Capitalism is the system of widespread destruction

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Some may turn up their noses at this title – those who still believe in the intrinsic good of “things as they are.”  But they should take a look around them:  in Bangladesh, in the collapse of a monstrous building housing numerous clothes factories (clothes that are “in fashion” in any western country), one thousand two hundred proletarians, women and men, exploited and underpaid, die, chained to the production line by a single mode of production in its merciless quest for profit; in Syria, day after day, the butchering of proletarian and proletarianized masses continues in a war that all the leading imperialisms are involved and equally interested in, where they all earn profits from the legal and illegal sales of arms of every sort. Must we go on with the list of daily massacre, with a count of violent deaths - in every clime and in every form - that brings goose pimples to the flesh?  The military wars between imperialist thieves with their bands of mercenaries assembled on both sides; the war of Capital against the proletariat, its working and living conditions, its very existence, with the deaths in the workplace, the progressive poisoning, the daily exhaustion of men, women and children for the extraction of plus value; the “low intensity” wars, the fruit of individual and collective suffering, of madness and frustration, the unhealthy obsession with being on top (domestic violence against women and kids, mass killings in schools or in the streets, the homicidal neglect that follows when the elderly and the sick are pushed aside, those who are no longer of use to the production process) … Not to mention the environmental disaster: this, too, is a war carried out with every weapon imaginable.  What is all this if not widespread destruction, against which only the obtuse insensitivity produced by political and religious narcotics prevents a rebellion?

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FACING THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ABYSS

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Proletarians!  Comrades!

As the economic crisis hurls us and our human and social condition into the abyss, whilst unemployment and lay-offs increase throughout the world, the reinforced concrete wall, erected by the massive social control exercised for decades by right- and left-wing parties and union organizations is beginning to crumble.  The first signs are coming from a young immigrant proletariat that openly challenges employers, an avant-garde that does not shut itself up in the silence of the warehouses or the factories and is not afraid to come out onto the streets and demand a general improvement in its living and working conditions, and from the never-extinguished struggles of proletarians all over the world: from the rebellion of the South-African miners to the fights of the Argentinian, Spanish, Greek, French, Belgian, U.S. workers.  But this is not the only sign.  Within the proletarian movement two opposing currents are starting to clash: one supports the need, the necessity, the desire to fight, the anger and indignation, the other invokes “rights”, “social peace” – in a word – surrender.  Only by answering any attack by capital blow-by-blow can there ever be any hope of putting a higher price on our skins, today in the workplace (or non-workplace!), tomorrow when faced with a new world war.

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Syria

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Amongst partisans and loyalists, nationalists and mercenaries, all provided with arms by their imperialist instigators, the planned murder of proletarians takes place in perfect text-book style.  Today is the turn of the Syrians.  Let the proletariat launch its defeatist slogan:  “The enemy in any country is the bourgeoisie!  It must be overthrown."

“The partisan is someone who fights for someone else, whether out of conviction, duty or for money is of little importance.  The militant of a revolutionary party is a worker who is fighting for himself and the class he belongs to.  The destiny of revolutionary revival depends on the ability to raise a new and insurmountable barrier between the method of the party’s class action and the democratic-bourgeois method of the partisan struggle”.

(from our text “Marxismo o partigianesimo”, Battaglia comunista, n°14, 1949)

As communists and internationalists, we know by heart and from the science of history that in the age of imperialism class dominion and oppression extends and intensifies.  The economic crises that follow one upon the other leave scattered behind them growing poverty and a backwash of death amongst proletarians all over the world.  War is the natural habitat of capitalism: indeed, imperialism means growing international competition, keen trade wars, the export of capitals which inevitably enter into conflict with each other, the control over sources of raw materials and their transport routes and thus attempts to exclude competitors, right up to the unbridled outbreak of conflicts, first locally and then, in perspective and given favourable and necessary material conditions, worldwide. This is what has been happening for decades from the Balkan area, through the Middle East (Iraq and the Palestinian Territories) up to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the crossroads of more or less approved or legal trade (arms and drugs), vital trade corridors, oil and gas pipelines, oil fields and sources of water. 

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BANGLADESH “KILLING IS NO MURDER” DEDICATED TO OUR MURDERED COMRADES

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This latest massacre of textile workers in Dacca, Bangladesh, which now counts probably around one thousand dead (400 certain victims, 700 missing several days after the tragedy) and thousands of wounded, in a building housing several factories and which collapsed under their feet whilst they were obliged to keep working despite clear signs of subsidence, raises the numbers of the working-class holocaust to … how many?  How many million workers have been murdered in the name of profit, year by year, by the butchers responsible for the production lines, the guards of the concentration camps that go under the name of business companies, by the executioners of capitalist progress called entrepreneurs, by the employers of death hypocritically known as employers of labour?  How much humankind must still be sacrificed to the Moloch of Capital?

Enough!  The lives of millions of proletarians sweating blood in the capitalist “Lagers” must find the path to reparative violence, the overthrowing of this bloody world order! The struggle of the international workers must not ask any bourgeois Government, Rights or Justice to repair their condition of slavery:  it must bring onto the battlefield its own determination, its own organization, its own strength, in the class struggle that will have to be launched on the streets and in the squares, against the ruling class in any country.   The battle cry of the new proletarian International will still be what it used to be:  Proletarians throughout the world, unite!

 

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Proletarians and Communists

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Remember?  They said that “this is, after all, the best of all possible worlds”, that “the welfare state has done away with differences”, that “globalization has brought wealth everywhere,” that “the working class is in heaven” and “the proletariat no longer exists” (and after the fall of the Berlin wall and the USSR, that “Communism is dead”).  They were sociologists and politicians, economists, opinion leaders, philosophers and journalists, representatives of the right-wing, the centre and the “left” – all competing to spread false consciousness, illusions and delusions.  In a word, hot air.

We have always fought against this crap.  We have done so by referring to our theory and practice, to our history and our tradition, firm and unshakeable over a period of one hundred and fifty years and, above all, reiterated and confirmed by hard facts.  Thanks to these we have demonstrated that the crisis is contained in the DNA of the capitalist mode of production, that the “welfare state” is just one of the strategies by which, in times of economic expansion, capital keeps the exploited class under its thumb, thanks to the crumbs which it then snatches back at the first sign of contraction, that the process of proletarianization is ongoing and accompanies the spread of the world market, that class struggle is incessant, because the antagonism between capital and work is incessant.  And that in the USSR, as elsewhere, it was not communism that existed, but capitalism, nude and crude, in a more or less advanced form, more or less state-run.

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