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The folling is the original speech of the comrades from Punalippu from Finnland.

Speech at Karl Marx 200 Celebration in Bremen by Finnish Comrades from Punalippu

Dear comrades of the International Communist Movement and all our friends who have gathered here today! On behalf of Finnish comrades of the Red Flag Collective, I want to present our red salute to this 200 year celebration of the birth of Karl Marx. We are honored of having been invited to this event and of having this opportunity to participate in celebrating our great founder.

This bicentenary coincides with the centenary of the Workers' Revolution and Class War in Finland 1918, which we celebrated in January. Their mutual historical and ideological significance is much greater than their coincidence in the same year. Hundred years ago Marxism was incompletely grasped by the Finnish proletariat, whose social-democratic leadership was dominated by Kautskyism. The political work of the Bolshevik Party and the theoretical contributions of the great Lenin were not well known, except for their friendly stance on the Finnish labour movement and the right to national self-determination of Finland, which until the Great Socialist October Revolution was a colony of the Russian empire.

In the Finnish Class War, the proletarian masses fought heroically for the conquest of the Power. The war was lost to the white-guardist proto-fascist counterrevolution, but it was the highest point so far in the class struggle in Finland. The defeat was caused mainly by the lack of Leftist leadership in the Party, which suffered from Rightist sabotage and mainly Centrist vacillation. This was manifested in the lack of determination, initiative, and preparedness, which are of decisive importance in revolutionary warfare. These elements were neglected despite the teachings of Marx and Engels, which stressed the preparation for revolutionary war and pointed the need of the proletariat to have its own military theory. Now we have the military theory, established by Chairman Mao it is the People's War.

For a century we have lived under the consequences of the defeat that is, under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The solution, of course, is the socialist revolution aiming towards the final emancipation of the proletariat in forever golden communism. The defeat, however, taught Finnish communists the necessity of a Party of a new type, which was constituted in August 1918 and which we will celebrate while highlighting the heavy lessons of losing it to modern revisionism since 1944. As self-evident as the necessity of the socialist revolution and the Party that leads it in an all-round way, is that Marxism has developed through two great leaps since then and is now Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

In synthesis, we stand for the reconstitution of the glorious Communist Party of Finland as a Maoist party of the proletariat, and we are devoted to working whole-heartedly towards this delayed aim of strategic significance for the revolution. We hold that the key is to grasp, defend, and apply Marxist principles, established originally by Marx and Engels 170 years ago in the Communist Manifesto, which still is the programme of the international proletariat. Today the Marxist principles can only be realized as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, including also the universal contributions of Chairman Gonzalo. As proletarian internationalists we struggle for revolution in our own imperialist home country as part of and in service of the World Proletarian Revolution, supporting the revolutionary line in all countries, as it weakens our common enemy imperialism. As we celebrate today in the middle of the ever deepening decay of capitalism-imperialism, may the immortal figure of Karl Marx ever more clearly guide our class in its war, the people's war, until communism.

In conclusion, we want to raise the following slogans:

For the reconstitution of the Communist Party of Finland!
Proletarians of all countries, unite!

Thank you!

In the following we document the preliminary translation of the message of the Communist Party of Ecuador - Red Sun to the international celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. The final revision is pending. The Spanish original can be found here.

FOR THE UNITY ON THE IDEOLOGY IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

We express our warmest greetings to our almighty ideology of the proletariat, marxism-leninism-maoism, principally maoism; to Gonzalo Thought and its contributions to marxism-leninism-maoism. The People’s Wars that is being waged in India, Turkey, Philippines and Peru. To all Parties and Organizations present in this transcendental event for the international proletariat; we greet the International Communist Movement that in the midst of an incontrovertible two lines struggle is developing an important and relentless struggle against the neo revisionism presented by the rats Avakian and Prachanda, who de facto brought the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) to its liquidation; to the right opportunist lines in Peru that turned into enemies of the class, the People’s War in Peru and of maxism-leninism-maoism in the world.

We renew our commitment to defend the life of Chairman Gonzalo, great leadership of CPP, of the People’s War in Peru and of the contributions to maoism with Gonzalo thought; a greet in particular to the comrades of the Committee Red Flag from Germany, its leaders, cadres and militants, who in the current circumstances organized this meeting and persist on holding high the invincible banner of marxism-leninism-maoism, of gonzalo thought and the People’s War as strategy of the power of the proletariat until communism.

