the private sector. The oil basin of Campo de Libra was conceded, for instance. The option is for large monopolies, the tax rebate for capital, the destabilization of labour, with more but worse jobs, the policy of primary surplus, the public services put to scrap, the lack of perspectives to the youth, the vulgarization of corruption, the discredit to politics and to the political parties. Precisely at the apex of the capitalist crisis, when aggressions to labour, social and political rights open possibilities for mobilization and organization of workers, we lack a strong international communist movement oriented to revolution. Reform strategies imply alliances with the bourgeoisie and dedication to the struggle in the institutional ield. They send to the workers a message that it is possible to humanize capitalism and to reach socialism through the bourgeois democracy, step by step, in safe and gradual advances, with exclusively paciic forms of action. The reformist parties participating in socialdemocrat or social-liberal governments do not contribute to conquests of workers and even less for the construction of socialism. On the contrary, they participate in the management of the system, demobilize workers deceiving them with the idea that
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Long life to Marxism-Leninism Long life to proletarian internationalism
Opportunism relects in the organizational, ideological and political crisis of the international communist movement. This movement can not be reconstructed only with diplomacy, search for consensus, empty declarations without class content. We can’t leave apart the debate of divergences in order to keep an artiicial unity. The unity we need is that based in the principles of Marxism-Leninism, of proletarian internationalism. In Latin America we need an articulation of revolutionary, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist parties and forces, in order to face the hegemony of Foro de São Paulo, each year deepening its process of institutionalization as an instrument of governability of the so called progressive governments and the capitalist integration of Latin America under Brazilian hegemony. We realized an articulation of Foro de São Paulo with the European version of reformism, intending to constitute a social-democrat international alternative, including so called communists parties, in opposition to the international communist movement. PCB will continue to act in the sense of strengthening a bloc of parties identiied with the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle, looking for a contribution for the development of a no-truce combat to reformism, still dominant in several organizations intending to be of let or communists. We must to build a strong international communist pole, ideologically reinforcing the MarxistLeninist positions and able, in each country, to lead the workers movement to a complete emancipation.
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRAZIL (PCdoB) RICARDO ABREU DE MELO
Dear comrades, First of all, we would like to salute the organization of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, which, for the second time, happens in Latin America and the Caribbean. We are happy to be amongst brothers of all continents. The PCdoB had the honor to host the 10º Meeting in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2008. We salute all the communist parties in the world and we congratulate the Communist Party of Ecuador for the organization of this 16º Meeting in the city of Guayaquil. We were here at the same time in 2012, when we approved unanimously the important and historic Declaration of Guayaquil, the resolution of the Meeting of Communists and Workers Parties of latin America and the Caribbean. The Meeting of Latin American communists was summoned by our comrades from Ecuador, with the decisive support of the Communist Party of Cuba. At the time there was the homage to the workers who lost their lives in the massacre of Guayaquil, which occurred on the 15th of November 1922, the “Crosses on water”. This massacre was 90 years ago, and was one of the most important and heroic facts of the history of the Latin American class struggle. It is a pleasure to be amongst South-American and Latin-American brothers. LatinAmerican people have strong historic and cultural links, due to features that are typical of people that have strong tradition of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance. In its national and social liberation process, our people ight for peace and to stop imperialist wars; they ight to defend the right to have a sustainable economic and social
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workers and the valuation of work; they ight for democratic changes; they ight for true national independence and sovereignty; they ight for integration with solidarity in our continent; they ight to open the way to popular power and socialism.
The new Latin American scenario is objectively anti-imperialist, resisting imperialism in the region. Since the victory of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998, until the most recent victories, in Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay, there have been many political and electoral victories of the let-wing and progressive forces in various countries.
In our reality, Latin America, moreover from the brotherhood relationships with communist parties and workers parties, it is of crucial importance to get the unity of communists and the political anti-imperialist and let-wing forces together like the successful experience of the São Paulo Forum, which celebrates 25 years in 2015.
Popular forces have not lost a single presidential election since 1998 in places where they won before since 1998. It is worth stressing that the only defeats occurred through coups, in the cases of Honduras and Paraguay.
The Communist Party of Brazil held in November 2013 its 13º Congress, and you all know its resolutions. In the analysis of the world situation, which is very rich and extensive in the thesis of the Congress, the PCdoB reinforced its features of internationalism and anti-imperialism, reairms its solidarity with the struggles of the workers and the peoples of the world, in a context inluenced by the systemic and structural crisis of capitalism, a system which is historically obsolete. Communist, revolutionary and progressive forces are still in a strategically defensive position. The Brazilian communists have appreciated the development of the political situation in the last 15 years in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the rise and a general democratic, progressive and anti-imperialist trend and, at the same time, by the sharp decrease of the inluence of neoliberal policies and the new limits for the interference of US imperialism in the region. The progressive and anti-imperialistic wave and the counterofensive of the right-wing forces in Latin America
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The ensemble of electoral victories opened the way for many national democratic and progressive governments which, in their own pace, try to abandon anti-popular and neoliberal policies, promoting changes that give priority to continental integration projects, national sovereignty, political democratization and economic and social development, in which, in the most advanced cases, there are revolutionary and anti-imperialist aims with socialist objectives that are clearly proclaimed. Today in Latin America there is a brutal counterofensive of the right-wing forces and of imperialism. There are new destabilizing and coup-like attacks against those processes lead by let-wing and progressive forces. It is necessary to understand todays rightwing counterofensive that is happening precisely because since 1998 there have been signs of the rise of popular forces; even though conditioned by the correlation of forces worldwide. That is why the political struggle between popular sectors and the right-wing forces have been very clear-cut in the last years, with a ierce battle over the course of our continent.
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The counterofensive of the right-wing forces tries to stop new victories of the let, and to reverse or at least to put various national governments in our region in a defensive position. This counter-attack includes the increase of the military presence in the region, and coup-like and destabilizing attacks supported by enormous political and media campaigns. The main role in this reaction of the rightwing forces against the rise of the progressive forces in Latin America and the Caribbean is played by the big mass media with a behavior that is similar to a transnational right-wing party, becoming frequently the main voice of the opposition against progress of integration and changes. There are also small and ultra-let-wing parties and movements which play the game of the enemy, even without awareness. The progress of Latin American integration with solidarity In particular we are watching processes of South and Latin American integration. So, through diferent and complementary mechanisms, the process of continental integration progresses irmly with diferent paces. At the end of 2008, in Brazil, for the irst time, Latin America and the Caribbean gathered, with the participation of Cuba, without the US and Canada, and gave a big step to break with the “Pan-Americanism” ruled by the US – and on this occasion the idea of the CELAC – Community of Latin American and Caribbean States was born. This new association held this year a successful Summit in Havana, under the pro tempore Cuban chair, a revealing fact of the new times. With the idea of making the diference and
in order to resist US policies, the UNASUR (Union of South American Nations), with great geopolitical and strategic importance gathers 12 Nations progressing in crucial projects like the South American Energetic Treaty, the Bank of the South and the South American Defense Council, which tries to transform the region into a zone of peace. The MERCOSUR was re-launched in 2003 and got a new impulse with the membership of Venezuela and the next membership of Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana and Suriname. So MERCOSUR and ALBA are in a convergence and got stronger together, with the MERCOSUR extended from Patagonia to the Caribbean, becoming an unifying axe of South America. Amongst others, some challenges in order to promote solidarity integration include to confront great inherited inequalities and to try an equal development for the people and the countries of the region. The ALBA - Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, became a reference for creative and revolutionary integration. Especially mechanisms like PetroCaribe, an important instrument in the battle for hegemony in Central America and the Caribbean against US imperialism. The re-launch of the struggle for socialism in Latin America We need to emphasize the fact that some governments voiced their socialist objectives in the region. Beyond the diiculties on the way, the fact that they voiced this objective in the political scenario is important. It’s worth noting that together with interesting innovations, there is also a lot of eclecticism and social-democratic illusion and serious theoretical mistakes.
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unity prevailing and irmly supporting the government in order to make changes. That doesn’t mean not having our own communist positions, because there is naturally a gap between our program and the program of the government. Our objectives go much further.
The Cuban Revolution continues updating its economic and social socialist Project with great popular participation. Countries like Cuba in Our America, and China, Vietnam, Laos and Popular Korea in Asia, fulill an important role in the process of the struggle for socialism in the world.
The proposal of the Socialist Program of the PCdoB is: “in this historical period, our task is to initiate a transition towards socialism by revolutionary accumulation of forces trough structural reforms and break-through”, with the New National Development Project, to create conditions to conquer popular power. In order to get these structural reforms a si ne qua non condition is to mobilize popular masses, progress with popular awareness and a parliamentary let-wing and progressive majority to support structural changes.
the debate on socialism is on the agenda in Latin America. Communist and workers parties are challenged to dispute the hegemony in those processes and to promote MarxismLeninism in this debate developed in the great Latin American homeland.
The struggle for political and social changes in Brazil Finally, we would like to say a few words on the situation in Brazil. In the last 12 years, even with restraints and contradictions, the governments of Lula and Dilma Roussef obtained great conquests for the workers and have pushed forward progressive policies, like the income distribution policies, more valuation of work, and the foreign policy. The Lula’s and Dilma’s governments have a democratic and progressive feature, but can’t be called exactly let-wing or revolutionary governments. Nevertheless, success in those changes is part of the way to the revolutionary accumulation of forces in the country.
The 4th popular victory in a row for the Presidency of the Republic First of all, we would like to emphasize the political and strategic importance of the 4th victory of the broad coalition which governs Brazil since 2003, integrated by political and social forces which go from the let to the center of the political spectrum, and which include the Brazilian communists.
For the irst time in our history, communists participated in the national government, maintaining their political and ideological independence. The Communist Party of Brazil is committed to a broad coalition that governs the country with many forces of the center, and this coalition is led by PT - Workers Party.
Ater the victories of president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva in 2002 and his reelection in 2006, and of the irst election of Dilma Roussef in 2010, on the last 26th of October, the Brazilian people reelected the President in the second round, in a ierce dispute against a strong coalition of the right-wing opposition which proposed a neoliberal program, apart from a foreign policy aligned with imperialist powers.
The PCdoB’s relationship with the federal government is unity and struggle, with the
Of the seven Brazilian parties which belong to the São Paulo Forum, three of them (PT,
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PCdoB and PDT) supported Dilma Roussef, whilst the other three supported Marina Silva (PSB, PPS and PPL). The Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) launched its own candidate for the presidential elections and had 0,07% of the votes.
inluenced by the campaign of the PCdoB and the others parties supporting Dilma.
It is important to stress that from the others nine candidates, none of them supported Dilma in the second round. Four ultra-let candidates, including the Trotskyists and the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), chose to invalidate their vote and not to support Dilma Roussef, and the other ive candidates supported Aécio Neves.
The elections were ierce and polarized. Even though Dilma won, the let lost parliamentary power. The PCdoB got a greater parliamentary result for state representatives, with 2.754.206 votes, representing 2,8% of the total of votes. For the national Congress there were 1.913.015 votes, a 2,0% of the total.
In the second round of the elections, on the 26th of October, Dilma obtained 51,64% of the votes, against 48,36% of Aécio. The 4th government of democratic and popular forces in Brazil will continue to face an unfavorable correlation of forces in parliament, which is even worse than the one that exists today. The only way out for the revolutionary letwing and revolutionary forces, which support the president Dilma is the popular mobilization to pressure parliament to approve measures for the changes demanded by the workers and the people. The PCdoB is feeling enthusiastic with the victory of Dilma and with the election of a communist governor in Maranhão, and is ready for new combats Communist and let-wing activism were decisive in the electoral campaign. In the irst round of the elections 2014 the irst communist governor was elected in Brazilian history, in the state of Maranhão. The people of Maranhão also voted for Dilma Roussef, who got 78,76% of the votes, also
The PCdoB got 10 national representatives for Congress and 25 representatives for the parliaments of the states.
The PCdoB celebrates the results with joy and a spirit of ight for victory, for the new battles of the near future which need more awareness and mobilization of the workers and the people. Brazilian communists are today very dedicated to the revolutionary accumulation of forces which shall open the way to the transition for socialism in Brazil. The Communist Party of Brazil shall continue to increase its role with the Brazilian people and especially the workers in the struggle for the Brazilian revolution as well as a united Latin America in transition for socialism, as soon as possible. Dilma’s victory goes beyond national borders; the success is a contribution for the struggle for peace, national sovereignty and development for the people, for a socialist future. In this historic struggle of the Humanity, led by the workers, Communists are crucial. Long live the 16º International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties! Long live the unity of the communists!
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRITAIN NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Our thanks to the comrades here in Ecuador and to the preparatory committee for their work. For communists in Britain the renewal of the world communist movement and the strengthening of our unity is a great encouragement. The political and ideological conditions under which communists work in advanced capitalist countries, and most especially the principal imperialist centres, are complex but with the contradictions that arise from the developing crisis of capitalism there are very many opportunities. We have to attend to the speciic features, both global and domestic, of this crisis. Once Britain was the workshop of the world. Today productive industry is very limited and much is centred on arms and aerospace. Finance capital plays the decisive role in shaping economic policy and foreign relations. Britain is both the guarantor of US interests within the European Union, principally those of inance capital, and of the US investment in the North Atlantic military and intelligence alliance. The interpenetration of British and US capital underlay the crisis of 2008 and it’s continuing consequences. This was a crisis of the inancial system, arising from the speculative, parasitical circulation of ictional capital created to deal with the basic contradictions within capitalism and especially US capitalism. Most particularly it was a crisis of state monopoly capitalism. While it has become fashionable to focus on those trends within bourgeois political economy that seek to reduce the role of the state the response
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capitalist economies where the crisis was most sharply felt, was to mobilise the state in order to resolve the crisis at the expense of working people. In Britain this has taken the form of a sharp and continuing reduction of interest rates, the circulation of enormous amounts of new money — the so-called ‘quantitative easing’ — and a powerful attack on wages and the social wage, welfare, health and education spending. These policies enabled the banks to borrow from the central bank at rock bottom rates subsidised by the tax take from ordinary people, rebuild their capital reserves, head of institutional reform and prepare for the next crisis whilst placing the burden on working people. This is the rule for decaying parasitical capitalism, privatise the proits and socialise the losses. Austerity is working, for the rich. Proits have soared while the average worker is £2600 a year worse of with the longest fall in wages ever. If wages had kept pace with growth in overall output over two decades annual earnings for full-time workers would now be around a third higher than they actually are This crisis has changed the shape of politics. Even with Britain’s deeply undemocratic majoritarian, irst-past-the-post election system the principal party of the bourgeoisie, the Conservatives have been unable, for decades, to win a parliamentary majority and has been forced into a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. The political genius of the Conservatives hitherto has been to maintain an alliance
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between big business and the banks with smaller capital, sections of the middle class, the self employed and even sections of the working class. This is breaking down under the weight of the contradictions between the interests of big business, the banks and, on the other hand, the mass of the people including middle strata elements and even sections of capital. Defections to the chauvinist anti EU formation UKIP have produced a leadership crisis for the Conservatives. The consequence of this breakdown is a political theatre in which the government seeks to divert a powerful anti-EU sentiment, itself shot through with both progressive and reactionary trends, whilst maintaining the position of Britain within the EU and the free movement of both labour and capital. The Labour Party leadership remains wedded to the EU’s neo-liberal economic policy, iscal orthodoxy on the transatlantic model, the projection of military imperialist power abroad and class collaboration on a European scale. Thus, so long as the right continue to dominate Labour is preferred as the alternate party of the bourgeoisie if only because it is seen as the best instrument for incorporating the working class movement. The political class is regarded widely as corrupt and indiferent to working class concerns. Labour’s loyalty to the austerity agenda is eroding its electoral base — already weakened by mass abstentions — with support slipping away to Scottish Nationalists, Greens and even UKIP.
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In the recent referendum in Scotland many working class areas expressed their opposition to bipartisan politics and the Westminster consensus by voting for the ‘independence’ option even though this would have maintained membership of NATO, the EU, with the Queen as head of state and Sterling as the currency. This has produced a leadership crisis in Scottish Labour in which a let challenge, based on the trade unions, has appeared. This is in conformity with our party’s perspective which sees the resistance to austerity sharpening the contradictions within the Labour Party opening the way to a change of direction or new ways to overcome the crisis of working class political representation. Within our trade union and labour movement illusions about the EU are slowly eroding or, where they persist, assume a right wing opportunist and, marginally, a trotskyite lavour. Building on a powerful anti war movement, in which our party plays a full part, we can now speak of a distinct and conscious anti imperialist current. One notable development has been the decisive shit in public opinion against Israeli policy with zionism on the defensive and with the trade union centre, the TUC, standing clearly in solidarity with Palestine. Actions against the NATO and EU strategy in the Ukraine are gathering strength.
the ruling class. A recognition of this can be found in the attack on these links from government and monopoly media and from the Blairite wing of the Labour Party designed to reduce the presence of the organised working class in politics. Set against this is a strengthening movement against austerity involving large demonstrations under the leadership of both the trade unions and a growing People’s Assembly movement. Our party and the Morning Star daily newspaper played a key part in establishing this initiative, which brings together – under the leadership of trade unions – let wing and green political organisations, community groups, public igures and celebrities and the peace, womens and green movements. Comrades, each of our parties face complex struggles in widely difering conditions. The indispensable factor is our unity which must be constantly reforged in the anti imperialist struggle for peace and for working class political power. Long live our unity.
Our project, as British communists, is to place the working class at the centre of politics. In a country where, exceptionally, the trade unions are organisationally united in a single centre and, in their majority, directly ailiated to the Labour Party, this party remains an unreliable instrument for
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA DREW GARVIE
Dear Comrades: Warm revolutionary greetings to all, from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada. We express our deep appreciation to the Communist Party of Ecuador for hosting this important meeting which takes place as US imperialism, NATO and now Canada launch a new war on the people of Iraq and the Middle East. Our Party continues to stand in full solidarity with the Communist, progressive and anti-imperialist forces and governments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean struggling to defend their national sovereignty, and to advance the class and social interests of their peoples! At the beginning of October, Canada’s Conservative government joined the United States in its horriic war on Iraq. This new war is a continuation of the US and NATO’s attempts to seize control of the Middle East’s resources and to exert strategic control over the region. Growing numbers of Canadians are opposed to Canada’s participation in this war, despite the opposition parties’ feeble opposition in Parliament. The CPC calls on the government to immediately end Canada’s involvement in the US war on Iraq, withdraw from NATO, and adopt an independent Canadian foreign policy of peace and disarmament. The Islamic State is being used as a pretext to intervene once again in line with the US plan for a “Greater Middle East”, which includes weakened client states based on ethnic divisions, the removal of the Syrian government, and other governments not fully compliant to US imperialism. Earlier this year, Canada’s Conservative
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tra-right coup regime in Kiev and to this summer’s massacre in Gaza. Canada has become US imperialism’s most vocal advocate, most notably by supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestine with its policies of Apartheid and genocide. Despite this, there is growing popular support across Canada to end the occupation of Palestine, for a genuine sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, respecting the 1967 green-line boundaries, the right of return for refugees, and the release of all Palestinian prisoners. The Conservative government is using the imperialist doctrine of “responsibility to protect” as its justiication for militarization and war abroad. But in fact it is imperialism that is the biggest menace to peace, regionally and globally. The drive to war is the real reason for a new assault on civil liberties and democratic rights. This October, the killing of two Canadian soldiers in Ottawa and Quebec by isolated individuals has been used to foment widespread fears of “terrorism”. These events have been used by the government to push ahead with their existing plans to expand the powers of Canada’s political police (CSIS) and other security agencies to spy on Canadians and arrest people that have not engaged in any illegal activity. These developments demonstrate the increasingly anti-democratic character of the Canada’s right-wing government and its increasing use of the repressive state apparatus, which is being used against labour and democratic movements at home, as well as abroad. The CPC is ighting to protect and expand civil and democratic rights as well as labour and social rights, to put police under strict public control, and to stop the criminalization of dissent.
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The attack on labour and democratic rights is developing in the context of the consolidation of monopoly capital’s “austerity” ofensive in Canada. While there has been some recovery for proits, there is no recovery for people. Real unemployment is rising with youth employment igures at 50% in major cities, wages and living standards are falling, inequality is growing, pensions are under attack, and unionized, full-time, employment is being replaced by precarious, part-time work. An abundance of Free Trade deals are being negotiated including the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement between the European Union and Canada, set to be inalized next year. Canadian sovereignty over water, healthcare and public procurement are to be opened up to the dictates of trans-national corporate control. Our Party will make the defeat of CETA a centre-piece of the 2015 federal election campaign. Mass privatization of public services is underway, with a struggle currently growing over the attempted privatization of the postal service. Labour rights are also under attack with US-style “right-to-work” laws, aimed at destroying Canada’s trade union movement. Governments and the courts are increasingly ordering public sector workers back to work and eliminating the legal right to strike, picket and organize. These are fundamental rights that our Party demands should be protected in a Labour Bill of Rights. Reactionary changes in Canada’s immigration and refugee system and the major increase in the use of temporary foreign workers are fundamentally racist and designed to channel cheap labour to corporate employers. The capitalist’s goal is to increase the rate of proit and accelerate the accumulation of
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capital through every conceivable means. The ightback in Canada is starting to mature and consolidate in the face of this all-sided attack. There have been dynamic struggles, including the Quebec student strike against tuition fee hikes, which lasted for several months in 2012, generating some of the largest protests in Canadian history under the slogan “student strike, people’s struggle”. Shortly ater the Quebec students demonstrated that it was possible to win victories against the austerity onslaught, the Idle No More movement erupted against Canada’s ongoing oppression of Indigenous peoples and their right to self-determination. Protests and blockades occurred across Canada, with many non-Indigenous people taking part in solidarity actions. Many of these Indigenous struggles are still simmering across the country, and in some places have merged with the numerous struggles against corporate pipeline projects and the expansion of the “Alberta Tar Sands”. The Tar Sands are a stark example of capitalism’s anarchic destruction of nature.
streets against the austerity agenda. Our objective is to build a broad-based People’s Coalition which, with labour at its core, is an alliance that can launch a counter-ofensive against monopoly capital and its governments in Canada. This is an essential ingredient to real and fundamental social and political change in Canada today. With an expression in parliament, such a coalition can curb corporate power and open the door to socialism. Though we are a relatively small revolutionary political party in non-revolutionary conditions in Canada, we recognize that we have a leading role to play in a rapidly shiting political situation. Socialism is the only future for a Canada without war, poverty, unemployment, the degradation of our environment, oppression and exploitation. We recognize the urgent need for the closest unity and cooperation of the International Communist Movement and the global working class if we are going to overcome crises and war. As such, we look forward to the rest of this important meeting and further developing this unity in action.
In the labour movement a sharp struggle has opened up over the direction of the trade unions, between forces advocating for tripartism and class collaboration and those advocating for class struggle policies and mass independent labour political action. At the 2014 convention of the Canadian Labour Congress, the cross-Canada trade union federation, there was a shit in leadership propelled by the delegates’ demand for policies of mobilization and struggle. Communists in the labour and people’s movements are ighting for escalating mass independent political action that would mobilize the working class and its allies in the
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COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY JAIME CAYCEDO
Saludamos esta reunión y felicitamos a nuestros hermanos del PC de Ecuador por el esfuerzo y el éxito que su realización demuestra. Este Encuentro, en su 16 versión, ha despertado expectativas en las militancias y en sectores amigos de los comunistas. Como lo han conirmado los oradores invitados a su instalación el día de ayer, quienes no ahorraron elogios hacia lo que ven como un movimiento comunista llamado a dar luces en medio de las incertidumbres que siembra el desarrollo de la crisis mundial capitalista y de las crecientes – y a veces desconcertantes – expresiones de los inconformismos y de las luchas de clases. Será difícil explicar que no es posible uniicar criterios teóricos y metodológicos para consensuar ideas que permitan sustentar nuestras posiciones alternativas y hacer comprensibles las tácticas diversas que las complejas contradicciones del sistema imponen. Las expectativas de nuestros pueblos y clases revolucionarias son, realmente, la exigencia de que actuemos con responsabilidad. La perspectiva de los EIPCO no puede ser la de una cita ritual cada año para decirnos que no podemos ponernos de acuerdo. Reairmamos el apoyo a la expedición de una Declaración unitaria, consensuada en todo lo que sea posible. Si algún sentido tiene este encuentro y el tipo de documento que de aquí salga ese es el de alentar las luchas que de los comunistas y estimular la unidad y la solidaridad a las luchas en que estamos comprometidos. Colombia busca vencer, por in, el ciclo del anticomunismo y la exclusión social y política, proclamado como forma y contenido de la organización de la sociedad y el Estado
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que el imperialismo estadounidense estructuró para América Latina durante más de un tercio del siglo XX. Un orden contrainsurgente se impuso mediante la sangrienta provocación orquestada en la Novena Conferencia Panamericana, de abril de 1948, con el crimen de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. La violenta represión del “Bogotazo”, el desencadenamiento de la persecución anticomunista y el rompimiento de relaciones diplomáticas con la Unión Soviética, marcaron un rumbo de alineamiento autoritario, aun no modiicado en Colombia, con la doctrina de la seguridad nacional de los Estados Unidos. El plan Colombia y el actual “plan de Consolidación” son los herederos legítimos de ese modelo. Las legislaciones antiterroristas y de seguridad conservan hasta el presente el espíritu de un enemigo interior a exterminar. Detrás del nuevo colonialismo han medrado para Latinoamérica y en especial para Colombia, los intereses del capitalismo imperialista, todos los privilegios para el saqueo de los recursos naturales, las ventajas comerciales y inalmente el protocolo neoliberal de privatizaciones, restricciones a los derechos laborales, la imposición de los TLC, el despojo campesino, el desplazamiento forzado y la instauración del control paramilitar en la sociedad local. Las transiciones a la democracia en América Latina (años 80 y 90) conservaron las políticas neoliberales hasta los estallidos sociales que rematan el siglo XX. La Revolución cubana (1959) demostró que ese destino no es una fatalidad sin alternativa y que el modo de dominación imperialista no es eterno. El triunfo electoral de Hugo Chávez Frías (1998) es el inicio de un nuevo ciclo de cambios políticos, de procesos constituyentes de raigambre profundamente popular y con diversos matices en países del continente, que reclama soluciones sociales, transformaciones democráticas postergadas
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y cuestiona de fondo el modelo imperialista de dominación. Con el primado de la contrainsurgencia, según el modelo norteamericano de los años cincuenta del siglo XX, Colombia busca transitar de una falsa democracia a un nuevo momento de su historia. Contra ese legítimo anhelo emerge con furia la actividad conspirativa y guerrerista de la ultra derecha para intetar revertir el proceso de paz y alentar la desestabilización de los cambios avanzados en América Latina y el Caribe. Tal proyecto criminal amenaza la paz en la región. El objetivo principal de más de sesenta años de guerra contrainsurgente en Colombia ha sido el exterminio del movimiento revolucionario, de toda oposición democrática alternativa y la desarticulación del movimiento popular que expresa la lucha social de clases. Se conjuga con la guerra informal y la enorme inluencia que tiene el monopolio del gran capital sobre los medios de comunicación y aparatos ideológicos, incluidos sectores importantes de la Academia y la intelectualidad. Pesea la intensiicación, el escalamiento de la guerra, la represión y la tergiversación ideológica contra los movimientos sociales y la izquierda, dicho objetivo ha fracasado. La derrota de la estrategia del exterminio es el resultado de la resistencia revolucionaria y popular, como también de las luchas de todos los contingentes que batallan por la democracia y de la solidaridad y el acompañamiento internacionalistas. El gobierno de Santos ha entablado dialogo con un movimiento guerrillero no vencido, que demuestra innegable capacidad política y propositiva. La mayor parte de la izquierda y los sectores democráticos votaron pública y abiertamente por la paz, en la segunda vuelta de las pasadas elecciones a la presidencia con una expresa exigencia de
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A su vez, es necesaria la unidad de los revolucionarios. Hay que mantener abiertas las puertas y la comunicación, bilateral o multilateral, para explorar las coincidencias programáticas y los proyectos comunes. El más importante debe ser el proyecto democrático nacional de país que se propone para la Colombia democrática, en el contexto de la integración y la unidad latinoamericana y caribeña. Las propuestas programáticas existentes hoy son coincidentes en aspectos cruciales de gran expectativa popular. Todo lo que se haga para aproximar la acción común es un insumo útil para avanzar, ahora cuando las murallas estructurales que el orden contrainsurgente estableció para dividir al pueblo y aislar sus vertientes revolucionarias, pueden desaparecer. Ello favorece el reencuentro entre hermanos, compañeros y conciudadanos, la exploración conjunta de nuevos caminos de la mano del pueblo y el fortalecimiento de las identidades que han sido el soporte de la resistencia, de la memoria y del renacimiento de la esperanza para la Nueva Colombia.
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PEOPLE’S VANGUARD PARTY, COSTA RICA HUMBERTO VARGAS CARBONELL
Estimados compañeros: Agradecemos profundamente la invitación para participar en este Encuentro Internacional de Partidos Comunistas. Felicitamos a los compañeros del Partido Comunista de Ecuador por haber traído este esfuerzo de los comunistas a nuestra América y por la organización de un evento tan signiicativo como es, necesariamente, un encuentro de los partidos comunistas, que nos traen desde diversos puntos del orbe sus experiencias y sus análisis. Siempre hemos deseado participar pero generalmente hemos chocado con problemas inancieros insalvables, en las condiciones de nuestro partido. I La profundidad de la multifacética crisis del capitalismo, la exacerbación de la agresividad imperialista, plantea ante los comunistas no poco problemas sociales y políticos nuevos, cuyo esclarecimiento es una tarea ineludible. Nos parece que en este momento el imperialismo, aparte de las crisis sistémicas, está enfrentado sus propios errores políticos y morales. Es capaz de mantener cerca de 900 bases militares fuera del territorio de los Estados Unidos, es capaz de cometer crímenes tan brutales como lo fue las guerras de Corea y de Vietnam, la organización de golpes de Estado en el mundo entero, siempre bajo métodos y propósitos semejantes, como ejemplo en Indonesia o en Chile y Argentina. Puede invadir Irak o destruir a Libia o Yugoeslavia, pero no logra la estabilidad necesaria para alcanzar su propósito del dominio mundial. Esta situación pone en evidencia que el imperialismo –todos los Estados imperialistas—son prisioneros de una maraña
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construida por las contradicciones propias del modo de producción que le sirve de sustento. El enemigo de los pueblos es política y moralmente más débil pero al mismo tiempo más agresivo, más brutal e ignominioso. Esta dialéctica plantea nuevos problemas: ya que teniendo rasgos comunes, en cada momento, en una región determinada, se produce efectos muy diversos. Vale la pena destacar como un hecho nuevo que se va reforzando la tendencia al abandono del dólar como moneda de reserva universal. Bretton Wood se está quebrando. La quiebra del dólar tendrá sin lugar a dudas una enorme trascendencia en la lucha antimperialista. Es una columna que se le rompe a un elemento básico del sistema de dominación. Como es bien sabido Estados Unidos tiene un presupuesto de guerra mayor que la suma de los presupuestos del resto de los países del mundo, pero el mundo unipolar está agonizando. El anhelo de un mundo sin una hegemonía imperialista se está desarrollando, se hace realidad. Nos parece que un buen ejemplo de esta nueva situación es la votación en la Asamblea de la ONU sobre el bloqueo yanqui contra Cuba. 188 países se pronunciaron en contra de un elemento hasta ahora capital de la política internacional de los yanquis; solamente Estados Unidos e Israel votaron en contra de la resolución. Este hecho no lo deine todo, pero sí es señalamiento muy positivo de cómo se mueve las opinión mundial sobre este tema de la política gringa. El proceso de la pérdida de la hegemonía de los Estados traerá muchos fenómenos nuevos y nuevas esperanzas a los pueblos. Pero el estudio sobre este fenómeno impone
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grandes obligaciones a los cientíicos marxistas y sobre todo, a los partidos comunistas. Este apretado escarceo de temas del elemento principal de la lucha antiimperialista, es apenas un intento de despertar interés de un mayor intercambio de análisis y de posiciones políticas. Lo que ocurre en cualquier país o zona del mundo inluye sobre la actividad política. Por esto lo más importante mantener los EIPCO, desarrollar la enorme actividad de Solidnet. Pero debemos abrir curso a la discusión de cuestiones concretas y poner a circular una revista en que se expresen las opiniones de los partidos comunistas. Sabemos que esto tiene que enfrentar muchas diicultades, pero debemos intentarlo. No olvidemos que las ideas, las elaboraciones teóricas cuando se comparten son también una forma de solidaridad. Represento a un partido con grandes carencias y debilitado por situaciones adversas conocidas a la que hay que sumar los problemas generados por una división que, aunque ocurrida hace ya bastantes años nos dejó secuelas que no hemos podido superar. Por esta razón necesitamos conocer lo nuevo en las experiencias y análisis de los partidos hermanos. II Creemos necesario subrayar un fenómeno bien conocido: toda acción produce una reacción equivalente. Esta verdad de la física nos parece tiene una expresión en la vida social aunque no tan mecánicamente como en el mundo natural. En campo de la sociedad el problema es ininitamente más complejo, las respuestas a una acción del enemigo tiene ingredientes conscientes y subjetivos que pueden ser determinantes en el resultado de un proceso. A propósito de esta cuestión quisiéramos decir algunas palabras sobre el actual
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proceso político en Nuestra América. La construcción de esta américa tuvo su arranque fundamental con el triunfo de la Revolución Cubana y el arranque de la construcción de sociedad socialista. La sabiduría de Fidel Castro hizo posible engarzar el pensamiento del marxismo-Leninismo con la acción y la sabiduría de José Martí y otros próceres de la lucha por la independencia. Esto ha permitido mantener una exitosa transición al socialismo, en este momento en un proceso de perfeccionamiento. La victoria en Playa Girón y la derrota política del bloqueo, señalan derroteros imborrables, huellas de una marcha victoriosa. Construir el socialismo, solidarizarse con todas las causas justas, tener la sociedad más igualitaria del mundo, enfrentar al imperialismo yanqui a noventa millas de sus costas, es la base fundamental de la inspiración revolucionaria en nuestro continente y otras regiones. La nueva América tampoco podría ser entendida sin la lucha y las ideas del Presidente Hugo Chaves. En Chávez se unieron la iniciativa revolucionaria y la más ina sensibilidad histórica. Chávez era capaz de ver las posibilidades que otros no veían. Y así se cambió el escenario político revolucionario. Grandes sectores de nuestros pueblos antes desorganizados y dominados, se han convertido en creadores e independientes. El mal llamado patio trasero de los yanquis se ha convertido en campos productivos y frutos de esperanza. Hace muy poco esta transformación era impensable. La creación del ALBA y la derrota del intento yanqui de imponer el ALCA; la existencia de
una Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños y de otros organismos es precisamente lo que permite hablar de una América Nueva. Y esto es lo mejor que podía pasarle a esta región desde la independencia, puesto que la segunda es más amplia porque no discrimina y más alentadora porque se orienta al socialismo. Se ha demostrado que los héroes de ayer en la lucha por la independencia sirven de sustento ético y político a las luchas antiimperialistas. Nos parece que podemos hacer una conclusión, la crisis del capitalismo, la desesperación imperialista, han ampliado las posibilidades de transitar al socialismo. El tránsito al socialismo es cada vez más original y debemos que surgirán nuevas originalidades. El papel de los comunistas en estos procesos, según nuestro modesto criterio, requiere mucha elaboración teórica y un incesante intercambio de experiencias. Estos es lo importante. Nos parece que tiene importancia señalar que las nuevas rutas al socialismo marcharan, necesariamente, según los postulados y la visión del marxismo-leninismo. Fidel y Cuba, Chávez, Maduro y Venezuela, Evo y Bolivia, Correa y Ecuador, Ortega y Nicaragua, El Salvador y Sánchez Cerén, Dilma y Brasil, Cristina y Argentina, Mujica y Uruguay, y millones de combatientes son los pilares de nuestro futuro, el futuro de todos. III Desde hace más de 35 años que nuestro país, Costa Rica, tanto en la vida económica, social, política y cultural está bajo el dominio de los modelos de dominación neoliberales. Todo lo positivo construido
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por varias generaciones está en proceso de destrucción. Durante los años cuarentas la alianza de los comunistas y el gobierno permitió crear el seguro social, promulgar un código de trabajo, garantizar la libertad de organización sindical, establecer por primera vez el impuesto sobre la renta, desarrollar planes exitosos de construcción de vivienda popular y muchas otras medidas muy positivas. Este proceso se terminó como es obvio se desarrolló en medio de una violenta lucha de clases que condujo a una guerra civil y, como consecuencia, la ilegalización de los comunistas y de otras fuerzas progresistas. La represión anticomunista fue brutal. Por ejemplo la los dirigentes principales del PVP de la Provincia de Limón, principal centro sindical y la mayor concentración de comunistas, fueron asesinados, fusilados. Algunas de las conquistas se mantuvieron y los vencedores de la guerra encabezados por José Figueres emprendieron una serie de medidas con el propósito de acelerar el desarrollo capitalista.
