Meeting Supports Palestinian People's Just Cause
Pyongyang, January 7 (KCNA) -- A meeting for supporting the just cause of the Palestinian people took place here on Wednesday.
Present at the meeting were Kim Pyong Phal, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea who is chairman of the DPRK-Palestine Friendship and Solidarity Committee, and officials concerned.
There was a briefing on Israel's recent large-scale military attack on Palestine and its genocide.
Then the meeting issued a statement of the above-said committee.
The statement condemned the Israeli Zionists for persistently perpetrating large-scale barbaric attacks on the Gaza Strip of Palestine defying the international community's strong protest and denunciation.
Recalling that many Palestinians lost their lives and their cradles were reduced to ashes, the statement bitterly denounced Israel's genocide as a crime against humanity, a serious provocation against the Arab people and an undisguised act of torpedoing the Mid-east peace process.
It urged Israel to stop its rash actions and immediately halt all its military actions and respond to the demand of the Arab and other peoples of the world for a comprehensive and fair solution to the Mid-east issue.
The DPRK-Palestine Friendship and Solidarity Committee will always extend full support and solidarity to the Palestinian people in their just cause of taking back the territories occupied by Israel and regaining the legitimate national rights including the right to self-determination, the right to return to their homeland and the right to build an independent state with Kuds as its capital, noted the statement.
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Increasing Crimes in south Korea
Increasing Crimes in south Korea
Various crimes are drastically increasing in south Korea recently.
In south Korea October is called a “month of crime” for there have taken place more crimes including murder, violence and robbery in this month with most favorite weather in the year.
According to the data made public by the south Korean puppets on September 14, among the total of 1 836 496 crimes detected by the police in 2007 the portion of October was 9.6 %(176 112 cases) and it is 2 ~ 3% higher than that of the December-February winter period (6.6~7.8%).
In regard to the day of the week most crimes (15.2%) occur on Friday, and 15% on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively and on Sunday it was comparatively lower as 12.1%.
In connection with cities and provinces, Gyeonggi Province assuming 374 596 cases (20.4%), is branded as a more dangerous crime area than Seoul (19.4%)
What merits serious attention is;
- Five main crimes such as murder, theft, violence, robbery and rape are continually augmented.
The five main crimes recorded 487 847 cases in 2005, 489 575 cases in 2006 and 522 084 cases in 2007.
In 2007 295 228 cases of violence occurred (1 case in every 2 minutes), theft 212 581 (1 case in every 3 minutes), rape 8 733 (1 case in every one hour), robbery 4 431 (12 cases a day) and murder 1 111 (3 cases a day).
The “Administration and Security Committee of the National Assembly” estimates that far more crimes than that of the statistic figure would take place, if taking into consideration the criminal cases that were not declared for such private accounts as retribution and disgrace.
Though the crimes are increasing drastically, the rate of arrest of criminals does not rise.
In particular, the number of the offenders of high crimes augmented from some 6 200 in 2005 to some 7 800 in 2007, but the rate of arrest decreases annually from 47.6% of 2005 to 35.7% of 2007.
- Drug smuggling and dealing are sharply increasing.
7 154 cases of drug smuggling were detected in 2005, 10 604 cases in 2007 and 8 690 cases as of August 2008, and the circulated money through the drug dealings increased from US$ 54.4 million in 2005 to US$ 52.8 million as of August 2008.
It is estimated that the drug addicts now in south Korea are 100 000 at least and one million at most.
In recent years drug abusers are rapidly increasing due to the drug circulation via internet.
Even in 2004 drug dealings via internet were next to naught but as of August 2008 advertisements of drug exported abroad are openly posted on 16 internet websites.
South Korea has a scarce source of drug manufacture, so the drug price is 10 times more than that of America and 100 times more than that of south East Asian countries, and foreign drugs are in much trade.
- Illegal import of weaponry is increasing.
Of late the ruling “Grand National Party” clarified that the number of exposed cases of illegal import of weaponry has augmented by 8 times in five years; 4 cases were exposed in 2004 but 32 cases as of August 2008.
The amount of weapons exposed was 5 pieces in 2004 and as of August last year 54 pieces, 1 927 live bullets were detected in 2004 and 7 461 in 2007, showing the tendency of steady increase.
Therefore, the puppets clamor that south Korea is reduced to a dangerous zone of terror.
The fact that the crimes are continuously increasing in south Korea is attributed to the fact that the citizens’ ethical consciousness is degenerated and materialism is rampant owing to the deteriorating living, and the international criminal bodies extend their tentacles deep into south Korea .
Various crimes are drastically increasing in south Korea recently.
In south Korea October is called a “month of crime” for there have taken place more crimes including murder, violence and robbery in this month with most favorite weather in the year.
According to the data made public by the south Korean puppets on September 14, among the total of 1 836 496 crimes detected by the police in 2007 the portion of October was 9.6 %(176 112 cases) and it is 2 ~ 3% higher than that of the December-February winter period (6.6~7.8%).
In regard to the day of the week most crimes (15.2%) occur on Friday, and 15% on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively and on Sunday it was comparatively lower as 12.1%.
In connection with cities and provinces, Gyeonggi Province assuming 374 596 cases (20.4%), is branded as a more dangerous crime area than Seoul (19.4%)
What merits serious attention is;
- Five main crimes such as murder, theft, violence, robbery and rape are continually augmented.
The five main crimes recorded 487 847 cases in 2005, 489 575 cases in 2006 and 522 084 cases in 2007.
In 2007 295 228 cases of violence occurred (1 case in every 2 minutes), theft 212 581 (1 case in every 3 minutes), rape 8 733 (1 case in every one hour), robbery 4 431 (12 cases a day) and murder 1 111 (3 cases a day).
The “Administration and Security Committee of the National Assembly” estimates that far more crimes than that of the statistic figure would take place, if taking into consideration the criminal cases that were not declared for such private accounts as retribution and disgrace.
Though the crimes are increasing drastically, the rate of arrest of criminals does not rise.
In particular, the number of the offenders of high crimes augmented from some 6 200 in 2005 to some 7 800 in 2007, but the rate of arrest decreases annually from 47.6% of 2005 to 35.7% of 2007.
- Drug smuggling and dealing are sharply increasing.
7 154 cases of drug smuggling were detected in 2005, 10 604 cases in 2007 and 8 690 cases as of August 2008, and the circulated money through the drug dealings increased from US$ 54.4 million in 2005 to US$ 52.8 million as of August 2008.
It is estimated that the drug addicts now in south Korea are 100 000 at least and one million at most.
In recent years drug abusers are rapidly increasing due to the drug circulation via internet.
Even in 2004 drug dealings via internet were next to naught but as of August 2008 advertisements of drug exported abroad are openly posted on 16 internet websites.
South Korea has a scarce source of drug manufacture, so the drug price is 10 times more than that of America and 100 times more than that of south East Asian countries, and foreign drugs are in much trade.
- Illegal import of weaponry is increasing.
Of late the ruling “Grand National Party” clarified that the number of exposed cases of illegal import of weaponry has augmented by 8 times in five years; 4 cases were exposed in 2004 but 32 cases as of August 2008.
The amount of weapons exposed was 5 pieces in 2004 and as of August last year 54 pieces, 1 927 live bullets were detected in 2004 and 7 461 in 2007, showing the tendency of steady increase.
Therefore, the puppets clamor that south Korea is reduced to a dangerous zone of terror.
The fact that the crimes are continuously increasing in south Korea is attributed to the fact that the citizens’ ethical consciousness is degenerated and materialism is rampant owing to the deteriorating living, and the international criminal bodies extend their tentacles deep into south Korea .
Friday, 2 January 2009
FOR BOLSHEVISM JANUARY 2009
WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
FOR BOLSHEVISM
INSIDE THE COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’ MOVEMENT
AUCPB - ВКПБ
No 1(70) JANUARY 2009
To the Chairman of the State Council and Council of Ministers of the republic of Cuba
Supreme Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Cuba
Comrade Raul Castro
Member of Parliament of the Republic of Cuba, Legendary Commandant Comrade Fidel Castro
Havana, the Republic of Cuba
Deeply respected COMRADES Raul Castro and Fidel Castro!
In the name of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB) and from myself personally, I warmly congratulate YOU and in your name the heroic Cuban people on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary since the victory of the Cuban Revolution.
You, a great revolutionary in modern times brought about a long time dream of the Cuban people of freedom and independence, cast off by armed force the yoke of neo-colonial imperialist slavery of the USA and began the building on the Island of Freedom, of a new life, having united all the revolutionary forces and patriotic strata of the people, and achieved unity of the nation in the struggle for the construction of socialism in Cuba under the very nose of the empire of evil – the USA.
The words of Fidel Castro that “….for the victory of the revolution, unity in itself in not important, but principles laid down its basis, that form in which it is brought about, and those patriotic ideas which inspireit” – have become the slogan for action not just when overthrowing the Batista regime, but also for in the future – when building a new society.
The Cuban Revolution, which had begun 50 years ago continues today because imperialism has not accepted its defeat in Cuba, not come to terms with the existence of socialism on the Island of Freedom, because the example of the victorious Cuban Revolution has become completely infectious for the countries of Latin America which today have begun the construction of their own independent states.
In 1961, (16th April) in Cuba the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution was proclaimed. Despite the most brutal embargo on part of the USA, the constant acts of diversion, the landing of counter-revolutiona ry bandits onto Cuba with the aim of organising sabotage, diversions, terror and others, the Republic of Cuba is firmly building socialism. The Cuban Revolution continues.
The Soviet people always and felt and still do feel love for the people of Cuba, participated in socialist construction in Cuba – until the wrecking of the USSR on the strength of the counter-revolution that took place in the USSR. We, members of the AUCPB constantly take part in the organisation and carrying out of various acts in support of Cuba and with the demand for the release of the glorious Cuban Five heroes, languishing in US jails.
The whole world is inspired by the selfless international aid of Cuba to developing countries in the training of specialists of the highest qualification for them and in the sending of their own specialists – doctors, teachers and engineers into the countries of Africa, assisting them in rising up their own cultural development.
Neither the criminal policy of the YSA in relation to the Island of Freedom, nor the worst natural disaster of recent times, bringing untold damage to the country have been able to alter the flow of the victorious Cuban Revolution.
Long expectations on part of the USA that Cuba will change its course of development have been doomed to failure, about which Fidel Castro excellently spoke of – that “…will shall always go only forward….Let noone even dream that we will go along the path to capitalism or to private ownership over the means of production”.
Socialist Cuba occupies an important place in the anti-imperialist struggle of the peoples of the world. For the people of Latin America, Cuba always was and remains a beacon of revolutionary action, inspiring the peoples of the world to struggle against imperialism, especially US imperialism as the human-hating, and a beacon for the triumph of the ideals of socialism on planet Earth.
On the famous date marking the occasion of the 50th Anniversary since the victory of the Cuban Revolution, we wish the glorious leaders of Cuba – the legendary Commandant Fidel and his closest assistant in everything, Raul, the very best of health for many years in the name of the continuation of the Cuban Revolution and the happiness of the Cuban people. In the address of Fidel Castro and Raul Castro, we wish the Cuban people great new achievements in the name of advancing forward the cause of building socialism and strengthening the anti-imperialist struggle across the world.
The CC AUCPB congratulates the great revolutionaries – Fidel Castro and Raul Castro in their name – the Cuban people on the occasion of the New Year of 2009, and sincerely wishes the implementation of the dream of every citizen of Cuba.
Long Live the Cuban Revolution!
Long Live the Heroic Cuban People!
Long Live the Legendary Cuban Revolutionaries – Fidel and Raul Castro!
Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva
General Secretary of the CC AUCPB
PERESTROIKA IN CUBA….?
(Firm action by the island of Freedom)
Such a headline or something similar lately has been quite often found in the Russian and foreign media when reporting several measures taken by the Cuban government under Raul Castro, who recently replaced his older brother Fidel to the post of Chairman of the State Council and Council of Ministers of Cuba. Among these measures are, the removal of barriers to the population of the island obtaining a number electronic products, the use of mobile phones, access to the Internet at home, the removal of the ban on taking holidays in the country’s largest hotels, previously designated exclusively for serving foreigners, permission for the transfer of unused state land over to private cooperatives, etc. Here the commentaries are given with a certain sensation (what it’s worth, for example, the headline in one of editions of the newspaper “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” “Toasters are permitted”) and the accompanying attempts to make some comparison either with Soviet perestroika or with the reforms in China, and then simply gloating discussions about another ending of socialism in Cuba which allegedly up until now has only being holding on thanks to the charisma of Fidel Castro.
To explain the situation, we asked Extraordinary and Authorized Ambassador of the republic of Cuba in the Republic of Belarus, Omara Medina Kintero. Here are his commentaries.
- Let’s begin with the fact that understanding of “perestroika” used with those changes which we are observing today in Cuba have nothing in common with what we are doing, especially if you remember what happened to the peoples of the former USSR. This name you will not meet in the Cuba media which like the majority of Cuban citizens see nothing sensational in the changes taking place.
Thus, the change in the country’s leadership was called about by a necessity to give to the leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro, the chance to continue to restore his health so that he can further make contributions to the common cause, giving to the Cuban people his vision and thoughts on burning questions of international and domestic life, and they are natural like life itself. Cuban society has long been prepared for such changes. Fidel himself was always a supporter of strengthening socialism in Cuba as a conscious process, in which each successive generation is obliged to contribute, underlying this process in its own historic context, making it each time more just, modernized and responding to those conditions in which the present generation has to live with.
Cuban socialism always was alien to dogma and never copied and will never copy not one of the socialist models, and that is one of the main sources of its vital strength and steadfast existence. We have always acted reasonably, ensuing from real conditions, on the basis of true evaluations.
The Cuban revolution became the first socialist revolution by the door of the citadel of the mightiest capitalist empire in the world and has been able to withstand, despite all the direct and hidden attacks from this empire.
Now we have to continue the process begun by former generations of Cubans with the struggle for freedom and independence from Spanish colonialism and the liberation from the domination of US imperialism carried out in 1959.
Concerning the latest measures taken by the Cuban government in the social and daily spheres, then they have been accepted by the Cuban people as an additional wealth and the chance to raise yet further the quality of life and social guarantees which are already high. Thus, some of the new measures give the Cuban people the chance to use the services of hotels that since the start of the 1990-s, when the Cuban economy was undermined as a result of the destruction of the socialist camp and the lengthy brutal blockade of the island by the USA, were designated exclusively for earning hard currency the country needed.
Other measure connected with the broadening of services in the area of communication and information technology allow a large number of Cubans to obtain access to the Internet at home, which they could earlier only access at work, in learning institutions, research centre or communication divisions in their own area where there is Internet access, and also to use mobile phones.
Without doubt, all the listed measure signify an further improvement in the quality of life of Cubans, but not one of them is not a attribute to vital necessity. All of their main vital necessary benefits are equal to vitally necessary social guarantees the Cuban people gained in 1959. Therefore, today every Cuban family may sleep peacefully without fear of someone throwing them out their housing for non-payment or some other reason, - indeed the majority of Cubans are themselves owners of their own home. The average Cuban can sleep peacefully and therefore every morning his children go to school where they freely receive quality education. The average Cuban knows that if any member of the family suddenly falls ill, the state takes care of that person, and nobody in the clinic will ask before taking measures to cure that person, about who is going to pay for the doctor’s service, whether or not we are talking about a simple cold or a complex heart or kidney transplant, etc, that are carried out in Cuba at the level of the most developed countries of the world. The average Cuban will never live in a state of stress due to illness, that his son or daughter after graduation will be unable to find a job according to their education, or due to a world crisis brought about by finance speculators and finish up unemployed. The average Cuban start from the 1960-s, obtains part of the commodities of vital necessity which his family uses for a month, at stabile fixed prices. He lives in condition of civic guarantees that establish him as a human individual, having fallen asleep at night never hearing from neighbours on the block chilling stories about someone being mugged or murdered. The average Cuban as a rule, is a member of one of the social, cultural, religious or political organisations, where they have all possibilities for self-expression and find sufficient understanding and like-minded views, in order to feel needed and happy. Besides all of this, he is usually sufficiently informed and knows that on our planet there are many countries and places – from the New York Harlem to Palestine and Iraq, - where the majority of people are not only deprived of the chance to use fashionable hotels, beaches and other benefits of civilization because poverty, but also are simply at a daily risk of being subjected to violence or being killed by some kind of “smart” bomb, mortar or missile. In Cuba, we live in an atmosphere of peace and certainty in tomorrow. Therefore, from the above said, the average Cuban will never support any kind “colour revolution” just for the sake of having the chance to sometimes stay at 5-star hotels which in Cuba serve as an important source of obtaining hard currency, and several of them are our national pride.
The fact that there is talk and rumour spread by several media outlets about an impending end to socialism in Cuba, well to re-phrase the unforgettable Mark Twain, I can say that they are grossly exaggerating and have no bearing on reality. This is especially true concerning the media under the control of North American administration. They have so many times being warning people about an impending end to the Cuban revolution and Cuban socialism, that we have lost count. It is like the media with their lie has for a long time being “stewing in its own juice” and from this, they have themselves began believing their own rubbish, transforming themselves not only on the biggest liars, but at the same time into those who have been the deceived the most –thus they want to broadcast what they would like to see, as something that is the truth.
But unfortunately, the given media are not just lying. They still serve the aggressive militarist machine of the Empire and an enabling it achieve its aims. The daily broadcast myths about the advancement of American democracy on the background of bombs being dropped on people’s heads, carried out according to their reports, to introduce this same democracy, they stupefy and blunt public opinion, training minds about something inevitable. It is enough to remember the bombing of sovereign Yugoslavia where at that time I was the ambassador. But it is not long to go until the assertion that those children who died from the bombing had died in the name of “democracy”.
The transnational media, distorting the truth is teaching others “democracy” and is staying quiet about the crimes of the Empire, enabling the penetration into the consciousness of people of the cult of violence, drug use, political prostitution and a culture of decadence.
Fortunately on Earth there always were and will be those will oppose this media genocide. In particular, in accordance with the decision of the head of states of the Movement for non-merging, which Belarus is a member of, adopted at a summit in Havana, to discussion of the given problem will be devoted the 7th session of ministers of information of the countries- participants of the Movement for non-merging, which took place in 2 -4 July 2008 in the Venezuelan island of Margarita.
Spoken to Gennady Ladisev
Photo by Nicolai Petrova, Belta
“7 Days”
THE GREAT STALIN CONSTITUTION:
The difference between elections during the Stalin era, and elections in today’s Russia
On the 30 December 1922 at the I Congress of Soviets of the USSR, by STALIN’S report, the merging of Soviet Republics took place into one single workers’ and peasants’ multi-national state – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Since the moment of the formation of the USSR and up until the adoption on 5 November of the new Stalin Constitution of the USSR, the Soviet people under the leadership of Stalin had passed along a heroic path of glorious victories, which provided industrialization of the national economy, the transfer of the peasantry over onto the path of major mechanized agriculture, the cultural revolution, progressive science was created, exploitation of man by man was abolished and socialism was constructed in the main. The peoples and nations of the USSR lived in peace and friendship and knew no national hostility.
