12. India - Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy 13. India - Socialist Unity Center of India (SUCI) 14. Italy - Assemblea Nazionale Anticapitalista Theoretical and Political Journal of the Central Committee 15. Italy - Circolo Lenin of the Communist Party of the Philippines 16. Italy - Forum dei Comunisti 17. Mexico - Asesoría Jurídica Popular 18. Mexico - Representante de los Presos de Loxicha 19. Nepal - Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Forum CONTRADICTIONS IN THE WORLD 20. Netherlands - New Communist Party Netherlands (NCPN) CAPITALIST SYSTEM AND THE NECESSITY 21. Niger - Mouvement Patriotique pour la Solidarité et le Progrès OF SOCIALIST REVOLUTION (MPSP-Haske) Jose Ma. Sison Founding Chairman, CPP 22. Norway - Communist Workers’ Party (AKP) 23. Palestine - Adel Samara and Masad Arbid, Al-Mashriq/Al-Amil Center for Cultural and Developmental Studies RESOLUTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST SEMINAR 24. Philippines - National Democratic Front Brussels, Belgium; 2-4 May 2001 25. Russia - Russia of the Workers IMPERIALIST GLOBALIZATION AND 26. Senegal - JDB/Le Prolétaire THE WORLD REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS 27. South Africa - Azanian People’s Organization (AZAPO) 28. USA - For a Better World SUPPORT TO THE CUBAN REVOLUTION 29. USA - Freedom Road Socialist Organization FOR THE REUNIFICATION OF KOREA 30. Yugoslavia - Workers’ Movement WITHOUT FOREIGN INTERFERENCE SOLIDARITY WITH THE POLITICAL PRISONERS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALISM, IN TURKEY AND THE REST OF THE WORLD Number 3 Series 2001 July - September English Edition 64 1 Number 3 years already in ‘death row’, condemned to capital punishment for a Series 2001 crime that he didn't commit. The signatory parties, participants to the July - September International Communist Seminar of Brussels, propose: English Edition To support the just cause of the political prisoners in Turkey and to CONTENTS demand their liberation and that of all other revolutionary, pro- gressive and democratic prisoners in the jails of imperialism and fascism. CONTRADICTIONS IN THE WORLD CAPITALIST To carry out an international campaign of condemnation of the SYSTEM AND THE NECESSITY situation of the political prisoners in the world, showing the link OF SOCIALIST REVOLUTION...............................3 between the imperialist pattern of exploitation and the rising State Jose Ma. Sison repression in order to assure that exploitation and to eliminate the Founding Chairman, CPP resistance. To coordinate the efforts of Marxist-Leninist parties, revolutionary RESOLUTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL organizations, popular movements, labor unions, human rights COMMUNIST SEMINAR groups, democratic personalities, etc., to organize ‘a week of Brussels, Belgium; 2-4 May 2001 struggle for the freedom of the political prisoners in the world’, IMPERIALIST GLOBALIZATION AND which can be organized in a coordinated way and conform to the THE WORLD REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS ........ 36 political situation of each country. SUPPORT TO THE CUBAN REVOLUTION ........... 56 Signatories: FOR THE REUNIFICATION OF KOREA 1. Bangladesh - Socialist Party of Bangladesh WITHOUT FOREIGN INTERFERENCE ................. 59 2. Belgium - Workers’ Party of Belgium SOLIDARITY WITH THE POLITICAL PRISONERS 3. Brazil - Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos (Cebraspo) IN THE FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALISM, 4. Burundi - Parti Communiste du Burundi IN TURKEY AND THE REST OF THE WORLD..... 62 5. Chad - Action Tchadienne pour l’Unité et le Socialisme (ACTUS) 6. France - Cercle Henri Barbusse 7. France - Communistes en lutte Articles and communications may be sent directly to the 8. France - Coordination communiste Editorial Board of Rebolusyon or coursed through any organ 9. Germany - Communist Party of Germany (KPD) or unit of the Communist Party of the Philippines. 10. Guadeloupe - Parti Communiste Guadéloupéen Published by the Central Publishing House, Luzon, 11. India - Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti Philippines 2 63 SOLIDARITY WITH THE POLITICAL PRISONERS CONTRADICTIONS IN THE WORLD CAPITALIST IN THE FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALISM, SYSTEM AND THE NECESSITY IN TURKEY AND THE REST OF THE WORLD OF SOCIALIST REVOLUTION Resolution of the International Communist Seminar By Jose Maria Sison Founding Chairman Brussels, Belgium, May 2-4, 2001 Communist Party of the Philippines 3 May 2001 The signatory parties, participants to the International Communist Seminar of Brussels of May 2-4, 2001, condemn vigorously the Turkish My assignment is to analyze the new economic, political and social Fascist state that practices ultra-terrorist politics against thousands of contradictions that have emerged