Kharkov, Ukraine
All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks

Dear comrade Michael Lucas, Chairman of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People!

We are giving our reply to your Open Letter that we received, in which you touch upon so many aspects of problems; we feel that these problems will not be able to be discussed fully at the Second World Congress. Wed feel that some of these questions should be discussed on the pages of Northstar Compass, as a pre-Congress discussion.

We shall try to condense our replies here as follows:

(1) The place of holding the Congress would be good if it was held in Europe and thus the attendance would be fuller. We shall try to come up with the finances to send a delegate.

(2) The aim of the Congress is at a time when there is a growth of revolutionary movements, which are growing fast, and thus it will give us time to make up a packet of documents on different topics for delegates. The discussions and the results must be held with deep analyses of the actual present world situation, and must be in the spirit of Marxist analyses and lessons to be learned from these analyses. Of course all of us understand that this Second World Congress will not be able to answer and settle all of these very complex questions, and, is not the forum to do this. This Congress can be the forum which can give an impetus to forces to set up the Communist International – this Congress can be analytical and coordinator of the international working class. The discussion and the resolving of this question can be the crowning glory of this Second World Congress.

We all know that in order to defeat capitalism, the working class must head the governments in all aspects.

There must a leading political party leading this struggle, a revolutionary party in its ideology, but not just left or parliamentary. This is a burning question of setting up such parties in all of the countries. Only in this way can the struggle be successful against imperialism and its globalization.

(3) Regarding imperialistic wars. You criticize the governments of US and Britain for starting the third world war. Peace and understanding and democracy cannot be had in the world, unless all wars over the word are abolished, not just stopped here and there. As long as Imperialism lives, there will always be wars.

It is not worth appealing to US or Britain about war and peace. All governments represent the ruling class that is in power. Not the presidents, not the premiers, not the ministers, they cannot stop the wars. They will always make the decisions which favour the ruling class in their country – capitalism. By criticizing the capitalist rulers will lose you the job, or be killed (as was President Kennedy of the US). This is open war, with arms in hand.

But there are also secret wars, psychological wars. Another is the "economic war" which basically means that money is lent from the World Bank or by the Transnational Corporations as export of capital. These "good samaritans" give money and take over the natural resources and production at a minimum cost. This is why in countries like Africa, Asia and Latin America there are millions of hungry and starving people. This war is more bloody, then the war now in Iraq.

People of the world are fighting to live, against imperialism. It is a tragedy that many people died at the World Trade Center! But it seems that most of these people supported US imperialism when US attacked Yugoslavia, occupied Afghanistan and then Iraq. None of these people protested the aggressiveness of the people that run this World Trade Center.

How can we talk about friendship and solidarity with American people or Great Britain and others? These people gave the "green light" to all these aggressions and wars. Yes, there is disunity in the working class of the world unfortunately, on this and other questions.

The lesson is that the struggle against war – this is a struggle against imperialism. If imperialism is not defeated, we cannot abolish wars. Terrorism is partisan warfare with imperialism and if imperialism no longer exists, there will not be any terrorism!

(4) Regarding the counterrevolution in USSR. You mentioned that as a friendship society it is not up to the friendship society to criticize as to what happened in the USSR! Dear comrades! Who then, if not dedicated comrades, who will help comrades with constructive criticism, who fell into great tragedy trough their own naivety? It is comradely criticism that is the answer to make certain that the same mistakes do not happen again!

We are sincerely thankful to you comrades for comradely criticism in our affairs. The counterrevolution is a great theme for the Second World Congress to discuss and try to resolve. This theme should be discussed on the pages of Northstar Compass constantly. Without such discussion the answers and the adopted materials by the Congress is impossible.

To our way of thinking some of the main causes of the counterrevolution in the USSR were the economic policies of the CPSU, after the death of Stalin. People should re-read Marx an Engels and the work "Anti-Duehring" for analyses of political upheavals in history of humanity.

The policies of Khrushchev and his road towards capitalism took over the reigns of the CPSU and of the government, hiding under the image of Lenin, step by step wrecked havoc in the economic life of the Soviet Union and gave in to capitalism. From 1953 to 1985 the economic cooperation with peoples democratic (Socialist) states was just bourgeois relations

The counterrevolution was a planned episode in 1991, and it did not happen by chance. By that time the working class in the USSR was not in charge of running the state. The state became a petty-bourgeois state. The people became passive due to the bureaucracy and the policy of Soviet counterrevolutionary intelligencia. The counterrevolution did not meet any opposition from industry, factory workers or from the collective farms workers.

Abolishing the Soviet State at the XXII Congress of the CPSU (the dictatorship of the proletariat) and made it as the "rule of all the people" The Khrushchevites disarmed the working class altogether. These Khrushchevites sold out the working class and abandoned the revolutionary path. Instead, the Khrushchevites presented the working class a more peaceful cooperation policy with the capitalists. They oriented the majority of the Communist Parties in the world into becoming opportunists and revisionists in order to cooperate with the capitalist class.

Such a great gift the American imperialists did not ever expect. USA very generously took care of these new friends – most of these former CPSU leaders became millionaires.

This is a condensed version of our attitude as to what had happened in the USSR, and in other countries.

Today, the main question is to solve the theoretical question by the working class. This struggle and this fight needs to set up a theoretical center, where top representatives, Marxists-Leninists will gather to work out the theoretical solutions and it should have representatives from all or a majority of countries. We feel that this is possible and necessary, even at this time of financial problems.

Time has come for the working class to start the struggle in the political arena and to show the path towards the proletarian revolution, towards a Marxist-Leninist ideology. There must be an international workers movement.

This is why this Second World Congress is so very important!

Secretary of the Kharkov City AUCPB
E. MAZUR

P.S. We are informing you that we will attend the Congress in September