Capitalist Crises Vs. Socialist Progress

We publish the Statement by the International Action Center, which in concrete terms tells what the situation is and asks for world solidarity support for the Palestinian people. This barbarity by Israel, with the backing of US Imperialism produced demonstrations all over the world in such numbers that frightened even Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama alike. Since 1948, the United Nations have adopted scores of resolutions condemning Israel expansionism, killings and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land. Why then is the situation getting worse and no solutions found? The answer is very simple: The Israel expansionist policy fits very well with US expansionist policy, and together with Imperialism they Divide and Rule - for now! URGENT APPEAL TO PROTEST BOMBING AND SIEGE BY ISRAEL OF PALESTINE GAZA

For 60 years, Israel has persecuted the Palestinian people with impunity in defiance of the United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Security Council Resolutions, orders of the International Court of Justice, International Law and fundamental human rights. Throughout all these years, Israel has proclaimed itself the victim as it grew richer, more powerful and more violent, while the Palestinians were abused, impoverished, divided and demeaned. A consistent tactic of Israel through all of these years has been to divide and conquer the Palestinians against their most effective leading organizations. Through most of these years Israel had attacked FATAH, Now it is HAMAS that Israel attacks. But there is only one Palestinian people and there can be only one Palestinian State Israel Israel's policy has always been to destroy the possibility of a Palestinian State: divide and conquer! Now in the waning days of President Bush and the Government of Israel with its Prime Minister under criminal investigation indictment - now Israel is testing whether world public opinion will permit it to escalate and go on a rampage to destroy the leadership of the Palestinian people in the Palestinian Gaza and launch a genocidal, and indiscriminate assault on Gaza. They killed the leader of the Palestinian people in Gaza and his whole family! The world calls upon the United Nations, the US, the EU, NATO and all other countries to demand an immediate ceasefire throughout Israel and Palestine. All borders to Gaza, Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea must be opened for humanitarian aid and a complete arms embargo plus starting a trade embargo against Israel started, until Israel fully complies with the United Nations resolutions. We call upon all governments to demand that Israel stops its aggression immediately and that UN resolution 181 of October 1948 in the UN General Assembly be adhered to establish a Palestinian State.

The International Council and Editorial Board of NSC have become signatories to this Appeal. We ask all of our readers to do likewise! (1) Israel's bombing, bullets and tear gas against Palestinian civilians (2) Zionist youth taking pictures and happy at this genocide (3) The only weapons used by the Palestinian youths are rocks (4) This young Palestinian child is classified as a terrorist?! (5) Father's anguish among the carnage of dead (6) Hundreds of thousands Palestinians took to the streets (7) Hundreds, including school children were killed (8) Nazi-like bombing by Zionist Israel's war plains

and almost equal to number of all GULAG prisoners in 1939.

Now in Russia there are about 1.1 records of the statistics - a real one million men and women in jails and RUSSIA IS BUYING ISRAELI for them to use, and a fake one for prison camps. If we recalculate that the people that would live decades SPY DRONES in proportion to population of the later. Gathered from Associated Press USSR (145 to 200 millions), then we see then that the relative number of MOSCOW - Russian government is Let's have a look at the statistics. We will also find out how much truth prisoners is 25% more then in the buying Spy Drones from Israel USSR in 1937 and 25% less then in according to the head of the Russian there is in the theory that the Industrialization in the USSR was the USSR in 1938. We can say that Armed Forces. Georgia used these there is practically no difference - Israeli-made Spy Drones in its made by the hands of 'many millions the chance of being imprisonedin attack on South Ossetia. It seems of slaves-prisoners'. the time of Stalin or Eltsin-Putin that the present Russian weapons regimes are equal. industry is still not able to produce its The biggest specialist in this subject own drones. Viktor Zemskov, who worked in the This will be the first-ever Soviet archives in the period of Can we ask the Russians if they feel technological product from Israel that 'Perestroika' gives the following facts petrifying fear to be imprisoned by is being bought by the present [1] "In 1937 there were 1.196.369 the current government? Can we ask government of Russia! prisoners and 87% of them were the Americans if they are afraid to be imprisoned by Bush or Obama? The relations between Russia and ordinary tnon__pojjtjc)_ criminals They will laugh. Israel have improved very like thieves, cons, etc. in GULAG. dramatically since Putin and In 1938 in GULAG were 1.881.570 Medvedev became a team in Russia. prisoners and 81% of them were The overall number of prisoners in ordinary criminals. the USSR was never more then 2% of the labor resources of the entire From 1939 to WWII, the number of USSR. Thus the statement that What were the prisoners was decreasing mainly "Industrialization in USSR was because of setting them free after mainly done by enslaved prisoners" chances to be sent the completion of their sentence. The is nothing than a blatant and bold lie. smallest percentage of ordinary It is totally impossible that 2% could to GULAG? criminals was in 1947 - 40% but at not make any significant contribution Pavel KrasnovV that time, the prisons were full of war to the economy and the criminals like parricides, deserters, industrialization. Moreover, the collaborators, marauders, and other prisoners could only be used in the In the article "A Logical Analysis of 'innocent victims' of this kind. most unqualified jobs like digging, the Mass Repressions Theory" we when modern industry and found out that the so called "tens of construction require high-qualified The largest number of GULAG millions of repressed peoples" - are workers. nothing but a bunch of far-fetched prisoners was 1 January 1950 - 2 lies unable to withstand even the 567 351 and 77% of them were simplest logical analysis. But how ordinary criminals, mostly after-war Furthermore: up to 1938 most of the were things actually? How many bandits. Soviet Industrialization tasks were people were sent to GULAG and successfully completed (more then why? How terrifying was it to live, What do these numbers mean? Is it 80%). Industrialization had been that is how high were the chances of a lot or not? 1.9 million of prisoners started in 1928 and was practically being sent there in real life, not in the in the pike of 'mass repressions' or is finished in 1939. lies of TV-propaganda clowns? it nothing unusual? Let's compare these numbers with "the base of Before1938 there were less than 1.2 There are very clear Soviet statistics democracy"- the USA, where there million prisoners in the USSR, and in regarding this, because it is totally are more than 2.3 millions people the most difficult period of the impossible to handle millions of imprisoned today [2]. Industrialization (1934) they were people without bookkeeping and only 0.5 million. That means that all data records. Moreover it is not even The US population is about 300 during the years of the USSR possible to run a hundred-man million, and the population of USSR Industrialization (including 1937) they factory without bookkeeping, let of the 30s was about 200 million. If were no 'millions of slave-prisoners' alone a whole country. This data we recount the proportion and - the average number was less then does exist, and no one from serious imagine that the USA now has the one. scientific communities question the population of the USSR in the 30s statistics of those years. Otherwise then the US would have 1.53 million The average percentage of they would have had to make a crazy prisoners, a bit less then in the pike prisoners in the USSR supposition that in 30s of 20th of the "repressions" (1.88 millions), Industrialization was about 0.8 % century the USSR jails kept 2 but more than in the "terrible 1937" of the USSR labour resources. We have to make a conclusion that I beg your pardon, but where are the the commitment of the prisoners 'many millions of victims'? labour in the building of the USSR economy is negligible. If we name the work of this 'rehabilitation commission' biased it The criminal situation in the USSR would still be a far too gentle term, was very complicated: right after the because what was happening there Civil war when there were up to 4 can be briefly described as million homeless children, and when completely lawless actions - people there where thousands (!) of were 'rehabilitated' in a crowd in a specially trained terrorists and few minutes! There were commando squads infiltrated the 'rehabilitated' crowds of obvious USSR border from Poland, Romania, criminals. A lot can say that the Hungary, China, Finland etc, where attempt to claim general Vlasov (a they were hosted, supported and parricide who joined Hitler and took trained by their governments. It part in massacres of civilians) an was also during that time when the 'innocent victim' failed only because USSR was practically a kind of mass indignation of WWII veterans. military camp, and one war followed other: Middle Asia 10-years of war ('basmatch war'), war with China A few cases opened to the public ('KVZhD war'), Hasan conflict with show fantastic inscolence: Japan, Halhin-Gol war with Japan, 'discharges' of terrorists, wreckers not even mentioning WWII. and spies who were captured when they tried to cross Soviet frontier with weapon in hands. And despite of all these wars and country devastation the percentage 38,4% of prisoners had been of prisoners in the population in the sentenced to 5-10 years of The chairman of this commission Stalin's USSR was the same as in imprisonment, 35,5% had from 3 to 5 was famous liar and traitor Iakovlev, the USA now. years, 25.2% had less then 3 years one of the key people in and only 0.9% were imprisoned for 'Perestroika'. According to his more then 10 years. directions to the commission "All "In reality the number of convicted people that were convicted as prisoners with political counter- criminals by all non-court The average imprisonment term in revolutionary conviction from 1921 to organizations are now considered Gulag thus was less then 4 years - 1953 (33 years) make up the total of innocent." This statement is a con nothing overwhelming, especially if 3.8 million" [1] because they were military tribunals we compare it to the 'stronghold of and the 'court of three' ("troika") that democracy and human rights'; in the Who were the 'political or counter- were in fact tribunals created for USA 2007 the average sentence of revolutionary criminals'? Convicted in faster processing of cases when the imprisonment was more then 5 these crimes were spies, particites, guiltiness of a criminal was obvious years. (63 months) terrorists, bandits who were e.g. he was caught red-handed [4]. supported from abroad, Hitler's (http://www.albany.eduu/sourcebook/p All these criminals despite of their chasteners, collaborates, persons df/t5252007.pdf) approved crimes were claimed as who carried anti-soviet and anti- 'victims of repressions'. state propaganda (including Nazi Why we do not hear the screams and Japan propagandists), anc about US-GULAG that was worse participants of anti-state rebellions. then in Stalin's time? According to Yeltsin 'rehabilitation And in the condition of permanent law' (part 5) poeple were claimed wars were considered by Soviet In the end of the 80-s Michael 'innocent' despite of any legally Government as dangerous, etc. It Gorbachev ordered to create so- obtained evidence that were should be taken into consideration called 'rehabilitation commission' that confirmed guilty in court for the that the Civilian war just finished, and was further expanded in the Yeltsin's following crimes: "anti-Soviet there were a lot of former red-army time. According to the conclusions of propaganda" (including the war opponents who utterly hated the this 'commission': "According to the time), distribution obvious lies that USSR and the Bolsheviks' regime. information of the office of the blacken Soviet regime, These 'opponents' were ready to go Attorney General 636 302 cases encroachment on the rights of Soviet to any means to do any harm to the were reopened, in which there were citizens under the pretence of USSR. 901127 people involved and 637614 devotions and even escape from of them were stated rehabilitated" [3]. Soviet jail if this person was claimed Please note, that only 636 302 cases as 'repressed'. These counter-revolutionary were reopened because in all of the criminals were sentensed to very other cases, it was obvious that no different punishments, including So that means that according to the criminals would be stated current regime in Russia it was deportation and some city- "rehabilitated". banishment (765 180 persons). considered lawful if someone escaped from jail because they were and 'gorbachevs' did not have a so - called "repressed, or that it chance in fair justice competition - is fine if someone encroaches to even one of their declarations like 'all rights of Soviet citizens, and it is fine prisoners who escaped from jail are if someone runs anti-government lies claimed as innocent' would be a and propaganda for the sake of good enough reason to kick them out enemy in war and pre-war time... All of any fair court and even in return this does not make sense not only claim Yakovlev's in fraud. They from the point of law but also from perfectly knew (the Zemskov work the point of common sense and was finished and published) that in fairness. case of any fair investigation the 'mass repression' claim does not have any chance to be won, and All 'groundless mass rehabilitations' that's why they started this cannot help the cons and traitors. repression hysteria that is totally controlled by their mass media. We can say that setting Yakovlev as chairmen of this kind of commission is the same as setting Gobbels of What does it mean, that the country Hitler as chairmen of Nuremberg that was penalized to death was tribunal or Judas Iscariot as a innocent? Yes, it does. The horrible bartender of Jesus Christ. crimes against humanity that were world's gendarme and that it claimed against Soviet Union totally subordinates to the rules laid down failled. by the United Nations Organization; Even with this boundless fraud and (2) The withdrawal of the US troops lies all official result of 'Yakovlev' Sources: from Afghanistan and Iraq; commission" is 637 614 'victims'. No (3)The closing of the Guantanamo trace of 'many millions'. This concentration camp in Cuba and also information is not so easy to find in the closing of all its secret prisons Russia - it does not appear in the scattered all over the world; official media thus the wows about (4)Rejection of US policy of listing a 'many-millions repressions' we can number of states as belonging to the hear daily many times. "axis of evil", or "rogue states", abandoning the economic blockage So, where are the '32 millions of of Cub, North Korea and Iran; victims' as Yakovlev claimed on (5)Cessation of extremist meeting with Putin? [5] Does it mean Americanism on independent world that it is borderless lie? Yes, it does. states under the pretext of "struggle That was the main public motivation of Americans for human rights; of killing the USSR, wasn't it? (6) Cessation of gangster-style military arbitrariness on the I have to emphasize the point - the Palestinian soil, in the Middle East by hysteria about dozens of millions Israel that is fed by the USA; was not a sudden mistake - it is an (7)lnadmissibility of aerial operation OT coverage and hiding the bombardment by US Air Force of truth. Obviously that 30 or 50 millions independent countries where of citizens cannot be criminals, and if Americans suddenly spot the it was true then without any presence of terrorists (Syria, additional evidences the USSR could Lebanon and others); be convicted in a crime against (8) Signing the Kyoto Protocol, humanity. But if we claim 600 signaling the willingness of US to thousand or even 3 million 'victims' in struggle against global warming; more then 30 years then the next (9) Ending the global anti-missile question will raise immediately: "Why defense systems located close to do you ciaim them as victims, maybe BY NINA ANDREEVA Russia (Poland, Czech Republic) they are real criminals according the General Secretary of the AUCPB and former republics of the USSR; Soviet law of those time?" To (10) Ending the expansionist policy announce them as 'victims' we need The election of Barak Obama as of NATO further into the East; reopening these cases in fair and the US President became top news (11) The ending of the US initiated independent court with all all over the world in conditions of a world financial crisis that strongly hit appropriate procedures and before developing world economic crisis in the economies of countries like this no one can name them the capitalist world. Russia, Japan, China and others. 'innocent.' So what is the world expecting We have already analyzed the from President Obama? question as to which real powers The traitors like Yakovlevs, Yeltsins (1) A rejection by the USA as the belong in America. It belongs to the Zionist Lobby, aiming for world BURAN. threshold of large social changes domination. Any US president is only The West German Chancellor that we need to be ready to correctly an Executive of the will of US Kohl at that time offered Gorbachev understand and realize them wisely. Imperialism, the Committee of 300, $160, 000, 000 for handing over the With us in these just struggles which runs the transnational GDR. After that, Gorbachev went for peace, justice and socialism, corporations and dictates to any away very happy with his $14 Billion are our leaders - Lenin and Stalin! President of the USA! Dollars for that traitorous deal. This excellent article was condensed Well, so Barak Obama has a black We are standing now on the for space reasons only. Editor. skin, so what? He is still their puppet. Let's face the fact that any politician, no matter what colour his skin might be, that has another view or another political orientation other than what makes the true power in the US happy, to the post as President - is • From newspaper Rabotchaya-Krestyanskaya absolutely impossible! Pravda of the All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks So Obama will do what he is told by the powers that be and he will do even more (than George Bush has done - which Obama has done) to constantly prove his complete loyalty and obedience as demanded by US imperialism and the Zionist Lobby! It is not excluded that in choosing a Black President, US Imperialism is going after even broader penetration of the African Continent, which is immensely rich in rarest minerals and raw materials and exceptionally cheap labour. Is this a last ditch attempt at colonization and trying to find a way out of the economic crisis it's in? Maybe it is very much needed to remember what the 41st US President Gorge Bush Sr. said in 1992 - "We have spent $4 Trillion Dollars on winning the Cold War and compared to this amount, the sum we intend to spend now for breaking up the USSR - is $24 Billion Dollars. The democrats inside the Kremlin are able to guarantee our security far more reliably that all of our Nuclear Missiles." In other words, Gorbachev's betrayal cost Americas 166 times less compared to the confrontation between the two political systems. Here is also a historical fact that is not well known worldwide: When Gorbachev and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shervennadze met in the summer of 1987 on Destroyer in the Mediterranean Sea near Malta with US and NATO power elite, Gorbachev and Shevemadze gave their consent to President Ronald Reagan of the US, to dissolve the Warsaw Pact, withdraw all Soviet troops from the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and also to end abruptly the Soviet Space Shuttle THE LAST FEW YEARS SAW THE GROWTH OF MORE AND MORE PROTESTS ORGANIZED BY SOVIET YOUTH AGAINST THE PRESENT BOURGEOIS REGIMES!

