Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Joint declaration of Maoist Parties and Organizations on the occasion of the First of May 2018
“Proletarians of all countries, unite!”
In this First of May 2018 we address the
international proletariat, as part of the Great World Campaign for the
200 years of the birth of our great founder, Karl Marx, under the slogan
of “Proletarians of all countries, unite!”
In this glorious bicentenary of our
great founder we also celebrate the 170 years of the Manifesto of the
Communist Party, reaffirming the full validity of the fundamental
Ideology, Principles and Program of the international proletariat
established by him, synthesised in the motto: Proletarians of all
countries, unite!
With the Communist Manifesto, the first
systematic theoretical, ideological and political presentation of
Communism, the International Communist Movement was born, from the
League of Communists to the International Workers Association and from
the latter up until today, passing through the II. International and the
III. International, the glorious Communist International and organized
expression of the vanguard of the international proletariat, which
marches, through twists and turns, unstoppably upholding, defending and
applying the principles and the program which will lead humankind to the
New World, to the classless society, Communism.
With the birth of the Communist
Movement, history experienced the emergence of a new type of men,
possessing firm unity of thought and action, the communists, organized
in a party, distinct and opposed to all the parties known to history
until then, men and women willing to give their life for the cause of
Human Emancipation, through the only possible path, the path of
political emancipation of the proletariat: the Proletarian Revolution,
the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, scientific Socialism as transition
to shining Communism. On this First of May we pay our warmest homages to
the giants of thought and action Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir
Lenin, Josef Stalin and Chairman Mao Tsetung, notably the three great
Immortal Luminaires Marx, Lenin and Chairman Mao, and to the countless
legions of communists of the International Communist Movement, who have
given their lives in unyielding fashion through these 170 years for the
most glorious and biggest of all causes.
In 200 years since the birth of our
founder and 170 years since the Manifesto, the world has never been in
such turmoil and the objective conditions been so ripe for the World
Proletarian Revolution, given the level of the socialization of
production and the most advanced degree of decomposition of capital –
agonizing imperialism – never seen before. And even though the
proletariat has suffered heavily with the capitalist restorations, where
it had conquered Power and was constructing socialism, the
revolutionary proletariat has proven and developed its scientific
ideology marxism, leninism and maoism as its new, third and superior
stage, equipping the class more than ever with its almighty weapon to
mobilize, politicize and organize the oppressed masses of the world to
struggle, defeat and sweep away imperialism, its lackeys and all
reaction from the face of earth, part by part, combating revisionism and
all opportunism in an implacable way and inseparable from this
struggle.
The general crisis of decomposition of
imperialism keeps sharpening and in the next years and decades it will
keep producing disruptions of growing magnitudes, bringing unheard
suffering to the popular masses in the whole world and provoking,
consequently, the most ferocious resistance and justified rebellion. The
drama of millions of refugees afflicted by the wars of aggression and
genocides shows the true face of the imperialist “civilization”,
imperialism is a cancer and the peoples of the world do not need it.
Imperialism has no other destiny but to fail successively, as the people
is condemned to triumph inevitably. Thus it needs the proletarian
vanguard to make it true as soon as possible!
The world wealth concentration has
sharpened even more in 2017, according to data from the NGO Oxfam 82% of
the wealth produced in the world during the last year was concentrated
in the hands of 1% of the population, while 3.7 billion people, half of
the population of the world, kept nothing. The increase of inequality
grows acceleratingly also in the imperialist countries of North America,
Europe and Asia, where alongside with the incorporation of big waves of
immigrants into the proletariat of these countries, it makes the
contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie sharpen
enormously.
The growing primarization and
denationalization of the economy of the third world countries sharpen
the economic dependency and semi-colonial or colonial imperialist
domination. The so-called oil, mining, forest “concessions” were
multiplied through Latin America, Africa, Turkey and India, promoting
massive displacements of masses from their lands and producing great
devastations in the natural and social environment, generating true
colonial enclaves in the territories of India, Brazil, Mexico, Peru,
Bolivia, South Africa, Philippines, etc.
According to official data, the land
concentration in Latin America is even higher than before the decade of
1960, being the highest in the world. In India and in the whole south of
Asia great contingents of hundreds of millions of peasants are rising
in defence of their lands, showing that their decisive role for the
democratic revolutions, which on the contrary to diminish, has elevated.
Peasants are practically half of the world population, they are the
principal force of the World Revolution.
Yankee imperialism (“The fat dog”) as
the sole hegemonic superpower is the principal enemy of the peoples of
the world, is the one who heads, in contend and collusion with the
Russian atomic superpower (“the skinny dog”) and other imperialist
powers, the wars of aggression and plunder against the oppressed peoples
and nations of the world.
