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No 1 (118) JANUARY 2013
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1937 IN THE HISTORY OF THE USSR
THE "GREAT TERROR" OR THE GREAT LIE?
There are many glorious dates in Soviet history. They are 1945 - the
year of the Great Victory, 1961 - the year of the launch into space of
the world's first astronaut - Yuri Gagarin. There are also tragic years -
1941 - the year of the attack on the Soviet country by fascist hordes,
1953 - the year of the death of Great Stalin. But what about 1937, a
year with a distance from us of now 76 years? What is so special about
that year? Is it the year of the "great terror", something that has
already for many decades been hammered into our heads by various
democrats-anti-Soviets? Or is it something else? Why is it that during a
discussion with any anti-Soviet, the talk inevitably "rolls" into the
subject of 1937? What role and what point do these "truth-seekers" try
to make of 1937, and why do they need this? Here on these important
issues we try to find answers.
Two incompatible viewpoints "collide" “head to head”. The first
viewpoint is the Soviet one, which says: "The year 1937 revealed new
information about the Bukharin-Trotsky gang of monsters. The trial of
Pyatakov, Radek and others, the trial of Tukhachevsky, Yakir and others,
and finally, the trial of Bukharin, Rykov, Krestinsky, Rosengoltz and
others - all of these processes have shown that Bukharinites and
Trotskyists have for a long time constituted a common gang of enemies of
the people under the guise of the "bloc of Rights and Trotskyites".
The trials found that the Trotsky-Bukharinite fiends, by fulfilling the
will of their masters – the foreign bourgeois intelligence services,
they were hell-bent on destroying the Communist Party and the Soviet
state, undermining the country's defence capability, opening the way to
foreign military intervention, training towards the defeat of the Red
Army, dismemberment of the Soviet Union, the destruction of the gains of
the workers and peasants, and the restoration of capitalist slavery in
the USSR."
The second viewpoint is the anti-Soviet view that asserts the complete
opposite to the first viewpoint: every person (and this bit is important
– as they mean every single person!) convicted at the trials in 1937
were in no way to blame and were completely innocent; they did not carry
out any anti-Soviet activity, and that all these "enemies of the
people" were invented by Stalin to realize his own personal plans and
hide the "sins" of his own biography (the imaginary service in the
tsarist secret police, etc.). And in general - Stalin was "a born
villain" who "ate little children." Overall - "there were no enemies of
Soviet power and neither could there be." (The exploiting classes were
eliminated after being deprived of their private property. Well, who
then would go against Soviet power ..?).
* * *
So let us count up all those real enemies of Soviet power, of Stalin, of
that path of socialist construction which he proposed. Ryutin’s group
(the Ryutin Affair) in the platform "Union of Marxists - Leninists"
(beautifully sounding, is it not?) wrote: "The economic policy of
Stalin, ... has led ... not only to an unprecedented economic crisis all
across the whole of the country, but has also discredited the very
principles of socialist construction and pushed us back in economic
terms by at least 12-15 years... Errors committed by Stalin and his
clique ... have turned into crimes.. ... The Party and the working class
in their overwhelming majority are against Stalin and his clique. We
need only to unite these scattered and terrorized forces... and begin
work on eliminating the Stalinist leadership ... The liquidation of the
dictatorship of Stalin and his clique."
What did Trotsky write for many years in his "Bulletin of the
opposition?" He wrote - Down with Stalin! E.A. Dreitzer who was close to
Trotsky admitted in 1934 that he had received a written directive by
Trotsky about preparations for a terrorist act against Comrades Stalin
and Voroshilov. The content of the letter by Trotsky was kept short. It
began with these words: "Dear friend! Convey that today we have the
following main tasks before us: 1 - To remove Stalin and Voroshilov, 2 –
To unfold work for organising nuclei in the army, 3 - In the event of
war, to take advantage of every setback and confusion to capture the
leadership."
Well, good. These are individuals, groups. And indeed in the course of
the Great Patriotic War, it became clear that the Soviet government and
the policy of Stalin had many thousands of real enemies. These were the
Vlasovites (ROA - Russian Liberation Army members who wanted to liberate
the country from the Bolsheviks and the Soviet regime), people such as
Bandera, Konovalets and others who murdered tens of thousands of Soviet
citizens. Then there were the "forest brothers", who fiercely fought
against Soviet power for many years after the war had ended. Most of the
prisoners were in the camps not in 1937, but in 1946-1947. And most of
them were Vlasovites, Banderites and police.
Was it possible that maybe by the beginning of perestroika the enemies
of Soviet power were all "dead"? Far from it. There were more than
enough supporters of the capitalist counter-revolution. Let's read what
Mother "Bison" of perestroika - Anatoly Chubais had to say about this:
He says, "... The fact is that I hate Soviet power. Moreover, I have
hated very little in life in the same way that I hate Soviet power. It
started with the morning turn-on of the radio and a cheerful voice with
such a deliberate hideous Soviet tone: "Hello, comrades! Let’s begin
with our morning exercises!" For many normal people of school years,
this was a happy childhood. But I hated my school. The school taught
advanced military-patriotic education. We went to the building in
uniform with collars like the sailors wore, and sang the song: "The sun
is shining bright, hello, beautiful country!" My school does not rouse
tender feelings in me. And my main memory is that my friends and I once
decided to smash it to pieces or better still, burn it down. We managed
to tear off and damage just one part of a wing of a seagull that was
welded onto the military-patriotic monument. We were unable to inflict a
lot of damage to it. But me and my friends all hated it." Someone might
say, "Well nothing terrible! It's just crazy behaviour." But no, it's
not that simple. This is a conscious, deliberate hatred for the
fundamental values that are at the core ideology of Soviet man, and deep
ideological unity with Ryutin and the "Bonapartist" Tukhachevsky
without exception.