Centroamérica, República Dominicana y Estados Unidos), están lanzando a miles y miles a la pobreza, ha hecho crecer la desocupación y el trabajo informal, La diferenciación social es cada vez más honda. Es un modelo infame. El TLC en Costa Rica se aprobó en un referéndum fraudulento, no obstante lo cual apenas recibió un 51 de los votos. Nunca antes se había dado una lucha tan amplia, hubo una unidad popular extraordinaria, que lamentablemente fue herida por el electorerismo. Ahora hay una ofensiva mediática y oicial contra los empleados públicos, su caballo de batalla es falsiicar la realidad para airmar que la crisis iscal es responsabilidad de los “privilegios” de esos trabajadores. Hay que decir, con mucha preocupación, que esa campaña ha penetrado a algunos sectores pobres y como resultado tiende a dividir a los trabajadores. Nosotros consideramos que esta campaña y la consecuente división social, tiene el propósito de crear una base social a la derecha.
Se nacionalizó la banca y los seguros. Se creó un monopolio estatal de la producción y distribución de la energía eléctrica; que luego se extendió a la telefonía. Se levantaron empresas estatales para la producción de abonos y de cemento. Se intentó crear una empresa cooperativa de pesca y además se inició el establecimiento de empresa naviera de varios países del Caribe, incluyendo a Cuba.
Actualmente se dio una huelga de los trabajadores de los muelles de Puerto Limón. Su lucha es en contra de la decisión oicial entregar, con carácter de monopolio, la atención del transporte en contenedores, al monopolio APM Terminal Es una lucha dura y compleja. Eso signiicaría la destrucción de la empresa estatal y la consecuente desocupación. Esta es una lucha patriótica que nosotros apoyamos y que cuenta con el apoyo de los sectores más progresistas.
Hoy todo esto está destruido o en proceso de destrucción. Las normas impuestas por el Fondo Monetario (Programas de Ajuste estructural 1,2 y3), por la Organización Mundial del Comercio y por el Tratado de Libre Comercio con los Estados Unidos (TLC
Nuestro partido está desarrollando en conjunto de acciones para la formación de un frente antineoliberal. Creemos que si no se producen cambios bruscos en la situación, hasta ahora no previstos, la izquierda unida podría vencer en las elecciones de 2018.
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AKEL, CYPRUS
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We thank our comrades of the CP Ecuador for their hospitality. We support their struggles for social and political emancipation of the people and the working class in the country. We stand in solidarity with your struggle. The crisis of the system has resulted in the sharp escalation of the contradictions and antagonisms between the powerful centers of the world; to the intensiication of the class contradictions between capital and labour. The crisis of the system, the poverty it further provokes, the wars and instability it creates, conirm the timeliness of the ideals and the necessity of socialism for humanity. Socialism and peace go hand in hand contrary to the contemporary, barbaric international situation. Since our last meeting in Lisbon, one year ago, profound developments have taken place and issues have emerged: South Eastern Mediterranean is on ire once again. The assault against Libya ended with the de facto dismantling of the country. Imperialists have spread havoc and are exploiting Libya’s oil reserves. Another lethal aggression of Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza took place. The hypocrisy of the US and the EU is evident: they practically supported Israeli aggressiveness. We stand for solidarity and freedom for Palestine. We propose that on the 29th of November the Communist and Worker Parties and the peace-loving movement, the World Peace Council, should on an international level coordinate a simultaneous campaign all over the world under the motto free Palestine. Prepare a collective visit to Palestine. This was also the spirit of the Regional Meeting of CW Parties of the Middle East held in Cyprus, organized by the PPP and CP of Israel and hosted by AKEL on the 24-25 October 2014.
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support of islamist criminal organizations by these forces, culminated to a new war waged by the so called Western allies in Iraq and Syria. Turkey, in an extremely provocative way, is violating once again international law by an act tantamount to invasion of the sovereignty of teh Republic of Cyprus. The “designation” of part of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus by Turkey and the launching of military vessels there, threatens and aims to impede gas explorations of the Republic of Cyprus. This is an attempt to violently control the natural gas reserves of the regions in favor of the neo-ottoman policies of Erdogan’s government in Turkey. Forty years ater the beginning of the occupation of Cyprus, bicommunal talks are in stalemate due to the aggressiveness of the country occupying Cyprus, and the USA and EU policies of tolerating these policies. AKEL expresses gratitude for the solidarity of the Communist movement with the struggle of the people of Cyprus for freedom and reuniication of our country and people. The rivalry between Turkey and Israel for dominance in the region poses grave threats for the peoples because it aspires to control militarily the existing and potential energy resources in a future coordination between the two countries with the USA. Communist and Workers Parties of the region must strengthen in coordination their campaign against the so-called New Middle East Plans of imperialism that aims at the control of governments, imposing puppet regimes and controling all energy routes and resources. There is a lot of room for our joint activity to be more evident to the peoples of the region. The coup d’état in Ukraine, with the support of the US and the EU and the participation of
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neo-Nazis, aimed at radically detaching the country from its historical relations and interdependence with Russia and to align it to the EU and NATO. Their strategic vision is to fully control not only the broader region but also Russia as Brezinsky has long ago portrayed. They will not hesitate to use the same means that lead to the devastation of Yugoslavia and the USSR in order to achieve efective control on basic ersources and raw materials. The last decade has led to a deepening of the relationship of imperialist alliances and their action. The USA, NATO and the EU defend their hegemony through their economic-political and military aggressiveness notwithstanding their internal antagonisms. Our parties are in solidarity and must strengthen their actions against imperialist intervention in the region and towards the Communists in Ukraine that have sufered a major dictatorial and fascist blow. The rise of reactionary, racist, antimigrant, neo- fascist movements is a clear tendency in Europe. This trend is not new of course. But these parties’ strong representation at the levels of the European Parliament and in national elections during the last two years is the expression of the deadlock of mainstream political parties of the right and social democrats and their policies. It is the result of the ierce implementation of antipeople measures, of the Mass Media propaganda; a result of the policies of dominant imperialist powers that through wars of all types create huge migratory waves with the victims – the migrants- perceived by a portion of the population as enemies. At the end of the day, it is the big capital that exploits both local and foreign workers. Anticommunism and the tolerance of anticommunism pave the way to these reactionary forces to spread and gain political and social ground.
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Our parties are at the forefront of the struggle against both the causes of and of the fascist and reactionary organisations themselves. We must campaign and remind the people of the conditions that led to the rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe, ater the great capitalist crisis of 1929 and its management by mainstream parties, their cooperation in some countries with the fascists that eventually led to the Second World War. In many countries of Latin America, US interventions are encountering stif resistance. The danger of a reactionary and conservative setback remains, despite the election results achieved in Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Salvador, Nicaragua, and the success in forwarding changes in policies that improve the standard of living of the peoples. The US blockade against Cuba and the socalled EU Common Position on Cuba, aim at undermining both the national sovereignty, morale and the socialist economy of the Cuban people. It is of the utmost importance for the communist movement to extend in every possible way our support to and solidarity with the struggle of the Cuban people; to actively demonstrate our solidarity towards the right of the peoples of the region to their sovereignty, to their right to decide for themselves the model of production and governance, contrary to the propaganda of the USA and the EU pretending to strive for people’s rights. This is an important task in front of us and we should not neglect expressing it because of our political diferences.
Meetings and our joint initiatives. We must work harder and prepare our coordination. We are autonomous parties, each working and living under difering conditions, facing common but also particular challenges. But we all have high responsibility vis-a-vis our respective peoples, the working people, the future of our children, the future of humanity. And we should be able to stand above our diferences and concentrate on what we could do in common. The challenges are too high for us not to try to achieve convergences in our struggles for our common ideals, without trying to hide our diferences. We should accept the divergencies of approaches among our parties and work on the common ideals and struggles we share. If we do that we will be in a better position to resist the ofensive of both the right-wing and the social democrats against the rights of the peoples, to resist anticommunism, to resist rising reactionary and neofascist tendencies and inspire the people to take part in our political, social and international struggles. Buen trabajo compañeros Long Live Intenationalist solidarity Viva Palestina Libre Hasta la ictoria siempre
Dear comrades, AKEL believes in strengthening our coordination in the face of the capitalist crisis and its social consequences and imperialist wars. The coming year will be very crucial for our parties and also for the International
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA VOJTECH FILIP
Dear Comrades, before starting with the main topics of my presentation, let me thank the Communist party of Ecuador and all organizers for organizing the 16th IMCPW in a city with such a long tradition of ights for workers, in a country which managed to get rid of US military basis from its territory and stands in opposition against them, a country which has been an integral part of let orientated states and a member of ALBY. In a country where education and health care for people play the key role. Comrades, Our meeting takes place in a time where the world inds itself close to a global war. Next year we will commemorate 70 years from the end of the Second World War and since that time the world has never been so close to a huge war conlict. It has been only a few weeks ater laying down wreathes on the occasion of 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War on graves of heroes who passed away in the First Word war. The West, USA and their supporters talked with a great splendour about large loss of human beings and at the same time they were initiating a war epicentre in Ukraine and Middle East. What a cynicisms and non-respect to a human being! If we spoke about the increasing danger of a war conlict during the 15th IMCPW, we warned from the increasing wave of fascism in our society, today we face a real war and a real fascism. Even us, the communist and workers‘ parties we were not able to face this danger together. Ater all our tragic experience with fascism we were not able to warn enough especially young people, what are the roots of fascism and war. On the example of tragedy of today´s Ukraine or on example of results of the elections to the European Parliament we see how disastrous
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is the highest level of capitalism – imperialism. Its external characteristics are nationalism, xenophobia and fascism. New division of world, ight for resources, water, food and soil, conquest of territorial and sky space, creation of world for the chosen ones only and proit. Those are main attributes of interests of today’s capitalist society, its multinational corporations and militant parts. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia would like to appreciate all the eforts of the Communist Party of Ecuador devoted to preparation of the Final conclusions of the 16th IMCPW. We are of the opinion that even If the text is not accepted consensually by all the participants of the 16th IMCPW, it should be oicially distributed as a press release of the 16th IMCPW submitted by the Communist Party of Ecuador. Our delegation would like to return with a document that relects actual discussions of workers ‘and communist parties about today´s international political situation over the world. We are convinced that we need clear and objective deinitions of the state of play of our movement and our immediate relection of the actual development of international politics. To meet here, in Guayaquil, on our summit without being able to drat an actual evaluation of development in Ukraine, as it was by the way suggested by an alternative proposal of inal conclusions distributed by the Communist party of Greece, we would consider as a remarkable incapacity of our movement to react on international development. Our movement with all its determination has to face the increase of fascism in Ukraine and persecution of Ukrainian comrades. We must have courage to point out the reality that the EU citizens are permanently mislead by the idea of democratic character of actual government of Ukraine and the facts about fascist ideas of majority of political parties that made it to the Highest Council ater the
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elections of 26.10. are kept in secret. Last year we discussed the increase of anticommunism in Ukraine, today we have to speak about the fact that the Ukrainian society is becoming more and more fascist. Last year we did not speak about placement of NATO troops on Ukrainian territory and along direct frontiers with Russia, today it is a reality with immense consequences. Some bourgeois political scientists try to speak about new cold war, but at the time of super modern nuclear weapons between two capitalist super powers it is not about a cold war but about preparedness for “a hot war”. Our movement must know how to react on these actual challenges and must be able to deine the aggressor and also the one who only defends himself against the aggressor. In this context our party would like to notice that during one year in terminology of EU mass media and practice of EU politicians the currently becoming archaism of “anti-soviets rhetoric” changed into an aggressive “Russian phobia”. I do not want to be wrong but I feel that EU inclination to the brown color, evidence of which is EU understanding for fascist excesses of Ukrainian ruling power will be ideologically followed by an extreme Russian- phobia. Our movement has to take all the steps possible to lower the tension between the EU and NATO on one hand and the Russian federation on the other hand. We have to contribute to elimination of antiRussian sanctions, which have more negative impact on citizens and producers of EU member states than on the economy of addressee, that proits from the situation to get rid of useless economic ties and to build up its own economical and mainly food selfsuiciency. It would be wrong to think that war fury afected only Europe and Middle East. It is an American program aiming at installation of a big chaos, which should
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change the existing frontiers. In their hands, new technologies that were supposed to serve the people are becoming extraordinarily dangerous weapons inluencing ideas and behavior of people. They manage to insert problems and quarrels between nations and states; they manage to use socially and economically weakened societies and religious fanaticism. Majority of mass media play their role evoking the atmosphere of war propaganda. Since ‘90s the war on-line has become integral part of everyday impact on subconscious mind of citizens creating image of so called “heroes”, ighters for democracy and freedom against an image of a “grim enemy” – represented mainly by Russia. New 21st century has been so far developed as a frontal attack on fundamental values and humanity within until now the most peaceful period of the second half of the 20th century. Following international treaties and conventions and respect of international law has been strongly violated. UN has become only a toy in hands of American super capital and groups of states are not able to resist the pressure of the USA. It is only the right of veto of the Russian federation and positions of China in Security Council that guarantee that the UN has not been incorrigibly misused by the interests of US yet. In general one can say that unipolar government of the USA over the international politics and international law devalues international democratic law in general so much, that some personalities, e.g. president Putin speak about the end of international democratic law in the form as it was agreed by the winners over Hitler´s Germany 70 years ago. However, I am of the opinion that our movement has to apply to and defend principles of international law, which was formulated with an active role of
the Soviet Union and socialist countries and which represents the highest values of our civilization. It is obvious that today´s multi -polarity of world´s politics is ensured by new political and economic corporations, such as BRICS – in this connection let me congratulate to our Brazilian colleagues on re-election of president Dilma Roussef, who is a guarantee that Brazil will remain a irm part of BRICS partnership, Shanghai organisation for cooperation, ALBA, and here in Latin America UNASUR, MERCOSUR....etc. We can have remarks or reservations regarding such organisations, but these help to build economic independence and contribute to create a certain balance of powers in the world, to end up with neo-liberalism and American monopoly over everything and everyone. Comrades, Almost all antidemocratic, right wing and nationalist forces today have managed to join against eforts of let wing, civil, peaceful and other progressive movements in their justiied ight for human dignity, life in peace (and future of the Earth). There is IMF against us, inancial institutions, (WTO), anti-human governments, and mainly NATO, position of which has again revived in full force. Workers, unemployed, seniors and youth, ordinary people and intellectuals are demonstrating on streets against governmental austerity measures, against wars. There is a wave of dissatisfaction with existing social and political situation coming from underneath. However it seems that the let is shuling. Instead of creation of uniied antiwar, anti-fascist line we are dealing with internal problems. In such an escalated international situation it seems that we have lost things that we have in common. To suppress what divides us. It is not about our
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party interests, it is about real peace! Our communication with people lost a famous call of our national hero Julius Fučík: “Mankind, be vigilant”!We are becoming an easy target for the world of capital and war agitators. They succeed in dividing us, in blaming our parties from failures of governments of right wing and oligarchy. There are many examples in Central and Eastern Europe. Today there is a new phenomenon in political and social development. Diferent civil movements with speciic aims joining them together. Their acts are neither based on any ideological basis nor they issue any speciic program. Their functioning has been spontaneous and they manage to attract wide masses of people. It seems as If people lose conidence in classical political parties, including communist and workers‘ parties. We notice this event while losing members and voters. We should mainly analyze this phenomenon and learn from it. It is mainly about abilities to work with new technologies, fast reaction on actual situations, so that we would be capable to tackle serious topics as irst ones and to be on the right place at the right time. Sometimes we are slowed down by our own long bureaucratic attitudes. At the same time we have to search means how to contact such movements and civil initiatives. Many of them have a problem with Marx-Lenin ideology and they do not understand that it is such an ideology that reveals the real face of capitalism in all its versions and shows possible solutions. We have to consider their existence as a fact, as a result of social development and not to underestimate their power. Already during our former meetings of communist and workers ‘parties we discussed the character of current crises, which is nothing else than a result of still deepening of conlicts of today´s capitalist system. The result of conlicts between a labor and a capital,
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between the social character of production and private possessing of labor results. Today we witness the fact that capitalism is based beside other things on middle class that is to be inluenced very easily and that has practically no relation to means of production. Their interest, supported intentionally by liberal- conservative forces is to keep the reached life standard. The characteristic remark of such a phenomenon is life on credit. Satisfaction of middle class has become not only a symbol of western democracy, but the real basis for its politics. Because it is voters who keep these forces in governments. The crisis has changed many things. Middle classes are in the situation of losing their certainties and they are newly on board with workers and unemployed. That is what the liberal - conservative forces are well aware of, and similarly to ‘20s and ‘30s of last century they direct frightened middle classes against “potential enemies”. These days it is Russia. They justify the only solution for the crisis - a war. In this connection we see the increase expenses on armament, manipulation of peoples ‘minds, austerity measures, but also the exceptional occasion how to turn the attention against communist and let movement. Or even better - to suppress them or to prohibit their existence. These right wing forces manage to handle also new civil movements and activities of diferent groups, since those are not based on class heart of problems of capitalist society. Middle classes are getting involved in those, but without special interest in joining of let movement, since they fear to get engaged letist. There we can ind a task for communist and workers’ parties - to start searching a way how to address these
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movements and ind out what we have in common. Searching for allies and spreading out of the inluence of let is not easy, but today it is one of our limited possibilities how to ight against capitalism. The crumbled society and division of let contribute to strengthening of the system. At the same time the communist and workers´ movement should use all legal (adequate) means in the same way as the right wing does to protect its interests. To protect labor against capital. Comrades, Let me say a few words about the situation in the Czech Republic. For more than a year we have a coalition government that was established ater last year early elections. The coalition has been formed between the social democrats, KDU-ČSL (Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party) and the movement ANO of a billionaire A. Babiš. Even If some partial provisions adopted in favor of citizens the government does not realize its promises, such as improvement of laws on restitution, when the Church gained properties with value of billions, real estates, ields, property of municipalities and social organizations. The church, mainly the Catholic one and via them Vatican is becoming the most rich institution in the Czech Republic. The ight against corruption is not suicient. There is 7% unemployment rate in the Czech Republic. We are members of the EU and in case of signature of TTIP with the USA and CETA with Canada it will have strong negative impacts on the Czech economy and social area.
ate of Parliament of the Czech Republic. Electoral achievement of the CPBM are not fully satisfying us. Our communist party had to face very strong anticommunist pressure especially using this year’s 25th anniversary of the fall of Communism. Mass media and representatives of both right-wing parties and social democracy warned against Communists gaining power and misused the situation in Ukraine and xenophobic moods against the Russian Federation. Despite that CPBM managed to secure its presence in the leadership of City Councils in important cities as well as to strengthen it’s representation in Prague’s City Council. Dear comrades, CPBM fully supports the proposal of the Working Group, which was adopted in June this year on Cyprus, i.e. to maintain present basic composition of the Working Group. Contemporary political situation in the World is relected in the composition of the Working Group by presence of communist and workers’ parties from particular territories. At the same time the methodology of our work doesn’t prevent any party of SolidNet Network from taking part in the meeting of the Working Group and presenting its opinions. In conclusion let me thank comrades from Communist Party of Ecuador for the warm welcome and for making good conditions for the 16thInternational Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties. We understand that organizing of such event is followed by many diiculties, but what is important is the result. Therefore I wish success to our further meetings.
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF DENMARK HENRIK STAMER HEDIN
The state of the world entering the year 2015 is still dominated by the economic world crisis, which has been ravaging since 2007. Several countries, especially in Southern Europe, are in a state of right-out depression, end the situation in other developed capitalist countries is disheartening. Already, we have been experiencing a double dip, i.e. a new setback before the economy has had time to recover from the crisis; now, in late 2014, certain economic indicators suggest that we are facing a triple dip. The Soviet economist Kondrachev developed the theory of ”the long wave”, i.e. that capitalism beside and beyond its ordinary recurrent crises at intervals of about half a century enters a prolonged era of especially serious crises. He explains this ”long wave” by leaps in the development of productive forces, as new industries come to dominate while older ones decline displaying the usual symptoms of crisis – drops in production, sackings, bankruptcies and so on. Today, information- and biotechnologies are displacing heavy industry, motor cars and oil as the leading industries. It seems that we have not yet overcome this, the third or fourth ”Kondrachev crisis”. As has been seen before, imperialism is responding to the crisis by enhancing its aggressiveness and sharpening tensions in the world to (or beyond) the brink of war. In Europe, the EU has exhibited enhanced aggressiveness and expansionism towards eastern Europe, most recently Ukraine, where an EU-inspired surge of reactionary and partly Fascist violence usurped power by a coup d’état and, by doing this, triggered a civil war in the country. EU politicians were extremely active in what went on at the Maidan, and the mantra of the movement was ”European values” – whatever that is. The US reacted to what they perceived as a European attempt
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to take the lead in the aggressiveness race by further sharpening their own aggressiveness. Presumably, the US was behind the February coup in Kiev, while the EU, for lack of military muscle allowing a straight course, had preferred a soter line based on a negotiated solution involving Russia and leading on the very eve of the coup to an international agreement on elections and a change of constitution in Ukraine. This was not aggressive or radical enough for the US, which acted accordingly. Eventually, even the EU with more or less enthusiasm backed the hard line of the US, which has led to an escalated confrontation between Russia on one side and EU/US on the other. Russia’s determined attention to her interests in Crimea and the Russian government’s cautious support of the Donbass armed resistance has by a regimented propaganda campaign, unequalled in modern days in its mendacity and massiveness, been branded as aggressiveness, breach of international law, history revisionism and so on – it’s the thief crying ”stop the thief”. Imperialism in its machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere may seem united and monolithic, but this is not so. Imperialism never was united and never will be. The EU interest in Ukraine is expansion of the Union and destruction of the Ukrainian economy, so that Ukrainians will be forced to migrate to Western and Central Europe as cheap labour, while those staying at home will have to import the goods no longer produced in their own country from the same Western and Central Europe, leaving the proits there. US interests are primarily to block or hamper Russia’s access to the Black Sea and thence to the Mediterranean.
dependent on each other; the US could not act as it does in Europe without some backing by the EU. The diferences of interest should not be underestimated, nor should they be absolutized. Parts of the Let in Denmark believe that the EU could be used as a shield against US imperialism. They have therefore embraced the EU and become EU adherents. This is a dangerous course. The most immediate danger to all European countries is the European Union. It should accordingly be fought with resolve and determination. Danish Communists are doing just this, and realizing more than 40 years ago the necessity of ighting the EU led us to build the broad anti-EU people’s movement that has since then won important victories and preserved important parts of our independence; e.g., we still have our own national currency. In doing so, we fulilled the role generally ascribed to Communists – to act as guides to the people and show the way. Without our efort, this broad unity would never had been accomplished; the movement would have dissolved into nationalist factions on the one hand and letist ones on the other, into proponents of the ”Nordic model” on one side and adherents of ”small is beautiful” on the other, or similar divisions. As a matter of fact, this is to some extent what happened ater the Communists were weakened in the wake of the European Counterrevolution and were no longer capable of guiding the movement. Nevertheless, the resistance against the EU is still strong in Denmark, and Danish Communists are constantly keeping in view: Fighting imperialism in Europe means ighting the European Union.
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF FINLAND JUHA-PEKKA VäISäNEN
FOR PEACE AND SOLIDARITY AGAINST FASCISM AND MILITARIZATION In today’s political situation in Finland, it is great to be a communist. From a communist point of view letist and social democratic oriented political forces have strongly adopted logics from the bourgeois elite and accepted right wing austerity measures. Trade unions in Finland understand EU concepts of freedom and business so well that it has forgotten its basic function. This international class struggle needs an honest radical let front to coordinate political work to ight back imperialism and its concrete forms. In my talk I wish to concentrate in three topics that from a communist point living in the North of Europe are the most current issues. 1. We have to defend and develop democratic structures like public services and involve masses to participatory processes. 2. We have to develop alternative environmental policy and work closely with the ecological movement 3. We have to present a vision of world without wars and endless militarization This international class struggle needs an honest radical let front to invite new forces and faces to speak for their rights and to build speakers platforms like Lenin said. We don’t do the change alone but YES we can and we will do it together with mass movements, critical trade unionists, peace activists, feminists, LGTB volunteers and with all those who want an alternative to the current capitalist exploitation. This international class struggle needs a
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radical let to strengthen peace movements call for a diferent defense politics. A let that resigns from growing militarization and cutting lists from education and culture. An alternative Finnish defense policy is needed. I strongly oppose our prime ministers Alexander Stubbs’s say “Money is the best peace defense”. Minister Stubb´s politics is not only harmful for world peace, or relations with our Russian brothers and sisters. With the Russian market boycott campaign Minister Stubb is also ruining Finnish Economics, and making the working class pay price of EU-anti Russian politics. IMPERIALISM FIGHTS AGAINST DEMOCRATIC STRUCTURES - FINNISH REFORM IN HEALTHCARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES Today Imperialism tries to hide behind secret negotiations and short acronyms like TTO, TISA, or TTIP. For a communist Imperialism is showing itself concretely in diferent bilateral negations, that United States (US) is proceeding with various counterparts. Most important negations are Trans-Paciic Partnership agreement TTO and Transatlantic Investment Partnership TTIP. Over 60 % of world trade would be handed over to the US and other imperialist economies with these so called agreements
and healthcare system in Finland. All parties present in the parliament stand behind this highly undemocratic reform that will concentrate all social and healthcare services into ive big sectors. Communist Party of Finland has proposed an alternative for the reform. CPF alternative stands for local participatory democracy, safeguarding all the basic services as local services and CPF proposes creation of a county government. From a working class point of view the TTIP agreement means growing powers of the big capital and weakening of democracy. From a little nation’s point of view this is a real and concrete risk. International healthcare businesses in the framework of the TTIP would have larger markets and freedoms leading to privatizations of the healthcare and social services. IMPERIALISM FIGHTS TO EXPLOIT NATURAL RAW MATERIALS - MINING BOOM, ABORIGINAL RIGHTS AND TOURISM. MINING POLITICS Today Finland, country of thousands of lakes is strongly attacked by multinational mining companies. 15 % of our territory is under diferent kinds of mining reserves or declarations for mining rights. It is uranium that unites most of the companies because the few remaining uranium resources globally are found in our arctic regions.
TTIP agreement would directly afect Europe. The planned agreement has to be seen as part of an US plan to compete with the BRICS countries. TTIP agreement negotiations function as a maneuver to win in the battle of the world hegemony and power. The US tries to hold on to it with both hands to maintain its hegemonic position and its ideology of one polar world order.
Mining boom will irst bring work and income for a group of people. Ater some 30 years only cleaning and radioactive ground and particles will be there with the question whose responsibility is to clean and oversee the radioactive. We are sure that there will not be a boom of private responsibility takers.
There is a radical reform plan to change social
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business and the growing international interest in the Arctic is oppressing the process of the Saami people in their just demand for their rights to land, culture and language. For us Finnish communist it is important to declare here internationally that we irmly stand with the right of the Saami-aboriginals for their basic democratic rights. We demand the Finnish government to approve the ILO 169 declaration. Naomi Klein writes in her new book “This Will Change Everything” that it is capitalism that has caused the current ecological crises. We communist have had that analysis already there but it is highly interesting that Klein sees the role of the aboriginal people as a catalytic force in progressive politics for future sustainable ecological politics. Maybe a Canadian intellectual media star has to say it out loud that our aboriginals in the North of Europe will add imperialism and capitalism in their vocabulary. And for us communist it is a perfect time and space for a class oriented Marxist collaboration with the natives of our arctic north. IMPERIALISM FIGHTS AGAINST WORLD PEACE - UKRAINIAN CRISES USED AS AN EXCUSE FOR CLOSER NATO MEMBERSHIP. TOWARDS PEACE AND WORLD WITHOUT WARS Finland is oicially still a non NATO member country. With the Lisbon treaty and EU membership we have been forced to a closer military collaboration with the almost all NATO member EU partners. Recently at the Wales Nato summit Finland has signed a Host Nation Support memorandum of understanding with Nato to effectively allow troops from the defense alliance to train on Finnish soil and to provide assistance in the event of accident, crisis or conlict. Now NATO troops can move in Fin-
land almost as if they were “home”.For a reason we have to share peace movements worry of militarization. According to parliamentary debate future military spending is leading in increasing the military budget irstly with 50 billion euros in 2016 and thereater with 150 billion euros in 2020. And there will be an extra cost of new Hornet air ighters to be invested that meaning huge costs from 6 to 20 billion more.Now it is time to end talks of increasing the military budgets and investing in new war machines. Now or never we have to say no to NATO. It is time to turn a new page in our defense politics. It is time for culture of Peace and better funding for civil societies international relations, for culture and education.World peace will not be built with military alliances or increasing military funding.Politics, dialogue and Peace – from working class point of view is always the best. Imperialism can´t be ight alone. This ight against imperialisms concrete projects is a Communist ight. We communist demand just distribution of wealth. All working men are equal in this ight for a better world where neither men or women nor nature is oppressed.Together we are strong in this battle that has an old name, a historical task and new characters adapted by the changing society. Comrades, you know we are talking about international class struggle. Class struggle is a broad international action plan done together with the society’s progressive forces. Today class struggle is a feminist struggle. Equal society demands equal rights for all sexes and equality for the people with diferent sexual orientation. Today class struggle is an ecological struggle for saving the planet earth. Today class struggle is a universal ight for Peace to strengthen up culture of peace, people’s self-determination and abolish foreign military bases.
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GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY GüNTER POHL
Comrades, In the following I will refer to the subject of our Meeting and to the situation in Germany. What will not be said with respect to the global situation, will be contributed by other parties. The capitalist crisis of 2007/08 had its repercussions in Europe, and in particular in the European Union member countries. But foreseeably, those nations are sufering much worse, which since 2002 have been without the option to devaluate their currencies, because they had adopted the common European currency, the Euro. Meanwhile, Germany has expanded its role as the principal exporting nation. It let of the crisis stronger than ever, both in terms of economic and political power. Of course, Germany has not yet reached the growth rate from before the crisis, but it put itself in the pole position compared to its rival, France. On the one hand this has been gained by traditional sales of high quality machinery and cars, but on the other hand through a “class compromise”: since more than ten years—long before the crisis— the unions have accepted very low wage rises in order “not to jeopardize the German ability to export”, whilst in many European Union member countries wages were rising. Another highly important determinant for understanding why the capitalist crisis afected Germany only partly, is the role of the so-called “European Commission” (which would better be named a council of Secretaries of the European Union, which has never been elected) Here, the German Minister of Finance — Schäuble—imposes aggressive means of shock and reduced spending on the countries in crisis whereas they are in need of state investment rather than austerity. At the same time, Germany lends money to countries such as Greece, Italy, and Portugal, so they can repay their debts to German companies, or the state
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payments to exporting companies. This serves the media to rant about a “debt crisis” in order to cover up that the crisis’ actually stems from overproduction. The German rulers secure the role of their capitalist class economically through the German economy’s traditional strength in export, and politically through their command in the EU. Inside the country they secure it ideologically. The aforementioned compromise between unions and capital translates into a considerable lack of solidarity of our class with workers in other countries. This becomes very visible when transnational companies—such as Volkswagen—shut down factories in e.g. Spain, and the unions facing the loss of jobs instead of solidarising practice NIMBYism. In a considerable share of the class, Hitlerism has rooted a sentiment of superiority to other peoples, and many workers believe what is good for “their company” is good for themselves. In addition, there are efective subjective reasons, because they are exploited by a capitalism which on global level allows them to be among the beneiciaries of the exploitation. Creating class consciousness is one of the tasks for a Communist Party in an imperialist and highly developed country. We are convinced that this class consciousness could contribute to overcome the rise of racism. Today, fascist parties are no longer excluded from the public dialogue. The media increasingly present them as a political option—it is about cleansing Germany’s image by looking for the liability for WW I among “all contemporary powers”. At the same time, there are discussions about the reasons for WW II. Actually, the reactionaries are advancing: for the irst time ater the liberation from fascism in 1945, through the party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) there exists a direct link between neo-fascism and bourgeoisie.
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They have already gained mandates in the European Union parliament. This party represents that part of the capital which does not agree with the common currency. Their populist ideology grants them votes with their tales about “us paying for the Greeks, Italians, etc.” Objectively, the opposite is true: It is the Euro which secures Germany’s predominance in Europe and the EU. Even more: the AfD advocates a EU of two velocities: one Union for the rich countries, another one for the peripheral ones. Our, party, small and in the process of regrouping our forces, is facing a relatively new problem: in Germany, the migrants share in the industrial working class continues to rise. The same is true for the service sector and generally in low-pay sectors. Although oten having a class instinct, these immigrants tend not to organise. Under these circumstances we ask the Communist Parties with militants living in Germany to consider an orientation to organise in the German Communist Party: One country, one class, one party! Most immigrants stay for the rest of their lives, although initially this might not have been their intention. The change in the composition of the population in Germany—almost 30 % of which having foreign roots—requires a more organised response from our parties. We imagine that there are similar circumstances in the US, Great Britain, France and other countries with labour immigration. Despite macro-economic data favourable for the German capital, a considerable share of the working class remains unemployed, and large parts are working poor. This is to say that the poorest are burdened with the crisis insofar it afects Germany. It is already dificult to ind housing at moderate prices, and poverty among youth increases considerably. The gap between those most in need
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hence are inseparable from the existence of capitalism. And in addition it teaches how to struggle and to win. The major enemy in a highly developed and imperialist country is the monopoly capital, which among others comprises the banks, the insurance companies and the industrial and energy corporates. Therefore, in this period class conscience will stem from an anti-monopolist conscience. Beyond the necessary struggle for reforms—such as higher wages and the reduction of the weekly working hours to a maximum of 35—the propaganda for socialism distinguishes us from other letist forces. In the working class the forces who defend our revolutionary ideology are not hegemonial. The hegemony will not be achieved when at the same time reformist illusions about the transformation of capitalism towards a better society dominate. We are sure: Another world is possible, but not inside capitalism. Comrades, Capitalism does not exist without war, it almost cannot exist without war. War is no exception, but normality. Those who believed in a “peace dividend” ater the fall of the Soviet Union, ind themselves betrayed. Today, the aggressiveness through monopolist competition for the global markets has increased, and indicators are conspicuous that in the medium run the imperialist blocks will confront each other. The EU and US are increasing their aggressions against Russia and China. Nevertheless, the imperialist powers have congruent and adverse interests at the same time. The law of the diferent economic and political development of the imperialist countries applies. The diferent interests show a tendency towards evolving into contradictions which express the economic contradictions be-
tween the monopolies. In Europe, the EU’s aggression in the case of Ukraine is of particular importance. Since their aggression against Yugoslavia—with Germany in the front lines—the EU have tried to impose their proper interests against the US, but these have known how to defend their position. Sometimes they take action individually, sometimes with allies such as Great Britain, and sometimes with the NATO’s tacit approval. The EU’s eclectic character helps them: contrary interests inside the EU, between Germany, France and Great Britain, oten neutralise each other. France complains about Germany trying to transform its economic domination into a leadership in the EU’s external policy. We do not equal Russia, the EU and the US as imperialist countries who share an interest to dominate Ukraine. Being clear about Russia not being the Soviet Union, within the framework of international relations it today defends some progressive positions. In the aforementioned case it is defending the peace in the world attempting to keep Ukraine from joining the NATO. If, however, this happens, the NATO troops would line up 1,500 km closer to Russia than before the crisis. Russia’s policy today is motivated by its objective national interests. With their ofer of an association agreement, the EU was and is trying to draw Ukraine into their zone of inluence. The US, within their scope of their politics of aggression against Russia, are rather interested in a country which ofers military bases. Germany sadly follows its historical tradition and allies with the Ukrainian fascists, denying their character and calling them “nationalists”. At the same time, Chancellor Merkel is trying not to totally break with Russia since this country supplies energy to the EU,
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be an ally in the so-called “struggle against terrorism” and might be a future ally when it comes to containing the US interests. These diverse interests became visible when the US enforced economic sanctions against Russia. These sanctions, however, afect EU countries far more than the US. As much as in the EU there are interests for and against an alliance with the US, there is the same contradiction inside the German imperialism. The are “transatlantic” politicians—mostly in the conservative party—and there are those who emphasise the autonomy of the EU against the US. Currently both parties agree in the idea that “Germany has to accept its responsibility in the world”. Germany increases both its political and military role in the world. Now a military reform is being put into practice to transform the armed forces into an intervention army. For the irst time ater WW II, Germany delivers weapons into a region of tension to the Kobane (Ain Al-Arab) Kurds with the pretext of humanitarian need. Germany is in fact, through the export of weapons to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, also arming the “Islamic State”. Generally, wars have an economic origin. And they objectively result from the development of monopoly capitalism—the manifestation of capitalism dominated by the inancial capital. This is why we need socialism.