The crisis of imperialism shows before the peoples of the world that this is incompatible with the progress of humanity, however, today it opposes to revolution with all possible means and try to avoid its definitive bankruptcy. Genocides, pit people against people, unleash the most horrible brutality like the one evident in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and others, these are the palpable evidence of what imperialism is ready to do to materialize its survival and concrete the new repartition of the planet. No method, no matter how cruel and pragmatic it is, is strange to its counterrevolutionary goals. It was like this yesterday, is like this today and like this will be forever. Because of this, to counter reactionary, imperialist, violence with revolutionary violence is justified and what we who are for revolution must do.  Any other idea does not fit to our class conception, does not correspond to marxism-leninism-maoism.

Just like it can not be other way, the inter-imperialist contradictions also are recreated and manifest in Equator, and in this opportunity, with the haste and outrage of the Yankee imperialist superpower that tries to consolidate positions that allow them to recover Latin America as its indispensable rearguard, has targeted our country to be converted into a strategic support to the consolidated plans together with Colombia (lackeys of imperialism and the OTAN in South America) to control the region in the new political geometry brought by the imperialist powers of the world.  

In this context, a series of contradictions were fomented in the country that led us to live situations of direct confrontation with the enemy, deeds that little by little are marking a new scenery of bloody struggle not only for the communists and the people of Equator, but for the international proletariat.
Comrades, for many months we worked in the possibility to be together with you in this valuable event to forge the unity on the ideology of the international proletariat, the struggle for the united international conference of a new type, however, to move in the current circumstances to attend to a meeting demands efforts in all levels, resources and security elements that today should be adjusted to the priority that our party has in the handling of our difficult scenery in the strategic plan to prepare and develop the People’s War.

In every way, we allow ourselves to reaffirm our deep subjection to all decisions that the meeting takes always and when the ideological unity of the international proletariat is reaffirmed and pointed. In the acknowledgement and militant support to the People’s Wars in India, Philippines, Turkey and Peru. The firm and incontrovertible struggle against the neo revisionism showed by the reactionary hoax and mamotreto de marras of avakianism, prachandaism and right opportunist line that manifests not only in Peru but already given means to approach and impinge against the People's War in the countries where the proletariat is waging it.

Although is certain what was presented in the previous paragraph and that we understand that  it can not be but the product of two lines struggle, criticism, self-criticism, and that enunciate the elements that we consider key in unity of the International Communist Movement, we allow ourselves to manifest our firm and absolute acknowledgement of the great leadership of Chairman Gonzalo and the People’s War in Peru, Gonzalo thought and its contributions to marxism-leninism-maoism. We insist in this last speech for considering it vital facing the development of the People’s War in Peru and its influence in the People’s Wars that today are developed and prepared in the world.

The acknowledgement of gonzalo thought and the great leadership of Chairman Gonzalo is an acknowledgement of the necessity to follow the task that not only is up to the proletariat in Peru of the general reorganization of CPP in the midst of the People’s War to victoriously carry on forward until the seizure of power in the whole country, culminate the democratic revolution of a new type, resume the war until communism, but it is also related with the tasks that the proletariat in all countries to carry on, countries which in preponderant way has some sort of identity, with similar characteristics, above all the ones characterized as semifeudal and semicolonial.

We have seen in many sceneries. In Brazil, even in Peru, in Chile, Bolivia, Equator, Colombia, Mexico and other many countries where communists build or reconstitute parties with solid ideological base, MLM, but they were only able to take leaps of giants while adjusting its processes of construction or ideological regrouping while also having ideological and Gonzalo thought grounds and the defense of the great leadership of Chairman Gonzalo as the great leader of the revolution in Peru. It is the most important, but it is the same in Germany and Austria, where this element is put in  bigger tension, because Germany is an imperialist monster and Austria is far from being a semifeudal country, anyways, the communists while embracing Gonzalo Thought have also succeed to excel on building the instruments of basic organization of the proletariat to advance on its strategic purposes of seizing power. And the facts speak for themselves, there are progresses, we are gaining borders against the reaction and will not take long that with all this ideological arsenal we will scourge the People’s Wars in the world and will not leave any remnant of imperialism neither stone over stone of the old power, the reaction and its strategic ally: revisionism.

Gonzalo thought has been something more that incidental in our countries, it has been determinant to leave old practices behind that in one or another way have let us to centrism, staticism, petty bourgeois militarism, to be permeable to avakianism, to prachandaism; to understand in better and larger way how revisionism of a new type drags the class and the peoples to capitulation, to transit the bureaucratic road, of guerrilla errantism that embraces opportunist and revisionist old positions showed in guevaraism, bolivarism, socialism of the XXIth century, or to attempt giving new meaning to the bourgeois-landord democracy; in definitive, giving space for conclusive capitulation pushing the masses to the gorge of history.

