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red cat
1st May 2011, 22:46
May First: Maoist Parties Move Toward New International Movement (http://southasiarev.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/may-first-maoist-parties-move-toward-new-international-movement/)


Posted by Mike E (http://kasamaproject.org/) on April 30, 2011
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/hammer-and-sickle.jpg?w=350&h=350 (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/hammer-and-sickle.jpg)Kasama wants to share the following announcement:
People want revolution

Proletarians want the Party of the Revolution

Communists want internationalism and a new international organization

This year’s May Day comes at a time of unprecedented protests and uprisings all around the world. In the Arab world and Persian Gulf, the youth, the proletarians and the broad masses took to the streets and toppled or tried to topple, one after the other, the dictatorial regimes subservient to imperialism.


In the heart of the imperialist countries, working class struggles, general strikes, rebellions of students and youth are opposing the policy of reactionary governments and the development of a modern fascism aimed at shifting the burden of the crisis on to the backs of the masses, bringing layoffs, job insecurity, intensification of exploitation and attacks on education, health care and basic social services.
Struggles and rebellions are ranging from China to the US, from Russia to Latin America. Particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq, imperialism, mainly U.S. imperialism, is suffering blows that prevent it from realizing its plans of occupation, invasion and geo-strategic control on important areas of the world. Its plans to sanctify Zionist occupation in Palestine through sell-out leaders have been checked.


People’s wars are the strategic reference for the proletarians and peoples of the world. The people’s war in India successfully withstands unprecedented attacks by the enemy and is able to expand and advance. The people’s war in Peru persists and recuperates. The people’s war in the Philippines advances. In Turkey, revolutionary struggles led by the Maoists advance along the people’s war strategy. In other countries of South Asia it is being prepared, for initiations and new advances.


In Nepal, 10 years of people’s war have created the conditions for the advancement of Nepali revolution. This revolution is now at a complex crossroads and must be supported against the counter-revolution waged by internal and external enemies as well as against the reformists who try to undermine it from within.


The protracted people’s war is necessary to defeat the enemy both in countries oppressed by imperialism and the imperialist countries themselves, according their own specificities. It represents a new and sharpening phase of the class struggle that expresses the revolutionary aspirations of the proletariat and the world peoples.
All this indicates that the main contradiction at the world level is that between imperialism and oppressed people, while the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie and as well as inter-imperialist contradictions are sharpening. In the context of the spreading crisis, the revolution emerges more and more clearly as being the main trend in the current world.

The economic crisis of imperialism, far from being resolved, widens and deepens according to the laws of uneven development and as a result of the contention on the world market and the tendency towards a maximal extortion of surplus value. The “financialization” of the economy— the main immediate cause of the crisis — tends to reject any control. The use of surpluses from China’s, India’s and Brazil’s economies can’t ensure more than a temporary recovery, which opens the door to new and even more distressing crisis.


The struggling and uprising proletarians and popular masses demand the building of revolutionary parties at the height of the current clash of classes; and that process of organization is developing. We need communist parties based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism able to lead the class struggle in all fields and aimed at seizing the political power without which it is not possible for the proletarians to overthrow the capitalist and imperialist system. Maoist Communists strive to answer this need for a scientific and decided leadership for the proletarian class struggle, by fighting all kinds of revisionist, reformist and dogmatist deviations. Our class can rely on the huge amount of experience through 140 years of struggles and revolutions, from the birth of the Glorious Paris Commune through the peaks of the October Revolution, the Chinese revolution and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We must learn from both our victories and defeats, as well as from our mistakes.

Within that wave of struggles, uprisings and people’s wars, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communists should put proletarian internationalism into practice in order to unite proletarian struggles and those of the oppressed peoples against imperialism in crisis and remain firmly united with masse, as they make history.


Communists must achieve a new unity of the international communist movement based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and build the international organization that we need today.
Imperialism has no future!
The future belongs to communism!



Communist Party of Bhutan (MLM)
Communist Party of India (maoist)
Communist Party of India (ML) Naxalbari
maoist Communist Party, France
maoist Communist Party, Italy
Maoist Communist Party, Turkey and North Kurdistan
Revolutionary Communist Party, Canada
Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
Committee of People’s Struggle “Manolo Bello”, Galicia, Spain



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Per Levy
1st May 2011, 23:09
In Turkey, revolutionary struggles led by the Maoists advance along the people’s war strategy.

really? i've read in an other thread that turkish maoists are pretty inactive and have only a few hundred fighters at best, and their party isnt doing so much better. but i might be wrong about that...


Communists must achieve a new unity of the international communist movement based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and build the international organization that we need today.

so every communist who dont see themselfs as "marxist-leninist-maoist" is not welcome am i right?

edit: and isnt it contradictionary that the author claims they are "fighting all kinds of revisionist, reformist and dogmatist deviations" but want to unite the communists under the banner of "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism"?

red cat
1st May 2011, 23:30
really? i've read in an other thread that turkish maoists are pretty inactive and have only a few hundred fighters at best, and their party isnt doing so much better. but i might be wrong about that...

That was claimed by a poster who is not a Maoist, and thinks that Maoists exaggerate about their numbers. I would expect the Maoist CP itself to have a slightly better knowledge of its current position.



so every communist who dont see themselfs as "marxist-leninist-maoist" is not welcome am i right?Right.


edit: and isnt it contradictionary that the author claims they are "fighting all kinds of revisionist, reformist and dogmatist deviations" but want to unite the communists under the banner of "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism"?Obviously they do not consider MLM to be dogmatic. Otherwise they wouldn't have called themselves Maoists.

DDR
2nd May 2011, 00:18
Good idea, we need a new Internationale or at least an international communist organization.

BTW, who are Committee of People’s Struggle “Manolo Bello”? I live in Spain, not right now, but Ihave no clue who they may be.

RedSunRising
2nd May 2011, 00:23
BTW, who are Committee of People’s Struggle “Manolo Bello”? I live in Spain, not right now, but Ihave no clue who they may be.

A lot of Maoist groups are underground or semi-underground which doesnt mean that they are not active.

mosfeld
3rd May 2011, 03:27
Excellent news! Thanks for sharing this :)

Italian and French Maoists have been fighting for a new "RIM" for a while now, good to see they made some progress!

It would be really cool to see the PCP come out of the dark, but they're not there :/ Kind of reveals that there's little contact anymore between Peru and South Asia, or just the outside overall (except for CPI(ML)Naxalbari)

The PKP have been missing from these internationals, which I think is a shame.

I'd also like to comment that I'm very glad that the RCP,USA is out of the picture. Now, if they could only grab the CMPA to sign these international statements as well, that'd be fabulous (since they seem so wrapped around the RCP and CPI(MLM))

Tommy4ever
3rd May 2011, 15:55
French Maoists. :laugh:

mosfeld
3rd May 2011, 16:51
French Maoists. :laugh: ...is a pretty old movement. I don't really see why you'd pick on France since it used to have, arguably, the largest Maoist movement in Europe -- why not Italy? Spain?

You can take a look at "Maoism in the Developed World (http://books.google.com/books?id=FjM-4ZG9iuMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=maoism+in+the+developed+world&source=bl&ots=3UpvFI3rzj&sig=Yuab2hbZ41D9WNCXKMLZPKQCzt4&hl=is&ei=VyTATZSWCpOzhAeW6eiwBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false)" by Robert J. Alexander for a coherent history of French Maoism. "Maoism in France (http://www.isioma.net/sds00500.html)" is also pretty good.

Tommy4ever
3rd May 2011, 17:14
Let me rephrase myself then:

First World Maoists :laugh:

DDR
3rd May 2011, 17:38
I don't really see why you'd pick on France since it used to have, arguably, the largest Maoist movement in Europe -- why not Italy? Spain?

In Spain there's not a single maoist organization, PTE-ORT in its new foundation is not maoist. The galaecian comrades, I have never, ever, ever, heard of them, therefore I'm afraid that they are 4 or less people. The only party that reclaims itself maoist in Spain is the UCE, a sect directed by the police, whose only campaing is the unity of Spain and the support the neo-franquist UPyD.

Sorry, not trying to be pesimistic, just an insight view.


Let me rephrase myself then:

First World Maoists :laugh:

Om noez, maoism is just for peasants!!!!!!!

red cat
3rd May 2011, 18:04
Can you give us some information about the Communist Party of Spain ?

http://www.bandera-roja.com/ingles.htm

☭The Revolution☭
3rd May 2011, 18:11
Huh... kinda sounds like my thread calling for internationalist unity. It got trashed. I guess Communists just want to talk about it and not make a difference.

DDR
3rd May 2011, 19:22
There was a Bandera Roja back in the transition (80s more or less) which was so-called maoist (I dunno about their practices, because I wasn't born back then) wich most of their people are today very well known people in the political and media scene (renging from fascist to liberals) Here's more info about the party, in Spanish, sorry:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizaci%C3%B3n_Comunista_de_Espa%C3%B1a_(Bander a_Roja)

The link that you posted I think is an unipersonal party made by some old member of the party that I mentioned before. I've never saw them in the streets, nor propaganda, nor nothing.