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE
Dear comrades, We thank the CP of Ecuador that hosts the 16th International Meeting and salute the CPs that participate.
GIORGOS MARINOS
We declare our will to intensify the eforts for the release of the three Cuban militants who still remain imprisoned in the USA.
We express our internationalist solidarity with the people of Ecuador and the peoples of Latin America, with the communists and people’s movements that are facing state repression, anti-communist attacks and persecution.
Dear comrades The developments themselves underline the fact that we have much work to do. Capitalism is becoming even more aggressive and dangerous at the expense of the peoples and is characterized by the full scale ofensive against the working class and people’s rights, the crises and imperialist wars. The tasks of the communists are very important and require that we exchange experience from the development of the struggle in each country in a systematic way, that we intensify the eforts to coordinate our activity and to form the basis for the strengthening of the international communist movement. It is well known that the crisis of capital over-accumulation and overproduction that broke out in a synchronized way in 2008 in many countries expresses the anarchy of capitalist production, its contradictions, the sharpening of the basic contradiction between the social character of production and labour and the capitalist appropriation of their results on the ter-
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rain of the power of the monopolies and capitalist ownership of the means of production. The reality reveals that the basis of the crisis is not the one or the other form of bourgeois management. The crisis is not a product of “neo-liberalism”, or the “uncontrolled activity of the banks” as the forces of opportunism, the Party of the European Let (PEL) in Europe, claim. These claims mislead the peoples, exonerate the capitalist system and its economic laws, foster illusions that there exist pro-people forms for the management of the system and lend support to the socialdemocratic form of management. A full scale ofensive has manifested itself in Greece during the capitalist crisis against the working class, the popular strata, the youth, with painful consequences for salaries, pensions, labour and social security rights. More than 30% of the labour force is unemployed. During the crisis, the government of the social-democratic PASOK, to begin with, and later the coalition of the liberal ND party and PASOK imposed harsh anti-people measures that had been decided on in the European Union (EU) and in the general staf of capital before the crisis, promote the capitalist restructurings that aim at reducing the price of labour power, strengthening the competitiveness and proitability of the big businesses. The fact is that despite the destruction of productive forces and capital, despite the expectations that were fostered we witness economic stagnation and even recession in the EU, even in the powerful capitalist states like Germany, Italy, France. The anti-people ofensive is underway in all
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the European states, regardless of whether they have signed memoranda with the EU and International Monetary Fund, regardless of their deicit and debt levels. The bourgeois general staf are trying to trap the people in one or the other management formula, the “restrictive” or “expansive” economic policy, Keynesianism has been disinterred, tried and tested anti-people dogmas are presented as new ones. The basic conclusion is that every bourgeois management formula, even in the conditions of economic growth, has the proits of the monopolies as its criteria. Consequently, the measures against the people will continue. It is not just the traditional bourgeois parties that function in the line of managing the system, but also the new social-democratic parties, with opportunist roots, like SYRIZA in Greece. This party is attempting to create a positive impression abroad and promote itself as a radical force, here in Latin America as well. However, in reality it is a supporter of capitalist development, the imperialist European Union and its strategy. It is in favour of Greece staying in NATO and gives its credentials to the USA and the forces of capital at a national and international level. However, in reality it is a supporter of capitalist development, the imperialist European Union and its strategy. It is in favour of Greece staying in NATO and gives its credentials to the USA and the forces of capital at a national and international level. Its political line is based on reinforcing the competitiveness and the proitability of capital, it has nothing to do with satisfying the needs of the people and recovering the
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the losses the workers sufered during the crisis. It recycles unemployment and manages poverty. In contrast, the KKE is trying to organize the working class-people’s struggle. It supports the struggle of the All-workers’ Militant Front (PAME) and the other militant rallies of the farmers, urban selfemployed, women and youth. It comes into conlict with the forces of capital, the anti-people political line of the governments and the EU. It contributes to organizing the resistance and ights for the recovery of the losses the workers sufered during the crisis. It struggles for the people’s counterattack, the people’s social alliance, against the monopolies, against capitalism. The daily struggle of the KKE in the factories, businesses, sectors, popular neighbourhoods is not limited to the creation of better conditions for the sale of labour power. But, it is linked to the efort to regroup the labour movement, to reinforce the class orientation of the trade unions, their ability to rally working class forces in confrontation with capital, its political representatives and employer-government led trade unionism, which is a vehicle of class collaboration and the disarming of the workers and bears serious responsibilities for the retreat of the movement. Our party is intensifying its eforts so that the working class, society’s leading class, can build its alliance with the popular strata and strengthen the anti-monopoly-anticapitalist struggle. Recently on November 1st, many thousands of working men and women, popular forces, youth participated in the great national demonstration or-
ganized by the All-workers’ Militant Front (PAME) in Athens, in cooperation with many other militant rallies of the farmers, the urban self-employed, women, students, against capital’s ofensive and the anti-people political line of the government and EU. Over 1,000 trade unions and other organizations of the people’s movement took the decision to participate. A signiicant number of trade unions where PAME is not in the majority took part in the mobilization. Dear comrades, The imperialist aggressiveness has been intensifying and the inter-imperialist competition has been sharpening during the capitalist crisis. In the Southeastern Mediterranean, the imperialist intervention in Iraq and Syria is continuing, with the new pretext of combating the “Islamic State” and the jihadists. Turkey not only maintains its occupation of a large part of Cyprus, but also disputes the sovereign rights of the island and Greece, violates borders, tramples on sovereign rights. The competition over the control of the hydrocarbons in the region is intensifying. Israel continues its murderous ofensive against the Palestinian people and has the support of the USA and the EU that incriminate the people’s resistance as being terrorism, they equate the victim with the persecutor. The intervention of the EU-USA and NATO in Ukraine and the ascendance of reactionary and even fascist forces into the state and governmental leadership of the country, the more general competition of the euroAtlantic powers with Russia have formed an explosive situation.
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These developments, the intensiication of anti-communism, the goal of banning the CP of Ukraine, the banning of CPs in Europe and other regions of the world require the reinforcement of vigilance and internationalist solidarity.
causes of war, to overthrow capitalist barbarity.
100 years ater the 1st world War and 75 years ater the 2nd World War, there is the great danger of generalized military conlicts.
The line of struggle that the 19th Congress of our party, which was held in 2013, inalized has more general signiicance. It notes that in the instance of Greece’s involvement in an imperialist war, the KKE must be ready to lead the independent organization of the workers’-people’s struggle in all its forms, so that it is linked to the struggle to defeat the bourgeois class, both the domestic one and the foreign invader.”
What is the thread that connects these developments, what are the real causes of the imperialist interventions and wars? The monopolies and major business groups are at the core of imperialism which is the highest stage of capitalism (and not just the expression of an aggressive foreign policy). They compete to expand their business activities, to control the markets, the natural resources and the energy pipelines and this is also expressed at an inter-state level. This is manifested in old and new lashpoints of tension and war. War is the continuation of politics with other violent means. The communists have a great responsibility to enlighten and guide the working class and popular strata so that they overcome the multi-faceted traps set by the bourgeois classes and imperialist unions, so that they organize themselves and show their strength. Every retreat of the CPs from the independent political struggle, every involvement in intra-bourgeois contradictions and plans or participation in governments of bourgeois management had painful consequences for the peoples. The mass struggle against the imperialist plans must go hand in hand with the organization of the struggle to eradicate the
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The KKE has multifaceted activity against the imperialist wars, interventions and threats, but it does not limit itself to this.
Dear comrades, It is a fact that the strategy of the CPs and the basic direction of their struggle are determined by the character of our era. This determines the character of the revolution and its driving forces, the line of rallying, the alliance policy and the ideological-political work in the working class so that the struggle is oriented towards overthrowing the causes of exploitation. Social development moves towards a higher level and cannot retreat due to occurrence of the counterrevolution and the overthrow of socialism in the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries. This entire historical course has been characterized by major social confrontations, victories and defeats of the leading classes in every phase. There have been setbacks but the decisive element has been the general law concerning the replacement of the old socio-economic system by the new one.
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Capitalism has developed, the concentration and centralization of capital led to the birth of the monopolies, the stock companies. The material preconditions for the construction of the new socialist society have matured. These are basic elements for the elaboration of a modern revolutionary strategy, with at its centre the socialist character of the revolution and the resolution of the basic contradiction between capital and labour. The strategy of “intermediate stages” between capitalism and socialism operates inside the framework of the exploitative system, as the power and means of production remain in the hands of the bourgeois class and capitalist exploitation and anarchy are maintained. This strategy has caused delays in the struggle of the communist movement, it is a feature of its crisis and leads to the participation in or support for bourgeois governments, to the quest for “let” governments of bourgeois management. The consequences are extremely negative. The subjective factor, the CP and the working class, is “educated” in a solution which is within the boundaries of capitalism. Valuable time is wasted. Unfortunately, this has not been understood. Advocates of such views have reached the point of incriminating the position regarding the timeliness of socialism as being sectarian. Lenin in his work “Under a false lag” in reference to “our era”, which began with the 1st World War and was conirmed by the October Socialist Revolution in 1917, places the bourgeois class in the “same situation” that the feudal lords were in, he spoke of an
era of imperialism and imperialist shocks. We live in this era, the era of the transition from capitalism to socialism and a major discussion must begin about the strategy that corresponds to our era. The 19th Congress of the KKE assessed that over the last 20 years, the already mature material pre-conditions for socialism in Greece have developed even further. The capitalist relations have expanded and strengthened, in agricultural production, education, health, culture-sports and the mass media. There was greater concentration of wage labour and capital in manufacturing, retail trade, construction, in tourism. Enterprises belonging to private capital have developed with the abolition of the state monopoly in telecommunications and in the monopolised sections of energy and transport. Wage labour increased signiicantly as a percentage of employment as a whole. On this basis the KKE came to the conclusion that the Greek people will be liberated from the bonds of capitalist exploitation and the imperialist unions when the working class together with its allies carries out the socialist revolution and moves forwards to construct socialismcommunism. The revolutionary change in Greece will be socialist. The motor forces of the socialist revolution will be the working class as the leading force, the semi-proletarians, the oppressed popular strata of the urban self-employed, the poor farmers. The KKE operates in the direction of preparing the subjective factor for the prospect of
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the socialist revolution, despite the fact that the time period of its outbreak is determined by the revolutionary situation (when the “lower classes” do not want to live in the old way and the “upper classes” cannot carry on in the old way), which is an objective issue. The strengthening of the KKE and KNE and the regroupment of the labour movement, the people’s alliance are basic directions that respond to the need to prepare the party and the labour-people’s movement The People’s Alliance, expresses the interests of the working class, the semi-proletarians, the self-employed and the poor farmers , the youth and the women from the working class-popular strata in the struggle against the monopolies and capitalist ownership, against the assimilation of the country in the imperialist unions. The Peoples’ Alliance is a social one and has movement characteristics in an anti-monopoly and anti-capitalist direction. The parties that have such a line will participate in its organs and in its ranks through its cadres and members, through the members of their youth organizations, who are elected in the organs of the movement and work in the people’s organizations and they will not participate as parties-components of the alliance. This is true for our party also. The labour movement, the movements of the urban self-employed and farmers and the form that their alliance takes on (the People’s Alliance) with anti-monopoly and anti-capitalist goals, with the vanguard activity of the KKE’s forces, in non-revolutionary conditions, constitute the irst form for the creation of the revolutionary workers’ and people’s front in revolutionary conditions.
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Dear comrades, The KKE carefully examines the processes that are underway in Latin America and the development of the labour and people’s movement. It supports the eforts of Cuba against both the USA’s embargo and its continuation of every kind of attack. It denounces the attempts to impose coups and reactionary solutions. It expresses its solidarity with the Colombian militants of FARC. At the same time, we consider it necessary to focus on certain themes and to participate in the discussion that has begun in the International Communist Movement on strategically important issues. Broad popular strata in Latin America that were indignant at the anti-people political line of liberal and social-democratic governments, and entrusted their votes to political forces that promoted relief from poverty, spoke about the independence and sovereignty of these countries, with a focus on dealing with the unequal relations and dependencies on the USA. How de we assess the situation? First, it can not be hidden that in these states political power and the means of production belong to the bourgeois class, proit is the criterion for development and that the exploitation of man by man is maintained. This is the basic issue. The governments of “progressivism”, with diferences in the various countries, are managing the capitalist system. Some of them take measures to relieve the popular forces from extreme poverty and to safeguard a mini-
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mum level of social services so that labour power can be reproduced, which remains a commodity. Some also nationalize certain private businesses, especially in the energy and mining sectors. However, this element does not constitute a radical change, because it is a development that is taking place in the framework of the more general capitalist relations of production and state ownership (the collective capitalist) and it does not change the exploitative character of system. We have experienced state-owned businesses and relatively expanded social services during social-democratic (in particular) governments in many European capitalist countries, but there was a high level of exploitation of the working class and the crises were not averted. Second, through the maintenance of the capitalist economic base, the anarchy in production and the preconditions for the manifestation of the capitalist crisis are formed, with the increase of unemployment, the expansion of relative and absolute destitution, the abolition of any rights that had been gained in the previous period. The activity of the laws of capitalism recently led to the rapid rise of inlation in Argentina, in Venezuela etc, to very high levels, which results in the reduction of the purchasing power of the families from the popular strata. The gap has widened between the increase in productivity and the level of real wages. The reference to the reduction of the percentage of poverty can not conceal the problem of widespread poverty, the causes which create and reproduce it and the enormous proits that are in the
hands of the capitalists at the same time. In any case, poverty reduction programmes are implemented in many capitalist countries in order to avoid eruptions and to manipulate the working class. In our opinion, the CPs are obliged to work persistently, consistently in order to equip the working class so that it can become capable of struggling for the wealth it produced and which belongs to it. Brazil is the 6th capitalist power in the world. It possesses a strong industrial sector and agricultural production, signiicant infrastructure, mineral wealth, energy resources. It possesses a large working class. Its monopoly capital extends its activities particularly in Latin America, and in Africa, in many regions all over the globe. It takes part in the international inter-imperialist competition, utilising the participation of Brazil in BRICS. 100 business groups dominate industry, mining, the agricultural-food sector, the inance sector, the retail sector, services, with a large level of proitability. 53 million people live under the poverty line and 23 million in conditions of extreme absolute destitution in this state. 5% of the richest possess an income larger than that of the poorest 50%. In addition, the developments in Argentina teach us how utopian the fostering of illusions about a pro-people political line in the framework of capitalism is. Signiicant domestic and foreign monopoly groups control all the dynamic sectors of the economy, e.g. in the steel and car industries, in food processing etc. The governments of Argentina restructured the high debt that increased during (and af-
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ter) the crisis of 2001, but the people paid and are paying for this. The people who bear no responsibilities for the debt and did not beneit from its creation. The basic political line of the government is the buttressing and reinforcement of Argentina’s capital in relation to its competitors in Latin America and in the international imperialist system. The rate of exploitation of the working class has increased. The government promotes important economic agreements with China, Russia as well as with US monopoly groups, like the wellknown “CHEVRON” for the exploitation of the rich energy shale deposits (vaca muerta). We are talking about Brazil and Argentina, noting that the situation of the working class, the popular strata in other countries of Latin America with a lower position in the imperialist pyramid, where “let” governments are in power, is even worse. Dealing with these chronic problems, ensuring the right to work, free health services, education which were achieved by Cuba in a course ater the revolution, highlights the necessity of socialism, of working class power. The argument about a positive change in the correlation of forces in favour of the peoples and CPs in Latin America does not express the reality. The participation in or support for “let” governments weakens radical processes, strengthens the position of social-democracy, and has a negative impact on the CPs. In Europe, parties in France and Italy, with title Communist Party, participated in “let” and “centre-let” governments. The experience is painful. The labour movement was set many years back, a harsh anti-people political line was implemented, these governments took part in imperialist interventions, the commu-
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nist movement was charged with responsibilities for these things and unreliability. These “experiments” went bankrupt and became the bridge for the return of conservative governments, rightwing parties which utilised the disappointment of the people’s expectations in order to impose a harsh antipeople political line. The view about “progressivism” as well as the analysis that prettiies the character of the inter-state unions is integrated into the rationale of so-called “21st Century Socialism”, which is being used for the attempted manipulation of the peoples (particularly) of Latin America. This is a vehicle to promote the opportunist position about the “humanization” of capitalism. It deiies parliamentarianism and undermines the revolutionary struggle. It has been trying from the moment of its appearance to slander scientiic socialism, the socialist construction in the Soviet Union. The utopian rationale of the democratization-transformation of the bourgeois state, of the power of the monopolies and the promotion of the “mixed” capitalist economy are presented as a new “model” of socialism. They present a mishmash of movements with positions for a social-democratic, Keynesian management of the system as “revolutionary subjects” in the place of the working class, the vanguard class whose historic mission is to overthrow capitalist exploitation. They present the solution of CPs collaborating with (let) social-democracy in the place of the need for an alliance policy of the CPs that will contribute to the concentration and prep-
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aration of working class-popular forces in an anti-capitalist-antimonopoly direction. Dear comrades, The KKE struggles against NATO, the political-military alliance that is the armed wing Euro-American imperialism and is responsible for dozens of interventions, wars, coups. Our party struggles in the line of disengagement, with the people as masters of their own country. The positions that promote the “dissolution” of NATO, when they are detached from the struggle for the disengagement of each country, weaken the struggle against this murderous apparatus. The KKE ights against the EU, the interstate imperialist union in Europe, with the aim of disengagement, with the power and wealth in the hands of the people and the development of mutually beneicial relations with other states and peoples.
ventions and wars e.g. in Libya and in Syria. Parties such as the German Die Linke, SYRIZA and others engage in anti-communism, participate in the ofensive against the Soviet Union and its historical course and have participated in events that have added fuel to the ire of the anti-Cuba attacks. The KKE is not integrated in any political group. Its EU parliamentary group carries out multi-faceted activity inside and outside the EU parliament, has made a large number of interventions and is at the disposal of the Communist and Workers’ parties. Those who predicted the isolation of the KKE and tried to slander it have been exposed on this occasion as well. Dear comrades, A discussion has begun about BRICS and we must answer a key question. What is the objective basis, the criteria that determine the character of BRICS, the inter-state cooperation of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa?
Our party has an open front against bourgeois and opportunist forces that prettify the role of the EU and support it, like the Party of the European Let (PEL).
The evidence itself demonstrates that these are capitalist states, important links in the chain of the imperialist system, with strong monopolies that control the economy.
The problem is not only one or the other anti-people policy of the EU, but its class essence as a union of the monopolies against the peoples.
Unevenness and unequal relations are the basic features. The competition of BRICS e.g. with the USA and the EU, is combined with the competition amongst the BRICS states themselves, because, for example, the political, economic and military and other capabilities and aims of China are diferent from those of the other states. Even forces that support BRICS are concerned about the slowdown noted in the economies of these states and this is only one aspect of the developments. Because the outbreak of the crisis is gestating, as it is in capitalism’s DNA.
Certain comrades ask us why the KKE let the “let group” of GUE/NGL. We say to these comrades that the CC of our party assessed that this group has been transformed into the parliamentary group of the PEL, that it supports the EU, its forces have supported imperialist inter-
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Dear comrades, A discussion has begun about the character and role of the inter-state unions in Latin America. For example, about the “Union of South American Nations” (UNASUR), the “Southern Common Market” (Mercosur), the ‘Community of Latin American and Caribbean States” (CELAC) or other unions. Reality proves that these are unions of capitalist states, which irrespectively of whether states with governments that call themselves “let” participate and regardless of the form of management. The basis of these unions is comprised of the large monopoly groups and their interests. This is the starting point for the commercial and other inancial transactions that are being promoted for the development of inter-state relations as well as the relations with other capitalist countries or imperialist unions. At the same time, the creation of an increasingly denser web of inter-state capitalist unions in the region strengthens the mechanisms of cooperation between the bourgeois states in a process that in the end functions against the people’s struggle. In the framework of uneven development and uneven inter-state relations, the dominant role of Brazil and Argentina, which are using these unions for the further advancement of the interests of the monopolies, can be distinguished. The relations between the unions of Latin America, the USA and the EU are relations of competition over the control of the markets, and at the same time they are relations of economic and political cooperation.
racter of the “Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America” (ALBA), in which Cuba participates. Our opinion is that the basic element that determines ALBA’s character is that it as an inter-state union where capitalist states are prevalent and Cuba’s participation does not change this. Ater the overthrow of socialism in the Soviet Union, the position regarding a “multi-polar world” is being promoted as a counterweight to the USA. This position exalts BRICS and other inter-state unions. Objectively, this position is based on a non-class view of the character of the powerful capitalist states, old or “emerging”, where the monopolies are dominant. These states play a particular role in capital exports, seek a leading role in their region and more widely and possess an important position in the imperialist system. The approach regarding a “multipolar world” as means to ensure peace and the people’s interests is a delusion. In essence this viewpoint treats the opponent as an ally, traps popular forces into choosing an imperialist or imperialist union and damages the labour movement. Dear comrades, The KKE from the irst moment of the counterrevolution is attempting to contribute with all its forces to the regroupment of the communist movement, to its unity on a revolutionary basis and to the coordination of its struggle. Now, 20 years ater the counterrevolutionary overthrows, the crisis of the Communist Movement is continuing.
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Bourgeois and opportunist viewpoints inluence CPs or are adopted by them and in this way the crisis is being reproduced. If a break is not made, if the strategy of the communist movement is not adjusted towards the concentration and preparation of working class-people’s forces for the struggle to overthrow capitalism, if the ight against opportunism is not reinforced and it is not clariied that socialism is the only solution that can satisfy the people’s needs, then the situation will deteriorate in the years to come. The logic of national speciicities constituted the instrument of “eurocommunism” in order to deny the scientiic laws of socialist revolution and construction and today the problem manifests itself with the same or similar arguments. Of course, every CP in its country is responsible for studying the development of capitalism and the social structure in order to take the necessary measures in order to adapt its strategy and tactics for the most efective development of the class struggle. But, this is something quite diferent from using the “speciicities” to substantiate the substitution of the revolutionary path with parliamentarianism, the relegation of socialism into governmental changes which will manage bourgeois society, as , for example, the Sao Paolo Forum and other forces do.
The socialization of the means of production and central planning are laws of socialist construction, necessary conditions for the satisfaction of the people’s needs. Dear comrades, The diferent approaches on serious issues require further discussion. This is undeniable. However, at the same time, we are obliged to participate in and decisively support the struggle of the working class, the popular strata, the youth, and to utilise every possibility to coordinate our activity. In this direction we propose that we examine together common actions for the next period and amongst which we draw attention to the following: • Support for the working class struggles for labour, social, democratic rights of workers. Coordinated actions for May 1st. Promotion of the 70th anniversary of the WFTU. • Campaign against anti-communism culminating on the 9th of May 2015, the day of the anti-fascist victory. • Intensiication of the struggle against the imperialist threats, interventions and occupation, campaign against NATO etc.
The construction of socialism is a uniied process, which begins with the conquest of power by the working class in order to form the new mode of production, which will prevail with the complete abolition of capitalist relations, the capital-wage labour relations.
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HUNGARIAN WORKERS’ PARTY GUYLA THURMER
Dear Comrades, On behalf of the Hungarian Workers’ Party I would like to thank the Communist Party of Ecuador for the invitation and the excellent organisation of our meeting. The Hungarian Workers’ Party pays great attention to the fact that our meeting takes place in a country of Latin America. The struggle of the revolutionary and progressive forces of Latin America mean an important source for all the parties who want to change the world. The parties participating in this meeting are diferent. But I am convinced that all of us want to change the world. All of us „have nothing to lose but their chains” and naturally all of us “have a world to win”. As José Marti said: “There is no revolution without revolutionaries. All revolutionaries of the world are brothers.” We consider all of you as our brothers. Dear Comrades, I come from Hungary. 25 years ago the capitalism returned to Hungary. 25 years ago our party took a strategic decision: we will ight against capitalism. We will not go with any part of the capitalist class, neither with the conservatives, nor the liberals. We broke with the social democrats which played an important role in the return of Hungarian capitalism. A bit later we took another strategic decision: we do not go with the so called Let which wants to make better capitalism without changing it basically. Thus we have broken with the reformist forces. The party is now ideologically healthy. We have overcome the internal crisis of the party. The people begin to understand our
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position. They respect that our language is clear and our shirts are read. They are not blue, rose or yellow, they are red.
loss of socialism. It is our bitter historic experience. Please, understand correctly our legitimate concern.
In the parliamentary elections of this year we got six times more votes than four years ago. There are much more young people among our candidates than before. We are the strongest party outside the parliament. I know that it is not too much but it means a good tendency.
We do not speak about socialism of diferent centuries. We speak about socialism. We do not want to return to the past. We want to create a new socialist society of the future. A society where the factories, the land, the banks belong not to a minority of capitalists, but to the majority of the working people. A society where the political power belongs to the working people.
There is no revolutionary situation in Hungary now. But there are a lot of problems. The European capitalism is in deep crisis. If the situation is getting worse, the “ten days” can come which can shake Europe or at least Hungary. We are ighting for the everyday demands of the working people and at the same time for their strategic interests. Our comrades are on the streets ighting against the policy of austerity against eviction of people who - due to loss of work , and many other reasons are unable to pay for housing and communal services. Our slogans express the most actual problems of working people: work, salary, security, healthcare, education. At the same time we tell the people very clearly: if you want better salary, better life, you must ight. In capitalism you can make your life better but you cannot change it fundamentally. Capital can cancel its reforms at any time it wants to do it and again push people into poverty. If you want to change your life in our world cardinally, you need socialism. Dear comrades, A lot of us have diferent ideas about socialism. The communists of Hungary know that the reform of socialism does not always lead to a better socialism but it can lead to the
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As far as the socialism with Chinese characteristics is concerned, I think we should not estimate it in an international document. It would be better to organise conferences about China to discuss these questions which are very important for all of us. Dear comrades, Capitalism is in a deep crisis. Capitalist forces cannot solve the crisis because it was born by the essence of capitalism itself. Capitalist forces begin to apply extraordinary measures to solve the problems of capitalism. In Europe capitalism needs new markets to solve the problems of European capitalism. The NATO goes to the East, to Ukraine, Belarus, Russia. A war in Europe is not the product of the phantasm of the Bourgeoisie any more. The war in Europe becomes a reality. Hungary is a member of the NATO and the EU. We should be prepared for a situation when Hungary gets involved directly in an imperialist war. What should we do if the war begins? What should all of us do? We cannot accept war. We cannot support one or another side of the imperialist forces. We should use imperialist war to ight
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Dear comrades, We have arrived at Ecuador to defend and support the revolutionary and progressive processes in Latin America. We support your ight against the US and capitalism as a whole. We are on the side of the forces who raise high the banner of socialism. We have arrived at Ecuador also to strengthen the international communist and workers’ movement. We want to say clearly. We want to strengthen our common positions and not to strengthen the diferences. We do not support the adoption of a joint statement. Why? Because all of us have their own documents necessary in our everyday ight. As for the principal issues, we think we should not write a new Communist Manifesto every year. And naturally we must not revise or rewrite the original one. It is enough to publish a communiqué for the press. Working people should understand that we are united and strong. Capitalists should know that they cannot sleep peacefully. The morning star of communism is appearing again on the sky.
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PARTY OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNISTS FAUSTO SORINI
-Ringraziamo il PC dell’Ecuador per il grande sforzo fatto nell’organizzazione di questo incontro. -In questo intervento, tenendo conto della discussione complessa che si è svolta tra noi in questi giorni, vorremmo toccare un solo punto, che concerne il processo di ricostruzione di un movimento comunista e rivoluzionario internazionale, giunto dopo un ventennio di intenso lavoro, ad una tappa critica: una tappa che può segnare o l’inizio di una nuova fase di sviluppo di tale processo, o una sua regressione. Ciò dipende da noi; e siamo ancora in tempo per dare insieme un segno nella buona direzione. -Consideriamo non solo legittima e inevitabile una discussione politica e teorica fondamentale tra noi, franca, diretta, senza diplomatismi; utile e necessaria per elevare il livello politico e ideologico qualitativo del nostro movimento e lo stesso sviluppo dinamico del marxismo e del leninismo. A condizione che essa si svolga nel pieno rispetto delle opinioni di ognuno, senza che nessuno pretenda di dare lezioni agli altri. E che soprattutto si svolga in forme e modalità tali da non compremettere la necessaria unità d’azione a livello nazionale e internazionale sui punti comuni fondamentali su cui essa è possibile: e prima di tutto nella lotta contro l’imperialismo americano e della Unione europea (che, nonostante le loro contraddizioni, trovano nella Nato un momento importante di coordinamento) e contro i pericoli di guerra globale che si sono fatti nell’ultimo periodo più evidenti e pericolosi. A partire dalla vicenda Ucraina, che non è solo una crisi locale o regionale, ma un passo avanti nella preparazione da parte
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degli Stati Uniti e della Nato dei presupposti di una guerra globale contro la Russia e contro la Cina. Unità nell’azione: questo ci chiedono i movimenti operai e i popoli di cui cerchiamo di essere interlocutori e strumenti credibili. E ci dicono: “discutete tra voi, molto bene, ma inine siate capaci di presentarci una piattaforma comune di iniziativa e di lotta concreta”. -Pensiamo che sulle questioni politiche e teoriche più controverse il nostro movimento dovrebbe organizzare, in forma coordinata, dei seminari di approfondimento scientiico e di studio. Come? Ad esempio utilizzando anche a tal ine uno strumento informatico prezioso, agile e abbastanza economico come Solidnet, o un apposito blog internazionale, che potrebbe prevedere anche supplementi speciali e monograici dove ogni partito potrebbe segnalare contributi di approfondimento per stimolare un confronto aperto su singoli temi, quali ad esempio il ruolo dei BRICS nell’attuale contesto mondiale; le esperienze di riforma del sistema socialista come quelle - diverse tra loro - che sono in corso in paesi come la Cina, il Vietnam, Cuba...; la natura della crisi capitalistica del nostro tempo; le esperienze dei governi progressisti dell’America Latina; le prospettive di avanzata verso il socialismo nella nostra epoca: solo per citare alcuni dei temi più controversi della nostra discussione. Temi che non possiamo pensare di afrontare, approfondire o sintetizzare in interventi di qualche minuto nei nostri incontri politici annuali. Incontri annuali che, al contrario, dovrebbero servire per sintetizzare quello che ci accomuna, e soprattutto per organizzare sui punti comuni o convergenti la nostra azione comune di lotta su scala mondiale.
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-Noi siamo d’accordo in linea generale coi punti di azione comune che vengono indicati dal testo preparatorio che ci è stato presentato dai compagni del PC Ecuador, e che ci auguriamo possano essere sintetizzati in una presa di posizione comune, conclusiva del nostro incontro. Ma, rilettendo anche sulle esperienze di azione comune fatte nel corso degli ultimi 16 anni di incontri, vorremmo sottoporvi questa rilessione. -Vediamo il rischio che questi molteplici punti, allo stato attuale di sviluppo del nostro movimento su scala internazionale, restino sulla carta. -Il punto quindi è capire in che modo e su quale punto far sì che almeno uno di essi si trasformi in una campagna mondiale che dia ai popoli di ogni continente, alle loro avanguardie di lotta, alle loro componenti più avanzate, la percezione che un movimento comunista internazionale esiste come soggetto internazionale capace di una mobilitazione coordinata. -Gli incontri internazionali dei partiti comunisti e operai, se vogliamo essere interessanti per i popoli del mondo, dovrebbero riuscire a lanciare almeno una grande campagna internazionale: qualcosa di simile alla campagna contro la bomba atomica che il Comitato internazionale di Stoccolma lanciò negli anni ‘40 col movimento dei partigiani della pace. Ovviamente, ciò va fatto tenendo conto delle attuali condizioni, su una piattaforma molto concreta, capace di mettere in connessione il tema della lotta contro la guerra con le problematiche della crisi economica e sociale del capitalismo su scala mondiale. E ogni partito potrà attuare questa campagna
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adattandola alle condizioni peculiari del proprio Paese, ma come parte di una campagna comune a livello mondiale, con un logo, un manifesto politico e parole d’ordine comuni.
mondiale capace di toccare centinaia di milioni di persone in ogni continente: una campagna paragonabile a quella che in altri momenti storici fece grande e prestigioso il movimento comunista.
-Per dare a questa campagna un carattere molto concreto, essa dovrebbe essere riassunta in alcune semplici parole d’ordine, immediatamente comprensibili alla gente comune.
-Noi pensiamo che sarebbe un grande passo avanti se già nell’incontro internazionale del prossimo anno il Gruppo di lavoro e di coordinamento riuscisse a creare le condizioni perchè in questo incontro sia possibile lanciare una grande campagna di massa a livello mondiale su un obbiettivo al tempo stesso molto concreto e comprensibile ai popoli, ma anche emblematico e ricco di grande valore strategico nella nostra lotta contro la guerra, contro l’imperialismo e per l’avanzata verso il socialismo a livello mondiale.
Ieri lo slogan fu: “NO alla bomba atomica!”. E oggi? Ecco una buona domanda per il nostro Gruppo di lavoro su cui rilettere. Quale parola d’ordine e obbiettivo concreto di lotta oggi è in grado di uniicare i popoli, i comunisti e le forze di progresso di tutto il mondo? Sembra una domanda semplice, ma non lo è, se ad essa vogliamo dare una risposta concreta.
Uno dei quei punti che Lenin deiniva come “anelli decisivi della catena”.
