Georges Gastaud | Pole of Communist Revival in France (PRCF)
The interminable French electoral sequence, the political negotiations over the formation of the future government, the summer season, and the hollow nationalism exacerbated by the Olympics—while at the same time, a mass of these so-called “patriots” are indifferent to the ongoing destruction of the country—all contribute to obscuring the gravity of the global situation.
In Ukraine, the relentless advance of the Russian army and the rapid concurrent erosion of the Kyiv army only exacerbate the vengeful aggression of London, Paris, and Berlin, caught between their warlike impulses, their allegiance to Washington, and the unpreparedness of their armed forces after decades of industrial breakdown and NATO subservience. All the more regrettable since the West, so vocal about the “liberation” of the Uyghurs, Tibet, and Taiwan, torpedoed the Minsk Agreements, which envisioned autonomy for the Russian-speaking Donbass within Ukraine’s borders, duly guaranteed by France and the FRG!
In the far North, Ukraine, the Middle East via Israel, the Indo-Pacific, the Korean Peninsula, and regarding the US appropriation of international seabeds, the “shoulder-to-shoulder” confrontation imposed by North American hegemony on Russian and Chinese systemic rivals is only worsening. However, there is increasingly strong resistance “on the other side,” and the era of Gorbachev-style Russian capitulations is definitively over, as the Russians have “paid to see”…
US imperialism and its vassals are also attempting to bring Cuba and the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) to their knees, but Washington continues to break its teeth on the courageous Cuban, Bolivian, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Honduran, and even Mexican peoples. Likewise, French imperialism, the common enemy of African peoples—and of a dignified and sovereign France—is far from regaining a foothold in West Africa.
The hottest current front in the global rift between Euro-Atlantic hegemony and a growing number of countries, large and small (the BRICS), aspiring to multilateral cooperation between sovereign peoples, lies in the Middle East. The state terrorists leading the so-called “great Israeli democracy” are multiplying dangerous provocations against Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, which pose threats to world peace. More than ever, the work of real communists is to show French and global youth, who support Gaza, that breaking the genocidal offensive against the Palestinians is part of the same fight as stopping the march toward world war—a potentially exterminating conflict being fomented by Euro-Atlantic hegemonists, with the Macron regime leading the way, even if it means aligning with Netanyahu’s torturers, the fanatics of the Falun Gong sect, and the grossly pro-Nazi regime of Kyiv in a desperate attempt to preserve a fundamentally unequal global order.
While clearly supporting the anti-hegemonic, anti-exterminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist fronts, one of the roles of genuinely communist organizations in France and else where is to stimulate debate on the rebirth of an International Communist Movement anchored in Marxism-Leninism and the worldwide workers’ strike movement, which is experiencing a historic rebound. Unlike opportunists in the workers’ movement who shamefully cling to “their” bourgeoisie (as is the case with Roussel’s Euro—and NATO—compatible PCF), and unlike sectarians who oppose communist identity and broad patriotic fronts, we need to act, in the highly dialectical spirit of the 7th Congress of the Communist International (whose 90th anniversary we will celebrate in 2025), within the frame work of broad international groupings and put forward the proposal for a new generation of a Communist and Workers’ International. In short, to walk on two legs on an international scale.
In France itself, our internationalist task is to fight against the Maastrichtian Party, which includes not only Macron and the LR of Xavier Bertrand, but also the pseudo-patriotic Euro-allied RN, as well as the bellicose fake left like Glucksmann, who strives to corrupt and deviate from within the “new Popular Front.” Let’s not forget that this “Popular Front” has inscribed in its “common program” the provision of “all necessary weapons” to Ukraine (thus including F16s intended to strike Russia deep!), as well as the “delivery of V. Putin to international justice”—which, by the way, implies no less than are fusal in principle of any negotiation with the Russians. This NATO-justice-oriented, all-or-nothing, and quixotic posture conditions the Russo-Ukrainian negotiation on a prior “regime change” in Russia: this is objectively a “social-exterminist” position, that is, socialist in words and exterminist in deeds. Thus, the “New Popular Front” will have to choose very clearly between the social measures it claims to want to implement and this race to the abyss, with colossal military expenditures benefiting only Dassault and Lagardère.
EURO-ATLANTIC EUROPE OR A PEACEFUL WORLD, WE MUST CHOOSE… AND FAST!
Moreover, the continental erosion of the EU’s popular legitimacy (nearly 50% abstention in European elections despite mandatory voting in several countries!) is pushing towards a political crisis in France and across the continent
(English has already been imposed de facto, without the slightest democratic debate, as THE language of European institutions). The elites’ response to this massive rejection is the “European federal leap,” which would allow Europe’s oligarchies, starting with the “French” oligarchs at odds with their now ungovernable people, to coalesce within a single authoritarian and fascistic state dominated by Berlin and Washington, with the aim, when the time comes, to jointly crush the popular uprisings that are looming. The Paris Olympics are already a trial run for this outrageous national indignity, as Macron’s will has brought German and Californian cops to patrol Paris streets, while some French people, ready to cheer “Go Blues!” are accepting this liquidation of what remains of the republican nation-state…
The fight against capitalist exterminism led by the PRCF and JRCF must not lead to historical pessimism. Exterminism fundamentally signifies that capitalist-imperialism has run its course, and the time for a new generation of socialism-communism has come; otherwise, humanity will face the danger of self-annihilation.
As I conclude this interview, I learn that Asian stock markets, especially Japan’s, are crashing as never before, and that Sanofi, despite being showered with public money by Macron, is investing over a billion euros to produce its insulin… in Frankfurt.
