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No 12 (81) DECEMBER 2009

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DOWN WITH THE POWER OF CAPITAL!

ALL POWER TO THE WORKING PEOPLE!

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CONGRATULATIONS!
Dear friends - members of our party and our supporters abroad, as well as our associates in other Communist parties and sympathizers! The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks congratulates you on the 92-th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution! We wish all of you good health and success in our common struggle against imperialism and the bourgeois counter-revolution for the revival of our great country - the USSR!
We live and work in difficult times, fighting a very strong enemy - international imperialism and its strike force - Zionism, seeking world domination. Because of them, today there is bloodshed of civilians in different regions of the world, through their efforts organized by local pockets of war. Because of them the African people are dying of hunger. They hinder the construction of socialism in the DPRK and Cuba, and in Latin America the people have opted for a free and independent life from the dictates of the U.S.. Because of them and their puppets - Israel's population of Palestine is bleeding, and for many decades can not return to their historic homeland, to build their own independent state.
The counterrevolution in the USSR, generously funded by the West (the United States, primarily), carefully prepared, not only from other countries, but within our own society – are the enemies of the Fatherland, hidden from time to time in the deep crevices and caves, engaged in various acts of sabotage, for the decomposition of society and direct sabotage. Now they are all in sight - on television, in newspapers of different types, splashing poison and hatred for all things Soviet into the community, trying to tarnish our glorious Soviet history and its great leaders - Lenin and Stalin.
Having robbed the Soviet people, stealing from us all our public property, they now built palaces for themselves, bought islands in the Mediterranean Sea and not only there, hiding money in offshore and western banks which is stolen from the people. But they organized a feast during the plague, and no doubt that will end and people will regain everything that was stolen from them and make them answer for what they did - for the accelerated extinction of the population, for the birth of disabled children, for the moral decay of society, the complete lack of prospects for young people, for so popular nowadays suicide, for the poverty and powerlessness of our seniors, who have lost their lives and the forces defending our country and increase our public property for the pillaging of our natural resources, for treachery and betrayal of many of them of the Soviet oath, which they gave the working people, making their way up the ladder to the top to power. None of them can escape or get away from the people's court.
Strong pressure on us by the powers that be, the current poverty of the majority of the population have deprived us of some of the points of support and confidence in the victory of a new Socialist Revolution. We are confident - there is no reason to lose heart! We must get up from our knees, as is already being done by many, and go on the offensive. We Bolsheviks have done much during the years of counterrevolution. We have embarked on public opinion in favour of Stalin, despite the infamous dirty campaign of defamation and denigration of the leader. We have convincingly shown by comparing the advantages of socialist values over the bourgeois values, and awakened in many the desire to fight for the revival of socialism. We have chosen our path of struggle at this historical period. We are keeping up with history in the struggle against counterrevolution, forward to a classless society, which Karl Marx predicted. And we shall win! For us is the historical truth.
NA Andreeva
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the AUCPB