His President father covers the RUSSIA IS BRACING cost of his penthouse apartment, the most expensive in Kiev and he FOR FURTHER leaves $500 tip at top restaurants all As was predicted even by the over Europe, His previous girlfriend Western Media and the Communist UNREST also is used to luxury living, and movement in Russia, President Gathered from Financial Times- when on one of his many trips, like Medvedev, fulfilling the plans of Putin Moscow the latest one to Turkey, he spent (who will again be President) had the $2,500 a room per night in luxury Russian Duma and Federation As the Russian ruble slid hotel. Council approve overwhelmingly to down to a new low value against the extend the presidential term from Euro, after the regime tried to COMMENT! 4 years to 6 years! devalue its currency. This was How long will the people of Ukraine According to the New York Times followed by six weeks of devaluation put up with Mr. Yushenko and the the opposition came from some by the Russian Central Bank in order likes of his son? How long will the Communist members of the Duma, to deal with its own as well as the Soviet people put up with these and as one member expressed: global economic crisis and falling of degenerate so-called "elected "Why are we in such a hurry? oil prices. leaders"? With millions unemployed, Already we have in Russia a strict Gorbachev (the traitor who sold out no heat or electricity and forced to authoritarian regime that was the USSR - Editor) warned: "Russia either immigrate or try to feed their established under Putin. There is faced unprecedented difficult and families somehow - the only way is already an unprecedented dangerous circumstances and could to unite into a mighty fist and put concentration of power in one be heading into a black hole". The these people where they do belong. person's hand!" Ruble has lost over twenty percent of Where is the UNITY of the its value. Communists in former USSR - not Because of this and the economic in theory, but in practice? crisis, there are more and more demonstrations taking place, such as happened last December in the city of Vladivostok and it marks a Russian retired generals are very growing challenge to Putin- According to Russia's Interfax alarmed at the abrupt retirement of Medvedev duet. Even Mikhail Agency last December 2008, the two hundreds of Generals and the Sukhodolsky, the Russian Interior countries have suspended disbanding of over ninety percent Minister stated: "The situation will negotiations on the supply of oil and of the Russian Army's standing units be exacerbated by the growth of loans. and their strategic capabilities. further mass protests and frustration Russia claimed that the Chinese The Associated Press quoted a of workers over non-payment of side is proposing "absurd conditions Russian retired General Leonid wages and the ever-growing threat on credit financing. They are not Ivashow of the Defense Ministry: and actual dismissal of workers from setting a fixed cost of money. They "President Medvedev is inflicting their jobs." want to provide funds at more than more harm on the Russian military five percent. This is a floating rate. might than NATO!" COMMENT The Chinese side is always The uncontrollable corruption and demanding multiple guarantees for embezzlement is running wild in the loan, guarantees for growing Russia and other former republics, profit and for oil from the oil fields." with this money fleeing to foreign and The Chinese banks agreed to loan offshore banks - this is admitted Russia private consortium Transneft even by the pro-imperialist Financial over $10 Billions plus another $15 Times newspaper. Billions to construct a branch of the eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline to China. China said that SON OF PRESIDENT OF due to the economic crunch in the world, the Chinese banks still have UKRAINE SPENT $500,000 not resolved their sources of lending. The International Monetary Fund ON GIRLFRIEND (IMF) the tool of Imperialism is giving Hey, we all thought that China is a Belarus Government of President Lukashenko $2.5 billions to cope Andrei Yushenko, the son of the Socialist country and is not affected with the global financial crisis. This President of Ukraine is now again in by capitalist manipulations! Yes, statement was issued in Washington, another scandal by spending some people still believe China is by the IMF Managing Director $500,000 "on Channel bags in Dubai building Socialism, and following Dominique Strauss-Kahn on for his girlfriend plus having a bottle Marxism-Leninism. December 31, 2008. on champagne and oysters costing 2,000 Euros in Kiev's most luxurious NSC wonders as to what are the nightclub. conditions attached? Soviets in Moscow. Later he economy crashed. Until today the defended arrested communists. In economy cannot achieve its results 1998 he was imprisoned for 2.5 of 1990! Ukraine tumbled down to years and later released due to the one of the last places in Europe after decision of the European Court. Albania and Moldova. Its population Fleeing persecution in Russia Ilia has decreased by 8 million since it moved to Ukraine. Here he has achieved "independence". committed his main "crime": a Another blow to Ukraine was dumpster was exploded near the caused by the world financial crisis. Ukrainian security office in Kiev. Especially hard hit were industries DOUBLE-FACED Even though no one was hurt in this producing for export: metallurgy and "terrorist act", Ilia Romanov was chemical production. For example, sentenced as a "terrorist" for 10 one of the largest metallurgy TRIDENT years of imprisonment. At the same factories in Alchevsk, near time in Odessa Komsomol members Lougansk, works at 20% of its Just like the ancient Greek god who created an underground capacity and one third of its workers Janus, the symbol of "independent" revolutionary organization were put are forced to unpaid vacation. The Ukraine, the Trident, has two faces on trial and given similar sentences. predictions are that the number of as well. The state presents it to the During the investigation Sergey unemployed in Ukraine will be higher world as a business card. On TV Berdiugin was beaten to death and than 4 million. Such is the "sweet screens one can see "the Igor Danilov contracted tuberculosis. fruit" of capitalism! Honourable President" Mister Ilia Romanov who has already spent One evening we were Yushchenko during his visits to other 5 years in prison is located in a cell returning from the factory Krasni countries, participating in the with 11 other prisoners where the Louch as I saw a picture I will not parades, blessing crosses in the temperature does not go above forget as long asI live. Right next to memory of "holodomor" and other +18C and the celing leaks and is the highway were piles of rock and ceremonies. In moments like these damp. Torture and imprisonment for dirt. We stopped and saw an ugly Mister President is very proud, thinking about "changing the cave 15 meters deep and half a putting his chest forward, lifting his Constitutional system" is the true kilometre long which was cut into the chin up. In addition Ukraine shows face of Ukrainian "democracy"! And field and came all the way up to the itself to the world with its people have forgotten that the highway. It looked like the "embroidery, folk dances, "Constitution" itself was imposed on excavators had worked here, demonstration of "democracy", them as a result of the criminal searching for a layer of coal. The represented by several dozen destruction of the Soviet power - the man-made ravine looked like a deep parties, never ending elections and power of the labourers. So who wound on the surface of the Earth. fist fights in the Parliament should be put on trial and behind the This would never bear harvest again. "Verkhovna Rada". Wouldn't it be a bars? Perhaps it should be the ones Seekers of new coal layers have shame not to accept such a who destroyed the USSR and carved such ugly scars throughout wonderful state "in the centre of grabbed into their hands the Donbass. Who permitted these Europe" into the EU and NATO? factories, mines and power stations, barbaric actions? It looked like the However, behind the fancy and destroyed collective farms and local authorities have been paid well business card is hidden the other Soviet farms, re-established for the permit to dig. The predators face of the Trident: Ukraine's reality, exploitation and brought the masters who rule Ukraine today have nothing year by year crawling into the ruins back to power? in their souls except greed.This of the catastrophe. Restoration of When gentlemen wound in the Earth is a true symbol the wild ugly capitalism, development "democrats" called upon voting for of predator capitalism, which leaves of Ukrainian fascism with praises to "independence" they assured us that ruins behind. banderites, impoverishment and Ukraine would immediately reach the Closed, flooded mines and beginning of dying out of the people standard of living of France and factories led to bankruptcy, the - this is the pay off for undermining Germany. In the USSR Ukraine was equipment of which has been of the USSR, praising one of the most prosperous shredded for recycling, millions of "independence", and "transition to a republics, where one ton of steel and former labourers, thrown to the market economy". one ton of grain was produced per market, forced away from productive I recall a trip to a prison, a person! What the nationalists did not labour, affected by alcoholism, drugs correctional facility, in Krasni Louch talk about is that Ukraine's and lack of spirituality, a young where Ilia Romanov was kept after achievements were possible as part generation, deprived of ideals - this being sentenced for 10 years in of the united conomic complex of is the face of the modern Ukraine, prison. Did he kill or rob anyone? the USSR. By declaring lifeless cut-off from the dismembered No, his crime is that he refuses to put "independence" the creators of the USSR. up with the existing system. Ilia new Ukraine cut all blood vessels Life is the best teacher. became a revolutionary back in connecting Ukraine with the all-union Ukrainians start to wake up when Russia without having completed body. Each Ukrainian enterprise they see that prices for food in his studies at a medical university. was connected with many hundreds Ukraine are 1.5 times higher and In October 1993 he provided medical of other enterprises across the wages and pensions 10+ times lower help to the defenders of the House of territory of the USSR! Therefore, the than those in Europe. The rating of 15 the Orange revolution "hero" into these countries - Editor) plus "Condoleezza Rice gave the green Yushcheko has dropped from 60% to strategic agreements! (Against light." 3-5%. More and more people begin whom- is the question - Editor). It is very interesting that President to ponder: who is guilty about the Ferrero Waldner, the European Saakashvili recalled Ambassador troubles they are facing? Union Commissioner said that the Kitsmarishvili to Russia on July 10, We were returning to EU recognizes the efforts made by about one month before the war Lougansk late at night. The the present leadership of these broke out Secretary of Lougansk regional countries for quick integration into committee of the Communist Party of the European Union. Ukraine drove his truck steadily to the sounds of Komsomol songs on the recorder. I was reminiscing my earlier meeting with Ilia Romanov. The room for the meeting with political prisoners was divided in half. The prisoners were in their mini-cells for visiting hours and were separated President Medvedev when he from visitors by glass. We could talk gave permission to rename the street only via the phone. It was obvious: in honor of Solzhenitsyn did not Before last summer's Georgia- the prison has not broken Ilia's spirit. expect thousands of Muscovites to Russia War, President Saakashvili He was abreast of all the current demonstrate and to tear off the street was itching to do battle with Russia. events, read newspapers, which signs. The people demanded that Georgian authorities (supposedly) Lougansk communists supplied him the street be named as it was called mistook messages from the United with. He spoke calmly, even threw a before - Big Communist Street. few jokes. He had no intention to go States as encouragement to use According to Russian today's Law on down on his knees and beg for force - according to former Georgian renaming streets - the authorities pardon. People like Ilia who do not Ambassador to Russia Erosi must wait ten years before renaming abandon their beliefs, are afraid Kitsmarishvili - who spoke to the any street. But of course Putin- neither of tortures nor prisons, nor press last month. He also charged Medvedevhaveno regard for the laws death itself are a threatening sign for that the leadership of Russia is also that they themselves have pushed the lords in power. They are like to blame, because it was trying to through. dawn and like a forerunner of the inflame Saakashvili's warlike itch. Over 1000 people of Moscow, coming storm. Here, I recalled The war ended with the Russian demonstrated in the street organized Gorky's words from The Song of a forces firmly in control of South by the Communists and thousands Storm- petrel: "Storm! There shall Ossetia and Abkhazia. Moscow signed a petition against this change. soon start a storm!" recognized them as independent All across the ex-USSR there were states. I believe, the time will come street names and cities changed when ihe Trident of Petlura will be The former Georgian Ambassador which brought demonstrations and replaced with a "hammer and sickle" charged that: "Saakashvili wanted demands to go back to their original and yellow and blue banner with the that war, he had been planning historical names given by the people. Red one! this action for the last four years. Russia was also eager to exploit this, pushing him to attack in BRUSSELS [NATO] TO force." INTEGRATE THE POST SOVIET Now, a majority of the Georgian population and politicians have been REPUBLICS If around you are only Angels - that increasingly critical of the president From Trend News Agency means that another election and the war. Former Ambassador [email protected] campaign is starting in Ukraine. Kitmarishvili is the highest placed official in the pre war period to The newly set-up Eastern If your question is being answered by openly and publicly challenge Partnership after the war in the President of Ukraine, you are sure to President Saakashvili on that Caucasus - South Ossetia - this forget the questions. conflict. He also charged that European Committee made a Georgia thought that they will regain decision to go ahead to integrate the Those that receive much in South Ossetia within hours and did future with six ex-Soviet republics. government, they will take more not expect Russia to intervene. Poland and Sweden made this themselves. The Ambassador also charged that proposal on behalf of EU-NATO to the U.S. president gave assurance to establish a united forum that will Armenian Radio was asked: Georgia that they will intervene. bring together 26 states - including Is there freedom of the press in When US Secretary of State Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Russia? Condoleezza Rice officially visited Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenian Radio answers: Georgia on July 9-10, Saakashvili The idea is to establish a free In Russia all press is free. Others was encouraged to invade and trade zone (of course to get the US are barred. Saakashvili's inner circle told him Chinese goods to be dumped even nurtured now by the Church On the other hand, I realise THE RISE OF HATE that " foreigners are to blame!" what a burden on you and your closest colleagues would be Hey, Mr. Putin-Medvedev - your 6- publishing such responses, never CRIMES IN RUSSIA year presidency term that you mind theit translationi I can imagine From AP - Moscow pushed through will not solve this you saying to me: "It is easy for you A Moscow court last December of problem! Your resignation and the to advise!" and I admit you are right. 2008 sentenced seven men to prison rebirth of the USSR and Socialism is However, I feel obligated to expresses my thoughts and wishes, for involvement in the murder of 19 the only answer! and it is for you to decide to apply non-Slavic migrants in a series of them or not. hate crimes. The rise in hate crimes, xenophobia and neo-Nazi groups are It would be ideal if the series on the rise - and supported by of political seminars about socialism sources both internal and external. and what happened in the USSR, which started on November 9 in the These fears are growing after police Friendship House, could also take an found a gruesome scene when a international character, if such Tadjik migrant was found beheaded BY VLADIMIR PRONIN seminars were announced near Moscow. beforehand and if participation of Russian prosecutors charged that I have received and read the last foreign Marxists by correspondence this group of men picked out Central issue of NSC with the documents of was allowed. Asians, Caucasians and other non- the International Conference. I was Slavs, attacking them on the streets very pleased to see my article in that About some issues raised or in the pedestrian tunnels with issue surrounded with a splendid and discussed at the Conference. Bourenkov's opinion that in the hammers and other weapons. This cartoon. When I was sending you Georgian-Ossetian conflict, Russia group also videotaped many of these my last article I was not sure you was an imperialist country just like attacks and posted clips online. would publish it, but now that I see the USA, saddened me, but did not Hate-crimes are on the rise in you have use of literature like this, I surprise me. Part of the left, here in Russia according to the Moscow can send you more. My English has Ukraine as well, hold this opinion. Bureau of Human Rights which improved since the time I started They explain their position with the estimated that documented 110 receiving NSC and I now read it wheneverI I have time, which I do not idea that at some point Lenin xenophobic murders in Russia in according to them also took such a 2008 year alone, compared to 74 in have that much of. I express my regrets for not participating in the position in a similar conflict. And 2007. without burdening themselves with In December of 2008 two Tadjik Conference at least by correspondence.I have experience serious concrete historical analysis men were attacked in a town north of they take a similar stand! However, Moscow, and one of them was participating in such conference, for example I collaborate with the such a position hurts your own cause beheaded. The Russian media Japanese organization CRPK. You and works for the imperialists. If they reported that his head was found 12 know about them because in the last believe that the Georgian aggression miles away and an obscure Russian report of their regularly held antiwar conducted by an American puppet nationalist group did claim conference my speech and the Saakashvili against South Ossetia responsibility. Also in December of greetings of the International Council and the Russian army stepping in to last year an 18-year old Kazakh defend the citizens of South Ossetia student was found stabbed to death with your signature were published and rescue them from open near his Moscow dormitory, Moscow side by side. Naturally, Ihave not the genocide are equivalent actions, police reported. Also early in means to travel either to Japan or to then in whose favour is such December of 2008 an 18-year old Canada, and neither the Japanese thinking? There are many such African American exchange student nor you have the means to pay for examples! in southern city of Volgograd was my travel. However, every year I Without forgetting the nature beaten up and left in extremely have an opportunity to present my of today's Russian government, if we critical condition. speech to the Japanese conference by correspondence. want to remain on a Marxist path we must say that today Russia is not Police efforts are not consistent or I think if you invited all your simply a capitalist country, but a effective, since their job is to stop readers who wish to express their post-socialist country, being dragged protests or demonstrations against opinion on the agenda of the into capitalism by force, which for a the preset regime. The economic Conference and in general on the post-socialist country is quite a and political situation in former outstanding probiems of the reactionary and unnatural path, USSR is critical with economic communist movement at its modern which contradicts the essence of the stagnation, unemployment and stage there would be many of those willing to express their serious society, its ideology, economics and terrible conditions in making a living. state of mind! These internally and externally thoughts, worthy of presenting to the supported hate groups are aimed at attention of the NSC readers, as well Having survived the period of the "Official Cause" - meaning the as useful advice, directed towards comprador bourgeoisie of the Yeltsin migrant workers from other former further steady movement of our epoch and first years of Putin's Soviet republics - this false blame is cause and our ideas. government, today Russian is merely a supplier of raw materials to the to make an attempt and start some imperialist countries. It is making its work in this direction. If I recall first steps towards becoming a truly correctly, back then you counted on independent state. This state can Professor Herasymchuk in Rovno.I very likely choose a path of have tried contacting him several becoming a mighty imperialist state, times by mail, unsuccessfully though or it may not. It may take the path of (likely because Professor state capitalism, from which it will Herasymchuk has always lived in turn to state socialism, which for a Lutsk, not in Rovno - translator). I country with the recent socialist past inquired about him at the local office would be a more natural transition... of the Communist Party of Ukraine Not to understand the difference and heard a lot of good things about between the politics of the imperialist him. However, I have never heard monster, who just recently tried to back from Professor Herasymchuk play the role of almighty master of himself and this endeavour of mine the unipolar world, means