It is hardly necessary to dwell on the anti-Stalin Khrushchev report to
the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU in 1956. The defamatory statements
contained in it were thoroughly debunked in the book by American
researcher Grover Furr "Anti-Stalin Falsehoods" (“Anti-Stalinskaya
Podlost”), M., 2007. The author rightly concludes, "Of all the
assertions listed in the "secret report" directly exposing Stalin and
Beria, not one turned out to be truthful."
About the processes themselves in 1937. Here it is interesting to note
the evidence by J. Davis, a former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR from
January 1937 until the spring of 1938, that is to say, right at the peak
of the political processes taking place. His he set out his memories of
that time in his book "Mission to Moscow", on which President Roosevelt
left the following inscription: "This book is a phenomenon, it is for
all times." On June 25, 1941, that is three days after Hitler's attack
on the Soviet Union, Ambassador Davis gave a lecture at Harvard
University. He was asked about what he could say about the presence
inside the Soviet Union of a "fifth column." A short answer followed:
"It no longer exists – they have all been shot." In one of the letters
included in the book and written in April 1938, Davis wrote about the
trial of the "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites ": "... And there is hardly
a foreign observer who would have after following the course of the
processes, questioned the involvement of the majority of defendants in
the conspiracy, which had the goal of eliminating Stalin." Davis comes
to the conclusion that the Soviet leadership was preparing for war, not
only by increasing its defence capability, but also by a thorough
purging of their leadership cadres, whatever the high position they may
have occupied: "The Russians had their own quislings, by analogy with
that same Norway, and they destroyed them."
A film was made under the same name of the book by Davis. Immediately
after the Second World War, under President Truman, members of the
notorious un-American activities committee were engaged in an all-out
tough purging of all films carrying the truth about Soviet Russia. And,
of course, "Mission to Moscow" was included, which, as claimed by the
bloodthirsty McCarthy Commission, was staged in Hollywood, "along a
Stalinist scenario."
Objective observers who lived in the Soviet Union and who had seen the
situation from within, evaluate the end of the 1930-s in the Soviet
Union quite differently than the anti-Sovietchiks do. Here is a small
excerpt from the memoirs of Zhukov: "Every time of peace has its own
special features, its own colour and beauty. But I want to say a good
word about the pre-war period (in the USSR). It featured a unique,
original elevation of mood, optimism, a certain spirituality and at the
same time, efficiency, modesty and simplicity in human communication. We
began to live well, very well!"
By combining the above facts, one begins to understand that the
conspiracies against Stalin and against the Soviets in the 1930-s could
well have, and more than that, HAD to have taken place, given the
intensity of the class struggle of those years. To say that there were
“no enemies of Soviet power” causes natural mistrust and fury among
people. There were enemies of Soviet power and very dangerous ones! But
to honestly talk about these conspiracies has always been very
difficult, because immediately one comes up against a mass of opponents
who reject any versions and facts surrounding the attempts by associates
of Stalin to have him removed from the political arena. The argument of
the opponents is "iron-hard": They say that recognizing the existence
of a conspiracy against Stalin - is to recognize the legitimacy of the
repression against the political figures close to him. According to
anti-Stalinists, anyone who tries to prove the existence of
anti-Stalinist conspiracies in the USSR, indirectly justifies the
political processes of the 1930-s. On this issue, the top echelons of
the Khrushchev-Brezhnev CPSU were united as one, together with Soviet
"dissidents" and their accomplices and supporters abroad.
Mao Zedong and Enver Hoxha in a joint statement "About the Birthday of
J.V. Stalin" on December 21, 1964, prophetically wrote about what the
rejection of the Stalin experience of building a communist society can
lead to (and did actually lead to):"The criminal acts of Khrushchev and
his handy-men will have long-term repercussions, as they will lead to
the degeneration and then the destruction of the Soviet Union and the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union."
