Eastern Initiative (Poland)
Comrades and Friends,
First we would like to send our greetings to the organizers and participants of this important event from Poland in express our solidarity with CP-M of Kenya and its Gen. Secretary Booker Ngesa Omole.
Four years ago, the World Anti-Imperialist Platform correctly characterized the current era as the “pre-World War-III era”. Now, when preparations are clearly underway, only few have doubts that the war is imminent. This phrase has reached even bourgeois media and mouths of politicians. The hot phase of the war seems unstoppable.
The World Anti-Imperialist Platform also correctly identified the character of the current conflict, as the conflict between imperialism and the rest of the world.
Imperialism comprises a handful of the wealthiest Western countries, former colonial powers, which after WWII formed united block―EU and NATO and later, after the destruction of the Soviet Union―a unipolar world, the collective West. This long-term integration and entanglement, fuelled by the law of capital accumulation triggered the formation of the modern form of the imperialist formation, characterised by its economic, technological and financial monopolies, technological, financial and economic interdependencies, multinational corporations, banks, trusts and funds and international institutions such as EU, NATO, World Bank.
One common mistake that non-Marxist forces are making in the analysis of current situation is the applications of the tools from XIX century, assuming the states are capable of independent politics. They don’t understand that the imperialist system, which encapsulates the economies of the collective West, is a unified force, ready to sacrifice some of its parts in order to achieve the main goal. Many blame the US, its leaders and policies, but overlook the equally active role of the EU, in particular Germany and France, who are leading the charge for militarisation.
However, imperialism has past its peak and it is currently in the state of a deep systemic crisis. Internal contradictions of this system and its transformation into financialised rentier economy are starting to threaten its foundations. Demographical, debt and cost-of living crises, economic slowdown, intensification of social problems are common features of current imperialist societies. But their main weakness lies in the fact that the richness and welfare of Western countries depends heavily on the exploitation of the rest of the world, on colonial and neo-colonial plunder and the fact that imperialism has been deliberately keeping whole continents in the state of constant underdevelopment.
But where is injustice―there is struggle. Communist and national liberation movements of colonial and semi-colonial countries, Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Burkina-Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Angola and many others have challenged the colonial order with revolutions which paved the way for economic and political independence of their people. Socialist China is now a leading the world in technological and social progress, a model which many other countries look to as inspiration.
Peoples of the world are fighting for their right to develop their own productive forces and to benefit from their own natural resources. This brings them in direct clash with the imperialist block. Historically, imperialists used military force and economic coercion to enforced their interests. Now with the rise of China, their leverage over the countries of Global South has weakened. The emergence of the multipolar world, with economic blocks outside the control of imperialist institutions create favourable conditions towards development of productive forces and strive towards economic, political sovereignty and advancement of the interests of the working class, towards developed socialist societies. The successes of alliance of the Sahel states proves that, despite all difficulties, this path is possible.
The prospect of economic and political liberation of the neo-colonies is creating an existential threat to the imperialist system―to the privileged Western oligarchy, the Epstein class, to the power and wealth structure which has dominated the world for last 500 years. The loss of their financial, technological monopolies and cutting off from extraordinary profits from colonies, markets, from cheap natural resources and labour will escalate imperialist contradictions―between capital and labour, production and distribution―even further. In already shaken and declining Western societies this may lead to the ultimate crisis of the whole imperialist socio-economic formation.
In its agony, imperialism started the war against the rest of the world. Against the Global South against Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Chin, Cuba and others hoping for the quick victory and another 500 years of plunder. But it didn’t work. Now we are entering new, the hot era of the conflict – the imminent military escalations in Eastern Europe, West and East Asia and other theatres.
Comrades and Friends,
It is obvious which side in this conflict we should support. Communists from the very beginning have actively supported and led national liberation and anti-colonial movements all over the world and all existing socialist countries are currently united in the anti-imperialist camp.
Western bourgeoisie in this critical moment of history made a call to rally all forces under its banner: from “right-wing” Trumpists to “leftist” Trotskyists and neo-Trotskyists. In order to confuse and mislead the “left-wing” circles, imperialists revived the theory of “two enemies”, “neither Moscow nor Washington” invented by Western state agencies during Cold War. Now some organisations, even these calling themselves “Marxist-Leninist” adopted a similar “equal distance” line, which they aggressively push on the whole workers movement. According to their ideology, we should abandon our defence of socialist countries, the anti-imperialist block and the anti-colonial struggle, and instead adopt the classical Trotskyist position. The imperialist bourgeois class could not be more happy with this objective.
Comrades and Friends,
We have a saying in Poland “The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on”. We all, in our own countries struggle in order contribute to our main task of our era: achieving the victory of the people over imperialism. We are not a religious group or a political sect – but the advanced section of our peoples, who are inspired by the greatness of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, who apply Marxist analysis in order to understand and advance our nations and our own productive forces in order to establish a socialist society and a new, just, socialist international world order of free and sovereign people’s democracies on the ruins of the imperialist world. In order to achieve it we strive to build broad fronts and alliances, also with non-communist or even not leftist forces and advance through them in a dialectical way.
Comrades, we wish you all the best in your struggles.
Victory to the peoples of the world! Victory to Palestine, Iran, Russia and China!
