December 26, 2021
Proletarians of
all countries, unite!
UNITE UNDER MAOISM!
Chairman Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, and
throughout his life he put himself fully at the service of the people, of the
deepest and broadest masses; he was the main protagonist, the recognised leader
of the Chinese revolution and became the leader of the world proletarian
revolution. He founded the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army of the
workers and peasants of the Chinese people, introduced the road of encircling
the cities from the countryside, developed the People’s War and thus the
military theory of the proletariat. As the theoretician of New Democracy, he
founded the People’s Republic, was the main initiator of the Great Leap Forward
and promoted the development of socialism. Chairman Mao was the leader of the
struggle against the contemporary revisionism of Khrushchev and his henchmen.
He led the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, achieving the highest
milestone yet in the struggle for communism. During this tremendous process, in
the midst of the class struggle and the two-line struggle, he qualitatively
developed the three integral parts of Marxism as a unit – Marxist philosophy,
Marxist political economy and scientific socialism – and the ideology of the
proletariat made the leap to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
As we celebrate Chairman Mao’s birthday today, we do
so as always with the people’s wars in India, Turkey, the Philippines and Peru,
with the formation or reconstitution of communist parties determined to prepare
and develop the people’s war; we do this in the war against the revisionist
usurpers who restored the bourgeois dictatorship in China after his death,
knowing that these scoundrels will never find peace and that the Chinese
proletariat and people will regain power and beat social imperialism with blood
and fire. We welcome the formation of a new generation of Maoists in China who
will strengthen the resistance of those who never surrendered there, and we are
sure that side by side with the international proletariat they will rebuild the
glorious party founded by Chairman Mao.
Chairman Mao’s mission was communism, and therefore we
cannot celebrate his birthday with dignity without seeing how the struggle for
communism is progressing.
IT IS RIGHT TO
REBEL
More than ever, human society needs a social
revolution with an ideological leadership that maintains a just and correct
course to move forward. The imperialist world system is in absolute
contradiction with progress and development. It has nothing to offer but genocide,
war and the vilest exploitation and oppression for the benefit of a handful of
bloodsuckers who live in an opulence and decadence that makes the Roman
emperors look like ascetics.
The oppressed peoples and nations of the world are
systematically subjected to further oppression and aggression by the
imperialist powers. Inequality in the world today is at the same level as it
was at the beginning of the last century, i.e. the more than hundred years have
not meant more freedom and progress, but only the maintenance and even
deepening and widening of the oppression and exploitation of the masses. The
top 10% of the social pyramid own more than half of the total wealth, while the
bottom 50%, i.e. the majority, own at most 2% and are increasingly losing the
little they own. In oppressed countries such as Mexico, where 10% of the
population owns 79% of the wealth, while according to official figures, about
half of the population lives in complete poverty. There is more hunger, more
misery, more exploitation and oppression. 800 million people in the world
suffer from hunger or do not know if they will have enough to eat the next day,
267 million of them in Latin America and the Caribbean – about 40% of the total
population of this region. These are the official data of the institutions of
imperialism, and we could give almost endless other examples. In the world
economic crisis, which is basically a crisis of overproduction that has been
going on for years and which the sycophants and servants of the old order are
trying to cover up with the COVID-19 pan-epidemic, the situation of the poorest
is deteriorating drastically, as shown by the fact that last year more than 100
million children were among the poor. The pan-epidemic is being used so
cynically by the imperialists and reactionaries all over the world, supported
as always by revisionism and opportunism, that it is not only being used to
commit world genocide, especially against the oppressed peoples, but also to
attack the rights and gains of the proletariat and peoples in all countries in
the name of measures to combat the “epidemic crisis”, They attack the most
basic liberal democratic rights wherever they can, impose a state of emergency
and destroy hundreds of millions of small businesses, petty bourgeois holdings,
concentrate and centralise capital more in favour of the big monopolies, to
whom they give billions from the state coffers under the pretext of saving and
boosting the economy to create “jobs and income” for the masses. They also use
climate change to expropriate millions of peasants on the one hand and to
“modernise” their states and “transform” their economies for their
inter-imperialist struggle on the other. In the imperialist countries, too, the
proletariat and the people are suffering the consequences of the imperialist
crisis; massive layoffs and wage cuts, longer working hours and deterioration
of working conditions are affecting not only the lower strata of the
proletariat, but also the middle and upper strata – in a country like Germany,
the wages of the best paid workers were cut by 1.4%. And all this in the midst
of a worldwide crisis of bourgeois democracy. This is what the overlords of the
old imperialist order are giving us.