On the base of the increasingly deeper
economic crisis of the world imperialist system, from which the crisis
of bureaucratic capitalism in the oppressed countries is part of, the
whole political system of the old order enters an advanced degree of
decomposition. The political crisis expresses higher and growing contend
between the factions of the ruling classes, showing that the old
reactionary States have already reached an advanced stage of
decomposition and sinking. A revolutionary situation develops unevenly
and persistently in it.
The corruption scandals throughout the
whole world, despite pointing out the rotten nature of these
governments, show the growing personal unity among the representatives
of big monopolist corporations and the State power. The bourgeois
elections, as means to legitimate the old order, are increasingly
discredited, without legitimacy and wake the spontaneous rejection of
the masses, showing the exhaustion of the general offensive of the
counterrevolution.
The USA, headed by the arch-reactionary
Trump, keeps developing through its war of aggression for the partition
and new repartition of the so-called Extended Middle East (West Asia),
further sharpening the principal contradiction in the current epoch and
world, between the oppressed nations on the one hand and the imperialist
superpowers and powers on the other.
After the military defeats suffered in
the field, the USA persists on preparing a new escalation of aggressions
against Syria and in the whole Extended Middle East. And, in midst of
the imperialist contend and collusion, they increasingly use the lackey
and subservient forces of the region, like the latifundium-bureaucratic
monarchy of Saudi Arabia, the theocratic Republic of Iran,
interventionist troops of the reactionary Turkish State headed by
Erdogan, complemented with the aid of reactionary mercenary forces of
various types, bringing more and bigger genocides to the region.
As part of this war of aggression and
genocides we are witnessing the use of reactionary nationalist movements
to deviate the struggles of national liberation, like the one headed by
the opportunist landlord-bourgeois leadership of PKK, which dragged
part of the Kurdish masses into becoming pawns and cannon fodder for the
imperialist plans of occupation and plunder of the region, serving the
imperialist goals of the partition of Syria into areas of influence.
In the midst of hard class struggles
against reaction and imperialism and the struggle against revisionism
and liquidationism, the heroic proletariat of Turkey is forging the
instruments capable of developing the New Democracy Revolution through
People’s War against latifundium, the big bourgeoisie and imperialism
and the old and lackey latifundium-bureaucratic State with the
absolutist and genocide regime led by Erdogan – AKP. The communists of
Turkey are struggling to unite the Turkish and Kurdish peoples in the
Revolutionary United Front led absolutely by the Communist Party, to
realize the New Democracy Revolution through People’s War.
The true national self-determination for
the Kurdish nation, just like in the case of Catalonia, Basque country,
Ireland and others, can only be achieved through New Democracy or
Socialist revolution, according to each case, through the development of
the People’s War, for which it is necessary to constitute or
reconstitute the marxist-leninist-maoist communist parties capable to
lead them to victory.
It is important to point out the
struggle of the Palestine people against imperialist-zionist
colonialism, which needs to transform its armed struggle of national
liberation into People's War. First, they fought against England, which
substituted the Ottoman domination after World War I and began the
colonisation of Palestine with European settlers (members of the Zionist
movement) and, after World War II, against Yankee-imperialism which
continued with the colonisation with the partition of Palestine in 1948
and the establishment of the Zionist state of Israel. During all of
this, the occupation of Palestine and exploitation of its people through
import of Jewish settlers of the revisionist former Soviet Union,
including soldiers, and Yankee imperialism that armed them to sustain
the genocidal colonial war against the Palestinians and the Arab people
of the region.
In Asia, where the majority of the
masses of the earth are, the great People’s War of India represents a
great fortress and source of inspiration for the International Communist
Movement. Defeating the campaigns of encirclement and annihilation, as
well as the political immorality of “peace agreements” of the enemy and
upholding proletarian internationalism, the CPI (maoist) is elevating
the red flag of Maoism to high summits, it is a great point of reference
for the struggles of national liberation and its triumph will represent
a change in the correlation of forces between revolution and
counterrevolution at the world level.
The CPI (maoist) constructing itself as
the true and consequent defender, as organised vanguard of the
proletariat, of the cause of the national minorities oppressed by the
old Indian State – opposing resolutely the reactionary policies of the
Hindu Brahman nationalism of the Modi regime of religious
discrimination, of cast and of war against the people, trying to divide
the masses – is an important point of reference and source of
inspiration to revolutionaries of the whole world.
