Dear comrades:

We are writing from the Kharkov Committee of the All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks regarding your Open Letter. Although, we are late, nevertheless we want to express our thoughts. In your Open Letter you touched on so many different questions, which during the discussions to be held by the Second World Congress it will be impossible to discuss all of them. The time limit and the question of finances are the main reasons. We would suggest that many of these questions can be discussed and conclusions arrived at through the pages of Northstar Compass.

We’ll try in a condensed form to touch on the questions that you comrades have posed.

(1) The place of holding the Second Congress. Yes, if possible the holding of the Congress in Europe would be much better and better for all concerned. You maybe could hold the Congress in one of the cities in Russia, Ukraine or Byelorussia. Unfortunately we are not in a position to help, due o the enormous financial restraints on us. That leaves other places in Europe to hold the Congress.

(2) The plans and the results of the Congress. The tempo and growth of the revolutionary forces are such that it gives us time for a much deeper analysis and for the fundamental preparedness for the Second World Congress. We feel that we should not start worrying about the place to hold the Congress, but concentrate on getting ready a packet of projects and analytical documents for the Congress. After these documents are prepared, then the decision and the place, the time for the Second World Congress can be made. The materials that will be adopted at the Congress must be fundamentally sound and such that we can all learn from them. These documents must cover realistically the growth, the strength and weaknesses of the social movements in the world, and at the same time the elaboration of Marxism based on its existence and construction of Socialism in the USSR and the demise of that socialism in the Soviet Union.

We all know that to achieve what we have proposed is not in the competency of the Second World Congress or should it do so, since it is not a political institute or party. But the results of the Congress’s discussions should become the basis for the establishment of a Communist International, as an informational-analytical and also a coordinating organ for all of the international working class movement. The discussion of and the solving of this problem is the main task, which this Second World Congress can achieve.

We all know that to achieve the above and also to achieve victory over imperialism, the working class must be at the head of this world-wide movement, and in the first place in each country itself, and first of all, to be headed by a revolutionary party in its ideology and not only left or parliamentary. There is absolutely a necessity to have such revolutionary parties in the mostly developed countries in the world. It is only through these parameters that there is a possibility of real progress in the struggle with imperialism and its globalization.

(3) Regarding the imperialistic wars. You criticize the governments of the United States and Britain for the beginning of the Third Word War. Friendship, solidarity and peace can only be achieved in the world if all wars are abolished, not just stopping some of them as you write. But the complete liquidation of wars cannot be achieved as long as Imperialism exists.

Imperialism is the cause of all wars on this earth. The cause is the markets, the demand for profits, the hunt for resources. The competition for world resources for markets itself starts the process of settling these problems by means of wars. The starting of wars are not just the decisions of the presidents, ministers or what have you. The decision to go to war is always started for the benefits of the ruling class - capitalism. And if the head of the country does not fulfill this desire, he or she is replaced or assassinated as was (President Kennedy of the USA). This is an open war.

But there is a secret war, a very hidden war, that the working class of the Western countries, do not see. This is the "economic war". This is the neocolonialism in the guise of financial help by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, both of which are residents of the USA. Besides this, there is the "help" by the Transnational Corporations who export capital to less developed countries. They invest, then they export from the country all of the natural resources. That is why in countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America there are millions of hungry and starving people. These hidden wars are much more bloody, than the open war in Iraq.

Can we call all of the peoples, the countries that are struggling against Imperialism and lump them all together as terrorists?

The people of the world are struggling to live, against imperialism, again sat exploitation and are fighting a correct liberation struggle.

About what kind of friendship can we talk about with the people of the US, Britain and others, if the majority of the people still do not oppose and give a "green" light to their governments to invade and rob the riches of the word? It means that directly or indirectly they are part of these wars and robberies. There cannot be any other explanation.

Solidarity with peoples means the unity in the struggle against a common enemy - imperialism. But here we see that in the majority of cases the American and the British people support their own imperialists, but not the suffering Afghans or Iraqis or Serbs and others. That shows that there is great disunity amongst all of the working class movement.

