Proletarians of all countries and oppressed peoples, unite!
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun!
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Everything is illusory except power!
May Day 2017 Declaration
Chairman Mao Zedong noted that “in the coming 50 to 100 years, the world will pass through great upheavals”
and the Communists will have to prepare for rough battles. In the
political report of the 9th Congress of the CP of China held in the
midst of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, he made the correct
analysis and determination that “we live in the epoch in which imperialism meets its total collapse and socialism is marching towards its worldwide triumph”
Today, in the era of the strategic offensive of the proletarian world
revolution, it is clear to all who are determined to the proletarian
class stand point that these statements were not “ misinterpretation”
“and not a “pipe dream”, but express the international situation, t he
reality of class struggle and its historically determined movement
towards the dictatorship of the proletariat.
That it is the masses alone, which constitute the driving force of
world history, can be seen by taking a look at some great moments of
this side of history last year. In the countries of North Africa and the
Arabian Peninsula, millions are still fighting for the justified aims
of the movement of the so-called “Arab Spring” and against imperialism.
The fact that the imperialists, together with the native reaction, had
to use to the colonial fascist card of the “fundamentalist” religious
forces to temporarily gain the upper hand, shows only that they are at
their wits’ end, t hat they are weak, because they are charming ghosts
that they won’t get rid of and will carry imperialist war in form of
terror back to the imperialist strongholds. Nevertheless, the masses
continue their work in rebellion, see the previous deficiencies of their
movements and struggle to bring about leadership. In Eastern Europe and
the Balkans, the strongest storm for years of uprising and massive
rebellion has been blowing. In a number of countries successive protests
ensue, the striving of the proletariat and of the masses for the
destruction of the old imperialist rule, the sweeping of the lackeys of
imperialism in this region, and the irresistible will for the new. The
fact that some of these mass movements are reactionary shows that it is
up to the Communists to give the masses the leadership they demand. The
struggle against the imperialist EU alliance is of great importance in
this world region, and the Communists, especially in imperialist
countries like Austria, which is one of the main imperialists, are faced
with the great tasks of their internationalist duty, that they have to
grasp with all their strength and decisiveness in the following year. In
Asia, the masses are pressing for revolution as well. The growing
difficulties in which the imperialist China and Japan get, in
contradiction with the masses of Asia, or the urge of the Philippine
masses for revolution, which the (especially Chinese) imperialism wants
to confuse, intercept and redirect with its creature Duterte, show this
very clearly. In Latin America, where the revolutionary impulses of the
peoples have to develop even more clearly than anywhere else in the
world directly against the only international hegemonic super power, the
main enemy of the peoples of the world, the mass struggles last year
made great developments that also have a very positive effect on the
development of the red leadership of the class struggle.
All this adds up optimistic and has to encourage all revolutionaries
and communists to be confident about the development of the proletarian
world revolution. But without leadership, without a general staff, the
proletariat and the peoples will not be able to bear the victory over
imperialism and reaction through their struggles. Without constituting
or reconstituting the Communist Party respectively, the heroic struggles
of the masses will be able to make numerous strikes against
imperialism, but at the same time there will be no new power, no
construction of new democracy and socialism. To disturb and try to
prevent this formation process of the avant-garde is the task of
opportunism and revisionism. They raise “the red flag, only to throw it
into the dirt”. They mask themselves as “revolutionaries”, as
“communists”, but they are sworn enemies of revolution and communism,
which will be achieved by the People’s War, the dictatorship of the
proletariat and several proletarian cultural revolutions.