It turns out that the "cudgel" of 1937, running on full power by
Khrushchev in 1956, appeared in his "work" far beyond its original
purpose - for discrediting J.V. Stalin. It "crushes" (and not without
some success) Soviet history along with all the heroic feats of the
Soviet people, who built the world's first state of workers and
peasants. It is on this 'cudgel', like on a main support that the whole
"structure" of the anti-Stalinist and anti-Soviet LIE relies upon. Read
the newspapers: On July 3, 2009 in Vilnius, Lithuania, the 18th Annual
Session of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Europe) Parliamentary Assembly was held. At this session, the OSCE
adopted a resolution entitled "Divided Europe Reunited." The resolution
clearly equalized Nazism and Sovietism (Stalinism, Communism). It stated
that the Soviet Union was a criminal state carrying out genocide, war
crimes and crimes against humanity. On February 1, 2011 in
Yekaterinburg, Russia, a meeting of the Presidential Council for
Development of Civic Society and Human Rights was held. At the meeting
in the presence of the President of the Russian Federation, a member of
the Presidential Council S. Karaganov made a detailed and far-reaching
statement on the de-Sovietization of society. The proposed program of
the Council included the following:- the need to recognize that "the
people of Russia over the last 100 years, have almost no self-respect
whatsoever," and it is necessary to recognize the Soviet period of our
history as a great crime, and the Soviet Union - a criminal state, along
with the need to recognize that "the whole of Russia is one big Katyn"
(referring to the view that the mass graves at Katyn was the work of the
NKVD). The program also included the need to recognize that in the
Soviet Union, "genocide" was carried out, that is, the Soviet government
deliberately exterminated the Soviet people, together with the need to
recognize the USSR as a "totalitarian state”, and on this basis, to
consider it the same as Hitler's Germany. It must also be recognized
that the Soviet Union was responsible for the outbreak of the Second
World War, along with Germany, and that it is necessary to rewrite
history books to reflect everything about the genocide in the Soviet era
and the USSR as a criminal state. Also it is necessary to prohibit
people from working as civil servants who doubt that the Soviet Union
was indeed a criminal state, and it is necessary to conduct an audit of
special anniversaries and special holidays in order to eliminate or
rename all the dates associated with the history of the Soviet Union. So
there you have it. Nice, simple, and - most importantly – democratic.
The roots of this savage program would certainly grow from out of the
anti-Soviet interpretation of the events of 1937, from the "secret"
report by Khrushchev. The purpose of this program is to trample Soviet
history in mud and turn into ashes the history of our ancestors,
grandfathers and fathers. So do not think that Chubais is alone in all
this, or that Chubais is with the Democrats, all ten a penny. The
Democrats are dashing people. Polls show that the vast majority of
people in Russia, after twenty-odd years of indoctrination can not stand
"liberal values" - do not care a jot about an organized second
perestroika! Who cares about the critical economic situation or the
crumbling structure of government – the main thing is we still havn’t
made it like in America. Well when we do, then everything will work out.
All of this has great resemblance to the classic "Pili, Shura, Pili!"
What should we Bolsheviks do in this hard time for the country, for the
people of the time when opposition to the current bourgeois regime is
torn to shreds, with no end in sight, when ordinary people are being
repeatedly deceived by advertising that promises fabulous wealth, and in
fact people do not believe anyone or anything anymore? There is one
great and powerful feeling in every former Soviet person - a sense of
belonging to the former great Socialist Motherland. I am sure that this
powerful feeling, this feeling of Soviet patriotism will be the main
driver in our struggle for the liberation of our great and beautiful
country from the current snare of capitalist slavery and humiliation.
FOR OUR SOVIET MOTHERLAND!
GLORY TO GREAT STALIN!
Moscow, November 2012
S.V.Khristenko
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics TO BE!
APPEAL BY THE CC AUCPB on the occasion of the 90th anniversary since the forming of the USSR
The victory of the proletariat in October 1917, driven by the Bolshevik
Party led by Lenin, was one of the most outstanding events of the
twentieth century which opened a new page in the history of mankind -
the possibility of creating a society free of violence, oppression,
exploitation, a world of peace, increased use of science and technology
for the benefit of the working man - the creator of all material and
cultural values. The forming on December 30, 1922 of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics - the world's first multi-ethnic state of the
dictatorship of the proletariat - was the logical design of the Great
October Socialist Revolution, the socialist state where working people
became the masters of life and where peoples' friendship and equality of
nations became the basis for further successful construction of a new
society on the road towards communism.
Common peoples’ public ownership made us the richest country in the
world that brought about an incredible rise in the economy, far out of
reach for even the most highly developed capitalist countries.
During the years of Soviet power, we stepped a long way ahead towards
the heights of science, knowledge, culture, growth, welfare and health
of the people. We became the most highly literate country in the world.
Children were cared for and loved by the state. They were all guaranteed
secondary education, free university education anywhere in the country
together with the provision of state scholarships. Each chose a
profession they wanted. University graduates were sent to enterprises to
gain practical skills for entry into adult life.
The housing problem was successfully solved. We pioneered the peaceful
use of the atom and were the first to launch a manned spacecraft. The
constant growth in labour productivity provided lower prices for basic
foods, daily necessities and housing and communal services (the amount
of payment of which was purely nominal). Young people had the
opportunity to develop their natural talents in the construction during
the Soviet era of palaces and houses of culture, and relax in many
sports arenas, free youth summer camps and vacation homes. The most
honored and highly paid professions were miners and scientists. Trips to
the best holiday resorts in the country were available to every Soviet
family. Each had full confidence in the future, and old age was
materially provided for by the state together with the choice to have
free spa treatment once a year. All kinds of medication were available
at a very low cost with many given out for free. All operations,
including the most complex surgeries were performed free of charge by
highly qualified specialists. Song lyrics of those years reflect the
mood and the fullness of life of the people very well. "Everywhere life
is full and broad, like the Volga River, in full flow. Young people
everywhere are valued. Old people everywhere are honoured." We lived in a
beautiful Soviet country where constitutionally "a person always had
the right to the study, rest and work."
That was under socialism! Compare all of that to what we have now in Russia and republics of the former USSR?
Our magnificent victories in the building of socialism in the first
thirty years of Soviet power were achieved under the leadership of the
great successor to Lenin, the great statesman and politician of the
first half of the twentieth century, Josef Vissarionovich Stalin. The
military genius of Stalin, who led the warring Soviet people against
German fascism to bring peace and freedom to the people of Europe,
initiated the start of a broader national liberation movement in the
colonies and the imperialist metropolises.
