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Groupe Bolchevik |
The world wars
and the 1929 and 1973 economic crises, among others, have demonstrated that the
capitalist mode of production exhausted its progressive character for long. The
survival of the bourgeoisie is only due to wars and to economic crises, which
periodically destroy productive forces on a large scale.
The bourgeoisie
survived and extended its rule because of betrayals by the reformist
apparatuses of the workers’ movement. These repeated historical reprieves do
not allow it to a new youth. It manages in allowing the implementation of new
conflicts and to economic imbalances that are more and more serious. The
contemporary capitalist economy is boosted by debt and by the arms economy
(more than 1 100 billion dollars a year), which leads to speculation,
financial overdevelopment and militarism.
Capitalism has
turned more and more parasitic. Production for profit impedes economic
development and seriously threatens environment. The destruction of a whole
city of the United states, New Orleans, by a hurricane, gives some indication
on the consequences of the global warming, and on the racist feature which are more
and more adopted by capitalism. There are more and more States, that divide
humanity through more and more outdated boarders.
Urban and
countryside workers pay a high price for the preservation of capitalism. Big
powers reasserted their rule on the world: after bombing Serbia, invading Afghanistan
and Irak, they threaten Iran. Capitalism is restored in Russia, Eastern Europe
and China. The former workers’ strongholds in capitalist countries are
dismantled by privatizations and restructurings. The rate of exploitation
increased due to the intensification of labour and tro the limitation of the
increaseof the real wage, or even its fall. Then the rate of profit temporarily
increased.
Scientific and
technical discoveries too often lead to the reinforcement of exploitation and to
oppression of the majority, to waste, by the majority Within the countries who
claim themselves as models for democracy, freedom is reduced under the pretext
of “fighting terrorism”. Obscurantism and clericalism enjoy a powerful
comeback. Barbarism threatens: in Irak the American army is torturing;
genocides were or are being committed in former Yugoslavia, in Rwanda, in
Sudan; China leaders condemn to death penalty on a large scale in order to sell
organs...
Palestinian
people live under opression and humiliation. Life expectacncy fell in Russia,
thousand miners die every year in China, the Chinese and the Russian new
capitalists live in luxury when most of the working people lack everything.
Each year, millions people are obliged to flee their country because of war,
repression, poverty; in the country where they go, they are often despised,
overexploited and persecuted. All the big cities are overpopulated, with people
suffering misery and insecurity. Even in countries which are shown as models on
employment, unemployment is important; everywhere, the lack of job security for
the workers is stronger and stronger.
The privileged
and despotic bureaucracies who were running the “socialist” state-controlled
economies restored capitalism themselves. The bourgeois nationalist regimes who
were challenging the European and American imperialisms after the Second World
War generally surrendered. The nationalist leaderships of oppressed people
either laid down their arms (ANC, FSLN, FMLN, IRA, ETA...) or support the
ruling imperialism (OLP, PDK, UPK…). Their
failure reinforced more reactionary, racist and fundamentalist movements.
The big
organizations that were created by the proletariat in the late 19th
century and in the early 20th century protected their ruling class
and their bourgeois State against the last world revolutionary wave, in the
1960s and the 1970s, and then they allowed the counter-offensive by the world
bourgeoisie in the 1980s and 1990s. The corrupt union bureaucracies have
advocated the national interest, co-managed, prevented general strikes,
negotiated plans against the workers; the reformist parties, either
social-democratic or Stalinist, have defended their bourgeoisie and, sometimes,
faithfully managed their bourgeois State against the workers of their country
and of the ruled countries.
During the 1960s and the 1970s, many
Castroist, Maoist and pseudo-Trotskyist movements had gained the revolutionary
energy of the youth in pretending that they were restoring the flag of
revolution which was given up by the “socialist” International and its
“communist” parties.
With the
backward of the working class, and especially with the restoration of
capitalism in Russia and in China, the centrist organizations either
disappeared or joined traditional parties, or even built new bourgeois workers’
parties. Most of the former “leftist” or “radical” organizations became
reformist, pacifist, if not patriotic. They work together which the union
bureaucrats, align with Chavez, present the World Social Forum as
“anticapitalist”, they trust the UN or they court green and religious
movements. Almost all of them once voted for bourgeois parties (like the LCR in
France for Chirac...) and even implement popular fronts (Socialist Workers’ Party
in Britain). Some advocate more policemen (Lutte Ouvrière in France) .Other
take part in bourgeois governments (Socialist Democracy in Brazil, Maoist Communist
Party in Nepal).
On a world
scale, the working class has grown. New local concentrations of workers appear,
the proletariat is renewed with generations that have been defeated.
Important
struggles have been led by the studying youth, in Greece, in Chile, in Italy
and in France. Iraqi people have not been put down despite huge British and
American military means. The bus drivers and the teachers took strike in Iran,
where students and women demonstrated. The Chinese proletariat started to fight
collectively despite a strong repression. Many elected presidents were thrown
out in Latin America, Venezuelian masses resisted the putsch attempts led by
imperialism, Soviet organs were created in Bolivia and in Mexico, with the
popular assemblies of El Alto – La Paz and of Oaxaca. In the United States, the
demonstrations against the war, the strikes and protests against the measures on
the immigrants show that the patriotic consensus around Bush crumbled. In
Europe, the demonstrations against the war in Irak were huge in the states
which take part in it (Britain, Spanish state, Italy). A real uprising, left
without prospect, rocked the suburbs in France. In Africa, workers and students
in Guinea took a general strike against Conté’s rule.
The working
class (workers, employees, technicians…) is now the majority on a world scale
and it creates most of the wealth of society. It is able to prevent humanity to
sink in the despair in which the capitalist minority inexorably leads it. If it
leads a determined struggle against its bourgeoisie, it will be able to carry a
strong part of the poor peasantry, of the studying youth, of the unemployed, of
the relegated people from the suburbs of the big cities, and even a part of the
management.
In capitulating
and in conciliating with the ruling classes, the bureaucratic leaderships lead
to demoralization and division between the workers. The workers built their
unity against the bourgeoisie. The working class, since it is not an exploiting
class, only has the organization for its defence. Because it fights for the
unity of its organizations against the bosses, and against the governments in
their service, the proletariat demands the leaderships of the unions, the
parties, to break with the bourgeoisie. It intends to set workers’ democracy in
its unions and its assemblies, to organize its defence against the fascists, against
the Islamists, and against all the soldiers of capital.
If the working
class manages to overcome the betrayal policy of the “reformist” agents of the
bourgeoisie, then the defence of social benefits and of the freedoms, the
struggle for the fall in the labor time, for the wages adjustment, against the
national oppression, against the imperialist war, for the womens’ emancipation,
for the workers’ control... will be efficient and will gather in a huge
strength. Then, in a permanent revolution, the strugle in each country for
overthrowing the bourgeois state and for a workers’ government based on
workers’ power organs, will lead to the expropriation of capital, to the
workers’ planning, to the building of socialism and to the world socialist
federation.
For this, the
most advanced workers must gather in a revolutionary party, because the working
class is the first class which, for being revolutionary, must be
internationalist. First, it always has immigrants. Then, it is more and more
exploited by transnational groups in the United States, in Western Europe and
in Japan. Moreover, only the worknig class is able to overcome the boarders who
impede the development of the productive forces: socialism only can be created
on a world scale.
Permanent
Revolution Collective
Colectivo revolución
permanente en el Perú (Pérou), Groupe bolchevik (France),
Grupo Germinal (Etat espagnol)