ELECTIONS, AS A MECHANISM FOR BUILDING THE POWER OF CAPITAL

To the Editor of the newspaper Raboche-Krestyanska ya Pravda" have recently arrived a lot of letters, telephone calls from rank and file members of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) from different regions of Ukraine (from Dnepropetrovsk, Vinnitsa, Kherson, Odessa, Donetsk, Kherson and Kharkov regions, and others) criticizing the leadership of the CPU for its opportunistic action, particularly in relation to the article by P. Symonenko on state capitalism, as well as the relationship between the CPU and the VSR leadership.
And many ordinary members of the CPU believe that their party originally stood on revolutionary positions, and only gradually, especially in recent times, has degenerated.
It should be noted that this is not so.
Already, program documents by the CPU testified that the Communist Party is in name only and a Social Democratic Menshevik party of a parliamentary type, in essence.
Why did we, the Bolsheviks come to this conclusion?
The CPU recognizes all forms of property rights and mixed economy, and supports small and medium size businesses. On the question of coming to power, it gives priority to parliamentary forms and methods of struggle. It does not raise the question of the revolutionary smashing of the bourgeois state, the destruction of the bourgeois state machine and creating in its place the proletarian state, the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat. With regard to the socialist past, it stands on the positions of the XX Khrushchevite Party Congress, which denounced the so-called "Cult of personality" and threw mud and slandered (in the secret report by Khrushchev) outstanding Bolshevik successor and continuer of great Lenin – J.V. Stalin. It does not place the problem of the revival of the USSR, but is limited only by a so-called union of fraternal peoples. Etc.
But even Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in “The Communist Manifesto” stated: “The Communists may sum up their theory in one sentence: Abolition of private property. And it is quite true. After all, Marxism-Leninism is the theoretical basis, the theoretical expression of the proletarian struggle for emancipation from exploitation and oppression. The basis for exploitation and oppression, as strictly scientific and convincingly demonstrated by Marx in Capital is private ownership of means of production. The proletariat, devoid of the historical development of all means of production, becomes a hired worker wage slave who is forced to hire himself out to the bourgeoisie (to sell their labour power, ie, the ability to work, which, as a result, becomes a commodity) to earn a piece of bread and to provide a meagre existence to his family. The capitalist, the owner of the means of production, does not pay the workers for all his labour, but only part of it. That is, working part-time for ourselves and for that, receiving wages, and the other part-time working for the bourgeois, making surplus value for him (in other words - the profit, as a converted form of surplus value) - the source of all wealth of the bourgeois class .
Also quite clear is that the capitalists will never give up their amassed wealth, will not voluntarily give it to the working class and all working people, just because their party won the elections. The proletariat can only take the power into their own hands in a revolutionary way, breaking the chains of wage slavery, destroying the bourgeois state and in its place creating a proletarian state (the dictatorship of the proletariat) .
Here is what V.I. Lenin says on the matter, in his outstanding work "The State and Revolution:" “The main thing in Marx's theory is the class struggle. This is spoken of and written about very often. But this is not true ... Those who recognize only the class struggle, are still not Marxist, he may be even within the bounds of bourgeois thinking and bourgeois politics. To confine Marxism to the doctrine of class struggle - means limiting Marxism, distorting it, reducing it to what is acceptable to the bourgeoisie. A Marxist is one who extends the recognition of class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In this is the most profound difference between a Marxist and the ordinary petty (as well as big) bourgeoisie. This is the touchstone on which should be experienced the real understanding and recognition of Marxism "(PSS, v.33 p.34). And further, Lenin said: "The essence of Marx's theory of state has been mastered only by those who understand that the dictatorship of one class is necessary not only for every class of society in general, not only for the proletariat which has overthrown the bourgeoisie, but also for the entire historical period which separates capitalism from "classless society", from communism "(ibid., p.35).
The state, as Marxism-Leninism teaches us, is an organ of oppression, the oppression of one class of exploited people, the class of workers – by another class, the class of exploiters.
The essence of the State, its class character is given very detailed by Friedrich Engels in his famous works "Anti-Duhring, " The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, etc.
"The State - is an organization of the wealthy class to protect it from the poor", said Engels (The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State ", Moscow, Politizdat, 1989, p.179). And then he continues: "The state ... is a state only of the ruling class and in all cases remains essentially a machine for the suppression of the oppressed, exploited class" (ibid., pp. 183).
Marx, Engels, V.I. Lenin, analyzing the questions on the origin of the State and its essence, showed that the state as an organ of violence, an organ of the rule of a privileged minority over the oppressed, exploited majority of working people, ensures democracy for a minority, for the exploiters, the wealthy and is a ruthless organ of suppression of any discontent by the oppressed labouring masses. To do this, the exploiting state creates its own organs of repression, organs of violence: police, courts and, generally, the legal system, army, prisons, etc., etc. - who faithfully serve the interests of the privileged class, the interests of the bourgeoisie (if the question is of the bourgeois state), i.e., the interests of money.
And therefore, it is completely political naivety that one can attempt to wrest power from that of the bourgeois state by parliamentary means, by presidential- parliamentary election campaigns, as suggested to the working people of Ukraine by the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU).
Only the proletarian state (the dictatorship of the proletariat) ensures democracy for the majority, for the workers, and uses repression, violence against the exploiting minority.
J.V. Stalin formulated the most important tasks, "the three main sides of the dictatorship of the proletariat:
1) Using the power of the proletariat for the suppression of the exploiters, to defend our country, to build closer ties with the proletariat of other countries for the development and triumph of the revolution in all countries.
2) Using the power of the proletariat for the final separation of workers and exploited masses from the bourgeoisie, to consolidate the alliance of the proletariat with these masses, for the involvement of these masses in socialist construction, the public management of these masses by the proletariat.
3) Using the power of the proletariat for the organization of socialism, for the abolition of classes, for the transition to a society without classes, into a socialist society. ... Just all these three aspects taken together, give us a full and complete concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat "(Stalin, Collected Works, Vol., Vol.8, p.30-31," Problems of Leninism ").
Rejection of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the reluctance to wage a revolutionary struggle to establish it, bears evidence of the opportunistic nature of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Indeed, the leadership of the CPU does not need this struggle. It is so well settled in the Ukrainian bourgeois state.
Therefore, we, Bolsheviks, stand entirely on the side of the VSR and the editorial board of the newspaper “Working Class”, headed by A.V. Bondarchuk, who not only exposes the opportunistic nature of the parliamentary CPU, but also works in the working class, actively participating in the wave of the labour and protest movement of workers.


