Don’t be fooled! Whatever they say, whatever they want to explain, the Communist Party USA is really departing from traditional communist policies.
Before tackling with the latest developments, let’s read together the Karl Marx-Friedrich Engels Communist Manifesto: “Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man’s ideas, views and conceptions, in one word, man’s consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life? What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.” (Washington Square Press, New York, 1977, p. 91).
There are different ways of learning about the world that surrounds us: books, Internet, cinema... But there is the old worker’s instinct. You feel when something is right and when something is wrong. You understand quickly what another worker stands for even though he speaks a different language just through this working class education; either you speak French or English, for instance. That’s what holds Canada united so to speak.
Talking about Canada, we are aware, even though that we don’t live in New York, or any other US city that the situation is not shaping well in the communist movement over there. The reader will say: can you at least prove something related to this viewpoint?
Just September 23rd 2010, the CP USA published in its digital bulletin, People's World, this piece: “Progressives who support massive job creation programs would be thrilled with economist Paul Krugman, and less thrilled with Janet Yellin, president of the Federal Reserve in San Francisco who nevertheless has better job creation credentials than her colleagues at the Fed. Various reports list among the other possible replacements Rebecca Blank, a Commerce Department official who manages the Census Bureau; Ursula Burns, the CEO of Xerox; and economist Laura Tyson, who has argued long and loud for a second stimulus program. [...] As good as it is for the president to have a public that is ‘patient,’ it would be far better if the grassroots coalition that got the president elected in the first place was much larger and more powerful than it currently is. Were it so, struggles within the administration like the one over Summers’ replacement would have been settled a long time ago.” (The departure of Lawrence Summers and the fight for jobs, John Wojcik).
It is completely surrealist: you have a “communist”, a journalist speaking on the behalf of the US communists acting as if he was at the Oval Table within the White House in Washington D.C., discussing the replacement of the head of the president’s economic team arguing about the “goods” and the “wrongs” of various bourgeois economists or people acting as such. Not a single word about the fact that, according to Change.org : “Moreover, the 43.6 million people living in poverty (in USA, Ed.) is the largest number of poor people in the United States in the 51 years that records have been kept”.
Where is the influence of this ‘respectable’ communist party and how can we tolerate that US organizations claiming to be on the progressive side, publish under the title of “The American Dream”: “With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has been forced to lower its standards for recruits doing away with the high school diploma requirement and issuing ‘moral waivers’ for convicted criminals, The DREAM Act would enable thousands of smart, committed, patriotic undocumented youth to serve their adopted country”. Concretely it means: Let them become US citizens; they will gladly fight and die for the moneybags.
And you are still not convinced that something is going wrong in USA?
On the contrary, look at Spain where the Communist party of the Peoples will be active in the general strike on September 29th 2010. They say: “To stop the production in the country will demonstrate the strength of the united working class [...] The positions of class trade-unionism will be stronger [...] It is the worker’s and people’s struggle against Capital, for socialism as the alternative to the Barbary of the dying capitalist system. [...] As for the threats of new imperialist wars, we must increase the fighting capacity of the international workers’ and people’s movement to stop decisively another onslaught of the international capitalism, with its criminal violence”.
Taking into account the complete inertia of the Communist Party USA leadership, the only way out is to form the Communist Party of the Peoples of USA; yes a new party, yes a possible split... There is no other choice; whatever the current leaders say at home or abroad. This is not a storm in a teapot. Lives of thousands of peoples are at stake all around the world.
It is worthy to repeat for all comrades the decisions taken by the Communist Party of Greece at its 17th Congress in 2005: “Our Party will intensify its international activities so that a more distinct form of cooperation with communist and worker’s parties will be shaped, the communist pole. This distinct presence of the parties will create better conditions in order to confront the difficulties which exist. This will also facilitate the broader anti-imperialist rallying of forces.”
Pour la Komintern now! supports entirely this program.
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