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Since last Wednesday, residents of the town of Ladysmith, which has 64,000 inhabitants, have been blocking streets and entrances to the town in protests against the mayor.
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The last week the Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) carried out several actions against the old Indian state.
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Henceforth we document the (unofficial) translation of a recently issued declaration of the Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun:
CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA AND CHINA IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE’S REBELLION
If we do not crush imperialism, if we do not destroy the old state machinery in our countries, if we do not annihilate revisionism and opportunism, we will have done nothing
The Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun greets the international proletariat, the oppressed peoples and nations of the world by commemorating the 102nd Anniversary of the Socialist October Revolution in Russia and the 70th Anniversary of the New Democratic Revolution in China, and struggles for that this celebration contributes to the unity of principles of the international proletariat based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the contributions of global validity of Gonzalo Thought to the MLM and emphasizes that such unity can only be sustained by the measure of crushing revisionism and opportunism.
We communists of Ecuador, the conscious element of the class, the poor peasants and other exploited masses, oppressed but rebellious in the country, celebrate these two milestones of the international proletariat in the midst of a bloody, determined and victorious struggle against the treacherous intervention of the Yankee imperialism who, using the International Monetary Fund and the puppet government of Moreno, imposes a package of economic measures that, in addition to discharging the government's fiscal deficit in the people’s economy, intends to refloat the bureaucratic capitalism that undergoes one of its most important crises of the present century.
The response of the masses has been overwhelming. Under the slogan IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL! they have unleashed an important day of struggle against the regime of Lenin Moreno, demonstrating that it has been possible to break this level of corporatization to which they were subjected by the fascist regime of Rafael Correa in alliance with the most putrid revisionism and opportunism that the history of country has known.
There are two roads at this time that are in tension with one another: the bureaucratic road that goes through its bankruptcy and that tries to establish itself by constitutional means; and the other, the democratic path that is expressed in the struggle, the rebellion, which is cementing the subjective conditions to unleash the great workers-peasant storm of People's War for the New Democracy.
The greater the crisis of bureaucratic capitalism, the greater the repressive response that is exerted by the reaction against the class and the people. The regime believed that decreeing the state of emergency or the "curfew" could neutralize the growing people’s protest. It did not achieve this. Today it unleashes a tenacious military campaign against the people using all his military contingent and a clearly Zionist, fascist operation strategy.
We have had casualties, either as injured or as prisoners. These casualties have been repeated throughout the country, including claiming the lives of children of the people who have given their valuable blood for the just cause of the people; but to the enemy, casualties have also been caused, dozens of repressors have been injured, hundreds captured and held. Humiliating defeats such as the capture of officers and members of the troops, the destruction of military parks, vehicles, armored vehicles, patrol cars, motorcycles, police stations have been pressed upon the police and armed forces and, furthermore, physical control over National Assembly has been lost.
The big bourgeoisie and the big landowners are also debated in two scenarios: the collusion and the struggle. Today they struggle, and the bureaucratic expressions represented politically by Correism try to present themselves as the vanguard of this great day of struggle to settle their contradictions with the comprador bourgeoisie. The comprador bourgeoisie, on the other hand, is strengthened by the government's turn to its ranks, interworking with the old church that collaborates directly with the repressive apparatus; The bourgeois press that has played a strategic role in this offensive, have dusted off their rancid racist, discriminatory debates and given way to reissue a confrontation between "whites" and "indios", expressions of something that goes beyond semi-coloniality in order to be nested in colonial manifestations. These are vain intentions, because the agenda of the class and the people is clear and defined: repealing of economic measures, the non-realization of any change to the Labor Code and the immediate dismissal of this hungering regime.
However, opportunism continues to act, continues to move between the blood of the people and its aspirations to govern. The figure of the opportunists, Yaku Pérez, the prefect of Azuay, is already decided, who fishing in a muddled river and enchanted with the dreams of a skinny dog, wants to present himself as the call that leads the people’s rebellion, by stating the necessity for a government of popular consensus.