An important example of this is the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement (RIM). Its founding in 1984 corresponded to the urgent need of
the strategic offensive of the world revolution to internationally take a
political step forward in the question of leadership. Therefore, its
foundation was important. RIM made an important advance when, in 1993,
it accepted the declaration “Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism”. This
declaration, on the other hand, contained numerous eclectic and
opportunistic errors, but at the same time it was a positive result of a
protracted two line struggle which the red fraction in the RIM, led by
the Communist Party of Peru, succeeded against the black line of
opportunists. Alarmed by the advance of the red line, opportunism began
to rage more decisively. The opportunists and revisionists had to take a
clearer position, and they began to deny Maoism more openly after the
1993 declaration, which they had to accept as a concession of the
essence is the compromise. The Red forces in the RIM, especially the
Communist Party of Peru and its chairman Gonzalo, were attacked by them
more and more hysterically. But the red faction went on, spreading and
deepening their correct positions far beyond the compromise of the 1993
Declaration, internationally as well. Another positive result of this
process was the “Millennium Declaration” of RIM, which was directed
against the opportunists’ plans and could not be prevented by them. The
two line struggle in the RIM thus helped create the red fraction of the
International Communist Movement and showed the true face of
opportunism. The opportunists and revisionists who negated RIM by taking
advantage of intermittent weaknesses of the red factionin fear of the
red line, especially the US-American RCP and its pope Bob Avakian, are
now found in liberal positions and developed their revisionism into an
open defence of imperialist decadence. We see that the RIM has made some
important progress, which is the merit of its red faction. But today
the RIM does not exist any more, to mourn after it, to “rebuild it” or
to “re-establish” on its basis can not serve today’s needs of the
international proletariat. The negation of the international alliance
must be ideologically and politically negated at a higher level, and the
international unity of the communist forces must therefore take place
on a higher level, on the basis of the line of the red fraction in the
international communist movement.
For this reason we welcome with full force, in the spirit of
proletarian internationalism, the V. Conference of the
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties and Organisations of Latin America and
the first-ever meeting of the same organisations in Europe in 2017, the
100st year of the Great Socialist October Revolution. These meetings are
important contributions to the hard way of the new international
formation of the communists, and at the same time it is proof of the
miserability of opportunism and its senseless chatter, as well as the
strength and radiance of Maoism!
Part of this positive development is also that it is noticeable that
the campaign to defend the life of Chairman Gonzalo has received new
impulse. This is of particular importance as Chairman Gonzalo is the
greatest living Marxist-Leninist-Maoist in the world and the reaction
continues to follow the plan of his assassination. It receives support
through revisionists through relative and direct attacks on the chairman
Gonzalo. Comrade Gonzalo has “managed to use Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in his entire work to solve the problems of national and international class struggle” (Declaration on the 30th anniversary of the Day of Heroism), which gives the subject in the 26th
year of his captivity in isolation is a certain weight. On the basis of
these comprehensive contributions, President Gonzalo is a symbol of
proletarian internationalism, which consists not only of learning and
supporting each other politically, but primarily base on the most
advanced experiences and developments of the international proletariat,
take them up and use them as ideological starting point for the
development of ones own work. Nothing else communists are taught by
Comrade Lenin, leader of the Great Socialist October Revolution, and
creator of the Bolshevik Party. In this context, it seems to be
important to note that in the passed year, the People’s War in Peru
again found increased actions and expressions, which also gained
international recognition. This is a very important development and
shows that the People’s War in Peru is progressing despite the difficult
circumstances.
In many respects, the strongest and most comprehensive of the current
popular wars, the one in India, led by the Communist Party of India
(Maoist), CPI (Maoist), remains a beacon for all truly revolutionary and
communist forces worldwide. Like the proletarian world revolution as a
whole, it evolves in waves and uneven, especially under the concrete
conditions that this national war finds in a country which is a
subcontinent of its own, and in view of the fact that this popular war
is attacked by a broad alliance of imperialists and reactionaries with
extreme brutality and bloodthirstyness. These conditions underline the
heroism of the comrades of the CPI (maoist) and the masses they lead in a
special way. From this point of view, action should also be taken on
the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the great Naxalbai insurrection,
which took place in May 1967, and thus the present-day People’s War in
India was propagated with all its might. From a firm
proletarian-internationalist standpoint, we decidedly condemn not only
the open opportunists and petty-bourgeois laggards, who are beginning to
turn their backs on the popular war in India, that great impulse of the
proletarian world revolution, as soon as problems arise, but we also
firmly condemn those forces that exploit the international prestige of
the Indian comrades to haggle over it for their own cause. They want to
hide their own backwardness and perplexity by losing many words about
the People’s War, but their plan will fail. One of the first teachings
given to us by the CPI (maoist) by the People’s War is the fact that it
is essential to apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism scientifically to the
conditions in its own country. Another lesson is that the solidarity
with the People’s War in India must arise among the Communists from
proletarian internationalism, which means that we must support the
Indian comrades above all by reconciling the Communist Party in their
own country and thus continue to implement the slogan “Unite under Maoism!“.