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ABOUT THE BLOC OF THE LEFT FORCES
On September 14, four political forces: the CPU (P. Simonenko), "Union of Left" (V. Volga), the party of "Justice" (S. Nikolaenko) and SDPU (o) (Yu Zagorodnii) signed a joint declaration of the electoral bloc of the Left and centre-left forces. As A.P. Simonenko emphasised (Communist »№ 72, 16.09.2009)" , The Left Bloc has been created for the long term. The block will support a single candidate for presidential elections, will participate and put forward the general lists for elections to local councils and elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
The Declaration of the electoral bloc of left and centre-left forces (published in Communist »№ 73, 18.09.2009) sets objectives: to prevent a looming catastrophe and lead Ukraine out of a deep crisis, end the regime of radical nationalists and return power to the people, as well as to eliminate the dominance of the oligarchs in the economy; send society on the socialist path of development and to stop predatory privatization, return to state ownership of strategic enterprises and industries, end violations of the Constitution and laws of the state, the status of Russian language raised to the state level, while strengthening the status of Ukrainian as the official language, eliminate the threat of fascist society, a radical reform of Ukraine's foreign policy with the restoration of relations of strategic partnership and cooperation with the CIS, primarily with Russia and Belarus, to prevent the inclusion of Ukraine into NATO and others
Immediately noteworthy is the item on the prevention of violations of the Constitution and laws of Ukraine. What does it mean? And the fact that P. Symonenko and Co and are not going to put an end to private property. After all, Article 41 of the Constitution declares: "The right of private property is inviolable". It follows that the intention to send society on the socialist path of development is no more than a phrase.
Eliminate the dominance of the oligarchs in the economy? This problem is nothing more than ridicule. So it broke up the oligarchs, ie, the billionaires and multimillionaires giving the people property belonging to them (more precisely, what they have stolen from the people). P. Symonenko becomes president, and the next day (figuratively speaking), the oligarchs line up in front of his Cabinet in place to deliver the businesses, corporations, holding companies, and especially banks robbed by them. Without the most severe class struggle, a life-and-death struggle, which will rise, by millions of working people, the oligarchs will not give anyone a dime. And P. Symonenko, as well as all the signatories, along with the declaration, know and understand this all too well. But they continue to sow the illusion of voting among our fine veterans regretting the loss of the socialist system and our temporarily destroyed great Motherland, and naively believe in honesty and justice of the bourgeois electoral system.
Eliminate the threat of fascist society?
Who is comrade Simonenko going to carry out this item with? With SDPU (o)? With the party, ideologue and inspiration which was by Leonid Kravchuk - traitor of the CPSU and the Soviet people, one of the major criminals, the destroyers of the USSR, who actively promoted the planting of nationalism and the revival banderovschina in Ukraine? With such allies, we will also "win" and prevent banderovschinu fascisation of society, as well as "eliminate oligarchic dominance in the economy."
On the possibility of returning power to the people by parliamentary means we have already mentioned above.
But this raises a specific question - will the oligarchs allow the representative of the block to the presidency?
In my opinion, the answer to this question is absolutely clear - no, it will not allow it!
It is interesting to note that in the same “Communist” (№ 65, 21.08.2009) was published an article by Svetlana Garages "We are aware"! And the preface to her article, the author has a famous saying by mathematics academician of Russia and not a communist Igor Shafarevich: "Do we understand it now! We do: there was a redivision of property, unprecedented in history. The hands of a narrow layer of oligarchs grasped assets - more than the gold of Peru, and the wealth of India. So can we imagine that all this will be put in jeopardy because of which the ballot box one of us in the elections places a tick? For such assets, world wars are being raged, and not a tick on a ballot paper! Influencing the results of the elections is futile - it's like trying to beat competitors. The purpose of elections is irrelevant to ascertaining the will of the people”. Everything said is clear and precise. Ordinary people have no effect on the election results. Everything is decided by tycoons, big business and money bags. And although the article by S.Garazha tried to downplay the significance of these words and even portrayed the CPU as a Leninist Bolshevik Party, which is "tightly holding hands, close to lots of steep and difficult paths" (sitting in the parliamentary and ministerial seats and receiving only rather small salaries from the ruling bourgeois regime - yes, dear Svetlana?), the problem remains the same.
In the modern era of decaying and dying imperialism, parliamentarism, elections at all levels and ranks are tightly controlled by big capital. The wealth of the bourgeoisie will not be given up without a fight! In the aforementioned article S. Garage quoted oligarch Boris Berezovsky: "Capital hires power, but the form of recruitment is called elections". All quite frank and clear. Playing with the bourgeoisie in elections by its rules, trying to oppose their millions and billions - is absolutely nonsense.
Moreover, the real power in Ukraine in the hands of the transnational corporations and banks, primarily American. And the U.S. will never allow to power in Ukraine a politician of pro-Russian orientation, speaking out for the restoration and strengthening of ties and cooperation between Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
Therefore, we, the Bolsheviks, see our task - to expose the parliamentary- presidential election illusion, and to participate in the workers' struggle for their rights, instilling into this fight the elements of class consciousness and understanding of the historical mission of the proletariat to destroy the last exploitative system in the world - capitalism at its highest imperialist stage.