It is the task of the international proletariat and
the oppressed peoples to finish them off, to break the chains, break down the
walls and conquer the summits. Either them or us, enough of this hell: storm
heaven! That is the order of the day.
FIGHT DARKNESS
WITH THE SHINING TORCH OF MAOISM
The imperialists and their lackeys are everywhere
promoting idealism and metaphysics, propagating religious obscurantism and
other forms of the most perverse obscurantism to cloud the minds of the masses
and blind them. Whether through the promotion of the massive spread of evangelistic
sects, the constant propaganda of the Catholic Church or Islamist
fundamentalism, everything serves to divert the struggle of the peoples, to
divide the resistance against imperialism and to fight the influence of the
communists. This is especially served by the spread of so-called
“postmodernism”, which is supposedly “progressive and radical” with its myriad
theories – “relativism”, “everyone’s truth”, “discourse analysis”,
“postcolonial critique”, “gender theory”, “critical whiteness”, to name a few,
firmly entrenched in the universities and leading institutes of reactionary
brainwashing and in the press, and the opportunist parties form an essential
part of the general counterrevolutionary offensive waged by US imperialism in
collusion and struggle with the other imperialist powers. World reaction and
revisionism, directed against Marxism, socialism, the dictatorship of the
proletariat and revolutionary violence, attempt to deny the irreplaceable
necessity of the leadership of the proletariat in the revolution, whether
democratic or socialist, by the Communist Party. Revisionism and opportunism of
all kinds pretend, as they have since Bernstein, to use these bourgeois
“innovations” to fight Marxism. Thus they adopt the story of the “noble Indian”
– which is nothing but the flip side of the British colonial theory of the
“white man’s burden” – propagated by the “NGOs” of the imperialist institutions
which glorify gamonalism and deny the existence of classes in the countryside,
with the aim of denying the existence of the poor peasantry and thus the
existence of semi-feudalism in order to bring about a “socialist revolution” in
the oppressed countries, parroting the old Trotskyist theses while preaching
parliamentary cretinism and electoral opportunism.
It is up to us communists and revolutionaries to
defend and apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the only true ideology of the
international proletariat, to defeat and smash these monstrosities and
machinations of imperialism and its reactionary and revisionist lackeys.
Darkness is fought with light, idealism with dialectical materialism.
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism has always prevailed in the struggle against bourgeois
ideology and all reactionary positions, and it is no different today. To defeat
the general counter-revolutionary offensive, a life and death struggle against
revisionism and opportunism is indispensable, which means that we must
vigorously advance the worldwide campaign for Maoism as the sole command and
guide of the world proletarian revolution. In all languages, on all continents
and in all countries, it is necessary that we adhere to the proletarian
ideology, reject bourgeois ideology in all its manifestations and illuminate
the path of the proletariat and the people with the torch of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
LET’S END
EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION WITH REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE IN EVERY CORNER OF THE
WORLD
Chairman Mao taught us to be champions of the
omnipotence of revolutionary war, and that is what we Maoists are. Imperialism
is a monster equipped from head to toe with the most terrible arsenal history
has ever seen. It unleashes its wars of aggression against the peoples all over
the world and sharpens its knives for a new world war to distribute the spoils:
the oppressed nations and peoples. Every new technology is perverted into a
weapon against the peoples; it aims at absolute control of the world’s
population with a surveillance apparatus that the Gestapo could only dream of.
But the most powerful weapon in the world is the proletarian ideology embodied
by the masses. The mercenaries of imperialism fight to defend an outdated
system, with no other perspective than to prolong its agony, their morality is
the petty interest of personal gain and nothing more, they represent an
outdated, anachronistic force. The peoples have a creativity and genius with
which, guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, they find and produce the
historically necessary solutions in the midst of struggle, and they know that
revolutionary violence, the just and necessary violence, is the light of every
new society.
The masses are ready to fight, they want to eliminate
the old order, but they themselves do not understand how to overthrow the old
order and build the new one. It is the duty of communists to see what the
masses want, to assume our role as the proletarian vanguard and to lead and
direct their struggles against the oppressors and exploiters by resolutely
applying revolutionary violence and the relentless and inseparable struggle
against opportunism, revolutionary war, people’s war, as the main form of
struggle in the world. Without revolutionary war there is no democratic or
socialist revolution, therefore the communist parties must be forged as
fighting machines. The Communist Party exists to make and defend the revolution
and to guarantee its road to communism with cultural revolutions. There is no
place for Communist Parties to rot in the pigsties that are the parliaments of
the old states. Those who delude themselves that there is a possibility of a
gradual and peaceful “accumulation of forces” in any country, forgetting all
the experiences of the international proletariat and the peoples of the world,
lead the masses to massacre and betray, whether they like it or not, the world
proletarian revolution. Bourgeois “legality” is a deadly trap if communists
rely on it in any way, we have had this experience through a senseless toll of
blood at the cost of the lives of millions of communists and revolutionaries.
We must cast aside all illusions. Imperialism is a
colossus on feet of clay, a paper tiger, we must throw ourselves into the
struggle with the banner of invincible people’s war at our head.
APPLY MAOISM TO
SOLVE NEW PROBLEMS
There is no social problem that man cannot solve. The
more we apply the principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the more we will find
solutions to new problems in the service of the international proletariat and
the peoples of the world. Thus, the political, economic, organisational and
military problems we face in the course of the class struggle can be properly
solved if we start from the world outlook of the proletariat. We must be
absolutely convinced of the strength of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the
all-powerful ideology, because it is true and true because it is scientific.
The problem of the communist parties is not to restore
a historical past but to write new chapters in the epic of revolutionary
transformation of the present in order to conquer the future. We have a
glorious past, with gigantic triumphs, but also setbacks and defeats. We must
learn from it, but in the knowledge that it will never be repeated in the same
form, because the progress of matter is from the lower to the upper and not
just circular. Therefore, our history is a weapon from which we derive a
general law for the party’s process, that any deviation from
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism leads to taking the road of revisionism and changing
the character of the party, and that in this case the correct thing to do is to
take up Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and apply it in its purest form in the midst of
the two-line struggle in the Party and the class struggle of the masses in
order to reconstitute it as a Party of a new Marxist-Leninist-Maoist type.
Every Communist Party – if it does not exist in a
country, those who struggle for its foundation or reconstitution – must apply
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete, specific conditions of its revolution,
be it democratic or socialist, in a creative way in the general context of the
world proletarian revolution. Only in this way can the present moment of
struggle, and thus the appropriate forms of struggle and organisation, be
correctly and precisely assessed and determined. Conservatism and clichés are
of no use, the meaning of our work is not to persist for the sake of
persistence, but to advance in order to achieve our goals.
THE BLOOD
SPILLED CALLS US BACK TO THE STRUGGLE
In the past year, several important and prominent
leaders and cadres of the Communist Parties fighting the people’s wars in
Turkey and India have been killed in action or assassinated by the forces of
reaction. In the Philippines, comrade Ka Oris was brutally murdered by the
hordes of the executioner Duterte. In Peru, Chairman Gonzalo, who was in prison
for 29 years in total isolation, gave his life and his name was included in the
list of titans of our class. In Brazil, important communist leaders and cadres
have died and in Ecuador, the Maoist leader comrade Joselo. In Europe, the
long-time communist leader from Galicia, Comrade Martin Naya, has died. All
over the world, communists, revolutionary fighters and revolting masses have
shed their precious blood for the cause of communism. It is up to us to
remember them, learn from their examples and turn their pain into strength by
raising our red flags with hammer and sickle in their honour.