As always, parliamentary Cretinism is one of the most important
aspects on which revisionism and opportunism are trying to establish
themselves and which they use as a gateway. We saw this in Austria last
year, when these forces called to choose Van der Bellen as the “minor
evil” to prevent the open fascist Hofer. We see the election in Ecuador,
where these forces are cheering for a “left” candidate of imperialism,
and the referendum in Turkey, where opportunism and revisionism by
parliamentary cretinism have been taken by Erdogan’s plans, and we see
the situation in the USA where Trump leads to hysteria among the
revisionists, opportunists and liberals worldwide and they all define
the previously condemned Obama as supposedly “non-Fascist” counterpart.
And this while the Declaration “On the 100 th anniversary of the Paris
Commune” already teaches: “In the past nearly a hundred years, many
Communist parties have participated in elections and parliament, but in
this way no single party has been able to establish the dictatorship of
the proletariat. (. . . ) If a proletarian party does not work under the
masses, does not lead an armed struggle, but raves about the
parliament, it can only put the masses to sleep and corrupt themselves.”
Who wants to prevent the most open reactionary impulse of the
bourgeoisie by the means of the bourgeoisie (such as bourgeois
elections) inevitably involves a bad alliance with their “liberal”
masked parts and goes under their hegemony. But the fight against the
open as well as against the “democratically” masked fascism can not be
led under the perspective of the “return to bourgeois democracy”.
Bourgeois democracy is the dominant form of the dictatorship of capital
in the superstructure of a bygone era of capitalism, who introduces it
as a bulwark against fascism, is an already failed attempt to turn back
the wheel of history. For this very reason, revisionism and opportunism
use parliamentary cretinism to divert attention from the doctrine of the
great Lenin who left the international proletariat the call “Everything is illusory except power!“.
This slogan must be maintained because it serves us as a lighthouse
on the road to struggle for the dictatorship of the proletariat because
it is an ideological guide for the struggle of the masses for its
economic and political rights, a battlefield against the corporatism of
fascist imperialism, that must never be abandoned, and in the course of
the past year, many great mass risings have been developed around the
world. This task requires a lot of clairvoyance and vigilance from the
Communists, it requires a deep connection with the masses and a broad
understanding of their reality, their needs, and the necessaries. It
requires that the Communists never separate from the masses, but live in
their midst, fight with them all their struggles, work with them,
patiently and long, always following the Marxist method “develop from
small to big “. Only in this way will our political work in the service
of the proletarian world revolution be developed. Opportunism and
revisionism, on the other hand, demand that we forget that all that is
done must serve the reconciliation of the party, and thus the conquest
of political power, so they demand that we cease to be communists, that
we dissolve in the masses amoeboid, lower our level and do not give a
red leadership any more. But Comrade Lenin’s ideological directive, “Everything is illusory except power!”
is clear and leaves no doubt in our tasks. Convinced of the fluctuating
and insecurity, and help them to new confidence, sweep away all the
incorruptible elements from your ranks, who want to assert something
else, and thereby distract from the iron steps of the international
proletariat on its way to political power and communism. Remember that
Comrade Mao said, “where the broom does not reach, the dust never vanishes of itself. ”
The reaction tries to counteract the tendency within the masses to
revolution with all its force, so opportunism and revisionism lead angry
attacks on the ideology of the proletariat, on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
mainly Maoism.
Attacks on proletarian feminism, which is part of Maoism and not an
independent ideology, must be emphasized here, and this also includes
its systematic neglect, since the question of women’s movement is
concerned with the question of a large part of the lowest layer of the
proletariat. The attacks on proletarian feminism are attacks on Maoism,
and vice versa. They are intended to separate the most progressive
masses of the women’s movement from red positions. This is why it was
important to hold many battles in this field last year, which gave us a
deeper understanding of some ideological questions and developed our
political positions on this issue. This is confirmed by our assessments
in the statements made on 1 May from the last two years, which clearly
point to the coming struggles in the women’s movement.