A. MAYEVSKY, secretary of the CC AUCPB

A NEW WORLD IS BORN

92 years ago, on November 7 (October 25, old style calender) 1917 in Russia, the Great October Socialist Revolution was carried out.
The revolution was prepared by an entire historical course of events. Aggravation of the extreme contradictions in Russia's multi-national society, grinding poverty of the working people, the loss of millions of working people (mostly peasants wearing soldiers' uniforms) of Tsarist Russia in the fields of the First World War, which the governments unleashed of the biggest imperialist powers on the planet and fought in the name of re-division of an already divided world, the seizure of colonies and markets for super-profits - all this had been the objective factors that led to the overthrow of tsarist Russia in February 1917 and, several months later - to the overthrow of the bourgeois Provisional Government and the transition of power into the hands of the working class and peasantry of Russia (dictatorship of the proletariat) as a result of the Great October Revolution.
The proletarian Bolshevik Party (RSDLP (b)) led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the party, the leader of the working class, led the insurgent people and the toiling masses of Russia and the world. The Party centre directing the uprising, which became the core of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, by decision of the Party Central Committee was headed by J.V. Stalin, a student, loyal aide and closest associate of Lenin.
Workers of the young Soviet republic, units and formations of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, set up by V.I. Lenin in February 1918, survived the years of civil war and foreign military intervention by 14 imperialist states, routed the enemy and defended the gains of the revolution.
In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was created - a voluntary association of countries and peoples, the world's first proletarian multinational state of workers and peasants.
The construction of socialism in the Soviet Union was implemented under the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) , headed by the successor of the cause of V.I. Lenin, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the 130 th anniversary of whose birth will be in December (21.12.1879) this year. As a result of industrialization, agricultural collectivization and the cultural revolution, by the mid 1930-s in our country has eliminated the remnants of private ownership and exploitation of man by man, and socialist socio-economic relations had triumphed. By the end of the 30-s, the Soviet Union occupied third place in the world and the first - in Europe, in economic potential. Soviet power and socialism, friendship and brotherhood among the peoples of the USSR, the leadership of Lenin's Bolshevik Party, headed by J.V. Stalin, the unbreakable unity of the Party and people, the mighty Soviet Red Army, armed with the most advanced military equipment and weapons had become a solid foundation of the Great Victory over fascism in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). The Soviet Army was not only defending the freedom and independence of our country, but also liberated the peoples of Europe from fascist slavery, as many modern European politicians "forget" blasphemously by betting on a par with Stalin's socialism and Hitler's fascism.
The anti-Stalin campaign launched by Khrushchev's leadership, laid the ideological, political and socio-economic foundations for the gradual degeneration of the Communist Party and Soviet state, to the marginalization of the working class from power, and fostering within the party, the treacherous Gorbachev leadership. M.S. Gorbachev and his cronies in the guise of restructuring (perestroika) carried out a bourgeois counter-revolution. As rightly pointed out by N.A. Andreeva, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the AUCPB - inside the CPSU Central Committee had ripened the headquarters of the counterrevolution. As a result, the country suffered a temporary defeat of socialism, and the world's first state of workers and peasants - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was destroyed.

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Now, on the open spaces of our great country, torn to pieces into "sovereign principalities" by the national bourgeoisie, there reigns capital.