The Stalin Constitution summed up the path that had been passed, the total of achievements that had been won. It reinforced the socialist system that had been established in the USSR and truly provide political and social-economic rights of the working people. Elections into the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Soviets at all levels were the most free and democratic in the world.
Today, bourgeois propaganda persistently hammers into the consciousness of people of the world that the Stalin Constitution allegedly, was democratic only in words. In order to show the lies in such assertions, the makeup of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR according to the Stalin Constitution (1936) only needs to be pointed out, and WHO makes up the today’s Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) (2008).
On 12 December 1937, the first all-people’s elections took place on the basis of the new Stalin Constitution. Here are the election results where into the makeup of the Supreme Soviet entered the following: workers – 247 people, (45.2%), peasants – 130 people (23.8%), office employees and intelligentsia – 169 people (31%).
All deputies of the Supreme Soviet were production workers, peasants, collective farm workers – Stakhanovites (shock workers), the best people, loved by the entire country, and Order carriers. In the number of intelligentsia – there were 8 academicians, professors, the most loved writers and artists. The best people of the country of Soviets were elected to the Supreme Soviet the country of Soviets.
Now we shall look at who is in today’s Federal Assembly (Council of Federations and the State Duma), in the makeup of which there is not one worker or peasant, but is made up of entirely of professional bureaucrats of all ranks, together with millionaires and billionaires.
In February 2008, the magazine “Finance” published a yearly report “Russia’s 500 billionaires. The rating”. The Russian oligarchs are the economic and political elite of the country, having carved up their capital in the period of stealing the national wealth in the 1990-s and multiplying them each year at a colossal rate.
According to the rating data, the number of dollar billionaires in the Russian Federation has grown in one year by almost twice - from 61 to 100 people, multiplying their capital up to 715.3 billion dollars. According to results of 2007, Russian billionaires are not some of the richest people on the planet, and Russia occupies 2nd place in the number of billionaires (USA is 1st place), and Moscow has become billionaire capital of the world, exceeding New York.
Everyone knows the top ten Russian billionaires – Oleg Deripaska (top of the list, owner of “Bazovy element” holding, worth 40 billion dollars), Roman Abramovich ($23 billion), Vladimir Lisin ($22 billion), Mikhail Freedman ($22.2 billion), Alexei Mordashov ($22.1 billion), Vladimir Potanin ($21,5 billion), Mikhail Prokhorov ($21.5 billion), Suleyman Kerimov ($18 billion), Victor Vexelberg ($15.5 billion), Herman Khan ($15 billion).
According to the rating data, 30 billionaires out of the list of 500 are deputies of the highest legislative bodies of the Russia – the State Duma (19 billionaires) and the Federation Council (11). We can assume that there are more millionaires in the State Duma – in the last State Duma, out of 300 members of the “United Russia” block, there were 100 dollar millionaires. It is no wonder that Oleg Deripasks who occupied 1st place among Russian oligarchs and 9th place in the list of the world’s richest people (according to data from “Forbes” magazine), in one of his own past interview with the media, he cynically stated that we need to “cast out all the fairy-tales about democracy, and of someone deciding the outcome of something in a polling booth….The economy, a major competitive business cannot take such a big risk – the free designating of managers of the state apparatus, at random.
There is a big difference – in the makeup of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR under STALIN were workers, peasants and representatives of the working intelligentsia, but in the makeup of today’s elected State Duma of the Russian Federation according to the Yelstinist Constitution which was adopted on the blood of the people after the bloody events in October 1993 – are dollar billionaires and millionaires.
A. KRYLENKO
Thoughts on the subject “COUNTER-REVOLUTION”
On the pages of the newspaper “Sovietskaya Rossiya” a dissussion flared up about the counter-revolution in the Soviet Union. The author Lyubov Pribytkova in her article “Counter-revolution” that was printed in No12 in 2007 and in No1 in 2008, aimed to show the sources of the counter-revolution. She stated that the party CPSU degenerated, diverted itself away from Marxism-Leninism and became revisionist. Many party members turned out to be betrayers. Such a statement angered G.O. Zlatogorov, member of the CPSU since 1943 (then it was called the AUCP (b) and not the CPSU), and who took part in the Great Fatherland War.
In an article “response to “counter-revolution” there followed a threatening shout from G.O.Zlatogorov “….does she have the moral right to pass such a judgment”. Apparently she does. Further on, Zlatogorov writes: “just in one go, she has labeled millions of communists as betrayers who were in the first rows of participators in the transformations which turned the Soviet Union into a mighty power”. Yes, that is true. But that was before the Great Fatherland War.
In the war years, many party members who had taken part in the events of the October revolution in 1917, in the Civil War that followed and in socialist construction that followed, died on the fronts of the Fatherland War. The AUCP(b) lost more than three million of its best sons. This is more than half the members of the party and about one third of Soviet fighters killed in action.
After the war, the party in the type of membership began to change. It was restored by new young cadres. Serious ideological training was required. There was much lacking. There was a shortage of qualified teachers, propagandists, agitators in order to raise the political-education al work among party members and the entire population to a high level.
At this same time, on the field of political training, the Volkogonovs and Yakovlevs became established with their petty bourgeois views and outlooks.
The works of K. Marx, F. Engels, V.I.Lenin were studied selectively according to separate articles and chosen quotes. After the XX congress of the CPSU, they tried in general not to remind people of J.V. Stalin. What emerged were the ideas and thoughts of general secretaries who rejected the decisions and proposed transformations in the party leadership that were adopted at the XIX party congress, which had laid down the start of the activity of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
L. Pribytkova was right when she stated that the party towards the XX Congress (1956) was infected with opportunism, started to deviated from class positions and “by the 1980-s the CPSU to large extent had stopped being communist”. Such a conclusion has been confirmed by the entire activity of the Central Committee, secretaries at various levels and the absolute majority of ordinary party members of that time.
There was no outright indignation and protest, when Khrushchev spoke out against J.V. Stalin, having slandered him and undermined with this, the belief itself in the correctness of the policy of socialist construction in the pre-war years.
Active party workers even with military party experience never came out in protest over the dictatorship of the proletariat being abolished in the country. The understanding of the necessity of a dictatorship of the proletariat was, in V.I. Lenin’s words, a litmus paper defining belonging to the communists-Bolshevi ks.
The communists from the CPSU easily agreed to live not in a worker-peasant state, but in a petty bourgeois all-people’s state. They agreed for their own party not to be called a party of the working class, but a party of all the people including the petty bourgeois layers of the population. They did not protest against the party nomenclatura that had led from responsibility the leaders of party organisations that had been fined. The party nomenclatura which had played a positive role in the 1920-s and 30-s, had become a party within the party in the 1970-s thinking just about its own personal interests.
And finally, in the Supreme Soviets at various levels were more than 70% communists, but they consented to the Belovezhsky agreement, and voted for the breakup of the USSR they adopted laws “On cooperation”, “On privatization” of the common people’s property. And at the XXVIII congress of the CPSU, the majority of delegates voted in favour of a market policy of development, which meant the capitalization of the country. It turns out that the CPSU by its absolute majority came out in favour of rejecting Soviet power. It adopted a proposal on introducing presidential rule instead of a collective president in the face of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and the establishment of non-Soviet bourgeois-parliamen tary presidential rule, like in the West and in the United States of America.
Only voice which came from Leningrad – the voice of a courageous woman called Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva who openly spoke out in protest against the Gorbachev perestroika. However, after such criticism, all the “loyal Leninists” continued to remain silent.
The class struggle which unfurled in our country divided the CPSU into factions. From out of the members of the party were formed the most heavily numbered “democratic platform” which then became an open enemy of Soviet power and communist ideas. This was a social democratic formation of a pro-Western type which rejected all the achievements of Soviet power.
In the CPSU a “Marxist platform” was formed which came out in favour of a mixed economy, collective private ownership and standing on anarcho-syndicalist positions for the development of the economy. From out of this platform a number of national “communist” parties were formed that rejected class struggle, internationalism and the main ideas of V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin. They reject the thesis of K. Marx about the class struggle inevitably leading to a dictatorship of the, that this dictatorship itself is only a transition towards the dictatorship of all classes and towards a society without classes. These parties are in favour of presidential- parliamentary rule. In essence, these are petty-bourgeois parties, although they call themselves “communist” parties. There are two of them in Belarus:
- Party of Communists of Belorus (PKB). It cooperated closely with the bourgeois-nationali st alliances. It does not really accept the ideas of V.I. Lenin and certainly not those of J.V. Stalin. This party looks to the West, comes out against President A.G. Lukashenko, but does not reject the idea of presidential- parliamentary rule. Its policy is – “a civilized market” and “honest entrepreneurship”.
- Communist Party of Belarus (KPB). This party fully supports the internal and foreign policy of the president directed at the capitalization of the country, at the strengthening of private ownership on the means of production.
In these parties, there are members who have had long-term party memberships going back well before Gorbachev came to power. If in the first party, the membership consists mainly of intelligentsia and former lower ranking party functionaries, then in the second party, it is the former middle to higher ranking party functionaries that have the leading role. Analyzing the ideological and practice of these parties, it cannot be said that the members that make up these parties are communists.
Inside the CPSU there was also a group of Bolsheviks that was organized, and that firmly defended and defends the ideas of Lenin-Stalin. After that, like consistent internationalists, the Bolsheviks of the republics of the former USSR united into the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB).(It was formed after the banning of the CPSU on 8 November 1991). The AUCPB stands for: the rebirth of worker-peasant Soviet power, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, socialism as a transition period over to a communist society. With this, the communists-Bolshevi ks have in mind seven conditions which are necessary to observe when building socialism.
1) The dictatorship of the proletariat (working class).
2) Social ownership over the means of production and main tools of labour.
3) Nationalization of all banks, merging them all into a single state bank.
4) Planned economy run from the centre. Centralized Planned Economy
5) Dominance of Marxist-Leninist ideology.
6) Formation of armed forces, able to defend the socialist state.
7) Merciless suppression of the counter-revolution. These laws were defined by J.V. Stalin in a conversation with Mao in December 1949.
Millions of careerists, opportunists and self-seeking people penetrated the CPSU, who afterwards, having felt that they could not gain anything profitable for themselves, threw away their party membership cards and then start pouring filth onto their own party. Unfortunately, for a long time there were no party purges like there were in the 1920-s and 30-s which would have helped in the party freeing itself from excess ballast. Many of them now state: :But I have kept my party membership card!” And why did they keep their party card? Apparently, it was just in case they needed them again, just like traitor general Vlasov did. When the investigator asked Vlasov as to why he had kept his party card, he replied: “It’s just in case” (I need to use it again). If everything suddenly changed and once again he decides he’ll be a “communist”. Such is the unscrupulous thinking characteristic for many of those people who kept their party documents from the CPSU.
The party gradually became littered up by petty-bourgeois elements which had calmly adopted Gorbachev’s new political policy and thinking, the liquidation of their own party, Soviet power and the breakup of the country.
It is worth, according to G.O. Zlatogorov’s assertion, justifying and praising all the members of the CPSU and especially its Central Committee and Politburo? Of course not. And the authors themselves of the article “Response to “Counter-revolution” are unclear to what category of “communists” from the CPSU they relate themselves to and who he believes himself to be: a Bolshevik or a “modern communist”. I would like to his straight answer.
Our problem is that we, whilst studying the history of the CPSU, historical materialism and other social sciences, we placed little attention to the classics of Marxism-Leninism. Even the authors of the article, G.O. Zlatogorov and Lyubov Prybitkova try after the fact that counter-revolution took place, to search for the reasons for the defeat of socialism starting out from their own world understanding and personal deductions, not turning to the ideas of recognized leaders of the communist movement. This speaks of the fact that the opponents are living in the mood of the 1960-s. One can feel the stuff they learned off by heart from Trotskyite Khruschev and social-democrat Gorbachev, having proposed that people do not study and be guided by the works of the classics of Marxism-Leninism.
K. Marx, V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin in their works gave a wealth of material for an understanding of the reasons of a counter-revolution that would occur.
Karl Marx never claimed that history developed in a straight line. He did not negate the possibility of retreats, fast forwards and defeats, launches and falls in revolutionary forces.
V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin warned about danger to the young Soviet socialist state, about the possibility of a return to capitalism. They revealed the reasons giving birth to capitalism and pointed out those forces and the environment where bourgeois ideas and bourgeois organisations may be born. V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin pointed out the methods of struggle against the ideas and aims of restoring capitalism and destroying socialism.
Speaking with a report on a reexamination of the program and changes in the name of the party at the VII.
Speaking with a report on a reexamination of the program and changes in the name of the party at the VII Extraordinary Congress of the RKP(b) (Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) , V.I. Lenin said : “Thinking that we won’t be cast back in time – is utopia”. And further, “We say, that in any time we are cast back, we shall not refrain from using bourgeois parliamentary politics, - if the class, hostile forces drive us to this old position,- we shall fight on the experience gained, towards Soviet power, to a Soviet type of state, a state like that of the Paris Commune”.
At the VIII Congress of Soviets (December 1920), V.I. Lenin put forth the question directly: “Can Russia return to capitalism?” And he replied himself: “Yes it may at this point”. The bourgeoisie, even if overthrown has a lot of strength and advantages. This strength lies in their money, in their connections, in their experience of organizing the running of the country, in military affairs and in the fact that some petty bourgeois layers of the population will be prepared to support a counter-revolutiona ry coup and follow the bourgeoisie.
V.I. Lenin founded the reason also which could bring about, and now one can say, actually did bring about the defeat of socialism and the liquidation of Soviet power. He said, “Noone can bring us down any more than our own mistakes”. Nobody in the world is able to compromise the revolutionary Marxists, if they do not compromise themselves”.
Its had happened that the leader of the CPSU compromise themselves, stood on the path of social-democracy and betrayal. We, rank and file communists may not agreed with something, but stayed silent, consenting with this, to the revisionist path of Khruschev-Gorbachev . The statement by Andropov, who did not know in what society he or we were living in, did not concern us.
V.I. Lenin’s warning relates to the first years of Soviet power. Can this, after many victories have also blunted our consciousness to the worrying statements by the leader.
J.V. Stalin in later years, like V.I. Lenin saw the danger for Soviet power and warned of this. To question that was put to him in the Sverdlovsky University in Moscow (1924): “Is there a treat to Soviet power?” J.V. Stalin replied: “Yes”. He named the reasons.
Firstly – a loss of communist perspective and the liquidation in connection with this. That is, the liquidation of Soviet power is the consequence of the loss of communist perspective.
Secondly – the ideological degeneration of the party and the betrayal attached to it. And this betrayal is not the cause of the ideological degeneration, like some communists assert, but the consequence of it.
Thirdly – the folding up of the international communist and national-liberation movement and, in connection with this, the growth of nationalism.
We see that J.V. Stalin was right. His prediction came about. We began to lose communist perspective with Khruschev’s statement about “the present generation of Soviet people living under communism”. But 15 – 20 years passed and communism still hadn’t come to pass. We started living worse off. Such a statement as a result, undermined belief in the communist idea.
Was there a degeneration of the party? Yes there was! The rejection of Stalin’s ideas of the transition over to communism, laid out by him in the work “Economic problems in the USSR”, defamation of J.V. Stalin himself, the blackening of the entire period of his leadership in the Soviet country and socialist construction, sowed doubt in the correctness of the Leninist idea on the possibility of building socialism, and after that, the degeneration of many leaders of the party and the state. On the background of this, there appeared traitors like Gorbachev, Yakovlev, Shevardnadze, Bokatin, Yeltsin and others.
By the 1980-s, the national liberation movement had weakened. Many former colonies of aisa and Africa had achieved liberation and had become relatively independent. The former metropolises of Britain, France, Belgium and the USA had the chance to unite their efforts in their struggle against communism, as the main bulwark in the national-liberation struggle. The communist alliance itself had become infected with euro-centrism and social-democratism, especially in Europe. The leading Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) had departed from the ideas of Marx-Engels- Lenin-Stalin. Its ranks were infected by Khrushchev’s revisionism and the opportunism of Brezhnev and Andropov. Here are the ideological sources of the counter-revolution in the USSR. There is hardly anything surprising in the fact that many former communists are not languishing in prisons, but have become presidents of bourgeois republics. Inside the party there was always a struggle between the proletarian core and petty bourgeois element of separate leaders. Lenin, Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich and Kirov had to carry out a struggle to start with, against the Mensheviks, Liquidators, Otzovists, leftist communists, deists, workers’ opposition, Trotskyites, Bukharinites, “rightist” and “leftist” deviations.
Curious minds are turning to the history of Bolshevism and in particular, aiming to study and understand the class relations in the 1920-s and 30-s, which pour light on events happening today. A certain interest for us is the development and strengthening of socialist relations in those years and, especially the nature of the various “deviations” that occurred in the party itself. An explanation of the causes for the origination of “leftist” and “rightist” deviations and the consequences of them triumphing for the fate of the Soviet state and its citizens, gives us the key to an understanding of those processes which led towards the liquidation of the CPSU and the defeat of socialism.
In this connection, I want to refer to a speech by J.V. Stalin at a Plenary session of the MK and MKK of the AUCP(B) in October 1928. In his report he asked the question: “Do there exist in our Soviet country, conditions that make it possible to restore capitalism?” And he, himself replied: “Yes, such conditions do exist”. These conditions consist in the fact that “….we still have not pulled out the roots of capitalism. Where are these roots nested? They are nested in the commodity production, in small scale production towns and villages”.
Small-scale production generates, like Lenin pointed out, generates capitalism and the bourgeoisie constantly, every day, every hour, spontaneously and on a mass scale. Stalin emphasized that in order to liquidate small-scale production, many years of educational, ideological work and economic development was required.
Was there a possibility in the Soviet Union not to allow the restoration of capitalism? Stalin answered: “Yes there is….For this it is necessary to strengthen the proletarian dictatorship, strengthening the alliance between the working class and the peasantry, the development of our commanding heights under the cornerstone of industrialization of the country…..the transfer of the entire economy over on a new technical base, mass co-operizing of the peasant economy and raising the size of their harvests, the gradual unifying of individual peasant farms into social collective farms”.
In the speech it was noted that the proletariat does not live inside a vacuum, but in an environment of small production. Bourgeois elements, generated by small-scale production, “surround the proletariat from all sides with petty bourgeois elements, soaked up by it, corrupted by it, constantly bring about set-backs of petty bourgeois characterlessness within the proletariat, scatteredness, individualism, transitions from distractions towards despondency. (Lenin) and well-known wavering and dithering are introduced in such a way, into the proletariat and its party (Stalin)
Now, much was talked about the rightist deviation in the party at the end of the 1920-s. the danger of this consisted in the underestimation of the strengths of the enemies of socialism, the forces of capitalism and the failure to understand the mechanics of class struggle in the conditions of a dictatorship of the proletariat. The danger also consisted in the fact that communists, subjected to the rightist social-democratic, opportunistic deviation, easily made concessions to capitalism, demanded and created the conditions for the enrichment of capitalist elements, spoke out in favour for softening the state monopoly over foreign trade. J.V. Stalin noted, - “….the victory of the rightist deviation in our party, would unleash the forces of capitalism, would undermine the revolutionary positions of the proletariat and increased the chances of a restoration of capitalism in our country. (Stalin). Prophetic words.