to sign dwindled. Today, unfortunately, I am under one's own helplessness and too busy with the Antifascist Committee and association inability to properly evaluate the Intellectuals for Socialism, and I situation in the modern world society. cannot take upon myself organizing Should we support any attempt to of a local branch of Organization of throw the USA off the throne of world Friendship with Foreign Countries. gendarme, or stand by and watch? If However, if anyone in Ukraine starts we chose to simply observe, then such a branch, I will help them with from which camp will we hear the whatever means I have. applause? I wholeheartedly support the As for the call to create a comrades who proposed to Comintern, you appeal to the young Soviet Union. maximize use of the Internet. NSC communist parties for unification, During the Civil War of 1918-1920, must keep up with the times. At the and I cannot make a decision for any the Komsomols were in the front same time, I am absolutely against party. If any work is done regarding lines to save the young Soviet state discontinuing publication of the print this, I am always ready to help in this from the counterrevolutionary forces, edition of NSC. A large portion of noble beginning. At the same time, I that were supported by imperialism. the exploited and oppressed does do not see any true serious parties, After the end of the civil war, the not have access to the Internet. and not those who are "communist" Komsomols were in the forefront of I was somewhat offended only in name, who could approach rebuilding the economy, industry with the part of your speech where the task of creating a Communist and agriculture of the country. you said that NSC readers do not International. From 1960-1980 the Komsomols say "Thank you" for the magazine I think that we should not helped to make the country stronger sent to them for free. I think all that create the new International. For by industrialization of the country. we do, each one in his place of duty, this, firstt of all, we need the building The Komsomol organization was we do not do so we can receive material. We must do like Marx and awarded 6 of the highest State "Thank you's", but for the victory of Engels in a similar situation. They Awards for their work and dedication socialism in the whole world. Also, it created a Union of Communists to Socialism. seems to me that all regular readers which individual communists could During the 1990's the of NSC value the work of the join as well as organizations. I have counterrevolutionary forces comrades in Canada and your work written to you about such a form of temporarily dismembered the USSR. particularly in publishing NSC and unification a long time ago and until Komsonol ceased to exist. The are greatly thankful for your efforts. now remain firm in this opinion. preset regime set up many dubious To conclude, I would like to youth organizations that do not know the meaning of work and dedication. express my joy on the occasion that I TH managed to find the time and write 90 ANNIVERSARY OF The spread of egoism, grabbing of you this message. I wish you, your goods, narcotics, prostitution - the wife, and your comrades success in KOMSOMOL CELEBRATED ills of a capitalist state - and only your noble work, as well as health, By VLADIMIR SHKARUPA-AUCPB Western cultural values are and express one more time sincere promoted in the daily media - civil thank you for everything you are Last November 19, 2008 in strife and oncoming anarchy. doing for our common cause. Mineralny Vody there gathered We gathered around the Lenin patriots around the monument to V. I Monument and sang the Komsomol Lenin in order to celebrate the songs, like - "I will not leave the Having finished I continued reading Komsomol - / will always be young!" the NSC and came to the part where founding of the Soviet Komsomol. it says about broadening the network In all sections of life in the USSR of local Organizations of Friendship the Komsomol, under the guidance with Foreign Countries. Several of the Communist Party, helped to years ago I expressed my readiness build and defend the gains of the 18 GERMANS - 2,389,560 SWEDES - 72 JAPANESE - 639,635 HUNGARIANS - 513,767 In the Second World War there ROMANIANS - 187,370 were 50,000,000 people killed and AUSTRIANS - 156,682 out of that number, the Soviet Union CZECHOSLOVAKS - 69,977 lost over 27,000,000 people! POLES - 60,280 No matter how Imperialism or the ITALIANS - 48,957 internal traitors inside former USSR FRENCH - 23,136 and other countries try to obliterate, the Soviet history from 1917 to 1953 These are the facts that were and YUGOSLAVS - 21,822 and heap dirt and lies upon lies are hidden from the people by all MOLDAVIANS - 14,129 about Stalin, his name and his deeds capitalist Western media ever since CHINESE- 12,928 will shine above all of the present World War II ended in May of 1945. JEWS - 10,173 traitors to Socialism! These so-called WHY? Why is it that the present KOREANS - 7,785 present leaders in former Socialist regimes of former USSR, Poland, DUTCH - 4,729 countries will never-ever reach the Czech and Slovak Republics, MOLGOLIANS - 3,608 stature, the leadership that was J.V. Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, FINNS - 2,377 Stalin - NEVER! Yugoslavia - plus others that are BELGIANS - 2,010 listed below - do not admit to their LUXFMBURGS - 1,652 http:7/iwolga.narod.ru/docd/ub_s/tub_st.sow new generation that their country also attacked the Soviet Union, SPANISH - 452 BACK TO THE FUTURE! BACK TO together with Nazi Germany? GYPSIES - 383 THE USSR AND SOCIALISM! The die-heart Nazis who were the NORWEGIANS - 101 elite troops of the German SS - had in its ranks many other nationalities listed in the countries below. These Nazi-Fascist murderers numbered over 400,000, besides the regular army soldiers from these countries. CZECH REGIME WANTS ITS resistance of the Greek people is in Take a look at the numbers below response at the massacre-like that the Soviet Red Army captured SOLDIERS TO PARTICIPATE attacks of imperialist-capitalism by as prisoners of war - and this transforming this pain and rage we number does not include the millions IN US-NATO-EU FOREIGN all feel for this assassination of a 16- that were killed during WW II. Of the MISSIONS year old Aleksis Grigoropulos. This 50,000,000 people that were killed FROM CZECH NEWS AGENCY was like 1985, after the Greek police during the Second World War, murder- when cars were burnt, over 27,000,000 of them were building set on fire, streets Soviet People! PRAGUE - The Czech ministers barricaded and universities were It also must be remembered and responsible for foreign policy said occupied. that the Czech Lower House will never-ever forgotten that it was the This is an example which Greece support their proposal for Czech Western imperialist powers that shows that the hypocritical bourgeois soldiers to participate in all foreign nurtured, financed, urged on and states answer any resistance of the missions, starting this year - but the supported Germany to attack the workers and students with detentions left-wing opposition is against it. Soviet Union. and prisons - calling these protests History has recorded these terrible Te Czech government can and as blind violence and terror- but does act without the Czech words, uttered by the top scion of meanwhile the state reacts with parliament's approval, as it did with Imperialism, Winston Churchill of the unbridled violence. This is the Czech troops sent into Afghanistan. British Empire, after the Great reaction in all of the European October Socialist Revolution took For the first time in its history the States as well, which are praised place in Russia in 1917, when 16 Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) are now as "cradles of democracy and reluctant to support future missions. countries that included Germany, importing their "democracy" to Iraq The Czech troops are also in Kosovo attacked young Soviet State - "Let's and Afghanistan. The present deep at the urging of NATO drown this baby in its cradle!" economic crisis in the capitalist world Everyone heard about the German will bring even more political reaction Nazi SS butchers - the backbone of and even more unbridled violence German Nazism. But there were in over the working class. this elite SS Divisions also over In our country after the state 400,000 non-Germans - from all passed a law in 2007 "Law on countries of Europe. Powers and Tasks of the Police"- Here is the list of prisoners of war, scores of people became victims of captured by the Soviet Red Army - The Greek brotherly people shook police bullets. The struggle of the their numbers and nationality - the country last month with families, democratic organizations during the period June 22,1941 to resistance against the murder and revolutionary organizations Sept 2, 1945. committed by the Greek police. This against the police murders is 19 growing. We, the MLCP are condemning the police and the murder committed in Greece. We greet the resistance of the Greek people! We call upon all progressive, revolutionary and communist forcrs of the world to show their solidarity with the Greek people. The Greek state will have to account to the workers for this assassination! Aleksis Grigoropulos is immortal!

abducted and trained to be suicide bombers - it is the Sri Lanka Tamil children that are abducted into these camps. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians are currently trapped As Mahatma Gandhi said: India in intensifying fighting between the and Ceylon can't afford to quarrel Sri Lanka Army and the separatist with each other. Now it is truer in Liberation Tigers (LTTE). The LTTE respect to Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka has very frequently killed civilians (formerly Ceylon). with bombs and remote controlled This ongoing tragic civil war in Sri landmines, killing perceived political Lanka has cost thousands of opponents and Tamil politicians, innocent victims, devastation and the journalists and forcibly recruiting country ripped apart, ethnic conflicts children. humanitarian organizations also. and this is promoted for their own Where the LTTE controls the The government of Sri Lanka denies ends by powers outside Sri Lanka. region, they shut down the pass the people who manage to flee the Sri Lanka people have been living system and have banned the LTTE controlled regions and thus the in this ethnic strife and agony for people from leaving the area under people are scared to go any place for nearly half a century and it cost the control of the LTTE, trapping several safety. people of Sri Lanka over one thousand of people. Above we do publish a few hundred thousand lives and billions The Sri Lanka government photographs showing the plight and of dollars in destroyed property. ordered the United Nations (UN) atrocities committed in this civil war troops to withdraw plus all the in Sri Lankas.

attack. "Relations between Israel's Mossad and the CIA are acting together with Indian secret service RAW and are doing covert work to destabilize South Asia and elsewhere. The horrendous massacre in It is a fact, according to that report Mumbai, India last month now is that India RAW, with the help of the becoming increasingly clear and CIA and Mossad created the current situation and has set up Pakistan's LTTE attacked a central bank in hard to put the blame on Pakistan Sri Lanka and over 100 were killed and to set the stage for an attack on secret service ISI to take the blame And 1.200 were injured. Pakistan after Obama becomes for the Mumbai attacks. President of the U.S. It is necessary to remember that The LTTE with its drastic abuses According to a report by the President-elect Obama, when he against the civilians is unparallel. Associated Press last month, it is was a US Senator in August 2007 LTTE forces young children and likely that the Indian secret service, said: "The United States must be youth into their camps and trained Israel and USA are behind the willing to strike at Pakistan." It them to be suicide bombers. Over Mumbai attacks. now appears that this arranged 20,000 such youth have been This expose was carried in the India's "9/11"w\\ serve as a pretext dragged into these camps and national daily newspaper published to get the ball rolling on this planned trained in warfare and used as in the Indian State of Madhya "surgical strike at Pakistan." suicide bombers for years. It is not Pradesh - Israel's Mossad was the LTTE's children that are involved in the planning of this Strike against repression, attacks of the progressives, revolutionary against workers and economic and communist forces of the region terror!" uniting in the common struggle. Demonstrators that came to take It is the necessary task of part in this mass demonstration from proletarian internationalism to We worried about the EU Army, the Kurdish provinces of Turkey, struggle for unity in struggling and and forgot to look at what was going were stopped by the police. The fighting imperialism. on by stealth. We looked at what is participation of the KESK branches, At the MLCP, we call upon all the going on by stealth and forgot to look which wanted to come from Siirt progressive, revolutionary and up at the sky to see the EU Air Force were also stopped by force. The communist forces, the working class in action. This phantom force, and police continued with their and laborers to increase the we were told that there was no need provocations. When the solidarity with the Palestinian people. for a referendum by members of the demonstrating masses protested, European Union. confrontations arose and the police Down with Zionism! Down with The EU for the first time in its used gas bombs against the people. Imperialism! history sets out its EU Navy. (Did you But the demonstrators answered this Long live the unyielding know that there was an EU Navy?) attack with stones and the police resistance of the Palestinian Not bad that EU was promoted all were forced to withdraw. people! over the world as a "Common There were other demonstrations Intifada in Palestine, resistance in Market" for trade! organized, such as the "Month of the Iraq and serhildan in Kurdistan Now tell us by what legal base is Martyrs" in Alibeykoy and Istanbul in will win! the EU using for this action? There is memory of the martyrs that were no military treaty. When were the EU killed by the Turkish authorities. member countries people given a In November there was a IRAQI SHOE THROWER chance to say "Yes" or "No" on this memorial held in Zurich, Switzerland graver constitutional move to where Hasan Arslan, a martyr was CAPTURED THE MIDEAST RAGE commit forces to this action under buried in 2006. AT PRESIDENT BUSH the command of the EU? At the EU Parliament sparks flew over legality and justification of a naval and air mission to the Horn of Africa. So now the EU and NATO have joined forces. This action is against international law, according Zionist Israel, gendarme of US to many EU member states, imperialism in the Middle East has including a very strong criticism by started a gruesome massacre on the the German MEP Anglika Beer. Palestinian people. Israel had waged air attacks on the Gaza and killed COMMENT: more than 800 Palestinians since the So...ts there any difference between attacks in December of 2008. the policy of EU and NATO? This has been the last link of the chain of imperialist "solution" that culminated in the division of HUNDRED THOUSAND Palestine into two parts. This latest attack did not remain without a PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE response by people all over the world, from Asia, Europe, North and The throwing of shoes at Bush on IN ANKARA South America - showing solidarity his farewell visit to Iraq is very fitting From [email protected] with the Palestinian people. as well as a furious comment on how Despite all of these attacks by the people see him as a calamitous Last November 29, 2008, hundred Israel, tortures, imprisonments, dirty legacy in this region. Arab and thousand people gathered in Ankara, and bloody occupation war that has Iranian TV stations have gleefully Turkey, to protest the high prices and lasted for tens of years - the replayed this TV clip over and over unemployment. The workers, coming Palestinian people did not yield and again. The Iraqi reporter who called from all parts of the country, followed raised their resistance by defending Bush a Dog and then threw two the banner and were enthusiastic their dignity and freedom - and, in shoes at him is now a folk hero. about the banner, which proclaimed: this way they showed the peoples of Shoes in the Middle East are thrown "We are against unemployment, the whole world. They were and are only at dogs! poverty and high prices for bread! the source of inspiration resisting VERY FITTING! We are for peace and democracy!" Imperialism. The demonstrators represented a The destiny and the struggles of wide section of the population of our Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic and Turkey. There were banners such Persian peoples is becoming more as: "Forward towards a General and more the same, with the efforts 21 unmasking them and fighting them, everything popular and progressive. we should denounce and deepen the Even today, the UDI [Independent anti-imperialist fight, the fight against Dernocrat Union, part of the right U.S. imperialism. wing Alliance - translator's note], the party that is openly pro-Pinochet, All democrats, revolutionaries and communists everywhere should continues to support the idea of immediately put at the center of their hierarchical "syndicates" to work the defense of the lives of the demobilize and depoliticize the Palestinian people; we should workers, an idea common to the quickly come out with concrete Nazis and Italian fascists. actions. The Communist Party Independent of the shades in the (Proletarian Action), PC (AP), is themes such as racism, the already taking necessary measures economy, etc., the Pinochet regime and we are ready for united actions has in common with that of Hitler and CRIMINAL ZIONISM around this internationalist duty of Franco being "the open terrorist At the end of the year, so that solidarity and humanity. dictatorship of capital against the nobody could forget its criminal working class and peoples". nature, the fascist Zionist Stop the genocide against the government in Israel is carrying out a Palestinian people! * Because just as historic fascism of new and ferocious crime against the the period between the world wars Palestinian people, it is bombing the Today, we are all Palestinians! was the gendarme of national capital City of Gaza and the whole Gaza and the geopolitical interests of Strip. Eduardo Artes: Candidate for the imperialism and the large U.S. presidency of the Chilean companies, the Pinochet regime The Israeli weapons of U.S. Communist Party (Proletarian Action) fulfilled exactly the same role. Just manufacture have sown massive - PC (AP) as the European fascist regimes death and destruction; it is said that were set up with the approval of the there are more than 170 dead and 2 Years Since the "Western democracies", led by the about400 wounded. Israel is USA, to crush the large waves of threatening to continue until it Death of Pinochet worker and popular mobilizations reaches its objective; is it to after the Russian revolution of annihilate the heroic Palestinian Last December 10 has been two October 1917, the various military people? years since the death of the Fascist regimes with fascist characteristics Gorilla, executioner of the working that appeared in Latin America are The present bullying and criminal class and peoples of Chile. also supported by imperialism and action is taking place after months of local capital to repress the legitimate having Gaza surrounded, without a Why is the C.A.S struggling wave of struggles of the workers and drinkable water supply, electricity, against Pinochetism and his peoples that struck Latin America in food or medicine. The situation is so economic, social, and political the 1960s and 1970s. This is the severe that our own devious legacy? case of Chile. government in Chile felt obliged to send, a short while ago, some * Because we are anti-fascists, and * Because the Pinochet regime medical equipment and medicine. the Pinochet regime, its advisors dismantled the gains achieved by the The criminal Zionists are trying to such as Guzman and Claro and the workers at the cost of much blood achieve with murders what they have movements which preceded it in anti- during the 20th century, mutilating the not achieved with their criminal working class terrorism, such as economic, social and trade union blockade, to bring a dignified and Fatherland and Liberty, are based on rights won in struggle with the ruling patriotic people that is only seeking fascist conceptions of society and class. Just as it dismantled other their sovereignty and liberty to their politics. These are conceptions that popular gains, such as the knees. people such as Pinochet and nationalization of copper, selling off Guzman have made their own; they the resources that belong to the The Israeli Zionist army, which are heirs of the Spanish Franco- Chilean people to transnational practices legalized terrorism, is not fascist tradition, characterized by an robbers, parasites and allies of the acting alone, nor without permission extreme Catholicism to justify divine dictatorship in the privatization of U.S. imperialism, without the social hierarchies and the sacred schemes. All this is linked to the support and approval of the right of property, and a phobia neoliberal phase that capitalism Pentagon. Therefore, besides towards everything of the workers, adopted and imperialism promoted at the end of the 1970s. It tried to sell a justice through their struggle, who voted against the invasion of "transition to democracy" that really inspired by the just punishment that Iraq and called the invasion illegal at was a political re-accommodation the Italian people gave to Mussolini's one point - focused on whether he would be wiling if elected President between the local capitalists and executioners. to support the US soldiers who imperialism, which no longer needed wanted to become conscientious There still remains the urgent the gorilla in uniform and they objectors. preferred to have gorillas in suit and task of overcoming the burden of Not only were we not allowed to tie, renegades from social- Pinochet