WORLD FINANCIAL CRISIS
has hit almost all the imperialist system, and has only exacerbated the suffering of the masses in the republics of the former Soviet Union, revealing the unsightliness and anti-human nature of capitalism.
Even in the "Communist Manifesto" Marx and Engels showed that the bourgeois mode of production with its "epidemic of overproduction" will inevitably cause crises. The productive forces at the disposal of bourgeois society "do not serve to further the development of bourgeois property relations, on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, the bourgeois relations of delaying their development, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. Bourgeois society is too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. - How does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces, on the other hand, by the conquest of new markets and more thorough exploitation of old ones. What, then? The fact that it is preparing more extensive and more devastating crises and reducing the means to counteract them "(p.31-32).
Currently, the world's leading politicians, as well as the scholars, economists, political scientists, sociologists and pundits serving them, talk about the near completion of the crisis and the release of major economies from recession. Evidence of this, in their view, are, in particular on the improvement of economic indicators in the leading Western countries like Germany and France, where growth in the 2 nd quarter amounted to a 0.3% improvement in stock market indices, rising oil prices, etc.
At the September summit of G-20 in Pittsburgh (USA), world leaders in their Final Declaration that: they "came at a critical moment of transition from crisis to recovery, to leave behind the era of irresponsibility ..." "We want growth without extreme cycles ... "" Sustainable economic development is the core for the reduction of poverty.
Fidel Castro, analyzing the results of the summit of the " Big Twenty", said: "The idea of capitalist development without a crisis - it is a great illusion that the United States and its allies want to sell to countries with emerging market economies participating in the G-20. Fidel also stressed that China has the biggest reserves of convertible currency in the world, "is the main creditor of the United States", that is, quite simply, thanks to gold and currency reserves (gold reserves), China, exceeding 2 trillion. U.S. dollars, China is saving the crumbling American economy, helping it stay afloat. Debts of the two most developed capitalist countries in the world, the U.S. and Japan, further notes that Fidel Castro is 20 (!) Trillion. dollars (ie, one third of total world GDP). And he concludes: "The United States can not build a model of economic development. This finding again confirms the Marxist-Leninist conclusion that imperialism has outlived itself and is an obstacle for the further development of human civilization.

USA. The U.S. budget deficit this year is close to 1.8 trln.doll. (13% of GDP), and the Fed (Federal Reserve), the U.S. continues to print dollars. The United States for many years has the largest in the world absolute value of government debt. It rose from 33% of GDP in 1980 to 56% of GDP in 1990 and exceeded 70% of GDP in 2008, topping the mark of 9 trillion. U.S. dollars. At the same time, as noted by observers of the information- analytical web edition "Today Roux, the U.S. financial system was faced with another challenge. Finance Minister Timothy Geithner called in early August for the Congress to increase the upper limit of public debt for the country to avoid technical default. Now this limit is set at 12.1 trillion dollars and is expected to soon be overtaken. Otherwise, the U.S. will not be able to serve their state bonds, which hold reserves of other countries and major financial corporations. It is possible that in the end the first time in postwar history, the U.S. national debt may exceed 100% of GDP.
Debts of individuals (households) on mortgage and financial credit in the current year exceeded $ 13.5 trillion. The debt of every American citizen is 44 thousand dollars
Unemployment in the U.S., as we mentioned earlier, has reached 9,5% of the labour force and gripped millions of people.
Speaking in August at a conference in Bangkok, a Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz noted that "the global financial crisis marks the collapse of American-style capitalism."