The danger of the “leftist” (Trotskyite) deviation consisted in the fact that “it over-estimated the strength of our enemies, the forces of capitalism, and sees only the possibility and construction of socialism by the strengths of our country, falls into despair and has to console itself by prattling on about the end of our party”.(Stalin). Later, when speaking at the Plenary sessions of the CC AUCP (B) in November 1928, February and April 1929, Stalin named the ideological inspirers of the rightist deviation. These were members of the Politburi: Bukharin, Rykov, Tomsky who on the main questions had deviated from the general line of the party. Bukharin spoke in favour of a growth of Kulakism into socialism (small private farmers who employed farm hands). This idea was expounded by him in the book “The way towards socialism”. In it, the author states that not only the kulaks, but also the concessionaries- capitalists will grow into socialism. According to Bukharin, it turns out that capitalist will grow in a dictatorship of the proletariat. But this already not be a proletarian state, but a liberal-bourgeois one. Bukharin proposed the destruction of classes not by way of fierce class struggle which Lenin talked about, but by way of blunting the class struggle and the growth of capitalism into socialism. Bukharin and his supporters aimed to liquidate the regulating role of the state in the market, forcing to open up, like nowadays, complete freedom of private trade. From here comes his slogan! “Get rich”.
What could be the consequences as a result of a victory of the Bukharinite ideas in our party?
Stalin replied: “This would bring about ideological defeat of our party, an unleashing of capitalist elements and an increase in the chances of a restoration of capitalism”, or, as Lenin said: “….a return to capitalism” (Stalin)
Where could the ideological successors of the rightist Bukharinite deviation be? Stalin pointed out that they “are nesting themselves” in our Soviet and economic, cooperative and trade union apparatuses, in the apparatus of our party, and also among the varied elements of the non-proletarian layers of society, among the intelligentsia. With them as one – a section of members from other parties, people acting with Trotskyite views, the splinters of former factions into parties, bankrupt members of the party in state, economic, cooperative and trade union apparatus, littered with bourgeois elements. This was a feeding ground of deviations from the Leninist line. Stalin’s warning about the rightist danger in the party after the ideological defeat of Bukharin, Rykov, Tomsky came about in the future. The Fatherland War, the post-war period of restoration , the struggle against cosmopolitism led away to one side from the that very danger of rightist and leftist deviations which existed in the party.
The arrival to power of the former, but not unmasked Trotskyite Khrushchev attracted behind himself a gradual change in the political course of the Soviet government. They did not remember the danger of these deviations. And they began to appear under the slogan of the struggle against the so-called “personality cult”. Attacking J.V. Stalin, Khrushchev as the main whistleblower and his supporters negated the heroic period of socialist construction. In order for the up and coming generation not to find out about the difficulties and successes of socialist construction, and also about the revealing of leftist Trotskyite and rightist Bukharinite deviations, the Khrushchevites banned the publication and study of the works of J.V. Stalin. All Stalin’s works were taken off the shelves of libraries including the complete works of Stalin of 13 volumes. Khrushchev and his supporters began to break the connection between the town and village, between industry and the collective agriculture economy and liquidated the Machine Tractor Stations (MTS). They weakened the centralized leadership and planned economy, instead of the lowering costs of products, they introduced “profit” as the main criteria of work at enterprises. The main bulwark of Khrushchev and his successors was directed towards the development of commodity-monetary relations which expanded the sphere of activity of the market and weakened control over it. In ideological work, the struggle against party degenerates was weakened. J.V. Stalin was announced as the chief “enemy”, and not anti-socialist elements which had gathered strength in the party, in the state apparatus and amongst the intelligentsia. Thus the aim of struggle was directed not towards the class enemy, but towards the leader of the Soviet socialist state.
It was announced from the heights of the party rostrums that within the country there was no reason and forces for the restoration of capitalism. From here the rejection of the dictatorship of the proletariat followed and the announcement that the Soviet Union was an all-people’s state, and the Communist Party, a party of all the people. On the background of this, several articles in the Party Rules and Soviet Constitution were altered. The principles of cadre selection according to political and activity qualities were thrown out, and also the necessity for strengthening and preserving common-people’s property. All of this led to a spiraling of stealing from the budget, theft, fiddling the books, towards the blooming of personal gain, personal loyalty and drunkenness, towards the appearance of underground production workshops and people with large amounts of valuable items and money stolen from the people.
As a result of rejection of class positions in politics and ideology, there appeared a large number critics of Soviet power and socialism. Among them turncoats and rightist deviationists of the Gorbachev, Yakovlev, Shevardnadze, Volkogonov type and others grew from this, who began to bring to life the idea of “democratic” changes and the market course of development.
In the ideas of the Gorbachevites, in the activity of the democrats, presidents of the former Soviet republics, leaders of the so-called present-day “communist” parties, we see the Bukharinist line of the free market, the price rises, rejection of the monopoly over foreign trade, a call for creating private individual farms and the destruction of collective and state farms, towards the blooming of speculation and entrepreneurship, towards the accumulation of wealth by a handful of oligarchs-capitalis ts on the backs of pillaging the majority of the population.
Thus Lenin and Stalin’s warning about the possibility of an ideological and organizational defeat of the Communist Party and the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union occurred.
Thus, who is to blame? Is it not us headed by our “leaders” Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Gorbachev who allowed the defeat of a socialist state. Having recognized the mistakes that had been made by the leadership of the CPSU, knowing the reasons for the return to capitalism, we must draw conclusions and define the tasks for the near future.
First of all, the successors of the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin must unify into a single, all-union, organized, highly disciplined Leninist-Stalinist Bolshevik party and deliver a blow to the successors of leftist and rightist deviations, to social-democracy and opportunism. It is necessary to jointly come out and make it the aim to recreate and revitalize workers’ and peasants’ Soviets in the localities, and a Supreme Soviet in the centre, to come out for the forming of the Union of Soviet of Socialist Republics, to train cadres for the future workers’-peasants’ Red Army, to unmask the “Union of Officers” as a “Union of “white” officers, that come out as successors of Denikin, Vlasov, Volkogonov and today’s presidents, to prepare for a general political strike, to form a political headquarters for revolutionary transformations that come out in favour of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. No presidents and their verticals of power, bourgeois parliaments and Dumas will be able to lead the former Soviet republics out of the economic and political crisis. They have done nothing over the past 20 years. They have only allowed NATO near their borders and allowed US military bases to set up on their own territories. They have allowed foreign capital to rob the national wealth and brutally exploit their own people. They have deprived the working people social benefits that were established by Soviet power. They have made the peoples who inhabited the Soviet Union enemies. It is time to put an end with hatred and hostility which was established under the democrats between the republics of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Long live the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!
V.D. Kadet, Candidate for historical sciences, Mogilev
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No 1(70) JANUARY 2009
To the Chairman of the State Council and Council of Ministers of the republic of Cuba
Supreme Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Cuba
Comrade Raul Castro
Member of Parliament of the Republic of Cuba, Legendary Commandant Comrade Fidel Castro
Havana, the Republic of Cuba
Deeply respected COMRADES Raul Castro and Fidel Castro!
In the name of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB) and from myself personally, I warmly congratulate YOU and in your name the heroic Cuban people on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary since the victory of the Cuban Revolution.
You, a great revolutionary in modern times brought about a long time dream of the Cuban people of freedom and independence, cast off by armed force the yoke of neo-colonial imperialist slavery of the USA and began the building on the Island of Freedom, of a new life, having united all the revolutionary forces and patriotic strata of the people, and achieved unity of the nation in the struggle for the construction of socialism in Cuba under the very nose of the empire of evil – the USA.
The words of Fidel Castro that “….for the victory of the revolution, unity in itself in not important, but principles laid down its basis, that form in which it is brought about, and those patriotic ideas which inspireit” – have become the slogan for action not just when overthrowing the Batista regime, but also for in the future – when building a new society.
The Cuban Revolution, which had begun 50 years ago continues today because imperialism has not accepted its defeat in Cuba, not come to terms with the existence of socialism on the Island of Freedom, because the example of the victorious Cuban Revolution has become completely infectious for the countries of Latin America which today have begun the construction of their own independent states.
In 1961, (16th April) in Cuba the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution was proclaimed. Despite the most brutal embargo on part of the USA, the constant acts of diversion, the landing of counter-revolutiona ry bandits onto Cuba with the aim of organising sabotage, diversions, terror and others, the Republic of Cuba is firmly building socialism. The Cuban Revolution continues.
The Soviet people always and felt and still do feel love for the people of Cuba, participated in socialist construction in Cuba – until the wrecking of the USSR on the strength of the counter-revolution that took place in the USSR. We, members of the AUCPB constantly take part in the organisation and carrying out of various acts in support of Cuba and with the demand for the release of the glorious Cuban Five heroes, languishing in US jails.
The whole world is inspired by the selfless international aid of Cuba to developing countries in the training of specialists of the highest qualification for them and in the sending of their own specialists – doctors, teachers and engineers into the countries of Africa, assisting them in rising up their own cultural development.
Neither the criminal policy of the YSA in relation to the Island of Freedom, nor the worst natural disaster of recent times, bringing untold damage to the country have been able to alter the flow of the victorious Cuban Revolution.
Long expectations on part of the USA that Cuba will change its course of development have been doomed to failure, about which Fidel Castro excellently spoke of – that “…will shall always go only forward….Let noone even dream that we will go along the path to capitalism or to private ownership over the means of production”.
Socialist Cuba occupies an important place in the anti-imperialist struggle of the peoples of the world. For the people of Latin America, Cuba always was and remains a beacon of revolutionary action, inspiring the peoples of the world to struggle against imperialism, especially US imperialism as the human-hating, and a beacon for the triumph of the ideals of socialism on planet Earth.
On the famous date marking the occasion of the 50th Anniversary since the victory of the Cuban Revolution, we wish the glorious leaders of Cuba – the legendary Commandant Fidel and his closest assistant in everything, Raul, the very best of health for many years in the name of the continuation of the Cuban Revolution and the happiness of the Cuban people. In the address of Fidel Castro and Raul Castro, we wish the Cuban people great new achievements in the name of advancing forward the cause of building socialism and strengthening the anti-imperialist struggle across the world.
The CC AUCPB congratulates the great revolutionaries – Fidel Castro and Raul Castro in their name – the Cuban people on the occasion of the New Year of 2009, and sincerely wishes the implementation of the dream of every citizen of Cuba.
Long Live the Cuban Revolution!
Long Live the Heroic Cuban People!
Long Live the Legendary Cuban Revolutionaries – Fidel and Raul Castro!
Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva
General Secretary of the CC AUCPB
PERESTROIKA IN CUBA….?
(Firm action by the island of Freedom)
Such a headline or something similar lately has been quite often found in the Russian and foreign media when reporting several measures taken by the Cuban government under Raul Castro, who recently replaced his older brother Fidel to the post of Chairman of the State Council and Council of Ministers of Cuba. Among these measures are, the removal of barriers to the population of the island obtaining a number electronic products, the use of mobile phones, access to the Internet at home, the removal of the ban on taking holidays in the country’s largest hotels, previously designated exclusively for serving foreigners, permission for the transfer of unused state land over to private cooperatives, etc. Here the commentaries are given with a certain sensation (what it’s worth, for example, the headline in one of editions of the newspaper “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” “Toasters are permitted”) and the accompanying attempts to make some comparison either with Soviet perestroika or with the reforms in China, and then simply gloating discussions about another ending of socialism in Cuba which allegedly up until now has only being holding on thanks to the charisma of Fidel Castro.
To explain the situation, we asked Extraordinary and Authorized Ambassador of the republic of Cuba in the Republic of Belarus, Omara Medina Kintero. Here are his commentaries.
- Let’s begin with the fact that understanding of “perestroika” used with those changes which we are observing today in Cuba have nothing in common with what we are doing, especially if you remember what happened to the peoples of the former USSR. This name you will not meet in the Cuba media which like the majority of Cuban citizens see nothing sensational in the changes taking place.
Thus, the change in the country’s leadership was called about by a necessity to give to the leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro, the chance to continue to restore his health so that he can further make contributions to the common cause, giving to the Cuban people his vision and thoughts on burning questions of international and domestic life, and they are natural like life itself. Cuban society has long been prepared for such changes. Fidel himself was always a supporter of strengthening socialism in Cuba as a conscious process, in which each successive generation is obliged to contribute, underlying this process in its own historic context, making it each time more just, modernized and responding to those conditions in which the present generation has to live with.
Cuban socialism always was alien to dogma and never copied and will never copy not one of the socialist models, and that is one of the main sources of its vital strength and steadfast existence. We have always acted reasonably, ensuing from real conditions, on the basis of true evaluations.
The Cuban revolution became the first socialist revolution by the door of the citadel of the mightiest capitalist empire in the world and has been able to withstand, despite all the direct and hidden attacks from this empire.
Now we have to continue the process begun by former generations of Cubans with the struggle for freedom and independence from Spanish colonialism and the liberation from the domination of US imperialism carried out in 1959.
Concerning the latest measures taken by the Cuban government in the social and daily spheres, then they have been accepted by the Cuban people as an additional wealth and the chance to raise yet further the quality of life and social guarantees which are already high. Thus, some of the new measures give the Cuban people the chance to use the services of hotels that since the start of the 1990-s, when the Cuban economy was undermined as a result of the destruction of the socialist camp and the lengthy brutal blockade of the island by the USA, were designated exclusively for earning hard currency the country needed.
Other measure connected with the broadening of services in the area of communication and information technology allow a large number of Cubans to obtain access to the Internet at home, which they could earlier only access at work, in learning institutions, research centre or communication divisions in their own area where there is Internet access, and also to use mobile phones.
Without doubt, all the listed measure signify an further improvement in the quality of life of Cubans, but not one of them is not a attribute to vital necessity. All of their main vital necessary benefits are equal to vitally necessary social guarantees the Cuban people gained in 1959. Therefore, today every Cuban family may sleep peacefully without fear of someone throwing them out their housing for non-payment or some other reason, - indeed the majority of Cubans are themselves owners of their own home. The average Cuban can sleep peacefully and therefore every morning his children go to school where they freely receive quality education. The average Cuban knows that if any member of the family suddenly falls ill, the state takes care of that person, and nobody in the clinic will ask before taking measures to cure that person, about who is going to pay for the doctor’s service, whether or not we are talking about a simple cold or a complex heart or kidney transplant, etc, that are carried out in Cuba at the level of the most developed countries of the world. The average Cuban will never live in a state of stress due to illness, that his son or daughter after graduation will be unable to find a job according to their education, or due to a world crisis brought about by finance speculators and finish up unemployed. The average Cuban start from the 1960-s, obtains part of the commodities of vital necessity which his family uses for a month, at stabile fixed prices. He lives in condition of civic guarantees that establish him as a human individual, having fallen asleep at night never hearing from neighbours on the block chilling stories about someone being mugged or murdered. The average Cuban as a rule, is a member of one of the social, cultural, religious or political organisations, where they have all possibilities for self-expression and find sufficient understanding and like-minded views, in order to feel needed and happy. Besides all of this, he is usually sufficiently informed and knows that on our planet there are many countries and places – from the New York Harlem to Palestine and Iraq, - where the majority of people are not only deprived of the chance to use fashionable hotels, beaches and other benefits of civilization because poverty, but also are simply at a daily risk of being subjected to violence or being killed by some kind of “smart” bomb, mortar or missile. In Cuba, we live in an atmosphere of peace and certainty in tomorrow. Therefore, from the above said, the average Cuban will never support any kind “colour revolution” just for the sake of having the chance to sometimes stay at 5-star hotels which in Cuba serve as an important source of obtaining hard currency, and several of them are our national pride.
The fact that there is talk and rumour spread by several media outlets about an impending end to socialism in Cuba, well to re-phrase the unforgettable Mark Twain, I can say that they are grossly exaggerating and have no bearing on reality. This is especially true concerning the media under the control of North American administration. They have so many times being warning people about an impending end to the Cuban revolution and Cuban socialism, that we have lost count. It is like the media with their lie has for a long time being “stewing in its own juice” and from this, they have themselves began believing their own rubbish, transforming themselves not only on the biggest liars, but at the same time into those who have been the deceived the most –thus they want to broadcast what they would like to see, as something that is the truth.
But unfortunately, the given media are not just lying. They still serve the aggressive militarist machine of the Empire and an enabling it achieve its aims. The daily broadcast myths about the advancement of American democracy on the background of bombs being dropped on people’s heads, carried out according to their reports, to introduce this same democracy, they stupefy and blunt public opinion, training minds about something inevitable. It is enough to remember the bombing of sovereign Yugoslavia where at that time I was the ambassador. But it is not long to go until the assertion that those children who died from the bombing had died in the name of “democracy”.
The transnational media, distorting the truth is teaching others “democracy” and is staying quiet about the crimes of the Empire, enabling the penetration into the consciousness of people of the cult of violence, drug use, political prostitution and a culture of decadence.
Fortunately on Earth there always were and will be those will oppose this media genocide. In particular, in accordance with the decision of the head of states of the Movement for non-merging, which Belarus is a member of, adopted at a summit in Havana, to discussion of the given problem will be devoted the 7th session of ministers of information of the countries- participants of the Movement for non-merging, which took place in 2 -4 July 2008 in the Venezuelan island of Margarita.
Spoken to Gennady Ladisev
Photo by Nicolai Petrova, Belta
“7 Days”
THE GREAT STALIN CONSTITUTION:
The difference between elections during the Stalin era, and elections in today’s Russia
On the 30 December 1922 at the I Congress of Soviets of the USSR, by STALIN’S report, the merging of Soviet Republics took place into one single workers’ and peasants’ multi-national state – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Since the moment of the formation of the USSR and up until the adoption on 5 November of the new Stalin Constitution of the USSR, the Soviet people under the leadership of Stalin had passed along a heroic path of glorious victories, which provided industrialization of the national economy, the transfer of the peasantry over onto the path of major mechanized agriculture, the cultural revolution, progressive science was created, exploitation of man by man was abolished and socialism was constructed in the main. The peoples and nations of the USSR lived in peace and friendship and knew no national hostility.
The Stalin Constitution summed up the path that had been passed, the total of achievements that had been won. It reinforced the socialist system that had been established in the USSR and truly provide political and social-economic rights of the working people. Elections into the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Soviets at all levels were the most free and democratic in the world.
Today, bourgeois propaganda persistently hammers into the consciousness of people of the world that the Stalin Constitution allegedly, was democratic only in words. In order to show the lies in such assertions, the makeup of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR according to the Stalin Constitution (1936) only needs to be pointed out, and WHO makes up the today’s Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) (2008).
On 12 December 1937, the first all-people’s elections took place on the basis of the new Stalin Constitution. Here are the election results where into the makeup of the Supreme Soviet entered the following: workers – 247 people, (45.2%), peasants – 130 people (23.8%), office employees and intelligentsia – 169 people (31%).