The enemy, in its desperate attempt to
stop the development of the Revolution of New Democracy is intensifying
its genocidal campaigns against the masses, principally the peasants and
indigenous peoples, as well as selective annihilation campaigns of
communist leaders and cadres and the persecution of revolutionaries,
democrats and progressives. The great People’s War in India is showing
once more the principle that “the spilled blood does not drown
revolution, but waters it”, and all sacrifice made by the masses is
converting into class hatred and more victories for the people and the
revolution.
In the Philippines the People’s War
persists for more than 45 years, defeating, one after another, the
encircling and annihilation campaigns of the successive lackey
governments of Yankee imperialism, as well as their insistent calls for
capitulation through “negotiations”, “peace treaties” and calling them
to integrate in the old State and their electoral farce. The
ultra-reactionary policy of the Duterte government shows that the only
thing the old Philippine State has to offer to the masses is more
genocide, exploitation and oppression.
In Latin America the bankruptcy of the
opportunist governments of the big bourgeoisie with the facade of the
“left” in Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Ecuador, Uruguay, Nicaragua,
Venezuela, Bolivia etc., is generating increasingly bigger waves of
popular protest and sowing the seed of People’s War. The old States of
big bourgeois and landlords, lackeys to imperialism, principally Yankee
imperialism, experience a sharp and accelerated process of decomposition
and are crumbling one by one. They are part of the higher
reactionarisation of this old semi-colonial/semi-feudal State, with the
increase of fascist movements and tendency for preventive
counterrevolutionary military coups, against the inevitable and violent
popular insurgency in the face of the exorbitant rise of exploitation
and repression to save imperialism from its deep economic crisis and the
big bourgeois and landlord classes from their crisis of domination and
to prevent the initiation of more People’s Wars.
Throughout all Latin America, the
noticeable advances in the reconstitution or constitution of militarized
maoist communist parties ranges from Chile, passing through Brazil,
Ecuador, Colombia until Mexico and in Peru, in the heights of Vizcatan
in VRAEM, it has its highest and most shining point, where the Communist
Party of Peru advances in its general reorganization based on its First
Congress and in the defence of Chairman Gonzalo, to give a new and
powerful impulse to the People’s War.
Asia, Africa and Latin America, as said
by Chairman Mao, are the zones of revolutionary storms and the base of
the World revolution. Latin America, as the “backyard” of the USA, is a
great powder barrel and the initiation of more People’s Wars in the
continent will be a powerful spark of maoism to burn all the prairie in
great fires of People’s War.
In Europe, the struggles of July against
the G20 in Hamburg, Germany led by the communists were a complete
victory for the ICM. The communists raised the red flag of maoism and
did not allow it to be taken down. The hideous campaign of witch hunt by
the German imperialist State will not be able to stop the march of the
proletariat in Germany in the reconstitution of its Communist Party.
Also the struggles of the proletariat of France, Austria and others
against the imperialist reaction in the year of 2017, showed how in the
belly of the imperialist beast there are advances in the application of
maoism, and that the maoist communist movement is strengthening and
advancing on the path of the constitution/reconstitution of militarized
communist parties to initiate the People’s War, quickly moving forward.
In North America, inside the USA itself,
from south to north and from east to west, maoism flourishes with the
emergence and growth of true revolutionary organizations of Red Guards
and other communist Collectives. The reappearance of the communist
movement in the USA, united under the defence of the necessity to form
the marxist-leninist-maoist Communist Party to Initiate the People’s
War, is a fierce blow against the Yankee imperialist reaction and the
new avakianist revisionism of RCP.
Thus, the world situation demonstrates
an enormous potential in which the communist movement is reappearing
with renewed strength. To transform this potential strength of the
International Communist Movement the World Proletarian Revolution needs
the constitution/reconstitution of marxist-leninist-maoist communist
parties to transform the current armed struggles of national liberation
into People’s Wars, to make the revolution of New Democracy, unleash new
People’s Wars for the Revolution of New Democracy or Socialist
Revolution according to each case (oppressed countries and developed
capitalist countries respectively), and, through successive Proletarian
Cultural Revolutions, to transit the whole world into Shining
Communism.
The great Marx warned us that: “That all
efforts aiming at the great end hitherto failed from the want of
solidarity between the manifold divisions of labour in each country, and
from the absence of a fraternal bond of union between the working
classes of different countries”
The international proletariat needs to
fully overcome the current dispersion of forces – which began with the
counterrevolutionary coup of Teng Siao-pings clique in China after the
death of Chairman Mao, sharpened by the liquidation of the RIM by the
new revisionism of Avakian, Prachanda and their adulator –, to realize a
Unified Maoist International Conference, to advance the formulation of
the General Line for the International Communist Movement and the
formation of a New International Organization of the Proletariat, which
serves the struggle to put maoism in the command and guide of the World
Revolution.