Through attacks by chauvinism and nationalism, the bourgeoisie is
increasingly trying to split the masses more aggressively and gather
around the imperialist flag, or to exploit the masses for imperialist
interests. Liberal positions are no less harmful to the struggle of the
proletariat than the open reactionaries mentioned. In order to disrupt
the political plans of the bourgeoisie against the masses on this issue,
it is imperative that the Communists and truly revolutionary forces put
their proletarian internationalism at the head of their agitation and
propaganda with total commitment. The Communists must take proletarian
internationalism as a starting point of their views and work, and in
their red position they can not slip into an opportunistic position
against anti-imperialist positions. Compared to the proletariat and
peoples of the whole world, the Communists in the imperialist countries
have a special responsibility and must decisively fight the imperialist
nation. There can be no transfiguration or a liberal attitude to the
imperialist nation. If this happens, it is an attack on proletarian
internationalism. The proletarian class standpoint must be firm and
clear, not only in the contradiction between imperialism and oppressed
peoples and nations, but also in the question of inter-imperialist
contradictions. Communists can not be intimidated when they see the
intensification of these contradictions and recognize the urge of
imperialism for a new world war. They are mobilizing for the defeat of
the imperialists brought about by the peoples of the world, supporting
the struggles against imperialism, and developing their work as part of
the World People’s War against the imperialist world war and the
reaction. They are firmly based on the universal validity of the
necessity of the reconstitution of the Communist Party and the
initiation of the People’s War.
An important and great expression of the upholding and defense of
Maoism in Austria were the numerous activities that took place around
the 50th year of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the
commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of Chairman Mao
Zedong. They represent a clear expression of the ideology of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in Austria. These activities have created new
forces which assert themselves in the class struggle with all their
strength, which provide everything for the struggle and the
reconstitution of the party and rose the red flag in the masses for an
important part. These were very important progresses. These good
developments took place in the service of the aims of proletarianisation
and militarisation of reconstitution and leadership. Their shortcomings
based on the development of ideological application, regarding
initiative and creativity, which is required in practical and
theoretical terms, as well as establishing firm and clear positions,
which nevertheless need to retain a high degree of flexibility. This
contradictory reality must be seen and understood to make future
ideological struggles more powerful and dynamic in order to meet the
historical tasks and to develop leadership better. This is a powerful
occasion in the coming year, because it is the 100th year of the Great
Socialist October Revolution.
We call for strong and creative initiatives to be developed on this
great and historical occasion, and to spare no effort to spread the
teachings of the great Lenin in the light of the third, highest and
final stage of proletarian ideology, Maoism, and develop actions of
every type, which meet the historical mission of the proletariat and the
role of communists. The Bolsheviks with Lenin at the head opened a new
era by smashing the old bourgeois imperialist state machinery and
building the socialism that had been defended by Comrade Stalin after
the death of Lenin. They did so based on the masses, with a firm
proletarian combat party as a general staff and a tool. The Bolshevik
revolution shows us the greatness and necessity of the Communist Party,
the proletarian’s fighting machine. The subsequent construction of
socialism developed a force and dynamic which the world had not yet
known in the history of mankind. The development of socialist
construction in the Soviet Union continues to show that the masses are
the true heroes of history and have an unlimited creative power. All
revolutionaries and communists should also be inspired by this, they
themselves and all sympathizers must see that they can only perceive and
fulfil their own strength, their own possibilities in the class
struggle, if they are based on the solid foundation of the only
scientific proletarian Ideology, Maoism, smashing the bourgeois ego, as
part of an ongoing combat machine, take up their responsibilities
against the international proletariat, against the proletarian world
revolution!
Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!Long live the 100th year of the Great Socialist October Revolution! Long live the Proletarian World Revolution!
Always put Proletarian Internationalism first!
Everything is illusory except power!
Committees for the founding of the (Maoist) Communist Party, April 2017
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