All deputies of the Supreme Soviet were production workers, peasants, collective farm workers – Stakhanovites (shock workers), the best people, loved by the entire country, and Order carriers. In the number of intelligentsia – there were 8 academicians, professors, the most loved writers and artists. The best people of the country of Soviets were elected to the Supreme Soviet the country of Soviets.
Now we shall look at who is in today’s Federal Assembly (Council of Federations and the State Duma), in the makeup of which there is not one worker or peasant, but is made up of entirely of professional bureaucrats of all ranks, together with millionaires and billionaires.
In February 2008, the magazine “Finance” published a yearly report “Russia’s 500 billionaires. The rating”. The Russian oligarchs are the economic and political elite of the country, having carved up their capital in the period of stealing the national wealth in the 1990-s and multiplying them each year at a colossal rate.
According to the rating data, the number of dollar billionaires in the Russian Federation has grown in one year by almost twice - from 61 to 100 people, multiplying their capital up to 715.3 billion dollars. According to results of 2007, Russian billionaires are not some of the richest people on the planet, and Russia occupies 2nd place in the number of billionaires (USA is 1st place), and Moscow has become billionaire capital of the world, exceeding New York.
Everyone knows the top ten Russian billionaires – Oleg Deripaska (top of the list, owner of “Bazovy element” holding, worth 40 billion dollars), Roman Abramovich ($23 billion), Vladimir Lisin ($22 billion), Mikhail Freedman ($22.2 billion), Alexei Mordashov ($22.1 billion), Vladimir Potanin ($21,5 billion), Mikhail Prokhorov ($21.5 billion), Suleyman Kerimov ($18 billion), Victor Vexelberg ($15.5 billion), Herman Khan ($15 billion).
According to the rating data, 30 billionaires out of the list of 500 are deputies of the highest legislative bodies of the Russia – the State Duma (19 billionaires) and the Federation Council (11). We can assume that there are more millionaires in the State Duma – in the last State Duma, out of 300 members of the “United Russia” block, there were 100 dollar millionaires. It is no wonder that Oleg Deripasks who occupied 1st place among Russian oligarchs and 9th place in the list of the world’s richest people (according to data from “Forbes” magazine), in one of his own past interview with the media, he cynically stated that we need to “cast out all the fairy-tales about democracy, and of someone deciding the outcome of something in a polling booth….The economy, a major competitive business cannot take such a big risk – the free designating of managers of the state apparatus, at random.
There is a big difference – in the makeup of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR under STALIN were workers, peasants and representatives of the working intelligentsia, but in the makeup of today’s elected State Duma of the Russian Federation according to the Yelstinist Constitution which was adopted on the blood of the people after the bloody events in October 1993 – are dollar billionaires and millionaires.
A. KRYLENKO
Thoughts on the subject “COUNTER-REVOLUTION”
On the pages of the newspaper “Sovietskaya Rossiya” a dissussion flared up about the counter-revolution in the Soviet Union. The author Lyubov Pribytkova in her article “Counter-revolution” that was printed in No12 in 2007 and in No1 in 2008, aimed to show the sources of the counter-revolution. She stated that the party CPSU degenerated, diverted itself away from Marxism-Leninism and became revisionist. Many party members turned out to be betrayers. Such a statement angered G.O. Zlatogorov, member of the CPSU since 1943 (then it was called the AUCP (b) and not the CPSU), and who took part in the Great Fatherland War.
In an article “response to “counter-revolution” there followed a threatening shout from G.O.Zlatogorov “….does she have the moral right to pass such a judgment”. Apparently she does. Further on, Zlatogorov writes: “just in one go, she has labeled millions of communists as betrayers who were in the first rows of participators in the transformations which turned the Soviet Union into a mighty power”. Yes, that is true. But that was before the Great Fatherland War.
In the war years, many party members who had taken part in the events of the October revolution in 1917, in the Civil War that followed and in socialist construction that followed, died on the fronts of the Fatherland War. The AUCP(b) lost more than three million of its best sons. This is more than half the members of the party and about one third of Soviet fighters killed in action.
After the war, the party in the type of membership began to change. It was restored by new young cadres. Serious ideological training was required. There was much lacking. There was a shortage of qualified teachers, propagandists, agitators in order to raise the political-education al work among party members and the entire population to a high level.
At this same time, on the field of political training, the Volkogonovs and Yakovlevs became established with their petty bourgeois views and outlooks.
The works of K. Marx, F. Engels, V.I.Lenin were studied selectively according to separate articles and chosen quotes. After the XX congress of the CPSU, they tried in general not to remind people of J.V. Stalin. What emerged were the ideas and thoughts of general secretaries who rejected the decisions and proposed transformations in the party leadership that were adopted at the XIX party congress, which had laid down the start of the activity of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
L. Pribytkova was right when she stated that the party towards the XX Congress (1956) was infected with opportunism, started to deviated from class positions and “by the 1980-s the CPSU to large extent had stopped being communist”. Such a conclusion has been confirmed by the entire activity of the Central Committee, secretaries at various levels and the absolute majority of ordinary party members of that time.
There was no outright indignation and protest, when Khrushchev spoke out against J.V. Stalin, having slandered him and undermined with this, the belief itself in the correctness of the policy of socialist construction in the pre-war years.
Active party workers even with military party experience never came out in protest over the dictatorship of the proletariat being abolished in the country. The understanding of the necessity of a dictatorship of the proletariat was, in V.I. Lenin’s words, a litmus paper defining belonging to the communists-Bolshevi ks.
The communists from the CPSU easily agreed to live not in a worker-peasant state, but in a petty bourgeois all-people’s state. They agreed for their own party not to be called a party of the working class, but a party of all the people including the petty bourgeois layers of the population. They did not protest against the party nomenclatura that had led from responsibility the leaders of party organisations that had been fined. The party nomenclatura which had played a positive role in the 1920-s and 30-s, had become a party within the party in the 1970-s thinking just about its own personal interests.
And finally, in the Supreme Soviets at various levels were more than 70% communists, but they consented to the Belovezhsky agreement, and voted for the breakup of the USSR they adopted laws “On cooperation”, “On privatization” of the common people’s property. And at the XXVIII congress of the CPSU, the majority of delegates voted in favour of a market policy of development, which meant the capitalization of the country. It turns out that the CPSU by its absolute majority came out in favour of rejecting Soviet power. It adopted a proposal on introducing presidential rule instead of a collective president in the face of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and the establishment of non-Soviet bourgeois-parliamen tary presidential rule, like in the West and in the United States of America.
Only voice which came from Leningrad – the voice of a courageous woman called Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva who openly spoke out in protest against the Gorbachev perestroika. However, after such criticism, all the “loyal Leninists” continued to remain silent.
The class struggle which unfurled in our country divided the CPSU into factions. From out of the members of the party were formed the most heavily numbered “democratic platform” which then became an open enemy of Soviet power and communist ideas. This was a social democratic formation of a pro-Western type which rejected all the achievements of Soviet power.
In the CPSU a “Marxist platform” was formed which came out in favour of a mixed economy, collective private ownership and standing on anarcho-syndicalist positions for the development of the economy. From out of this platform a number of national “communist” parties were formed that rejected class struggle, internationalism and the main ideas of V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin. They reject the thesis of K. Marx about the class struggle inevitably leading to a dictatorship of the, that this dictatorship itself is only a transition towards the dictatorship of all classes and towards a society without classes. These parties are in favour of presidential- parliamentary rule. In essence, these are petty-bourgeois parties, although they call themselves “communist” parties. There are two of them in Belarus:
- Party of Communists of Belorus (PKB). It cooperated closely with the bourgeois-nationali st alliances. It does not really accept the ideas of V.I. Lenin and certainly not those of J.V. Stalin. This party looks to the West, comes out against President A.G. Lukashenko, but does not reject the idea of presidential- parliamentary rule. Its policy is – “a civilized market” and “honest entrepreneurship”.
- Communist Party of Belarus (KPB). This party fully supports the internal and foreign policy of the president directed at the capitalization of the country, at the strengthening of private ownership on the means of production.
In these parties, there are members who have had long-term party memberships going back well before Gorbachev came to power. If in the first party, the membership consists mainly of intelligentsia and former lower ranking party functionaries, then in the second party, it is the former middle to higher ranking party functionaries that have the leading role. Analyzing the ideological and practice of these parties, it cannot be said that the members that make up these parties are communists.
Inside the CPSU there was also a group of Bolsheviks that was organized, and that firmly defended and defends the ideas of Lenin-Stalin. After that, like consistent internationalists, the Bolsheviks of the republics of the former USSR united into the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB).(It was formed after the banning of the CPSU on 8 November 1991). The AUCPB stands for: the rebirth of worker-peasant Soviet power, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, socialism as a transition period over to a communist society. With this, the communists-Bolshevi ks have in mind seven conditions which are necessary to observe when building socialism.
1) The dictatorship of the proletariat (working class).
2) Social ownership over the means of production and main tools of labour.
3) Nationalization of all banks, merging them all into a single state bank.
4) Planned economy run from the centre. Centralized Planned Economy
5) Dominance of Marxist-Leninist ideology.
6) Formation of armed forces, able to defend the socialist state.
7) Merciless suppression of the counter-revolution. These laws were defined by J.V. Stalin in a conversation with Mao in December 1949.
Millions of careerists, opportunists and self-seeking people penetrated the CPSU, who afterwards, having felt that they could not gain anything profitable for themselves, threw away their party membership cards and then start pouring filth onto their own party. Unfortunately, for a long time there were no party purges like there were in the 1920-s and 30-s which would have helped in the party freeing itself from excess ballast. Many of them now state: :But I have kept my party membership card!” And why did they keep their party card? Apparently, it was just in case they needed them again, just like traitor general Vlasov did. When the investigator asked Vlasov as to why he had kept his party card, he replied: “It’s just in case” (I need to use it again). If everything suddenly changed and once again he decides he’ll be a “communist”. Such is the unscrupulous thinking characteristic for many of those people who kept their party documents from the CPSU.
The party gradually became littered up by petty-bourgeois elements which had calmly adopted Gorbachev’s new political policy and thinking, the liquidation of their own party, Soviet power and the breakup of the country.
It is worth, according to G.O. Zlatogorov’s assertion, justifying and praising all the members of the CPSU and especially its Central Committee and Politburo? Of course not. And the authors themselves of the article “Response to “Counter-revolution” are unclear to what category of “communists” from the CPSU they relate themselves to and who he believes himself to be: a Bolshevik or a “modern communist”. I would like to his straight answer.
Our problem is that we, whilst studying the history of the CPSU, historical materialism and other social sciences, we placed little attention to the classics of Marxism-Leninism. Even the authors of the article, G.O. Zlatogorov and Lyubov Prybitkova try after the fact that counter-revolution took place, to search for the reasons for the defeat of socialism starting out from their own world understanding and personal deductions, not turning to the ideas of recognized leaders of the communist movement. This speaks of the fact that the opponents are living in the mood of the 1960-s. One can feel the stuff they learned off by heart from Trotskyite Khruschev and social-democrat Gorbachev, having proposed that people do not study and be guided by the works of the classics of Marxism-Leninism.
K. Marx, V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin in their works gave a wealth of material for an understanding of the reasons of a counter-revolution that would occur.
Karl Marx never claimed that history developed in a straight line. He did not negate the possibility of retreats, fast forwards and defeats, launches and falls in revolutionary forces.
V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin warned about danger to the young Soviet socialist state, about the possibility of a return to capitalism. They revealed the reasons giving birth to capitalism and pointed out those forces and the environment where bourgeois ideas and bourgeois organisations may be born. V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin pointed out the methods of struggle against the ideas and aims of restoring capitalism and destroying socialism.
Speaking with a report on a reexamination of the program and changes in the name of the party at the VII.
Speaking with a report on a reexamination of the program and changes in the name of the party at the VII Extraordinary Congress of the RKP(b) (Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) , V.I. Lenin said : “Thinking that we won’t be cast back in time – is utopia”. And further, “We say, that in any time we are cast back, we shall not refrain from using bourgeois parliamentary politics, - if the class, hostile forces drive us to this old position,- we shall fight on the experience gained, towards Soviet power, to a Soviet type of state, a state like that of the Paris Commune”.
At the VIII Congress of Soviets (December 1920), V.I. Lenin put forth the question directly: “Can Russia return to capitalism?” And he replied himself: “Yes it may at this point”. The bourgeoisie, even if overthrown has a lot of strength and advantages. This strength lies in their money, in their connections, in their experience of organizing the running of the country, in military affairs and in the fact that some petty bourgeois layers of the population will be prepared to support a counter-revolutiona ry coup and follow the bourgeoisie.
V.I. Lenin founded the reason also which could bring about, and now one can say, actually did bring about the defeat of socialism and the liquidation of Soviet power. He said, “Noone can bring us down any more than our own mistakes”. Nobody in the world is able to compromise the revolutionary Marxists, if they do not compromise themselves”.
Its had happened that the leader of the CPSU compromise themselves, stood on the path of social-democracy and betrayal. We, rank and file communists may not agreed with something, but stayed silent, consenting with this, to the revisionist path of Khruschev-Gorbachev . The statement by Andropov, who did not know in what society he or we were living in, did not concern us.
V.I. Lenin’s warning relates to the first years of Soviet power. Can this, after many victories have also blunted our consciousness to the worrying statements by the leader.
J.V. Stalin in later years, like V.I. Lenin saw the danger for Soviet power and warned of this. To question that was put to him in the Sverdlovsky University in Moscow (1924): “Is there a treat to Soviet power?” J.V. Stalin replied: “Yes”. He named the reasons.
Firstly – a loss of communist perspective and the liquidation in connection with this. That is, the liquidation of Soviet power is the consequence of the loss of communist perspective.
Secondly – the ideological degeneration of the party and the betrayal attached to it. And this betrayal is not the cause of the ideological degeneration, like some communists assert, but the consequence of it.
Thirdly – the folding up of the international communist and national-liberation movement and, in connection with this, the growth of nationalism.
We see that J.V. Stalin was right. His prediction came about. We began to lose communist perspective with Khruschev’s statement about “the present generation of Soviet people living under communism”. But 15 – 20 years passed and communism still hadn’t come to pass. We started living worse off. Such a statement as a result, undermined belief in the communist idea.
Was there a degeneration of the party? Yes there was! The rejection of Stalin’s ideas of the transition over to communism, laid out by him in the work “Economic problems in the USSR”, defamation of J.V. Stalin himself, the blackening of the entire period of his leadership in the Soviet country and socialist construction, sowed doubt in the correctness of the Leninist idea on the possibility of building socialism, and after that, the degeneration of many leaders of the party and the state. On the background of this, there appeared traitors like Gorbachev, Yakovlev, Shevardnadze, Bokatin, Yeltsin and others.
By the 1980-s, the national liberation movement had weakened. Many former colonies of aisa and Africa had achieved liberation and had become relatively independent. The former metropolises of Britain, France, Belgium and the USA had the chance to unite their efforts in their struggle against communism, as the main bulwark in the national-liberation struggle. The communist alliance itself had become infected with euro-centrism and social-democratism, especially in Europe. The leading Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) had departed from the ideas of Marx-Engels- Lenin-Stalin. Its ranks were infected by Khrushchev’s revisionism and the opportunism of Brezhnev and Andropov. Here are the ideological sources of the counter-revolution in the USSR. There is hardly anything surprising in the fact that many former communists are not languishing in prisons, but have become presidents of bourgeois republics. Inside the party there was always a struggle between the proletarian core and petty bourgeois element of separate leaders. Lenin, Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich and Kirov had to carry out a struggle to start with, against the Mensheviks, Liquidators, Otzovists, leftist communists, deists, workers’ opposition, Trotskyites, Bukharinites, “rightist” and “leftist” deviations.
Curious minds are turning to the history of Bolshevism and in particular, aiming to study and understand the class relations in the 1920-s and 30-s, which pour light on events happening today. A certain interest for us is the development and strengthening of socialist relations in those years and, especially the nature of the various “deviations” that occurred in the party itself. An explanation of the causes for the origination of “leftist” and “rightist” deviations and the consequences of them triumphing for the fate of the Soviet state and its citizens, gives us the key to an understanding of those processes which led towards the liquidation of the CPSU and the defeat of socialism.
In this connection, I want to refer to a speech by J.V. Stalin at a Plenary session of the MK and MKK of the AUCP(B) in October 1928. In his report he asked the question: “Do there exist in our Soviet country, conditions that make it possible to restore capitalism?” And he, himself replied: “Yes, such conditions do exist”. These conditions consist in the fact that “….we still have not pulled out the roots of capitalism. Where are these roots nested? They are nested in the commodity production, in small scale production towns and villages”.
Small-scale production generates, like Lenin pointed out, generates capitalism and the bourgeoisie constantly, every day, every hour, spontaneously and on a mass scale. Stalin emphasized that in order to liquidate small-scale production, many years of educational, ideological work and economic development was required.
Was there a possibility in the Soviet Union not to allow the restoration of capitalism? Stalin answered: “Yes there is….For this it is necessary to strengthen the proletarian dictatorship, strengthening the alliance between the working class and the peasantry, the development of our commanding heights under the cornerstone of industrialization of the country…..the transfer of the entire economy over on a new technical base, mass co-operizing of the peasant economy and raising the size of their harvests, the gradual unifying of individual peasant farms into social collective farms”.
In the speech it was noted that the proletariat does not live inside a vacuum, but in an environment of small production. Bourgeois elements, generated by small-scale production, “surround the proletariat from all sides with petty bourgeois elements, soaked up by it, corrupted by it, constantly bring about set-backs of petty bourgeois characterlessness within the proletariat, scatteredness, individualism, transitions from distractions towards despondency. (Lenin) and well-known wavering and dithering are introduced in such a way, into the proletariat and its party (Stalin)
Now, much was talked about the rightist deviation in the party at the end of the 1920-s. the danger of this consisted in the underestimation of the strengths of the enemies of socialism, the forces of capitalism and the failure to understand the mechanics of class struggle in the conditions of a dictatorship of the proletariat. The danger also consisted in the fact that communists, subjected to the rightist social-democratic, opportunistic deviation, easily made concessions to capitalism, demanded and created the conditions for the enrichment of capitalist elements, spoke out in favour for softening the state monopoly over foreign trade. J.V. Stalin noted, - “….the victory of the rightist deviation in our party, would unleash the forces of capitalism, would undermine the revolutionary positions of the proletariat and increased the chances of a restoration of capitalism in our country. (Stalin). Prophetic words.
The danger of the “leftist” (Trotskyite) deviation consisted in the fact that “it over-estimated the strength of our enemies, the forces of capitalism, and sees only the possibility and construction of socialism by the strengths of our country, falls into despair and has to console itself by prattling on about the end of our party”.(Stalin). Later, when speaking at the Plenary sessions of the CC AUCP (B) in November 1928, February and April 1929, Stalin named the ideological inspirers of the rightist deviation. These were members of the Politburi: Bukharin, Rykov, Tomsky who on the main questions had deviated from the general line of the party. Bukharin spoke in favour of a growth of Kulakism into socialism (small private farmers who employed farm hands). This idea was expounded by him in the book “The way towards socialism”. In it, the author states that not only the kulaks, but also the concessionaries- capitalists will grow into socialism. According to Bukharin, it turns out that capitalist will grow in a dictatorship of the proletariat. But this already not be a proletarian state, but a liberal-bourgeois one. Bukharin proposed the destruction of classes not by way of fierce class struggle which Lenin talked about, but by way of blunting the class struggle and the growth of capitalism into socialism. Bukharin and his supporters aimed to liquidate the regulating role of the state in the market, forcing to open up, like nowadays, complete freedom of private trade. From here comes his slogan! “Get rich”.