by fighting intransigenty ask the two questions, but we were democracy, and even Christian against the politicians that today physically attacked by the Democratic coup supporters such as maintain his legacy, the Concertation Hempstead mounted police. Many of the Concertation [bloc including the and Alliance, without distinguishing our members and civilians were roughed up and arrested- two of our Christian Democrats and the between them or letting oneself be members were injured - one deceived by a false progressivism. Socialist Party- translator's note]. suffered a broken cheekbone when We must build, through a smashed by the police. Neither * The Concertation, in marriage with revolutionary struggle, an economic, McCain nor even Obama the Alliance, has maintained the political and social model that serves mentioned either Iraq or same fascist constitution of 1980, the workers and multinational Afghanistan during the entire 90- imposed by fraud during the curfew peoples of Chile, where they will be minute debate. Their promise of a better nation and the continuous raids, with in the center and organize society superficial changes in order to sell a whose resources are to improve according to their historic interests. social conditions and other promises certain false progressivism. It has they made ring very hollow when US deepened the same economic model Unity of the workers and peoples military veterans can't even ask a and does not hesitate to use the against the Pinochet legacy, question without being violently same fascist methods and laws capitalism, today called neo- repressed. The only conclusion is against the working class and people liberalism! that the building of a better world when it needs to. Methods such as Down with the fascist constitution remains in the hands of the people watching over the business interests of 1980! and on our ability to assert ourselves as the true architect of our future. with armaments of war, as can be Do not forget or pardon them, put Even though Obama was the fascists against the wall! seen with the murder of the forestry considered as an anti-war candidate, worker Rodrigo Cisternas, and with both he and McCain spoke only of ANTIFASCIST COORDINATOR OF the harsh repression that has caused the "surge of successes of our troops victims among the legitimate SANTIAGO - CAS in Iraq". Obama should really know movements of the Mapuches and and state the well-known fact that students. It also counts on the Pentagon and White House try to hide - there are over 180,000 private National Intelligence Agency, under military and civilian contractors in the tutelage of the FBI, a worthy Iraq, the permanent military bases successor of the CNI [National that US established there, plus all of Information Center, a political police the diplomatic and corporate agency under Pinochet's regime - WE CANNOT ALLOW ANY PRESIDENT TO translator's note] in infiltrating and SHIFT FOCUS TO AFGHANISTAN. A bullying the workers and peoples in BETTER WORLD RESTS ON OUR struggle. Ministers from Concertation ABILITY TO ASSERT OURSELVES AS even attended the homage to ARCHITECTS OF OUR FUTURE! Guzman, the ideologist of the dictatorship. During the US presidential debate * Because there has been no real at Hofstra University in Hempstead, punishment of those responsible for NY. Members of the U.S. Iraq Veterans Against War requested the the massacres, tortures and Moderator Bob Schieffe to allow selective assassinations that took these Veterans to speak and ask a place under the dictatorship, nor for question. The question for those that took place under Republican Sen. McCain was about bourgeois democracy. They are sent veterans' benefits since, being a war to country-club "jails" or manage to veteran himself and a former Prisoner of War (POW) himself, he evade punishment with various tricks should have a better voting record or by alleging false dementias. Only when it comes to veterans' well- the people themselves will provide being. The question to Sen. Obama, complex from which the White House developed world cry. Economic government wants to cut power plans to run the country! This "surge" instability is not new to third world consumption by 10 per cent. Besides fails to recognize that more than half countries like Pakistan, as it is the devastating power load shedding of the population of Iraq is either displaced, dead or in dire need of sucking people's blood for the last the officials of the ministry of natural emergency food and shelter! many years. It's not difficult for the 90 resources have warned people about These wars by US imperialism are per cent of the Pakistanis, who are the gas load shedding this winter that all under the slogan "global war on will be far worse than the previous terror" - this name was given by the making failed attempts to survive, to past and now the preset US see in which direction thr country is years. The noose is being tightened administration to justify profit-driven heading economically, socially and from all sides. invasions and occupations. This Iraq politically. The economy has fallen to The industrial crisis is as clear as war has become so unpopular to continue to justify US imperialist the extent that international experts day and now agriculture, on which 70 agenda. We cannot allow any US have shown dissatisfaction at it and per cent of the country's population is president, no matter whether he is downed it in ranking. As a result, dependent, is also in a serious crisis White or Black to shift the focus to Pakistan has become lowest of the because of the government's apathy Afghanistan in order to continue this American warmongering. President economies in Asia and now we are towards it and its failed policies. On Obama has now officially promised even below Sri Lanka on the ranking the one hand agricultural land is to continue pouring more US and list. People, already faced with the being given to 'favourites' for other troops into the country and to see that war spills into Pakistan if he problems of unavailability of basic establishment of housing colonies, deems necessary. necessities and killing inflation, have while on the other hand ever- The American anti-war and peace been baffled by the water, electricity increasing costs of irrigation water, movements need to realize the need and gas crises. In 24 hours, electricity, fertilizers and pesticides to continue the struggle for peace and justice. These struggles have to electricity visits people for only a few have broken farmers' back. start at home, where in opposing the hours. To add to this, electricity bills What can be said about the law costly and illegal wars of aggression, are playing havoc with people's lives. and order? The war, which was we are waging war against poverty, The rich-by-birth rulers have racism and exploitation of the being fought across the border a few working class by the US ruling elite. increased the power tariff by 70 per years ago, has spread in the entire The anti-war movement has to cent and implemented a policy with country after destroying the people in realize the need to continue the effect from October under which Bajaur, Swat and other tribal areas. struggle for peace and justice. Only electricity units consumed at night by building a true grassroots People are falling prey to bomb movement to combat a corporate- time would be costlier than the units explosions every day, but the controlled government will we be consumed at day time. It means that government is doing nothing, except able to create a world where peace, consumers would pay Rs 4 per unit for issuing statements about the justice and social equality can prevail. for the electricity consumed at day killing of hundreds of militants and time and Rs 12 to Rs 15 per unit for declarations that no one will be May I add this to your excellent the electricity consumed at night allowed to carry out terrorist activities article - that capitalism-imperialism time. The government pleads that must be eliminated and socialism in the country. What a ridiculous established in order to be on the this decision will cut power attitude? Do terrorists come to the road towards a better and peaceful consumption by 10 per cent, but the government to seek permission for world! issue is that where this power is their activities? Editor being consumed? The government has chalked out No new industry has been set up a plan to tackle bombings and other in the country for the last many terrorist activities in Islamabad. years. Prolonged and unscheduled Under the plan, a wall of 15- load shedding has destroyed the kilometre length and 7-foot width will existing industry. Domestic be built around the Parliament consumers have electricity only for a House, Presidency, Prime Minister's few hours a day. The people of small House, Supreme Court, Secretariat towns and rural areas are even Block, Ministers Colony, Judges deprived of this 'privilege'. Then who Colony and Diplomatic Enclave at is the consumer whom the the cost of Rs 8,000 million. But if 24 dozens of bulletproof vehicles, signal The WWO of Pakistan exchanges throughout Pakistan. WWO would jamming devices, secret plans of their very informative magazine, have been present at our last movement, three security circles, besides their extremely beautifully International Council Conference in thousands of bodyguards and more done posters that they produce for 2008, but due to difficulties in than 15 intelligence agencies cannot their many public activities obtining a visa were not present. protect this part of the capital without a concrete wall, how can they protect 160 million people of Pakistan living on 350,000 square miles. The Communist International. protection of their self, their property We publish just a segment of the photographs taken to show the and their rule is the policy of our Conference proceedings and the rulers. They are not concerned about delegates. the masses. But the rulers busy in self-protection should not ignore the point that they need people's support Below is the presentation that I prepared to present at this to remain in power. As beggars Conference but I was not given the cannot be the choosers, those who opportunity to do so. This was the Tenth Meeting of have the power to snatch their rights Communist and Worker's Parties in do not need to ask for usurpers' Sao Paulo, Brazil with 66 Communist The World Needs a New permission. and Worker's Parties represented. It Communist International began with a message from People should not be pushed to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Dear comrades: the extent that they also take Brazil. The current word situation onboard their sinking ship the His message recalled: "We are includes the continued US-led facing the crisis of a neo-liberal military occupation of Iraq and privileged class. This is the reality model that prevailed in the power Afghanistan. It included the rapidly which the superpower like America is and production structures of society unfolding economic collapse of Wall trying to avert by making utmost over the last three decades. Street and the US Empire. The Communist Parties around the world efforts to save its banks and financial Deregulated, the economy assumed irresponsible logic of are unfortunately more disunited institutions. The American casinos, while public policies, in than ever. We urgently need unity, government knows that collapse of particular social policies, lost space unity and action of solidarity and the creation of a much- needed "New the capitalist system will not only in the agenda of the people and underdevelopment became the giant Communist International." On the affect people of the entire world, mechanism. Moments of crisis bring issue of UNITY, Marx wrote to all including that of the US, but a few also a series of opportunities and we party leaders: "If you must unite, then enter into agreements to satisfy the companies which are ruling the must learn to profit from them to rescue the values of solidarity, practical aims of the movement, but entire world and their owners will do not allow bargaining over equality and justice." also collapse. They have much more There were many excellent principles, do not make theoretical to lose compared to the common reports, much discussion and concessions!" people. But why don't the Pakistani exchange of ideas and concrete The crisis of Imperialism cannot be solved by the Capitalist Class. It rulers understand that they have plans for future struggles. The program was very well received, is a proven historical fact, that only much more to lose compared to the while the logistics were great and ran true Marxist-Leninist parties in the common people. If they want to smoothly during the entire spirit of Internationalism are able to enjoy sound sleep in their well lit and conference. lead the masses through Unfortunately there was great lack transforming struggles to overthrow weather protected palaces, they of concrete basics of Marxism- and eradicate capitalism. The should not deprive people of bread, Leninism in most speeches and, formula exists as to how to transfer clothing, shelter, education, health conspicuous by its absence was any theory of Marx and Engels into a practical success. The Great October care and jobs, otherwise, misery- mention of the Great Soviet Union or of Stalin - as if he did not exist or did Socialist Revolution led by Lenin and ridden people's sleep will go away not contribute to the struggles and continued by Stalin confirmed that. and in reaction they will disrupt the victory over fascism during the Great The entire numbers dedicated and true revolutionaries must understand nice sleep of their rulers. Patriotic War. In all of the presentations none that the "Parliamentary Road to Socialism" is the castration of the touched on the absolute necessity of Party. COMMENT: unity and the rebirth of a New 25 V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks definitive disintegration. This attempt capitalism has evolved into organized the Third International to tries to prolong the life of capitalism Imperialism, and imperialism is a extend the revolutionary ideas, by by annihilating man as a cultural and world system of financial encouraging the formation of biological being - as well as enslavement and colonial Marxist-Leninist Parties the world annihilating nature. oppression of the vast majority of over. Proletarian Internationalism, Stalin pointed out clearly in "The the population of the world - by a defended by Lenin, Stalin and Foundations of Leninism" - handful of "advanced countries." Dimitrov, is the solidarity of the world "Formerly, the analysis of the proletariat, and it must be principle conditions for a proletarian The overall severe crisis of component of the Marxist-Leninist revolution was usually imperialism today is a great parties. approached from the point of view opportunity for revolutionary Following the example of the of the economic state of individual advances all over the world. But we great leaders of building Socialism in countries. Now, this old approach need UNITY, ideological clarity in a the USSR, the revolutionary is no longer adequate. Now the UNITED FRONT and the very urgent struggles were indispensable to matter must be approached from necessity to create a "New overthrow the bourgeoisie and other the point of view of the state of the Communist International." capitalist forces in order to assure world economy; for individual the dictatorship of the proletariat. To countries and individual national Workers of the World Unite! quote Lenin: " Only he is a Marxist economies have ceased to be self- Long lives Proletarian who extends the recognition of the sufficient units, have become Internationalism! class struggle to the dictatorship of links of a single chain called world Destroy Capitalism - Save the the proletariat. This is what economy: for the old "cultured" Planet! constitutes the most profound difference between the Marxists and the ordinary petty (as well as big) bourgeois." This necessary step is in order to defeat the bourgeoisie as a class became a major criticism by the social democrats, revisionists and other opportunists. The great treason by Krushchev at the 20th Congress triggered a chain reaction throughout the Communist Parties of the world which then jumped on the revisionist band-wagon and path - believing the lies of the revisionists and their behind the scene bosses in the bourgeois mass media. The onslaught of anti-Stalinist propaganda, the lies were all anti- Marxist, anti-Leninist and anti- Communist as ell as anti- progressive. We saw clearly its destructive TOP: Delegates from the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia - effect in my beloved country of Bronco Kitanovich, Secretary General on the right of photo. On the Yugoslavia and the once mighty left is Frank Trampus - member of the party. Soviet Union and other East BELOW: The auditorium of the Conference was filled to capacity. European Socialist countries. It was this precise and destructive example of the revisionist leadership that penetrated into the leading positions of the Communist Parties. The working class and the toiling masses did not want the destruction of Socialism. As a matter of record - over 80% of the people supported the socialist path. Religion was and is the "Opium of the people"- an obstacle to progress and so is the promoted "consumer society"—which represents the last offensive of capitalism-imperialism and announces its complete and 26 Compass. The comrades will discuss this question, but the political FRIENDSHIP NEWS situation is very bad here, since the Communist Union of Youth was banned in the Czech Republic. While talking with other delegates, the consensus was that all of them greatly value the work that you are doing in Canada and that the work of the International Council and of Northstar Compass is irreplaceable by other people or location, since this is right in the middle of American continent and ideologically correct and moving it elsewhere will not be Many greetings from Poland and the correct thing to do at this time. In many thanks for inviting me to the other words, you Michael are doing Conference It was very important, such an excellent job that no one at informative and a step towards the this time is capable to replace you. unity of the international workers The future might and will hold other movement. perspectives. In our Bulletin "Brzask"- the organ of the Communist Party of Poland I also was invited to Germany - there was published a report on the Poznan, Berlin, Frankfurt and Odder International Conference and the by the Foundation for Rosa Luxemburg where I gave a lecture on Dear comrades: Crisis of the economy in the capitalist the situation in Poland. There were We held our Executive Committee world and its origin in America. never ending questions as I reported of the Soviet Society for Friendship I have sent also information about on the International Council with people in Foreign Countries at the International Conference to the Conference in Canada. I am sending which conference we discussed main Polish newspapers "Tribuna", you my report in German - maybe further expansion of our work for "Gazeta Wyborca" "Nie" and "Facts you can publish some aspects of it in friendship. and Myths". I also sent the NSC. th Resolution that was adopted in Our No. 5 NSC is being printed Greetings to all of the comrades of defense of Polish General W. and will be sent out to you, but we the Council and of the NSC. th Yaruzhelski and his comrades. The have no further money to print No. 6 Your book "From Carpathian reports that I have sent have caused issue of Russian NSC. Mountains to Canada" is being sent an awareness of the work that is We printed extra 150 copies of to all the universities and libraries being done by Northstar Compass. NSC and spread them out amongst here in Poland. Lately there was held an the Slavic journalists - costing us Happy New Year! about $220 in total. important Conference in Prague, Czech Republic where there were 16 P.S. I have sent a letter with the Communist parties represented from We had an important meeting of Resolution we adopted and a copy of Europe and also delegates from the Moscow section of the RCWP- Northstar Compass to President of former USSR. There were also 150 RPC to which Bourenkov and I Poland. belong. Here we were able to have activists from the Communist Party the resolution passed for adopting of the Czech / Morava Republic. The the Call of the International Council theme of the Conference was how to for the rebirth of the Communist unite the international communist International. movements. There were diplomats from China attending as well as from The Resolution read that the North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. On December 14, the US Friends Moscow organization of the RCWP- Attending as a delegate from of Soviet People met in New York. RPC is requesting that the Central Germany was comrade Michael Although the meeting was small, it Opperskalski who gave a very Committee of the RCWP-RPC included several newcomers, together with the International excellent contribution on the question including people who had been to Council and brother Communist of the need for Communist Unity. Parties in order to take all steps the International Council Conference necessary to realize this urgent I discussed with the Czech in Toronto in October, some of them need. Of the 59 delegates the comrades about locating the also for the first time. resolution passed by a great Executive Committee of the majority. International Council for Friendship The main item of discussion was and Solidarity with Soviet People into how to make the US Friends relevant Prague, besides giving greetings to I wish all of you comrades much to new people, ones who do not . health and a very Happy New Year! all of the delegates on behalf of the International Council and Northstar know much about socialism and 27 even less about the history of the Soviet Union. We discussed putting out some bulletins, written in a popular style, which related socialism and the Soviet Union to the problems of working people today. As almost everyone is affected by the current crisis, and angered by the U.S. government's bailout to the big capitalist financiers, we are writing the first one on the crisis and how the Soviet Union under socialism eliminated unemployment in the 1930s while the whole capitalist world was suffering under the Great Depression.

A second item was a report back from the International Council Conference. We reported on the contributions of the new Soviet immigrants to Canada on the work of John McCain. But the banks will not the Internal Council, and on the fact Capitalist Crises vs. use this money in any way that that the Chilean comrades are benefits those facing foreclosures or translating, printing and distributing Socialist Progress evictions, or workers facing layoffs. 2,000 copies of the Spanish edition The U.S. economy is going of NSC as part of the work of their For example, in December the deeper into crisis. Millions of people members. Republic Windows and Doors factory have already lost their homes due to in Chicago planned to close after Finally, we took a straw poll on foreclosures. In New York City alone, Bank of America, which had received the question of where the Third tens of thousands in the financial $25 billion in the bailout, canceled World Congress should be held. sector have lost their jobs, and as its line of credit to Republic. This Everyone was very grateful for the the crisis spreads to the productive would have left Republic's 300 Chilean comrades' offer to hold the sector around the country, millions workers without even the required 60 Congress in Santiago. However, the i more will be laid off. day notice of a plant closing or the majority vote was that it would he severance pay due them. Only after Meanwhile, the managements of preferable to hold the Congress in the workers occupied the factory for the big investment corporations that Germany for several reasons. First, it 6 days did Bank of America and JP got us into the crisis were doing fine. would be much closer to the former Morgan Chase grant the $1.75 In 2006 the five largest Wall St. firms Soviet Union, and therefore easier million needed to meet the workers' at that time gave their top for Soviet delegates to get there. minimal demands. management personnel $40 billion Second, if it could be held in East in bonuses, twice as much as the Berlin, it would also have the George Gruenthal, NSC Webmaster, wage increases of all 93 million member of International Council and additional morale effect of being in a workers in the U.S. for the six years Editorial Board of NSC. formerly socialist country. If this were from 2000 to 2006. not possible, the n of course Santiago would be a great alternative. In response to the crisis, the government granted a bailout of At the meeting, various literature some $700 billion to the big banks was distributed, including several and investment companies, the copies of Editor Michael Lucas' same ones directly responsible for excellent book on the Society of the crisis. This giveaway of our tax Carpatho-Russian Canadians. dollars was pushed through Congress by both the Democrats and the Republicans, with the support of both Barack Obama and CEOs of the failed investment variable-rate mortgages were life for all. But for years already, firms, such as Kerry Killigan of granted at low, teaser rates to people working people have been seeing Washington Mutual, Daniel Mudd of who could otherwise not afford them. the "American Dream" fade into a Fannie Mae and Richard Syron of When the rates began to rise, the nightmare. The idea that, with hard Freddie Mac, still received tens of people soon could not afford to pay. work we can do better than our millions of dollars in "golden As they lost their homes to parents, is vanishing as real wages parachutes" when they left. foreclosure, the mortgage companies continue to fall. And during times of failed. This affected the investment crisis like today, finding any kind of And the U.S. government is still firms and major banks, which had job has become an impossibility for spending over $12 billion every put a lot of their assets into the many. month to continue its wars of mortgage companies. In general occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, terms, it is a result of the But capitalism is not an eternal which is only in the interest of the contradiction between social system. In November of 1917, the U.S. oil companies and other big production (where millions of workers Russian workers carried out a capitalist corporations. produce the housing, food, cars, etc. socialist revolution. They took over that people need) and the private the big factories, confiscated the land Now the government has come appropriation (by the monopoly of the landlords and gave it to the up with a $17 billion bailout for the corporations and big banks that peasants, and pulled the country out auto industry. But this plan is based finance them) of the wealth of the imperialist First World War. In on pushing through further cuts in produced. the 1930s, while the whole capitalist wages and benefits of all auto world was suffering from the Great workers. These workers are already All working people must continue Depression, the socialist Soviet suffering from two-tier contracts to oppose the bailouts and other Union eliminated unemployment. under which newly hired workers giveaways to the banks and big Production was organized to meet earn only $14 an hour. This is in an corporations. We should demand the increasing material and cultural industry which for a long time paid instead that the money be used to needs of the working people, instead relatively good wages. stop foreclosures and evictions, to of for the maximum profit of the protect workers' pension funds capitalists. New factories were built Capitalism Is the Problem invested in 401 (k)s, to pay for free, all over the country, particularly in But this crisis is much deeper single-payer health insurance for all, the less industrially developed than one of corrupt CEOs making to provide free quality education interior of the country. Many workers millions while the economy goes into through university for all who want it. from all over the capitalist world went decline. It is a crisis of capitalism, a to the Soviet Union for jobs. In 1931, Socialism Is the Long-Term system in which the rich get richer the Soviet Union advertised for Solution and the poor get poorer. At its root is skilled workers from the U.S., and 100,000 Americans applied, many a crisis of over-production, in which In the long run, the answer to more than were needed. In all, about companies produce more goods than the crises is socialism. The big U.S. 15,000 U.S. workers took jobs in the the masses of working people, with corporations, their media and Soviet Union. their limited incomes, can afford to government, want us to believe that buy. The present crisis began with capitalism is the best of all possible People in the U.S. are suffering the sub-prime mortgages, in which worlds, that it can provide a decent fom constaritly rising rents and mortgage payments, while millions working class, conscious of its class around the country have no homes interests and organized by a genuine at all; in the socialist Soviet Union, communist party, could bring this rents were pegged at about 5% of about. family income. Over 47 million people in the U.S. today have no For further information, please health insurance and most of the rest contact: Dear comrades and friends: of the population has to pay high By now you have read the U.S. Friends of Soviet People premiums and co-pays for their last issue of NSC which reported P.O. Box 140434 insurance; the Soviet Union provided on the success of the Staten Island, NY 10314 free, quality health care for all from International Council Conference (718)667-4740 which was held on October 10- the cradle to the grave. The public 11-12, 2008 in Toronto, Canada school system in the U.S. is always Or check out the web-site of and the resolutions that were facing budget crises and is unable to Northstar Compass magazine, the adopted for our future work for provide a decent education for organ of the international Council for friendship and solidarity with children of working people, and the Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet Soviet people. few cities and states that have public People, at There were reports given by colleges are constantly raising www.northstarcomass.org. Editors of the English, French, tuition; the Soviet Union provided Russian and Spanish editions of free, quality education from pre-K to This article can be downloaded from Northstar Compass. the university level. the Northstar Compass website for There was discussion of distribution as a bulletin in pdf holding the Third World Racism and police brutality format on legal-sized paper. Congress of the International continues to exist in the U.S., despite Council for Friendship and the election of the first Black Solidarity with Soviet People in president. In the socialist Soviet 2010. Seeing that the situation in Union, the discrimination against the Moscow is not conducive to hold non-Russian people of the former the Third World Congress due to tsarist empire was rapidly eliminated. the political situation and the The well-known African-American finances needed to host such a writer Langston Hughes spent large event, it was agreed that several months living in Soviet we shall accept with gratitude the invitation to host the Third Central Asia in the 1930s and World Congress in April of described the equal treatment of the 2010 in Santiago, Chile, non-white peoples in this area in his sponsored by the Chilean book / Wonder As I Wander. And of I Communist Party (Proletarian course, Paul Robeson, the great Action) - and the Spanish fighter for civil and human rights, Edition of Northstar Compass, as described the absence of racism that offered by Eduardo Artes he always found in the Soviet Union. Brichetti, First Secretary of the PC-AP. With the immense productive The International Conference capacity of this country, a socialist expenses were mostly covered U.S. would have a much easier time by the generosity of the Society providing a productive, fulfilling life of Carpatho-Russian Canadians. for all working people. But in order to Dear friends: do this, workers would have to get rid We desperately need to fulfill of the present capitalist government the $40,000 NSC Financial Drive and expropriate (take over) the in early 2009 in order to prepare property of the big corporations. Of i for the Third World Congress course, the capitalists would fight and to support the 4 Editions of with all the power of their state NSC to keep them being against this. For, as the Communist published! Manifesto stated: "the executive of Executive Committee International the modern State is but a committee Council - Editorial Board of NSC for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." Only a 30 includes the continued U.S. dissolution of the Socialist This Resolution has included in it led military occupation of Camp. Given the above- the amendments that were made Iraq and Afghanistan. It mentioned facts, we call at the Conference. The former includes the rapidly unfolding upon all proletarian vanguard version should be ignored. economic collapse of Wall parties and organizations to Street and the U.S. Empire. get back to their Leninist The Editor And it includes the political roots and principles. brinksmanship of the Bush- Stalin, the great leader of Cheney-McCain and Obama Socialist construction of the forces in support of the U.S. USSR and of the defeat of puppet dictator Saakashvili world fascism in World War in Georgia. Bush, McCain, II, pointed out in Foundations Obama et al. are promoting of Leninism: "fast track" inclusion of We representatives of the Georgia as a member of "Formerly, the analysis of the International Council for Friendship NATO which amounts to a conditions for the proletarian and Solidarity with Soviet People declaration of war against revolution was usually gathered together at the International Russia. It is clear that with approached from the point of Council Conference in Toronto, regard to war and peace, view of the economic state of Canada from October 10-12, 2008 justice and injustice, freedom individual countries. Now, hereby declare the following: and tyranny, the upcoming this approach is no longer U.S. Presidential Election adequate. Now the matter 1. Our international council is offers no alternative for the must be approached from an organized expression of workers and oppressed of the point of view of the state friendship and solidarity with the USA and the world. of the world economy; for "Soviet people", i.e. the Finally the current grave and individual countries and people struggling to restore ever deepening world individual national the multinational Soviet capitalist economic crisis, economies have ceased to Union as a Socialist State. featuring the collapsing be self-sufficient units, have This Council, along with our hegemony and become links in a single organ, Northstar Compass, unprecedented debt of chain called world economy; is carrying on the traditions United States imperialism, is for the old 'cultured' of the "Hands Off Russia driving the major imperialist capitalism has evolved into Comrmittee"(s) which were powers toward a new world imperialism, and imperialism internationally established in war, toward a new redivision is a world system of financial 1918 to help protect the of the world on the basis of enslavement and [neo- young Soviet Republic from the new relation of forces. ]colonial oppression of the foreign intervention. The history of the vast majority of the international communist and population of the earth by a 2. We function as an united workers movement in the handful of 'advanced' front organization to help first half of the twentieth countries.... unify, consolidate and century demonstrated: With coordinate the anti- Leninism and the Communist "Formerly, it was the imperialist forces of the world International, despite an accepted thing to speak of with the ongoing world unfavorable objective the proletarian revolution in movement to restore the situation, victories — one or another developed Union of Soviet Socialist culminating in the Soviet led country as of something Republics. Our aim is defeat of world fascism and separate and self-sufficient, international cooperation in the victorious Chinese facing a separate national building socialism and national democratic front of capital as its solidarity with all anti- revolution. Without Leninism opposite. Now we must imperialist forces struggling and without a Communist speak of the world against imperialism, headed International, despite the proletarian revolution; for the by U.S. imperialism, the objectively favorable post separate national fronts of main enemy of mankind. World War II situation, capital have become links in 3. The current situation defeats — culminating in the a single chain called the 31 world front of imperialism, which must be opposed by a common front of the revolutionary movement in all countries..." SO, WHAT'S THE ARGUMENT? 5. In order for the international Ecology-friendly U.S. Al Gore is WHAT DID PLATO SAY? working class and the confident a world agreement on (427-347 B.C.) oppressed peoples to avoid world warming can be reached in " The form of law which I propose 2009, because of "the reasons to be being split up, divided and would be as follows: In a state which optimistic are more important than conquered by the imperialist is desirous of being saved from the the reasons to doubt and despair" powers and U.S. greatest of all plagues - not faction, i.e. when the choice is clearly imperialism, in particular; to but rather distraction - there should between clean environment for all be a system among the citizens instead divide, isolate and and dirty dollars for a few. smash the enemies of neither extreme poverty, nor, again, excessive wealth - for both are peace, justice, freedom and HARD MAN TO CONVINCE: productive of great evil." socialism, we call on the Iraq's Prime Minister declared: "Iraq is moving ahead in every field." Not proletarian vanguard parties WHAT WALT WHITMAN SAID! so. In the field of journalist accuracy, and organizations to unite (1819-1892) for instance. An Arab reporter threw the international working * The greatest country, the richest his shoes at Dubya Bush and missed country, is not that which has the class and the oppressed both times. most capitalists, most monopolists, peoples against imperialism, "So what if one guy threw his immense grabbing's, vast fortunes, headed by U.S. imperialism, shoes at me?" said dapper Dubya with its sad, sad soil of extreme, nonchalantly. on the basis of proletarian degrading and damning poverty - So the biggest question arising internationalism. In the but a land in which there are most from Dubya's surprise, self-justifying process, we urge genuine homesteads, where wealth does not trip to Iraq is. How many contempt communist and workers show such contrasts as high and missiles would it take to convince low, where all people have enough, parties not to shy away from Bush that he is the most unpopular modest living and no man is made but to embrace the challenge U.S. president since Herbert possessor of land and wealth beyond of building a new Communist Hoover? the sane and beautiful necessities." International, in the tradition LOOK UP, LIFT UP: of the outstanding Third WHAT DID HAROLD LASKI SAY? Maybe you hadn't noticed it, peering International, established (1930) through the veil of fear and worries, " A State that is divided into a small under Lenin's leadership and but you're living in a new world. It's number of very rich and a large on the shoulders of the the world wished on us by the Bush number of very poor will always Russian Revolution and the wrecking crew of liars, crooks, develop a government that is Soviet working class. pseudo-religionists, and mad-dog manipulated by the rich in order to warriors. It's a worse world than the protect the amenities represented by one we had before, yes, but does it We representatives of the their property." have to stay that way? No! International Council for Friendship Who's the key person in making WHAT HAPPENED IN 1910? and Solidarity with Soviet People our world a better one? A man In 1910, seven men held a very believe, in the words of "The named Obama? No, it's You! How? secret meeting on Jekyll Island off Internationale", By working with other concerned and the coast of Georgia, USA. These patriotic Americans, and with peace- seven tycoons represented over one- "The international working class loving people all over the world. sixth of all the world's wealth. Six shall be the human race!" these men were Americans and representing the empires of J.P. Morgan and John. D. Rockefeller plus the United States Government.

This is how the financial crisis was built into the capitalist system! competition. Now after 20 years, the "transformation" is called a process of de-industrialization. Examples of this are the construction industry, victorious counter-revolutionary particularly the technical, machine, forces in the leadership of the Polish electronics, auto and furniture United Workers Party and its allies. industries, the radical limitation of the From April until June of 1989 there mining industry, particularly the coal was a historical verdict against and metallurgical industry. Also, the People's Poland, against socialist shipyards in Gdansk, Szczecin and construction, as well as against the Gdynia quickly disappeared. international socialist community. Recently the workers of these The discussions at the Round Table enterprises have been fighting to took place with the blessings of the keep their remaining positions. Catholic Church, particularly the church hierarchy and Pope John In the countryside there have also Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) personally. been great changes in property Two influential bishops were not only relations. The first victims were the the moderators but also the mentors state agricultural property, whose of the Round Table, and the Catholic land was bought by speculators and Church actively supported the rich farmers. Many of the large changes in the direction of machine stations and offices were let "democracy" and with a great deal of go as scrap metal, and others were religious activity. looted. The offices now look like big ruins, as after a war. Also the Polish The counter-revolution in Poland co-operatives, although they did not also received covert support from play a great role in agricultural similar counter-revolutionary forces production, were practically all that existed in the Soviet Union, in restricted and even liquidated; only a 1. Problems and Contradictions in the CPSU as well as in other small share have conformed to the the Economy revisionist and opportunist parties in new economic, juridical structural the European countries of "actually conditions. After the victory of the counter- existing socialism." revolution in Poland in 1989, the old As a result of these economic and new bourgeoisie came to power. Very shortly after these events and property changes, the national The bourgeoisie has two wings: the there arose dramatic negative income has fallen greatly, it has external wing consists of large economic consequences of the changed its internal structure; the foreign capital, the international counter-revolutionary reaction in Polish economy has become a rear bourgeois forces, their international Poland. First of all was the massive area, first of the European Economic centers and institutions, as well as privatization of the economy. The Community (EEC) and now of the the imperialist states. The internal proletariat, the workers and other European Union (EU). In 2007 counter-revolution chiefly consists of working people, who in People's almost 68% of the national income sections of the former nomenklatura Poland were the subjects of was produced by the private sector and the Polish petty bourgeoisie. sovereignty, were once again and about 21% by the public sector. Western capital plays the leading expropriated and proletarianized. All The other 11% belongs to other position and the dominant role, the people's enterprises were sources of income. especially German, US, Italian and considered abandoned property and stolen goods. Thousands of formerly French capital. Politically, both sides Internationally, Poland became socialist enterprises as well as whole of the counter-revolution work greatly dependent on the EEC, later branches of industry were sold to together, but there are many the EU, and on NATO. On May 1, foreign capitalist companies or to the differences between them. Common 2004, the Polish Republic became a Polish nomenklatura for the symbolic interests and spheres of influence member of the EU, although the price of one zloty. The whole fortune were primarily worked out during the EU's companies were already active was "sold" for about 10% of its real so-called "Round Table" meeting in Poland since 1989 and Poland value. Many enterprises were shut from February to April of 1989. There had to fulfill their structural and down or completely destroyed, a political agreement was signed institutional conditions and demands. particularly because of foreign between "Solidarity" and the This affected not only the economic i sphere but also the social and These great economic and These social processes have led political spheres. Since 1989, Poland international changes have also had to deep social consequences for the has been a member of NATO, which dramatic social consequences. families of millions of workers and also had great consequences in the Shortly after the taking of power small farmers. There is hardship and change of its military doctrine, there was great and chronic misery, old and new diseases are military strategy and tactics. At once unemployment. In People's Poland spreading, about 300,000 homeless the Polish government supported the there was no unemployment. On the people have nowhere to live. Many 1999 attack of the USA on contrary, there was a shortage of families are learning about hunger. Yugoslavia, then in 2001 the attack labor power. Unemployment has Every third child goes to school on Afghanistan and in 2003 the become a pathological social hungry. Half of the students spend attack on Iaq. Thus Polish military phenomenon, which did not fall from their summer holidays at home; the contingents were sent to these two the sky; it is a consequence of subsidizing of massive summer countries. The military dependency capitalist social-economic relations. colonies and youth camps belong to was also expressed in the striving of In People's Poland the people had history. Polish sports, particularly both the Polish and US governments already forgotten about the former mass sports, has collapsed. One for the installation of so-called anti- capitalist unemployment. They were could give many other examples. missile shields of the USA on Polish used to constant full employment. It The natural population growth is in a territory. On August 20, 2008 a treaty was also "normal" that the working catastrophic situation. The birth rate was signed in Warsaw between the people had the right to a job, to has fallen dramatically. For example, two governments. This is a very relaxation; the youth had a right to in the last years of People's Poland dangerous policy for Poland, education and the sick to highly there were about 700,000 children especially for the Polish people. skilled free medical help. Today all born each year; now, according to these achievements of socialism are above-mentioned sources, there are As a result of this process Poland history. After the privatization of the about 360,000 to 380,000, or about has actually lost its economic as well economy there is now a struggle 50% fewer, and thus the increase in as its political and military around the privatization of social and population is about zero. In the last sovereignty. More than 60% of health services. Step by step the year of People's Poland there were Polish industry is the property of workers and other working people about 1.5 million young families foreign capital, more than 80% of have to pay for everything; without their own homes and that Polish banks and financial concerns sometimes they must choose was one of the sharpest criticisms of are under the control of Western between bread and medicine. the people's government by financial institutions. More than 50% Solidarity. Now, however, this of trade turnover is carried out by Unemployment has negative and number has grown threefold to 4.5 international trading corporations. At sometimes dramatic effects on the million young families, even though present there is a sharp struggle unemployed and their families. This there are empty apartments under around the land and real estate, as varies depending on the time and the the "free market", but for rich people. to whether until 2012 there will still economic conjuncture of the In the 1970s almost 300,000 new be transitional structural restrictions phenomenon. Sometimes it apartments were built each year; imposed by the EU under the increases when the' economic crisis now there are about 100,000. Copenhagen Agreement for the deepens, then it falls, but Apartments have been transformed integration of Poland into the EU. nevertheless its extent in Poland is from social property to market very great. According to official property. Now one square meter of An example of Poland's great statistics, the greatest wave of an apartment in the city costs a economic and financial dependency unemployment was at the beginning minimum of 5 to 10 or even 20 is its dramatic indebtedness. At the of the 21st century (2000-2001), thousand zlotys (1.5 to 3 to 6 end of 1088, the last year of People's when the Solidarity parties ruled. It thousand Euros) and the apartments Poland, its debt was about $20 grew systematically and in this are only affordable for well-situated billion. At the end of 2007, its period there were about 3 million and rich people. This situation has external debt grew to $160 billion. In unemployed, about 20% of the become even worse during the latest addition there are 150 billion zlotys of workforce, but to this one must add acute financial crisis. Now foreign internal debt. After 20 years of about 1.5 million people in concealed capital (foreign finance) is rapidly counter-revolution the Polish unemployment, particularly in the flowing out of Poland and the credit Republic stands at the edge of total countryside, as a consequence of rates grew from 10 to 20% in one destruction. This is a national the liquidation of jobs in so-called month. catastrophe. small industry in the small towns as well as among small-farm workers. Unemployment in Poland is 2. Social Problems; 4 chronic and massive, but there is states as well as the institutions of also almost no material support from the pre-World War II Polish state. the state or from local authorities. The main work of the theoretical- Only 10% of the unemployed receive institutional foundations of the new a small amount of unemployment state took place a long time ago, but compensation for one year. 80% of the foundations of the new liberal- the unemployed are young people bourgeois republic were worked out who, after graduation from vocational in 1989 at the so-called "Round schools, but also from academic Table." The present political system schools, or even from universities, of Poland was a negation of People's cannot find work. For this reason, Poland and it was built up with strong social and economic emigration is anti-socialism, anti-Sovietism and increasing, particularly to England, anti-communism. These phenomena Ireland, Germany, France, Canada, are particularly expressed in the the USA, etc. According to official introduction to the Constitution and in information, in the last five years Article 13 of the Constitution. between 2 and 2.5 million people, predominantly young people, left the The last 20 years can be broken Polish Republic. There are skilled up into several periods: 1) the years and highly skilled people, such as 1989-1992, 2) the years 1992-1997, engineers, doctors, nurses, 3) the years 1998-2005, and 4) the scientists, and so forth. This so- years 2006-2008 and later. The first called flight of the best minds is years were marked by qualitative dangerous for Poland, and changes in structure. New political- strengthens the rich countries. This state institutions and political parties is the main reason for the reduction were formed, and consequently the of unemployment in Poland in the earlier socialist institutions and last year. The official rate has relations were liquidated. In 1992 the declined, but not through the so-called small Constitution was development of the economy or the approved, which formed the creation of new jobs, but through constitutional framework for the new large emigration. In this way the capitalist system. The second period population structure has worsened, ended in 1997 with the new as the proportion of retired people Constitution of the Polish Republic. It increases and the proportion of those established new state organs as well in the workforce decreases. As a as liberal values and principles; anti- result the consciousness of the communism was formulated in workers and the unemployed is Article 13, in which communism is changing. The resistance against placed on the same level as fascism "Solidarity" and its parties and and Nazism. The third period is against capitalism is growing. marked by the strengthening 'of the Disappointment with and opposition rule of capital and the defeat of to the "Solidarity" camp is increasing. Social-Democracy (SLD). The fourth was between two political camps: period is bound up with the 1) "Solidarity" and its parties and 2) 3. The Changes in the Political strengthening of the neo-liberal and the so-called "post-communists", that System in Poland conservative-Christian parties and it is, traitors from the ranks of the is continuing through today. All these former Polish United Workers Party - The bourgeoisie in the struggle changes are deeply bound up with the social-democrats - SLD. All against socialism in Poland used the the co-operation of European as well these forces carried out a sharp force of international capital as well as world capitalism and the striving struggle for power, but the strategic as of the internal anti-socialist forces. of the bourgeois parties to join NATO goal of both camps was the same: The external and internal counter- (1999) as well as the European anti-communism, privatization, the revolution united in the struggle Union (2004). striving to join NATO and the EEC or against People's Poland. They used EU. The Catholic Church held a the rules and institutions of present- From the beginning of the new particularly strong position as a day democracy in the capitalist system until 2005, the political game super-party; it also created an alternative, not only as a religious belonged to the latter under the organization, in Polish society. They leadership of Jaroslaw Kaczynski obtained thousands of new and his twin brother Lech A. churches, chapels and many other Kaczynski as state president. In the buildings, not only religious ones. years 2005-2007 they moved Poland They carried out massive further in the direction of anti- educational activities in public communism and intolerance as the teaching institutions. They had direct so-called Fourth Polish Republic. and indirect contact and great After an earlier Parliamentary influence with the state system, even election in September of 2007, they though the Catholic Church is lost power to the neoliberals, but officially separated from the state. they strengthened their position in They have special connections with Parliament with a stronger the government, parliament, army, Parliamentary faction. popular education and property as well as land. For the last 20 years The Christian conservative party not only has the political influence of of the Kaczynski brothers uses the church grown greatly, but so has strong social phraseology and in its its economic wealth as well as public ranks there are many supporters of consciousness. There are church the crypto-fascist authoritarian radio and television stations as well movement, which officially bases its as many newspapers. Religious ideology and political positions on organizations have grown, as well as Marshal Joseph Pilsudski of pre-war superstition, black hundreds; Poland. This party was broadly idealism and anti-rationalism in supported by the Catholic Church in public life. In many spheres the Parliamentary election in 2005, unfortunately Poland is going back to but in the next election in 2007 the the Middle Ages. Catholic Church was split into a neo- liberal wing and a Kaczynski wing. Since 2005 the social- This was the main reason for the democratic parties, in particular the Parliamentary victory of the Democratic Left Alliance - the SLD - neoliberals in 2007. have been losing heavily. They lost many supporters and votes and now The liberals now want to further limit they are a small party with about 5% the social rights of the working of the vote. This weakening has people. Therefore the resistance of increased during the last split up of the workers and other working many leaders in the ranks of the people has increased, which has Social-Democrats, that is the Left, been expressed in a broad wave of Center, Right, New Left, European large strikes. Not only have the Left, Polish Socialists, Ecologists, miners gone on strike, but also etc. The communists were quite metallurgists, shipyard workers in marginalized - the newly formed Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin, as Communist Party of Poland was well as teachers, who have been in formed 7 years earlier after the conflict with the government for liquidation of the Alliance of Polish years. Also customs officials and Communists "Proletariat" by the even the police have gone on strike. decree of the Supreme Court of In the last week there has been a Justice. new union of the largest labor federations. This means that the Since 2005, there has been a class struggle in Poland is heading two-party system in the Polish into a new phase. parliament - Civic Platform (a Translated from German by neoliberal party) and Law and George Gruenthal, NSC Webmaster Justice (a Christian conservative party). For two years power people have lost their life savings and retirement funds and the world financial capitalist system is on the rocks. All of these Wall Street financial swindlers so far have not been prosecuted! As one newspaper writer in Imagine - USA's National debt is US has the largest prison Canada wrote (and he is a twice what America's net worth! population in the world, in just one reactionary par-excellence -but some Washington then decided to print so State of Florida, there are 137 times he tells the truth)... The shoes much paper money that it became prisons alone, with over 100,000 that the Iraqi journalist threw at worthless and had to borrow -$1,3 prisoners and the number of George Bush had more courage and Trillion Dollars from China and prisoners is growing each month. truth in them than all of the America's Japan to keep on going. The US There are not enough prisons fawning media. With that one act of economy has been running almost now, so the Florida State throwing the shoes at entirely on credit for over 10 authorities have decided to erect "The Dog", he reminded the world years! TENTS under the palm trees to that Bush and Cheney and their house the prisoners...so the helpers in crime in the White House, How could China - the so- prisoners will be considered now have blood of hundreds of called Socialist country and as "tourists" - enjoying the warm thousands, if not millions of people headed by a Communist Party Florida weather! on their hands. actually help Imperialist USA... In New York, the US fabled Marx-Lenin-Stalin will be turning in Mr. Obama - are you investment Guru Bernie Madoff their graves! Helping the mortal listening? swindled over $50 billions out of the enemy of Socialism shows that people, while well-fed US watchdogs China certainly now is heading slept! Because of this, millions of along the same path as US From Toronto Sun- Canada throughout the Americas came to Plymouth where they mourned their forebears who had been sold to slavery, burned alive, massacred, before they even made it to cheated and mistreated since the Plymouth - was to rob the Native arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620. Indian Wampanoag graves at Com But this commemoration of Hill and steal as much of the Indians' National