DEM VOLKE DIENEN

We find this short but clear statement by the editors of “Rot Front” (Austria) and “Klassenstandpunkt” (Germany) regarding Brexit very important and post it here as we believe it should be discussed widely.

The vote in Great Britain is cast and has resulted in a slim victory of the pro-“Brexit” camp, even though the numerous economic and political links will  mean that it will not a complete exit but merely a modification of the political ones. For the imperialists of the EU, and especially Germany and France, it means that an important rival has been pushed back. In the medium term this will benefit German imperialism the most, which will lead to a sharpening of the contradiction between German imperialism and the peoples of Europe and the world.

The result of the referendum prove that the means of parliamentary cretinism cannot provide a single step for the liberation of our class. All the self-proclaimed “revolutionaries” and “communists” that called for a vote against remaining in the EU have now used up all their ammunition, since the result that is the one the called for. Now they stand there having to meekly admit that their participation in the vote did not move the British proletariat one step forward but merely aids a certain section of the British bourgeoisie and some of Britain’s rivals in the EU. Instead of developing the independent forces of the people on the basis of active boycott they took part in the spectacle of the bourgeoisie. Now their cluelessness regarding the way forward shows the lack of perspective of revisionism and parliamentary cretinism. Because of this the firm, internationalist statement  of the Communist Party of Italy (Maoist), which makes clear that the popular masses will not free themselves through the means of the ballot box and parliamentary cretinism, is an important contribution regarding this event. The referendum in Britain clearly shows that the bourgeoisie can less and less rule as it has done. This is the general situation, not only in Great Britain, which is why in future the bourgeoisie will increasingly resort to referendums and other tricks. The communist forces have the great duty to use this situation and, firmly based on the masses, fight to deepen this political crisis of the bourgeoisie. To be able to walk this path standing tall it is necessary to break with parliamentary cretinism and wage a ruthless struggle against revisionism. Even though during the course of the vote revisionism raised its head across  the EU, it was the red forces of the communist movement that made important steps in this struggle.

Death to Imperialism!

Long live the proletarian world revolution!

Editors of Rot Front (Austria)
Editors of Klassenstandpunkt (Germany)

Here we publish a translation of an experience report on the last weekend, which was send to us. The German original can be read here.

The last weekend was characterized by the fight against the repression, especially against Turkish revolutionaries, in the FRG. In addition it began really early, namely on Friday the 17th of June at 9 AM … in Munich. There the trial against ten activists of the Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe (ATIK) was started. They were already arrested on 15th of April last year in Greece, France, Switzerland and the FRG. They are charged with the alleged support of a foreign terrorist association, the TKP/ML, which is however not listed on any terror list in Europe, at least not on the official ones.

Proletarians of all countries unite!

19^th of June 1986 – 19^th of June 2016
30^th anniversary of the Day of Heroism

Uphold, defend and apply Maoism to serve the advancement of the world proletarian revolution!

“The fierce Resistance, was accomplished, this has never been done, is a great triumph of Chairman Gonzalo, the Communist Party of Peru, we will all die. Honour and glory to the fallen comrades and combatants! Long live Chairman Gonzalo! Long live the Communist Party of Peru!”

- comrade Augusto, Shining Trench of Combat “El Frontón”, 19^th of June 1986, moments before he gave his life for the Party and the Revolution

Till now we received reports from our own sources out of Hamburg and Berlin. Several revolutionary and internationalist groups said their reports will be comming up the next days. We will sum them up then.

Here we publish a translation of the speech of the Collective Red Hamburg on the Mayday demonstration in Hamburg in 2016, which was send to us:

We publish the report on the activities in the FRG regarding the week of action to support the Peoples War in India, which was send to us. In the upcoming days we will report on the week of action in other countries.

We document this translation of the call for the 8^th of March by the Red Women's Committees of Hamburg and Vienna.

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

To the streets on the 8th of March!

Fight Patriarchy and Imperialism!

We, the Red Women's Committees of Hamburg and Vienna, call all revolutionary and progressive forces, activists of the women's movement, women in general and working class women in particular, to a powerful celebration of the 8^th of March, the International Women's Day. We want this years 8th of March to set a mark by showing the growing revolutionary women's movement on the rise. The 8th of march is a special day of struggle, a day on which women all over the world rise their voices against patriarchy and show their dedication to fight for their emancipation on the streets. It is an urgent necessity for the development of the communist movement and the revolutionary movement in general to smash every position of viewing the oppression of women as a political “secondary contradiction” or viewing every feminism as “petty bourgeois”. The women of the working class suffer a double oppression, the oppression as part of the proletariat is joined by the oppression of patriarchy. The women of the working class are not only exploited by wage slavery, but also by slavery through patriarchy. A communist and revolutionary politics is only worth its name when it's the expression of the interests of the most oppressed and exploited, accordingly no communist and revolutionary power can negate the special role and meaning of the mobilisation, politicisation and organisation of women, especially working class women, without unmasking themselves as charlatans. Those in the “left scene” that reduce the fight against patriarchy to a fight against “sexism” haven't understood anything of the position of Marxism and they think it is enough to use rules of conduct that state, that as long as men don't watch porn or hit on women, everything is in order and woman is “equal”, they are indeed the defendants of patriarchy, its apologists inside the revolutionary movement.

 Serving the development of the struggling class-conscious women's movement, it is necessary to draw the dividing line among bourgeois, petty bourgeois and proletarian feminism, to strengthen the latter and encourage working class women to take their role in the first line of class war.

In this article we document the English translation on different activity reports regarding the 1st of May. Each entry can also be found separately below.

On internationalist revolutionary 1st of May in Hamburg

Then police rushed in with everything they had, and that´s a lot