It is namely SOCIALISM that became the key to our great victory over
Hitler's fascism and the salvation of many people from complete
destruction during the Second World War.
Trotskyist Nikita Khrushchev slandered Stalin, and turned the
construction of socialism in the USSR in the opposite direction by
introducing capitalist production principles into the socialist economy.
This turnaround towards capitalism immediately had effect by slowing
down economic growth and rising prices on consumer goods and food
products. Khrushchev’s slander against Stalin the beloved leader of the
oppressed peoples, led to quarrels between the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union (CPSU) and the Communist Party of China (CPC), and the
steering away of the USSR from the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
(DPRK) (North Korea - fb).
Across the country under the banner of anti-Stalinism, began the
degeneration of the ruling CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
and its gradual separation from the people, from the working class,
whose interests it was intended to uphold and defend. Opportunism which
started corroding the CPSU, withdrew from the policy of class-based
peaceful coexistence content, which in turn led to a weakening of the
influence of socialism in the "third world" and undermined the position
of the international communist and workers' movement.
The loss of socialist perspectives in the leadership of the CPSU
gradually led to liquidationism which initiated the collapse of the
workers and peasants state. Because of the distortions and violations of
the laws of socialist construction in the Soviet Union, capitalist
elements began to grow. All of this by the 1980-s actual led to the
emergence of a class of underground bourgeoisie (mafia – fb), which
together with the fifth column which had raised its ugly head under
traitor Mikhail Gorbachev, carried out a counterrevolutionary coup with
the assistance of international monopoly capital, which in turn,
destroyed and tore the USSR into pieces. Illegal and unconstitutional
fraudulent "privatization" stole our national property from the people,
which earlier no one had ever dared to privatize. The privatization of
public property is legally a crime, a gross violation of the
Constitution of the Soviet Union and has to be returned to the people.
The destruction of the Soviet Union was carried out with complete
disregard for the results of the All-Union referendum held in March 1991
(on whether or not Soviet people wanted the USSR preserved as a
integral state- fb), and is a crime carrying severe consequences.
World imperialism led by the United States gained a breathing space on
the backs of the well-organized breakup of the USSR, and shifted forward
its inevitably impending comprehensive crisis of imperialism by 20
years. The collapse of the USSR delayed the collapse of the system of
imperialism, but did not eliminate it. Today the imperialist world is
again gripped by a systemic crisis, with no doping available to get it
anywhere out of the crisis.
The counter-revolution plunged the Soviet economy into a ditch,
plundering the country and transforming our untold wealth to the major
banks of international capital. The vast majority of people are at the
lower depths of social life. This particularly applies to pensioners,
who are not secured even by a miserable minimum pension necessary for
existence, as well as to young people who are deprived of a future.
Young people (as well as the entire main working population) now receive
scant wages, with which it is not even possible to get into paid higher
education or purchase a home due to the high cost, therefore preventing
them from creating a family. Paid medical services are now so expensive
and still going through the roof, making them out of reach for most
working people. Millions of people have become unemployed and homeless,
deprived of human living conditions.
WE CAN NOT CONTINUE THIS WAY! WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Rise up to the
struggle for the revival of our great Socialist MOTHERLAND - the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Because now the slogan of the day is - FOR the Soviet Union!
According to a recent online survey, the vast majority of respondents
were for the revival of the USSR. The bourgeoisie are afraid of this,
and because the regime throws big money on weapons and improving the
means of fighting against its own people, it has resorted to violent
repression of any lawful action of workers defending their
constitutional social rights.
Today, DEMOCRACY exists only for the FIFTH COLUMN. For working people
though – it is used for the suppression of any actions by working people
against the bourgeois system.
On the issue of revival of the USSR, the pro-bourgeois leaders have
found a loophole in order to deceive the workers. Servants of the
bourgeoisie are also FOR a union But WHAT KIND of union? Naturally, they
are for a bourgeois union! They are for the preservation of the power
of the bourgeoisie in a revived USSR (according to Kurginyan, who is “in
favour of a USSR-2”), an “honest” bourgeoisie "caring for their hired
slaves and interested in the development of the state." Can this really
be? NO, it can’t! In other words, the preservation of ruthless
exploitation of wage slaves under a cute heart of a paper wrapper - For
the USSR!
We, BOLSHEVIKS are in favour of the revival of the Soviet Union as a
socialist state, because the USSR and SOCIALISM are inseparable
concepts. Thus, in fighting for the USSR, we are fighting for SOCIALISM.
But a changeover from the capitalist system to a socialist system is
not possible without a socialist revolution.
Thus we are for a SOCIALIST REVOLUTION! However, without victory over
opportunism in the communist movement, and without uniting the
communists of the Soviet Union across the territory of the USSR, uniting
on the positions of Bolshevism, the revival of the Soviet Union will
NOT BE POSSIBLE.
The bourgeoisie will not hand over power to the working people without a
fight or a struggle. So, we will have to fight hard and not without
loss. We must be prepared for this.
SOCIALISM is the future of mankind on the road to a classless society. This is a fair system, and therefore we are bound to win!
FRIENDS! BOLDLY JOIN THE RANKS OF FIGHTERS FOR SOCIALISM! FOR the Soviet Union!
Long live the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, reborn from the ashes
of a defeated counter-revolution, once again uniting the different
nationalities into a single fraternal family of peoples!