Marxism is opposed to all kind of
imperialist chauvinism and narrow nationalism. The Proletariat is one
single international class with indissolubly linked interests and
destinies, for this the only marxist principle for the International
Communist Movement is the proletarian internationalism. The revisionists
accused the marxists to be dogmatic, in his time Khrushchev and Liu
Shao-chi, and today Prachanda and Avakian with their black lines against
the proletarian revolution. Chairman Mao Tsetung affirmed:
“internationalism is the spirit of communism.”
Marx, pointing out the importance of the
existence of the International Workers Association – IWA, affirmed that
while the vanguard role of the proletariat in the journeys of 1848 took
decades to be acknowledged, when there was the Paris Commune, it was
immediately acknowledged and its lesson were incorporated in the
International Communist Movement.
Today, the international proletariat, in
hard struggle to sweep away imperialism and all the reaction from the
face of earth, needs an ICM and an International Organization that
serves to defend and spread maoism as third, new and superior stage of
development of marxism, that serves the proletariat in the
constitution/reconstitution of marxist-leninist-maoist Communist Parties
to seize power and defend it through People’s War in democratic and
socialist revolutions, as well as to raise the defence, support and
dissemination of the ongoing People’s Wars to organize the solidarity
with the popular struggles and rebellions in the whole world.
Revisionism is still the principal
danger to the World Revolution and the International Communist Movement.
As such, one can not go a single step without combating it in an
implacable way and inseparable from the struggle against imperialism and
all reaction. Chairman Mao affirmed that the “history of the
international communist movement demonstrates that proletarian unity has
been consolidated and has developed through struggle against
opportunism, revisionism and splittism”. Therefore, only counting on
ideological and political unity can the proletariat achieve
organizational cohesion and unity of action.
The opportunist plans for a broad unity,
independently of ideological and political unity, must be rejected. As
affirmed by Lenin, “It is not a question of numbers, but of giving
correct expression to the ideas and policies of the truly revolutionary
proletariat”.
The Communist movement needs a new
International Organization, strongly unified around maoism and the
People’s War, that serves to put Maoism at the command and guide of the
world revolution, initiating and developing more People’s Wars.
Therefore, the unity of the communists
at the world level demands: 1) defence of maoism as new, third and
superior stage of marxism, against all kinds of revisionism, old and
new, such as the Right Opportunist Lines in Peru, avakianism and
prachandism, 2) defence of the People’s War as superior military
strategy of the class, the Military Line of the Proletariat, centre of
the General Political Line for the International Communist Movement, as
means to realize the new democracy and socialists revolutions, to defeat
the Imperialist World War if it is imposed, opposing it with World
People’s War.
The realization of a Unified Maoist
International Conference should be based on these ideological and
political principles, to advance the formulation of the General Line for
the International Communist Movement and give birth to a new
International Organization of the Proletariat capable of fulfilling
these tasks and goals that the World Proletarian Revolution demands,
serving as a great step forward in the reunification of the communists
in the whole world.
The Communist Movement is reappearing
with renewed strength, today the objective and subjective situation for a
Unified Maoist International Conference and the formation of an
International Organization of the Proletariat are far better than when
the RIM was founded, enough to say that in its foundation meeting in
1984, the participation of parties and organizations that opposed maoism
as the new, third and superior stage of development of marxism was
predominant, and it only adopted “Mao Tsetung Thought” and only much
later they accepted maoism, even though it was only formally.
We marxist-leninist-maoist Parties and
Organizations reaffirm ourselves and raise our committment to struggle
for the reunification of the communists at world level, on the base and
guidance of marxism-leninism-maoism and People’s War, combating
implacably the old and new revisionism and all opportunism, in service
of the World Proletarian Revolution.
During these 200 years since the birth
of our founder and 170 years from the birth of the International
Communist Movement we reaffirm his masterly predicts: “The proletarians
have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win!”
Long Live marxism-leninism-maoism!
Down with revisionism in old and new clothing!
Defend the political prisoners and revolutionary prisoners of war in the whole world!
For a Unified Maoist International Conference and the formation of a New International Organization of the Proletariat!
Defend the life and health of Chairman Gonzalo, with People’s War!
Long Live the New Great Wave of the World Proletarian Revolution!
Down with the Imperialist War! Long Live the invincibility of People’s War!
Communist Party of Brazil (Red Faction)
Communist Party of Peru – PCP
Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun
Red Faction of the Communist Party of Chile
Maoist Organization for the Reconstitution of the Communist Party of Colombia
Revolutionary Nucleus for the reconstitution of the Communist Party of Mexico
Revolutionary Front of the People of Bolivia MLM
Committee Red Flag – FRG
*pending