-Questa campagna potrebbe essere promossa da 20-30 grandi personalità comuniste e progressiste a livello mondiale (Premi Nobel, personalità conosciute e popolari del mondo dello sport, del cinema, della musica, della scienza, della politica, del sindacato...): grandi personalità delle Americhe, dell’Africa, dell’Asia, dell’Europa, capaci di dare una visione globale e una prospettiva di lotta uniicante per tutti i movimenti operai e i popoli del mondo. -Si tratta cioè di saper lanciare ai popoli almeno tre messaggi semplici, ma decisivi: -i comunisti esistono, ed esistono anche come movimento di lotta su scala mondiale; -essi hanno punti in comune, decisivi per il futuro umanità, e in primo luogo il tema della pace e della guerra, della giustizia sociale, nella prospettiva del socialismo; -essi sono in grado - su uno di questi temi decisivi - di sviluppare una campagna mon-
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LEBANESE COMMUNIST PARTY DR MARIE NASSIF-DEBS
Dear Comrades First, on behalf of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP), allow me to present our best comradely regards to the Communist Party of Ecuador and the people of Ecuador who are making, with the peoples of other Latin America countries, in front of them Cuba and Venezuela, a very important experience, on internal and external levels, through “Citizenship Revolution”. Citizenship Revolution which has changed, since 2007, a lot of things on social, economical and political levels especially in the ield of ighting social diferences, poverty and rethinking about the petro-economic relations with the monopoly companies. We see in this Revolution, and the role of the Communist Party in it, as an example for us to study it under the slogan of our present meeting which concentrates on the role of the communist and workers parties – and all the anti imperialist forces – in struggling against imperialism and capital investments which are creating, today, crisis, fascist raising, reactionary forces… etc especially in the Middle East and the Arab World. The situation in the Arab region Imperialism, and its military tools NATO, which faced tough attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, and which was surprised by the two revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and other uprisings in many other Arab countries, especially in the Gulf, is trying today to control our region by what is let from collapsed systems. Also this imperialism is counting on the role of the reactionary Arab and regional systems, in speciic Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to control the decision against the Arab people. What fears imperialism in these revolutions and uprisings is that they have caused, even though they are still fragile, an important qualiied move whether on the level of the masses
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who participated in making them (and in this ield we have to point to the clear class factor as a motivator in these revolutions and uprisings) or on the level of their efects on uprising the communist and let forces to regain their lost position in leading the mass movements to break the subjection with imperialism and achieving the duties of the patriotic democratic revolution. Here we have to point to that the struggle with the internal reactionary forces, in all its forms and shapes, is a liberating national struggle, especially if we take into consideration the role that is played by Washington in laming the sectarian face of this struggle. As Washington was behind the establishment of “Al Qaeda” and other similar organizations, it is today encouraging the political organizations which has religious ideology, starting from “Moslem Brotherhood” up to ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria - ISIS, which is in Arabic named “DAESH”) to launch new internal wars in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. The target is to continue dividing these countries, and other ones, to execute its project which is named “The New Middle East”. The latest imperialist coalition, which reminds us with the attack on Afghanistan and before it on Iraq, is a clear sign of the general plan, especially that the imperialist military forces are not really seeking to attack ISIS, and its brother organizations, but this coalition did not try to oblige Turkey to close its borders to stop the waves of thousands of terrorists who are coming from Europe, America and some Arab countries to enroll in the ight. Also this imperialist did not oblige Saudi Arabia and Qatar to stop the support to these terroristic organizations. Adding to that the imperialist coalition is bombing the cities in Iraq and Syria not to defeat ISIS but to keep the two conlicting powers able to ight and destroy, at the same time
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the multinational petrol companies, on their head the American ones, buy petrol which is seized by the fascist religious forces in Iraq and Syria and big part of this petrol is smuggled through the Turkish system… in all of this we must not forget Palestine. The Palestinian people is facing the continuous aggression on Gaza, West Bank and 1948 territories by escalating the resistance, especially the military one, to face the new imperialist-Zionist projects which are trying to beneit from the ight that is taking place in the Arab world to pass the second stage of the “Big Israel State” project which is changing this entity into “The Jews’ Sate in the World”. LCP was, and still with developing “Arab Let Forum”, which was established 4 years ago from the womb of the Arab revolutions and uprising, because we see the historical duty of the Arab communist and let parties is in rooting the uprisings and preventing the counter-revolution forces from achieving their goals. That is why the let must be uniied in every Arab state and on the Arab region in general to form the cell of wide front depending on struggling program for the patriotic democratic change its inal target is to overthrow subjugated capitalists and liberation from imperialism. It is a program starts with developing the economic productive sectors, defending the rights of the working class, launching democratic freedom and eliminating all forms of discriminations and ignorance of youth and women… The situation in Lebanon In Lebanon we are facing three crises: First: the terroristic forces that exist in our borders with Syria, and the similar ones in Lebanon which are formed of Lebanese, Syrian groups, and other, are trying to establish an “Imarat” (which means a small state under the rules of Islam) extends from
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east northern borders of Lebanon to the sea. Even though the Lebanese army is facing it, and the army has paid high price of this facing many soldiers and oicers were killed or injured or captured (and we have one martyred among them), the ISIS attacks are still going on and threatening to be wider, especially in the situations of Lebanon where the sectarian division (Sunni-Shiite), which started in 2007, and exploded in 2008, is rooting and getting more divergent due to the ight in Syria, on one side, and on the other side due to what is happening in Yemen and Bahrain and other places where the authorities are trying divert the uprising to be sectarian ight over authority. Second: the ruling class is seeking to beneit from the ight on the borders and the new Israeli’s threats to divide again the shares among the ruling class. The ironic thing is that Lebanon is without president from six months; the parliament renewed to itself under the false reason there is no possibility to do elections now. And its government which combines both sides of the bourgeoisie (part with relation with Saudi Arabia and part with relation with Iran and Syria) is almost out of order. Third: the social and economical crises are becoming more complex. The economical situation is getting worse because Lebanon is not supported to cover the costs of the Syrian refugees and Palestinian refugees who recently came from Syria. The population of Lebanon is about 4.5 million inhabitants and got out of civil war which lasted for 15 years and now facing the spark again is unable to support the Lebanese poor people and those who have limited income, the question is how Lebanon can face the consequences of about 2 million Syrian and Palestinian refugees?
All of these situations pushed the Lebanese Communist Party to move in two directions: the irst direction is social-economic direction depends on launching struggling syndicate movement in both sectors, the private and public, especially the public sector which is facing deep changes since the end of the civil war, in mid 90’s, to get rid of it. The other direction is political. It is to gather the democratic forces on the priority of changing the political system through eliminating the sectarian shares and calling to secular patriotic democratic system. Subjugation in our countries is not only on bases of economic factor but also on the factors of religion and sect which imperialism depends on in its ight with the progressive and change forces. From here again we suggest what we have conirmed before in the 15th meeting about our call to hold an international meeting to support the Arab people and their uprisings against reactionary, dictator system and against the imperialist forces, and for the sake of political, social and economic liberation… especially this suggestion which has been changed into decision (with adjustment in its written form) in the joint struggling group, was not discussed about how to be implemented last year. This delay in doing many joint movements and struggles, which we have already decided to do, from developing the international organizations (syndicates, trade unions, youth, women) to activating our meetings as communist and worker parties, pushes us to present the priority of discussing our joint struggles today and how to develop them because we are under uniied attack from the imperialist forces in the world. An attack taking the form of universal war depending on getting back the forms of previous ights from fascism to religious wars to coming aging to some forms of old forms of conquest… without forgetting the increasing role of ideological ights. So it is an attack which cannot be faced with “parts”, but it can be faced by uniied program that has general charIB 2015 www.solidnet.org acter and uniied regional and international forces with clear and speciic targets.
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who participated in making them (and in this ield we have to point to the clear class factor as a motivator in these revolutions and uprisings) or on the level of their efects on uprising the communist and let forces to regain their lost position in leading the mass movements to break the subjection with imperialism and achieving the duties of the patriotic democratic revolution. Here we have to point to that the struggle with the internal reactionary forces, in all its forms and shapes, is a liberating national struggle, especially if we take into consideration the role that is played by Washington in laming the sectarian face of this struggle. As Washington was behind the establishment of “Al Qaeda” and other similar organizations, it is today encouraging the political organizations which has religious ideology, starting from “Moslem Brotherhood” up to ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria - ISIS, which is in Arabic named “DAESH”) to launch new internal wars in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. The target is to continue dividing these countries, and other ones, to execute its project which is named “The New Middle East”. The latest imperialist coalition, which reminds us with the attack on Afghanistan and before it on Iraq, is a clear sign of the general plan, especially that the imperialist military forces are not really seeking to attack ISIS, and its brother organizations, but this coalition did not try to oblige Turkey to close its borders to stop the waves of thousands of terrorists who are coming from Europe, America and some Arab countries to enroll in the ight. Also this imperialist did not oblige Saudi Arabia and Qatar to stop the support to these terroristic organizations. Adding to that the imperialist coalition is bombing the cities in Iraq and Syria not to defeat ISIS but to keep the two conlicting powers able to ight and destroy, at the same time the multinational petrol companies, on their
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head the American ones, buy petrol which is seized by the fascist religious forces in Iraq and Syria and big part of this petrol is smuggled through the Turkish system… in all of this we must not forget Palestine. The Palestinian people is facing the continuous aggression on Gaza, West Bank and 1948 territories by escalating the resistance, especially the military one, to face the new imperialist-Zionist projects which are trying to beneit from the ight that is taking place in the Arab world to pass the second stage of the “Big Israel State” project which is changing this entity into “The Jews’ Sate in the World”. LCP was, and still with developing “Arab Let Forum”, which was established 4 years ago from the womb of the Arab revolutions and uprising, because we see the historical duty of the Arab communist and let parties is in rooting the uprisings and preventing the counter-revolution forces from achieving their goals. That is why the let must be uniied in every Arab state and on the Arab region in general to form the cell of wide front depending on struggling program for the patriotic democratic change its inal target is to overthrow subjugated capitalists and liberation from imperialism. It is a program starts with developing the economic productive sectors, defending the rights of the working class, launching democratic freedom and eliminating all forms of discriminations and ignorance of youth and women… The situation in Lebanon In Lebanon we are facing three crises: First: the terroristic forces that exist in our borders with Syria, and the similar ones in Lebanon which are formed of Lebanese, Syrian groups, and other, are trying to establish an “Imarat” (which means a small state under the rules of Islam) extends from east northern borders of Lebanon to the sea. Even though the Lebanese army is facing it,
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and the army has paid high price of this facing many soldiers and oicers were killed or injured or captured (and we have one martyred among them), the ISIS attacks are still going on and threatening to be wider, especially in the situations of Lebanon where the sectarian division (Sunni-Shiite), which started in 2007, and exploded in 2008, is rooting and getting more divergent due to the ight in Syria, on one side, and on the other side due to what is happening in Yemen and Bahrain and other places where the authorities are trying divert the uprising to be sectarian ight over authority. Second: the ruling class is seeking to beneit from the ight on the borders and the new Israeli’s threats to divide again the shares among the ruling class. The ironic thing is that Lebanon is without president from six months; the parliament renewed to itself under the false reason there is no possibility to do elections now. And its government which combines both sides of the bourgeoisie (part with relation with Saudi Arabia and part with relation with Iran and Syria) is almost out of order. Third: the social and economical crises are becoming more complex. The economical situation is getting worse because Lebanon is not supported to cover the costs of the Syrian refugees and Palestinian refugees who recently came from Syria. The population of Lebanon is about 4.5 million inhabitants and got out of civil war which lasted for 15 years and now facing the spark again is unable to support the Lebanese poor people and those who have limited income, the question is how Lebanon can face the consequences of about 2 million Syrian and Palestinian refugees? All of these situations pushed the Lebanese Communist Party to move in two directions: the irst direction is social-economic direction depends on launching struggling syndicate movement in both sectors, the private and public, especially the public sector
which is facing deep changes since the end of the civil war, in mid 90’s, to get rid of it. The other direction is political. It is to gather the democratic forces on the priority of changing the political system through eliminating the sectarian shares and calling to secular patriotic democratic system. Subjugation in our countries is not only on bases of economic factor but also on the factors of religion and sect which imperialism depends on in its ight with the progressive and change forces. From here again we suggest what we have conirmed before in the 15th meeting about our call to hold an international meeting to support the Arab people and their uprisings against reactionary, dictator system and against the imperialist forces, and for the sake of political, social and economic liberation… especially this suggestion which has been changed into decision (with adjustment in its written form) in the joint struggling group, was not discussed about how to be implemented last year. This delay in doing many joint movements and struggles, which we have already decided to do, from developing the international organizations (syndicates, trade unions, youth, women) to activating our meetings as communist and worker parties, pushes us to present the priority of discussing our joint struggles today and how to develop them because we are under uniied attack from the imperialist forces in the world. An attack taking the form of universal war depending on getting back the forms of previous ights from fascism to religious wars to coming aging to some forms of old forms of conquest… without forgetting the increasing role of ideological ights. So it is an attack which cannot be faced with “parts”, but it can be faced by uniied program that has general character and uniied regional and international forces with clear and speciic targets.
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO PAVEL BLANCO CABRERA
Camaradas: Saludamos en primer lugar a los organizadores del XVI Encuentro Internacional de los Partidos Comunistas y Obreros, a los camaradas del Partido Comunista del Ecuador; queremos reiterar nuestra solidaridad con el PCE frente a la intentona de fuerzas gubernamentales de crear un falso “partido comunista” y dotarlo de personalidad jurídica y electoral con base en un grupo de oportunistas expulsados. Consideramos nuestro deber cerrar ilas con el PCE y denunciar esa suplantación, esa simulación. Camaradas: La crisis capitalista continua y con ella las agresivas políticas para desvalorizar la fuerza de trabajo, condenando a la clase obrera del mundo a pauperizar en extremo sus condiciones de vida. Nuevas legislaciones para anular derechos laborales y sindicales, crecimiento del paro como ejército de reserva que permita mano de obra barata. La rentabilidad del capital se garantiza eliminando las conquistas obreras de más de un siglo, pero aunque le garantice temporalmente su estabilización no hace sino prolongar la agonía que históricamente deberá llegar a su desenlace: es decir a la continuidad del camino que abrió la Revolución de Octubre, la época de las revoluciones proletarias, la transición del capitalismo al socialismo. Ello coloca la vigencia, la actualidad de los partidos comunistas como partidos de la clase obrera, que no encuentran sustitución ninguna en otras opciones políticas. Dado el carácter internacional e interdependiente de la lucha de clases es necesaria la elaboración de una estrategia común del movimiento comunista internacional contra el capitalismo en su fase imperialista, pero esa necesidad enfrenta complejidades
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que lo han venido impidiendo y que son de carácter ideológico. Así frente a los desarrollos del capitalismo y de sus crisis hay lecturas distintas y encontradas, como las colocadas en este Encuentro, que afectan la capacidad de intervención política del movimiento comunista. En la última década posiciones ideológicas ajenas al marxismo-leninismo se han colado de manera fragmentada en las posiciones programáticas de varios partidos, categorías sociológicas que más bien corresponden al campo burgués, que sustituyen las concepciones y categorías elaboradas por Marx, Engels, Lenin, y la teoría y práctica del comunismo, de tal manera que hay ya algunos partidos, que sin cobrar consciencia de su mutación, están colocados en el terreno de la socialdemocracia y siguen la senda del abandono de su identidad y características propugnada por el eurocomunismo y otras teorías oportunistas. Nosotros queremos señalar nuestra abierta divergencia con la cuestión de la multipolaridad y del progresismo que son intrínsecas a la lógica de lo posible, al argumento inexacto de que nuestra época ya no es la de la revolución social. La multipolaridad es la falsa esperanza de depositar las tareas antiimperialistas al mal menor en las contradicciones interimperialistas. Es importante para el Partido Comunista de México tener un enfoque clasista frente a la lucha de clases internacional y no asumir las ilusiones de la existencia de una tendencia progresista en el escenario internacional. La disputa inter-imperialista entre EEUU-UE contra las economías emergentes (BRICS) no
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debe ser asumida como el paso de la unipolaridad a la multipolaridad. Es el choque por intereses económicos inter-monopolistas, por mercados, rutas comerciales, mano de obra, recursos naturales. En esa disputa inter-imperialista la clase obrera y los comunistas no deben tomar partido por uno u otro bloque imperialista, sino que todas sus deiniciones, sus consignas, sus decisiones, maniobras y momentos tácticos se orientan por el interés estratégico de la Revolución socialista. Actualmente no se libra una lucha entre dos mundos, el capitalista y el socialista –como si ocurría cuando la construcción socialista en la URSS marchaba adelante–, y en términos económicos todos los tratados se inscriben en la lógica del desarrollo capitalista en la fase del imperialismo, su resultado objetivo es el fortalecimiento de la acumulación, la continuidad de las relaciones mercantiles, el enriquecimiento continuado de los monopolios. El Progresismo y el Foro de Sao Paulo como su expresión política por otra parte también motivan nuestra relexión. Después de más de una década ya es posible una valoración del carácter de clase que expresan estas fuerzas. Ya no podemos considerar simples errores desarrollos como la intervención militar en Haití, reformas laborales antiobreras, fortalecimiento de los monopolios, políticas de cooptación y control sobre la base del asistencialismo de los movimientos populares. Es muy claro que se trata de una fuerza auxiliar del capitalismo, que busca darle un rostro humano.[1] Una de las fuerzas que se destacan entre esa corriente del progresismo y en la dirección del FSP es el PRD de México, formado sobre la base de la liquidación del Partido Comuni-
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sta Mexicano, del que usan su registro electoral, ediicios y otros bienes. Ese Partido es el instrumento del estado mexicano para asesinar a los comunistas, como lo denunciamos varias veces aquí. Y es uno de los destacados fundadores de ese gran centro oportunista que es el Encuentro Latinoamericano Progresista que se reunió en Quito hace unas semanas, con el respaldo de la Siriza Griega y el PODEMOS español. Pero el PRD es también el responsable de la masacre contra 46 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa, corresponsable del terrorismo de Estado de Enrique Peña Nieto y el poder de los monopolios contra el pueblo mexicano. Un año antes de asesinar a los estudiantes, el PRD asesinó a 7 comunistas en Guerrero y Oaxaca. El progresismo en México es pues enemigo mortal de la clase obrera, y uno de los pilares de la dominación cruel y la barbarie del poder de los monopolios, que utilizando paramilitares sembró de fosas con cadáveres del pueblo al territorio nacional en México.
capital, responde con su lucha y reairma en la práctica que vivimos en la época de las rebeliones anticapitalistas. En este contexto el PCM consideraría un gigantesco error la difusión de falsas esperanzas e ilusiones, como el argumentar en favor de soluciones dentro de los marcos capitalistas, involucrar al pueblo en rivalidades inter-imperialistas, relotar o fortalecer a la socialdemocracia y “nueva” socialdemocracia, etc. Para el PCM su tarea es clariicar ante la clase obrera la situación y su rol, involucrarla en un papel protagónico en la rebelión anticapitalista, que sea la clase obrera quien transforme la rebelión en una revolución socialista, esta tarea es indistinta de la cuestión de cual sea el resultado de este primer enfrentamiento a gran escala con el poder de los monopolios. Con estos breves elementos insistimos que el deber de cualquier partido comunista es plantear ante la clase obrera la alternativa del poder obrero, del socialismo-comunismo. Levantar el programa de la ruptura anticapitalista, la revolución socialista, por la dictadura del proletariado.
Ayotzinapa es la gota que está derramando el vaso. Mientras estamos aquí reunidos el movimiento popular, con el PCM como uno de sus componentes desarrolla crecientes iniciativas de insubordinación e insumisión en el estado de Guerrero y otros del centro-sur de México, pasa a ocupar las calles, los aeropuertos, a desalojar e incendiar los palacios y sedes gubernamentales, a tomar control de las vialidades, a levantar barricadas, etc., particularmente en la ciudad de Chilpancingo que está en vísperas de ser proclamada ciudad-comuna del poder popular. Tras comprobar en la práctica que la lógica del mal menor en la gestión del capitalismo expone a la clase obrera y al pueblo a la barbarie del
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[1] Fuera de la fraseología, dicho rostro humano se reduce a la asignación del gasto social y la distribución de los impuestos, ¿Esto es lo que vuelve “progresista” a un gobierno burgués? Resulta pues que en porcentaje del PIB dedicado a gasto social en Brasil corresponde al 15% según datos del SIAFI, Argentina 14% de acuerdo a datos del Ministerio de Economía Finanzas, Bolivia igual 14% de acuerdo a datos del Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas Públicas (Unidad de Análisis y Estudios), México un 11% según datos de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público y Ecuador un 10% de acuerdo a datos del Ministerio de Finanzas del Ecuador, en todos los casos los datos corresponden al 2010. Si ese es el criterio cientíico base que permitiera validar un “ciclo progresista”, que legitimara la consigna de “Revolución Ciudadana”, entonces podría decirse que el gobierno del “Revolucionario Institucional” de México es ligeramente más progresista que el “Socialismo del buen vivir”, y que está a 2 puntos porcentuales de embarcarse en la “vía boliviana al socialismo”. Si corresponde a otro elemento de calidad y no de cantidad, entonces según nosotros ese criterio correspondería a las relaciones sociales de producción. El sistema del mercado y la existencia de los monopolios ofrecen
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solo pequeños espacios de maniobra y gestión, estrictamente aquellos donde algún capital pueda fortalecerse, p.ej. las constructoras, cementeras, siderúrgicas, etc., a través de la asignación de presupuesto a la construcción de viviendas y obra pública, etc. De socialismo solo se puede hablar como categoría cuando existe la economía planiicada, el control y gestión obrera, la propiedad social de los medios de producción y del cambio, etc. En otro caso se habla de un momento de la lucha de clases donde la clase obrera y el pueblo están movilizados por sus demandas e intereses inmediatos, y la labor de los comunistas no puede ser la de presentar como solución una gestión dentro de los marcos del capitalismo.
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF NORWAY SVEND HAAKON JACOBSEN
Comrades, Many thanks to Partido Communista del Ecuador for hosting this 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties here in beautiful Guayaquil Ecuador. You are in the midst of a progressive development of many nations and the people on your continent, in Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, El Salvador etc. Revolutionary socialist Cuba is taking active part in the cooperation and the development, also very important to them due to the extreme extraterritorial 55 year blockade. Strong national capitalist groups still exist in your countries. Therefore you still have many diicult challenges to handle in the further ight for socialism in your countries. Marxist-leninist theory of the working class experiences still are basics for understanding and ight for socialism and working class and peoples power and control. We support your ight for national sovereignty, social justice and socialism, against social democratic opportunism, imperialism, fascism and war! In the time of international capitalist over accumulation crises the US Federal Reserve continuously expand huge loans to the “US companies too big to go broke”, printing dollars to inance it, and keeps the interest rate from zero to negative, to hinder the bond and share markets from collapsing. They can keep on doing this for some time, as long as the dollar is accepted as the international reserve and trading currency. The BRICS countries and even imperialist countries closer to the US like Australia and Japan are doing their bilateral trade in the currencies of the trading partners, and are not going via dollars. With this policy, the value of dollar will fall. The over accumulation crises are deeply felt
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in EU, there are no signs of growth in production. USA still has the strongest military capacity, and is the leading imperialist state in NATO, the strongest international military alliance in the world. In the over accumulation crises imperialism is aggressive, waging wars to control energy resources and transport routes in The Middle East in cooperation with Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and supporting and using jihadists for their purpose. Turkey has been supporting the Sunni ISIS, let them operate free in Turkey, and pass into Syria. US and NATO forces are armoring and training Kurdish forces, and bombing ISIS military positions in the Kurdish city of Kobane. US and NATO forces are aiming at splitting and weakening the Iraqi Federation, and bring down the Assad government in Syria and Hezbollah and the progressive forces of Lebanon, and weakening Palestine. US imperialism has been organizing and inancing the fascist coup de tat in Ukraine, with support from EU and NATO. The Kiev coup regime has illegalized Ukraine CP and held elections at the same time they are waging war on the Russian speaking population in the eastern part of the country. NATO is building a specially trained aggressive NATO Rapid reaction force in Latvia, searching to surround Russia with hostile western imperialist bases. In Asia the US is building up new marine and personnel bases on the northern coast of Australia, and a marine base on the island in South Korea with the false excuse of protecting South Korea from aggression from DPRK, who always have been working for a peaceful Federal reunion of Korea, against the US imperialist aggression plans in the region.
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Norway is one of the world’s largest weapon producers, and is earning large proits from imperialism and war. It has more than tripled sales and proits since the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and USA is by far the most important buyer. In Norway the Rightwing/Xenophobic Government in close cooperation with the new NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, former leader of Norwegian Social Democratic Party, and the Central Intelligence have created two serious “terror-threats” in the media from ISIS worriers. They are creating fear of terror in the Norwegian public, so that people will accept the use of the newly installed anti-terror laws against communists and other peace movement activists who actively will ight the NATO ideological and military war preparations against Russia in Norway. Since the 1980´ies the economy stagnated, capacity was not used more than to 70-80 %. Accumulated capital was by far larger than proitable investment projects in physical production. Credit markets were growing with increase in the inancial products. In late 1980´ies inancial products amounted to 55% of the GNP in the OECD countries. In 2007 derivatives, instruments of debt etc. in the unregulated international inance markets amounted to 1500 billion US dollar, over 30 times more than all the GNPs of the whole world together, when the inancial markets collapsed. The States poured inn enormous sums of the taxpayer money to save the banks. In Norway the “red-green” Government poured in 500 Milliard NOK to save the big banks that had lost big in the international speculative market. Due to a relatively large state and community sector in the economy, and large industries serving the thriving oil-industry, the
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the capitalist crises did not hit Norway so hard up till now. Today the international crises combined with increase in the US and Canadian oil sand production led to a fall in the oil prices. Today many thousand workers are laid of in the oil and oil-service industries in Norway. The oicial unemployment rate is increasing from 3 to 4 %. But if you add up the unemployed workers that live on small state allowances, which are really poor, the real unemployment is closer to 15% in rich Norway, where the few rich are getting richer, and the numbers of the poor are increasing, and they are getting poorer. Norway has had a growth in the labor market of 104000 since 2008, but more than these are foreign workers. There has been a decrease of about 23000 Norwegian workers in the same period. 127000 workers, mainly from former Eastern Europe have been employed in Norway since 2008. Total employment of Norwegian workers is 3 % lower than in 2008, as much as 150000 less workers employed. So there is a large hidden unemployment in one of the richest countries in the world. Norway has had a relatively strong trade union movement, but only 5 % of the foreign workers are members of the trade unions. Many people are working on tarifs much lower than the agreed national tarifs. Social dumping is hard to control and hard to ight, due to the EU-neoliberal policy directives, which the former “red-green” Social democrat Government, and the present Government of the Rightwing and Xenophobic parties accept, which therefore automatically are turned into Norwegian laws under the EEA-agreement regime. Comrades, We live in the imperialist epoch of
transition from capitalism to socialism, and we should examine in a very concrete fashion which strategy corresponds to our era. The objective conditions require a strategy and tactics that aim at the solution of the main contradiction between capital and labor, at the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, at socialist construction. The EEA-agreement of Norway to EU is leading to social dumping, undermining the trade union national tarifs, and is weakening the trade union and working class power. Even if 70 % of the people are against the EU membership in Norway, many do not understand the dangerous consequences of the EEA-agreement. We are organized in the “No to EU” movement, which is working to achieve a referendum for the people to vote no to the EEA, claiming the Government to leave the EEA-agreement, exchanging it with a renegotiated free trade agreement. Clever “radical” trade union activists have been working and arguing inside the trade union and political structures, but this is insuicient and has given meager results. To be able to develop a movement strong enough to force a referendum for the people to vote on the EEA-agreement, it is necessary to create a united revolutionary class ight platform in the lower echelons of the trade unions, which can develop its strength independently from the central structures of the trade unions, and from the inluence of the Social democratic opportunist parties. Communist Party of Norway will propagate and work for this, which we ind quite necessary if the working class is going to be the leading force in this ight. All the other people movements of small ishermen, farmers etc. depends on the working class power in the ight for Norway disengagement from the EEA-agreement.
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Communist Party of Norway sees the ight for Norway to leave the EEA-agreement as the most important political ight in Norway today, to develop the subjective factor, the class conscience of the workers. Developing revolutionary social alliances and class conscience is basic in the ight for socialismcommunism in Norway. Thank you for your patience comrades.
[1] Fuera de la fraseología, dicho rostro humano se reduce a la asignación del gasto social y la distribución de los impuestos, ¿Esto es lo que vuelve “progresista” a un gobierno burgués? Resulta pues que en porcentaje del PIB dedicado a gasto social en Brasil corresponde al 15% según datos del SIAFI, Argentina 14% de acuerdo a datos del Ministerio de Economía Finanzas, Bolivia igual 14% de acuerdo a datos del Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas Públicas (Unidad de Análisis y Estudios), México un 11% según datos de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público y Ecuador un 10% de acuerdo a datos del Ministerio de Finanzas del Ecuador, en todos los casos los datos corresponden al 2010. Si ese es el criterio cientíico base que permitiera validar un “ciclo progresista”, que legitimara la consigna de “Revolución Ciudadana”, entonces podría decirse que el gobierno del “Revolucionario Institucional” de México es ligeramente más progresista que el “Socialismo del buen vivir”, y que está a 2 puntos porcentuales de embarcarse en la “vía boliviana al socialismo”. Si corresponde a otro elemento de calidad y no de cantidad, entonces según nosotros ese criterio correspondería a las relaciones sociales de producción. El sistema del mercado y la existencia de los monopolios ofrecen
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solo pequeños espacios de maniobra y gestión, estrictamente aquellos donde algún capital pueda fortalecerse, p.ej. las constructoras, cementeras, siderúrgicas, etc., a través de la asignación de presupuesto a la construcción de viviendas y obra pública, etc. De socialismo solo se puede hablar como categoría cuando existe la economía planiicada, el control y gestión obrera, la propiedad social de los medios de producción y del cambio, etc. En otro caso se habla de un momento de la lucha de clases donde la clase obrera y el pueblo están movilizados por sus demandas e intereses inmediatos, y la labor de los comunistas no puede ser la de presentar como solución una gestión dentro de los marcos del capitalismo.
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،الرفاق اأعزاء ،حية ثورية بولشفية بدايةً نتوجه بالشكر اجزيل للرفاق ي احزب الشيوعي ااكوادوري على دعوة حزبنا الشيوعي الفلسطيي ،وعلى تنظيم هذا اللقاء أأمي ونثمن جهودهم ي تنظيم فعاليات ونشاطات هذا اللقاء ونتمى هم مزيدا من التقدم واانتصار حزهم اجيد ي كفاحه لبناء .صرح ااشراكية العلمية ي بلدهم العظيم ااكوادور م تكن يوما لإمريالية ما مكن وصفه بالوجه اانساي أو التقدمي ،فقد وى الزمن والتاريخ الذي لعبت فيه الطبقة الرجوازية ذلك الدور ي القضاء على ااقطاع ،فمنذ أن جأت اإمريالية لتصدير رأس امال وظهور الكارتيات الدولية أصبح اهم اأول ها البحث عن أفضل السبل استغال الطبقة العاملة وامتصاص .دمها وي سبيل ذلك عممت اامريالية ما عرف ي أواسط الثمانينات بـ “توافق واشنطن” الذي فرض على شعوب اأطراف سياسة اقتصادية تفضي إى التقشف وحرير التجارة واخصصة ،مستعينة بذلك بامؤسسات الدولية كالبنك الدوي ،ومنظمة التجارة العامية ،ومنظمة التمويل الدولية .هذه السياسة الي سعت الرجوازية من ورائها لتأبيد سيطرها على الشعوب وإعاقة موها الطبيعي وتطورها ،ولعب البنك الدوي بسياسته دور اجاد ي .فرض هذه السياسة إن توحش اامريالية كان ضروريا وحتمي بسبب تعارض امصاح اامريالية وأماي الشعوب بامطلق ،وقابلت اامريالية أي عملية احتجاج على أذناها وأدواها التنفيذية ي البلدان النامية أو دول اأطراف عموما بقسوة ووحشية قل نظرها ،وقد كانت ي ميع ااأحوال هي الرابح اأول من أي حرك شعي أو أمي ضد سياساها ي العام ،فإذا احتاج اأمر تأديب ثورة شعب من الشعوب حاول اخروج عن سيطرت اامريالية ،وفك مصاحها جد اامريالية تشعل فيها حربا مع كل ااطراف وضد كل ااطراف فهي من جهة تنعش جارها احربية ومصانع انتاجها احري بضمان اشعال احروب ي عدة مناطق ي العام ،واحصلة ي كل ذلك هو ضمان مصاح رأس امال اماي من أجل التخلص من أزماها امالية وااقتصادية امستعصية واحافظة على مصاحها احيوية ،فكل من يعارض هذه امصاح يوصف باارهاب ،وان إعى اارهابين هم صناع اامريالية لدعم وضمان امصاح اامريالية ي العام وأي احراف عن امسار امرسوم أي جهة عامية أو دولية ولو بشكل جزئي مع امصاح اامريالية تصبح بن .ليلة وضحاها دولة أو جهة ارهابية إن الرجوازية الي تعمل بعقلية إدارة الصراعات سواء كانت دولية أو اقليمية أو حلية ا تراعي سوى مصاحها كإمريالية وبعض من مصاح حلفائها وخاصة أذرعها ااسراتيجية كدولة الكيان
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PALESTINIAN COMMUNIST PARTY DR MAHMOUD SAADEH
اللينينية كما جب التشديد على أمية الوعي والتثقيف اماركسي خلق شخصية حزبية من كل عضو ليكون قادراً على الدفاع وبث اماركسية ي صفوف العمال وضرورة زيادة نسب العمال والشباب ي الصفوف القيادية للحزب .إن خلق احزب الفواذي ا مكن له التحقق بدون عزمة ثورية صلبة ،وأكر خطر مكن أن يهدد وحدة احزب تغييب امركزية الدمقراطية والفهم اجدي ها،فكثر من اأحزاب اصبح لأقلية صوت عاي وخارج القنوات احزبية ليصل درجة التحريض على احزب ،وبسسب ذلك أصبحت التيارات الفكرية والسياسية فيها متعددة لدرجة أن بعض موقفها .أصبحت تتعارض وسياسة احزب ثانياً :على الصعيد ااقليمي واحلي :ضرورة العمل على عقد التحالفات الي ا تذيب أو تغيب موقف احزب ،وخطىء من يظن اليوم أن اانتصار ي مواجهة اامريالية قابل للتحقق على أيدي ماركسين فقط ،فقد مست اامريالية بكافة شرائح اجتمع وهي ا تستثي أحداً ي سياستها امتوحشة ،وجب ربط أي حالف مقدار ما حقق من تقدم لأمام ي معركة الصراع مع اامريالية .دون امساس باسراتيجية احزب الثورية ونظرية الطبقة العاملة ثالثاً :على الصعيد الدوي العامي :ضرورة وضع معاير صارمة أي جسم أمي للشيوعين سواء بالنظرية أو التطبيق العملي ها ،وهذا اجسم على الصعيد العامي ا يعي اانفات وعدم التعاون ي جاات عدة ضمن سياسة التحالفات الدائمة وامؤقتة ي الصراع ضد اإمريالية ،لكن امقصود باجسم اأمي هو بناء أميه جديدة قادرة على قيادة وتوجيه الصراع الطبقي بشكل مؤثر وفعال.حيث .يشرك ي هذه اأمية ميع اأحزاب اماركسية اللينينية :رابعاً على صعيد الصراع اايديولوجي ضرورة التصدي وعدم مهادنة ااحرافات النظرية واخيانة سواء داخل اأحزاب أو خارجها وعدم مهادنة اأعداء الطبقين عموما، فما زالت اامريالية ملك ماكنة اعامية وتكنولوجية قادرة على التأثر الفعال ي الشعوب وخديرها وبشى الطرق والوسائل فهي جانب ما ملكه من وسائل اعامية ،قادرة على شراء ااعامين وتشويه احقائق ،قادرة على التأثر ي امزاج العام وخلق رأي عام مكرس خدمة مصاحها لذا جب الرد وحزم ومواجهة هذه الدعاية .اامريالية باحقائق وبإمكانيات أقل كلفة خامسا :على صعيد العاقة مع اجماهر الصدق واحقيقة أوا ضمن اسراتيجية االتحام باجماهر وعدم التفريط مصاها البته ،إن ذلك حتاج إى رفاق مسلحن باماركسية اللينينية نذروا أنفسهم للنضال ،رفاق قادرين على التفاعل مع نبض اجماهر حظة بلحظة وموم العمال ي كل ثانية ،إن ااهتمام البسيط خلق عاقة صلبة ذات ثقة ا تبى باخطابات بل ي السر ي امقدمة فمن حرص على أن تلي اجماهر ندائه .جب أن حرص على مشاركتها مها اليومي
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.الصهيوي إن مصاح اإمريالية حسب ادارة الصراعات العامية تقضي بأن تقود هذه السياسة عقلية تتفنن ي خلق واماد الصراعات سواء الصراعات ااثنية او العرقية أو الدينية وامذهبية ،كما تقضي خلق أرضية ها ،ورعاية تفشي ظواهر الفاشية حسب مطلبات الصراع ي كل بقعة جغرافية واأسهل للتطبيق ،فالدول الي يصلح فيها اشعال نار الطائفية فإها تغذي الفاشية الدينية ها والعرقية كذلك، والي حتاج إى تدخل الناتو فهي ا تقصر ي ذلك وتعمل على كافة الصعد لتوجيه دفة الصراع اهادفة اخضاع الشعوب ،وهو مانشهده ي عامنا العري اليوم ما مي “بالربيع العري” فاحكام السابقن هذا التحرك هم صناعة أمريكية والقادمن كذلك وكان امخطط هو تفريغ أي حرك جدي للتغير ايصال رسالة مفادها أن اانفكاك من الفلك اامرياي هو كابوس إذا ما استيقظت الشعوب فيجب أن تعلن توبتها عن أي حرك سابق لتعاود اارهان .بامخطط اامرياي من اجديد إن هذه السياسة وهذه العقلية م تغفل كذلك تبهيت وميع الصراع الطبقي واأفق ااشراكي احقيقي اهادف للنقيض لسياسة اامريالية وامطالب بألغاء استغال اانسان أخيه اانسان .وقد استغلت اامريالية اإنقاب ي ااحاد السوفيي لتفرض وقائع جديدة على حساب الصراع الطبقي ضمن سياسة تفريغ أحزاب الطبقة العاملة من حتواها اماركسي اللينيي الثوري بشراء أو إغراء الكثرين من القادة النقابن والشيوعين السابقن مهامة النظرية اماركسية ،وميع الصراع الطبقي باسم الواقعية حيناً والتشكيك أحيانا أو الدعوة لنضال سلمي من أجل اشراكية دمقراطية كما هو حاصل اآن ي أوروبا ،إن اانتهازية والتحريفية الي عكست نفسها ي معظم اأحزاب الشيوعية العامية قد صبغت هذه اأحزاب بصبغة تتناى مع النظرية اماركسية اللينينية ،وهذا عكس نفسه على .دور هذه اأحزاب ومدى الثقة مع ماهر الكادحن إن سياسة العصا واجزرة ي التعامل مع اأحزاب العمالية وي ظل الراجع العام للنضال الطبقي الذي ا يستطيع أحد انكاره على مستوى العام ،كل ذلك جب أن يكون حافزأ لكل امخلصن بااستعداد لدفع فاتورة الصمود ،صحيح أن الظروف صعبة لكن .ااصعب من ذلك هو التخاذل وعدم امواجهة إن كثراً من الرفاق يقودون اآن امعركة الضارية ي ظل اختال كبر ي ميزان القوى لصاح اامريالية هذا الوحش الكرتوي امنهك داخليا بأزمات والذي مكن أن ينهار ي أي حظة ،لذلك ا بد من .العمل على جموعة من احاور جتمعة أواً :على الصعيد الذاي احزي :فا بد من ترسيخ قواعد وأسس البناء اللينيي للحزب والتشدد ي ذلك أن أي تراخي يفتح اأبواب لدخول شى اأمراض ،فالتوسع احزي ليس على حساب امبادىء
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واخراً نشكر لكم حسن استماعكم ونشكر الرفاق ي احزب الشيوعي ااكوادوري مرة اخرى على جهودهم ي تنظيم فعاليات هذا اللقاء عاشت الشيوعية عاشت اأمية الروليتارية رفاقكم ي احزب الشيوعي الفلسطيي
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PARTY OF THE PEOPLE, PANAMA
Primero que nada, nuestra delegación trae un caluroso saludo desde Panamá, a este esfuerzo de convergencia de distintos destacamento de comunistas que en medio de la crisis global y de la diversidad de la actividad social contemporánea, se abre la oportunidad de que en este evento se intente formular la síntesis correspondiente que sirva de guía a nivel estratégico, en el enfrentamiento del enemigo histórico común en la transición al socialismo.