What could be the consequences as a result of a victory of the Bukharinite ideas in our party?
Stalin replied: “This would bring about ideological defeat of our party, an unleashing of capitalist elements and an increase in the chances of a restoration of capitalism”, or, as Lenin said: “….a return to capitalism” (Stalin)
Where could the ideological successors of the rightist Bukharinite deviation be? Stalin pointed out that they “are nesting themselves” in our Soviet and economic, cooperative and trade union apparatuses, in the apparatus of our party, and also among the varied elements of the non-proletarian layers of society, among the intelligentsia. With them as one – a section of members from other parties, people acting with Trotskyite views, the splinters of former factions into parties, bankrupt members of the party in state, economic, cooperative and trade union apparatus, littered with bourgeois elements. This was a feeding ground of deviations from the Leninist line. Stalin’s warning about the rightist danger in the party after the ideological defeat of Bukharin, Rykov, Tomsky came about in the future. The Fatherland War, the post-war period of restoration , the struggle against cosmopolitism led away to one side from the that very danger of rightist and leftist deviations which existed in the party.
The arrival to power of the former, but not unmasked Trotskyite Khrushchev attracted behind himself a gradual change in the political course of the Soviet government. They did not remember the danger of these deviations. And they began to appear under the slogan of the struggle against the so-called “personality cult”. Attacking J.V. Stalin, Khrushchev as the main whistleblower and his supporters negated the heroic period of socialist construction. In order for the up and coming generation not to find out about the difficulties and successes of socialist construction, and also about the revealing of leftist Trotskyite and rightist Bukharinite deviations, the Khrushchevites banned the publication and study of the works of J.V. Stalin. All Stalin’s works were taken off the shelves of libraries including the complete works of Stalin of 13 volumes. Khrushchev and his supporters began to break the connection between the town and village, between industry and the collective agriculture economy and liquidated the Machine Tractor Stations (MTS). They weakened the centralized leadership and planned economy, instead of the lowering costs of products, they introduced “profit” as the main criteria of work at enterprises. The main bulwark of Khrushchev and his successors was directed towards the development of commodity-monetary relations which expanded the sphere of activity of the market and weakened control over it. In ideological work, the struggle against party degenerates was weakened. J.V. Stalin was announced as the chief “enemy”, and not anti-socialist elements which had gathered strength in the party, in the state apparatus and amongst the intelligentsia. Thus the aim of struggle was directed not towards the class enemy, but towards the leader of the Soviet socialist state.
It was announced from the heights of the party rostrums that within the country there was no reason and forces for the restoration of capitalism. From here the rejection of the dictatorship of the proletariat followed and the announcement that the Soviet Union was an all-people’s state, and the Communist Party, a party of all the people. On the background of this, several articles in the Party Rules and Soviet Constitution were altered. The principles of cadre selection according to political and activity qualities were thrown out, and also the necessity for strengthening and preserving common-people’s property. All of this led to a spiraling of stealing from the budget, theft, fiddling the books, towards the blooming of personal gain, personal loyalty and drunkenness, towards the appearance of underground production workshops and people with large amounts of valuable items and money stolen from the people.
As a result of rejection of class positions in politics and ideology, there appeared a large number critics of Soviet power and socialism. Among them turncoats and rightist deviationists of the Gorbachev, Yakovlev, Shevardnadze, Volkogonov type and others grew from this, who began to bring to life the idea of “democratic” changes and the market course of development.
In the ideas of the Gorbachevites, in the activity of the democrats, presidents of the former Soviet republics, leaders of the so-called present-day “communist” parties, we see the Bukharinist line of the free market, the price rises, rejection of the monopoly over foreign trade, a call for creating private individual farms and the destruction of collective and state farms, towards the blooming of speculation and entrepreneurship, towards the accumulation of wealth by a handful of oligarchs-capitalis ts on the backs of pillaging the majority of the population.
Thus Lenin and Stalin’s warning about the possibility of an ideological and organizational defeat of the Communist Party and the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union occurred.
Thus, who is to blame? Is it not us headed by our “leaders” Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Gorbachev who allowed the defeat of a socialist state. Having recognized the mistakes that had been made by the leadership of the CPSU, knowing the reasons for the return to capitalism, we must draw conclusions and define the tasks for the near future.
First of all, the successors of the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin must unify into a single, all-union, organized, highly disciplined Leninist-Stalinist Bolshevik party and deliver a blow to the successors of leftist and rightist deviations, to social-democracy and opportunism. It is necessary to jointly come out and make it the aim to recreate and revitalize workers’ and peasants’ Soviets in the localities, and a Supreme Soviet in the centre, to come out for the forming of the Union of Soviet of Socialist Republics, to train cadres for the future workers’-peasants’ Red Army, to unmask the “Union of Officers” as a “Union of “white” officers, that come out as successors of Denikin, Vlasov, Volkogonov and today’s presidents, to prepare for a general political strike, to form a political headquarters for revolutionary transformations that come out in favour of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. No presidents and their verticals of power, bourgeois parliaments and Dumas will be able to lead the former Soviet republics out of the economic and political crisis. They have done nothing over the past 20 years. They have only allowed NATO near their borders and allowed US military bases to set up on their own territories. They have allowed foreign capital to rob the national wealth and brutally exploit their own people. They have deprived the working people social benefits that were established by Soviet power. They have made the peoples who inhabited the Soviet Union enemies. It is time to put an end with hatred and hostility which was established under the democrats between the republics of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Long live the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!
V.D. Kadet, Candidate for historical sciences, Mogilev
DEAR COMRADES- COMMUNISTS!
DEAR FRIENDS OF OURS ABROAD!
DEAR LIKE-MINDED THINKERS AND COLLEAGUES!
DEAR READERS OF OUR NEWSPAPER!
The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB) congratulates all of YOU in the NEW YEAR 2009, and wishes YOU and YOUR dearests,, the very best of health firstly, and also the realizing of your hopes and concerns in such a worrying and troubling time.
The new year of 2009 is a year when on the 21 December we shall mark the 130th birth date of J.V. Stalin – the outstanding statesman and political activist of the XX century, loyal pupil and comrade of V.I. Lenin, the worthy continuer in the cause of the building of the first in history workers’ and peasants’ Socialist state – the multinational union of peoples of equal rights, when friendship, mutual respect and mutual assistance are the main mutual relations in society, when in front of every person a wide choice is open in relation to the future of their activity depending only on ones own natural talents, abilities and gifts.
We declare 2009 a STALINIST YEAR.
We call upon members of the AUCPB to achieve successes in raising the activity of all our party organisations in the propaganda of Bolshevism – modern-day Marxism-Leninism, in the growth of our party membership and the number of like-minded thinkers.
We sincerely wish more indignation and a growth in anti-imperialist forces across the world.
We call for unity of actions of everyone who is fighting imperialism and nationalism all stripes and shades.
Long live our international brotherhood in the struggle for peace, for socialism!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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FOR BOLSHEVISM DECEMBER 2008
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FOR BOLSHEVISM
INSIDE THE COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’ MOVEMENT
No 12(69) DECEMBER 2008 AUCPB - ВКПБ
91 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
Dear Comrades! Members of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and also our like-minded thinkers in other leftist parties and movements!
Dear citizens of our Socialist Motherland!
The Central Committee of the AUCPB warmly congratulates YOU on the 91st Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution – the beginning of a new era in Mankind, a new historical formation – without oppression of the working people, where a person who works is the creator of all values on Earth, and is the full master of everything that humanity has created during its arduous history.
Yes, we Bolsheviks have had to temporarily retreat in the construction of a socialist society due to betrayal, mainly by the degenerated party-nomenclatures of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), which headed the bourgeois counter-revolution in the USSR. Lenin believed that there cannot be a revolution without a counter-revolution (vol. 12 p 171, Rus.). Building something completely new, for the first time in history and never seen before is always very difficult. But we have gained an enormous amount of experience over the 70-year successful construction of a socialist state in conditions of a fortress under siege. We showed the whole world in practice the huge advantages of a socialist system over the capitalist system and encouraged many peoples in their struggle for socialism. These 70 years have been our greatest asset for the rebirth of our Socialist Fatherland. For we have become wiser and more experienced in how we need to run a new society and avoid those mistakes and errors already made in the past. We now know WITH WHOM we can go into battle, WHO are our trusty allies and where the true enemy is. Counter-revolution is conquered by revolution, (K. Marx in Vol 6 p218, Rus). We must prepare ourselves for a new socialist revolution seriously, without whining about difficulties, but being certain in our certain victory because our victory has been historically predestined by the flow of the development of history. We must even more steadfastly and patiently carry out explanatory and agitation of our Bolshevik ideas together with the distribution of our Bolshevik Program among the masses, especially among young people, the working intelligentsia, among the workers and peasants.
Pseudo-Marxists lie when they say that the working class has now ceased to exist, has degenerated and that the “white collar” workers are now allegedly the hegemony of revolutionary transformations in society. The working class, according to the words of V.I. Lenin, does not die, but grows, strengthens, unites, enlightens itself and becomes hardened in the struggle (Lenin, vol.23, p 257). This process of hardening of the working class and the working peasantry is clearly revealed in Bolshevik publications from the localities and Bolshevik central newspapers (Serp I Molot, Raboche-Krestyanska ya Pravda, Vperyod).
We are marking the 91st Anniversary of Great October in conditions of the most powerful global systemic crisis of imperialism since the great depression of 1929-1933. It began with the financial collapse of the leading props of the US financial pyramid and drawing into itself a growing political crisis of the institutes for running the international system which was formed after the ending of WWII, the destruction of all aspects of the existing world order.
The US economic recession has crossed over into Europe, having brought about a serious fall in production and, with this, a rise in unemployment, inflation, mass actions of the proletariat in the struggle for its survival. The hurried nationalization of the US economy will hardly save it from collapse. Europe is occupied with the same thing. The “G7” which had been tearing away trying to save its “friend” the USA, cannot improve the situation, since it no longer occupies the commanding heights in the global finances. The collapse of the soap bubble - the US dollar as the international currency reserve, the collapse of the dominating position of the US in the world, means also the collapse of the American idea of a mono-polar world, having demonstrated its complete failure to be what the USA constantly demonstrated to everyone to be the only aim of solving its own problems on the backs and to the detriment of others.
Russia at one time, in one imperialist connection with the USA has not escaped the financial crisis, although on the strength of a number of reasons, it has at the moment, a less catastrophic character.
Starting from the present political-economic situation in the world, we are standing on the threshold of serious political upheavals.
We, Bolsheviks also mark 8th November as the 17 year since the forming of our All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB)
17 years ago, having raised up high the banner of Lenin-Stalin at a turning point of our Soviet history, we proudly and courageously carried this banner forward under the hooting of the pseudo-communists, cowardly hiding from the portrait of Stalin on our banner. We did not allow the renegades to mock our glorious Soviet past. We then were the only ones to point out to the working masses who’s minds had been beaten with anti-Stalin mayhem, pointed out the real path out of the situation that was taking place in the territory of the USSR and in the world after the counter-revolutiona ry coup d’ etat in the USSR.
Today, like before, we are the only true communist party on the territory of the former Soviet republics, the party until the very end, loyal to the doctrine of Marx-Engels- Lenin-Stalin, the party of the working class entering into alliance with the peasantry and working intelligentsia under the banner of Marxism-Leninism.
Over the past 17 years - the difficult years of the bourgeois counter-revolution, the AUCPB has successfully overcome a number of obstacles which the bourgeois regime piled up in our path, smashed all attempts by the opportunists to split, destroy and wreck it from within.
All these years we have been carrying out an uncompromising struggle against opportunism inside the communist movement, not just here in our country, but also abroad, carrying our a struggle for the revolutionary revival of Soviet power as the dictatorship of the proletariat, socialism and our great multi-national Motherland- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The AUCPB from the moment of its founding is an All-Union party, actively working in all regions of the USSR. Our party is the banner bearer of Bolshevism, primordially built as a monolithic, ideological pure, revolutionary party, loyal to the great Marxist slogans of proletarian internationalism, the dictatorship of the proletariat. Its final aim is the building of communism.
Our party carries a large contribution in the cause of the international unification of anti-imperialist forces, has close ties and cooperation with socialist countries – the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Cuba, with revolutionary and national-liberation movements of the world. In other countries of the world, the ideas of Bolshevism are spread via our journals in French and English languages as well as via the Internet, and public speeches made by the higher ranking party activists at International seminars, conferences, and symposiums. The main materials of our Party have been translated into many languages of the world and are published abroad.
On the day since the forming of our All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB) – 8 November 1991, I sincerely wish all the members of our party good health, much vital strength and success in our exceptionally hard and necessary work on the spreading of the ideas of Bolshevism, on attracting in to the ranks of the AUCPB worthy comrades, on preserving a clear and firm position in the struggle against opportunism for the cause of Lenin-Stalin.
Long Live Great October!
Long Live international unity and brotherliness of all progressive forces on the Planet in the struggle against imperialism!
General Secretary of the CC AUCPB
N.A. Andreeva
October 2008, Leningrad
THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
The adoption after a second attempt by the US Congress at the beginning of October of the “Paulson Bailout Plan” (named after the US Treasury Secretary, who had put forward this plan) on bailing out the country’s financial sector by way of allocating 700 billion dollars, has led to failure. Just in one day, on 7th October, the stock market of the US lost 700 billion dollars in trading, that is to say, equivalent to the sum proposed for saving the economy, having offered to buy up the shares that had dropped in value.
As spokesperson of an association dealing with stock market statistics, Wilshire Associates Incorporated, Kim Shepherd says, in all, starting from 19th September, when the world markets peaked, the US company shares had already lost 3.4 trillion dollars. The market was in panic: analysts and businessmen have admitted that the country’s economy is in depression which has not been reflected in official statistics.
“The packet of emergency stabilization measures which have for so long been discussed, in actual fact represent less than 1% of our financial hole….We are sitting on a ticking fiscal time bomb which needs to be stopped immediately”, declared well-known finance expert David Walker, formerly Comptroller General in the White House under Bush live on air on CNN. In his opinion, any measures taken by the government and directed at the increasing the budget deficit will only play on the financial destabilization, no matter what noble intentions the authors of the plan pursued for holding together the mortgage and financial giants, which finished up going down into the funnel of the crisis.
The US banking sector has been sunk into a new wave of crisis – this time, client credit card default, writes the Wall Street Journal referring to the statement by the Bank of America, commenting on the 68% fall in quarterly profits, and of the need to attract 10 billion dollars.
The US financial media reports of panic by small and medium investors, primarily counting on surviving a collapse in the markets, but now casting out their portfolios (that is, their securities).
The financial crisis also hit the pension system. US citizens over the last 15 months have lost in their pension funds, 2 trillion dollars in savings. According to the words of committee member Peter Orszag, the reason for the catastrophic loss in pension savings of citizens was in the collapse of the stock market. As a result, many Americans have had to re-examine their own pension plans, including when they can actually retire on a pension. One should note here that the minimum pension age in the US is 62 years old.
The US state budget deficit for 2008 stood at 454.8 billion dollars, a record high for the entire American history, is spoken about in a message by the US president. Compared to 2007, it has grown by almost three times – from 161.5 billion dollars. In connection with the 700 billion dollar packet of measures on reviving the US economy, the experts believe that 2009 will be even worse, according to Associated Press.
“I think that we are on the threshold of a complete collapse of the US financial system”, declared BBC professor of Maryland University, Peter Morrissey. “After this, panic may start, which will lead to the collapse of the world’s financial institutions”.
Dominic Stross-Kan, head of the IMF in a statement on the results of the meeting of ministers of finance of the “G7” which took place on 11 October, noted that the leading industrial powers of the world have not done enough to restore confidence in the markets. And that the doubts in the stability of a number of the largest financial institutions of the US and Europe are pushing the world financial system to the edge of a collapse of the system.
Another thing which did not lead to a positive result was the widely advertised plan for rescuing the European financial system adopted at a summit in Paris on 12 October by the leaders of 15 countries in the Eurozone (with the participation of British Prime Minister – Gordon Brown). According to the words of French president Sarkozi, state guarantees for temporary inter-bank lending was decided in order to avert a paralysis of the financial system. This plan also like the US one, is based upon the multi-billion dollar input into the banking sector of these countries and bailing out the banks which are in crisis, up to including their partial nationalization. After the plan was adopted, stocks started going up on the financial markets of Europe, but already by 14 – 15 October, they had already again dropped, that is, the fall continued.
The financial crisis began to influence the real sector of the economy. International financial institutes were gripped by fear. The IMF began talking of a threat of a slowdown in the world economy. According to the opinion of IMF specialists, developed economies have already entered a period of recession. The forecast for the growth in the US economy for 2009 stands at 0.1%, against the 0.6% that was earlier expected. The developed countries of Europe will show a growth in the area of around 0.2%. In Germany the forecast is of zero growth, according to Bloomberg. The IMF believes that the developing economies are also slowing down. A fall in the growth speed in the economy will lead to an increase in unemployment. The number of jobs lost outside the agricultural sector in the US for September stood at 159 thousand people. Across the world, the crisis has left more than 83 thousand bankers without jobs.
RUSSIA
Here the situation still worse. The world liquidity crisis, that is, a lack of money on the money markets, - has led to an even deeper crisis in liquidity inside Russia too. Over the past six months, the Russian market has lost about 70% of capitalization, at the same time when on other markets, the crisis has resulted in a fall in stocks on an average of 30% (China – 40%, Israel -34%, Japan – 29%, Britain and France - by 28%, Poland – 27%, USA – 27-24%, Germany- 25%, Belgium – 22%. Data source- stock report and news “FBK”). One more element of the crisis has been the fall in the price of oil which has led to a reduction in the influx of dollars for oil into the Russian budget.
The experts believe that the accumulated stabilization fund will soften the blow and that there is enough money in there for the time being, but all depends on how deep the world crisis turns out to be. Vice Chairman of the budget and tax committee of the Russian State Duma, Alexander Kogan says – “I think this year there will be no problems, because the budget surplus is now sufficiently big to ward off serious blows to the economy”. According to the opinion of the director of the institute for development, Sergei Glazyev, the problem lies in the fact that this money is invested in the American financial market, and due to the situation in the US, it can simply devaluate, and with this, very quickly.
The stormy growth in the economy will most certainly end this year and, beginning from next year, a significant slowdown will be observed, believes senior analyst of the company “Global Insight” on Russia, Doctor of political science, Natalie Leshenko.
The financial crisis in Russia has crossed over into a new phase: a sharp reduction of turnover capital will lead to stagnation in production. Automobile concerns “GAZ” and “KamAZ” have already announced a partial closure of their assembly lines. Metallurgists have warned of reductions in the volume of production by 20%. Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant (MMK) has announced a reduction in production and layoffs. According to the finance director of MMK Vladimir Shmakov, in October it is possible there would be fall in production by 25% in relation to the previous month.