The new great wave of the world proletarian revolution is being bred each time more powerful, and it is evident how much and in which conditions marxism-leninism-maoism is strengthened with Gonzalo thought for its development to be more decisive and with greater capacity to resist the strongest storms breed by imperialism, the reaction and revisionism.

It is not new that we who embraces Gonzalo thought are advancing in the realm of the People’s War. This is not a product of historical causality, it is a product of the social practice; the contribution is evident, the lessons are clear and, while put into tension in the struggle to prepare the People's War, gives results. For us, the ideological struggle is inseparable from the political struggle, from the concentric construction of the three instruments and the mass work is part of the concentric construction of the three instruments of the revolution and the militarization of the Party in the midst of the construction, preparation and development of the People's War, which means, the mass work is within and for the People’s War.

Nevertheless, neither is new and also evidently result that those who embrace marxism-leninism-maoism and that once they move away and disdain gonzalo thought, Chairman Gonzalo, are expired, have stalled, pursue the retreat that the tactical goes into strategic; others have being easy prey for the right opportunist line, of the ROL and not few of the escepticismo and of the lack of communist moral that stagnated into revolutionary inactivity.
By the exposed, we mark in fire all the intent to undermine the People’s War in Peru, for not acknowledging Chairman Gonzalo as the great leader of the People’s War in Peru, Gonzalo thought and its contributions to MLM. We mark in fire all of those who undermines the ideological unity of the proletariat in marxism-leninism-maoism; the People’s Wars until communism. We mark in fire all of those who support the ROL in Peru and in any place in the world. We mark in fire the capitulation, revisionism and opportunism of any kind. We mark in fire the centrism that is always, lastly, servile to the reaction.

Comrades, we wish nothing but success in this important meeting, may the two lines struggle flourish as the only way to consolidate correct positions for the international proletariat and its transforming role for the societies until communism.

LONG LIVE THE UNITY IN THE IDEOLOGY OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT!
LONG LIVE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT!
LONG LIVE MARXISM, LENINISM, MAOISM!
LONG LIVE GONZALO THOUGHT!
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE’S WARS IN INDIA, PHILIPPINES, TURKEY AND PERU!
LONG LIVE THE PROCESSES OF CONSTITUTION AND RECONSTITUTION OF COMMUNIST PARTIES IN THE WORLD!
DEATH TO IMPERIALISM, DEATH TO REVISIONISM!
HONOR AND GLORY TO THE COMBATANTS OF THE SINING TRENCHES OF COMBAT!
TO CONQUER THE RED SUN OF LIBERATION: COMMUNISM!

In view of the upcoming elections in 2019, India‘s Prime Minister Modi tries to present himself as a good representative, who cares only about the Indian people. He and his party – the “Bharatiya Janata Party” - would stand for development, in contrary the coalition of his opposition – led by “the Congress” Party – who would only want power and therefore bring nothing but chaos to the country. To emphasize how “close” to the people he is, Modi lately told that he constantly gets out of his car in the streets and talks with his subordinates, while being silent about what the “development” he stands for really means for him: making it easier for the imperialists, who chase away, exploit and oppress the same Indian masses he allegedly cares for. The typical bourgeois electoral madness begins in India. One tries to portray himself in the press as a particularly good-doer, who has nothing but the interests of the people in mind. Then one insults his opponent, in case of doubt gets a few bribes flowing and in the end can make oneself comfortable and can go back to give no shit on the people while one curries favor with the imperialists.

And, of course, Modi states that it was him who fought the "Maoist threat" as effectively as no one else, and it would only rapidly decline because of him. But that the "left-wing extremism", as the bourgeoisie calls the People's War led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in India, is always the first question and the first concern of the ruling classes speaks against a "decline" of maoist activities. That the reactionary forces buy expensive drones to spy on Maoists speaks against a "decline". The cowardly and cruel massacres as in Gadricholi speak for the desperation and incapability of the old state in the face of the glorious people's war, as well as the mass criminalization and imprisonment of Dalits, Muslims, Kashmiris and other tribals like Adivasi, who oppose the old Indian state and who are directly called "terrorists" and "Maoists" when they criticize Modis government.

Since a few Bremen fascists in each of their weekly demonstrations under the slogan "Kandel is everywhere", in which they use the death of a young girl to incite hatred and fear against migrants and to promote the division of the working class in the FRG, this was also the case on July 7, the planned "climax" of their mobilization.