Day of Mourning goes far winter provisions of corn and beans beyond the circumstances of 1970. as they were able to carry. How can we give thanks as we They were no better than any remember the Native political other group of Europeans when it prisoner Leonard Peltier, who was came to their treatment of the framed up by the FBI and has been Every year since 1970 the United Indigenous peoples here. And, no, falsely imprisoned since 1976? American Indians of New England they did not even land at that sacred Despite mountains of evidence organized the National Day of shrine called Plymouth Rock, which exonerating Peltier and the proven Mourning observance at Plymouth at is a monument to racism and misconduct of US federal noon on Thanksgiving Day. Every oppression, which we are proud to prosecutors and the FBI, Peltier has year hundreds of Native people and say that we buried in 1995. been denied a new trial. Besides, a supporters from all four directions The first official "Day of majority of Native Indians continues join us. Native people from Thanksgiving" was proclaimed only to live in the most abysmal poverty. throughout the Americas will speak in year 1837 by Governor Winthrop. Our life expectancy is very much the truth about our history and about He did so to celebrate the safe return lower with each passing year, our the current issues and struggles we of men from the Massachusetts Bay infant mortality and suicide rates are are involved in. Colony who had gone to Mystic, very much higher than those of the Why do hundreds of people stand Connecticut, to participate in the white Americans. Racist stereotype out in the cold rather than sit at home massacre of over 700 native Pequot of Native people, such as those eating turkey and watching football? Indian women, children and men. perpetuated by he Cleveland Do we have something against the In return for our help we got Indians, the Atlanta Braves and harvest festival? genocide, theft of our lands and countless other local and national Of course not! But Thanksgiving never-ending repression. We are sports teams persist. Day in this country and in particular either treated as quaint relics from Every single one of the more than in Plymouth - is much more than a the past or are, to most people, 350 Treaties signed by Native harvest home festival. It is a virtually invisible. peoples, has been broken by the US celebration of Pilgrim Mythology. When we dare to stand up for our government. The US bipartisan According to this American rights, we are always considered budget cuts have severely reduced mythology the Pilgrims from Britain unreasonable. When we speak the educational opportunities for Native arrived, the Native Indian people fed truth about the history of the youth and the development of new them, and then these Native European invasion, we are often told housing on reservations, and have Americans promptly faded into the to "go back where we came from". caused deadly cutbacks to background, and everyone lived But our roots, our country is right healthcare and other necessary happily ever after. here under our feet! They do not services. These Pilgrims are glorified and extend across any ocean! Are we to give thanks for being mythologized because the The National Day of Mourning treated as unwelcome guests in circumstances of the first English- began in the US in 1970, when our our own country? speaking colony in Jamestown were Native American Indians of the When the descendants of the frankly too ugly (for example, these Wampanoag Tribe, Wamsutta Frank Aztec, Maya and Inca flee to the US Pilgrims turned to cannibalism in James, was asked to speak at a because of terrible conditions for order to survive) to hold up as an State Dinner celebrating the 350th them in their country the effective national myth. Anniversary of the Pilgrim landing in descendants of the wash-ashore The Pilgrims did not find an empty America. He refused to speak false pilgrims term them as "illegal aliens" land anymore than Columbus words in praise of the white man for and hunt them down. "discovered" anything. Every inch of bringing so-called "civilization" to us We object to the "Pilgrim this land is Indian land. The Pilgrims poor heathens. Native people from Progress" parade and to what goes (who did no even called themselves on in Plymouth, because they are pilgrims) did not come here seeking making Millions of tourist dollars religious freedom; they already had every year from this false pilgrim that in Holland. mythology. That money is being They came here as part of a made off the backs of our commercial venture. They introduced slaughtered indigenous ancestors. sexism, racism, jails and the class More and more people are system to these American shores. seeking alternatives to such holidays One of the first things that they did as Columbus Day and Thanksgiving when they arrived on Cape Cod - Day. They are coming to the 38 conclusion that if we are ever going Bush government, many people not criticized Bush for being "too soft" on the Palestinians. One candidate for to achieve some sense of only in the USA but in the whole the secretary of defence is Richard community, we must first face the world link many hopes for changes, for more democracy and peace with Holbrooke, one of the architects of truth about the history of our country Obama, but actually there are no the war against Yugoslavia. Paul and the toll that this history has taken concrete reasons for such hopes. Volcker might become responsible on the lives of millions of Indigenous, The fact that the aggressive policy in for the economy; in the early 80s, he Black, Latino, Asian and poor and the Middle East, the Balkans and had been one of the chief designers working-class white people. other parts of the world of the US of neo-liberalism. Or Robert Rubin, The myth of Thanksgiving, served imperialism caused a lot of protests who had that job under Clinton and up with dollops of European together with the financial crisis was responsible for the deregulation superiority and manifest destiny for breaking out shortly before the of the banking sector. There are them, just does not work for many elections increased the chances of many more people on the side of people in America today. As the hero Obama a lot. It is true, that the Obama, who were already in the Malcolm X once said about the election of Obama is on one hand cabinets of Bush and Clinton, so African-American experiences in the expression of the American there is nothing really new about this America: "We did not land on people wanting a change, being tired new government of the US Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock of war, neo-liberal attacks, racism bourgeoisie. Z. Brzezinski, one of the landed on us!" and poverty. But on the other hand it theoreticians of the aggressive US is the answer of the monopolies to foreign policy, also supports Obama. He was his adviser for foreign policy EXACTLY! the economic crisis and the stagnation in the war policy at during the electoral campaign and international scale, because they another candidate for the new need a new image in order to government is M. Albright, Minister of continue with the order of exploitation foreign affairs under Clinton. and war, that is the reason why they We can see many examples in need somebody like Obama, who the US history that those, who came fed the hopes of the people. Thus, to power with the claim of change, Obama is the hope of the big took the most vital decisions: It was monopolies to refresh the American Wilson, who made the USA entering economy again and relieve the World War I, it was Kennedy who In the US elections of November monopolies. Of course it is not only started the war on Vietnam and it 4, Barack Hussein Obama was about a new image, under the was Clinton who decided to attack elected as the 44th president of the condition of the economic crisis, Somalia and Yugoslavia. USA and will overtake the presidency which has the potential to change all The US imperialism faces a very on January 20, 2009 from his the balances of the capitalist world, hard situation; it is on decline in all predecessor Bush. they also feel the need for some new fields and tries to find ways to economical and political orientations. strengthen its world hegemony • These kinds of changes, which can again. The USA aims at saving its come to the agenda during the shaken image and to overcome the government of Obama, will not result stoppage of being the world police from him but from the needs of the and to overcome the defeats with US bourgeoisie. Obama. Obama will continue the Obama spoke a lot of changes aggressive, occupations and during the election campaign and expansionist policies of the US managed to get many votes for this imperialism. He concluded his promise of a change. However, what speech made after his electoral will he change? victory with the words "God save you He already announced that he and America" and thus has shown does not plan to withdraw the that he will follow the footsteps of all American soldiers earlier than 2011 white presidents before him. Those, from Iraq; he demands a strong who link their hopes to Obama, will NATO and more support of Europe see soon that they were wrong - The fact, that he is the first black for the occupation of Afghanistan. because he, as the president of a president of a country, which was With all that he announced that he strong imperialist country, will founded on the systematic wants to strengthen the so called continue the state police of the US oppression of the black and anti-terror war and continue with the imperialism and he will continue to indigenous peoples, caused a lot of policy of imperialist war and the attack the workers and labourers and discussions in the whole world. application of neoliberal programs. their struggle for freedom and However, even if it is-doubtlessly an When we look at the people on socialism. important symbol having a black Obamas side we can easily see, that president, this says nothing about there is no sign of change but the political nature of this new repeating the old policy. Among the president and his government. In candidates for his cabinet is Joe order to understand whose president Biden, who was one of the most he will be it is not enough to look at important people during the attack on his colour, as the example of C. Rice Iraq. Next to him, we find the Chief of has already shown. After 8 years of staff Rahm Emanuel, who has 39 chopping off hands, these white mercenaries and settlers went to church each Sunday, said their prayers, were forgiven, and on Monday started all over again. Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961) Editor) is perhaps the most famous leader of Congolese people started to rebel, the African independence to fight back, to try and liberate their movement. After his murder in 1961 people. The struggle was ongoing he became an icon of the anti- and up this day it is still going on, imperialist struggles. His picture was with imperialist powers trying to carried in the 1960s across the world outwit each other for this immensely rich country and its resources. along with Che Guevera, Ho Chi Minh. His life and independence that Like all white colonial powers, he sought for the Congo made him a Belgium said that they are trying to pivotal figure of the 20th century. "civilize the pagan Congolese Lumumba became a figure of people". But this was just an excuse resistance to Imperialism and its for the absolute massive profits that division of the world after revisionism were made by Belgium. International corporations got into the act and kept took power in the Soviet Union. on exploiting the people, all in the Congo was a colony of Imperialist name of God and immense profits. Belgium under the tyranny of Leopold II of Belgium and ruled and exploited this country for its riches The above and absolute slave labour. Land was cartoon was give to white Belgian settlers and published in they were required to farm rubber. 1902 in an These businesses operated with English impunity and slave labour. There magazine were massive imperialist companies Punch - and established depicts the When William Dunlop's invention in horror upon the 1890 of bicycle tires made of rubber, Congolese this changed the Congo economy. people under Soon rubber was utilized in many the tyranny of industrial products. To meet these King Leopold II demands, Belgian imperialism of Belgium. together with US imperialism started forests to the cultivation of rubber - but in the Congo rubber trees grew in the wild. So Belgium forced the local population to work as slave labour. Native Congolese hold the severed hands of those punished by But the despot King Leopold by mutilation for failing to gather enough rubber, the White Belgian looks on. 1890 had gone into killing elephants herds by the hundreds for their valuable ivory tusks for export. By 1981 King Leopold made all of the Congolese people to work and produce rubber and ivory elephant tusks. He forced whole villagers to send their men folk to work as slave labour. When the villagers were uncooperative Leopold Catholic mercenary army destroyed village homes, raped and killed at random. To prove to the white authorities that this was done, the hands of the male victims were chopped off for payment as a bounty. (Of course after the rape, the killing and FROM SANTIAGO scourge of humanity. 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But it demands some In the past the Anarchists and of resurrecting the Soviet Union, caution. Here in the Southern United Communists worked in unity, but this which in turn will give impetus to all States there is an anti-communist, unity did not last because there were of the revolutionary movements religious fanatic behind every tree. different approaches of how to defeat around the world to struggle even And they are dangerous and very the capitalist world. Human beings harder. Unity is important above irrational. and thoughts are complicated and all! Let me cite just one example; many other influences came into play The first actions of this new On one occasion I had a copy of at that time, as they do now. Communist International must be to NSC in my pocket to give to a fellow The capitalist class is a master in work in Latin America, Far East, I knew who worked in a grocery store. manipulation and propaganda that Africa and other Third World At this time my acquaintance was not conjures in people fantastic but countries. in the store. So I decided simply to unrealistic dreams that we leave a copy of NSC in my grocery- Communists must bring the people LONG LIVE THE REBORN shopping cart when I pushed it out back to reality. The truth finally was COMMUNIST INTERN A TIONAL! into the parking lot. Having done so, I realized by majority of the people went back to my car to examine that dreams are only dreams, reality some papers. I looked up and saw a is the reality of daily life. man pick up the NSC copy from the Capitalism-imperialism uses the cart. He scanned through it, church and religion that are enemies mumbled words not fit to print and to aspirations of the people. 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I've sent you by e-mail an appeal been reading works and statements Enclosed is a $50 donation. about the provocation against me by different parties in the world and Good luck along the way... and Svetlana Borisova by Moldova have yet to see a real Marxist- authorities, who already for a couple Leninist-Stalinist evaluation of the Bill Grigg of years will not take up her case in current economic crisis that would be able to organize and lead to the courts and hear the lawyer on her formation of the Communist behalf. International. FROM VLADIKAVKAZ I myself am being hounded by RUSSIA authorities and also provoked even Last issue contained the articles by when I go to buy some bread for my Michael Moore and According to Dear NSC comrades: very ill mother. Mishka - but they presented no We did not receive NSC for a Please protest this treatment and concrete answers or projection of while and we just hope that you did issue a press release on this serious how to get out of this financial crisis. not give up your noble struggle. Time matter. I gave a lecture here as a is approaching faster than we think in Communist and dwelt in detail as to the demise of capitalism in the world. Your friend in Moldova - how this crisis can be overcome. Northstar Compass is one of the Dimitrov said that reactionary journals that are helping in this noble Nikolay Garmash financial capital leads to fascism. It cause. could lead to the enactment of Jack NSC and International Council have We are sending you our London's "Iron Heel". translated your report and sent it out newspaper "Red Youth" which I also spoke at the celebration of to the media here and in former outlines our activities. We wish all of the Great October Socialist Soviet Union. Unfortunately we you comrade's heath and a Happy Revolution on the reason for the cannot do anymore. New Year! demise of the Soviet Union. It was a Socialist Betrayal and showed the V. Gabanov FROM SUNDERLAND political and underhanded fighting Editor of Red Youth ENGLAND inside the CPSU by these revisionists. Dear comrades: The Australian Communist Party FROM BENDERY I thank you for sending me a copy dropped the slogan of the MOLDOVA of the Resolution adopted by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat from its Conference on the need for a New program long ago. Many parties do Dear comrades: Communist International. not respect this Marxist slogan that is Having received NSC and read We cannot go wrong in following the heart and soul of building about the International Council the words and ideas of Stalin. What Socialism. Conference last year and the Call for the bourgeoisie detests most in all Chavez and Cuba talk about the formation of the Communist the entire world are the words of Socialism, but where is it going? International and I do support this Stalin. It is those words that will end How many more communist parties call - time has long gone. We need forever their world of exploitation and it, like we need to breath air. will appear in former USSR and in privilege. other countries? Your readers know my problems The contradictions of the capitalist here in capitalist Moldova (Moldavia) system are biting very hard now. Yours fraternally since they were published in NSC Perhaps their party is over. Vic Williams before. Here is the latest news: Yours fraternally Revisionism, besides imperialism is *At the beginning of October 2008, W. Hunt-Vincent the enemy of of Marxism-Leninism- there ran away a government official Stalinism! They are political twins all Yuri Sukhov, Secretary of the united against Marxism-Leninism! Security Service, deputy president of FROM WILLAYU Moldova and leader of the Republic AUSTRALIA Editor of NSC Party - having embezzled millions for his nest egg abroad. To the Editor of NSC: P.S. The author sent in two analytical * In 2006 the Minister of Justice, Dear comrade, articles: "Inevitable Financial Crisis" and "Why the Soviets Collapsed". In Viktor Balala ran away with million of I read the October-November future issues we shall publish dollars to Russia. Even earlier the issue of NSC with great interest. I am excerpts from them. head of the Moldova Bank also ran a member of the Communist Party of FROM SOCHi - RUSSIA Comrade Michael, thank you very much for sending us a translated copy of the report from the Conference of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with the Soviet People. Your Russian is very good. Sadly, none of our comrades know English ,we are glad that the decision to continue the issue of NSC in English, Russian and other languages was passed at the Conference. Thanks to you, NSC is read in many countries around the world and people know that the Soviet People have loyal friends who support them.