Although it is true that the CPE-RS has played a leading role with the masses in this day of struggle, we are clear that this worker-peasant uprising must be located within the context of the crisis that bureaucratic capitalism is undergoing and the over-boiling of the tired masses of so much abuse and repression; that it is a conjunctural exercise and that it will not become a struggle for power as the structure of the old state still remains intact, however, it is to be considered that all this experience is paid to create the conditions to prepare the initiation of the People’s War in Ecuador, but not before having also analyzed and considered the rich experiences left by the Paris Commune and other struggles of the international proletariat.
Today, more than ever, the facts support what we have been maintaining, which is the importance of imprinting the correct ideological and political leadership to the struggles of the people. The proletariat and its ideology as a fundamental force, leading; the peasantry, as the principal force. And, once again, the thesis that the path of the revolution in Ecuador will not be the one of the insurrection or the political strike, but that of encircling the cities from the countryside is proven.
Today, more than ever, the facts, conditions and characteristics that this worker-peasant uprising has taken reaffirms us in the approach and necessatiy that the People's War is the path. That there is nothing else that can grant Power to the proletariat and its strategic ally, the poor peasantry, which fights violently, on the ruins of the old state.
With these two antecedents, the commemoration of the triumph of the revolution in Russia and China and the rebellion of the Ecuadorian people, the Communist Party of Ecuador - Red Sun reaffirms its firm and unyielding decision to hold high, apply and defend MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM GONZALO THOUGHT, above all, GONZALO THOUGHT, to the extent that although it is true it is born within the peculiarities of the People's War in Peru, our societies have many elements of identity that make its application to our reality valid; to continue to build the subjective conditions to unleash the People's War in the country serving the Great Proletarian World Revolution; that said decision correspond to the objective reality of the country that clearly characterized as semi-feudal and semi-colonial; that the line of construction of the three instruments for the revolution, with concentric and simultaneous construction, is fitting to what Chairman Gonzalo taught us; that said construction can only occur in our country in the midst of the application and development of revolutionary violence as a specific particularity; in permanent struggle against imperialism of all shades, the dictatorship of big bourgeois and big landowners, the destruction of bureaucratic capitalism and its old state and the relentless fight against revisionism and any expression of opportunism.
CELEBRATE WITH CLASS JOY THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA AND IN CHINA!
LONG LIVE MAOISM, DOWN WITH REVISIONISM!
HOLD HIGH, DEFEND AND APPLY GONZALO THOUGHT!
LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM-GONZALO THOUGHT!
IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL!
WITHOUT POWER ALL IS ILLUSORY!
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Henceforth we mirror a short article on the question of the so called climate crisis written by a commentator for Tjen Folket Media and published today:
Sea level rise and the loss of ecosystems in the oceans and along the coasts pose a great risk to the life basis for many people. Many low-lying high-population cities and small island nations will experience extreme annual sea level rise incidents within 2050, even with lower emissions.
Climate crisis and environmental destruction are systematic problems. At root is the manner in which production occurs in capitalism. It has its roots in the fundamental contradiction of capitalism itself, namely: that production is socialized, while appropriation is capitalistic. In other words, this means that the forces of production have become enormous and that all production today occurs in an integrated process. Even the most minor consumer goods pass through many hands and machines before they are shipped across countless borders for sale in stores. The production is in other words societal, and is becoming more and more so.
At the same time, the power of this production is in the hands of capitalists. Their motive for producing is to increase their capital through profits. And they increase their profits by selling more and more goods to consumers. They are dependent on growth – on growing production, and the expansion of goods – in order to be able to continue increasing the profit. And they compete with each other all the time. Those who lose this competition go bankrupt.