It is a sign of their condition that the communists
mix their blood with the blood of the masses who bravely give their lives.
While the parasites, sell-outs and hucksters, opportunists and revisionists
live well in the old order, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, the best sons of the
people, show that they are always in the front line of struggle, that they are
in the first line of fire.
Our fallen comrades will always live on in us, the
spilt blood of communists, revolutionary fighters and masses does not drown the
revolution but nourishes it. Only those who have no faith in the masses can be
depressed. We follow Chairman Mao’s commanding voice: we bury our dead and
fight on.
UNITY IS FORGED
THROUGH STRUGGLE
Ever since Marx taught us that the united proletariat
will be invincible, and ever since he raised the unchanging slogan of the
communists – Proletarians of all countries, unite! – we have fought for our
international unity. A struggle so inseparable from the struggle for our
ultimate goal that Chairman Mao aptly summed it up in the immortal phrase
“Internationalism is the spirit of communism”. We all know that achieving and
maintaining unity is not easy, not even in one party and even less in the
International Communist Movement (ICM); it requires a two-line struggle based
on principles, well conducted, amidst the struggle between revolution and
counter-revolution, both of which are armed, and the formation of a leadership
with recognised supremacy and authority. This does not fall from the sky. But
this is why we communists are forged through struggle to solve problems and find
the way forward. If revolution were an easy undertaking, no one would need us.
Today, we have good conditions to advance the unity of
the ICM.
After the capitalist restoration in China, the
communists were scattered all over the world without a centre and base of world
revolution. The reaction unleashed a general counter-revolutionary offensive
led by US imperialism. Maoism was not accepted by different parties. In a hard
struggle against surrender, against Avakian revisionism, Prachandism, the rats
of the right opportunist line (ROL) in Peru and other revisionists, in the face
of serious problems such as the betrayal in Nepal, the bend in the people’s war
in Peru and the liquidation of the RIM in the hands of Avakianism, the
communists have continued the people’s war in Peru, India, Turkey and the
Philippines and new people’s wars are in preparation. In the last decade,
fragmentation began to be overcome, all influential parties accepted
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and new parties and organisations emerged in countries
where there had been none for many years. The general counter-revolutionary
offensive is coming to an end and the revolutionary offensive is advancing.
We are now in the early twenties of the twenty-first
century, communist forces are on the rise on all continents, especially in
Latin America, new Maoist forces are blossoming in countries like Ireland and
Spain, coordination between parties and organisations has reached a higher
level than in the best days of the RIM, new people’s wars are imminent and all
over the world the process of restoring communist parties is advancing.
Concretely, we are much more united today than in the last decades, revisionism
is in a deep crisis (within its general bankruptcy) and the objective
conditions are excellent for a powerful advance of the world proletarian
revolution, the basis of which lies in the unprecedented crisis of
disintegration of imperialism that is looming and in the explosiveness of the
masses that are exploding all over the world, predicting that world history is
entering a new period of social storms and thunderstorms, of revolutions.
The conditions are ripe for the United International
Maoist Conference, just as the conditions are ripe for the birth of a New
International Organisation of the Proletariat. On the basis of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, of the relentless struggle against revisionism and in
the service of the world proletarian revolution, under the banner of the
invincible people’s war, we can and must unite. We who sign this declaration
solemnly pledge to serve this goal by redoubling our efforts and overcoming all
difficulties on the way.
On the occasion of Chairman Mao’s birthday, we
reaffirm our pledge to struggle tirelessly to establish Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
as the sole command and guide of the world proletarian revolution. To be
Marxist today is to be Marxist-Leninist-Maoist.
LONG LIVE THE GREAT HELMSMAN – ETERNAL GLORY TO
CHAIRMAN MAO!
IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL!
UNITE UNDER MAOISM!
26 december 2021