FOR THE SOVIET UNION! FOR SOCIALISM!
N.A.Andreeva
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB)
November, 2012, Leningrad
Ps. Note by For Bolshevism-AUCPB editor. Much of what is written in the
above article applies not just to Russia and the former Soviet
republics, but also applies to all capitalist countries including
Britain which is in economic and systemic crisis with no way out.
Millions of people are becoming even more impoverished especially under
the neo-liberal Tory government agenda of fierce cuts that are
ideologically driven to finish off what Thatcher began with worse to
come. Hence the slogan Workers of all Countries, Unite, is as actual
today as it was in Marx’s time. The only answer for working people is to
organise, rise up, fight then overthrow the power of capital!
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RUSSIA WILL NOT BE CURED BY REFORMS
Contrary to today’s lies by corrupt journalists- "historians",
representatives of bourgeois power and simply amateurs, the October
Socialist Revolution uprising in Petrograd in October 1917, was not at
all "bloody".
During the storming of the Winter Palace, no more than ten people were killed. In
today's bourgeois Russia, in some cities in a day more people are killed in car accidents alone or other man-made catastrophes.
A bloodless revolutionary process.
Lackeys of the present Russian bourgeoisie often intimidate people by saying
that socialist revolutions bring about many victims, "a sea of blood"
and similar nonsense. However, we have seen in the example of the
October uprising in Petrograd in 1917, that when it is well organized
and has strong support among the masses, plus the fact there are a lot
of allies and sympathizers, and the correctly selected moment for the
overthrow of bourgeois rule, the number of victims, despite the large
scale of this process, is extremely low.
If in 1917, the victorious October uprising of the proletariat in the
Russian capital Petrograd was characterized by a very small number of
people killed, then the number of people killed in cities such as Nizhny
Novgorod, Izhevsk, Penza, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Tver, Novgorod,
Yaroslavl, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Novonikolaevsk (Novosibirsk, Russia),
Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and others, then actually Soviet power was
established with almost no armed struggle at all. In Russia, Lenin
called this triumphal procession of Soviet power that was held, as a
bloodless revolutionary process.
The Civil War in Russia did not start in 1917, but in May 1918, when the
bourgeoisie had lost power and British and French spies incited the
Czechoslovak Corps against supporters of Soviet power. Already starting
in January 1918, the imperialists of Britain, France, USA, Japan and
other countries had landed troops on Russian soil and then launched an
armed struggle against the Red Army. In the Don and North Caucasus,
Generals Kornilov, Alekseev, Denikin, Krasnov and Mamontov with their
troops organized revolts against Soviet power. They are the ones who
actually provoked and started the Civil
War. Hence, the above counter-revolutionary forces are also responsible for those killed in the period of 1918-1922.
The Great October Socialist Revolution was characterized by a much
smaller number of victims. If it were not for the October fighting in
Moscow, then the establishment of Soviet power in Russia would have
limited itself to quite a small number of victims. The more organized an
uprising and the more support and sympathy it gains from the masses,
the fewer the victims. Therefore, you have nothing to be afraid of with
socialist revolutions, especially since capitalism with its inherent
poverty, famine, local armed conflicts, disasters, disease, and genocide
exterminate more people around the world than in any world war. For
example, during the years of capitalist slavery in the former USSR
(1991-2012), when we are even further away from socialism, and when
there have been no socialist revolutions, the "CIS countries" (the
so-called capitalist Commonwealth of Independent States – the title
given to the territory of the former USSR and made up of the republics
of the USSR before it was destroyed - FB) has lost more people than the
USSR did in the Great Patriotic War (more than 20 million people). In
Russia alone as a result of social genocide, war, disease, famine,
disasters, the population has been declining by one million people each
year. Better to shed blood, if it came to that, and destroy the cannibal
system entirely and put a stop the annual loss of so many people.
Nowadays, capitalism is far worse than any civil war, since it leads to
the death of many more people than the class struggle does, even at its
highest point of intensity.
The disease has been allowed to spread too far.
A socialist revolution can be compared to a surgical operation, when
herbal treatments, pills or injections do not help and surgical
intervention is needed. Yes, it is, at times, unpleasant, and yes, it's
blood, but what other option is there if a person is to survive? If a
seriously ill person who needs a surgical operation is treated with
pills, he will eventually die. Such is also the case with social
development. There are times when in order to save the working classes
(workers, peasants etc), the people and the country as a whole do not
need reforms ("pills") as proposed by the Zyuganovite followers of Mr
Genadi Zyuganov from the CPRF (a social democratic, reformist party
under the title Communist Party of the Russian Federation with seats
inside the Russian parliament – the state Duma - Fb), but should have
"surgical intervention", i.e. a socialist revolution, otherwise many
people will suffer and die, and the country will disappear from the map.
A similar situation
developed in Russia in October 1917, when the bourgeois Provisional
Government headed by Kerensky was planning to surrender Petrograd, a
capital city, as well as other areas, to the German troops and,
therefore with this, provoking the break-up of Russia into separate
principalities. Lenin, Stalin, the Bolsheviks and Russian workers coming
to power by the revolutionary, "surgical intervention” route, halted
the process of disintegration of our country, then markedly raised the
standard of living, freeing the people from misery and poverty, and
turning the country into a powerful state - the USSR.
Our Motherland now needs "surgical intervention” in order to survive. The disease has been allowed to spread too far.
