Valerii Novikov | Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
At the international conference of the World Anti-
imperialist Platform, held jointly with the Simon Bolivar Institute and the Venezuelan government in support of the anti-imperialist, anti-fascist position of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and other countries, as well as the forum in support of communism.
Dear comrades! The anti-imperialist, anti-fascist forum has brought together people who care about the fate of their countries and our planet! The communists of Kyrgyzstan fully support this event and are happy to welcome you all to this beautiful and proud country—Venezuela!
You have repeatedly held events that are very important for the world community! Thank you to hospitable and friendly Venezuela.
Communist and socialist forces around the world are coming together in the name of preserving humanity on Earth and building a just socialist legal order. At the present stage, the world of capital is leading all of humanity toward self-destruction at cosmic speed, and only the most progressive forces are capable of stopping the current lawlessness and leading all of humanity toward the transformation of the world!
These forces are primarily communist and socialist forces, for they are the ideologues of present and future civilization, who will lead humanity along the path of survival, and this is what the leaders of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and some countries in Africa and Asia, the successors of Simón Bolívar, are calling us to do.
In today’s predominantly capitalist-imperialist world, the irresolvable contradictions between the productive forces and productive relations on a global scale have come to a head! Workers all over the world are engaged in production, but global capital appropriates everything that is produced for itself. Only the exploiters receive profits; only they dispose of all property and, naturally, consume most of it themselves, leaving only crumbs for the working masses!
This unfair distribution exists not only within capitalist states but also between rich, super-rich states and developing, poor states around the world! Moreover, imperialist states brazenly seize the natural resources of developing countries through both neocolonialism and military means, as we have seen in recent years in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Mali, and Palestine! As the President of Mali said at the UN meeting, “The imperialists, the neocolonialists, are building us a well in the village, supposedly to help us, and at the same time they are taking all the water from the river to create their own prosperity.”
After destroying the Soviet Union, the most profitable enterprises were seized by the US and European states, and moreover, through the IMF, they shut down all industrial enterprises in the republics of the Soviet Union, and the agricultural sector was destroyed and divided up! What Hitler’s fascist Germany could not do in World War II was done by the fascist imperialism of the West. The same methods are being attempted today in relation to states on other continents!
Of course, the destruction of the Soviet Union and socialism in Eastern Europe halted the advance of socialism across our planet and allowed fascism and genocide against the peoples of the world to flourish under the ruling powers such as the US and European states led by the UK, France, and Germany. They felt like they were the masters of the entire planet! They imagined that they could do anything! They began to dictate their perverted will to other states, telling them who to be friends with and who to fight!
They set up their non-governmental organizations, with the help of which they wanted to pursue their policies in republics and countries! We can clearly see this in the example of Venezuela, where they wanted to install their “anti-people president” through proxies, but the people and the communes they had created did not allow them to do so. Now they are trying to change the government by force, blowing up ships and offering a reward for the betrayal of the democratically elected president. They have set up NATO biological laboratories all over the world to destroy undesirable states! In countries where Islam is spreading, they have created their own specific NATO troops of Islamic terrorists and extremists from among Muslims, such as Al-Qaeda, Wahhabis, ISIS, Ansarullah, Jabhat al-Nusra, and many others!
They have established their military bases, especially around countries that pursue their own independent policies in the interests of their people! The appetite of the imperialist powers comes with eating! Having destroyed the Soviet Union and plundered our riches, as well as those of Russia, they have now decided to seize Russia itself. Since 2014, a war has been waged against Russia and the Russian people. The entire West—more than 50 countries—is unabashedly and unscrupulously waging war against Russia on Ukrainian territory!
How terrible that they have started a shameless war and destroyed independent, prosperous Libya, seizing its natural resources, and that they are carrying out Israel’s genocide to destroy the Arab people of Palestine! They are bombing Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, which disagree with this. NATO has begun large-scale military exercises with aircraft carrying nuclear weapons! This speaks volumes! Considering that the Western elite have long since lost their minds from the lawlessness of owning the world’s wealth, their private ownership psychology is playing a very cruel joke on them! They are losing their bearings in the world; they think they can do anything and bring everyone to their knees! They are not thinking about tomorrow at all! We can say with certainty that humanity is on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe!
If we turn to the Far East, Japan is also highly equipped with ultra-modern weapons, and South Korea is constantly provoking North Korea! Naturally, China is watching both Taiwan and the whole world closely!