CHINA. In the media there is a lot of merit material on China, that its economy has withstood the crisis and continues to steadily and confidently develop, stunning the world with its success. The IMF forecasts that the Chinese economy is expected to surpass Japan and into second place after the United States as early as next year.
However, many overlook that China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long being passing along the capitalist path of development and has come to its highest imperialist stage. Behind the general statistics on the growth of prosperity of the Chinese people and the victory over poverty, there hides the fact of its rapid social differentiation. Thus, the US-based CNN referring to the rating published by the Shanghai business online edition of the Hurun Report, argues that China surpasses the U.S. in the number of billionaires. According to the annual calculation, in China there are 130 "official" billionaires, but there are actually twice that number, believe the drafters of the rating. The number of Chinese millionaires have already exceeded 800 thousand. The world crisis has only accelerated the growth of a galaxy of Chinese super-rich. In 2008 there were 101 people, and in 2003, China did not know people with this amount of wealth. (According to the magazine Forbes, the U.S. is believed to be the country of billionaires, the number of which is 359 people.). A typical Chinese billionaire is a man 50 years old, who began business about 16 years ago, usually in the development business (ie business related to investments in real estate – A.M.). His hobbies are swimming, golf and travelling, and the favourite countries – are the U.S., Australia and France. 102 women appear on the list of thousands of the wealthiest citizens of China. And at the other end of the scale – are a few tens of millions of unemployed. According to official figures from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, by the end of 2007 the number of rural dwellers living in abject poverty stood at 14.79 million. And, in conditions close to the poverty line, live 28.41 million rural residents. In the same year, only 25.7% of residential buildings in the village were supplied with electricity and gas (see "2000», № 39, 25.09-1.10.2009) .
As we have written above, China has the world's largest gold and currency reserves, which for July-September, rose to 141 billion dollars and the end of September totalled 2.27 trillion. dollars (the second largest gold reserves in Japan - 1.05 trillion. dollars, in third place - in Russia - 412,7 billion dollars). Many analysts have noted the deep financial and economic relationship and interdependence of the economies of China and the United States. The United States – is the world's largest consumer market, with which are tied many exporting countries, including China. And, in fact, the gold reserves of China (and Japan and Russia) keep the U.S. economy afloat. With increasing inflation and the weakening of the dollar, in equal measure the gold reserves of the countries concerned have depreciated. And so the countries - largest holders of dollar reserves and U.S. Treasury bonds, are not interested in the depreciation of their reserves (gold reserves). At the same time, the deterioration in the financial and economic situation in the United States and a weakening U.S. dollar would adversely affect the economy of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) (in equal measure, but on a smaller scale, this relates to the financial systems of Japan and Russia, pregnant with dollars). Moreover, some researchers believe that the situation in China's economy amid the global financial crisis is not as good as being depicted by official statistics. In the opinion of I. Verkut and R.Vasilishin (see "2000» № 41 of 9-15.10.2009) , "in reality, China's economy is in recession, pointed directly by the collapse of energy consumption and reduction in the volume of transport by 10-12% at an annual rate" (the authors are talking about the results of the first half of 2009). The interlocking of the economies of the U.S. and China makes them a sort of Siamese twins, when the survival of one is inextricably linked to the existence of another, and the collapse of one economy would inevitably entail the collapse of another. So much for the "socialist" China, which keeps the economy afloat of the main imperialist powers in the world, and, with it, objectively, prolongs the existence of a dying imperialism.

RUSSIA. According to the audit and consulting company FBK, among the G-20 countries, Russia's economy fell most. "The last place in the rating is Russia, where the decline in GDP was the most significant: minus 10.9% in the 2 nd quarter of 2009 compared with the corresponding period in 2008" - the FCO stated. And this is nothing surprising. Russia's economy is open raw-material in nature, being nothing more than a raw materials appendage of the highly developed Western countries. Thus, only crude oil and petroleum products account for about 40% of total exports of Russia. More than three-fold reduction in world oil prices (from 140.73 dollars per barrel in early July 2008 to 41.52 dollars per barrel in January 2009) dealt a heavy blow to the economy of Russia. But exports still go to the huge volumes of gas, timber, diamonds ...
The accident at the Sayan-Shushenskaya power plant, which led to the deaths of 70 people, has highlighted the backward nature of the economy of Russia. "This incident - said U.S. “The Independent”, - is a harbinger of what Russia's leaders have long feared, namely, the inevitable degradation of the infrastructure of the Soviet era. From power plants and ports and airports, from pipelines and railroads to the city's district heating plants and the Moscow metro - almost all are in urgent need of repair "(RIA" New Region ", 21.08.2009).
But according to official Federal State Statistics Service, the number of poor in Russia, ie residents with incomes below the subsistence minimum, was in the 1 st quarter of 24.5 million. or 17,4% of the total population, an increase compared with the results of 2008, by 6 million people. The number of unemployed, calculated by the method of the ILO, reached in April, 7.7 million people. And the unemployment rate exceeded 10%.
By 2025, the number of inhabitants of Russia will have decreased by 8,5 million people (to 133.3 million people), and by mid-century there will be living 25 million (18%) less than now. That is the conclusion reached by experts from Populations Reference Bureau. If Russia now occupies 9^th place in the world in the number of residents, in 40 years it will no longer be in the top ten. The population of other republics of the former Soviet Union is rapidly decreasing, (ie, simply dying out). According to the same Research Bureau, by mid-century the population of Moldova will be reduced by 24%, Ukraine and Georgia - by 23% (www.vedomosti. ru).
The optimistic statements by the government of Russia on the signs of economic recovery is not endorsed by the Federal Tax Service of Russia. According to statistics from the Federal Tax Service, in August 2009 showed growth of only charges tax on oil production, linked to the world price of raw materials. Proceeds from other taxes remain on the previous record low levels, while fees from payroll taxes is slowing down, even in comparison with previous months this year, writes "Kommersant" (18/09/2009) .

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OUT OF THE CRISIS - through war.