Russia today is seriously ill and can not be cured by "pills"- reforms,
as proposed by the bourgeoisie from Zyuganov to Putin, but only
by a "surgical operation" – in other words, by a Socialist revolution,
which, if an uprising is well organized and the right moment chosen,
there is a chance for it to be almost bloodless as in the example of the
Triumphal
march of Soviet power in 1918.
With this in mind, it is worth remembering that a socialist revolution can not be
artificially created or “done” purely out of nothing, because it has to mature in the class
struggle of the oppressed against the bourgeoisie, and here it is important not to miss the
moment, as it was not lost in October 1917.
By S. Kuz'min
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THE OFFICE OF THE RULING UNITED RUSSIA PARTY ("Ed-Ro") IN BRATSK, SIBERIA BURNED DOWN BY "COMMUNISTS-REVOLUTIONARIES "
The Bratsk Town Court recently sentenced Yevgeny Ivanyug, Mikhail
Lamykin and Alexandra Sushkov. They were found guilty of organizing an
extremist
community and burning down the office of the ruing "United Russia Party”, reports
Taygi.info on October 18, 2012
According to the Prosecutor General of Russia, in court, Sushkin and Lamykin
pleaded guilty to the offences. Ivanyug in pleading guilty to the
offences did not agree with their characterization as criminal offenses.
We remind readers that the town office of the ruling "United Russia
Party" located on Lenin Street, was torched on the night of April 30,
2011, after petrol bombs were hurled through the windows of the office
which was empty at the time. The injured parties in the case were the
municipal education which owns the premises, and a private individual
whose
property was destroyed by the fire.
The media then reported that the arson was committed by members of an
extremist organization linked to the former mayor, a member of the
Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Alexandra
Serov, who in February 2011 was arrested on charges of extortion. The suspects in the crime were arrested in June 2011.
The court found that Ivanyuga, Lamykin and Sushkov had indeed in
March-April 2011, created in Bratsk, an extremist community, in order to
prepare and commit crimes "based on political
and ideological hatred" under the name, "A Fighting Organization of Communist Revolutionaries."
Besides the torching of the office of United Russia Party, the accomplices attempted
arson at a local printing shop, which they had carried out at the end of June. These
actions were stopped by police.
The Court sentenced Ivanyug to six months' imprisonment with a sentence
in a penal colony. Sushkov and Lamykin were sentenced to
five and four months imprisonment respectively and suspended for two and a half years.
Source- "Taiga-Info"
Comment from AUCPB “Revolyutsia” editor.: Whilst generally not approving
of the form of activity of the new "communists-revolutionaries ", we
state that the hatred in the people towards the official ruling
bourgeoisie and its official party "United Russia" has reached a level
that requires real action to deal with. Therefore all anger and outrage
by ordinary working people must be directed not towards material objects
but towards eliminating of human-hating capitalism the revolutionary
way. For the remaining at large "militants", this way is open
now.
Together with this, it is also worth noting that by using the method
described above (individual acts of torching and property damage, etc),
any gravitation towards the communist movement by the masses of working
people could be undermined, because that method may have the reverse
effect on the peoples hatred towards the bourgeois ruling United Russia
Party....(FB additional comment.... and indeed, yes, it may seem that a
lot of people may get some temporary satisfaction at seeing damage to
capitalist property (thereby in real terms having an effect of defusing
social tension for a time), but it real terms, damage to property will
not change the system at all. Building mass social tension and directing
it along the communist revolutionary path is one the key elements which
will result in the final destruction of the capitalist state machine as
a whole i.e. system change – FB ed.). Thus faced with such a situation,
the torching of the “United Russia Party” by people who identify
themselves as part of a militant organization of
communists would most likely be used by the authorities to demonize the
communist movement and lead to further suppression of its most active
elements.
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IN MEMORY OF GREAT KIM JONG IL
On December 17, 2011, the leader of the DPRK, outstanding statesman and
politician of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century passed
away suddenly, after having for more than 20 years led the life of the
country, and managed in a short time to do so much that the country
under him not only defended its sovereignty in a severe economic,
political and media blockade imposed by the United States and its
satellites, but also did not allow the U.S. to ignite the fire of a new
world war, starting in Northeast Asia.
Under the leadership of Great Kim Jong Il, according to his plan of
restructuring the economy in the interests of the people, and not having
sufficient arable land (due to the mountainous topography of the
surface of North Korea), the DPRK was able to:
- create highly mechanized agriculture to re-cultivated crop lands
- master a vast territory of salt marshes previously unsuitable for agriculture
- introduce new varieties of agriculture crops,
- set up fruit farms on the slopes of hills and mountains,
- develop grazing and build goat farms,
- Organized commercial fisheries of highly valuable species of fish, and more.
Thanks to the leadership of Great Kim Jong Il, the country had largely
solved the food problem, having becoming fully independent from the
supply of food from abroad.
Huge transformations have been carried out in industry, both in heavy
industry (in particular - the production of steel by a new technology,
developed by Korean scientists), and in light, chemical and other
industries.
Under Kim Jong-Il, a powerful energy base was created by way of the
construction of a mass of hydro-power plants on small rivers as well as
on artificial reservoirs.