1. If we turn to the social sphere of workers around the world, excluding war-torn regions, the workers of the African continent are in a very difficult situation! Africa has untold riches! For years, it has not been the African people who have benefited from these riches, but the colonizers from the US and Europe! But the workers of Africa are constantly fighting for their freedom and a decent life! And in this regard, they have achieved a great deal! It is gratifying that all African states remember the Soviet Union and think fondly of it! At the Russia-Africa Forum, many African leaders spoke with great respect about the Soviet Union! South Africa is now a member of the BRICS countries! Ethiopia has also joined!
Many African countries are fighting for a decent life and have done a lot to achieve this! We also include Latin American countries among these states, especially Venezuela and Cuba. We see the great work being done by the government and the socialist party to create, develop, and prosper communes where there are real positive successes. The Bolshevik communists, led by Lenin, once began with the creation of such communes. These communes achieved a great deal and made an enormous contribution to the victory over fascism in World War II. We wish our Venezuelan friends further success in the social transformation of their country!
2. The sphere of ideology! Unfortunately, the ideology of the criminal bourgeoisie still dominates the world! In the post-Soviet state, not a single republic has yet proclaimed communist or socialist ideology as its own! They are all searching! They are looking for it in national ideology, in religious ideology! One can understand the bourgeoisie; they only want bourgeois ideology! But for the working masses, only Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist ideology should prevail! Naturally, with national specifics!
So China has communist ideology—socialism with Chinese characteristics! After the destruction of the Soviet Union, during the most powerful attack of imperialism against socialism, China chose this tactic, introducing a multi-quality economy and surviving! It was an adaptation to the counterrevolution against socialism! Today, the PRC is the most advanced country in the world in terms of economic development! Keep in mind that this is not due to the dollar, as in the US, but due to the development of its own economy! Let’s see what happens to the US when the dollar loses its function as a global currency! Moreover, in the People’s Republic of China, Marxism functions holistically as Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism!
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Comrade Xi Jinping, is making great efforts to reduce private enterprises and strengthen public ownership of the means of production! At this turning point in history, they will make a worthy contribution to the establishment of socialist civilization throughout the world!
North Korea—the DPRK! It does not allow the US or the IMF anywhere near it! Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un have stood firm on communist positions! After the betrayal of the Soviet Union’s leadership headed by M. Gorbachev, it stood its ground and did not give up! Well done! They also have Marxism with a specific feature—Juche! Communist Cuba impressed everyone with its heroic steadfastness! The great Fidel Castro—leader of the revolutionary proletariat and the communist movement in Latin America!
Today, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, led by Hugo Chávez—Chavism—and the current courageous and combative leader Nicolás Maduro, is heroically fighting and defending its socialist path of development! All the attributes of socialism are there! All state-forming industries are in the hands of the state: free education, medicine, housing for all communards, and work! And the US is still meddling there, as brazenly and arrogantly as ever!
Specifics: they call it the Bolivarian revolution! Bolivia and Nicaragua are fighting for socialism and Marxist ideology! Vietnam is a socialist country, and one that is developing steadily! The communist and socialist forces have a base where they are at the helm of states, and the states themselves are building socialism and flying the banner of Marxism-Leninism!
3. What steps do we need to take for socialism to triumph across the entire planet Earth?!
a) Understanding and realizing that humanity is facing self-destruction due to the tangle of insoluble contradictions of capitalism-imperialism, and that the only way out of them is socialism across the entire planet! Scientists have already found technologies to achieve this within a few years!
b) The looming ecological crisis of planet Earth! Previously, the purity of the Earth’s water resources made it possible to resist it! Now this possibility no longer exists due to the pollution of water resources. A creative society—people and state leaders—must be aware of this and work together to take measures to overcome these problems! Without socialism, experts say, they will never be solved!
c) In Caracas, Venezuela, under the leadership of N. Maduro, an international anti-fascist movement was created in November. We must make every effort to attract various forces, including those for the dissemination of the ideas of Simón Bolívar, Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro, and Kim Il-sung.
To this end, we believe it would be right to create a women’s organization based on an anti-imperialist, anti-fascist platform. This will give new impetus and momentum to our movement.
d) Help BRICS to create a new world currency more quickly, so that states can move away from the dollar, thanks to which their masters, the US and Britain, are fascist and pursue a lawless, anti-popular, colonial policy in the world!
e) Strengthen the organizational, propaganda, and theoretical activities of communist parties in countries!
Dear comrades! Good luck and success to all!