A year before the Great October Revolution, Lenin in his famous work, “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” said that "to correct the imbalance between the development of productive forces and capital accumulation, on the one hand, - and the division of colonies and spheres of influence for financial capital, on the other, imperialism has no means other than war. (PSS, Vol.27, p.396).
To overcome the current crisis, the seizure and possession of new raw materials, primarily for greater control over oil flows, U.S. imperialism is leading two wars: in Afghanistan and Iraq; Barack Obama threatens to stiffen sanctions on Iran, including the use of force. So, after reports about the construction of Iran's secret (the second, but known to all of the nuclear complex in Netenze) uranium enrichment plant, President Barack Obama on the summit "G20 " in Pittsburgh, said that he "does not preclude the use of force, but would like to resolve the issue through diplomatic channels. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown "strongly condemned the behavior of Iran". The Israeli authorities have, therefore, urged the West to give "an unequivocal response" to Iran.
But the main aim of U.S. imperialism is Russia, with its innumerable natural resources. And all the talk about Barack Obama's "rebooting" of relations with Russia, the need for mutual reduction of nuclear potentials for eliminating nuclear threats in the world, are nothing more than camouflage, to cover the aggressive nature of U.S. imperialism.

In July, U.S. President Barack Obama paid a visit to Moscow and met with President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The purpose of the visit of the U.S. president was to prepare the conditions for signing the new Treaty on Further Reduction of Strategic Offensive Arms (START) to replace START-1 Treaty, which expires in December this year.
To recall, the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START-1) was signed by the USSR and the United States July 31, 1991 and entered into force on December 5, 1994. The term - 15 years, until December 5, 2009. The Agreement obligated each of the parties to reduce more than 40% of nuclear warheads (up to 6 thousand units) and approximately 30% of strategic delivery vehicles (up to 1600 units). By 2001, Russia and the United States complied with these obligations. But ... Russia had destroyed carriers and nuclear warheads, but the U.S. warheads were only stockpiled, creating the so-called "Breakout potential" (return to service) and thereby actually violating this Agreement, since these warheads can be, if necessary, quickly installed on bombs or ballistic missiles.
In the framework of the START agreements, signed by Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev on July 6 which will be the basis for a new START Treaty, Russia and the U.S. have announced plans to cut almost twice the number of nuclear warheads - up to 1500-1675 units, and their carriers - to 500-1100 units.
Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, in an interview to “Nakanune.Ru "immediately after the signing of this framework agreement, noted that "the U.S. decided to disarm Russia without nuclear strikes”. Why did he come to this conclusion? The fact is that the Americans, in fact, refused to negotiate on the means of defence and cruise missiles. In particular, Leonid Ivashov drew attention to the fact that the U.S. "is today reducing nuclear forces and increasing the strike class of cruise missiles. The most powerful submarines, each of which carries 24 missiles and10 warheads are being dismantled, and 154 cruise missiles are being loaded onto each submarine. We can see that they work area-based - the Barents and Okhotsk Sea, in short, these are the territories through which they can shoot "through" whole territory of Russia." And to the correspondent' s question, are we able to resist this, Leonid Ivashov, said: "We have nothing to respond with - we have no missile defence in general, and anti-aircraft defence system will be destroyed after the reforms by Serdyukov (Russia's defence minister - AM). And 63% of our airspace is not covered. Then, cruise missiles, by the U.S. will be "free hunters". But the U.S. has to adopt more cruise missiles, ground-and air-based, which are not included and not covered by the START Treaty. On the question of "Nakanune.Ru, not being similar to a "reboot" of Gorbachev's perestroika, the general replied:" We're from the Gorbachev period and did not go ... To this day, the entire negotiation process is at "Pioneer-level" : we give them a good example to follow, which the Americans themselves do not follow - they are calculating thoroughly and are a few steps ahead of us. Their task – is to disarm Russia, without causing nuclear strikes.
It does not change the situation by Barack Obama announcing in mid-September, not to deploy missile defence shields in Poland and the Czech Republic. The United States intends to replace the land area with a sea-based missile defence SM-3, which will be installed aboard the U.S. Navy. Barack Obama has ordered to increase the number of Navy ships equipped with the combat information and control system AEGIS from 18 to 67, which will be established and interceptor missiles SM-3. By the government's plans, since 2011, to patrol the Mediterranean and the North Sea three ships will be used with the AEGIS system. Between 2015 and 2020 are planned use of the SM-3 land-based versions, with an area, which this missile would protect, that will increase. In addition, over the next 10-20 years, the U.S. plans to deploy weapons vehicles in outer space, capable of intercepting missiles, as well as a serial and UAV interceptor aircraft with laser devices, which will be on duty in the air near the territory of a potential enemy and intercept missiles on launch.
Not very good with diplomatic etiquette, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, while in July on a visit to Georgia, described the essence of American strategy: "squeeze Russia and let nature take care of the rest." Words spoken openly and frankly.