Saturday started with a counter demonstration with about 1000 participants, including a large part anti-fascists. On the other hand, less than a dozen people gathered at the so-called "women's march" of the fascists. Because of this balance of power, the anti-fascists managed to surround the small group even before the start of their demonstration, resolutely putting the slogan "Don’t Give Fascism an Inch!" into action. The demonstration of the Fascists, who wanted to march as a pure provocation through the left-alternative Steintorviertel, was rained on. Only through the aggressive protection of their vicarious agents - the Bremen police, including their black helmeted special forces - the fascists could even claim their rally start. The anti-fascist demonstrators were shoved, beaten, tried to encircle and threatened in loudspeaker announcements with further "police measures". But they remained firm and so the cops were unable to enforce the fascist march.

We share this article from a bourgeois indian newspaper for some general information on the case of the arrested friends in India:

When the five arrested persons charged with Maoist activities in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence were brought to the Pune police commissionerate, there was an interesting spectacle. A young constable, part of the escort party of the arrested persons, fell at the feet of Shoma Sen, one of the accused, and begged forgiveness. As head of the English department at Nagpur University, Sen had taught the young man, and he holds her in high regard. He was torn with conflicting emotions, not quite understanding what she was being charged with.

The Bhima Koregaon Five were produced in court later on June 14. The sessions court was packed with 40 lawyers from Nagpur, all colleagues of another arrested person, lawyer Surendra Gadling. The party of 40 had come all the way from the Nagpur bar and the district courts of Gadchiroli and Vai, to plead that their friend was just another lawyer and not a Maoist. Yes, he did take up cases with passion for tribal people, and political prisoners – but that did not make him a Maoist.

On the 3rd of July 22 year old Aboubakar Fofana was killed by a single bullet to the neck. He was shot dead close range by the French police conducting traffic controls. Although the scene was captured on video and many witnesses reported otherwise, the police, at first, attempted to cover up this unprovoked execution  arguing he would have run over a police officer and the murder would be justified. As this is a bland lie many do not believe, Nantes has now seen three days of massive riots denouncing the murderous police.

On the 30th of June thousands of people took to the streets of Vienna, marching to voice their discontent with the current government’s plans to proceed with passing laws to allow the 12-hours work day. Considered a significant cut of the workers’ rights fought for by the Austrian proletariat and fuelled by the ongoing protests against the current (black / blue) government itself, more then 100.000 people attended the protest rally.

We have received the following report from the Organisation Committee (FRG) for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx that we gladly share. More information, pictures, videos and all written contributions of the event will be made public in short time. So stay tuned!

Long had it been in planning, tremendously it went: On Saturday the 30th of June about hundred comrades and organisations from ten different countries came together to jointly culminate the international campaign on occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx with a big celebration. It was a celebration truly in the spirit of the campaign slogan (“Proletarians of all countries, unite!”) that especially expressed one thing: The International Communist Movement is ripe to unite under the banner of Maoism and as communists in formation in the FRG we can and must assume this, our, task.

In the powerful and vivid celebration with both its parts (the speeches and the cultural program) the enormous will and urge of all participating Parties and Organisations to overcome the dispersion of the International Communist Movement and to unite under Maoism became very clear. Comrades from the oppressed countries stood side by side with their brothers/sisters in arms from the imperialist nations; militants of the Communist Parties that lead People’s Wars stood united with activists of small organisations, who’s seeds are yet to bloom. On this day, we, comrades from Peru, Brazil, Turkey, Chile, Austria, France, Sweden, Finland, Galicia and the FRG stood united – united on the basis of Maoism.

Who could claim, in the face of this celebration, marxism would be bone dry, would be ancient or would be a thing of the past? Marxism is alive! It lives in the theory and joint practice, in the common songs and slogans, the cross-border theatre plays and the two-line-struggle. It is alive in the stance of the comrades, who have given everything that day to make the celebration into the success it was. A celebration that, in such a form, has not taken place in the FRG for many, many years.

To the comrades who were unable to participate in the celebration because the class struggle in their country does not allow them to leave their post and fly to another country or because the reaction, yet again, has made a dear comrade disappear: Our victory is your victory, comrades! Your messages of greetings have reached and deeply touched us and all participants of the event. Soon the final translations into German, English and Spanish or Portuguese of all the speeches and messages of greeting will be done and published.

Apart from the speeches in the name of the People‘s Movement Peru (Reorganisation Committee), the Revolutionary Front for the Defence of the Rights of the People [Brazil], the Revolutionary People‘s Student Movement [Brazil], the Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist, the Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun, the Nucleus for the Reconstitution of the Communist Party of Mexico, the Red Faction of the Communist Party of Chile, the maoist Communist Party of France, the Communist League [Sweden] the collective Red Flag [Finland], the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Galicia and the maoist Communist Party [Italy] that were read during the event, also the video messages of the Poor Peasents League [Brazil], A Nova Democracia [Brazil] and the Committee Red Flag will be transcribed and published.

Organisation Committee (FRG) for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx