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This was the Tenth Meeting of Communist and Worker's Parties in Sao Paulo, Brazil with 66 Communist and Worker's Parties represented. It began with a message from President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil.
His message recalled: "We are facing the crisis of a neo-liberal model that prevailed in the power and production structures of society over the last three decades.
Deregulated, the economy assumed irresponsible logic of casinos, while public policies, in particular social policies, lost space in the agenda of the people and underdevelopment became the giant mechanism. Moments of crisis bring also a series of opportunities and we must learn to profit from them to rescue the values of solidarity, equality and justice."
There were many excellent reports, much discussion and exchange of ideas and concrete plans for future struggles. The program was very well received, while the logistics were great and ran smoothly during the entire conference.
Unfortunately there was great lack of concrete basics of Marxism-Leninism in most speeches and, conspicuous by its absence was any mention of the Great Soviet Union or of Stalin - as if he did not exist or did not contribute to the struggles and victory over fascism during the Great Patriotic War.
In all of the presentations none touched on the absolute necessity of unity and the rebirth of a New Communist International.
We publish just a segment of the photographs taken to show the Conference proceedings and the delegates.
Below is the presentation that I prepared to present at this Conference but I was not given the opportunity to do so.
Dear comrades:
The current word situation includes the continued US-led military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. It included the rapidly unfolding economic collapse of Wall Street and the US Empire. The Communist Parties around the world are unfortunately more disunited than ever. We urgently need unity, unity and action of solidarity and the creation of a much- needed "New Communist International." On the issue of UNITY, Marx wrote to all party leaders: "If you must unite, then enter into agreements to satisfy the practical aims of the movement, but do not allow bargaining over principles, do not make theoretical concessions!"
The crisis of Imperialism cannot be solved by the Capitalist Class. It is a proven historical fact, that only true Marxist-Leninist parties in the spirit of Internationalism are able to lead the masses through transforming struggles to overthrow and eradicate capitalism. The formula exists as to how to transfer theory of Marx and Engels into a practical success. The Great October Socialist Revolution led by Lenin and continued by Stalin confirmed that. The entire numbers dedicated and true revolutionaries must understand that the "Parliamentary Road to Socialism" is the castration of the Party.
V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks organized the Third International to extend the revolutionary ideas, by encouraging the formation of Marxist-Leninist Parties the world over. Proletarian Internationalism, defended by Lenin, Stalin and Dimitrov, is the solidarity of the world proletariat, and it must be principle component of the Marxist-Leninist parties.
Following the example of the great leaders of building Socialism in the USSR, the revolutionary struggles were indispensable to overthrow the bourgeoisie and other capitalist forces in order to assure the dictatorship of the proletariat. To quote Lenin: "Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the dictatorship of the proletariat. This is what constitutes the most profound difference between the Marxists and the ordinary petty (as well as big) bourgeois."
This necessary step is in order to defeat the bourgeoisie as a class became a major criticism by the social democrats, revisionists and other opportunists. The great treason by Khrushchev at the 20th Congress triggered a chain reaction throughout the Communist Parties of the world which then jumped on the revisionist band-wagon and path – believing the lies of the revisionists and their behind the scene bosses in the bourgeois mass media. The onslaught of anti-Stalinist propaganda, the lies were all anti-Marxist, anti-Leninist and anti-Communist as well as anti-progressive.
We saw clearly its destructive effect in my beloved country of Yugoslavia and the once mighty Soviet Union and other East European Socialist countries. It was this precise and destructive example of the revisionist leadership that penetrated into the leading positions of the Communist Parties. The working class and the toiling masses did not want the destruction of Socialism. As a matter of record – over 80% of the people supported the socialist path.
Religion was and is the "Opium of the people" – an obstacle to progress and so is the promoted "consumer society" – which represents the last offensive of capitalism-imperialism and announces its complete and definitive disintegration. This attempt tries to prolong the life of capitalism by annihilating man as a cultural and biological being - as well as annihilating nature.
Stalin pointed out clearly in "The Foundations of Leninism":
"Formerly, the analysis of the conditions for a proletarian revolution was usually approached from the point of view of the economic state of individual countries. Now, this old approach is no longer adequate. Now the matter must be approached from the point of view of the state of the world economy; for individual countries and individual national economies have ceased to be self-sufficient units, have become links of a single chain called world economy: for the old "cultured" capitalism has evolved into Imperialism, and imperialism is a world system of financial enslavement and colonial oppression of the vast majority of the population of the world - by a handful of "advanced countries."
The overall severe crisis of imperialism today is a great opportunity for revolutionary advances all over the world. But we need UNITY, ideological clarity in a UNITED FRONT and the very urgent necessity to create a "New Communist International."
Workers of the World Unite!
Long live Proletarian Internationalism!
Destroy Capitalism – Save the Planet!
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TOP: Delegates from the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia – Bronco
Kitanovich, Secretary General on the right of photo. On the left is
Frank Trampus – member of the party.
BOTTOM: The auditorium of the
Conference was filled to capacity.
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