Kim Jong-Il lived for the people, tirelessly working for their benefit,
for continuous improvement to housing in both urban and rural
cooperatives. The issue of housing today in the DPRK has been completely
solved by the state – every family lives in a comfortable separate
apartment (or house), and newlyweds receive the keys to a new apartment
if they wish to live separately from the older generation. The issue of
universal compulsory secondary education has been completely solved, and
all students receive a state grant and free food within the walls of a
university, and children attend pre-school or comfortable kindergartens
free of charge as all costs undertaken by the state. At a high level,
with the latest achievements in world medicine, using medical equipment
and the latest generation of national traditional Korean medicine, great
advances have been made in the field of health. Great attention is paid
to the environment (Korean towns and cities are the cleanest in the
world according to the degree of air pollution, especially with regard
to Pyongyang).
The armed forces, the flesh of the people created by the Great Leader
and fostered by Great Kim Jong-Il, not only vigilantly guard over the
peaceful labour of the DPRK citizens, but also actively participate in
the creation of the future of society.
But in our view, one of the main issues successfully solved thanks to
the leadership of Great Kim Jong-Il, has been the development in
aerospace research and the launching of satellites into space. Thanks to
the wise leadership of Great Kim Jong Il, the DPRK has become a world
nuclear power. Thus now, the possibility of pre-emptive nuclear strike
on the DPRK by the U.S. has been removed, which the Americans constantly
threatened the DPRK with during the 60 years since the ending of the
Great Fatherland Liberation War of 1950-1953, which ended in defeat for
the United States. The successful launch of the Earth satellite on 12
December 2012 produced a shock in the Western world and scared the
instigators of a new world war who suddenly became aware of the new
opportunities of the DPRK – to have the ability to crushingly deflect
or, more precisely, to prevent any new provocations or threats against
the DPRK on their part. Evil, sooner or later, is always punished,
Master Imperialists!
The launch of the Earth space satellite was carried out using a
ballistic long-range missile on the 100th anniversary of the Great
Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG. Great KIM JONG IL wanted this and worked
towards it.
It is very difficult to list everything great that was created or done
under Kim Jong-Il thanks to his Leadership and his high sense of
patriotism. His sudden departure from life is a great loss not only to
the DPRK. Great love to him by the people was expressed in the fact that
he is now eternally the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of
Korea (WPK) – the leading and guiding force of socialist construction.
Thus Great Kim Jong Il forever remains in the ranks of the WPK.
Today, the country continues its steady path forward, implementing the
plans of Great Kim Jong-Il under his successor Kim Jong-Un, who has for
already one year successfully been leading the state, always following
the line of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and Great Kim Jong Il.
To be a successor to their cause is a great honour and an enormous
responsibility.
The state recently passed a law on land management - a new step in the
development of agriculture for a better quality food supply for the
population and landscaping foothill arrays (environmental issues).
Transformations have been initiated towards improving and expanding the
general 12-year education for young people and enhancing their patriotic
education to become worthy, competent successors to the Korean
revolution.
Paying tribute deepest respect to the memory of Great Kim Jong-Il, his
great work for the good of his people and the struggle to prevent the
outbreak of a new world war by the empire of evil - the United States,
we believe that all the initiatives and plans of Great Kim Jong Il will
certainly be successfully implemented and the DPRK will become even more
beautiful and more powerful. We sincerely wish success to Comrade KIM
JONG UN.
Bon voyage to you into the future - great Socialist Korea!
N.A. Andreeva
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks
Leningrad 12/13/2012
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INDUSTRY MATTERS IN BRITAIN
Blacklists in the dock
In the non-stop dirty war that capitalism wages against the workers from
whose sweat all profit derives, the role of spies and snoops is of
great importance to the bourgeoisie.
The fine of £5,000 for data offences that the courts imposed on one
such, Ian Kerr, in 2010, whilst derisory, pulled aside a veil on the
corrupt and crude forms which exploitation takes – the more so as the
capitalist crisis grows more acute.
The public was shocked to learn how no less than 44 construction firms,
including household names like Balfour Beatty, Costain, Corillian,
Wimpey and, most notably, McAlpine, had long been availing themselves of
Kerr’s services, paying him handsomely to finger any worker who had at
any time been dubbed a ‘militant’ or ‘troublemaker’ by a boss.
To earn such a soubriquet from Kerr’s Consulting Agency one needed do no
more than express concern about some health and safety issue on the
job, or just join a union. Job offers for the individual concerned then
mysteriously dried up all over the UK.
Information on the database included names, birth dates, home address,
NI numbers, car number plates, previous jobs, union membership and
details of all previous involvement in union activity or disputes. The
list even included details of friends and relations. Moreover, this vast
reservoir of hearsay information was hoovered up not only from the
client companies alone but also from informal police and security
service contacts.
On one of Kerr’s files, for example, a worker was said to have been
‘apprehended’ at an anti-racist protest. Since ‘apprehension’ (as
opposed to actual arrest) would not register on an official police file,
the obvious inference must be that such juicy titbits were being fed to
the snoopers by informal police contacts – suggesting the same corrupt
connections as have been revealed between police and the media.
Needless to say, the then Labour government was eager to bury the issue
as fast as possible on behalf of capitalism – to this end cobbling
together a hasty law which pretended to offer workers protection from
this outrageous intrusion upon their privacy and arbitrary destruction
of their career prospects. This new legislation was hastily shuffled
onto the statute book to make it ‘unlawful’ to deny a worker employment
on the basis of a blacklist.