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Nuestro destacamento, consciente de las diicultades por la que atraviesa el MCI, sacudido por diferentes factores, muchos de ellos dolorosos, resulta muy difícil realizar esta tarea, no obstante resulta necesaria. Independientemente de las diicultades, la conducta del MCI ha sido siembre actuar, respondiendo a las necesidades históricas, aceptando consecuentemente los desafíos que la tarea nos impone. Nuestro Partido considera que en el transcurso de la época que hemos caracterizado de tránsito del capitalismo al socialismo, como antesala al comunismo, se han producido cambios trascendentales, inducidos por varios factores entre las cuales la RTC tienen un alto peso especíico en estos acontecimientos que son responsables del fenómeno de la diversidad de las formas revolucionarias que asume la sociedad contemporánea mundial. Es esta realidad compleja la que nos impone la necesidad de interpretar estos nuevos fenómenos y de hacer una síntesis consensuada que nos sirva de guía que nos permita crear una correspondencia entre nuestra acción y lo necesario, común a los comunistas que actúan en sus respectivas trincheras. Este instrumento de lucha debe contribuir con los procesos de convergencia con la diversidad de corrientes revolucionarias que están actuando en nuestros países frente al enemi-
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go común. Este aspecto es muy importante por cuanto nos estimulan los triunfos parciales que varios destacamentos comunistas en su particularidad nacional han logrado, sin embargo para nosotros es decepcionante la deserción y hasta la disolución de destacamentos hermanos que tuvieron rango en el MCI. En este contexto, para nosotros es inexplicable la neutralización, ante etapas de crisis revolucionarias objetivas por el carácter no comunista del sujeto coyuntural, negando la esenda histórico-objetiva de la revolución. En el caso particular de Panamá tenemos que decir que después de haber logrado encauzar el golpe militar de 1968 en un proceso de liberación nacional logrando incluso la integración de nuestro territorio para culminar la formación del Estado nacional, haber nacionalizado el Canal de Panamá y expulsar las 14 bases disuasivas que el Comando Sur tenia emplazadas en el istmo, el imperialismo norteamericano invade militarmente nuestro territorio aduciendo como siempre el argumento de la lucha contra el narcotráico y los métodos antidemocrática del gobiemo nacional. El propósito real de esta infame Invasión era evitar el riesgo de una profundización del proceso de frberación nacional, que aún en su fase anti colonial, pudiera avanzar a su fase neocolonlal, poniendo en peligro intereses geopoliticos vitales para el imperialismo en la rqión. A partir de diciembre de 1989 hasta el 4 de mayo del año en curso se instala un modelo bipartidista impuesto por los Estados Unidos con el propósito de restaurar a la oligarquía en el poder. Este proyecto se realiza incluso con la complicidad del Partido Revolucionario Democrático, partido creado por Omar Torri-
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jas para conducir la revolución democrática que transitaba en el istmo. Esta traición a su misión es la causante de la profunda crisis que vive este colectivo político en la actualidad. Hay que resaltar el hecho de que el resultado electoral del 4 de mayo del año en curso, sorprendió a la mayoría de la opinión pública. Se opinó siempre que las trampas y las manipulaciones por perte de Ricardo Martinelli, creó la imagen fatal de que no eran los votos lo que iban a decidir el resultado electoral sino las triquiiiueias y chantajes del autócrata. Sin embargo, el resultado fue muy distinto; pero seria un grave error pensar que esto se debió a un milagro desconociendo todos los factores que inluyeron en este desenlace electoral. Un factor importante en este resultado fueron los intereses norteamericanos que todos los politólogos del patio omiten, ignorando el poder polltioo que conserva sobre nuestra nación el neocolonlallsmo yanqui. No podemos olvidar que la estabilidad política de nuestro país, es fundamental para sus intereses geopollticos en el continente y en particular para la seguridad del Canal de Panamá, el cual constituye una herramienta del neooolonialismo norteamericano para evitar su aislamiento en América Latina. las posiciones extremistas de Martinelli lo condujo a aislarse de América Latina, como quedó demostrado con su aventura de la OEA de enjuiciar la democracia revolucionaria de Venezuela, quedando sólo y conduciendo a los propios (EUU a un aislamiento vergonaoso. Por otro lado, la acumulación del descontento en las masas por los problemas sociales no resueltos, la oormpción y el enriquecimiento descarado de la burocracia y
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la evolución ascendente de un proceso de participación autónoma de la sociedad olvll encabezada por las capas medias contra la autocracia, evidentemente profundizaria la confrontación social frente a un posible triunfo del CD lo que signiicaría la continuidad de Ricardo Martinelli en el poder. Todo esto repercutiria en la seguridad del Canal. pieza clave para las exigencias globales de los monopolios yanquis. Por todas estas razones, el imperialismo norteamericano maniobro para preservar sus intereses y sacriicó a su aliado gratuito, para llegar a unas elecciones donde se impuso la legitimidad del voto electoral a nivel presidencial. No le quedaba otra salida. Evaluando objetivamente los resultados electorales. no se puede negar que la elección presidencial de Panamá, sin entrar en detalles de sus causas, entra en la onda de la nueva América Latina que le cierra las puertas a los clanes oligárquicos y derechistas tradicionales, que signiicó el aislamiento político y derrota en las umas de la derecha autocrática encabezada por Martinelii, asl como también fue derrotado el oportunismo social demócrata oentroderechista por apartarse de la linea uorrijista demócrata revolucionaria. Un aspecto importante en este cuadro político resultante ha sido la participación de la izquierda panameña con autonomía propia en el escenario electoral, luego de más de 25 años de ausencia, en el cual el candidato Juan iované, establece un referente político ante las amplias capas populares. a pasar de la difícil lucha mediática. la fórmula electoral vencedora responde al planteamiento social-cristiano renovado, que aboga por una política social progresista, pero por medios persuasivos, concíliadores, obviando la realidad clasista de nuestra sociedad. Nuestro Partido considera que los llamados que hace el presidente electo, de unidad na-
nacional, para hacer progresar nuestra nación con la participación popular, expresa una necesidad progresista. Esta propuesta abre grandes posibilidades a la convergencia, mediante la concertación de la diversidad de intereses que concurren respecto a la lucha común contra la autocracia neofascista de Martinelii, quien continuará con sus planes conspirativos; también se señala la participación popuiar en una plan consensuado entre los diversos componentes sociales y patrióticos de la nación para ei desarrollo; y por la consagración de la necesidad de un nuevo orden poiitieo y jurídico que renueve el Estado panameño, más cónsono con las exigencias históricas de nuestra sociedad. El Partido del Pueblo de Panamá, iel a su identidad rnarxista-leninista y a su estrategia correspondiente al nivel del desarrollo histórico de la sociedad panameña, plantea la necesidad de construir un Estado de Democracia nacional, pluralista, participativo, comprometido con la justicia social y la eliminación del neocoloniallsmo. tarea que quedó vigente después de la liberación del colonialismo yanqui en la zona del (‘anal y de la nacionalización de ia via interoceanica. No hay dudas que el cuadro político resultante de esta contienda abre grandes oportunidades para el progreso nacional y el desarrollo social, pero también le lja un gran reto a las fuerzas progresistas y revolucionarias de nuestro pais. Siendo consecuente con lo anterior nuestro partido acaba de realizar un pleno extraordinario de la Coordinadora General para hacer una adecuación a nuestra táctica de apertura en ofensiva, que en esencia consiste en aprovechar las condiciones que objetivamente se nos presente como consecuencia del fraso de las recetas neoliberaies, el iasco de ia orientación politica que nos
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impuso ia invasión norteamericana y las promesas de “cambio” del Martinelli, que lograron crear grandes ilusiones populares. Ante este fracaso y el desastre derivado de nuestra nación , la gran mayoría de la opinión popular y de los sectores progresistas y democráticos buscan senderos independientes de las lacras oIigarco-neocoionialistas y del oportunismo centrista de derecha y de izquierda que han provocado un estado de ánimo de descontento y frustración colectivos. Este ambiente social de búsqueda de otras aitemalvas es lo que signiica la apertura, pues abre oportunidades de concurrir a diversos sectores políticos y sodaies a exponerles nuestras propuestas e incorporarlos a nuestro programa táctico. En cuanto al carácter de ofensiva de ia táctica, está determinada por los fracasos tanto del bipartidismo impuesto por la invasión y del autocratismo de Cambio Demoaático ¡os cuales han entrado en un periodo de repliegue. de defensiva con partdes conlictos irtternos. En consecuencia con esta situación nuestra táctica debe ser de ofensiva. Dependerá de la unidad y organización de nuestras fuerzas, de la vigiiancia y voluntad frente a las fuerzas de la derecha antidemocrática, el rumbo que torne nuestra nación.
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PORTUGUESE COMMUNIST PARTY
On behalf of the Portuguese Communist Party, we want to greet the parties present at the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties and particularly the Communist Party of Ecuador which hosts our meeting, reairming our commitment to contribute to the strengthening of our cooperation and international solidarity. I
PEDRO GUERREIRO
The deepening structural crisis of capitalism continues to mark the main developments of the international situation. Approximately six years ater the outburst of the crisis that began in the US, the economic and social situation in the main centres of capitalism (USA, EU, Japan), remains characterized by feeble growth and stagnation, with wide implications and diferent expressions worldwide, acquiring a global character, and under the latent threat of recession and the outburst of new explosions of crisis with even deeper consequences. A crisis of over-production and over-accumulation of capital, resulting from capitalism’s fundamental contradiction - between the social character of production and the private appropriation of the means of production - and that conirms the validity of the main theses of Marxism-Leninism, namely, the law of the tendency of the rate of proit to fall. In this framework, capitalism imposes the intensiication of exploitation, the spread of unemployment and job precariousness, decline and destruction of labour and social rights, increase of social inequality, privatization of public services and social functions of the state, the refusal to meet the most basic needs, plunder of resources - proving it to be a system with deep and irresolvable
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contradictions and brutal injustices and social scourges, unable to meet the needs and aspirations of the peoples. An ofensive that is accompanied by a restriction of freedoms and democracy, an attack on national sovereignty and independence, whitewashing the action of fascism and with anti-communism, all which conigure a civilizational regression. Capitalism is today marked by a planetary expansion of its relations of production, an unprecedented centralization and concentration of capital, the overwhelming dominance of inance capital, the mercantilization of all spheres of social life, an increasingly speculative nature and the rent-seeking and parasitic nature of the system, by the growing weight of corruption and criminal traicking. The reality on the European continent places big challenges to the communist and progressive forces. The European Union immersed into the crisis and growing contradictions, deepens its neoliberal, militarist and federalist course and as the PCP stressed – has proved to be a tool of big capital and of major European capitalist powers, as an imperialist bloc against the rights of workers and peoples. The evolution of European capitalist integration - the European Union - raised to levels never before witnessed in post-war Europe, the exploitation, oppression and suppression of national sovereignties. The measures of concentration and centralization of economic and political power propagated and propagate new seeds of crises. The crisis in the European Union, represents, thus, a crisis of its foundations and pillars, like the euro and the Economic and Monetary Union.
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In this context assumes special signiicance the “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)” now being negotiated between the European Union and the US on the backs of the people and, if ratiied, will mean a new step in the domination by big capital in the transatlantic space, representing a new development in the ofensive against labour and social rights, the environment, public services, and national sovereignty and independence. The growing internationalization of capital and the increasing centralization and merger of economic and political power of big capital does not abolish, in PCP’s view, the contradictions between the great imperialist powers. Although in the framework of collusion-rivalry continues to dominate the imperialist collusion, of class, against workers and against the people, with the deepening crisis, the contradictions between the big imperialist great powers tend to sharpen. In the atermath of the change in the correlation of forces at the world level following the defeats of socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe and in view of the deepening of the structural crisis of capitalism, imperialism launched a violent attack - enhancing its exploitative, oppressive, aggressive and predatory nature - against the changes and advances in their struggle for national and social emancipation. Faced with the consistent resistance of the workers and peoples due to growing exploitation and national oppression, imperialism, in an increasingly unsettling manner bets on war and fascism. Resorting to intense campaigns of manipulation and defying the UN Charter and international law, the US and its allies foster hotbeds of tension and destabilization, promote
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interference, create ethnic and sectarian religious divisions, instrumentalize xenophobic and fascist groups and their terrorist action and foster aggression on sovereign states, promoting a permanent state of war against those who resist or they consider to be a hurdle to the imposition and protection of its global supremacy. One has to remember, among other examples, the destruction of Yugoslavia; the colonization of Palestine by Israel; the occupation of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya; the aggression against Lebanon and Syria; threats against Iran; operations of interference and recolonization in Africa; tension on the Korean Peninsula; militarization of the Far East where China is considered “strategic adversary”; the blockade against Cuba and the destabilization of Venezuela and other countries in Latin America; or the premeditated worsening of the situation in Ukraine, seeking confrontation with the Russian Federation. As a result of imperialism’s aggressive escalation, led by US imperialism - which reinforces NATO (with the European Union as its European pillar) and its political-military alliances and promotes the arms race, the militarization of international relations and war as instruments of imposition and protection of its domination - the international situation is increasingly marked by instability, insecurity and uncertainty. 100 years ater the beginning of World War I and 75 years ater the beginning of World War II, imperialism’s aggressive escalation poses a serious threat to peace in the world, with the possibility of the outbreak of conlicts of greater and more severe proportions, in a situation where a new world war could mean the destruction of Humanity. In this context, assumes even greater importance the convergence of all the forces that,
although acting with diverse objectives, can efectively converge objectively in the struggle against imperialist wars and for peace. In this sense, the PCP considers that it is up to the communists - beginning with their Leninist analysis of imperialism – to give a decisive contribution to the advancement of the struggle against militarism, war and the fascist threat and to thwart attempts by big capital to channel the masses towards reactionary and xenophobic nationalism or inconsistent paciism. The Communists are faced with the need without curbing or abdicating their identity and principles – to boost broad social alliances and convergence of anti-imperialist forces, erecting a large and intervening movement for peace, against NATO, for disarmament, in defence of national sovereignty and independence and solidarity with the peoples in struggle - namely by promoting and broadening the unitary action of the World Peace Council and other anti-imperialist organizations. A broad and intervening peace movement that will help to increase the awareness that the struggle against war requires tackling its causes that are rooted in the system of capitalist exploitation. In PCP’s experience of struggle, it is not by narrowing but broadening the social and political base of the peace movement that reinforces the struggle for profound social transformations and for socialism. And, for the PCP, the struggle for peace and the struggle for social progress and socialism are inseparable. In the current international situation and in line with the relative decline of the US,, the PCP considers that the complex and extensive process of realignment of forces on a world scale requires greater attention, and has been a factor in containing the estab-
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ment of the “new world order”’ hegemonized by US imperialism together with its allies. A process not without contradictions and whose outcome is not deined, but may open positive prospects regarding the evolution of the correlation of forces in the world, provided: it can resist the attempt of imperialist recovery; processes of airmation of national sovereignty towards more advanced antimonopoly and anti-imperialist transformations are consolidated; are conirmed and deepened processes that aim towards socialism – in a situation where the role of the struggle of the working class and the popular masses is fundamental and the resulting correlation of forces between capital and labour. In this complex scenario, where new countries emerge with a remarkable economic and political weight, has acquired particular importance the creation and consolidation of alliances, structures and spaces of multilateral cooperation and integration - with very diferent objectives and scopes, where various convergences of geometry, nature and stability intersect, with the inherent contradictions of the diferent economic and political realities of the countries that integrate them – but whose evolution has to be accompanied. In this context, the processes of international division of labour, cooperation and integration are processes that can serve diferent class interests - can serve the oppression of peoples, as is the case of European Union, or serve the peoples’ interests, as is happening, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. To this efect, the airmation of the anti-imperialist core of ALBA represents a qualitative leap for cooperation, on a sovereign, solidary, socially oriented and equitable basis, with repercussions on the American continent and
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internationally. It is no coincidence that imperialism intensiies its interference, supported by national oligarchy and sectors of big capital, in its attempt to contain, and if possible reverse important processes that are taking place on this sub-continent. A counter-ofensive by imperialism whose main target are the ALBA countries of - particularly Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua - but also other countries from Latin America and the Caribbean that position themselves in a sovereign manner confronting imperialism’s traditional hegemony in this region. It is in this context that the PCP gives special importance to the failure of the reaction and imperialism through the operations recently held in Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay sought to place supporters of his strategy in the presidency of these countries. Condemning imperialist interference in Latin America and the Caribbean, the PCP values and expresses solidarity with the processes of sovereign, progressive and revolutionary processes in this region, which are an important stimulus for the struggle to build alternatives of development and social progress and one of the main pivots of anti-imperialist resistance at the global level. Although the current international situation holds great dangers - in a context where, in general, imperialism continues on the ofensive and the times are still of resistance and gathering of forces worldwide - the PCP considers that reality also conirms that there is great potential for the development of struggle for social and national emancipation.
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The diiculties and contradictions, the crisis into which capitalism is immersed and especially the struggle of the workers and peoples throughout the world can stop the most reactionary and aggressive sectors of imperialism, impose on them defeats and setbacks, defeat the exploitative and oppressive ofensive and gain important achievements and progressive and revolutionary transformations. II The structural crisis of capitalism, the aggressive escalation of imperialism and the increasing pressing need of progressive and revolutionary processes of transformation, urges with extraordinary acuity the reinforcement of communist parties, their ties with the working class and popular masses, and their connection with their respective national realities, as well as their internationalist cooperation and solidarity. Giving particular attention to the development of their bilateral relationships of friendship and cooperation, PCP values forms of multilateral common and convergent cooperation and action, aimed at a unity in action based upon the basic principles of equality of rights, respect of diferences, autonomy in decision, non-interference in internal afairs, and reciprocal frankness and solidarity. In this sense, PCP considers that the strengthening of the international communist and revolutionary movement is hindered by the development of social-democratic tendencies, with the abandonment of ideological references, of organic principles and strategic objectives characteristic of a communist party, as well as dogmatic and sectarian concepts and practices, which as the experience of the international com
munist and revolutionary movement prove, hinder the frank and fraternal examination of common problems and damage the unity of the communist movement, including the unity of action against the common enemy. PCP is concerned with the development of concepts and practices that point towards the imposition of single models of social transformation and initiatives that aim the structuring of the communist movement – namely through the constitution of permanent poles or structures – which do not contribute towards the reinforcement of the communist movement or the unity of action of communists and of these with other progressive and anti-imperialist forces, and furthermore introduce new dividing factors, separations and misunderstandings that hinder the necessary advances towards cooperation and solidarity. PCP values the process of the International Meetings of Communist and Workers Parties and seeks to contribute towards its reinforcement and improvement. This was the case in the 15th IMCWP, held in Lisbon. Despite serious divergences having impeded the possibility of adopting a common declaration, PCP has a positive evaluation of the meeting, namely considering the adoption of a number of guidelines for common or convergent action. Acting in accordance with the principles of proletarian internationalism and mutual relationship, PCP will continue committed towards contributing to inding solutions to surpass diiculties and that contribute towards the strengthening of the international communist and revolutionary movement and the reinforcement of reciprocal cooperation and solidarity. PCP will likewise continue its commitment towards internationalist solidarity with po
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litical and social forces that, in their respective countries, struggle in defence of the interests of the workers and peoples, and the broadening and increasing expression of the anti-imperialist front. For PCP, in the present and demanding international framework, the development of cooperation among communist parties with other democratic, progressive and anti-imperialist forces assumes particular importance, while airming its own objectives, without diluting its identity, but contributing towards the exchange of experiences and the unity in action aimed at fulilling diferent tasks and objectives of the struggle. Consequently and at the European level, PCP has given particular attention to the cooperation among communist parties and between these and other progressive forces, respecting diferences in situations, relection and proposal, contributing to place irst a common or convergent action around the issues most felt by the workers and peoples, and the struggle against the European Union, increasingly federalist, neoliberal and militarist, and for another Europe of cooperation, progress and peace. Knowing that there is much to be done in the European continent towards cooperation and solidarity among communist and among these and other progressive forces – and objective to be achieved with an efort that must be common and not unilaterally or by imposition –, and the institutional level, PCP has been committed to the constitution of the Confederal Group of United Let/Nordic Green Let (GUE/NGL), ensuring its confederal nature, its own identity – alternative to social-democracy and the right – its independence regarding other forums and structures of cooperation, rejecting attempts of instrumentalizing GUE/NGL with opportunist positions of adapting to the system – as is the case with the Party of the European Let – with dogmatic and sectarian positions that deny the importance of united cooperation of
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communists with other progressive and letwing forces in Europe. PCP’s intervention, including in the European Parliament, is marked by the defence of the interests of the Portuguese workers and people, the rejection of impositions and limitations to the will of the peoples, in the defence of democracy and national sovereignties, towards a rupture with the European capitalist integration – the European Union of the monopolies and big powers – and for a Europe of cooperation among sovereign States with equal rights, of social progress and peace, for a Europe of the workers and peoples. III In Portugal, based on its experience of 93 years of struggle and considering the historic experience of communists and revolutionaries worldwide, PCP, party of the working class and all workers, continues the struggle in defence of the just interests, rights and aspirations of the Portuguese people. During this year, we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the April Revolution, a major event in our history that marked and – despite the advance of the counter-revolution – continues to deeply mark the reality in Portugal. Culminating a persistent and heroic struggle of the Portuguese people, the April Revolution signiied, among other important aspects, the end of the fascist dictatorship, the instauration of a democratic regime with ample popular participation; the end of the colonial war and the recognition of the right of colonized peoples to national liberation; freedom to unionize and ample worker’s rights, such as worker’s control; the liquidation of State monopoly capitalism, the monopolies and their economic and political domination; the end of the great land properties in the South, and the land reform; the end of Portugal’s international isolation,
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opening the way to a policy of peace, cooperation and friendship with all the peoples of the world. A process where the working class, the workers, the popular masses and the progressives in the military – united in the People-Armed Forces Movement alliance – reached ample and profound democratic achievements that were enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic, of 1976, that stated as objective “ensuring the transition towards socialism by creating conditions for the democratic exercise of power by the working classes”. A revolution that, in its fundamental aspects, conirmed PCP’s program for a democratic and national revolution, adopted in its 6th Congress, in 1965. The Portuguese Revolution brought important teachings for the struggle for social and national emancipation of Portuguese workers and people. Conirming the general laws of the revolutionary process – namely those relative to the role of the working class and popular masses, the party, power, and the ownership of the means of production – the Portuguese revolution equally conirmed that these same laws are not only not contradictory with the existence of national speciicities, but presume their dialectic relationship. In the Portuguese Revolution, the anti-monopolistic and anti-imperialist character of its transformations and the objective of socialism were always present, not in contradiction, but dialectically connected – forming two diferent stages which complemented one another, with objectives of the stage of democratic and national revolution that are simultaneously objectives of the socialist stage. That is, the struggle for a democratic and national revolution was already a constitutive part of the struggle for socialism. The Portuguese Revolution likewise under
lines the importance of the national issue and its inseparable correlation with the question of social class, conirming the importance of the national mark as a determinant ield for the defence and conquest of rights and of processes of social transformation and emancipation of peoples. However, having achieved important and profound transformations, the Portuguese workers and people did not manage to impose a revolutionary power and build a democratic State correspondent to these transformations – conirming that the issue of the State is a central issue in each revolution. In referring the experience of the Portuguese Revolution, we do so without any pretention of erecting it as a universal model. On the contrary it conirms the inexistence of models of revolution and the importance of a dialectical relationship between the general laws of the revolutionary process and national particularities. The April Revolution was an uninished revolution. Despite the historic advances it represented, many of its main achievements were destroyed, while others, although weakened and threatened, remain present in the life of the Portuguese people. Over the past 38 years of right-wing policies and 28 years of European capitalist integration – in the EEC/European Union – , big capital, his political representatives, the right wing policy, promoted the reconstitution of the monopolies and the return of their economic and political domination; the attack on labour and social rights; the degradation of the democratic regime; the vulgarization and enhancement of retrograde and reactionary values; the submission and sacriice of national interests to foreign interests – a policy in permanent conlict with the Portuguese Constitution and democratic legality, that constitutes serious dangers to the democratic constitutional regime and national independence and sovereignty.
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However, in Portugal there was a revolutionary process that, because it corresponded to the objective conditions of the Portuguese society and the deepest aspirations of the Portuguese people, let profound marks; its achievements, experiences and values are projected in the present and future of Portugal – a reality that distinguishes and deines the Portuguese situation. In fact, the present program of PCP for an Advanced Democracy departs precisely from that reality. A program, updated in its 19th Congress, in 2012, is now called «An Advanced Democracy, the Values of April in the future of Portugal». It is in this framework that PCP, facing the most violent ofensive against the rights and living conditions of workers ater fascism, is ighting for the rupture with decades of rightwing policies and for a patriotic and let-wing alternative. The patriotic and let-wing alternative that PCP proposes to the Portuguese workers and people is based on: the promotion and valuing of national production; the recovery of public control of strategic sectors and companies, like the inancial sector; valuing wages and the incomes of workers and the people; the defence of public services and the social functions of the State, the right to education, to healthcare and social protection; a iscal policy that unburdens the incomes of workers and small and medium companies, and strongly taxes the incomes and property of big capital, proits and inancial speculation; rejecting the submission to the imposition of the Euro and the European Union, recovering economic, budgetary and monetary sovereignty for the country. The struggle for an alternative is fought in the ield of the class struggle, that is, a patriotic and let-wing alternative presupposes, demands a rupture with right-wing policies, confronts the interests and power of big monopolies and imperialism, and opens the way towards an Advanced Democracy, committed to the Values of April, an integral part of the struggle for socialism and communism in
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Portugal. It is with conidence that PCP airms that with the struggle of the Portuguese workers and people it is possible to break with decades of right-wing policies and open the way to a policy rooted in the values of April. A struggle fought amidst great demands and developing courageously, that has among the working class and the workers it’s most consequential and determined expression. To achieve this objective, PCP is committed to the unity and convergence of the struggle of workers, populations and diferent anti-monopolist sectors and social layers that, having their speciic objectives and demands, constitute determining components towards the rupture with right-wing policies and the achievement of a patriotic and letwing alternative. An alternative and path that requires organization, unity and development and success of the mass struggle, the constitution of a broad social front, the convergence of democrats and patriots and, necessarily, the reinforcement of PCP and its inluence as an aggregating strength. IV Uncertainty and instability are characteristics of the international situation. The dangers derived from the deepening of capitalism’s contradiction should not be underestimated. But the historic reality and experience demonstrate that through the development of the mass struggle and the action and solidarity of communists, progressive forces and the lovers of peace worldwide, it is possible to eliminate such dangers and advance social transformation and by revolution overcome capitalism. Given the exploitative, oppressive, aggressive and predatory nature of capitalism, PCP considers that there is increasing evidence for the modernity and importance of the
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communist ideal and project, for the need of a new society, for socialism and communism – by diversiied paths and stages – that is the grand perspective placed before the workers and peoples all over the world.
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RUSSIAN COMMUNIST WORKERS’ PARTY VIKTOR TYULKIN
Dear comrades, this is already our 16th meeting, we know each other pretty well, and the diferences between us are also known. We are of the opinion that there is no use in organizing pompous events and keep repeating the routine accusations of capitalism. We believe that we should change both the format and the content of our meetings and start discussing publicly both our diferences and our fundamental positions. This would be more useful. Our party – Russian Communist Workers Party – together with other parties from the Soviet Republics (Communist Workers Party of Belarus, Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Communist Party of Tajikistan, Communist Party of Estonia and others) have preserved the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (RCWP-CPSU) and we adhere to MarxismLeninism. We believe that opportunism and revisionism that used to be an internal occurrence within communist movement and merely represented biases and misconceptions arisen under the inluence of bourgeoisie have now turned into a powerful weapon in the hands of Imperialism. The right bias didn’t vanish with the end of Gorbachev and the destruction of both USSR and CPSU in 1991. Nowadays opportunism and revisionism are very well organized, irst of all these are the Party of the European Let and its fraction in the European Parliament. They have their structures, they enjoy support of the law, and they are well inanced and share a joint strategy. Unfortunately some parties calling themselves communist participate there, including those that take part in our meetings whereas in fact they can be considered class enemies. Lenin’s experience of struggle with opportunism and the creation of the III Com-
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Communist International, the experience of establishing the cut-of conditions for joining Comintern to prevent getting there the traitors of the workers’ cause – all this has retained its signiicance by now. We don’t have similar circumstances at the moment – there is no party in power adhering to revolutionary Marxism that could undertake the task of organizing communist parties while taking Comintern as an example. Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean that we should reject the experience of Comintern as it demonstrated an example of thorough scientiic analysis and fundamental class approach in the main directions of class struggle. The analysis of the pre-war situation and the prediction of Fascism as well as describing Fascism as historical and political occurrence are listed among the main achievements of Comintern. A precise and thoroughly scientiic deinition of Fascism was given in the resolution of the XIII plenary meeting of Comintern Executive Committee and was repeated in the report of Georgy Dimitrov at the VII Congress of Comintern: “Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of inance capitalism, a special form of class domination of bourgeoisie… Fascism is not the power that is above all the classes, it is not the power of petty bourgeoisie and lumpen-proletariat over inancial capital. Fascism is the power of inancial capital itself. This is the organization of terroristic massacre of working class and the revolutionary part of peasantry and intelligentsia. Fascism in international relations means chauvinism in its cruelest form practicing zoological hatred towards other nations”. The deeds of fascists in the XX century have
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fully conirmed this deinition of Comintern. Pursuing their vested class interests fascists created in 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact in order to prevent further spreading of communist ideology in the world. Comintern had started to ight Fascism when it was only approaching the power in Spain and in Germany. The tactics of the People’s Fronts had been developed whereas the main adversaries of Hitler and his Anti-Comintern Pact in the WWII were by and large the Soviet Union and Comintern. Working people of the Soviet Union led by communists as well as workers from other countries contributed decisively to the defeat of Fascism and its German variant – Nazism. VKP(b) alone sacriiced the lives of more than 3 millions of its best ighters for the sake of victory, whereas more than 5 millions of young heroes from the Lenin’s Young Communist League lost their lives during the war. In most of the occupied countries communists headed resistance movements and partisan units. The main results of the activities of Comintern were the defeat of Fascism and the creation of the world socialist system consisting of a powerful organizational center – the USSR and the republics, members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. The defeat of Socialism in the USSR and in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe had its negative impact on the situation across the world. Firstly, in the absence of socialist countries’ example capitalism started its general ofensive on the rights of working people. Secondly, the world Imperialism, irst of all its striking force as represented by USA and NATO countries have started to act even more unbridled, more aggressively while ignoring the norms of international law. We can remember such examples as massacres of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq,
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, Libya, nowadays it’s Syria, we can remember threats towards Korean Peoples Democratic Republic and Iran, the unleashing of the bloody conlict in the Ukraine. To describe the situation we can recall this phrase of Lenin: “in front of us there is a completely naked Imperialism, that doesn’t find it necessary to even cover itself with anything while believing that it is splendid as it is”. Our joint analysis carried out during our previous meetings shows that neither the essence of Imperialism or the essence of inancial capital have changed. Neither have changed or vanished their intentions to give up bourgeois democracy and to resort t under certain circumstances to an open terroristic dictatorship, i.e. to fascist dictatorship. Dialectic approach shows us that the deinition of Fascism by Comintern was quite correct as it described the essence of Fascism and not a special form of Fascism of that time. Manifestations of Fascism can difer, whereas its essence and consequently its deinition remains unchanged and allows us to give correct assessments of the most modern political processes. The essence of Fascism presumes giving up democratic forms of bourgeois domination and coming over to an overt bourgeois terror. In modern world most of bourgeois states use in their internal politics various forms of bourgeois democracy while abstaining from exercising dictatorship in its overt terroristic form. A diferent situation could be observed worldwide where their internal politics are transformed into the international ones. The core of imperialistic forces is currently formed by inancial capital whose relative inluence even exceeds the one in the middle of the XX century.