According to the opinion of economists, the majority of Russia’s population will have prepare themselves for wage freezes and a fall in real incomes by approximately 30%. And in the first half of this year, real incomes of the population had already fallen by almost 10%.
The fall in growth and the stagnation of production will lead to a growth in unemployment. According to the opinion of specialists, the total number of people laid off due to a drop in production may real several million. The hardest hit will be the construction firms which survive entirely on hired means. They, according to data by economist Mikhail Delyagin, which radio station “Nemetskaya Volna” has quoted, have begun to freeze projects that have already been completed, and in the near future, millions of migrant workers who have been deprived of work will be thrown onto the streets of Russians towns and cities, and who could turn into violent criminals. On the whole in Russia at present there are, according to the economist, about 12 million migrant workers. One million of them have legal status, 11 – illegal status. Out of those, 6.5 million work in the construction industry. Delyagin forecasts that between 1 and 1.5 million migrant workers will keep their jobs in construction which are have been spared. Another one million of them will be able to find other jobs or manage to escape in time. But no less than 4 million of them will finish up on the streets – outside the law and outside of society. “For them lies the threat of a cold and hungry death, because they, as people from the warmer southern parts, are more sensitive to the winter that is fast approaching. On the other hand, for inhabitants of major towns and cities, this means a sharp rise in crime. And what is a very true reality, this will be violent crime, because people will be struggling for their physical survival”, warns Delyagin.
UKRAINE
The situation in Ukraine is lot worse than in Russia. More than this, it is catastrophic. The fall in stock market shares on the PFTS for the indicated period (May-October) was more than 70%. The trade balance was completely deregulated. Thus, if back in 2004, Ukraine sold onto the international market commodities worth 3.66 billion dollars more than it bought (that is, it was exporting more than it was importing), then with the arrival to power of the orange group and the first government of Yulia Timoshenko, already according to the total of 2005, the trade balance deficit stood at 1.91billion dollars. After that, with each year, the deficit has grown, and according to the 2007 results, stood at 11.42 billion dollars. For January – May of this year, import was greater than export by already 9.2 billion dollars and, according to specialist forecasts, the annual deficit for this year will be around 20 billion dollars. Ukraine’s financial system is only just floating thanks to foreign investments which in 2007 alone stood at 7.88 billion dollars. But with the start of the global financial crisis, foreign capital has begun leaving Ukraine (as with Russia too).
Ukraine’s foreign debt, according to data of the National Bank, at April 1, 2008, reached the astronomical sum of 92.49 billion dollars which is 65% of the entire GDP. With this, Ukraine has to pay back short-term loans to foreign lenders to the sum of 21 billion dollars. The need to have to repay these loans is forcing them to take out more credit at a higher rate of interest. Moreover, in the conditions of a financial crisis, these credits are extremely difficult to obtain. Economists have forecast that already by the end of this year (2008) the country’s financial system will have collapsed. This will lead to a devaluation of the Ukrainian hryvnia by a minimum of 1.5 – 2 times, the bankruptcy of the banking system, “having been sown” by foreign credits, the collapse of the stock market with a fall in the price of shares by 3 – 5 times, a hike in inflation up to 15 – 30% a month and the lowering of real income of the population.
The financial crisis has already affected in a negative way the economy of Ukraine. In particular, a large-scale crisis has begun in the steel industry. In connection with the fall in world prices, Ukrainian steel plants can no longer compete with Chinese and Russian producers. A month’s amount of products has accumulated at the companies’ warehouses due to problems with sales. Already 17 of the 36 smelting furnaces have stopped working, and the steel industry is looking at the partial closure of steel plants. Considering that the share of enterprises of the mining-metallurgica l complex in the GDP is 20%, and up to 40% of the hard currency enters Ukraine from steel production, the consequences of the crisis in the metallurgical branch of industry may be pitiful; from a budget shortfall and massive job cuts up to the complete collapse in the economy of Ukraine. The country will sink into several years of depression.
The result - a sharp decline in the living standards of the working people of Ukraine and a new wave of labour migration.
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In this situation, instead of restoring financial-economic and friendly ties with Russia in order to together try to stave off the crisis, the orange leadership of Ukraine headed by president Yukoshenko is forcing anti-Russian sentiment onto society. It has got so bad that the president now confiscates the plane from the prime minister when she goes to Moscow to solve questions on the price of gas. Indeed if Russia raises gas prices from 1st January 09 to the level of world gas prices, then the economy of Ukraine will come to an end. By order of the National Council for TV and Radio broadcasts, from the start of October 08, a number of cable Russian TV channels are to be suspended. All this is being done to stop Ukrainian viewers and listeners from getting information from out of Russia, in particular on the question of shining light on the Georgia- South Ossetia conflict and the participation of Ukraine in the face of the orange leadership, in the arming up of Georgia with weapons of attack. Practically as we were writing this article, Ukraine had taken part in that conflict on the side of Georgia and against Russia.
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In order to take the attention of Ukraine’s working people off the extremely difficult situation, and also with the aim of dumping the entire blame for the impending catastrophe onto the Cabinet of Ministers headed by Yu. Timoshenko, V. Yushenko announced new elections to parliament. He gave the order for the dissolution of parliament (9 October) and designated the election for 7 December. Yulia Timoshenko in no way wants to lose her high and mighty post of prime minister with huge financial-economic power, and she, together with her power bloc (BYUT), is doing everything in order to wreck these elections. A legal war has broken out between the president and prime minister. The president’s Decree has been annulled by the area court administration of Kiev, the dissolution of this court by the president, the annulment of the given Decree by a higher court, the blocking of courts and the Central Electoral Commission by the BYUTites etc.
The working people of Ukraine understand all too well that all these “battles” have nothing in common with their daily lives, have nothing to do with their pains and concerns, that the president with the prime minister, - and the political forces oligarch clans breathing down their necks are simply carving up their own loot on the backs of the working people.
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The impending collapse of world imperialism speaks only of one thing – capitalism at its highest imperialist stage has completely exhausted its own historical resources and to the utmost revealed its beastly inhuman essence.
The working people, like 91 years ago have to rise up to the struggle for the revolutionary overthrow of the power of capital and the rebirth of the power of the working people, Soviet power.
We, Bolsheviks have no doubt that a new wave of proletarian revolutions is growing and which will sweep off from the face of the Earth the rotten and criminal system of imperialism.
16 October 2008
A. MAEVSKY, Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB)
The electing of Barak Obama as US president became news item number one in the world recently in conditions of a developing world systemic crisis and recession in the economies of the leading imperialist states.
What is the world expecting from the new president of the USA?
Firstly, the world is expecting a change in US foreign policy after the changeover in power in the White House, and namely:
1. a rejection by the USA of the role of world’s gendarme and that it subordinates to the rules to laid down by the United National Organisation (UNO);
2. the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq;
3. the closure of the Guantanamo concentration camp and the banning of the use of any kind of torture by the Army as well as the CIA, and also the closing of the network of secret prisons scattered by the US all around the world;
4. rejection from the policy of listing a number of sovereign states as belonging to the “axis of evil”, or defining them as “rogue states”, rejection of the human-hating policies in relation to them, made more severe by harsh economic blockades against countries like Cuba and the DPRK. Iran is also included in this list, with its peaceful atomic research that so irritates the USA;
5. cessation of extremist Americanism unleashed on independent states under the pretext of the “struggle of Americans for human rights”, the “establishment of democracy” – the American way of life and the corrupting human personality of American “culture”;
6. cessation of the gangster-style military arbitrariness on Palestinian soil and on the whole, in the Middle East on part of Israel fed by the US;
7. inadmissibility of aerial bombardments by the US airforce over territory of independence, where Americans allegedly suddenly spot the presence of terrorists (Syria, Lebanon and others);
8. signing of the Kyoto protocol, thereby confirming US readiness to cooperate internationally in preserving the environment in the struggle against global warming;
9. ending the construed global anti-missile defence system located close to Russia (Poland, Czech) and the former republics of the USSR as a factor for stepping up military tension;
10. the ending of the expansionist policy of NATO and the unrestrained expansion of zones of activity of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation further into the East;
11. a number of other no less important acts.
In the domestic political sphere, the world is waiting from the US serious efforts on ending the US initiated world financial and economic crisis which has led the economies of the leading countries of Europe into recession and strongly hit the economies of countries like Russia, Japan, China and others.
These, maybe are the main questions which the world is waiting a solution to from the 44th president of the USA, Barak Obama. Can he, the first in American history black president, a descendant of a white slave-owner and a Jewess of African origin, fulfill the hopes of the world community?
It seems that serious changes in the foreign policy of the USA under Obama are not envisaged. More than this, to the majority of the listed questions, Obama has already publicly stated – “NO”, or that he is completely unsure. The USA will not be withdrawing from Afghanistan soon, or even at all at this rate. It is of no accident that they got involved in that conflict. Iraq remains occupied by US troops for the long term, for a withdrawal by them from Iraq would mean a loss of US influence in that region. Blood will continue to flow from Palestine, since Israel and the US will not reject their policy of invasion into this territory of the Middle East. Russia, like before represents an interest for the USA only as a source of raw materials, the country, preferably in dismembered form. (A former enemy will never be a friend – proclaims a Russian proverb). We have already analyzed the question as to who real power belongs to in America. It belongs to the Zionist lobby, aiming for world domination. Therefore, any US president is, in all, only an executive of the will of the ruling Zionist elite of America, the Committee of 300, which runs the transnational corporations and dictates its will to the presidents and higher electoral power of the imperialist countries of the world.
Well ok, Barak Obama has black skin, so what? He is still their puppet, from out of their “nest”. The arrival of a politician with other views and another political orientation other than what makes the true power in the USA happy, to the post of US president, is practically impossible. And so Obama will do what he has “been told” by the hierarchs of Zionism and he will do it even more decisively (than George Bush has done, which Obama has already publicly stated), in order to constantly prove his complete loyalty and obedience to the demands of the Zionist lobby of the USA.
One can judge in advance the policy of Obama by the makeup of the pro-presidential team chosen by him. Out of them, who has already been designated as member of Obama’s team are all hawks, who have already showed their true selves in the organizing and carrying out by the US of local wars. For example, Richard Holbrooke is one of the architects of the bombing of Yugoslavia whilst completely ignoring the recommendations of the UN. Joe Biden – engineered and took active part in the plan of action for attacking Iraq. These are just two, but there are other hawks. Post of Head of chancellery of the White House will be filled by Ram Emanuel, who comes from an Israeli family who immigrated to the USA. This is a post which occupies third place in importance in the government hierarchy of the USA. The head of chancellery carries responsibility for the choice of cadres for the government apparatus, the contact with the White House and US Congress, the country’s domestic policy and work with the cabinet of ministers. Ram Emanuel is closely tied in with Israel. Therefore one need not expect any easing of tension in the Middle East. The remaining members in Obama’s team are of the same level of loyalty to the idea of world domination by the American empire and the use of military force for realizing the expansionist plans of the USA.
Therefore, in the White House, besides a change in the colour of the skin of the person who is to carry out the duties of a president, little is going to change. The American naïve euphoria over the coming to pass of the American dream of the forefathers- founders of America will soon pass, and the real affairs will hardly instill optimism into the ordinary Americans.
However, it is not excluded that the choosing out of all pretenders to the White House of namely a black president by the Zionist lobby of America follows long term aims, namely: the use of him, a black man, like one of “their own”, as a passing figure for the broad penetration and conquering by America, of the African continent under the decrepit slogans of “human rights struggle” and “democracy”. The African continent which is so rich in the rarest minerals and raw materials and exceptionally cheap labour power (before, black slaves were sent to America as slaves, but now they can be utilized on the spot, in Africa, and with this, gaining huge profits without the cost of transit and maintenance even it only on the most basic of needs. And imperialist Europe will be able to utter a sigh of relief, for while at least, since the problem of illegal migration of the impoverished African population into the countries of Europe, will lessen.
It is possible that the US Zionist lobby is planning on gaining another doping, by way of enslaving black Africa, stealing its rich minerals and raw materials and with this, finds its way out of the crisis. Indeed, the attitude to the USA in Latin America (one of the main suppliers of energy resources for the USA) is by far cloudy, and in the Middle East, is with hatred towards American occupiers.
In the 1990-s the US gained a huge doping on the backs of the breakup of the USSR which provided the US with a sufficiently peaceful existence in the flow of 20 years (read A.A. Ponomaryev’s “Yeltsin – Russia’s tragedy” M., 1999).
By the words of the 41st US president George Bush (senior) in 1992, - “We have spent 4 trillion dollars on winning the cold war and compared to this amount, the sum we intend to spend now (for breaking up the USSR) - is 24 billion dollars. The democrats inside the Kremlin are able to guarantee our security far more reliably than our nuclear missiles”. In other words, Gorbachev’s betrayal cost America 166 times less compared to the confrontation between the two political systems.
During a meeting in the summer of 1987, Gorbachev together with Shevardnadze on a destroyer in the Mediterranean Sea near Malta, gave their consent to US president Ronald Reagan to dissolve the “Warsaw pact”, withdraw Soviet troops from the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and also the ending of the Soviet space shuttle “Buran”…. In passing it needs to be mentioned that West German Chancellor Kohl (1981 – 1998) in those days offered Gorbachev 160 billion dollars for “handing over” East Germany. After time-out, Gorbachev went away happy with 14 billion dollars for the deal.
Thus, the higher party-nomenclature of the CPSU sold off the USSR together with the people, and sold off the countries of the communist camp to their ideological opponent….
Today, the USA is in a state of deep economic recession. Unemployment for the first time in 25 years has reached an unprecedented of level for the first time in the USA of 6.5% (4 million unemployed). In Europe, the number is even greater.
The growth in GDP in 2009 for the USA and countries of the EU is planned to be zero and even into minus figures. Western analysts believe that the consequences from the US mortgage crunch may be overcome no earlier than 2010. May be, but will it? Nobody knows what it will be in 2010.
Having complete inability to pay and a state deficit astronomical in size, the machines in the US are still printing their long time ago devalued green banknotes, continuing to flood the whole world with them and forcing other countries to carry out payments namely in dollars. “Fanatics” of the US are gaining huge material assets throughout the world for greenbacks. Today, the exchange rate of the absolutely devalued US currency, not having any backup in gold, is artificially incredibly inflated and absurdly growing, bringing huge profits to currency speculators. This soap bubble definitely has to burst, which may naturally lead to the complete collapse of the USA and the imperialist world on the whole. (Today, America is just managing to hold on because of the growth in the volume of paper money being printed). The US Federal Reserve system is not under the control of the president and prints as much paper money as it feels necessary, and with this, gaining a profit from every printed banknote. There is information that John Kennedy wanted to curb the US FRS, and that is probably why he was assassinated. As is known, until this day, the killers remain “unknown”.
Neither the huge financial injections into the US economy of the countries of the EU, nor Russia which supports America with its gold-currency reserves to the detriment of its own economy and the further lowering of the level of social provision of the absolute majority of citizens of the Russian Federation (RF), could NOT prevent the growing crisis in the USA. The export of capital from Russia is fast underway. Between 10 – 24 August, the pure outflow of capital amounted to 9 billion dollars. Russia’s financial reserves are being exported at a catastrophic rate. Huge state financial injections into banks are not reaching their designated goal, but are going towards the writing off by these banks, of loans taken out by them earlier from Western investors who are now fleeing the Russian markets, and therefore the financial doping of the state to the banks has absolutely no effect on the state of the Russian economy itself. Enterprises in Russia are laying off workers or are closing down altogether. Wage arrears in the country in a number of places go back as far as 6 months or more. The growth of GDP is falling and is now already below the earlier predicted figures. Inflation has exceeded the worst predictions earlier made. At the same time, on the TV channels in Russia, merry little talk shows are being aired, like a feast during the plague, together with the manipulation of the minds of the masses and being even more trained up on the lies of the elite with the aim of turning people’s attention away from thoughts about an impending collapse.
In connection with the sharp fall in world prices on oil (in half a year, the prices of oil has dropped three times) all Russian national projects can only remain as such:- projects and only projects. It is known that the Russian budget was made up in such a way that 70 dollars will cover only the obligations of the budget on domestic loans. And this means that all the rest will have to been cut back and reduced or used notes “of the national reserve” which under such a rate of spending may become zero in 3 – 4 months. On 13 November, the cost of a barrel of Russian oil on the world market stood at 45 dollars a barrel (a barrel of oil is equal to 159 litres). With the making up of the Russian budget for 2009 – 2011, they started out from the price of oil at 95 dollars a barrel. (At that time on the world market the price of a barrel of oil stood at 145 dollars, with a forecast of it reaching 200 dollars a barrel)…At the end of October the budget was over estimated taking into account the price of oil already at 78 dollars a barrel in 2009 – 74 dollars in 2010 – and 88 dollars in 2011.
In connection with the global crisis, the countries of OPEC are planning to cut oil output even more, due to recession in the main economies of the world and the sharp fall in consumption of energy resources because of the closing of a number of areas of production. The fall in world oil output will lead to a further fall in the price of oil. Russia will hardly be able to overcome this crisis on the path of the liberal market and deepening of the capitalization of Russia’s economy. However, the arrival to power as a result of the bourgeois counter-revolution, the existing power in the Russian Federation states and by the words of Putin and the words of Medvedev, that there will be no re-examination at the results of the criminal privatization, devoutly defending the sacred cow of private ownership, obtained by the oligarch clan by way of theft of the people’s property.
President of the Russian federation, D.A. Medvedev in his throne speech on 5 November in the Kremlin, said that one of the main things for us is the “preserving and defending of our fundamental values” (bearing in mind firstly, private ownership), having forgotten that all the time that the most fundamental value for a Russian person has always been social justice. Is there any social justice in Russia today? – NO and not even any mention of it. Today, besides those who acquired for themselves the enormous people’s wealth, possess several villas and castles abroad and in Russia, yachts with several helicopter landing sites and a submarine inside the yachts, who boast publicly, openly and arrogantly before an impoverished population about their wealth they stole (these are all those same “seeds” which Gorbachev had sown in ploughed soil after rooting SOCIALISM from out of it, and now oligarchs have grown out of it), shocking the West with their wealth, having seen various swindlers and thieves, and with those who have to survive on bread and water, there is an ever expanding and deepening chasm. Indeed the main mass of the population under a common wage leveling is “ok” but with a miserly wage of 15 thousand rubles, that provide a very modest living, and those who have been cast overboard – senior citizens, the sick, children who have poor parents – to which, by words of Medvedev are supposedly, “guaranteed from birth equal opportunities” which will never be realized due to the lack of financial means from the parents, with hatred look upon the modern day elite oligarchic Bohemia.
Medvedev stated in his throne speech on 5 November, that “we will not tolerate any igniting of social or national discord” and we shall guarantee “constitutional” (bourgeois- our italics) order using all “legal means”.
We were all by birth from the USSR. For each and every one of us, there has never been a superior nationality of our compatriots, our comrades, our friends. And happy marriages took place on the basis of love between people of various nationalities. And in any Soviet republic, no matter where we traveled, we were always greeted as guests and friends. And every citizen of the USSR was proud of their national identity, their national spiritual culture. Interethnic strife brought into our lives constituted in-power counter-revolution.
Concerning social unrest, then it is natural and inevitable under the presence of a huge gap between the super rich and impoverished people. And it will not be quelled neither by fascistic methods of the Russian riot police OMON, or the beating by the police and other law-enforcement structures for suppressing civil resistance. And how they deal with people arriving to take part in pickets and meetings we know all too well on our experience with dealing the servants of the bourgeois “constitutional order”, using their “legal means”. You can read all about this in the Internet and in the bourgeois media as well as in our press. Medvedev also noted that “there are things that cannot be allowed to happen, there are things for the sake of which we have to fight and win”. For Soviet people here are the things which we cannot forego and will never give up:
- our socialist Fatherland – which has been stolen from us,
- our glorious heroic Soviet history in which, like Soviet poet Victor Kochetkov once wrote – “Thirty years of victories and troubles and we are departing from our place and what has been done” our counter-revolutiona ries- democrats;
- our Soviet certainty in the morrow and the chance for anyone to study free of charge in an Institute for Higher Learning and receive a scholarship according to ones own choice of profession;
- a purely symbolic sum to have to pay for housing services under Soviet power; symbolic cost of all foodstuffs and public transport; symbolic price to pay of any – including imported- medicines; free universal health care, highly qualified surgical assistance by specialists of the highest qualifications;
- free housing to all in need of it;
- full access for everyone to museums, theatres with world acclaimed artists, access with no restrictions on possessing world culture;
- our great selfless friendship of Soviet peoples – is the main factor in the victory at the end of the Great Fatherland War;
- our national pride of the Great Rus which has been taken away from us, the reminder of our nationality erased from the new passports, having made all of us not just Russians, but “Ivans, not even remembering our past national affinity.”
We shall never give up our Marxist-Leninist principles, our firm certainty in the victory of socialism across the entire planet, our belief in the rebirth of the multinational Soviet Socialist Motherland which the counter-revolution has stolen from us.
We shall never forgo our belief in the triumph of social justice, in the victory of SOCIALISM, because SOCIALISM – is the true future of civilization and its progress.
But we have to fight for all of this and truly carry things to a complete victory. Hatred for all the evil done to the Soviet people is ripening and reprisal is unavoidable against the “architects of perestroika” and the traitorous “democrats” – betrayers of the Motherland.
In his time, president Putin said that a thief must do time in prison. We agree with this. But today the thief sits in the Kremlin and the Federal Assembly, feeding off corruption, wasting enormous state money on maintaining him or herself – money from the taxpayers, and with this, significantly reducing state social benefits for the impoverished population. This is yet another outrageous injustice which must be liquidated.
In the days of celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, we were told that the XXI century would be a century of socialist revolutions, a century of victory for socialism in the majority of countries of the world, a century in the victory of the ideology of Bolshevism. The flow of world history at the start of the XXI century, the processes in Latin America, the systemic crisis of imperialism, overwhelming the world imperialist at present, confirms that prediction.
We are standing on the threshold of large social changes and we need to be ready to correctly understand them and realize them wisely.
With us, in our struggle for social justice, for socialism, are our leaders – Lenin and Stalin!
Today, for every decent person, the struggle for preserving civilization means a struggle against international imperialism, and primarily against US imperialism, against the American empire of evil, hatred and trampling of the rights of the individual wherever a US soldier puts his feet.
The duty of every communist – is to take the most active part in the anti-imperialist and anti-globalist struggle, since this is the type of struggle for SOCIALISM.
Nina Andreeva
General Secretary of the CC AUCPB
14 November 2008
Leningrad
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FOR BOLSHEVISM
INSIDE THE COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’ MOVEMENT
No 12(69) DECEMBER 2008 AUCPB - ВКПБ
91 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
Dear Comrades! Members of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and also our like-minded thinkers in other leftist parties and movements!
Dear citizens of our Socialist Motherland!
The Central Committee of the AUCPB warmly congratulates YOU on the 91st Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution – the beginning of a new era in Mankind, a new historical formation – without oppression of the working people, where a person who works is the creator of all values on Earth, and is the full master of everything that humanity has created during its arduous history.
Yes, we Bolsheviks have had to temporarily retreat in the construction of a socialist society due to betrayal, mainly by the degenerated party-nomenclatures of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), which headed the bourgeois counter-revolution in the USSR. Lenin believed that there cannot be a revolution without a counter-revolution (vol. 12 p 171, Rus.). Building something completely new, for the first time in history and never seen before is always very difficult. But we have gained an enormous amount of experience over the 70-year successful construction of a socialist state in conditions of a fortress under siege. We showed the whole world in practice the huge advantages of a socialist system over the capitalist system and encouraged many peoples in their struggle for socialism. These 70 years have been our greatest asset for the rebirth of our Socialist Fatherland. For we have become wiser and more experienced in how we need to run a new society and avoid those mistakes and errors already made in the past. We now know WITH WHOM we can go into battle, WHO are our trusty allies and where the true enemy is. Counter-revolution is conquered by revolution, (K. Marx in Vol 6 p218, Rus). We must prepare ourselves for a new socialist revolution seriously, without whining about difficulties, but being certain in our certain victory because our victory has been historically predestined by the flow of the development of history. We must even more steadfastly and patiently carry out explanatory and agitation of our Bolshevik ideas together with the distribution of our Bolshevik Program among the masses, especially among young people, the working intelligentsia, among the workers and peasants.
Pseudo-Marxists lie when they say that the working class has now ceased to exist, has degenerated and that the “white collar” workers are now allegedly the hegemony of revolutionary transformations in society. The working class, according to the words of V.I. Lenin, does not die, but grows, strengthens, unites, enlightens itself and becomes hardened in the struggle (Lenin, vol.23, p 257). This process of hardening of the working class and the working peasantry is clearly revealed in Bolshevik publications from the localities and Bolshevik central newspapers (Serp I Molot, Raboche-Krestyanska ya Pravda, Vperyod).
We are marking the 91st Anniversary of Great October in conditions of the most powerful global systemic crisis of imperialism since the great depression of 1929-1933. It began with the financial collapse of the leading props of the US financial pyramid and drawing into itself a growing political crisis of the institutes for running the international system which was formed after the ending of WWII, the destruction of all aspects of the existing world order.
The US economic recession has crossed over into Europe, having brought about a serious fall in production and, with this, a rise in unemployment, inflation, mass actions of the proletariat in the struggle for its survival. The hurried nationalization of the US economy will hardly save it from collapse. Europe is occupied with the same thing. The “G7” which had been tearing away trying to save its “friend” the USA, cannot improve the situation, since it no longer occupies the commanding heights in the global finances. The collapse of the soap bubble - the US dollar as the international currency reserve, the collapse of the dominating position of the US in the world, means also the collapse of the American idea of a mono-polar world, having demonstrated its complete failure to be what the USA constantly demonstrated to everyone to be the only aim of solving its own problems on the backs and to the detriment of others.
Russia at one time, in one imperialist connection with the USA has not escaped the financial crisis, although on the strength of a number of reasons, it has at the moment, a less catastrophic character.
Starting from the present political-economic situation in the world, we are standing on the threshold of serious political upheavals.
We, Bolsheviks also mark 8th November as the 17 year since the forming of our All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB)
17 years ago, having raised up high the banner of Lenin-Stalin at a turning point of our Soviet history, we proudly and courageously carried this banner forward under the hooting of the pseudo-communists, cowardly hiding from the portrait of Stalin on our banner. We did not allow the renegades to mock our glorious Soviet past. We then were the only ones to point out to the working masses who’s minds had been beaten with anti-Stalin mayhem, pointed out the real path out of the situation that was taking place in the territory of the USSR and in the world after the counter-revolutiona ry coup d’ etat in the USSR.
Today, like before, we are the only true communist party on the territory of the former Soviet republics, the party until the very end, loyal to the doctrine of Marx-Engels- Lenin-Stalin, the party of the working class entering into alliance with the peasantry and working intelligentsia under the banner of Marxism-Leninism.
Over the past 17 years - the difficult years of the bourgeois counter-revolution, the AUCPB has successfully overcome a number of obstacles which the bourgeois regime piled up in our path, smashed all attempts by the opportunists to split, destroy and wreck it from within.
All these years we have been carrying out an uncompromising struggle against opportunism inside the communist movement, not just here in our country, but also abroad, carrying our a struggle for the revolutionary revival of Soviet power as the dictatorship of the proletariat, socialism and our great multi-national Motherland- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The AUCPB from the moment of its founding is an All-Union party, actively working in all regions of the USSR. Our party is the banner bearer of Bolshevism, primordially built as a monolithic, ideological pure, revolutionary party, loyal to the great Marxist slogans of proletarian internationalism, the dictatorship of the proletariat. Its final aim is the building of communism.
Our party carries a large contribution in the cause of the international unification of anti-imperialist forces, has close ties and cooperation with socialist countries – the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Cuba, with revolutionary and national-liberation movements of the world. In other countries of the world, the ideas of Bolshevism are spread via our journals in French and English languages as well as via the Internet, and public speeches made by the higher ranking party activists at International seminars, conferences, and symposiums. The main materials of our Party have been translated into many languages of the world and are published abroad.
On the day since the forming of our All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB) – 8 November 1991, I sincerely wish all the members of our party good health, much vital strength and success in our exceptionally hard and necessary work on the spreading of the ideas of Bolshevism, on attracting in to the ranks of the AUCPB worthy comrades, on preserving a clear and firm position in the struggle against opportunism for the cause of Lenin-Stalin.
Long Live Great October!
Long Live international unity and brotherliness of all progressive forces on the Planet in the struggle against imperialism!
General Secretary of the CC AUCPB
N.A. Andreeva
October 2008, Leningrad
THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
The adoption after a second attempt by the US Congress at the beginning of October of the “Paulson Bailout Plan” (named after the US Treasury Secretary, who had put forward this plan) on bailing out the country’s financial sector by way of allocating 700 billion dollars, has led to failure. Just in one day, on 7th October, the stock market of the US lost 700 billion dollars in trading, that is to say, equivalent to the sum proposed for saving the economy, having offered to buy up the shares that had dropped in value.
As spokesperson of an association dealing with stock market statistics, Wilshire Associates Incorporated, Kim Shepherd says, in all, starting from 19th September, when the world markets peaked, the US company shares had already lost 3.4 trillion dollars. The market was in panic: analysts and businessmen have admitted that the country’s economy is in depression which has not been reflected in official statistics.
“The packet of emergency stabilization measures which have for so long been discussed, in actual fact represent less than 1% of our financial hole….We are sitting on a ticking fiscal time bomb which needs to be stopped immediately”, declared well-known finance expert David Walker, formerly Comptroller General in the White House under Bush live on air on CNN. In his opinion, any measures taken by the government and directed at the increasing the budget deficit will only play on the financial destabilization, no matter what noble intentions the authors of the plan pursued for holding together the mortgage and financial giants, which finished up going down into the funnel of the crisis.
The US banking sector has been sunk into a new wave of crisis – this time, client credit card default, writes the Wall Street Journal referring to the statement by the Bank of America, commenting on the 68% fall in quarterly profits, and of the need to attract 10 billion dollars.
The US financial media reports of panic by small and medium investors, primarily counting on surviving a collapse in the markets, but now casting out their portfolios (that is, their securities).
The financial crisis also hit the pension system. US citizens over the last 15 months have lost in their pension funds, 2 trillion dollars in savings. According to the words of committee member Peter Orszag, the reason for the catastrophic loss in pension savings of citizens was in the collapse of the stock market. As a result, many Americans have had to re-examine their own pension plans, including when they can actually retire on a pension. One should note here that the minimum pension age in the US is 62 years old.
The US state budget deficit for 2008 stood at 454.8 billion dollars, a record high for the entire American history, is spoken about in a message by the US president. Compared to 2007, it has grown by almost three times – from 161.5 billion dollars. In connection with the 700 billion dollar packet of measures on reviving the US economy, the experts believe that 2009 will be even worse, according to Associated Press.
“I think that we are on the threshold of a complete collapse of the US financial system”, declared BBC professor of Maryland University, Peter Morrissey. “After this, panic may start, which will lead to the collapse of the world’s financial institutions”.
Dominic Stross-Kan, head of the IMF in a statement on the results of the meeting of ministers of finance of the “G7” which took place on 11 October, noted that the leading industrial powers of the world have not done enough to restore confidence in the markets. And that the doubts in the stability of a number of the largest financial institutions of the US and Europe are pushing the world financial system to the edge of a collapse of the system.
Another thing which did not lead to a positive result was the widely advertised plan for rescuing the European financial system adopted at a summit in Paris on 12 October by the leaders of 15 countries in the Eurozone (with the participation of British Prime Minister – Gordon Brown). According to the words of French president Sarkozi, state guarantees for temporary inter-bank lending was decided in order to avert a paralysis of the financial system. This plan also like the US one, is based upon the multi-billion dollar input into the banking sector of these countries and bailing out the banks which are in crisis, up to including their partial nationalization. After the plan was adopted, stocks started going up on the financial markets of Europe, but already by 14 – 15 October, they had already again dropped, that is, the fall continued.
The financial crisis began to influence the real sector of the economy. International financial institutes were gripped by fear. The IMF began talking of a threat of a slowdown in the world economy. According to the opinion of IMF specialists, developed economies have already entered a period of recession. The forecast for the growth in the US economy for 2009 stands at 0.1%, against the 0.6% that was earlier expected. The developed countries of Europe will show a growth in the area of around 0.2%. In Germany the forecast is of zero growth, according to Bloomberg. The IMF believes that the developing economies are also slowing down. A fall in the growth speed in the economy will lead to an increase in unemployment. The number of jobs lost outside the agricultural sector in the US for September stood at 159 thousand people. Across the world, the crisis has left more than 83 thousand bankers without jobs.
RUSSIA
Here the situation still worse. The world liquidity crisis, that is, a lack of money on the money markets, - has led to an even deeper crisis in liquidity inside Russia too. Over the past six months, the Russian market has lost about 70% of capitalization, at the same time when on other markets, the crisis has resulted in a fall in stocks on an average of 30% (China – 40%, Israel -34%, Japan – 29%, Britain and France - by 28%, Poland – 27%, USA – 27-24%, Germany- 25%, Belgium – 22%. Data source- stock report and news “FBK”). One more element of the crisis has been the fall in the price of oil which has led to a reduction in the influx of dollars for oil into the Russian budget.
The experts believe that the accumulated stabilization fund will soften the blow and that there is enough money in there for the time being, but all depends on how deep the world crisis turns out to be. Vice Chairman of the budget and tax committee of the Russian State Duma, Alexander Kogan says – “I think this year there will be no problems, because the budget surplus is now sufficiently big to ward off serious blows to the economy”. According to the opinion of the director of the institute for development, Sergei Glazyev, the problem lies in the fact that this money is invested in the American financial market, and due to the situation in the US, it can simply devaluate, and with this, very quickly.
The stormy growth in the economy will most certainly end this year and, beginning from next year, a significant slowdown will be observed, believes senior analyst of the company “Global Insight” on Russia, Doctor of political science, Natalie Leshenko.
The financial crisis in Russia has crossed over into a new phase: a sharp reduction of turnover capital will lead to stagnation in production. Automobile concerns “GAZ” and “KamAZ” have already announced a partial closure of their assembly lines. Metallurgists have warned of reductions in the volume of production by 20%. Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant (MMK) has announced a reduction in production and layoffs. According to the finance director of MMK Vladimir Shmakov, in October it is possible there would be fall in production by 25% in relation to the previous month.
According to the opinion of economists, the majority of Russia’s population will have prepare themselves for wage freezes and a fall in real incomes by approximately 30%. And in the first half of this year, real incomes of the population had already fallen by almost 10%.
The fall in growth and the stagnation of production will lead to a growth in unemployment. According to the opinion of specialists, the total number of people laid off due to a drop in production may real several million. The hardest hit will be the construction firms which survive entirely on hired means. They, according to data by economist Mikhail Delyagin, which radio station “Nemetskaya Volna” has quoted, have begun to freeze projects that have already been completed, and in the near future, millions of migrant workers who have been deprived of work will be thrown onto the streets of Russians towns and cities, and who could turn into violent criminals. On the whole in Russia at present there are, according to the economist, about 12 million migrant workers. One million of them have legal status, 11 – illegal status. Out of those, 6.5 million work in the construction industry. Delyagin forecasts that between 1 and 1.5 million migrant workers will keep their jobs in construction which are have been spared. Another one million of them will be able to find other jobs or manage to escape in time. But no less than 4 million of them will finish up on the streets – outside the law and outside of society. “For them lies the threat of a cold and hungry death, because they, as people from the warmer southern parts, are more sensitive to the winter that is fast approaching. On the other hand, for inhabitants of major towns and cities, this means a sharp rise in crime. And what is a very true reality, this will be violent crime, because people will be struggling for their physical survival”, warns Delyagin.
UKRAINE
The situation in Ukraine is lot worse than in Russia. More than this, it is catastrophic. The fall in stock market shares on the PFTS for the indicated period (May-October) was more than 70%. The trade balance was completely deregulated. Thus, if back in 2004, Ukraine sold onto the international market commodities worth 3.66 billion dollars more than it bought (that is, it was exporting more than it was importing), then with the arrival to power of the orange group and the first government of Yulia Timoshenko, already according to the total of 2005, the trade balance deficit stood at 1.91billion dollars. After that, with each year, the deficit has grown, and according to the 2007 results, stood at 11.42 billion dollars. For January – May of this year, import was greater than export by already 9.2 billion dollars and, according to specialist forecasts, the annual deficit for this year will be around 20 billion dollars. Ukraine’s financial system is only just floating thanks to foreign investments which in 2007 alone stood at 7.88 billion dollars. But with the start of the global financial crisis, foreign capital has begun leaving Ukraine (as with Russia too).
Ukraine’s foreign debt, according to data of the National Bank, at April 1, 2008, reached the astronomical sum of 92.49 billion dollars which is 65% of the entire GDP. With this, Ukraine has to pay back short-term loans to foreign lenders to the sum of 21 billion dollars. The need to have to repay these loans is forcing them to take out more credit at a higher rate of interest. Moreover, in the conditions of a financial crisis, these credits are extremely difficult to obtain. Economists have forecast that already by the end of this year (2008) the country’s financial system will have collapsed. This will lead to a devaluation of the Ukrainian hryvnia by a minimum of 1.5 – 2 times, the bankruptcy of the banking system, “having been sown” by foreign credits, the collapse of the stock market with a fall in the price of shares by 3 – 5 times, a hike in inflation up to 15 – 30% a month and the lowering of real income of the population.
The financial crisis has already affected in a negative way the economy of Ukraine. In particular, a large-scale crisis has begun in the steel industry. In connection with the fall in world prices, Ukrainian steel plants can no longer compete with Chinese and Russian producers. A month’s amount of products has accumulated at the companies’ warehouses due to problems with sales. Already 17 of the 36 smelting furnaces have stopped working, and the steel industry is looking at the partial closure of steel plants. Considering that the share of enterprises of the mining-metallurgica l complex in the GDP is 20%, and up to 40% of the hard currency enters Ukraine from steel production, the consequences of the crisis in the metallurgical branch of industry may be pitiful; from a budget shortfall and massive job cuts up to the complete collapse in the economy of Ukraine. The country will sink into several years of depression.
The result - a sharp decline in the living standards of the working people of Ukraine and a new wave of labour migration.
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In this situation, instead of restoring financial-economic and friendly ties with Russia in order to together try to stave off the crisis, the orange leadership of Ukraine headed by president Yukoshenko is forcing anti-Russian sentiment onto society. It has got so bad that the president now confiscates the plane from the prime minister when she goes to Moscow to solve questions on the price of gas. Indeed if Russia raises gas prices from 1st January 09 to the level of world gas prices, then the economy of Ukraine will come to an end. By order of the National Council for TV and Radio broadcasts, from the start of October 08, a number of cable Russian TV channels are to be suspended. All this is being done to stop Ukrainian viewers and listeners from getting information from out of Russia, in particular on the question of shining light on the Georgia- South Ossetia conflict and the participation of Ukraine in the face of the orange leadership, in the arming up of Georgia with weapons of attack. Practically as we were writing this article, Ukraine had taken part in that conflict on the side of Georgia and against Russia.
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In order to take the attention of Ukraine’s working people off the extremely difficult situation, and also with the aim of dumping the entire blame for the impending catastrophe onto the Cabinet of Ministers headed by Yu. Timoshenko, V. Yushenko announced new elections to parliament. He gave the order for the dissolution of parliament (9 October) and designated the election for 7 December. Yulia Timoshenko in no way wants to lose her high and mighty post of prime minister with huge financial-economic power, and she, together with her power bloc (BYUT), is doing everything in order to wreck these elections. A legal war has broken out between the president and prime minister. The president’s Decree has been annulled by the area court administration of Kiev, the dissolution of this court by the president, the annulment of the given Decree by a higher court, the blocking of courts and the Central Electoral Commission by the BYUTites etc.
The working people of Ukraine understand all too well that all these “battles” have nothing in common with their daily lives, have nothing to do with their pains and concerns, that the president with the prime minister, - and the political forces oligarch clans breathing down their necks are simply carving up their own loot on the backs of the working people.
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The impending collapse of world imperialism speaks only of one thing – capitalism at its highest imperialist stage has completely exhausted its own historical resources and to the utmost revealed its beastly inhuman essence.
The working people, like 91 years ago have to rise up to the struggle for the revolutionary overthrow of the power of capital and the rebirth of the power of the working people, Soviet power.
We, Bolsheviks have no doubt that a new wave of proletarian revolutions is growing and which will sweep off from the face of the Earth the rotten and criminal system of imperialism.
16 October 2008
A. MAEVSKY, Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB)
The electing of Barak Obama as US president became news item number one in the world recently in conditions of a developing world systemic crisis and recession in the economies of the leading imperialist states.
What is the world expecting from the new president of the USA?
Firstly, the world is expecting a change in US foreign policy after the changeover in power in the White House, and namely:
1. a rejection by the USA of the role of world’s gendarme and that it subordinates to the rules to laid down by the United National Organisation (UNO);
2. the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq;
3. the closure of the Guantanamo concentration camp and the banning of the use of any kind of torture by the Army as well as the CIA, and also the closing of the network of secret prisons scattered by the US all around the world;
4. rejection from the policy of listing a number of sovereign states as belonging to the “axis of evil”, or defining them as “rogue states”, rejection of the human-hating policies in relation to them, made more severe by harsh economic blockades against countries like Cuba and the DPRK. Iran is also included in this list, with its peaceful atomic research that so irritates the USA;
5. cessation of extremist Americanism unleashed on independent states under the pretext of the “struggle of Americans for human rights”, the “establishment of democracy” – the American way of life and the corrupting human personality of American “culture”;
6. cessation of the gangster-style military arbitrariness on Palestinian soil and on the whole, in the Middle East on part of Israel fed by the US;
7. inadmissibility of aerial bombardments by the US airforce over territory of independence, where Americans allegedly suddenly spot the presence of terrorists (Syria, Lebanon and others);
8. signing of the Kyoto protocol, thereby confirming US readiness to cooperate internationally in preserving the environment in the struggle against global warming;
9. ending the construed global anti-missile defence system located close to Russia (Poland, Czech) and the former republics of the USSR as a factor for stepping up military tension;
10. the ending of the expansionist policy of NATO and the unrestrained expansion of zones of activity of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation further into the East;
11. a number of other no less important acts.
In the domestic political sphere, the world is waiting from the US serious efforts on ending the US initiated world financial and economic crisis which has led the economies of the leading countries of Europe into recession and strongly hit the economies of countries like Russia, Japan, China and others.
These, maybe are the main questions which the world is waiting a solution to from the 44th president of the USA, Barak Obama. Can he, the first in American history black president, a descendant of a white slave-owner and a Jewess of African origin, fulfill the hopes of the world community?
It seems that serious changes in the foreign policy of the USA under Obama are not envisaged. More than this, to the majority of the listed questions, Obama has already publicly stated – “NO”, or that he is completely unsure. The USA will not be withdrawing from Afghanistan soon, or even at all at this rate. It is of no accident that they got involved in that conflict. Iraq remains occupied by US troops for the long term, for a withdrawal by them from Iraq would mean a loss of US influence in that region. Blood will continue to flow from Palestine, since Israel and the US will not reject their policy of invasion into this territory of the Middle East. Russia, like before represents an interest for the USA only as a source of raw materials, the country, preferably in dismembered form. (A former enemy will never be a friend – proclaims a Russian proverb). We have already analyzed the question as to who real power belongs to in America. It belongs to the Zionist lobby, aiming for world domination. Therefore, any US president is, in all, only an executive of the will of the ruling Zionist elite of America, the Committee of 300, which runs the transnational corporations and dictates its will to the presidents and higher electoral power of the imperialist countries of the world.
Well ok, Barak Obama has black skin, so what? He is still their puppet, from out of their “nest”. The arrival of a politician with other views and another political orientation other than what makes the true power in the USA happy, to the post of US president, is practically impossible. And so Obama will do what he has “been told” by the hierarchs of Zionism and he will do it even more decisively (than George Bush has done, which Obama has already publicly stated), in order to constantly prove his complete loyalty and obedience to the demands of the Zionist lobby of the USA.
One can judge in advance the policy of Obama by the makeup of the pro-presidential team chosen by him. Out of them, who has already been designated as member of Obama’s team are all hawks, who have already showed their true selves in the organizing and carrying out by the US of local wars. For example, Richard Holbrooke is one of the architects of the bombing of Yugoslavia whilst completely ignoring the recommendations of the UN. Joe Biden – engineered and took active part in the plan of action for attacking Iraq. These are just two, but there are other hawks. Post of Head of chancellery of the White House will be filled by Ram Emanuel, who comes from an Israeli family who immigrated to the USA. This is a post which occupies third place in importance in the government hierarchy of the USA. The head of chancellery carries responsibility for the choice of cadres for the government apparatus, the contact with the White House and US Congress, the country’s domestic policy and work with the cabinet of ministers. Ram Emanuel is closely tied in with Israel. Therefore one need not expect any easing of tension in the Middle East. The remaining members in Obama’s team are of the same level of loyalty to the idea of world domination by the American empire and the use of military force for realizing the expansionist plans of the USA.
Therefore, in the White House, besides a change in the colour of the skin of the person who is to carry out the duties of a president, little is going to change. The American naïve euphoria over the coming to pass of the American dream of the forefathers- founders of America will soon pass, and the real affairs will hardly instill optimism into the ordinary Americans.
However, it is not excluded that the choosing out of all pretenders to the White House of namely a black president by the Zionist lobby of America follows long term aims, namely: the use of him, a black man, like one of “their own”, as a passing figure for the broad penetration and conquering by America, of the African continent under the decrepit slogans of “human rights struggle” and “democracy”. The African continent which is so rich in the rarest minerals and raw materials and exceptionally cheap labour power (before, black slaves were sent to America as slaves, but now they can be utilized on the spot, in Africa, and with this, gaining huge profits without the cost of transit and maintenance even it only on the most basic of needs. And imperialist Europe will be able to utter a sigh of relief, for while at least, since the problem of illegal migration of the impoverished African population into the countries of Europe, will lessen.
It is possible that the US Zionist lobby is planning on gaining another doping, by way of enslaving black Africa, stealing its rich minerals and raw materials and with this, finds its way out of the crisis. Indeed, the attitude to the USA in Latin America (one of the main suppliers of energy resources for the USA) is by far cloudy, and in the Middle East, is with hatred towards American occupiers.
In the 1990-s the US gained a huge doping on the backs of the breakup of the USSR which provided the US with a sufficiently peaceful existence in the flow of 20 years (read A.A. Ponomaryev’s “Yeltsin – Russia’s tragedy” M., 1999).
By the words of the 41st US president George Bush (senior) in 1992, - “We have spent 4 trillion dollars on winning the cold war and compared to this amount, the sum we intend to spend now (for breaking up the USSR) - is 24 billion dollars. The democrats inside the Kremlin are able to guarantee our security far more reliably than our nuclear missiles”. In other words, Gorbachev’s betrayal cost America 166 times less compared to the confrontation between the two political systems.
During a meeting in the summer of 1987, Gorbachev together with Shevardnadze on a destroyer in the Mediterranean Sea near Malta, gave their consent to US president Ronald Reagan to dissolve the “Warsaw pact”, withdraw Soviet troops from the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and also the ending of the Soviet space shuttle “Buran”…. In passing it needs to be mentioned that West German Chancellor Kohl (1981 – 1998) in those days offered Gorbachev 160 billion dollars for “handing over” East Germany. After time-out, Gorbachev went away happy with 14 billion dollars for the deal.
Thus, the higher party-nomenclature of the CPSU sold off the USSR together with the people, and sold off the countries of the communist camp to their ideological opponent….
Today, the USA is in a state of deep economic recession. Unemployment for the first time in 25 years has reached an unprecedented of level for the first time in the USA of 6.5% (4 million unemployed). In Europe, the number is even greater.
The growth in GDP in 2009 for the USA and countries of the EU is planned to be zero and even into minus figures. Western analysts believe that the consequences from the US mortgage crunch may be overcome no earlier than 2010. May be, but will it? Nobody knows what it will be in 2010.
Having complete inability to pay and a state deficit astronomical in size, the machines in the US are still printing their long time ago devalued green banknotes, continuing to flood the whole world with them and forcing other countries to carry out payments namely in dollars. “Fanatics” of the US are gaining huge material assets throughout the world for greenbacks. Today, the exchange rate of the absolutely devalued US currency, not having any backup in gold, is artificially incredibly inflated and absurdly growing, bringing huge profits to currency speculators. This soap bubble definitely has to burst, which may naturally lead to the complete collapse of the USA and the imperialist world on the whole. (Today, America is just managing to hold on because of the growth in the volume of paper money being printed). The US Federal Reserve system is not under the control of the president and prints as much paper money as it feels necessary, and with this, gaining a profit from every printed banknote. There is information that John Kennedy wanted to curb the US FRS, and that is probably why he was assassinated. As is known, until this day, the killers remain “unknown”.
Neither the huge financial injections into the US economy of the countries of the EU, nor Russia which supports America with its gold-currency reserves to the detriment of its own economy and the further lowering of the level of social provision of the absolute majority of citizens of the Russian Federation (RF), could NOT prevent the growing crisis in the USA. The export of capital from Russia is fast underway. Between 10 – 24 August, the pure outflow of capital amounted to 9 billion dollars. Russia’s financial reserves are being exported at a catastrophic rate. Huge state financial injections into banks are not reaching their designated goal, but are going towards the writing off by these banks, of loans taken out by them earlier from Western investors who are now fleeing the Russian markets, and therefore the financial doping of the state to the banks has absolutely no effect on the state of the Russian economy itself. Enterprises in Russia are laying off workers or are closing down altogether. Wage arrears in the country in a number of places go back as far as 6 months or more. The growth of GDP is falling and is now already below the earlier predicted figures. Inflation has exceeded the worst predictions earlier made. At the same time, on the TV channels in Russia, merry little talk shows are being aired, like a feast during the plague, together with the manipulation of the minds of the masses and being even more trained up on the lies of the elite with the aim of turning people’s attention away from thoughts about an impending collapse.
In connection with the sharp fall in world prices on oil (in half a year, the prices of oil has dropped three times) all Russian national projects can only remain as such:- projects and only projects. It is known that the Russian budget was made up in such a way that 70 dollars will cover only the obligations of the budget on domestic loans. And this means that all the rest will have to been cut back and reduced or used notes “of the national reserve” which under such a rate of spending may become zero in 3 – 4 months. On 13 November, the cost of a barrel of Russian oil on the world market stood at 45 dollars a barrel (a barrel of oil is equal to 159 litres). With the making up of the Russian budget for 2009 – 2011, they started out from the price of oil at 95 dollars a barrel. (At that time on the world market the price of a barrel of oil stood at 145 dollars, with a forecast of it reaching 200 dollars a barrel)…At the end of October the budget was over estimated taking into account the price of oil already at 78 dollars a barrel in 2009 – 74 dollars in 2010 – and 88 dollars in 2011.
In connection with the global crisis, the countries of OPEC are planning to cut oil output even more, due to recession in the main economies of the world and the sharp fall in consumption of energy resources because of the closing of a number of areas of production. The fall in world oil output will lead to a further fall in the price of oil. Russia will hardly be able to overcome this crisis on the path of the liberal market and deepening of the capitalization of Russia’s economy. However, the arrival to power as a result of the bourgeois counter-revolution, the existing power in the Russian Federation states and by the words of Putin and the words of Medvedev, that there will be no re-examination at the results of the criminal privatization, devoutly defending the sacred cow of private ownership, obtained by the oligarch clan by way of theft of the people’s property.
President of the Russian federation, D.A. Medvedev in his throne speech on 5 November in the Kremlin, said that one of the main things for us is the “preserving and defending of our fundamental values” (bearing in mind firstly, private ownership), having forgotten that all the time that the most fundamental value for a Russian person has always been social justice. Is there any social justice in Russia today? – NO and not even any mention of it. Today, besides those who acquired for themselves the enormous people’s wealth, possess several villas and castles abroad and in Russia, yachts with several helicopter landing sites and a submarine inside the yachts, who boast publicly, openly and arrogantly before an impoverished population about their wealth they stole (these are all those same “seeds” which Gorbachev had sown in ploughed soil after rooting SOCIALISM from out of it, and now oligarchs have grown out of it), shocking the West with their wealth, having seen various swindlers and thieves, and with those who have to survive on bread and water, there is an ever expanding and deepening chasm. Indeed the main mass of the population under a common wage leveling is “ok” but with a miserly wage of 15 thousand rubles, that provide a very modest living, and those who have been cast overboard – senior citizens, the sick, children who have poor parents – to which, by words of Medvedev are supposedly, “guaranteed from birth equal opportunities” which will never be realized due to the lack of financial means from the parents, with hatred look upon the modern day elite oligarchic Bohemia.
Medvedev stated in his throne speech on 5 November, that “we will not tolerate any igniting of social or national discord” and we shall guarantee “constitutional” (bourgeois- our italics) order using all “legal means”.
We were all by birth from the USSR. For each and every one of us, there has never been a superior nationality of our compatriots, our comrades, our friends. And happy marriages took place on the basis of love between people of various nationalities. And in any Soviet republic, no matter where we traveled, we were always greeted as guests and friends. And every citizen of the USSR was proud of their national identity, their national spiritual culture. Interethnic strife brought into our lives constituted in-power counter-revolution.
Concerning social unrest, then it is natural and inevitable under the presence of a huge gap between the super rich and impoverished people. And it will not be quelled neither by fascistic methods of the Russian riot police OMON, or the beating by the police and other law-enforcement structures for suppressing civil resistance. And how they deal with people arriving to take part in pickets and meetings we know all too well on our experience with dealing the servants of the bourgeois “constitutional order”, using their “legal means”. You can read all about this in the Internet and in the bourgeois media as well as in our press. Medvedev also noted that “there are things that cannot be allowed to happen, there are things for the sake of which we have to fight and win”. For Soviet people here are the things which we cannot forego and will never give up:
- our socialist Fatherland – which has been stolen from us,
- our glorious heroic Soviet history in which, like Soviet poet Victor Kochetkov once wrote – “Thirty years of victories and troubles and we are departing from our place and what has been done” our counter-revolutiona ries- democrats;
- our Soviet certainty in the morrow and the chance for anyone to study free of charge in an Institute for Higher Learning and receive a scholarship according to ones own choice of profession;
- a purely symbolic sum to have to pay for housing services under Soviet power; symbolic cost of all foodstuffs and public transport; symbolic price to pay of any – including imported- medicines; free universal health care, highly qualified surgical assistance by specialists of the highest qualifications;
- free housing to all in need of it;
- full access for everyone to museums, theatres with world acclaimed artists, access with no restrictions on possessing world culture;
- our great selfless friendship of Soviet peoples – is the main factor in the victory at the end of the Great Fatherland War;
- our national pride of the Great Rus which has been taken away from us, the reminder of our nationality erased from the new passports, having made all of us not just Russians, but “Ivans, not even remembering our past national affinity.”
We shall never give up our Marxist-Leninist principles, our firm certainty in the victory of socialism across the entire planet, our belief in the rebirth of the multinational Soviet Socialist Motherland which the counter-revolution has stolen from us.
We shall never forgo our belief in the triumph of social justice, in the victory of SOCIALISM, because SOCIALISM – is the true future of civilization and its progress.
But we have to fight for all of this and truly carry things to a complete victory. Hatred for all the evil done to the Soviet people is ripening and reprisal is unavoidable against the “architects of perestroika” and the traitorous “democrats” – betrayers of the Motherland.
In his time, president Putin said that a thief must do time in prison. We agree with this. But today the thief sits in the Kremlin and the Federal Assembly, feeding off corruption, wasting enormous state money on maintaining him or herself – money from the taxpayers, and with this, significantly reducing state social benefits for the impoverished population. This is yet another outrageous injustice which must be liquidated.
In the days of celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, we were told that the XXI century would be a century of socialist revolutions, a century of victory for socialism in the majority of countries of the world, a century in the victory of the ideology of Bolshevism. The flow of world history at the start of the XXI century, the processes in Latin America, the systemic crisis of imperialism, overwhelming the world imperialist at present, confirms that prediction.
We are standing on the threshold of large social changes and we need to be ready to correctly understand them and realize them wisely.
With us, in our struggle for social justice, for socialism, are our leaders – Lenin and Stalin!
Today, for every decent person, the struggle for preserving civilization means a struggle against international imperialism, and primarily against US imperialism, against the American empire of evil, hatred and trampling of the rights of the individual wherever a US soldier puts his feet.
The duty of every communist – is to take the most active part in the anti-imperialist and anti-globalist struggle, since this is the type of struggle for SOCIALISM.
Nina Andreeva
General Secretary of the CC AUCPB
14 November 2008
Leningrad
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