Then lesson is that must be a more forceful and concentrated struggle against wars – this is the fight against imperialism. Without defeating imperialism, we cannot stop the constant wars. Terrorism is a partisan form of warfare will disappear when Imperialism is liquidated.

(4) The counterrevolution in the USSR. In your Open Letter you mention that it is not up to you to comment and give reasons as to the dismemberment if the Soviet Union. Dear comrades! Who but a real and dedicated comrade will help his closest friend with criticism when his friend has got into trouble because of his naivety. It is exactly this comradely criticism as you comrades are doing that will help us to never again make the same mistakes.

We are sincerely thanking you from the bottom of our hearts for your constructive criticism of our affairs. The counterrevolution is too great of a subject to be debated and discussed at the Second World Congress due to time constraints. This problem should be the task for a deep and analytical study and published in the pages of Northstar Compass. Without such materials and discussions being published in NSC, the results of the Congress will not be beneficial.

To our way of thinking regarding the demise of the USSR, besides other known foreign undermining activities - together with the internal traitors, can be found in the economic policies of the CPSU after 1953. In order to throw light on this subject, let us re-read Marx and Engels in their work "Anti-Duehring" which explained the political convulsions in the history of mankind.

Let us just quote one point: " the basic reasons for social upheavals must be looked not into the heads of people, not about the truth of their understanding of rights and truths, but we must look at the method of production and trade; in other words – not in philosophy, but at the economic situation of that epoch."

Remember, the politics that were being promoted by the deceptive "Khrushchevites" (the Soviet petty bourgeoisie) who grabbed the leadership of the CPSU and the state! They covered themselves with Leninist slogans, slowly, and step-by-step they wormed themselves into the socialist method of production in the economy of the USSR – thus planting the seed of capitalism from within. Thanks to this situation, there was a quick growth of all sorts of opportunists, careerists, traitors, ass-lickers and their ilk. In truth, from 1953 to 1985 the economic situation in the USSR and countries of the socialist commonwealth became very bourgeois.

The counter-revolution in the USSR in 1991, this was the result of the previous undermining - not just by chance. Besides, the working class was shunted aside from running the USSR. Thanks to this degradation of the economy, the country slid ever faster into capitalism. This is the main reason for the passivity of the Soviet people during these critical times, the gaining of strength of the counter-revolutionary forces, the growth of Soviet bureaucrats and the counterrevolutionary intelligentsia. They did not meet any organized opposition from the working class, the factories or industries or the agricultural cooperatives.

The elimination of the Soviet State at the 22^nd Congress of the CPSU (which was the dictatorship of the proletariat) and changed it into the "state of all people" and the CPSU as the party of "all the people" instead of the working class, the Khrushchevites eliminated the working class from any function in running the state. The state apparatus like the KGB and other security organs, could not understand as to whom they were serving, the state, or the new capitalist leaders! Thus, these Khrushchevites took from the people the understanding that the CPSU is part of them, part of the working class.

Utilizing the previous authority of the CPSU amongst the working people, the Krushchevites instituted into the psyche of the people the road of opportunism, the placid parliamentary road of fighting the bourgeoisie. Such policies were promoted and pushed unto all of the Communist parties of the world, a road to social democracy and the road of opportunism and revisionism.

Such a gift as was given by these opportunists and by the revisionists, Imperialism never expected at all! The complete liquidation of the CC CPSU made these former members millionaires.

Well, these are our thoughts on this debacle that came tumbling down on the heads of the Soviet people, and not only on them alone.

Today, the main task is to build and struggle on the theoretical ground. This struggle needs to establish a theoretical-analytical centre, where we should concentrate the most dedicated, theoretically capable representatives of the working class from as many countries as possible. We feel that although this is costly at the present time, but it is a necessity.

Time has come for the working class to give a fight and to sweep off the political arena all sorts of enemies of the working class and to clean the path for the proletarian, Marxist-Leninist ideology, in which the whole of mankind finds itself at the present time. But first of all, in the international working class.

E. Mazur
Secretary of the city organization of the AUCPB
Sergei Timofiev
Member of Executive Committee