Crucially however, these new measures did nothing to criminalise the
keeping of blacklists as such, making a nonsense of the supposed
protection offered. In order to claim redress, victims need to prove not
only the existence of a blacklist, but also that they were refused work
solely because of that blacklist.
To prove that in court is obviously very difficult, faced with the
massed ranks of highly-paid company lawyers and a judiciary more
temperamentally suited to picking holes in strike ballots than defending
workers’ rights. Just to make it more difficult to get justice, workers
have had to ask the Information Commissioner’s Office (the body which
investigated Kerr) whether or not they are among the 3,213 building
workers targeted on Kerr’s blacklist, rather than the onus being on the
ICO itself to contact all the victims individually (as eventually
happened over the phone-hacking scandal).
As a result of all these obstacles to justice, to date not one of the 44
companies implicated has had to pay a penny in compensation for the
lives they have wrecked.
However, thanks to the workers’ own efforts this might be about to
change. Eighty-four of them are pushing lost earnings claims through the
High Court, which, if successful, could cost the industry tens of
millions in compensation pay-outs. More damaging still to capitalist
interests was the confession by the ICO that when they raided Kerr’s
files in 2010, they confiscated a mere 5 percent of the total, leaving
the other 95 percent in the tender care of Kerr.
ICO spokesman David Smith grovelled: “I do accept we could have done
more.” If the 3,000+ construction workers on Kerr’s list represent 5
percent of the total files, that suggests a potential total of 60,000
victims drawn from across the employment spectrum, with the rail, car
and shipping industries constituting likely fishing grounds.
Two years on, and with Labour back in ‘opposition’ (but not to
capitalism), Ucatt is responding to the new revelations – by printing
thousands of postcards for people to send to their MPs demanding that
they support Early Day Motion number 609 put up by Labour MP Steve
Rotherham! This EDM states that “it should be a criminal offence to
supply, compile, solicit or use information in connection with a
prohibited list”.In other words, it is asking that the ConDems do now
what Labour in government signally failed to do then: ban such
blacklists outright.
When Ucatt’s Jim Kennedy attended a session of the Scottish affairs
committee, now investigating blacklisting in employment, Labour MP
Pamela Nash asked him about the 2010 legislation. Kennedy soon put her
straight on this point, retorting sharply “It is not illegal to collate
and keep a blacklist.” (Morning Star, 31 October)
The real purpose served by such parliamentary gestures as this latest
EDM is not to champion the rights of snooped-upon workers but to provide
a distraction for workers, in the hope of breathing fresh life into the
corpse of the Labour party. Ucatt would do better to spend less money
on printing postcards and funding Labour, and more on building up a
strike fund for the struggles ahead.
McAlpines, against which company the current High Court action is being
taken, made a vast amount of money from construction of the Olympic
Stadium. During preparations for that work in the second quarter of
2009, McAlpines made 5,386 individual checks on Kerr’s blacklist.
Curiously, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna, addressing
the Ucatt conference back in May, hailed the Olympics, along with
Ellesmere Port (where workers submitted to a two-year pay freeze in the
hope of keeping their jobs) as “a shining example of trade unions as a
force for economic progress for our country, working in partnership with
management and the government”.
Workers should shun such ‘partnerships’ like the plague – and in
particular the paralysing ‘partnership’ between unions and the Labour
party.
The RMT has drawn attention to one blacklisting website,
hrblacklist.com, which is so crass that it is tempting to believe it
must be a spoof. It is being taken deadly seriously by the RMT, however,
a number of whose leaders and activists figure on its pages.
Visitors to the site, which describes itself as “an ethical human
resources community for employers and employees”, are invited to act as
paid informers (“HR Agents”). Under the job description, potential
candidates are advised “You will work at home. You will introduce CV’s
in the HR Blacklist database, together with your own evaluation of the
employees ... [You] will receive 1 USD, each time a user will pay for a
CV you introduced in our database. Any taxes, bank fees, and any other
additional expenses that might occur will be your own responsibility ...
[I]f you upload only one CV, this will not get you very rich, very
fast. But if you upload 1000 CV’s this month, and these CV’s will be
accessed just once every week, this is a whole different story!”
The reality is that snooping on workers in order to pick off potential
leaders and disorganise the workers’ movement did not start with Ian
Kerr’s seedy outfit in Droitwich and will not end with Early Day Motion
609. As we pointed out when the scandal first hit two years ago, “this
story in fact begins in 1919, when British capitalists, understandably
nervous about the revolutionary example being set by Russia, set up an
espionage agency to spy on workers deemed to be overly militant.
This class-war agency, the Economic League, festered on until the early
1990s. At that point, having attracted some unwelcome attention, the
league officially ceased to exist. In practice, however, it effectively
went underground, changing its name to the Consulting Association and
entrusting the bits of the database relating to the building trade to
one of its employees – one Ian Kerr!” (Proletarian, February 2010)
We can be certain that neither closing down Ian Kerr’s freelance snoop
shop nor passing any law at Westminster is going to make any serious
difference to the regular blanket surveillance which workers suffer
daily, knowingly or not, under bourgeois governments of whatever
political stripe. That is a requirement of the crisis-stricken
capitalist system and will end only when bourgeois class rule ends.
Ian Kerr and his chums are to be congratulated for bringing that day a
little nearer by revealing the hollow pretence of ‘democracy’ and
‘individual liberty’ in capitalist Britain.
Source- Proletarian – CPGB ML
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