"After many years as a militant in different political and social organizations and unions, currently I m a militant in a small (very small) international association of militant luxemburgists. This movment was founded by comrades from Communist Democracy (like myself), the Socialist Forum, Workers Democracy Network and others of their own initiative.
It is Luxemburguist because, we are in agreemement with the tradition of working with the workers movment. Historically there have been few explicitly Luxemburguist organizations (although there have been some interesting ones as well). But the Luxemburgist ideals (not only of Rosa L) have had sway in many movements and organizations. And they have been patently present in the great struggles of the masses in which they have participated.
So why did we decided to try to organize ourselves now? Because we believe that we can be a useful resource for the struggle for proletarian liberation. We believe that now, more than ever, the slogan of the AIT makes sense: only the proletariat, as a class, without a external control, can emancipate itself. We reject Bolshevism, in all its forms. Moreover,
today's struggles cannot help but be international, global, and in a fashion befitting the material reality of global capitalism. Thus we it is of no matter to us wherever there are comrades. We have to fight for our common objective everywhere.
We also recognize the traditional value of parties. We are not a party in the common understanding of the term (although yes we are in the sense that Marx considered this term, as a "component" of proletarian class unity. But we work more like a network. Each person develops their militant activity where they work and where they live (these two are considered the most important). We also organize debates and engage the questions we are interested in. All with obvious autonomy, with neither punishments nor anything of the sort.
Currently, our basic communal projects are the international Luxemberguist Forum (a space explicitly dedicated to debate between those whom defend Luxemburguist positions - where there are comrades from the WSM, la CCI, el CICA y otros and others); editing a multilingual international bulletin (of which we anticipate the first edition will be released in October); the joint participations in the struggles against the EU directives; and, above all, the spreading of our positions and recommendations, because we understand that
this work (theoretical and practical) is the most basic and foundational work that we can perform as a group.
We would obviously like to increase in number because it allows us to take more actions, but right now this is not heavily emphasized. For us, what is important is that the class takes initative in unity. Thus, clearly "internal" actions are not the focus of our group, without tying it to both real facets of everyone's existence, jointly with the conditions in whcih the proletarians live everyday. Of this we make no secretes. We concretely collaborate with all kinds of proletarians, without question as to their affiliation. But more to the point of concreteness, we believe that yes it is possible and convinient to do things from a "Luxemburguist" perspective. Above all, because of the "union" of tendencies, the fronts, have shone before their ineffectivness. They are setbacks that the revolutionary process cannot allow. there are comrades who participate in plenty of other projects (because they are there, and, considered as a whole, interesting in their own right) and others that don't do so. But this is true. We denounce (we find repugnant) entryism or other similar practices. For us, it is of paramount importance for everyone to develop their praxis in an autonomous fashion, that they don't have to follow orders or similar things. That each is an activist in their own right with the full capacity to engage in the struggles.
We are fully aware of the notion that it is "Back to the beginning" (begining from zero, as MarxSchmarx says). But the truth is that all of us bring many years (and a few many, many years) of militant work in organizations, and we believe that it is promising to join together and form a foundation and plant roots out of which much can come.
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