This is capitalism in a nutshell, and it is easy to see how it challenges the limits of the carrying capacity of the planet all on its own. Capitalism demands endless growth. But the earth itself is not growing. Its tolerance threshold has long since been passed, and the capitalist society is no longer sustainable. That is to say that it will relatively quickly eat itself up. The problem for humanity is that it meanwhile destroys our life basis, our oceans, and our forests, and that it extincts species and kills millions of people through droughts, extreme weather, problems for fisheries and agriculture, unclean drinking water, and so on.
In the midst of all this, there is a tendency among certain individuals to deny that human activity – that is to say the capitalist system – can change the climate. They believe that the researchers are lying. They do not understand the science behind it. And they stubbornly claim that even with the most extreme and powerful productive forces that the system has at its disposal today, they do not have anything to do with the climate on the planet. Nobody can force these people to change their position, but there are a number of scientific sources available that explain what they do not believe. Among them is the following:
Here, one can find links to further sources, which reinforce the following claim:
The climate changes that we see now are occurring at a rate that they never have had before. This is something that we know from studies of ice cores that are up to 800,000 years old. Tests on these cores have given us an extremely precise overview of historical temperature variations and the level of CO2 in the atmosphere throughout many thousands of years, because we can analyse the contents of the air bubbles in the ice. The pattern is clear: When CO2 levels rise, temperatures also rise.
Today, many people are rising out of apathy and resignation to fight against climate change. But a humane solution can only be found in a planned economy in the hands of the masses. If the problem is to be resolved from above by capitalists and bureaucrats, we must be concerned that the solutions they arrive at will push the world’s poorest even deeper into need. A capitalist solution would be to push the masses even harder, such that profits can be maintained, even after large cuts in emissions. Poor, barefoot Congolese children who extract coltan for electric cars and iPhone batteries from mines where health, environment, and safety are alien concepts illustrates this image perfectly. Such are the capitalist’s “solutions”, but this is not a solution for us, and it is not our solution.
Furthermore, the pace and initiatives – or lack thereof – of the past forty years have shown precisely how futile green capitalism is. Do we have another forty years to waste on the same growth in emissions, despite all the talk about the contrary? Because it must be underscored that environmental problems, including the climate crisis, have been on the agenda since the 1970s, particularly the 1980s. In the 1990s, there was also a wave of environmental engagement. But all the while, the problem has grown. The same way that it continues to grow today, despite the politicians’ concerned posturing and promises to voters.
How many decades can this continue?
The answer is that the socialist revolution is the solution to the climate crisis. The roots of the climate crisis lie in capitalism’s fundamental laws of development. The system is the problem. And the solution is revolution and system change. This is the standpoint that communists must advocate in the environmental struggle. This is a destiny that flows with the proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, and like streams, it will become a river. A powerful, rushing river that will tear down the system and pave the way for a new and sustainable world society.
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We share this video which documents actions of proletarian revolutionaries on the 3rd of October in various locations in the FRG:
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Today Turkey launched its thoroughly prepared assault on Syria with their attacks on YPG bases in the country, violating the sovereignty of the country and international (bourgeois) law. Yet again under the guise of “combating terrorism” Syria is hurled into further instability. Yankee imperialism, after supporting the YPG and its affiliated forces has declared them to be fair game with the withdrawal of their support and their troops, opening up the space for the Turkish military to attack, as was clear to everyone ever listening to the plainly stated intentions of Turkeys President Erdogan.
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It has come to our attention that the comrades from La victoria de los oprimidos y explotados undertook the internationalist effort of translating the article “Ongoing riots of the masses in Ecuador – State of Emergency declared” that was published on Dem Volke Dienen Monday the 7th October. We salute the work the comrades have made and have published the article in full in the Spanish section of this website.
Henceforth we mirror their translation also in this place:
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In the following we want to draw the attention of our readers to a significant new webpage that features a comprehensive collection of (Spanish language) materials with “information about the People’s War, Chairman Gonzalo and Maoism”: banderaroja.org
The link has been included also into our link list.