in the world capitalist system in political prisoners. In particular, the signatory parties reject the police recent decades and to present the necessity of socialist revolution and and military attack against jails that took place in December of 2000 the contradictions in the process of realizing socialism. and that culminated with dozens of murdered and mutilated revolutionaries. Working in the interest of imperialism, this NATO I propose to give a brief historical background on the stages of the member state wants to break the resistance of the political prisoners by general crisis of monopoly capitalism or imperialism in the 20th the implementation of the ‘model F jails’, with maximum isolation. Our century. Then, I concentrate on the last two decades of that century comrades decided to start a hunger strike in demand for better prison and up to the present. Finally, I deal with the necessity of waging the conditions. In that strike many prisoners and their relatives have socialist revolution. In brief, I shall discuss the era of imperialism and already lost their lives, and many more run serious risks of dying. proletarian revolution. Everywhere the fascisation of US imperialism, the European powers This era continues and will continue for a long time to come. The and their reactionary regimes has led to an increase in police and epochal struggle between the proletariat and the monopoly bourgeoisie military repression against the popular mobilizations, with murders, has by no means stopped, despite the revisionist betrayal of socialism disappearances and arrests of numerous militants in many countries. and restoration of capitalism in former socialist countries. The general We condemn this repression and violation of the human rights on the crisis of world capitalism has in fact entered a new stage. part of those powers and their allies who pretend to be champions of I shall deal with the basic contradictions in the imperialist system: ‘human rights’ and ‘democracy’. With the terrible NATO bombing of those between the monopoly bourgeoisie and the proletariat in Iraq and Yugoslavia, the blockade against Cuba, the invasion of imperialist countries, those among the imperialist powers and those Panama, the bombings of Libya and Sudan, the permanent military between the imperialist powers and the oppressed nations and peoples. threat against Korea, the war against Vietnam and Laos, etc. We already saw how imperialism violates human rights and the rights of the I. The General Crisis of the World Capitalist System peoples. As Lenin pointed out, imperialism is the highest and final stage of A particularly serious case is occurring in the United States, where capitalism. It is an utterly parasitic and moribund kind of capitalism. the revolutionary Afro-American Mumia Abu Jamal has been for 19 62 3 The monopoly bourgeoisie is a rentier class. Apart from owning capital, 25. South Africa - Azanian People’s Organization it contributes nothing to the process of social production but reaps 26. Ukraine - Union of Communists profits from the extraction of surplus value and from the export of 27. USA - For a Better World surplus goods and surplus capital. 28. USA - Freedom Road Socialist Organization In the few countries where monopoly capitalism became dominant 29. Yugoslavia - Workers’ Movement after developing from free competition capitalism, industrial capital merged with bank capital to make the ruling bourgeoisie fundamentally a financial oligarchy. On top of the export of surplus manufactures, the export of surplus capital in the form of direct and indirect investments gains importance. The monopoly firms of each imperialist country look after their own interests. But they combine and compete with those of other imperialist countries for control of the sources of raw materials, fields of investments, markets and positions of strength. The monopoly firms in various imperialist countries have always engaged in global expansion and in various combinations, such as cartels, trusts, syndicates, mergers and alliances. The phenomenon of the so-called multinational corporation is not new. What is new is the magnification and intensification of the phenomenon. The imperialist states protect and promote the interest of their respective monopoly bourgeoisie and the various international combinations into which it goes. They maintain a power structure between imperialist and client-states in charge of an economic structure by which the monopoly bourgeoisie can exploit the proletariat and the oppressed nations and peoples. Since the beginning of the 20th century, no part of the world has remained uncovered by one or several imperialist powers. The world has become too small for monopoly capitalism. It is pure nonsense to speak of globalization as if it were a new phenomenon. Monopoly capitalism or modern imperialism has always operated on an