Fascism is one of possible reactions by Imperialism aimed at saving capitalist system from the dangers of social revolutions, especially in periods of crises. This is the reason why overt anti-communism and consequently anti-workers politics are inherent to Fascism. To disorient the people fascists extensively use active social demagoguery. All these features could be observed in the current politics of Imperialism and are carried out with the use of modern social-democracy time and again. We should make a distinction between Fascism as an ideological system and Fascism as a practical politics by state. Ideological manifestations of Fascism can be observed both in all imperialistic countries and in their common politics. It’s enough to mention the anti-communist laws adopted in a number of European countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Moldova etc.) as well as the attempt by the PACE to organize a trial of Communism while brazenly trying to equalize Communism with Fascism, as from their point of view these are allegedly just two forms of “Totalitarianism”. Fascist tendencies manifested itself in Russia in October 1993 when the parliament was shot down and they adopted as the national lag the one that had been used by the local collaborators with Hitler during the WWII (known locally as Vlasovtsy). Thus the analysis of the events in the world demonstrates that we deal with the Fascism of XXI century led by USA and EU, and this is though modern, but still a Fascism. Ideology of racism, claims to be “chosen people” characteristic for the Fascists of the last century are now manifested themselves in the form of stigmatizing whole independent states and nations together with their recognized governments as “underdeveloped”,
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“undemocratic”, even “outcasts”. Recently we’ve had an opportunity to hear from B. Obama the claims to a special missionof American nation in the world. Meanwhile NATO and its minions have taken the role of Anti-Comintern Pact. We call on all communist and workers parties to pay attention to the theory, to the experience of Comintern. In the current struggle against the aggression in Syria, against the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territories, against the threats towards Iran and KPDR, against the punitive operations by local and foreign Fascists carried against the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Democratic Republics in the South-East of the Ukraine all the anti-fascist forces that understand Fascism as in the deinition by Comintern, should be united by means of the People Fronts’ tactics. Communists give this struggle a clearly deined class character.
involvement of of both Russian Imperialism as well as the Imperialists of USA and EU in these events and demonstrate that Vlasov and his henchmen are no better than Bandera and his bandits (these two are the names of the leaders of collaborators with Hitler correspondingly in mainland Russia and in the Ukraine). If we somewhat changed the phrase of Lenin we could say that the struggle with Fascism is an empty and false phrase, unless it is associated with the struggle against Imperialism. Under the current conditions of advancing reaction with the increasing manifestations of Fascism, communists are requested to retain their orthodoxy and consequently their irreconcilable struggleagainst opportunism. It was so in the diicult years of creation of Comintern by V.I. Lenin, it was so in the tough years of WWII, it should be so now. Let us all succeed in our common struggle
Here in Latin America we believe that it’s our main task to demand from Washington to stop the criminal blockade of Cuba, to set free our Cuban comrades: Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero as well as the Puerto-Rican ighter Oscar López Rivera. We express our special solidarity with communists and all working people in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Salvador, Argentina, Brazil, Peru that struggle against the threats of Fascist coups, with Chilean comrades that oppose the attempts to revive the Pinochet style Fascism, with Columbian, Mexican and Paraguayan communists that have been resolutely opposing Fascist terror. As to regards the situation in the Ukraine we use the following approach: on the one hand we demand that the bourgeois authorities of Russia should render assistance to the people of the South-East in their struggle against Fascism, on the other hand we explain the
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ARTYOM PROKOFIEV
Dear comrades, This is the second time that an International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties is taking place on Latin American land. This fact has historical signiicance for our movement. The continent’s Communist Parties, inspired by the Cuban revolution, have for many years waged a struggle against dictatorships, for freedom and the rights of the working people. Today Communists in many countries play an important role in shaping and implementing the policy of reforms in the interests of the peoples of their countries and of an independent foreign policy. The CPRF is extending its greetings to all the participants in the Meeting and wishes them successful work. We would like especially to greet the comrades from Ecuador who have carried out a large amount of work to enable us to meet here. During the course of previous Meetings, regional and national events we have stressed that international meetings are important and necessary because they enable us not only to exchange information, but to work out common assessments of the events and phenomena in the world. This is all the more necessary in connection with sometimes tragic events that occur in various regions. We have done so at each of the Meetings and tried to act jointly to counter their negative consequences. Our assessments have proved to be right in many ways. However, the development of events demands that we revisit these issues. For example, in Lebanon and Lisbon we talked a great deal about the Arab Spring. Some saw this movement as a kind of revolution. In reality, this was not so. The whole Middle East is engulfed by the lames of extremism. Unfortunately, we have not managed to implement the proposal of the Arab comrades on organizing a
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122 on organizing a seminar on these problems. We have long been warning about the resurgence of Fascism and the growth of nationalism and xenophobia in Europe. Few people at the time could imagine that all this would manifest itself in such forms and on such a scale as it happened in Ukraine. Our task today is to defend the Communist Party of Ukraine and its people. Next year will see the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory over Fascism. Five years ago we were confronted with an ugly campaign to discredit the role of the Soviet people and the Resistance movement in achieving that Victory. We expect a repeat of such a campaign. In this connection we propose to include joint celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in our action plan for 2015. We believe that our common joined-up actions will provide a potent answer to the encroachments of the Fascist and extremist forces that have reared their heads. Comrades, At every Meeting we discuss one of the key topics for the Communist and Workers’ Parties, and that is the role of these parties in the struggle for the rights of the working class and all the working people. For the CPRF this is the priority area of activity. The problem is that our party had no experience of organizing the struggle of the working people for their rights, experience of interacting with the trade unions. For many years during the period of socialist construction, we regarded the trade unions as “a school for Communism.”
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But today’s Communists in Russia had no experience of cooperation with the trade unions under capitalism. Our party is a party of the working class and the struggle for its rights is the key part of its activities. In late October of this year the CPRF Central Committee Plenum considered the issue “The Position of the Working Class in Russia and the Tasks of the CPRF in Increasing its Inluence in the Proletarian Milieu.” The Party’s position is that the capitalism restored in Russia is regressive and parasitic, oligarchic and comprador capitalism that is not viable and is historically doomed. Russia is witnessing a temporary retreat of socialism and restoration of the omnipotence of private property. Capitalism has split the country into two main social classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The developments in recent years conirm that the working class is interested in socialism and that it is the most numerous social group in Russia. This means that it can become the leader of the struggle for a radical transformation of society. Our Party believes that the working class still has a real chance to become the vanguard in the confrontation with the bourgeoisie. The political goal of moving towards socialist construction is to destroy the dictatorship of capital. Our party believes that it can only be replaced by the dictatorship of the proletariat. The CPRF sees this not only as the ability to defend the foundations of socialism against capitalism’s attacks, but above all its creative character that can ensure the victory of socialism.
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SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY CHRIS MATLHAKO
The SACP hereby expresses its profound gratitude to the Communist Party of Ecuador for the excellent preparations and hosting of the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties (IMCWP). The SACP participates in this 16th Meeting of the IMCWP cognizant of the mammoth conjunctural challenges confronting the international working class (proletariat) and it’s formations in the struggle against imperialism, capitalism, racism, sexism, war and marginalization. We are also conident of the unfolding processes in Latin America, which hold huge potential for an alternative to neoliberalism and the inhumane system of capitalism. The emerging processes of radical transformation aimed at rolling back the hegemony of global capitalism across the world, hold huge promise for the struggle for socialism, if the correct and proper analyzes of the material conditions and correlation of forces are undertaking within the speciicities of each situation. Never before in history has the need for a diferent, a humane world based on the socialist value of putting social needs before private proit been more desperately required. Today, as never before, the collective achievements of human civilization are threatened with potential extinction. Today, a single world economy is dominated by a tiny minority of exceedingly powerful transnational corporations, buttressed by imperialist state power and forging ahead with a frightening militaristic agenda. Ater several centuries of breathtaking expansion and worldwide accumulation, the global capitalist system, as we know it, is now approaching a series of systemic, perhaps conclusive limitations. These limitations include physical, biological, human, social and economic dimensions (SACP Road to Socialism: 2007).
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This is the background against which this 16th IMCWP takes place. It also occurs against the background of the ongoing (systemic) and unprecedented crisis of capitalism since the 1930s, both in the centre and periphery. Over these last few years - since 2008, the crisis has wreaked havoc on the lives of ordinary people, as it increased the pauperization of the majority of the people. The present capitalist accumulation path is recklessly unsustainable. But also the powerful global capitalist forces that dominate this reality are incapable of recognizing the crisis, still less, are unable to take decisive measures that are required to provide sustainable resolutions, thus making the struggle for an alternative to capitalism inevitable and imperative.
The Let, he says, have ‘a duty to promote a credible alternative to the disastrous option’.
However, ordinary people and their formations have also not sat back, watched events as they unfold, but have actively engaged in mass protests and challenged the logic of capitalism (and subsequent crisis) in various ways and across countries of both the center and the periphery. Major demonstrations in various capitals of the world became squares of expression of the mass power of the people and their utter rejection of the current trajectory undertaken by their bourgeoise governments.
Part of what the IMCWP should contemplate, both as individual and collective group of parties, is to do a critical analysis of the struggle for an alternative to capitalism in the current conjuncture. Eforts in Latin America have found resonance with those attempting to build an alternative to capitalism, particularly in the conditions of the Third World.
The contours of a new globalization of capitalism remains vague. Hence, the future remains open to various possibilities, and there is no justiication for abandoning the struggle to promote a better world.
What does it mean to attempt revolutionary transformation in the 21st century, in this new age of global capitalism, when so many of our familiar points of reference and goalposts have shited?
Exploring this option calls for examination of alternatives along three axes of evolution, argues Samir Amin: (1) the centre-periphery contradiction, governed by the logic of world capitalism, (2) East-West relations; (3) intraWestern competition. All these dimensions are found in varying degrees on the continent of Africa and the Third World in particular. The
The challenges of such transformation are daunting. Yet, they are all more urgent as the system spirals into ever deeper crisis. Fundamental transformation of our global society appears as a necessity, if we are going to survive. We are living through a time of great upheavals, including the very real possibility of collapse as well as the grow-
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Thus, the theme of the 16th IMCWP, is indeed conjectural and sets out the imperative of the key programmatic tasks, which the international communists and workers parties should engage on a continuos basis (within their unique conditions), both in the current phase and beyond the hegemony of capitalism. The system of capitalism and the current crisis has amongst others also opened possibilities for advances to deepen the process of bringing about a diferent socioeconomic, cultural paradigm to capitalism, in the conditions unique to each situation.
The global signiicance of a radical process of transformation in the current period
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ing threat of repressive social control system to contain the explosive contradictions of global capitalism, facing deep structural environmental and cultural dislocation. The implacable drive for transnational capital to accumulate in a world scale is bringing on an ecological holocaust and endless war. Yet, despite the dangers humanity faces, the current interregnum ofers opportunities for transformative, emancipatory projects. First, the system has lost its legitimacy for a great many people. Second, neoliberalism appears to be reaching material and ideological exhaustion. Third, the dominant groups worldwide look to be divided and often rudderless. Fourth, the “thirdworldizatiom” of the First World opens up new opportunities for radical globalized politics, for organic alliances across North and South. Indeed, since the crisis of global capitalism began in the inal years of the 20th century there seems to have been two waves of global rebellion. The irst involved the rise of a global justice movement, the coalescing of numerous popular struggles and resistance movement from around the world into a critical mass in the late 1990s and the formation of the World Social Forum (WSF) under the banner of “Another World is Possible”. This wave reached its crest at the turn of the century and was in part derailed, in part transformed, by the events of September 11, 2001, and the counterofensive of the transnational elite made possible by those events. The second wave began in the wake of the 2008 inancial collapse and spread from 2009 to 2011. Among those lash points grabbed international headlines were repeated rounds of mass strikes and mobilisation in countries of the European Union
(EU), most notably in those hardest hit by austerity, uprising in the Middle East and North Africa; the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States; Chilean student movement; ongoing strike waves among and across the world; immigrant rights struggles in many countries, and so on. There is no single conclusion to be reached with regard to the content and direction of the worldwide revolt, which encompasses uprisings ranging from explicitly socialist revolutions in South America, to the well organized social movements of peasants in the worldwide coalition Via Campesina, to amorphous anti-capitalism of the anarchist-inspired upheavals, or of the neoliberal technocrats in Egypt or Greece. The key question is whether these global revolts will succeed in altering the political and economic power structure or actually renovate them through combinations of mild reform and cooptation? Or worse still, will the global police state respond to mass uprising that do try to transform the social order in favour of the poor majority by imposing 21st century fascism? The global revolt has to address the matter of political power. There can be no real emancipatory project without addressing the matter of political power, that is, of the state. And once the Let manages to gain some control over the state, a set of complications emerges, to which there are no pre-given formulas and no easy answers. The resolution of any one contradiction gives way to new contradictions, for that is the law of dialectics. There is much to indicate we are entering a new crisis of hegemony at the world systemic level in this second decade of the 21st century. Let us recall that all revolutions, all processes of social transformation, all
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historical conjuncture are unique. To understand the “challenges and complexities of political power in the 21st century, must study the concrete historical in which the radical let in Latin America and elsewhere, has (re) emerged and has come to power in several countries. As Gramsci observes, “the truth is in the concrete”. Finally, we think this requires ongoing debate and discussion in order to better comprehend the tasks for the international communist and workers parties in the current conjuncture. The basis for mobilization and organisation of the large fractions of society who bare the worst ravages of capitalism, marginalization, poverty, inequality and unemployment, look up to the historic organisation capable of leading that struggle. Consideration of the tactical methods of struggle on the current period must also relect the desires and aspirations of the working (proletariat) class!
of global imperialism, more than ever, the task is to build the unity of international working class and the unity of workers with the great mass of the urban and rural poor. The working class alone has the capacity to lead the battle to transform the world and itself in struggle. Despite everything, it is steeled in thousand daily struggles for survival and against the unceasing attempts to roll back whatever rights it may have won in bitter struggles. Above all, life teaches workers, like no other social force, that an injury to one is an injury to all; that solidarity is the only true weapon. Which why, as the SACP, we say: WORKERS TO THE FRONT TO BUILD A BETTER, SOCIALIST WORLD!
There is much to indicate we are entering a new crisis of hegemony at world systemic level in the second decade of the 21st century, argues Santa Barbara. “Let us recall that all revolutions, all processes of social transformation, all historical conjunctures are unique”, she says. To understand the “challenges and complexities of political power in the 21st century”, we must study the concrete evidence and analysis in the task of making sense of the challenges ahead and the lessons for popular struggles around the world. Karl Marx wrote; “... the real barrier of capitalist production is capital itself ... and capitalist production continually overcomes its immanent barriers only by means which again place these barriers in its way in a more formidable scale” (Capital, vol III). Today, the struggle against the barbarism, of
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PEOPLES OF SPAIN CARMELO SUAREZ
Dear Comrades of the Communist Party of Ecuador. Dear Comrades from the delegations: The PCPE salutes the work of the CP of Ecuador in organizing the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Party. For the communists in Spain it is always a pleasure to be in a fraternal country such as Ecuador, by the deep ties between our countries, language, culture and common history, coming together on this occasion to the fraternity and camaraderie that speciically bind us with the Communist and Workers’ parties of America. During this 16th edition of the IMCWP, we discuss on the role that our parties should play in the struggle against capitalist exploitation and for Socialism. The PCPE is a strong supporter of the discussion and exchange of ideas among fraternal parties, as we believe that the keys to recover the momentum and the vanguard nature worldwide of the International Communist will come from these kind of comradely debates. We advocate here for the discussion and exchange of ideas because we give great importance to this forum, because we want this forum to be useful in the way that everyone’s experiences enrich each other and the whole Communist and Workers’ Parties of the world. We always come prepared to listen and be heard. We always come prepared to discuss our experience and the experiences of others. We are willing to advance in the coordination of our parties on those points on which there is an agreement. The PCPE thinks these basic ideas are shared by the other parties present. At the same time we believe that all parties present are aware that there are elements on which it is
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not possible to reach an agreement today. We know and study the political statements, the articles in the press, the contributions to other international events, from many of the parties in this IMCWP, and we think there are issues that generate controversy today in our movement.
rection since the mid-90s of last century. We retrieved international forums, we have created new ones at the regional or sectoral level and there are bases for the development of new cooperation mechanisms. This certainly helps the ight of all and is a heritage that we should never spoil.
This does not worry us. We are not worried by the fact that, at this moment, there are various views in the development of new phenomena in the development of the class struggle. The times are very dynamic and we come from very diicult situations. We are not worried if those diferent views require planning discussions over several years. None of that worries us because the solution to these debates is not going to be found only in the debate, the class struggle itself will end up giving or taking away reasons.
We think that the struggle of the working class in each country and with it, the struggle of the international working class against capitalism, progresses faster if there is ideological unity in the international communist movement. We still have a long way to go to achieve this ideological unity in a real way, leaving behind the rhetoric and declarations without content.
But we are very worried indeed about the fact that, despite our insistence on ofering the possibility of deeper discussions, despite our words and attitude, some are bent to review our Party as dogmatic, as sectarian or letist. Such comments we have read, we have heard and we have challenged several times in recent years, and we deeply regret that none of those who have shed them have wanted to discuss, even informally, about the diferences of opinion that we have, despite the offers that PCPE has repeatedly made. We participate in this forum to raise our thoughts and our concerns with frankness and comradeship, and the utmost respect to all those who ight for the cause of socialism, with whom we have always believed that we share the most important trench of all: the trench of the comrades, the trench of the Communists. We think the International Communist Movement has taken many steps in the right di-
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We think that one of the main obstacles to the development of our movement at this time is not recognizing our own diiculties. This obstacle sometimes manifests itself in the will to impose unilateral visions on the phenomena we face. We believe the strength of our movement is achieved by full class independence, having clear that, in defending the rights of the working class, other classes can not be more than circumstantial allies at speciic times and, in order to advance to the Socialist Revolution, other classes may be allies, but in any case under the hegemony of the working class. We think that, while we have an eye on Socialism, we can not leave the concrete and partial struggles of our class and other working people, and that each time we need to weigh well the existing balance of forces, who are potential allies, what are those potential allies and what we want do we want these potential allies for. We think that imperialism is the highest
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stage of capitalist development and therefore its inal phase. It will be necessary for the working class, with the vanguard party at the forefront, to make many tactical moves to overthrow the capitalists, the imperialists, but we should never lose that socialist horizon or postpone it indeinitely. We believe that overall relations production, not the temporary ones, the prevailing production relations at the level of the concentrated means of production in a country, are what determine its capitalist or socialist character. We also believe that the capitalist relations of production may remain for some time in the socialist countries ater the Revolution, until they have a residual character and disappear. We also know, from past experiences, that the socialist relations of production can be reversed by the inluence of several factors, leading to full restoration of capitalist relations. Our movement knows this fact well. We analyze many elements that afect today’s struggle of the working class and peoples of the world, always looking to place our class in the best conditions for the overthrow of capitalism. To do this we consider very necessary to know the positions of the other fraternal parties, comparing our experiences and learning from victories and mistakes of all without leaving our MarxistLeninist principles. We openly declare our intentions: We want a strong and cohesive international communist movement, in order to discuss and also for action, who helps each Workers’ and Communist Party to get closer to the strategic goal and help it not to lose sight of that goal however hard the condi-
tions each one of us have in our respective ields. We want an international communist movement which is ideologically uniied under Marxis,-Leninism who learns from the ideological disputes of the past and how they were resolved, which is a veritable fortress against attempted penetration of the ideology of our class enemy, especially social democracy whose historical mission has been amply demonstrated. We want an International Communist Movement that has enough maturity to recognize the diiculties, addressing them in the most appropriate way and overcoming them without camoulage or denial. We want to discuss on which lags the working class has to raise in each moment and whether some of those lags help us move towards socialism or not. We want to know how is the Socialism that the fraternal parties have in mind and how to address the partial struggles and political alliances. We want to understand why some fraternal parties act as if imperialism was only the aggressive foreign policy of a single power and not a much larger and with many more facets phenomenon. We want to understand why the rise of new imperialist powers should be applauded by the Communist and Workers’ Parties, and not taken as an opportunity to develop more strongly our revolutionary program. We want to expand our information on the state of the relations of production in each fraternal country, every country represented here, we would like to share our data for
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more accurate analysis.
stant readiness to discuss on these and any other matters of interest.
We believe the IMCWP can move in this direction, we consider it absolutely necessary. Because without a coordinated position of the Communists it is not possible to adequately develop relations with other non-Communist forces, who do coordinate themselves. Because excessive insistence on the particular conditions of each of us can lead us to the denial of the general conditions for the revolution, which do exist and inluence our struggle. Because we should maintain a uniied position on social democracy and its intention to engage Communists in their governments, in order to justify in face of the working masses their policies in favour of the concentration and centralization of capital and monopolies. Because participation in the management of capitalist governments has never proved to be useful for achieving socialism.
Comrades, the PCPE deeply respects all parties present here, and most especially our brothers in Latin America. We respect the independence and long history of struggle represented by all of you; we understand the diiculties that we all go through, as they also afect us; we defend and will always defend your essential and irreplaceable role in the struggle for the inal liberation of the workers and peoples, and react as quickly as possible in face of the attacks that all fraternal parties may sufer. We have done this in the past and will continue to do so, even harder, in the future. Hasta la victoria siempre! Long live Marxism-Leninism! Long live proletarian internationalism! Long live the Communist Party of Ecuador! Long live the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties!
Becausw the defense of the interests of one or another imperialist power can only lead the working class to be used as cannon fodder by the bourgeoisie and their governments, and the communist movement to a bankruptcy similar to the one experienced on the eve of the First World War. Because we’re seeing around us how old opportunist positions are reissued under new labels and we do not want the working class to be deceived and led to dead ends once again. All these elements, comrades, are the ones that we wanted to express this 16th edition of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, together with our con-
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جديد أساليب النضال مواجهة اإمريالية كلمة الرفيق حنن مر اأمن العام للحزب الشيوعي السوري اموحد ي اللقاء الـ 16لأحزاب الشيوعية والعمالية العامية ي .اأكوادور ..أيها الرفاق باسم احزب الشيوعي السوري اموحد الذي احتفل منذ أيام بالذكرى التسعن لتأسيسه ،أوجه التحية إى ميع اأحزاب الشيوعية والعمالية امشاركة ي هذا اللقاء اأمي ،وأشكر احزب الشيوعي اأكوادوري على استضافته للقائنا السادس عشر ،وعلى جهوده امبذولة إجاحه . إن اجتماعاتنا تعر عن وحدة توجهنا الفكري والسياسي امشرك، امناهض لإمريالية ولكل أشكال اهيمنة وااستغال وااستعمار .والفاشية أيها الرفاق قال ماركس ي عام ( :1848علينا أن نطور للعام مفاهيم (.جديدة انطاقاً من معتقداته القدمة هذا هو جوهر اماركسية حسب اعتقادنا ،وهذا ما علينا القيام به، فاإمريالية تبتدع أشكااً جديدة لزيادة استغاها للطبقة العاملة والدول النامية ،فلم تعد اهيمنة الكولونيالية هي الشكل الوحيد، بل اخرعت أدوات جديدة أرهقت الطبقة العاملة اأمريكية .والعامية وشعوب البلدان النامية ي آسيا وإفريقيا وأمريكا الاتينية إها تعتمد اليوم على ااحتكارات الكرى والشركات امتعددة اجنسية ،وبضعة مصارف كرى ،وعلى مؤسسات دولية توجه .سياساها كالبنك الدوي ومنظمة التجارة العامية فتحت غطاء النصائح ،وامساعدات امالية وااقتصادية ،تُص ّدر ْ اإمريالية اأمريكية وأدوا ُها براجَها ااقتصادية إى البلدان النامية، لربطها منظومة ااقتصاد العامي الذي يوجهه القطب اأمريكي، فيراجع إثر ذلك دور الدولة الرعائي للطبقات الفقرة وامتوسطة، وحّرر التجارة اخارجية ،وتغزوها الشركات امتعددة اجنسية ُ لتشغيل مواردها ااقتصادية ،والطبقة العاملة فيها ،والنساء بأجور .منخفضة ،وتقضي على قطاعاها امنتجة هذا هو جوهر توافق واشنطن الذي صاغته الوايات امتحدة بالتعاون مع امؤسسات امالية الدولية ،واموجه إى الدول النامية.. إن 500شركة عابرة للقارات تسيطر اليوم على ثلثي التجارة العامية ،وتستخدم امصارف اأمريكية الكرى ،وأسواق امال، وشركات السمسرة أكثر الوسائل خداعاً لزيادة أرباحها على .حساب شعوب العام ،وتقوم بإدارة تداوات ي اأسواق العامية
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إن معركة التحرر الوطي هي ي جوهرها معركة طبقية ،والنضال ضد اإمريالية وااستعمار هو نضال طبقي مهد الطريق حو .ااشراكية إن التحالفات الوطنية ذات اأفق ااجتماعي وااقتصادي التقدمي ،وخاصة تلك الي تساعد على قيام الدولة امركزية الي تأخذ على عاتقها إحداث التنمية ااقتصادية وااجتماعية ،تعد من أهم الروافع لوضع امقدمات الضرورية للتحول ااجتماعي .باجاه آفاق ااشراكية وبالطبع ليست كل التحالفات تستطيع أداء كل هذه امهمات، فابد أن يتوفر ي هذه التحالفات الطابع الدمقراطي الذي يساعد على جنب الفساد والبروقراطية وتغلغل النفوذ اإمرياي امتعدد اأشكال ،وجند أوسع اجماهر حماية التحوات التقدمية.. وبالطبع إن تزايد قوة الشيوعين ي هذا التحالف ،يشكل ضمانة .قوية لإسراع ي هذه التحوات ومايتها أيها الرفاق أتينا من سورية ،البلد العري الذي يواجه اليوم أشرس غزو إرهاي مهدت له وساندته مالياً وعسكرياً ولوجستياً الوايات امتحدة، ّ حن لتارخها ااستعماري، الي الكرى بية ر اأو البلدان وبعض ّ والرجعية التكفرية العربية اممثلة بالسعودية ودول خليجية أخرى، بقيادة أردوغان الذي حلم بإمراطورية إسامية متشددة على .أنقاض الدولة العثمانية البائدة ومن أهم العوامل اأخرى هذا الغزو وقوف سورية بقوة إى جانب امقاومة الوطنية الفلسطينية واللبنانية ،وإى جانب الشعب الفلسطيي إقامة دولته الوطنية امستقلة وعاصمتها القدس . لقد استغلت اإمريالية اأمريكية وحلفاؤها ،بالتعاون مع الرجعية احلية ،التظاهرات السلمية الي خرجت حت شعار اإصاح، وحقيق مطالب سياسية واجتماعية مشروعة ،فتاشت امطالبات السلمية ،ودخلت الباد تنظيمات مسلحة مدعومة من تركيا ودول اخليج ،واستعانت بإرهابين من مانن دولة ،أبرزهم إرهابيو (القاعدة) امتطرفون الذين يك ّفرون أي دين أو طائفة ،وبدؤوا اخرة من بتهدم كل ما بنته الطبقة العاملة السورية واأيدي ّ منشآت ومرافق وبنية حتية وجمعات صناعية وزراعية ،وزرعوا القنابل اموقوتة والعبوات الناسفة ي الطرق ،وأزهقوا أرواح وهجروا العائات ،حى وصل عدد الضحايا إى أكثر السورينّ ، .من 100ألف مواطن مدي وعسكري ،عدا اجرحى وامصابن لقد تسببت امعارضة امسلحة والتنظيمات اإرهابية (القاعدية) كداعش والنصرة وشركائهما بأضرار كبرة ي البنية التحتية وامشاي ،والقطاعات اإنتاجية الصناعية ،والنشاط الزراعي ..لقد أحرقت امصانع ،وباعت بعضها إى تركيا ،وهدمت امناطق
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الريعية بأرقام تعادل 4أضعاف الناتج العامي السنوي البالغ حو 55تريليون دوار إن ما ذكرناه ا يعي خلي اإمريالية عن أدواها العسكرية ،فاجمع موله ااحتكارات الكرى الصناعي العسكري اأمريكي الذي ّ يتدخل ي كثر من اأحيان خدمة اهدف النهائي ،وهو اهيمنة .وفرض التبعية لذلك علينا أيها الرفاق أن نطور حن أيضاً أشكااً جديدة مواجهة سياسات اإمريالية من جهة ،وضغوطها ااقتصادية والعسكرية من جهة ثانية ،خاصة بعد أن استطاعت دول نامية كرى وروسيا والصن تشكيل جموعة اقتصادية سياسية كرى (الريكس) تساهم بنحو ثلث الناتج العامي ،وتعمل لنزع تفرد القطب اأمريكي ي .توجيه السياسة وااقتصاد العامين أيها الرفاق إن احاجة تشتد أكثر فأكثر إى وجود اأحزاب الشيوعية والعمالية ونضااها ..صحيح أن اإمريالية تتعرض هزات اقتصادية كرى، كانت آخرها اأزمة ااقتصادية ي خريف 2008لكنها ،وهذا السبب ،حاول توريط شعوب العام بأزماها ،وتضع العام على حافة ااهيار ااقتصادي ،الذي يعود كما نعلم إى اشتداد النزعة العدوانية ..ودفع العام إى حروب جديدة تدفع الشعوب من .نتائجها الفظيعة وحن نرى أن احاجة إى وجودنا ترافق مع ضرورة جديد إرثنا الفكري النابع من اماركسية -اللينينية وتطويره ،وأن نوائم بن هذا اإرث ،الذي تثبت اأحداث أنه مازال اأقدر على تفسر الظواهر ااجتماعية ،وإجاد السبل إقامة اأنظمة ااشراكية ،ومتطلبات العصر احاي الذي يتسم بسمات جديدة تفرض التجديد ..والتطوير إننا مع البحث والدراسة الدائمن لتطوير اماركسية اللينينية وفق ما تفرضه احياة وواقع كل بلد ،بعيداً عن اجمود العقائدي ،ودون مود فكري يؤدي إى التمسك بالصيغ اجاهزة ،ودون تطرف ي ااجاه امعاكس أيضاً ،اجاه الليرالية الي تفقدنا أمى ما ي إرثنا (.الفكري والعلمي ،وهي (الثورية الشيوعيون وسياسة التحالفات تدور نقاشات ي أوساط الشيوعين حول سياسة التحالفات مع اأحزاب الوطنية الي ا تتبى ااشراكية العلمية ،وحن نرى أنه ي بلدان العام الثالث الي مر مرحلة التحرر الوطي ،والي م ُح ّل فيها مشكلة ااحتال والسيطرة اإمريالية بعد ،من الضروري أن يتعاون الشيوعيون مع القوى الوطنية ،وأن تُش ّكل جبهات وطنية تضم حى بعض القطاعات من الرأمال امنتج الوطي ،أنه عر النضال الوطي .تتحقق أكر امكاسب للنضال الطبقي
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!إن شعبنا حاجة إى تضامنكم ،للوقوف ي وجه اإرهاب !عاشت اأحزاب الشيوعية والعمالية !!عاش التضامن اأمي بن أحزابنا وشعوبنا !عاشت الشيوعية
الصناعية ،وأحرقت احاصيل الزراعية ..واحتلت بعض آبار النفط السوري وتتاجر به ي اأسواق الي تديرها الشركات اأمريكية واأوربية ،وتقتل عمال امصانع وامرافق احيوية واخرات الطبية واهندسية امرموقة وحسب تقديرات غر منتهية ،تبلغ خسارة ااقتصاد السوري بسبب تداعيات اأزمة السورية حو 300مليار دوار ،وحن نعتقد أن هذا الرقم سرتفع ،إذ يصعب اليوم إحصاء ميع .اأضرار لقد أيّدنا ي البداية مطالب اإصاح السياسية وااجتماعية، وطالبنا بإصاح النظام السياسي باجاه التعددية والدمقراطية، وحل مشكات الفئات الفقرة وامتوسطة امعيشية ،وبعد أن حولت اأزمة السورية إى أزمة إقليمية ودولية بسبب غزو اإرهاب العامي ،وقفنا إى جانب اجيش العري السوري ،والشعب السوري ،ي مواجهة اجموعات اإرهابية ،معترين أن امهمة اأساسية أمام ميع القوى السياسية هي مكافحة اإرهاب، وحاصرة مراجعه الدينية امتطرفة ،وي الوقت ذاته تأييد اجهود الدولية والداخلية إجاد حل سياسي لأزمة السورية ،وحقيق .امطالب الشعبية لقد أيّدنا امبادئ الي قامت عليها اجتماعات جنيف 1وطالبنا بااستجابة لدعوات حضور جنيف 2،لكن امعارضة اخارجية امرتبطة باإرهابين أجهضت حاوات إجاد احل السلمي، وندعو اليوم ميع الدول وشعوب العام وحركات التحرر العامي إى اانضمام للجهود الدولية امبذولة من أجل حل اأزمة السورية بالطرق السياسية ،وندعو ي الوقت ذاته إى مساعدة السورين ي مواجهة اإرهاب الدوي الذي مثله (داعش) و(النصرة) ،وبقية امنظمات اإرهابية امدعومة من اإمريالية اأمريكية وحلفائها ،ونرى أن انتصار سورية وشعبها ي هذه .امواجهة هو انتصار حركة التحرر الوطي العامية إن توحيد كلمة السورين الوطنين ،وعقد احوار الوطي الشامل الذي يضم القوى السياسية الوطنية ومثلي اجتمع السوري وأطيافه الدينية واإثنية ،والتوافق على مستقبل سورية الدمقراطي والعلماي ..امعادي لإمريالية والصهيونية والرجعية ،هو امدخل السياسي حل اأزمة السورية ،وهذا ما نطالب به ونسعى إليه ي .نضالنا اليوم الشعب السوري نزف دماءً كثرة ،وآن أن تتوقف منابع الدعم لإرهابين ،وتتحول مهمة القضاء على اإرهاب إى واجب اجتمع الدوي بأسره ،وليس التحالف الذي تقوده الوايات امتحدة ،راعية اإرهاب العامي ،الي تستخدمه أداة لتهدم (.كيانات الدول اممانعة هيمنتها وغطرسة شريكتها (إسرائيل
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COMMUNIST PARTY USA DEE MILES
We would like to extend greetings to the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties from the Communist Party USA, and we would like to thank our hosts, the Ecuadorian party, for having us all here in Ecuador. We agree that the greatest threat in the world today is imperialism, particularly US imperialism. We would like to salute those countries and movements that have struggled forward and made progress toward realizing great advancements in democracy and even socialism, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, and Cuba, in the face of intervention and threats of intervention looming large by US imperialism. We would like to share with you the thinking of our Party on the path ahead, especially as it relates to the ight for social progress in our country, but also as it relates to our joining with the international community in tackling the dangers caused by US imperialism in the world today. In spite of the November 2014 election results, in the recent period in the US there has been progress of great signiicance in a direction that favors the advancement of democracy in our country. The recent climate march of hundreds of thousands in NYC, the struggle against police brutality and the militarization of the police ignited most recently in Ferguson, MO but also sweeping across the nation, and the increased activity of organized labor in defense of the interest of the US working class in particular, the broad masses of the US people in general, and even genuine international solidarity, are all just a few examples of social activity in a direction on which we have to build. In some areas, even results from the election reveal successful struggles against the domination of big money in several communities throughout the country. One example is the successful
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passage of initiatives in several states concerning increasing the minimum wage in spite of the eforts of big money to defeat such initiatives. The conditions of the US working class are not that of unlimited aluence as the ruling class of the US would have the rest of the world believe. The rate of poverty is growing, with 5.5 million more people falling into the ranks of poverty since 2008, and the median household income is declining, by 4.6 % since 2008. Working class real income adjusted for inlation has not risen signiicantly in 46 years. Yet, corporate proits are higher and the tax rate on corporations is lower than since the early 1930s when Hoover was president. The implementation within the US of neo-liberal policies, policies of austerity, promotes privatization, deregulation, and international trade agreements (the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA; the Central American Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA; the Transpaciic Partnership, TTP; and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP) that favor corporate interests and hurt the working class in the US and the working class globally. The insecurity of life for US workers is a real form of oppression which is a tangential efect of the process of capitalist exploitation. In the US, if you do not work, there is no long term safety net. The US working class is multiracial and multi national; the US working class is male and female, young and old. Every section of the US working class faces the oppression and exploitation of capitalism, but for some sections of the US working class the oppression and exploitation of capitalism are more severe. Racism, gender inequality, and low wages produce segments of the US working class that sufer multiple forms of exploitation and oppression. Low wages make it such that even when working full time, many work
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ers in the US remain in poverty. Organized labor in the US has mounted a campaign to organize low wage workers and to ight for an increase in the minimum wage to at least $15.00 per hour. The reality is an increase to $10.00 an hour would be a victory over a federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, which it is now. A big concern for many members of the US working class is immigration status. The ight for immigration reform including legal work permits and a just path to citizenship remains paramount. Our vision of the path ahead rests on the fundamental concepts of Marx and Lenin as well as others who have contributed to the development and advancement of democratic and socialist thinking and experience in the world as well as in the US. From the ight for independence against British rule, to the civil war against the slavocracy, to the struggle of labor to organize, to the ight for the rights of citizens as waged by the various oppressed peoples including African Americans, Latinos, Native peoples, and women, to the present ight to prevent the complete domination of every aspect of our lives by the extreme right, we see our struggle as being one of the ever broadening and ever deepening ight for the realization of advanced democracy including the struggle for the ratiication of socialist goals and ideals within the hearts of our people and our national Bill of Rights. We see the path ahead as being one of the continued greater deepening coalescing of the broadening movements of organized labor, the nationally and racially oppressed along with women, youth, seniors, and the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) communities. We see the path ahead as being one of ever expanding united
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action in support of labor’s right to organize, in support of raising the minimum wage, in support of union jobs or a guaranteed income, in support of the equality of the racially and nationally oppressed and against the relentless racism propagated by the US ruling class, in support of the equality of women and against the war on women in support of the quality of life for seniors, in support of the quality of life of children and youth, in support of full equality and the extension of marriage rights to the LGBTQ, in support of a democratized and demilitarized US foreign policy, and in support of the protection our environment through a massive movement against our domination by the fossil fuel industry in the irst place. As the Communist Party of the United States of America, we face this task square on. We struggle to orient our party toward strategies and tactics appropriate for the 21st century while holding dear the still applicable ideas and lessons of the great strides made in prior centuries. Darker days are ahead given the recent election results in the US. Our assessment is that the election results are NOT a product of the electorate in the US turning to the political right. No; instead the election results are a product of several factors at least. First is the negative campaign inluence of Big Money, which included hiding the truth about who they really are and what they truly stand for, unrelenting Obama bashing, and the overt and covert use of racist messaging. Second was massive and wide spread voter suppression which resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being denied the ability to vote. And, third was the nation wide redesigning of electoral districts to favor candidates from the political right. Though voter alienation and disengagement is of major concern, the
big revelation is that the fundamental right to vote is under assault in the US and disfranchisement is particularly a threat to the voting rights of the elderly, the young, the racially oppressed, and the poor. It would not be an exaggeration to say that indeed the voting rights of the US working class are under assault. Although the political right will claim the November 2014 elections prove they have a mandate, a closer analysis reveals there is no mandate from the masses of the people; there is only the mandate from big money. Given the election results, we can predict that US foreign policy will become even more warlike with the push for increased bombings, increased special operations, more troops on the ground, and increased authorized military force. Though the ight for the advancement of democracy in the US has sufered a setback in this election, the ight for the advancement of democracy has had and will continue to have an impact on US foreign policy. The more the movement for democracy is able to win advances, the more a less militaristic orientation can penetrate even US foreign policy. Our goal is a foreign policy that fully respects the sovereignty of nations, relies on diplomacy rather than saber rattling, and works against wars of imperialism as barbaric relics which threaten human existence. Our goal is a US foreign policy that seeks to work on the basis of equality with the rest of the world toward the advancement of the human condition and the protection of our world environment. We note with great concern that NATO is expanding. The expansion of NATO is not in the service of world peace or self-defense. NATO is an increasingly aggressive grouping which undermines real international collec
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tive mechanisms, such as the United Nations and its agencies. NATO is used as the military arm of neo-liberal trade pacts and the geopolitical interests of the most powerful imperialist states. Our goal is to end the expansion of NATO and eventually to achieve its complete abolition. Ater some progress, we see a fall of in the eforts for nuclear disarmament and obstruction by the political extreme right against any new initiatives. Recent events have increased tensions between nuclear armed states including the threatening behavior of NATO in response to the Ukraine crisis, and we condemn the irresponsible acts committed by US imperialism and NATO. We are in favor of even earlier dates for the negotiation of benchmarks for nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament to be adhered to by all nuclear armed states. In addition to the danger to all of our futures including that of the planet, the money spent on nuclear weapons is a tremendous waste which should be dedicated to improving the living standards of all the peoples of the world.