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ELECTIONS IN UKRAINE

October 17 officially launched a 90-day presidential election campaign in Ukraine. Even the main contenders for the highest office in Ukraine - Victor Yanukovych and Yulia Timoshenko - in the summer launched the campaign, under the guise of social advertising. And A. Yatsenyuk, the young and budding bourgeois politician, former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada as early as the summer began openly to campaign. All Ukraine haas been force fed by his billboards and tents, where the youth are offered free unlimited amount of promotional materials (newspapers) . The lack of any reaction from the powers that be on the inadmissibility to campaign before its official launch says only that Yatsenyuk – is another puppet of Zionist-American capital. Of course, in this campaign, he is unlikely to win, but the run-in and practical experience of the 35-year-old politician will serve him well. And at the same time, he will again look towards overseas donors. Elections to the President of Ukraine will be held on January 17, the second round is scheduled for Feb. 7.
The election campaign is unfolding against the backdrop of a deep crisis, the hitting Ukraine hardest. The crisis, which is not over, like the Prime Minister trying to convince all of us, on the contrary, is entering its decisive phase, leading to the collapse of the entire financial and economic system of Ukraine.
According to the Interstate Statistical Committee of CIS, the decline in industrial production in Ukraine in January-August 2009 compared to the same period last year amounted to 29,6%, followed by Moldova - minus 24.6%, and in Russia, the drop = 14.0% . Also inflation is on the rise in Ukraine occupying first place in the CIS countries - 17,1%, followed by Belarus - 14,1%.
The external state debt of Ukraine, according to the Accounting Chamber, at the beginning of the autumn was 20,5 billion dollars together with corporate debt, external debt exceeds $ 100 billion. In the light of almost double the hryvnia devaluation, the value of external debt in domestic currency rose to almost twice. Even President Yushchenko was forced to admit that in 2010 only on servicing external borrowings of Ukraine, more money will be spent than on the financing of all state spending on defence and health care combined. And there is also the national debt, which now, according to the Ministry of Finance, is 62,6 billion gryvnia, or approximately $ 8 billion. All loans that the government takes from the IMF, go to pay off external debts. That is, the IMF loans to repay loans previously taken by banks and corporations. The debts at the same time taken by the government, are borne by the state budget, ie citizens of Ukraine. But, as noted by commentators, in spite of these loans, the banking system of Ukraine is moribund and could at any moment collapse. It is simply not able to pay off its external loans. This will lead to the collapse of the entire economy of Ukraine. All that had continued to somehow work, has stopped. Hundreds of thousands, and millions of workers will be ruthlessly thrown into the street. The bourgeoisie always tries to overcome the crisis and save their stolen fortunes at the expense of further impoverishment (and extinction) of the masses.
Here's how is described the real "bottom of the crisis” in Ukraine by already been mentioned earlier bourgeois politicians, Igor Berkut, leader of "Great Ukraine" party and Roman Vasilishin, head of the Fund's socio-political initiatives: "The abandoned, looted by the oligarchs factories and mines, bad roads, destroyed the national banking system . Millions of unemployed people, state workers, pensioners and students who are rightly demanding to be fed, provided with work and guaranteed social standards. We should not forget about the Western creditors, who will try to seize our farmland, gas transportation system, ports, shelves and anything else that will have value and importance to the economy." (See "2000» № 41, 9-15.10.2009) .
That's what has been brought to Ukraine during 18 years of "independence" of the bourgeoisie and kept in office, presidents and successive governments.
Presidential elections will not change this catastrophic situation. The president will be a politician who will serve the West faithfully, along with the transnational corporations and banks and will complete a sale for a pittance of the national heritage of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian people will finally be driven into slavery and bondage.

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The experience of the Great October Socialist Revolution has taught us that to achieve victory over the bourgeoisie, to establish the rule of the working class and its allies (the working peasantry and the working intelligentsia) , is possible only during a revolutionary struggle.
"Great wars in history, the great tasks of the revolution were solved only by the fact that the advanced classes not just once or twice repeated their onslaught and managed to achieve victory, taught by the experience defeat" (Lenin, PSS, 17, s.360) .

Preparing and implementing a new revolutionary onslaught against the bourgeoisie in order to finally destroy its dominance - is an urgent task of the modern proletariat.

A. MAYEVSKY, secretary of AUCPB

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