You have been through so many hardships: the arson fire, Putin's refusal of a visa, betrayals of Zyuganov and Dzhohadze, the challenges of organizing the world conference and the constant insults of enemies. Regardless of these hardships, you have remained loyal to your beliefs and the USSR, just like your ancestors before you, who have helped us so much in building and defending the first Socialist state in the world - the Soviet Union. Under the rule of Putin and Medvedev the situation here is Sochi has been getting much worse. Prices are rising and local agriculture and factories are destroyed. However, we say - do not call USSR "former USSR". The generation of Soviet People is still alive, and as long as they are alive, the struggle for the USSR will continue.

We ttended a demonstration on December 30th (the day of the formation of USSR in 1922) on Lenin Street in Sochi. Umanskaja, Pribylskij, Moskalev, Sveshkina, Artamanova, Fatkina Translated by Andrey Krasnov be regarded as springing from the growth of bourgeois influence on the Party in the sphere of foreign policy, movement is bourgeois in the sphere of the struggle that the nationalism at the expense of and capitalist states are waging against in opposition to proletarian the state of the proletarian internationalism. In his 2008 dictatorship. There can scarcely be International Council Report to the any doubt that the pressure of the Conference, Chairman Michael capitalist states on our state is Lucas shared a quote, which he said enormous, that the people who are was "issued in the U.S. about forty handling our foreign policy do not years ago by the 'Youth for Stalin' always succeed in resisting this movement which [according to pressure, that the danger of Lucas] expresses exactly what the complications often gives rise to the present situation is now." The Youth temptation to take the path of least for Stalin quote is as follows: "Since resistance, the path of the death of Stalin, the two main nationalism....and that the path of characteristics of the international least resistance and of nationalism in situation have been (1) the foreign policy is the path of isolation intensification of the contradiction and decay of the first country to be between the oppressed nations and victorious." (Stalin, Selected Works, U.S. imperialism; and (2) the Volume 7, p. 170-171) development of a policy in most The October-November 2008 socialist countries of betrayal of the In 1968, almost every communist issue of Northstar Compass (NSC) oppressed nations based on the party or organization in the world carried much of the news of the ascendancy of the national was affiliated with and/or heavily Conference of the International bourgeois class in the socialist influenced by either the Soviet Council for Friendship and Solidarity countries." ("The Role of the revisionists in state power or the with Soviet People held in Toronto Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the Chinese "Cultural Revolution" from October 10-12, 2008. In his first International Marxist-Leninist leadership in state power or both. page editorial introducing the The revolutionary internationalist cry Movement—The October Revolution Conference and its highlights, of Che Guevara, calling for "two, vs. the 'Cultural Revolution", Youth Council Chairman and NSC Editor three, many Vietnams" went for Stalin, April 1968, cited on p.13, Michael Lucas devoted the entire unheeded. Instead, within the next Northstar Compass, September- second half of the editorial to the few years, the Chinese revisionists, October 2008) Chairman Lucas then final resolution considered by the following the Soviet revisionist observed: "These were prophetic Conference, the unanimously passed example, used the heroic struggle of words since the socialist camp is no resolution on the need for a new the Vietnamese people against U.S. more, and in its place was the birth Communist International. As the imperialism as a lever with which to of exploitative raw capitalism and person who had drafted the develop its own rapprochement with growing cooperation with U.S. resolution upon the request of U.S. imperialism. Bourgeois imperialism at the expense of the Chairman Lucas and the one who nationalism was now rampant in the oppressed peoples of the world". guided its passage at the international communist movement. (ibid)* Conference (with just a few Of course, bourgeois bureaucracy, in amendments), I want to share some [*Perhaps it was, at least in part, place of proletarian revolutionary thoughts about this important issue initiative, flourished in such a as well as about its connection to the because I was the author of those words and that document on behalf situation, especially within the parties International Friendship Council and of Youth for Stalin some forty years in state power. Bourgeois the Council's biggest supporter over ago that Chairman Lucas asked me bureaucratism and revisionist the years, the Society of Carpatho- to draft the International renegacy and renunciation of the Russian Canadians. Council/NSC Conference resolution revolutionary struggle for proletarian this past fall, raising the need for a power were fully "appropriate" for new Communist International. ] rapprochement with U.S. First of all, today the prevailing imperialism, the main bulwark of world outlook throughout the In 1925, Stalin had warned that, world capitalism; and they were "... the danger of nationalism must convenient for opportunist-dominated parties and organizations in that began as a sub-prime mortgage movement today is manifested in oppressor, dependent and crisis in the USA just a few short widespread resistance to a oppressed countries and nations that months ago, spread within weeks, proletarian Leninist policy of wanted to continue to have good days even, throughout every corner consistent internationalism. This, no relations with these parties in power. of the globe. Despite this fact, there doubt, will continue to include are hardly any current communist resistance to its organizational This bourgeois nationalist and parties or organizations in the world manifestation, resistance to taking bureaucratic legacy of the last forty of any size and significance, which any serious step, even the most years lives on in the communist proceed as comrade Stalin has preliminary, needed to begin building movement today in the widespread indicated. Instead, on the eve of a new Communist International. "conventional wisdom", "worldly 2009, most communist parties and sophistication" and outright hostility organizations in the world, no matter toward the accomplishments of the how serious, positive and even Secondly, the International communist movement worldwide courageous their day to day work Council for Friendship and during the period of the Communist may be, are crippled by an analysis Solidarity with Soviet People is International. This opportunist that proceeds from the economic state (as well as the political not a vanguard organization at all. legacy lives on despite the decay, situation) of their own individual Indeed, the Conference Resolution disintegration and disappearance of countries, described by comrade specifically states that "we function the Socialist Camp in the post Stalin as "no longer adequate" over as an united front organization." Comintern period! eighty-four years ago! (Emphasis in Resolution) In my view, The lengthy quote from Comrade the political strength of the modest organization and work of the Stalin cited in our Conference (For example, had the world International Council and Northstar Resolution on the need for a new communist movement been armed Compass lies precisely in its Communist International is taken with a proletarian internationalist recognition of both its limitations as a from Foundations of Leninism, world outlook over the past two mass pro-socialist and non-vanguard written in 1924, over eighty-four years, "the Obama phenomenon", organization and its limitless years ago. Stalin observed: providing a new and exciting fagade aspirations for resurrection of "Formerly, the analysis of the for bourgeois democratic illusions socialism in the former USSR and conditions for the proletarian about the U.S. imperialist state, and proletarian socialist revolution on a revolution was usually approached thus representing a new U.S. world scale. from the point of view of the imperialist ideological and political counter-offensive, would have been economic state of individual In resistance to the positive work thoroughly exposed. With a clear countries. Now, this approach is no of NSC/International Council and, internationalist view that the longer adequate. Now the matter specifically, in opposition to liberation movements of the Afghani must be approached from the Doint NSC/IC's promotion of the need for a and Iraqi peoples are on the of view of the state of the world new Communist International, two frontlines of our struggle, President- economy; for individual countries and incorrect propositions are put forward elect Obama's decision to retain individual national economies have with regard to its non-communist and George W. Bush's Secretary of ceased to be self-sufficient units, mass character, coming from Defense, Robert Gates, would have have become links in a single chain opposite directions. One is that been the "last straw" rather than the called world economy; for the old NSC/International Council is or first hint about Obama's key role in 'cultured' capitalism has evolved into should be a communist organization. defense of the U.S. Empire.) imperialism, and imperialism is a The other is that, as a non- world system of financial The "left" and right opportunism communist organization, enslavement and *[neo-] colonial NSC/International Council has no oppression of the vast majority of the with which bourgeois nationalism permeates the world wide communist business taking a stand on such a population of the earth by a handful vanguard issue as the need for a of 'advanced' countries.... [The Communist International. Conference's one-word amendment "updating" the Stalin quote is in On the one hand, some brackets.] individuals and groups with pro The validity of Stalin's socialist and pro communist observation has been born out more sympathies advocate turning dramatically this year than ever NSC/International Council, a before. For the world capitalist crisis Friendship society, into a vanguard 45 organization. Among their ranks are the 1936 Soviet Constitution in which International Council for Friendship some who have made a positive Stalin, through changes in the and Solidarity with Soviet People, led contribution to NSC/IC work but have election law, etc., tried to open up by Michael and Helen Lucas, have illusions about their own capacity the Communist Party of the Soviet been and remain the backbone of and that of NSC/International Council Union to criticisms by the non-Party this modest internationalist to function as revolutionary masses, to make the Party enterprise. They draw on the communists in the current situation. answerable to the class and the strength of two historical mass They seriously underestimate the masses.) movements that developed in immense tasks involved in the Canada (as well as in many other revolutionary struggle for proletarian International Council/Northstar countries) under the leadership of power against the brutal imperialist Compass, while having tiny numbers the Soviet Bolsheviks and the enemy. They confuse mass, class relative to the immense tasks the Communist International on a and vanguard levels of organization international proletariat and the proletarian internationalist basis. and discipline. They are unwilling oppressed peoples face, is at one and/or unable to help build with the millions of revolutionary- "Hands Off Russia!" Committees communist vanguard organization minded masses of toilers throughout were formed in Canada as well as in and to submit to the collective life the world who are consciously or the USA and elsewhere in 1918 to and discipline required to mobilize unconsciously striving for a world of defend the new workers' government millions of toilers through their own peace and plenty, striving for a world bom out of the victorious Russian experience to make the revolution; of socialism, to be born out of the Proletarian Revolution of 1917. The they believe that merely espousing a current world of increasing blatant intervention in Russia of a belief in something is sufficient to starvation, want, violence and dozen imperialist armies in alliance make it happen. injustice. In this way, the with the former Tsarist armed forces International Council/Northstar in the attempt to overthrow the On the other hand, some self- Compass' demand on the Bolshevik regime led by Lenin proclaimed communist individuals, international communist movement prompted workers all over the world parties and organizations protest that to undertake once again the to come to the defense of the new this united front organization has no construction of a new Communist workers power. Later on, Michael business sticking its nose into International, capable of providing Lucas spent decades as a key communist business. To these petty general guidance and some Canadian Communist Party leader bourgeois opportunists, the vanguard organizational strength for the world assigned to work in the area of organization is not dialectically proletarian revolution in our time, is a Canadian-Soviet Friendship, the later interconnected to the working class mass demand. incarnation of the Hands Off Russia and the toiling masses, but is Committees. Lucas' position in the separate from and over and above We must work diligently to make Canadian CP and specifically in the the class and the masses. This is this mass demand, this call for a new Soviet Friendship work helped him to precisely the opposite of Lenin's communist international, grow in see clearly the catastrophic teachings! He and the other great intensity and strength. For it will meet conditions that developed rapidly in teachers of scientific socialism— with great resistance not only from the former USSR after the Marx, Engels, Stalin and Mao, the imperialist powers, led by U.S. Gorbachev-Yeltsin forces led the among them (and to one extent or imperialism, but from the dominant return to open capitalism. another, the revolutionary parties opportunist forces in the current so- and organizations they led) - have called World Marxist Movement. In 1992, Lucas began the practiced the mass line, from the Northstar Compass journal exposing Given this political climate, how masses to the masses. As Mao so the new capitalist regime in Russia. has NSC/International Council been simply and profoundly expressed it to He rallied to NSC's banner the able to emerge and survive and now the Chinese Communists in the members of the Canadian Friends of call on vanguard organizations to crucible of the Chinese national Soviet People who (in the face of the democratic revolution, "we must be build a new Communist now revisionist Canadian CP's their [the masses'] pupil, before we International? hostility) had remained loyal to its pro can be their teacher." (It is worth socialist aims. While the International noting, in this connection, the current Council was launched in 2001, the work of progressive U.S. professor Thirdly, International Council/ NSC Canadian Friends has remained the Grover Furr based on now came by its proletarian cornerstone of the organization and accessible Soviet archives. internationalism honestly. The the journal. Particularly exemplary Professor Furr has exposed the Toronto-based Northstar Compass has been the upholding of the great struggle led by Stalin around and the Canadian branch of the historical accomplishments of Socialism, especially in the USSR. A region included a much larger or director of this Corporation can massive, well-turned, imperialist percentage of pro-imperialists, sell any part of this corporation's ideological offensive, following the fascists, and other reactionaries. In assets, or to invest or to profit from dissolution of the Socialist Camp, the resulting struggles among the any principal assets of this has claimed that socialism was a nationality groupings in Canada, and Corporation." Noteworthy, also, is the failure and is finished once and for with the beginnings of the Cold War provision that prohibited all. It has been ably exposed by NSC and the real possibility of the memberships from being passed on which has documented the need for organization being banned, the to the members' children. the Soviet peoples to go "Back to the SCRC decided that it needed to buy Thus, the Society of Carpatho- Future", i.e., the socialist future. its own building in Toronto. It Russian, Canadians envisioned to purchased what is now the contribute to the cause of democracy Probably even more important to Friendship House in 1946 using its and socialism after its own progeny the survival and modest but membership fees from around the had become assimilated into significant success of NSC/IC has country for this purpose. This Canadian society. Today, in his early been its organic connection to the valuable property was paid off in 80's, Michael Lucas continues to Society of Carpatho-Russian 1960 and was celebrated with a keep the faith. As he expresses it, " Canadians (SCRC). Michael Lucas is burning of the mortgage. Our Society of Carpatho-Russian himself a son of the Carpathian Canadians was from the very Mountains. He came to Canada As Chairman Lucas pointed out beginning and is now and will be as (along with his mother) to join his in his recently published book, "From long as it will exist, dedicated to father, William Lukac, already the Carpathian Mountains to Socialism, to the USSR and to its functioning there as a communist Canada", "The SCRC always future resurrection, to Marx, Engels, miner and union organizer. Father, cooperated with the Hands Off Lenin and" Stalin, to internationalism, mother and son all were long time Russia Committee, Friends of Soviet and we shall always be against Canadian communists. And all People, Aid to Russia Fund, helping Imperialism under whatever label or became active in the SCRC ("the ... the Canada-USSR Association... flag it is hiding. We shall always be Carps") as did Michael's wife, Helen From 1972, the Canada-USSR together with all of the progressive Lucas. Association-Canadian Friends of movements of the world." (90) Soviet People were welcomed to use Born and raised in the crucible of Like most immigrant nationality the offices and the Carpathian the struggle to defend proletarian groups in the capitalist world, the Ballroom for all their meetings and socialism in the USSR and under the Carpatho-Russians organized receptions, without any rental costs guidance of the Communist themselves to defend their rights in at all."(p.97) Lucas explained the International, both the Society of Canada and the rights of their people consistent internationalism of this Carpatho-Russian Canadians as well back home. Beginning in Winnipeg in nationality-based immigrant as the Hands Off Russia Committee 1929, the organization spread organization as follows: "Our and its Canada-Soviet Friendship quickly to a number of cities Carpatho-Russian Society was Society offspring have demonstrated throughout Canada. The "Carps" NEVER nationalistically orientated the strength of non-party mass were very active in protest and always believed and believes in organizations when they are trained demonstrations and labor picket Internationalism and Socialism .. in the spirit of proletarian lines. The political activism and the Nationalism is just as dangerous in internationalism. It is largely on this mass character of the SCRC are the long run as its collective partner basis that the International Council both reflected in the fact that at one and supporter — capitalism, for Friendship with Soviet People has point, out of 247 members of the imperialism and fascism ... But when earned the right to call on proletarian Toronto branch of the SCRC, 94 you are subjected by enemies... to vanguard organizations around the were members of the Party Club of unwarranted criticism, we are then world to take an active part in the the Communist Party. guided by J.V. Stalin's work on the construction of a new communist Nationality Question...and we must international, in the course of their During World War II, a large stand up and defend ourselves."(9i) efforts to unite the oppressed number joined the Canadian military masses and the international working to fight against fascism and for The language of the official non- class against imperialism, headed by Canadian democracy and Soviet profit status, finally conferred on the U.S. imperialism. For Michael Lucas socialism. Many then returned to the SCRC in 1982 by the Canadian and many of the Canadian Friends of Carpathian Mountains to help build government of Ontario Province, Soviet People have the experience socialism in their native land. makes clear the consistent that this task can be accomplished Meanwhile, post World War II internationalism of this immigrant only by a Communist International. immigrants to Canada from the nationality organization: "no member 47