In conclusion, we would like to extend our congratulations to Cuba on once again attaining an overwhelming vote in the United Nations to end the US imposed blockade. More and more our voice is being joined by the voices of others within the US calling for an end to the inhumane blockade against Cuba and to free the Cuban 5. We are resolute in our commitment to the international project of constructing a world where the exploitation of human being by human being is ended, and we can all lourish in the warm sunshine of our socialist futures. Taking advantage of the new technological developments, we would like to increase our relationships with our fraternal parties. On behalf of the CPUSA, I thank you for the opportunity to speak to you for these few minutes. WE SHALL OVERCOME!!!
In conclusion, we would like to extend our congratulations to Cuba on once again attaining an overwhelming vote in the United Nations to end the US imposed blockade. More and more our voice is being joined by the voices of others within the US calling for an end to the inhumane blockade against Cuba and to free the Cuban 5. We are resolute in our commitment to the international project of constructing a world where the exploitation of human being by human being is ended, and we can all lourish in the warm sunshine of our socialist futures. Taking advantage of the new technological developments, we would like to increase our relationships with our fraternal parties. On behalf of the CPUSA, I thank you for the opportunity to speak to
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM
Dear comrades, First of all, I would like to convey to all of you the warmest greetings and fraternal solidarity from Communist Party of Vietnam and sincerely thank our host-Ecuadorean comrades, for hospitality and outmost contributions in organizing this important meeting. We have prepared a written speech in English for distribution. Due to limitted time, I shall focuse in brieing you on socialist construction in Vietnam.
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Ater the liberation and reunication of the country in 1975, Vietnam had to go through another nearly two decades of hardship due to US embargo and sabotage, the struggle against Khme Rough and conlict with China. We faced very severe socio-economic crisis in the middle of 80’s, people living condittions were in very bad shape. Apart due to the above mentioned objective factors and heavy legacy of wars, the crisis was caused also by our subjective mistake in the way of pursuing socialist objective in Vietnam at that time. The major mistake was that we over socialied productive relations beyond the existing level of productive forces which was very low in Vietnam. We nationalized and collectivised almost all production and services, including those with no conditions and neccesity for socialized labor. For example, agriculture production was mainly manual, not mechanized, but we organized peasants into very big cooperatives. And as result, productivity was very low. For maintaining sosial wealth fares, we subsidised beyond our capacity of production and let no resource for development. As a result, we could not improve people living conditions. The main features of the renewal policy iniatiated by our Party in 1986 is to bring the productive relations to conform the actual level of development of productive forces
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and the application of market mechanism with socialist orientation. What are the main characteristics of sosialist orientation of market economy in Vietnam? First of all it is the economy aiming at creating materialistic-economic infrastructure for building socialism and improving people’s living conditions, the economy targeting a set of integrated comprehensive development objectives, including economic, social and environmental, not simply or mainly for proit or economic growth;
should go along with poverty reduction and adequate improvement of people’s living conditions as prioritized objective. I have explained about this in more details in the paper that we distributed here yesterday.
Secondly, it is therefore the market operating under the regulation by the socialist state to minimized negative aspects and to direct market activities towards achiving set objectives; market functioning combined with macro planning for thiis purpose; resources are distributed not only through market but also through national and public and community’s programes for achieving comprehensive development objectives;
The implementation of the Renewal policies during the past 28 years has not only helped us to overcome the long-lasting stagnation in the 70s, 80s and the severe social-economic crisis in the middle of the 80s but also brought many important positive changes in Vietnam: per capita GDP increased by 13 times, Vietnam soon became food self-suicient and then a leading world exporter of various agricultural products, industrialization has been accelerated, education and health care expanded, poverty has been reduced from 75% of population to 8%, average life expectancy of the population increased from 62 years in 1990 to 73 years in 2012.
Thirdly, it is the market where the state sector plays a key role of in the national economy; state monopolises areas related to defense and security, state sector dominates in areas that are essential to macro economy such as energy, communication, inance, heavy industry, aviation, railways and public transportation, etc.; state sector plays an active role in areas that afects interects of large population such as agriculture, light industry, construction, pharmacy, etc. Land and natural resources belong to all-people’s ownership under state management. Productive relation is progressing in accordance with the level of development of productive forces.
Nevertheless, we understand that we do not have yet socialism in Vietnam, we are still in the process of building it. During this transitional period, socialist factors and capitalist ones, including productive relations, exist together in the society, competing and struggling with each other. Socialist oriented development means process of gradual and continuous strengthening and consolidation of socialist factors to become prevailing and at certain stage, irreversible in the society. The role of the Party and State is to use political power and mobilize people participation for consistent realisation of this objective.
Forthly, realization and promotion of social equality and progress on every step of economic development and every economic policy and project. Economic development
We do believe that while key socialist objective can be common, the road to socialism can be various based on concrete conditions of each country as well as surrounding situ
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ation at each historical period. There is no ready-made formula for all. The tasks, form of struggle are to be chosen by each party based on the concrete historical circumstances. The most important thing is that we should not lose the ultimate objectives and we should promote them in a consistent way. And we can share experience among us and learn from each other in order to strengthen our joint struggle for socialism.
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Dear comrades, Despite there are still a lot of limitation and faced challenges, the achievements of the Renewal process in Vietnam has shown that socialist construction can be not only economically efective but, more importantly, promote social development much better comparing to all other socio-economic models with similar level of development. Together with achievements of Cuba, China, Laos, DPRK, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and other countries in Latin America, it is an additional proves that the history did not end, that socialism is not only possible but also very much viable, that socialism is a good and necessary society for the people and is the only real alternative to the capitalism which is in crisis today. Long live socialism! Long live communist and workers solidarity and unity!
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PHILLIPINE COMMUNIST PARTY [PKP-1930] WRITTEN CONTRIBUTION
The Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP1930, the Philippine Communist Party) salutes the Partido Comunista del Ecuador for hosting this 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, and sends its warmest fraternal greetings to all participants of this historic meeting. This international meeting is very signiicant as it is being held amidst the complex international situation, when capitalism is mired in deeper and more acute contradictions, mainly the following: the sharper contradiction between the social nature of production and the private nature of the appropriation of the wealth produced, leading to wider social gaps between the working masses and the bourgeoisie ; the contradiction between the great advances in science and technology (resulting to over-production and the over-accumulation of capital), and the more massive levels of unemployment and the diversion of more productive forces towards the production of more devastating armaments ; - the contradiction between the concentration of wealth plundered by the few imperialist powers, and the poverty of millions of people in countries whose sovereign rights and territorial integrity are being denigrated, and whose development is impeded by subjecting them to re-colonization; - the contradiction between the drive for greater proits from the unsustainable extraction of natural resources, and the worsened degradation of the global environment ; - the growing contradiction and competition among the imperialist centers, with the
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weakening of the USA’s economic and inancial hegemony, the extended crises in member countries of European Union, and the continued stagnation of Japan ; the contradiction between the imperialist powers spearheaded by US imperialism, and the fast growing economies of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) which are similarly capitalist in nature ; and the continued contradiction between imperialism on the one hand, and the world revolutionary forces on the other hand (the remaining socialist countries, the working class movement in developed capitalist countries, and the national liberation movements in remaining colonies). Comrade V. I. Lenin described the threefold character of imperialism, namely: (1) monopoly capitalism, (2) parasitic capitalism, and (3) moribund capitalism. To prolong the capitalist system’s existence and to hold back its decay, as well as to satisfy its insatiable thirst for higher proits, imperialism is intensifying its ierce ofensive through the following : the harsh implementation of its economic policy dictates --- such as privatization, trade liberalization and business deregulation, even with the use of the debt trap and other inancial and trade pressures to break the resistance of recalcitrant countries attacks against labor and social rights everywhere, with the removal of the social welfare functions of governments ; ideological attacks, such as the absurd equating or lumping together of communists and fascists, the rewriting of history to erase mention of the great socialist advances since the Great October Socialist Revolution (GOSR), and the presenting of maoist and other ultralet terrorism as the alleged correct essence of communist advocacy ;
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the denigration of the concepts of national sovereignty, territorial integrity, the people’s right to self-determination, of democratic and other human rights --- through overt and covert interference to fuel ethnic and territorial conlicts, to balkanize countries, to organize coups, to cause “regime change”, and to install despotic puppet regimes ; the forging of military defense agreements with countries under the imperialist sphere of inluence, the installing of more military bases around the globe, and the open violation of international law and of the role of the United Nations through unilateral and direct military invasion and interference as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Such invasions and interference are even justiied under the aims of “ighting terrorism”, “dismantling weapons of mass destruction”, “saving failed states”, etc. The imperialist ofensive did not in any way solve the capitalist crisis, but only worsened it. The deepening or worsening of the systemic crisis of capitalism means the maturing and ripening of the objective condition for the revolutionary advance to socialism, in the context of the present epoch ushered in by the GOSR. The working class, as the “grave-digger” of capitalism, has the power to reverse today’s situation and undertake the revolutionary advance to socialism. But for the working class to become conscious of its mission, and to shape a revolutionary strategy for the implacable class struggle against the bourgeoisie, the strengthening of its revolutionary party is necessary. The revolutionary party must be able to perform its role as vanguard of the working class struggle. The PKP-1930 believes that although the
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subjective factor for revolutionary transformation is lagging behind the maturing material conditions, and the balance of forces is less favourable than during the strong existence of the USSR and the socialist community, the forces and schemes of imperialism and reaction are not insurmountable. The whole capitalist system is constantly in crisis, and the multifarious struggles of the peoples around the globe are constantly chiselling at the strength of imperialism, and frustrating the insatiable desire of imperialism for more resources, superproits and power. The PKP-1930 retains the view that the main currents of the world revolutionary process are the remaining socialist countries, the international working class movement, the remaining national liberation movements, and the broad movement of developing countries struggling against neo-liberal globalization. The socialist path or orientation blazed by the GOSR remains rooted in Cuba, Venezuela, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Belarus, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and other members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the People’s Republic of China, and even in Cyprus. Communist and workers’ parties loyal to the behest of the GOSR also have substantial inluence in such largely developed countries as India, Brazil, South Africa, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Russia. This general situation gives the PKP-1930 greater conidence that socialism not only truly remains the future and salvation of humanity, but also that socialist advances in diferent parts of the world are not too distant.
Of great signiicance in the struggle for socialism is exempliied by Cuba. Cuba remains a prime example of successfully maintaining socialism despite economic sabotage, sanctions, invasion threats and assassination plots by US imperialism. With Cuba’s example, a new integration of economies along socialist lines is being forged in Latin America. The advancements of the ongoing processes of cooperation and sovereign integration in Latin America --- such as the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) --- conirm the favorable balance of forces in that continent. The bold examples of Cuba, Venezuela and other ALBA countries in resisting imperialism are proving to be a beacon for many peoples and governments. The PKP-1930 notes the heightened militancy of the working masses in developed capitalist countries --- in defense of labor, social and democratic rights, and of sovereignty. Examples of this are the big strikes and mobilizations in Greece, Spain and other European countries against the brutal anti-social ofensive of the European Union. There are also important struggles against war and monopoly capital in the USA and the UK. The Communist Parties in their respective countries play important roles in the process of raising the class consciousness of their peoples and also worldwide. The PKP-1930 salutes the continuing resistance of the Palestinian and other Arab peoples against the intensiied imperialist and zionist oppression being done through direct and indirect military aggression, the fragmentation of Arab countries, the imposition of new puppet regimes, and the promotion of reactionary religious forces of a
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every efort to help forge the unity of the International Communist Movement.
Further, the PKP-1930 notes the growing prestige and clout of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) which together account for half of the world’s population, investments and productive capacity. The cooperation and integration of their economies, and their growing detachment from ties with the USA and other NATO countries, is leading to the creation of a new (although still capitalist) counterpoise to USNATO imperialism. The PKP-1930 stands for the international projection of the need to overthrow (and not to “reform”) capitalism, as the unifying platform for all progressive and let forces; and for the projection of the class nature of the international struggle against imperialism and reaction. Working class interests remain the basis for unity in the anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles in all parts of the world. As the PKP-1930 celebrated last November 7, 2014, the 84th anniversary of its public launching and the 97th anniversary of the GOSR, it reiterated the vow to remain proud of its working class roots, its history of struggle, and its loyalty to the ideology of MarxismLeninism. Given the neo-colonial situation of the Philippines and the under-development of its productive forces (primarily the country’s industrial base), the PKP-1930 will continue to pursue the struggle for national democracy as the transitional stage to socialism. The PKP-1930 places great importance to continued adherence to Marxism-Leninism, and to the principle of proletarian internationalism, in our present struggles against capitalist exploitation and imperialist aggressions, towards the building of socialist society. In this regard, the PKP-1930 will exert
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF ISRAEL
Dear comrades, The Communist Party of Israel salutes all the parties and comrades that take part in the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties. Unfortunately, our party could not attend that meeting, but needless to say we unequivocally endorse the intentions and goals of the meeting, and send our warm greetings to all participants. The CPI would also like to re-emphasize its commitment to the struggle against imperialism, against capitalism, against Zionism and against fundamentalist terrorism that sweeps the Middle East under the auspices of US and EU imperialism and at its service. That pro-imperialist ofense by ISIS and alike also serves the Zionist interests in pursuing the occupation of Palestinian territories and in politically marginalizing the ongoing brutal crime of that occupation. The CPI calls on all participants at this honorable meeting to raise a clear and strong voice against the latest atrocities the Israel inlicted on Gaza, and to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people, particularly with the people of Gaza. For democracy! For justice! For socialism and freedom for the peoples and for the workers of the world! Comradely regards, Mohammed Nafa’h Secretary General of CPI
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COMMON & CONVERENT ACTIONS GUIDELINES 1.- To honor May 1st, through participation in the struggles of the working class in every country from manpower, social and democratic workers’ rights, highlighting the role of the workers’ movement class, that is to say of the WFTU commemorating its 70th anniversary in October 2015. 2. - To report hegemonic imperialist plans, the real reasons behind the war and the manipulation of the so-called ight against terrorism, emphasizing in the importance for the pursuit of peace. Develop actions against the NATO military bases and the ones that imperialism has imposed in many countries, against interventions and militarism, with a special focus on the huge exercise of the NATO “Trident Situation 2015”. 3.- To step up the ight against the imperialist wars in Iraq and Syria and the one made by the criminal groups supported by imperialism and reactionary states against Lebanon, Lybia and Tunisia. To condemn the US, NATO and the EU imperialist intervention in Ukraine and Africa. 4.- To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nazi’s fascism, highlighting the role of the USRR and the Communist Parties in the struggle and unity against the fascism and the Nazism, and to develop the struggle against the reactionary rewriting of history and the laundering of fascism and Nazism. 5.- To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Vietnams’ Victory in their liberation against imperialist aggression of the United States.
6.- To report and ight against laws and legal provisions of the anti-communist harassment. To develop solidarity actions with the parties that face anti-communist attacks, prohibitions and persecutions, such as the one with the Ukrainian communists. 7.- To strengthen solidarity in the common actions to support the people and their fellows who are at the Forefront for the resistance against the imperialist ofensive. Fortalecer la solidaridad y la acción común de apoyo hacia los pueblos y los compañeros que están en la vanguardia de la resistencia contra la ofensiva imperialista. With the occasion of November 29thwith Palestinian people. To facilitate a solidary visit to Palestine WG, opened to all members of the Solidnet list. 8.- To reinforce solidarity with the Communists Parties, workers and with the people in the struggle for national and social emancipation that releases in Latin America and in another parts of the world. To airm the peoples’ rights for sovereignty, ighting against the capital impositions, and imperialist interferences and aggressions. To reafirm solidarity with the people’s struggle to get socialism in diferent countries. 9.- To strengthen solidarity with Socialist Cuba with the purpose of ending the US blockade, for the abolition of the common position of the EU and for repelling the imperialist interventions and wars waged by the bourgeois media. To intensify the activity for the liberalization of the three Cubans that are in jail in the US, and to support the international campaign that culminates in
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in September, 2015. 10.- To support and to strengthen international anti-imperialist mass organizations, the Federation of Trade Unions (WTFU), the World Peace Congress (WPC), the Women International Democratic Federation (WIDF), highlighting their role and the importance of the respective anniversaries that will be commemorated in 2015. 11.- To instruct the Working Group to start making relection in coordination with the parties of the former Soviet Union, about the commemoration and common actions with the occasion of the centenary of the Socialist Revolution, reinforce solidarity
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PRESS RELEASES By the Communist Party of Equador On November 13th, 14th and 15th in Guayaquil, Ecuador it was held the XVI International Meeting of Communist and workers’ parties with the theme of “The role of the Communists and workers’ parties in the struggle against the imperialist and capitalist exploitation that causes crisis, wars, and at the same time increases the fascists and reactionary forces. For the ight in order to have workers and people’s rights, for national and social emancipation, for the socialism.” We count with the participation of 53 parties from 44 diferent countries, which means with the presence of 85 delegates; also we received salutations from other parties that because of various reasons were not able to attend to this important meeting. During the meeting some themes were analyzed, such as the efects of theintensify capitalist and imperialist exploitation that nowadays is one of the causes of the generation of regional conlicts, a new world conlagration and the revival of fascist and neo-fascists tendencies, through which the oligarchies and the imperialist powers that try to seek the unfair world order. The participants also discussed the people’s response and the role of the communist and workers’ parties leader during this period. The meeting notes that the neo-liberal process that have been tried to be imposed to the people is unsustainable and that it gets worst with the geological and alimentary crisis, which is producing in today’s world a
deep and complex change that is causing an increase of new actors in the international relations background, creating evidence of the loss of the inluences of the traditional powers. Each time, with more strength, the imperialist aggression is expressed by the execution of conventional wars, in diferent parts of the world. The imperil designs set new geopolitical areas that let them have more control of the natural resources of the so called “Third World” and of the international trade routes. Therefore, we are witnessing an offensive action to prevent that multipolar tendencies get consolidated. The meeting noticed that in the United States for restoring its unipolar hegemony they increase the use of military forces combined with media, political, ideological, and cultural and economics tools that generate conlicts. The outcome of this situation will depend, among other factors, of the communists, democratic, progressive and revolutionary forces capacity in the world in order to have a decisive participation in the political and ideological dispute supporting the social changes and for acquiring a new international order. It was reported that within this war Alliance and reactionary wave it is framed the neoliberal counter defense against Latin America and The Caribbean, whose principal objective is the elimination of progressive governments in the region that promotes social policies that defend sovereign inter
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ests , as well as a new type of economic, political and social integration. Also was identiied some subversive imperialist actions developed by interfered traditional tools, which range from the CIA to the USAID, with the participation of the national bourgeois sectors that are closely linked with the North American capital. The objective of this brazen subversive action is to establish a social destabilization for justifying frameworks which lead to progressives’ regimes changes through violent ways. During the meeting was informed the experience of progressive and revolutionary governments in Latin America, and the considerable progress son decreasing poverty, the Latin American and Caribbean integration, and the restoring of sovereignty that have caused a violent reaction from the national oligarchies, that have intensify their eforts on restoring their neoliberal projects in that part of the world. It was found that nowadays Latin America lives clear progressive experiences that came as a result from the aspirations and popular struggles in the region in order to defend national sovereignty, from the eforts for economic independence, of the strengthen of the State, trying to inish the neoliberalism and the creation of regional economic organisms and seeking independence and support from UNSAUR, MERCOSUR, SPUTH BANK, CELAC. This is a claim process, of ight against colonialism, of gaining resistance against economic extortion, and others. Mentioned experiences have made possible that the continent send new signals of hope on the search of social justice and that in fact it has become a politic referendum that supports the change through that world that is so much talked about.
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Particular reference was made of the almost unanimous international rejection to the economic, trade and inancial blockade against Cuba , policy that remains in force in opened violation against the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, increasing the harassment to commercial, inancial, and bank institutions related with Cuba, expanding it extra territorial character and also afecting to its closest allies. It was reported the continuous economic and inancial crisis that in Europe has been used as a justiication and that covered the elites powers of that imperial block for reinforcing the destruction of what was known as the social wealth. Along with the named iscal austerity measures (understood as deep cuts and total elimination of social interest programs) the European consortia have claimed for the achievement of an alleged competitive production as a way out of the crisis, which has led to layofs, insecurity in employment contracts and an accelerated erosion in the level of purchasing power of workers. Participants also condemned the European involvement in conlicts lead by NATO, using pretexts and concepts of “human security” and “protection responsibility” among others. It was noted that the crisis continues impacting the political forces of the region, deepening the decline in the political culture, reducing governability and raising social instability, elements that show the vulnerabilities of bourgeois liberal-democratic model. The voracity of European capitalism with the support of US imperialism seeks to develop a policy of coercive economic blackmail that
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aims to block the import and export markets, which have been called “sanctions” to the detriment of the people of those countries. However, in this diicult scenario neoliberal ideology advances, proliferating a boom of the ultra-reactionary forces, capturing large segments of the electorate forces. It was emphasized that NATO continues its pressures to continue expanding its borders especially towards the east of the European continent and its inovolvement in conlicts in their territory. Participants expressed their solidarity with the Ukrainian comrades who have directly faced the onslaught of neo fascism in their country. It was attempted on the life of many Communists who have been victims of violent attacks on their homes and the headquarters of the organization. It also continues the slaughter against the people of Donest and regions proclaimed their desire for political and territorial independence. The participants condemned the recent Zionist bombing against Gaza, part of the overall strategy towards the imperialism to the region. Its aim to break the unity of the Palestinian forces, destroy the resistance and maintain the policy of occupation on the occupied territories fully meets US interests. The reaction of the Palestinian resistance and pressure and international solidarity, forced Israel to stop genocide and commit to continue indirect negotiations. The geopolitical signiicance of the region becomes battleground in the alleged ight against terrorism in times which increases the need to secure the sea lanes as essential for the development of trade to guar-
antee national security of the major world powers item. The meeting analyzed the criminal mercenary bands organized by the CIA, the NATO, and permitted, encouraged and inanced by reactionary governments in the Middle East that continue killing men, women, children and indigenous people in massive form, that have brought a forced migration full of hunger, poverty, discrimination and without some hope for survival. The new situation in Iraq and Syria with the proclamation of the Islamic State, spawn of the United States, the West and a reactionary group of Arab countries, exceeds the national scope and are bound of foreign interests that make pressure to alter the regional geopolitical balance with a strategy that includes keeping the crisis in Syria to overthrow Bachar Al Assad, and to reconigure Iraq power and curb Iran’s regional inluence. The threat of the Islamic State has served the United States to justify actions that accommodate their regional interests. The proliferation of jihadi groups and the manipulation of the religious factor are part of the American game. The meeting highlighted that in sub-Saharan Africa, the inherited political, economic and social problems of colonialism and neocolonialism, combined with the efects of the current mega global crisis and the policy of imperialism, have caused instability, conlict and imperialist intervention. The natural wealth of the continent has become it in a strategic area for the imperialist interest. The struggle for markets and the inluential spheres have exacerbated the contradictions between the diferent imperialist powers to take the lead.
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The natural wealth of the continent has become it in a strategic area for the imperialist interest. The struggle for markets and the inluential spheres have exacerbated the contradictions between the diferent imperialist powers to take the lead. Eastern, Western and Central Africa confront Jihadist group activities, followers of Al-Qaeda and Boko Haram in Nigeria or Al Shabaab in Somalia. NATO countries use these realities as a justiication to increase its military presence on the continent. The scramble of the big capital is deepened by the enormous economic resources of this continent, which is classiied as one of the richest and poorest regions in the world. Facing harsh realities as the latest Ebola, that threats Western African countries. It was said that in Asia and the Paciic, the most dynamic economic area in the world, the Obama Administration has proclaimed the “political pivot” which is the re-launch of the US to the region they consider part of its national security strategy and also of its policy of containing China and Russia. In this context, the struggle of the communist parties to ensure continuity of socialist processes in China, Vietnam, Laos and the DPRK, in order to ensure its governance, stability and sovereignty, is particularly important for its internal impact and in the global politics. It was stressed that the turbulent international situation, marked by the systemic crisis of world imperialism, the increase in international armed conlicts in all corners of the planet and the development of neo fascist trends, demands of communist and workers’ parties and forces, progressive and revolutionary open debate, unprejudiced and inclusive debate, thus banish dogmatism and sectarianism organizations.
alities, alternative for socialist development, that people identify them as the way to solve their serious problems. This is top priority task not only of communist and workers’ parties, but also other political forces and social movements in the world. Only socialist proposals which create the basis for transforming reality of today’s world will be able to save humanity from the debacle of the war, uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources, and hazardous shoring of fascism that confuses and manipulates millions of people. The parties gathered in Guayaquil, said that the only viable alternative to capitalism is socialism, which means full independence, indispensable condition for development, social justice, equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, human solidarity, respect for the environment and the right of people to choose freely and democratically a drat of society they decide to have. Participants noted that the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties are vital for the world anti-imperialist, progressive and revolutionary movement in times of momentous decisions and deinitions for humanity. The science of Marxism-Leninism has gained worldwide recognition for its fundamental analysis of the social situation. And also for being a practical application tool for revolutionary transformations and open the road to socialism and communism. The only option to advance to new challenges and colossal imperial, transnational and global powers that are developing, will be unity in diversity creatively, solidarity between the forces of change and progress.
We must build overall and in line with our re-
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The only option to advance to new challenges and colossal imperial, transnational and global powers that are developing, will be unity in diversity creatively, solidarity between the forces of change and progress. The meeting approved 11 lines and initiatives of common or convergent action of Communist and Workers Parties to apply until the completion of EIPCO 17 and the mandate of meetings of the Working Group of Communist and Workers Parties (GT) for preparation.
By the Brazilian Communist Party A delegação do PCB ao 16º Encontro Mundial dos Partidos Comunistas participou, juntamente com diversas outras delegações, de uma coluna de centenas de militantes do PCE (Partido Comunista do Equador) e da JCE (Juventude Comunista do Equador) durante grande manifestação de massas, em Quayaquil, em memória do massacre de centenas de operários, em 15 de novembro de 1922, por ordem da oligarquia local em conluio com o imperialismo norte-americano. Inspirados na Revolução Russa (outubro de 1917) e organizados pela Federação Regional dos Trabalhadores de Quayaquil, fundada alguns anos antes, os trabalhadores deste centro industrial delagraram uma greve geral, que teve início com a paralização dos ferroviários de uma empresa norte-americana e se espalhou por várias categorias, sobretudo operárias. Faltou àquele movimento operário uma organização política revolucionária, mas criou as condições para a fundação, em 1926, do Partido Comunista do Equador. O movimento paralisou e assumiu o controle da cidade durante alguns dias, levando o governo oligárquico a afogar com sangue o nascente e promissor movimento operário, mobilizando as forças armadas e policiais para atacar violentamente uma concentração popular pacíica no centro da cidade. Foram assassinados a tiros mais de 300 trabalhadores, vestidos com seus uniformes de trabalho, todos desaparecidos, muitos deles jogados no Rio Guayas, que banha a cidade, após terem sido abertos seus abdomens com baionetas. A coluna dos comunistas equatorianos e de dezenas de outros países, com muitas bandeiras do PCE e da JCE, culminou sua participação no ato com uma combativa caminhada até o local do rio onde os corpos foram jogados. Entre discursos e palavras
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by AKEL The deliberations of the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties were concluded on Saturday 15th November in Guayaquil Ecuador. During the last day of the session, a programme of joint actions until the next meeting was unanimously adopted. At the centre of the joint activities agreed will be the coordination of the parties for the deepening of the struggle against the imperialist interventions that are shedding blood all over the world, particularly in the Middle East and Ukraine. In addition, the focus will also be on building up resistance to the imposition of reforms of an anti-social content, as well as to the downgrading of the overall living standards of working people.
experiences on developments in their countries, as well as on the objectives they have set. Special emphasis was attached to the liberation from the imperialist hegemony of the US in Latin America, to an exchange views on repulsing the neo-fascist and reactionary trends which are developing in Europe, and on the criminal “Islamic State” organisation in the Middle East. The Plenary of the International Meeting approved the accession of new members and redeined the next meeting to be held during the same period in the coming year. AKEL was represented by comrades Costas Christodoulides, Head of the International Relations and European Afairs Department and Vera Polycarpou, member of the C.C. of AKEL and International Relations Department.
Of the decisions taken for developing joint action, the multifaceted support of the parties for the greater strengthening of the role of the World Peace Council, World Federation of Trade Unions, the World Federation of Democratic Youth, the World Organisation of Democratic Women stand out. A proposal submitted by AKEL was approved for a solidarity visit by the Working Group of the International Meeting to struggling Palestine, over the next year, which is critical as ever for the freedom and independence of the country. Extensive references to the joint actions agreed will subsequently be publicised. Regarding solidarity towards the Cypriot people, 40 parties, so far, have signed the resolution tabled by AKEL which focuses on the 40 years of occupation of Cyprus, the violations of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Cyprus by Turkey and support to the struggle for a solution of the Cyprus problem. Within the context of the general debate, more than 50 parties submitted their own
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by the Communist Party of Greece The 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) was held on the 13-15 of November 2014 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with as its theme: “The role of Communist and Workers’ Parties in the struggle against imperialism and capitalist exploitation – which causes crises and wars and gives rise to fascist and reactionary forces. For workers’ and peoples’ rights and for national and social emancipation; for socialism”. 48 parties from 44 countries participated. In addition, many parties that for various reasons were not able to attend sent written interventions and messages. The participants honoured the 92nd anniversary of the general strike in Guayaquil, 15 November 1922, which was met by the bloody state repression of the army and police and led to the slaughter of thousands of striking workers. This event became known as “The crosses above the water”. During the work of the meeting, the representatives of the Communist and Workers’ parties denounced that today the murders, threats and intimidation against communists, trade unionists and cadres of the people’s movement are continuing in many countries all over the world. They also saluted the struggles of the workers all over the world. They expressed their solidarity with the communist and workers’ parties that operate in conditions of illegality, face state repression, anticommunist persecution and restrictions, as well as their solidarity with the working class and people of Ecuador, with the struggles of the working class, agricultural workers, farmers, youth and other popular strata all over Latin America for their rights, for socialism.