Kassad
3rd May 2011, 19:31
This definitely affirms the rumor that the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement is defunct. Maybe we can expect an Avakianist international someday soon. If only.

t.shonku
8th May 2011, 12:55
A lot of Maoist groups are underground or semi-underground which doesnt mean that they are not active.

Well said , that is exactly the case .

DienBienPhu
9th May 2011, 18:48
French maoist exist, I'm one of them !

What I can say about this declaration, it's that it doesn't open any critic about why the MRI failed...
my opinion is the fondamental problem of the MRI was that the base of it unity was to recognize the "universality of theory of people's war", but it had been never explain clearly what was "theory of people's war"...so each party had it definition. It's not enough to build a new Communist international...
And this text doesn't put anything new.

An other criticism about this declaration, it's that it bring together parties with different background, political lines and practice. For example, the MCP of France is involved in the Trade unions, also the MCP of Italy condamn it.

DBP.

red cat
9th May 2011, 19:30
French maoist exist, I'm one of them !

What I can say about this declaration, it's that it doesn't open any critic about why the MRI failed...
my opinion is the fondamental problem of the MRI was that the base of it unity was to recognize the "universality of theory of people's war", but it had been never explain clearly what was "theory of people's war"...so each party had it definition. It's not enough to build a new Communist international...
And this text doesn't put anything new.

An other criticism about this declaration, it's that it bring together parties with different background, political lines and practice. For example, the MCP of France is involved in the Trade unions, also the MCP of Italy condamn it.

DBP.

One of the causes of failure of the RIM was that de facto leadership remained in the hands of a first world CP, particularly one that became revisionist in recent years. I think that the foremost role in this type of international organizations should be that of third-world CPs waging people's war.

This is just a declaration of preparation for an international, so parties with opposing lines can exist temporarily. There will be two-line struggle within this organization whereby revisionists will be exposed.

DienBienPhu
9th May 2011, 20:32
Hi Red Cat !

You're right about RCP-USA. I told about "General theory of people war" not because it's what made that the RIM failed, but because it's my opinion about what was for me one of the principal political shortcoming of RIM :)

We can be sure of that some inevitable debats will rise, notably about situation in Nepal.

DBP.

DienBienPhu
10th May 2011, 17:21
Does anyone knows if RCP-USA keeps international links with MLM organizations despite opposition with the most part of ex-RIM members ?

DienBienPhu
10th May 2011, 20:39
It exist a World People Resistance Movement (WPRM) in Britain which is involved in the ILPS (the international net lead by CPP masses organizations).
CPGB-ML reminds WPB of Belgium, who says too that PRC is still a socialist country, and is one of the beacon of revisionism in the world with it International Communist Seminar ; they maintain that Chinese communists were right against Kroushtshov, but they decision to break with CPSU was "left-sectarism". That how they justify the necessity to unit revisionist and "ML" organizations in the ICS.


On question "How to recognize a revisionist party ?", the response is to judge after the rule as "Practice is only standard of truth" as said Mao ans his comrades. I can give the exemple of French Communist Party.
Until the middle of 70s PCF spoke about "Dictatorship of proletariat" in it statutes.
But it was clearly a revisionist party in fact since the next day of WWII or at least since the middle of 60s. Some examples :
After Nazis' defeat, the party disarm Partisan movement and to call to respect the "republican legality", then affirm that strike was "the weapon of capitalist trust" and call worker to "rebuild the country".
During the Algerian uprising in May 1945, PCF accuse insurgents to be "hitlerian agents", despite French army slaught thousand of peoples.
During the war of liberation in Algeria, PCF called to "Peace in Algeria" and never clearly support the FLN and the Liberation's army.
And finally, in May 1968, PCF printed a poster which said "the PCF is the only who, SINCE THE BEGINNING, denounce acts of trotskists, maoists and anarchists agitators."

Broadly speaking, a good clue is the attitude in front of masses violence against State and Exploiters : if you think that "it's right to rebel" you'are on a revolutionary position. If you don't think, you can't be a revolutionary.

In France, reacts of different left's organizations during November 2005's riots clearly pointed out which can be consider as revolutionary.

DBP.

thälmann
10th May 2011, 22:54
i made the same experience here in germany. there are organisations with a revolutionary programm , but in practice they are reformists and opportunists.

the same in greece during the uprising 2008