The participants conirmed their internationalist solidarity with Socialist Cuba and its people and made a commitment to escalate their activity for the end of the USA’s criminal embargo, the abolition of the EU’s Common Position and the vindication of the 5 Cubans with the release of all the Cuban patriots and their safe return to their country. They expressed their condemnation of the continuing imperialist threats and interventions against Venezuela and its people. They denounced the military presence of the USA, NATO and the EU in the region and demanded the removal of all foreign basesabove all the illegal base of the USA in Guantanamo. During the meeting, it was assessed that the exchange of information and experience from the struggle of the communist and workers’ parties is necessary and relevant, as well as the strengthening and improvement of the cooperation and joint and convergent activity, the reinforcement of proletarian internationalism, also utilizing the IMCWP process in this direction. There was a fruitful discussion in the meeting in relation to the development of the capitalist crisis, the realignments in the international imperialist system and the sharpening of the inter-imperialist contradictions and the dangers of wider imperialist wars and interventions, the course of the class struggle and the tasks that low from this for the communists. Representatives of parties stressed the fact that the international situation continues to be characterized by the ongoing crisis of capitalism in many regions of the globe. The conclusions of previous international meetings have been conirmed in relation to the nature
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and development of the crisis, that it is a crisis of over-production and capital over-accumulation which expresses the sharpening of capitalism’s contradictions, particularly its basic contradiction between the social character of production and its private appropriation. This underlines the historically obsolete character of the capitalist system. Realignments are being witnesses in the international imperialist system, with as the basic feature the retreat of the USA, EU, Japan and the advance of emerging capitalist powers. The competition and contradictions are sharpening especially in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Africa and the regions of the South Paciic. The intensifying imperialist aggressiveness and the deepening inter-imperialist contradictions multiply the war lashpoints as well as the dangers of generalized conlicts at a regional and international level, as the events in Ukraine, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East etc. demonstrate. The diiculties in the management of capitalism, particularly in the phase of the crisis, reinforce the aggressiveness of capital and its political representatives. Authoritarianism, state repression, anti-communism, bourgeois nationalism and chauvinism are strengthening. Democratic rights are being removed. The bourgeois political systems as a whole are becoming more reactionary, the maneuvers and attempts are strengthening in order to buttress the power of the monopolies. In this framework , to the extent that the revolutionary labour movement has not started its counterattack, fascist forces and tendencies are reemerging or strengthening and are being fully utilized by the imperialist powers. Many parties warned that the torments of the workers are not going to come to an end
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during the phase – anaemic as it appears- of capitalist growth which will follow the recession. The discussion and the confrontations regarding the “recovery” in the two major imperialist centres (USA and EU) have nothing to do with the situation of the working class and the popular masses but are related to increasing the proitability of capital. Regardless of the form of bourgeois management, the goal remains to increase the rate of proit through the intensiication of the level of exploitation and the greater concentration and centralization of capital. The necessity of strengthening the communist and workers’ parties above all and chiely in the workplaces, their independent intervention and the strengthening of the class-oriented labour movement was noted. The need for an even more decisive intervention in the working class and popular struggles for labour, social, democratic and sovereign rights, as well as for the increased organization of the working class, the promotion of its alliance with other popular strata, the special focus on the youth, women and immigrants. The need to intensify the ideological struggle against the bourgeois ideology was also noted, as well as to decisively deal with fascism which is created by the exploitative capitalist system and for the organized labour-people’s movement to isolate the fascist and reactionary parties. The discussion continued at the 16th International Meeting about the diferent strategic approaches that exist among the communist and workers parties concerning the struggle for socialism, the criteria and the direction of the alliance policy, their stance towards the regional inter-state capitalist unions, the direction of the communists’ political proposal and the character and role of
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working class power. Certain parties limit imperialism to the USA alone, and, as several CPs stressed, do not take into account the international imperialist system and its unions as a whole, as well as the multifaceted inter-imperialist contradictions and competition that provoke new interventions and wars in many regions of the world, bringing the danger of a more generalized imperialist war to the fore. The same is true concerning the position about a “multipolar world” that is extolled by certain parties, and which, as was noted, does not take the class essence of the capitalist states into account and especially of the powerful capitalist states that intervene in the international scene with the criterion of advancing the interests of their own monopolies and can not of course express the people’s interests. Certain parties also continue to maintain mistaken views regarding the real causes and the essence of the capitalist crisis, while the KKE and other parties spoke about the crisis of capital over-accumulation and overproduction that expresses the sharpening of the basic contradiction of capitalism. In addition, the KKE and a signiicant number of other parties demonstrated in their contributions that the talk about “neo-liberalism”, which is utilized in a mistaken way, limits its criticism to one of the two basic forms of management. The result of this is the exoneration of the social-democratic form of management, the anti-people class character of capitalism and the economic laws that permeate it. There was a particular discussion about the developments in Latin America, the “progressive governments”, the inter-state
unions that are being established. There were diferent positions on these issues regarding the class essence of the economic base, the role of the monopolies, the class character of the state and bourgeois power, the position that the capitalist states and their unions have in the international imperialist system etc. The notion of “progressivism” and the analysis that prettiies the character of the inter-state unions are vehicles for the promotion of the opportunist position that talks about the “humanization” of capitalism, which ends up promoting the utopian approach of allegedly democratizing the bourgeois state. This is also holds true of the socalled “21st Century Socialism”. The KKE and other parties assessed that the view held by some parties regarding an “intermediate stage” between capitalism and socialism is mistaken, because in this way the solution for the problems of the working class and the other popular strata, the satisfaction of the people’s needs is sought in vain on the terrain of capitalism. As was underlined, this has a negative impact on the struggle for socialism, on the struggle for working class power in order to resolve the basic contradiction between capital and labour. The consistent struggle for socialism, without stages, not only is not an obstacle to the daily battles for certain gains and the relief of the workers, but on the contrary reinforces it and protects it from dangerous illusions and strategies that aim to assimilate the movement inside the boundaries of capitalist barbarity. The KKE and other parties highlighted the need to confront social-democracy and strengthen the ideological-political front against opportunism. They stressed that only socialism, which is governed by laws and can not be confused with bourgeois electoral processes, is the real alternative response in favour of the workers who experience the
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by Palestinian Communist Party برئاسة اأمين العام للحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني الدكتور محمود سعادة عاد إلى أرض الوطن أمس وفد الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني بعد مشاركته في اللقاء اأممي السادس عشر الذي عقد في ااكوادور في الفترة الواقعة ما بين 13ـ ،2014 /15/11وكان محور الموضوع والنقاش“ :دور اأحزاب الشيوعية والعمالية في النضال ضد اإمبريالية وااستغال الرأسمالي ،المسبب لأزمات والحروب و لصعود القوى الفاشية والرجعية .و من أجل حقوق العمال والشعب في التحرر الوطني وااجتماعي وااشتراكية” .هذا و شارك في اللقاء 53حزبا من 49بلد .كما وأرسلت العديد من اأحزاب التي لم تتمكن لسبب أو آخر من الحضور رسائل ومداخات كتابية ،وقد كرم المجتمعون في مسيرة جماهيرة ذكرى مرور 92عاما على إضراب غواياكيل ،في 15تشرين الثاني/نوفمبر 1922الذي واجه قمع الدولة الدموي حين قيام الجيش والشرطة بمجزرة بحق آاف العمال المضربين التي أصبحت معروفة باسم”الصلبان فوق المياه” حيث تم القاء اكثر من 5000جثة في قلب نهر غواياكيل ،وقد شارك الوفد الفلسطيني بفعالية في اللقاء حيث عرض رؤية الحزب السياسية والفكرية على العديد من ااحزاب الصديقة ،وقد شرح وفد الحزب للعديد من ااحزاب المشاركة خطورة الوضع الفلسطيني في ظل التصعيد الصهيوني ااخير ضد أبناء شعبنا في القدس المحتلة ومحاولة ااحتال فرض اامر الواقع على المدينة المحتلة من خال سياسة التهويد والقمع بحق اهلنا في مدينة القدس ،وقد عبرت الوفود المشاركة عن تضامنها مع الشعب الفلسطيني في كفاحه من أجل نيل حريته واستعادة حقوقه المشروعة كاملة المتمثلة بحق عودة الاجئين الفلسطينيين للديار التي هجروا منها واقامة الدولة الفلسطينية كاملة السيادة واافراج الغير مشروط عن ااسرى وكما عبروا عن استنكارهم استمرار الحصار على قطاع غزة ،واكدوا على اهمية المصالحة الفلسطينة في ظل هذه الظروف لما لها من اثار سلبية على القضية .الفلسطينية وبعد انتهاء اعمال اللقاء ،عقد وفد الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني اجتماع خاصاً مطوا مع الرفاق في الحزب الشيوعي ااكوادوري الماركسي اللينيني ،حيث تركزت النقاشات على تطوير العاقات بين الحزبين الصديقين لما يجمعهما من قواسم مشتركة كثيرة ومن أهمها مواجهة التحريفية واانتهازية التي تعصف بالعديد من ااحزاب الشيوعية العالمية ،وقد عبر الرفاق في الحزب الشيوعي ااكوادوري الماركسي اللينيني عن دعمهم وموقفهم الثابت تجاه حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني واستنكروا ااعتداءات الصهيونية المتكررة ضد أبناء شعبنا ،وهذا وتم ااتفاق على مواصلة اللقاءات وتطويرها من أجل بناء أممية جديدة هدفها النهائي هو تطهير الحركة الشيوعية العالمية من التيارات التحريفية واانتهازية والتصفووية والتي تشكل بحق .الخطر اأكبر الذي يتهدد ااحزاب الشيوعية في هذه المرحلة اللجنة ااعامية للحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني
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painful consequences of capitalism and the crises and wars that are caused by it. Only socialism can provide a way out from the crisis and meet the expanding social needs of the people. As was stressed, the positive experiences and achievements of socialist construction must be stressed as well as their signiicance for the peoples, while at the same time the CPs must draw lessons from the mistakes, deviations and distortions that were in contradiction with the basic principles and laws of socialist construction. Of course, the diferent approaches on serious issues require further and thorough discussion. This did not impede the International Meeting this year, as it does every year, from inalizing axes for common and convergent actions and initiatives of the communist and workers parties for the following year for the support of the working class struggles for the labour, social, democratic rights of the workers, against anti-communism, against imperialist wars, in order to mark the 70th anniversary of the anti-fascist victory, etc which are speciically described in the Text of the Common Actions.
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RESOLUTION ON THE RIGHT TO THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLE OF CATALONIA
The communist parties and working undersigned, in the frame of the XVI Found International celebrated to Guayaquil of the 13 to the November 15, 2014, report the attitude of the Spanish government, as well as the democratic restrictions of the current political diet,that prevent the exercise of the right to the self-determination of the village of Catalonia, that has to can decide his collective future and his relation with the rest of People of Spain. Communist Party of Argentina Communist Party of Australia DTP-Bahrain Communist Party of Bolivia Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) Communist Party of Britain Partido Vanguardia Popular, Costa Rica Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia Communist Party of Ecuador French Communist Party (PCF) German Communist Party (DKP) Hungarian Workers Party Communist Party of India (CPI) Lebanese Communist Party Communist Party of Norway Communist Party of Pakistan Communist Party of the Peru (Patria Roja) Peruan Communist Party Phillipines Communist Party(PKP-1930) Portuguese Communist Party Communist Party of the Russian Federation South African Communist Party (SACP) Communist Party of Spain Communists of Catalonia Syrian Communist Party Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
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168 SOLIDARITY WITH LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN PEOPLES’ STRUGGLES
In the new warlike and reactionary wave, we ind the neoliberal counterofensive against Latin America and the Caribbean, whose main objective is the attack against the progressive process in the region that promote social policies and in defense of their sovereign interests, as well as a economic, political and social integration in favor of the aspirations of the peoples’. It is an open secret that imperialism has given priority to subversive actions, on the basis of their traditional instruments of intervention ranging from the CIA to USAID, as well as well as the national bourgeoisie closely linked to U.S. capital. The objective of this blatant subversion has been to promote political and social destabilization in order to justify scenarios leading to a change of progressive regimes through violent means. The United States also maneuvers to increase the number of free-trade bilateral agreements with Latin-American countries and tries to internationalize them with their allied blocks, as it is the case of EU-US Treaty. In this context, the diferent Latin-American political forces and heterogenic social movements wage their struggle against the domination of the trans-nationals, the imperialism and their political and militaristic expressions, facing the obstinate presence of neoliberal economic structures. The years of progressive and revolutionary governments in Latin America show outstanding progress in the area regarding pov-
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erty reduction and advances on social and labour rights, the consolidation of the Latin-American and Caribbean integration and the restoration of sovereignty, and have brought about a violent reaction of the national oligarchies which intensify their efforts to rebuild their neoliberal projects in this part of the world. Today we live progressive and revolucionary experiences that airm the sovereignt in Latin America, which have been the result of diferent factors, including the people´s aspiration and struggles in the region such as the defense of national sovereignty, the eforts for economic independence, the strengthening of the States, trying to put an end to neoliberalism and seeking alternatives in the way of overcoming capitalism, the establishment of regional economic mechanisms, seeking independence and solidarity support among equals such as ALBA, UNASUR, MERCOSUR, BANCO DEL SUR, CELAC, the demand and struggle against colonialism and the resistance to economic extortion, among others. Such experiences have enabled the continent to send new signals of hope in the search of social justice and, in fact, have become a political referendum in favor of the changes demanded by the workers and peoples. Colombian insurgent forces and the Colombian people, with the support on a broad international solidarity movement, are ighting for peace with national sovereignty, democracy and social justice in Colombia. The people of Socialist Cuba struggles against the economic blockade. In spite of
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the almost unanimous international rejectionof the economic, commercial and inancial blockade against Cuba and far for rectifying that policy, it continues to be in full force in an open violation of the principles of the U.N. Charter. The harassment to commercial, inancial and banking institutions that keep relations with Cuba has been intensiied, widening its extraterritorial character and afecting even their close allies. The Communist and Workers Parties signatories below express solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean:
Communist Party of Pakistan Party of the People (Panama) Peruvian Communist Party Communist Party of Peru (Patria Roja) Phillipines Communist Party (PKP-1930) Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) South African Communist Party (SACP) Communist Party of Spain (PCE) Communists of Catalunya Syrian Communist Party (Uniied) Communist Party of Uruguay Communist Party of USA
Communist Party of Brazil Communist Party of Argentina Communist Party of Australia Democratic Progressive Tribune Workers Party of Belgium Communist Party of Bolivia Communist Party of Brazil Communist Party of Britain Communist Party of Chile Colombian Communist Party FARC-EP People’s Vanguard Party Socialist Worker’s Party of Croatia Communist Party of Cuba AKEL Communist Party of Bohemia-Moravia Communist Party of Equador Communist Party of Finland French Communist Party Communist Party of India (CPI) Iraqi Communist Party Communist Party of Ireland Party of the Communist Refoundation Party of the Italian Communists (PdCI) Workers’ Party of Korea Lao People Revolutionary Party Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) Communist Party of Malta
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170 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLES OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE PEOPLES OF LATIN AMERICA
Proposal presented by PCM & PCB The Communist and Workers’ Parties gathered in Guayaquil in the XVI Meeting express our internationalist solidarity with the struggles of the workers and peoples of Latin America for their rights, against capitalist exploitation, against imperialist interventions. We particularly reiterate our solidarity with the people of socialist Cuba, against the imperialist blockade, the “common position” of the EU, and the various US interventions. We demand the release of three revolutionary Cubans imprisoned in the US. In Latin America, as in the rest of the world, the working class is facing the onslaught of capital that, to ensure its proits, takes steps to devalue labor force, intensify exploitation and plunder natural resources. With the full coordination of monopolies new initiatives and agreements that reinforce capitalism in its imperialist phase take place, interstate unions that do not serve the needs of the working class and popular sectors are signed. Mining monopolies settle with exploitation for the working class and dispossession of land to the peasants. The capital / labor conlict intensiies, and simultaneously manifests the limits of alternative administrations of capitalism. In them capital’s proits are strengthened while welfare policies have ultimately not solved the deep problems the working class faces, showing that they are only targeted to restrain class struggle. There is
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the danger that in several southern countries on behalf of alternative administrations -such as progressiveness- restructuration that gives continuity to capitalism can occur. In several countries, especially in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador interventions and destabilization plans by the imperialist centers and reactionary forces are increasing. At the same time, some of the government policies do not conirm the expectations of the people, which can lead to the weakening of popular support. Today the positions of “Socialism of the XXI Century” are being refuted, for which it is therefore even more important to be in solidarity with those ighting to overthrow capitalist relations and the power of capital. We reiterate our solidarity with the struggle of FARC-EP for peace with social justice, with the eforts of Colombia’s popular movement for a social and political solution to the conlict in favor of the people. We denounce the killings, persecution and threats against activists of the popular movement, paramilitary mechanisms, the existence of thousands of displaced people, the characterization of FARC-EP as a terrorist organization. We demand freedom of Colombian political prisoners that are held in the dungeons of their country and those who are incarcerated in the US. We condemn State terrorism in Mexico that has been executed against the Ayotzinapa students.
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We denounce that Paraguay is becoming a strategic platform for imperialist action in the Southern Cone.
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We repudiate the military occupation of Haiti by troops from South American countries, under the command of Brazil and that has lasted over ten years. In the present scenario the irreplaceable force of profound and radical change is expressed by the working class and its vanguard parties, communist and worker’s parties. We express our internationalist solidarity with the Communist parties who are facing attacks from state and para-state mechanisms, we condemn any threat and manifestation of anticommunism. We express our full solidarity with the Communist Party of Ecuador, against those who seek to build a substitute to supplant its name. 1. Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 2. Colombia, FARC-EP 3. Socialist Workers Party of Croatia 4. Communist Party in Denmark 5. Communist Party of Ecuador 6. Uniied Communist Party of Georgia 7. German Communist Party 8. Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 9. Hungarian Communist Party 10. Worker’s Party of Korea 11. Lithuania, Socialist People’s Front 12. Communist Party Of Malta 13. Communist Party of Mexico 14. Communist Party of Norway 15. Communist Party of Pakistan 16. Palestinian Communist Party 17. Communist Worker’s Party of Russia (RKRP) 18. Communist Party of Soviet Union 19. Union of Communist Parties (CPSU) 20. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 21. Communist Party of Sri Lanka
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172 RESOLUTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH AYOTZINAPA
The Communist and Workers’ Parties gathered at the 16th International Meeting, held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, condemn the brutal repression unleashed against students from the rural teacher’s training school of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. We point out that Ayotzinapa is the last link in a long chain of genocide perpetrated by the Mexican State against its opponents, aiming at terrifying and immobilizing the working class and the people of Mexico who show a growing insubordination to monopoly power. We remember that 7 communists of the ranks of PCM were assassinated last year. We denounce the direct responsibility of those who were the executing arm of the slaughter, the PRD, we denounced the political responsibilities of the coalition and characters-including López Obrador, who promoted the governor of Guerrero and the mayor of Iguala when they were candidates, of the block of parties known as the “Pact for Mexico” (PRI, PAN, PRD) that have implemented the antipeople policies and created the paramilitary mechanisms that led to the current situation. We express our solidarity with the people of Mexico. Ayotzinapa was the drop that spilled the glass that had previously been illed with war and repression, barbaric measures to pass the costs of the crisis on to the working class and the people, such as labor, agricultural, iscal, energy, etc., counter-reforms. We support the people of Mexico and declare that their slogan to overthrow the current government is legitimate, as well as legitimate are all the forms
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of struggle they deem necessary to achieve a way out favorable for the popular interests. Parties Subscribed 1. Communist Party of Argentina 2. Communist Party of Australia 3. Democratic Progressive Tribune Bahrein 4. Worker’s Party of Belgium (PTB) 5. Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 6. Communist Party of Britain 7. Communist Party of Bolivia 8. Communist Party of Canada 9. Communist Party of Chile 10. Communist Party of China 11. Colombian Communist Party 12. Colombia, FARC-EP 13. People’s Vanguard Party (Costa Rica) 14. Socialist Workers Party of Croatia 15. Progressive Party of the Working People (AKEL, Cyprus) 16. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) 17. Communist Party in Denmark 18. Communist Party of Ecuador 19. Communist Party of Finland 20. Uniied Communist Party of Georgia 21. German Communist Party (DKP) 22. Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 23. Hungarian Worker’s Party 24. Communist Party of India 25. Communist Party of Ireland 26. Party of the Italian Communist 27. Worker’s Party of Korea 28. Lebanese Communist Party 29. Socialist People’s Front, Lithuania 30. Communist Party of Malta 31. Communist Party of Mexico
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32. Communist Party of Norway 33. Communist Party of Pakistan 34. Palestinian Communist Party 35. Party of the People (Panama) 36. Peruan Communist Party 37. Communist Party of Peru - Patria Roja 38. Phillipines Communist Party (PKP1930) 39. Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) 40. Communist Worker’s Party of Russia (RKRP) 41. Communist Party of Soviet Union 42. Union of Communist Parties (CPSU) 43. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 44. Communists of Cataluña 45. Communist Party of Sri Lanka 46. South African Communist Party 47. Syrian Communist Party (Uniied) 48. Communist Party, Turkey 49. Communist Party of the United States
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174 SOLIDARITY STATEMENT WITH THE PEOPLE OF CYPRUS
Communist and Workers Parties participating in the 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties held on 13-15 November, 2014, in Guayaquil, Ecuador undersigned the resolution below which is entitled: For the freedom and reuniication of Cyprus – 40 years since, the coup d’etat and the Turkish invasion and occupation • Recalling that forty years ago, in july 1974, e Greek junta and the fascist organisation EOKA B staged a coup d’etat against the elected President of the Republic of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios, • Recalling that Turkey exploited the coup d’etat to materialise its expansionist plans in Cyprus, invading illegally the island where it remains to this day in lagrant violation of international law, by continuing to occupy 37% of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus, by violating the human rights and freedoms of the Cypriot people as a whole, by continuing attempts to alter the demographic character of the island through mass settlement policy. • Recalling that the double crime of the coup d’etat and invasion was planned by the US and NATO aiming to divide Cyprus and impose union of one part to Greece and the other to Turkey, both countries been NATO members, • Noting that 40 years on Cyprus continues to live though the consequences of the Turkish invasion and occupation, • Reiterating that the Cyprus problem is in essence an international problem of invasion and illegal occupation, in violation of the fundamental principles of international law and the Charter of the UN,
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• Noting that the Cyprus problem has also an internal aspect, of restoring relations between the two communities of Cyprus, the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot, • Taking note of the directive of the Ministry of Foreign Afairs of Turkey for the binding of regions of the EEZ of the Republic of Cyprus to conduct research and exercises, • Reminding the sovereign right of the states to the peaceful development of their resources. • Considering that the right of the Republic of Cyprus to the exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is inalienable, as of every other state, The Communist and Workers’ Parties signing the present Statement: 1 Denounce Turkey’s and the Turkish Cypriot leadership’s intransigent policy that perpetuates the Cyprus problem and consolidates the divisionist faits accomplis on the ground, 2 Declare that the tolerance exhibited by the international community to the continuing illegality that is taking place in Cyprus, is unacceptable and must be ended immediately. 3 They demand the solution of the Cyprus problem the soonest possible, on the basis of international law and the UN Security Council resolutions. The solution must restore the human rights and freedoms in the framework of a bicommunal, bizonal fed-
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eration with political equality as deined in the relevant UN resolutions. 4 They demand permanent peace that would allow indeed the reuniication, independence and freedom of the Cypriot people as a whole, 5 They call for an immediate veriication if the fate of the remaining more than 1500 missing persons of the Cypriot tragedy, 6 Denounce the illegal binding of part of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Cyprus by Turkey as an unacceptable act that violates the Treaty of the United Nations for the Law of the Sea and Customary International Law, 7 Underline that the unilateral action of the Turkish government increases tension in the region and afects negatively the inter-communal talks for the solution of the Cyprus problem, 8 Call on the international community to demand the revoking of the illegal notice and denounce any act of harassment of the sovereign rights of the Republic of Cyprus within the EEZ, 9 Express their solidarity with and support to the struggle of the Cypriot people for the liberation and reuniication of its country. The statement is undersigned by the following Parties: 1. Communist Party of Argentina 2. Communist Party of Australia 3. Democratic Progressive Tribune (Bahrain) 4. Workers Party of Belgium 5. Communist Party of Bolivia 6. Communist Party of Brazil 7. Brazilian Communist Party
8. Communist Party of Britain 9. Communist Party of Chile 10. Colombia, FARC-EP 11. Communist Party of Costa Rica 12. People’s Vanguard Party (Costa Rica) 13. Socialist Workers Party of Croatia 14. Communist Party of Cuba 15. AKEL (Cyprus) 16. Communist Party of Bohemia-Moravia (CPBM) 17. Communist Party in Denmark 18. Communist Party of Ecuador 19. Communist Party of Finland 20. French Communist Party 21. Uniied Communist Party of Georgia 22. German Communist Party (DKP) 23. Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 24. Hungarian Workers Party (HWP) 25. Communist Party of India (CPI) 26. Party of the Italian Communists (PdCI) 27. Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) 28. Communist Party Of Malta 29. Communist Party of Mexico 30. Communist Party of Norway 31. Communist Party of Pakistan 32. Palestinian Communist Party 33. People’s Party (Panama) 34. Peruan Communist Party 35. Communist Party of Peru (Patria Roja) 36. Phillipines Communist Party (PKP1930) 37. Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 38. Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 39. Communist Worker’s Party of Russia (RKRP) 40. Communist Party of Soviet Union 41. South African Communist Party (SACP) 42. Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 43. Communist Party of Sri Lanka 44. Communists of Catalunya
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177 PARTIES THAT PARTICIPATED Communist Party of Australia Communist Party of Argentina Democratic Progressive Tribune, Bahrain Workers’ Party, Belgium Communist Party of Belarus Communist Party of Bolivia Brazilian Communist Party Communist Party of Brazil Communist Party of Britain Communist Party of Canada Communist Party of China Colombian Communist Party People’s Vanguard Party, Costa Rica Communist Party of Cuba AKEL, Cyprus Communist Party Bohemia & Moravia, Czech Republic Communist Party in Denmark Communist Party of Denmark Communist Party of Equador Communist Party of Finland French Communist Party German Communist Party Communist Party of Greece Hungarian Workers’ Party Communist Party of India Communist Party of Ireland Party of the Italian Communists Jordanian Communist Party Workers Party of Korea Lao People Revolutionary Party, Laos Lebanese Communist Party Socialist People’s Front, Lithuania Communist Party of Mexico Communist Party of Norway Palestinian Communist Party Party of the People, Panama Communist Party of Peru Peruan Communist Party Portuguese Communist Party
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Russian Communists Workers’ Party (RCWP-CPSU) Communist Partyof the Russian Federation Communist Party of Spain Communist Party of Peoples of Spain Communists of Catalonia South African Communist Party Syrian Communist Party [Uniied] Communist Party, Turkey Communist Party USA Communist Party of Vietnam
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[email protected] code:(+8802) phone:9567975 fax:9558545 BELARUS, COMMUNIST PARTY OF BELARUS http://comparty.by E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+37517) phone:222 62 11 fax:222 43 79 (222 64 61) BELGIUM, COMMUNIST PARTY OF WALLONIABRUSSELS http://www.particommuniste.be/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+322) phone:537 66 81 fax:537 66 81 BELGIUM, WORKERS’ PARTY OF BELGIUM http://www.wpb.be http://www.ptb.be E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+32) phone:25040139 fax:25040141 mobiles: (+32494 353934, +32479 188134)
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[email protected] code:(+5521) phone/fax:22620855 BRAZIL, COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRAZIL http://www.pcdob.org.br http://www.vermelho.org.br E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+5511) phone:3054-1800, 30541822, 30541821 fax:3054 1848 BRITAIN, COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRITAIN http://www.communist-party.org.uk E-Mail:
[email protected]. uk E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+442) phone:(0)86861659 BRITAIN, NEW COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRITAIN http://www.newworker.org E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+44) phone:207 2234052
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[email protected] code:(+3592) phone/fax:9816093 BULGARIA, PARTY OF THE BULGARIAN COMMUNISTS E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+359) phone:8961133, 898 322 455 fax: 24702573 CANADA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA http://www.communist-party.ca E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+1416) phone:4692446 CHILE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHILE http://www.pcchile.cl/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+562) phone:729 5700 fax:729 5714 CHINA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA http://www.idcpc.org.cn http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+8610) phone:83907267 fax:83907268 COLOMBIA, COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.pacocol.org E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+571) phone:3203204, 2854188 fax:3384742 COLOMBIA, FARC-EP http://www.farc-ep.co The peace delegation in spanish http:// www.pazfarc-ep.org
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[email protected] [In Spanish] COSTA RICA, PEOPLE’S VANGUARD PARTY E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+506) phone: 2225 8300 fax: 2281 0484 CROATIA, SOCIALIST WORKERS’ PARTY OF CROATIA http://www.srp.hr E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code: (+ 385) phone:1 4835340, 91 2219036 fax:1 4835340 CUBA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA http://www.pcc.cu/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+537) phone:8605678 fax:8556836 CYPRUS, THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY OF THE WORKING PEOPLE - AKEL http://www.akel.org.cy E-Mail:
[email protected] Phone: (+357) 22761121 Fax:22761574, 22764725 CZECH REPUBLIC, COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA http://www.kscm.cz http://www.kscm.cz/english E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+4202) phone:22897111 fax:22897207
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[email protected] code:(+45) phone:38882833 fax:38882433 DENMARK, COMMUNIST PARTY OF DENMARK http://www.dkp.dk E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+45) phone: 33916644 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, FORCE OF THE REVOLUTION E-Mail:
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[email protected] code: (+809) phone:685-9362 fax:687-3423 EGYPT, COMMUNIST PARTY OF EGYPT http://www.cp-egypt.com E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+20) phone:101 078617 fax: 223 921315 EQUADOR, COMMUNIST PARTY OF EQUADOR http://pcecuador.org/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+593) phone: 2 2909454, 4 2401462, 4 22248643 Mobile: 997195448 ESTONIA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF ESTONIA E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+37) phone /fax: 23591174 FINLAND, COMMUNIST PARTY OF FINLAND http://www.skp.i E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+3589) phone:77438150 fax:77438160
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[email protected] code:(+331) phone:40401293, 40401286 fax:42404027 FYROM, COMMUNIST PARTY OF MACEDONIA E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+389) phone:23177248 fax:23177248 GEORGIA, UNIFIED COMMUNIST PARTY OF GEORGIA E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+995) phone:93 761363, 32 546587 fax:32 546587 GERMANY, GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY (DKP) http://www.dkp.de E-Mail Central Committee:
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[email protected] code:(+49201) phone:1778890 fax:17788929 GREECE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE http://inter.kke.gr E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+30) phone:210 2592111 fax:210 2592298 GUADELUPE, GUADELOUPEAN COMMUNIST PARTY E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+590) phone:821945 fax:836990 GUYANA, PEOPLE’S PROGRESSIVE PARTY http://www.ppp-civic.org E-Mail:
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[email protected] code: (+592) phone: 2272095, 2274301 fax: 2272096 www.solidnet.org
HUNGARY, HUNGARIAN WORKERS’ PARTY http://www.munkaspart.hu E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+361) phone:780-83-06 fax:787-8621 Mobile: +36309443520 INDIA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA http://www.communistparty.in/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+9111) phone: 23232801, 23235099, 23235058 fax:23235543 INDIA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST) http://www.cpim.org https://www.facebook.com/cpimcc E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+9111) phone: 23344918, 23747435, 23747436 23363692 fax:23747483 IRAN,TUDEH PARTY OF IRAN http://www.tudehpartyiran.org E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+44) phone:7790277770 code:(+49) fax:303241627 IRAQ, IRAQI COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.iraqicp.com Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+44208) phone: 6422981 IRAQ, COMMUNIST PARTY OF KURDISTAN-IRAQ http://www.regaykurdistan.com Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+4131) phone:3719612 fax:3719628 IRELAND, COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND http://www.communistpartyoireland.ie E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+3531) phone:6708707 IRELAND, THE WORKERS’ PARTY OF IRELAND http://www.workersparty.ie E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+3531) phone: 8733 916 fax: 874 8702 ISRAEL, COMMUNIST PARTY OF ISRAEL http://www.maki.org.il E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+9723) phone:6293944 fax:6297263 ITALY, PARTY OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNISTS http://www.comunisti-italiani.it http://www.oltre-conine.it E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+3906) phone:6862721 fax:68627230 ITALY, PARTY OF THE COMMUNIST REFOUNDATION http://www.rifondazione.it/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+3906) phone:441821 fax:44182207 JAPAN, JAPANESE COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.jcp.or.jp http://www.japan-press.co.jp/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+813) phone:54748421 fax:37460767
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[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+9626) phone:4624939 fax:4624939 KAZAKHSTAN, COMMUNIST PARTY OF KAZAKHSTAN http://komparty.kz/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+772) phone:72911400 KIRGIZIA, PARTY OF THE COMMUNISTS OF KYRGYZSTAN E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+996) phone:312 624999 fax:312 660401 DPR of KOREA, WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA http://www.kimsot.com/dprk.htm E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+850) phone: 2-381-5855 fax: 2-3814657 code:(+3906) phone:54220749 fax:54210090 LAOS, PEOPLES’ REVOLUTIONARY PARTY E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+85621) phone:414042 fax:414043 LATVIA, SOCIALIST PARTY OF LATVIA http://www.latsocpartija.lv E-Mail:
[email protected] code: (+371) phone/fax:67555535 LEBANON, LEBANESE COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.lcparty.org E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+9611) phone/fax:739615/6/7 LITHUANIA, SOCIALIST PEOPLE’S FRONT http://www.slfrontas.lt E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+352) phone:446066 21 fax:44606666 MALTA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF MALTA http://communistpartymalta.blogspot.com/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+356) phone/fax:21223537 MADAGASCAR, PARTY OF THE CONGRESS FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF MADAGASCAR (AKFM) E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+261) phone/fax: 202227065, 202226828 MEXICO, COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO http://www.comunistas-mexicanos.org E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+52 734) phone/fax:3425838 MEXICO, POPULAR SOCIALIST PARTY - NATIONAL POLITICAL ASSOCIATION , MEXICO http://www.pps.org.mx E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+5255) phone:330816-18 fax:330816-18, 257131 MEXICO, POPULAR SOCIALIST PARTY OF MEXICO http://www.ppsm.org.mx E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+525) phone: 5672-2057 fax:56091896
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[email protected] code:(+3732) phone:2249441 fax:2233673 NEPAL, COMMUNIST PARTY OF NEPAL (UML) http://www.cpnuml.org E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+977) phone: 14278081-82 fax:14278084 NETHERLANDS, NEW COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE NETHERLANDS http://www.ncpn.nl E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+31) phone:70 3603676, 20 6825019 fax:20 6828276 NORWAY, COMMUNIST PARTY OF NORWAY http://www.nkp.no E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+4722) phone:716044 PAKISTAN, COMMUNIST PARTY OF PAKISTAN http://www.cppak.org E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+92) phone/fax: 222654531 PALESTINE, PALESTINIAN COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.pallcp.ps E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+97) tel:9 2515830, 2 2267055 phone/fax:2 22267644, 9 2515075 PALESTINE, PALESTINIAN PEOPLE’S PARTY http://www.ppp.ps E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+97) phone:22963593 fax:22963592
PANAMA, PARTY OF THE PEOPLE http://www.elpartidodelpueblo.org E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code: (+507) phone:2259025/2272194 PARAGUAY, PARAGUAYAN COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.pcparaguay.org/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+595) phone:21 225116, 972 624390 phone/fax:21 621836 PERU, COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU (PATRIA ROJA) http://www.patriaroja.org.pe/ E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+511) phone: 4262366/993869280 PERU, PERUAN COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.pcperuano.com E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+511) phone 4331634 fax:4715399 The PHILIPPINES, PHILIPPINE COMMUNIST PARTY [PKP-1930] http://www.pkp1930.org E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+632) phone:3590201 fax:9395791 POLAND, COMMUNIST PARTY OF POLAND http://www.kompol.org E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+48) phone:228334288 fax:228334288 PORTUGAL, PORTUGUESE COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.international.pcp.pt
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http://www.pcp.pt E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+35121) phone:7813800 fax:7969824 ROMANIA, ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+4021) phone:6423615 fax: 642 3615 ROMANIA, SOCIALIST ALLIANCE PARTY http://www.pasro.ro E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+40) phone:212522887, 314057078, 314057077, phone/fax:214133354 RUSSIA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (KPRF) http://www.kprf.ru E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+7495) phone:6927646 fax:6927646, 6925685 RUSSIA, RUSSIAN COMMUNIST WORKERS’ PARTY - COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOVIET UNION (RCWP-CPSU) http://www.rkrp-rpk.ru/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+7812) phone:2742772, 2748073 fax:2742818 RUSSIA, UNION OF COMMUNIST PARTIES-CPSU http://www.kprf.ru E-mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+7495) phone:2927646, 2928736 fax:2925685 RUSSIA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOVIET UNION http://www.cpsu.by E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+7495) phone:6844175 phone/ fax:9747342
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[email protected] code:(+38111) phone: 2400628 ; code:(+38111) fax: 2400640 SERBIA, COMMUNISTS OF SERBIA http://www.komunistisrbije.rs/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+38111) phone/fax:3514-478 SLOVAKIA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF SLOVAKIA http://www.kss.sk E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+4212) phone:44644101 fax:44362540 SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.sacp.org.za E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+2711) phone:3393621/2 fax:3394244 SPAIN, COMMUNIST PARTY OF SPAIN http://www.pce.es E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+3491) phone:3004969 fax:3004744 SPAIN, COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PEOPLE OF SPAIN http://www.pcpe.es Mail:
[email protected] Mail:
[email protected] code: (+34) phone: 915329187 fax: 915329187 SPAIN, COMMUNISTS OF CATALONIA www.comunistes.cat E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+34 933) phone:184 282 fax: 180 011
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SPAIN, UNITED LEFT SPAIN http://www.izquierda-unida.es/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+3491) phone:7227500 fax:3880405
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[email protected] code:(+992372) phone:232953, 231853 fax:351482, 232292
SRI-LANKA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF SRILANKA http://www.communistpartyofsrilanka.org/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+9411) phone:2695328 fax:2691610
TURKEY, COMMUNIST PARTY http://kp.org.tr E-mail:
[email protected] E-mail:
[email protected] Phone: +90 549 4305011
SUDAN, SUDANESE COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.midan.net E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+4202) phone:33555668 fax:33555668
TURKEY, LABOUR PARTY (EMEP) http://www.emep.org (Turkish) http://en.emep.org (English) http://es.emep.org (Spanish) E-mail:
[email protected] code:(+90) phone:539 328 1323 fax:212 587 56 86
SWAZILAND, COMMUNIST PARTY OF SWAZILAND E-Mail:
[email protected] SWEDEN, COMMUNIST PARTY OF SWEDEN http://www.skp.se E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+468) phone:7358640 SYRIA, SYRIAN COMMUNIST PARTY http://www.syriancp.org E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+96311) phone:4455048 fax:4422716 SYRIA, SYRIAN COMMUNIST PARTY [Uniied] http://www.syrcomparty.org/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+96311) phone:4410264 fax:4422383 TADJIKISTAN, COMMUNIST PARTY OF TADJIKISTAN http://www.kpt.freenet.tj E-Mail:
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UKRAINE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF UKRAINE http://www.kpu.ua/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+38044) phone/fax: 238-05-06,23899-86 UKRAINE, UNION OF COMMUNISTS OF UKRAINE http://un-comm-ukr.ucoz.ru/ E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+38044) phone:2906225 fax:2906225, 2906228 URUGUAY, COMMUNIST PARTY OF URUGUAY http://www.pcu.org.uy/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+5982) phone: 9242697 9247056 fax: 9242697 9247056 USA, COMMUNIST PARTY USA http://www.cpusa.org E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+1) phone: 2129894994 fax:(+1) 212 229 1713
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VENEZUELA, COMMUNIST PARTY OF VENEZUELA http://www.pcv-venezuela.org http://prensa-pcv.blogspot.com/ https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/ E-Mail:
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[email protected] code:(+58) phone:2122566386 fax:2122566386 VIETNAM, COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM http://www.cpv.org.vn E-Mail:
[email protected] E-Mail:
[email protected] code:(+844) phone:8436278, 8436274 fax:38234514, 8045657
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