DEMOCRATIC FORCES WILL MAKE IT

vol. 1, no. 30

Mankind has not yet chosen: communism or imperialism? Of course, Big Capital has won Cold War which bequeathed us with a worsening economic crisis, a political dead-end, an ideological confusion and psychological despair. Most of the people, especially the youth, do not believe in a future; to the point that in some countries, like Russia, the young generation does not want to have children foreseeing a miserable life for their kids.


Even in Canada, and most likely among the students, there is this deep feeling that nothing is going ever to change and that the fatality is set in the stone; so, let’s smoke a good joint.


Recently, Canadians for Peace and Socialism, through its president Don Currie, released a document related to the last meeting of the communist parties in South Africa. They say: “State monopoly capitalism has used the current crisis as a pretext to recklessly appropriate all of the resources and wealth created by the people of Canada. The state treasury, fiscal and monetary policy, government income and expenditure and links with international finance capital, have all been mobilized to protect a small class of wealth and privilege from the effects of capitalist cyclical crisis. The short and long term needs of the people have been abandoned.” (http://www.focusonsocialism.ca/).


Still part of Canada –fortunately- , the Province of Québec endures the crisis as well; just to mention the massive lay-offs like in the Montréal region (Assomption) where 1300 workers lost their job at Électrolux right before Christmas 2010.
(Photo Internet: General Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, Tim Buck, 1929-1962)

Meanwhile, La Presse expresses the wish to avoid general elections not to compromise the policies of the Stephen Harper minority conservative government, a staunch supporter of Israel reactionary orientation and its aggressive plan against the Palestinian people; the Hebrew State is ready to attack the Islamic Republic of Iran on the alleged pretext that this country is producing the atomic bomb.

La Vie Réelle wrote to the current leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, to declare officially that it would support the Liberal Party of Canada in the coming federal elections, remaining independent though; with the hope in a new policy of peace by the Canadian government, offering as well to the peoples of this land an alternative to the power of the monopolies, especially the ones from USA.

This communist newsletter calls also Canada to step back from NATO and denounces its “new” Lisbon policy, which is a strategy of military domination if political instability would supersede to the economic restlessness of the peoples in Europe following the workers’ movements in Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland and naturally Greece, the spearhead of general protest on the Old Continent.

Revolutions to come: Europe and North America

In Greece, the KKE (Communist Party of Greece) has taken bold decisions. Recently (December 20th 2010), it declared: “Today we need another specific opposition strategy which will lead the people to question and overthrow the system and not false cures, which will recycle and sharpen the problems. […] We need a social popular front now to repel the assault and counterattack […] with as its central slogan the socialization of the monopolies, the creation of popular cooperatives where socialization is not possible, national planning with worker’s and popular control from the bottom to the top”.

They call for mass action.

In the past, the Right would have proposed to the greek people to move to America if they want a better living. But United States are also in crisis. There is nothing less granted than to find a job there, if you can even immigrate in the country.

Further, the 1776 US Revolution has exhausted its attraction among most people of the world; there are two basic reasons: its external policy and its policy at home. USA has an imperialist policy abroad and –pro-multinationals-, e.g. the will and the inherent actions to control resources all over the world, including by the use of military force. Within their boundaries, they cannot secure anymore the “American Way of Living”, especially with a devastating 10% level of unemployment (not to mention the underemployed, the part-time and all of those who stop looking for a job), a general problem of housing among poor people strata and growing racism in the population, whatsoever meant the election of the first Afro-American, Barack Obama, as the president, in November 2008.

A word about Barack Obama

What are the real powers of Barack Obama? Formally, he is, accordingly to Agence France-Presse: “the most powerful man in the world”. But there is skepticism, especially in Canada. Many people see him like those actors hired by important companies to promote their products such as cars, perfumes and miscellaneous. Mr. Obama looks handsome; he is young and attractive. He makes forget the arrogance and indifference of George W. Bush. But methods and policies have not changed so far.

But U.S. spy agencies and groups, in the case of Afghanistan, “express doubts about the progress amid worsening violence”, reports New York City Metro daily newspaper. Obama says: “We’re on track to achieve our goals.”
Is President Obama still the favorite personality of the U.S. voters? Can others change the tide? The AFL-CIO Blog: http://blog.aflcio.org/ revealed that “ a tightly coordinated effort by outside Republican groups, spearheaded by Karl Rove and fueled by tens of millions of dollars in contributions from Wall Street hedge fund moguls and other wealthy donors, helped secure big GOP midterm victories Tuesday ( early November 2010, Ed.) according to campaign spending figures and Republican fundraising insiders” .
(Photo Internet: President of the United States of America, Barack Obama)

As a consequence, Obama started a dialogue with Republicans. The current leader of this party in the House of Representatives, John Boehner, greeted a few weeks later “the discussions to be with White House on the prolongation of all tax cuts”. He remains “optimistic”. Republican party number 2, Eric Cantor, said that “he was encouraged by the President’s declarations in relation with the lack of communications during the last session […] and that it was the fresh start for new working relations which would benefit all Americans”.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama wrote on December 18th 2010 to Harry Reid, Majority Leader and Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader, about the New START Treaty between Russia and USA. It is the not the tone of a peace-lover: “ Thirty ground-based interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, are now defending the nation”. […] The New START Treaty places no limitations on the development or deployment of our missile defense programs […] against intercontinental ballistic missiles from Iran targeted against the United States.”

Iran is now an enemy. Who else?

Interceptors are “in Romania and Poland to protect Europe”. Where is the threat? Russia? China?

“Irrespective of how cooperation with Russia develops, the Alliance alone bears responsibility for defending NATO’s members…” He adds that we “… do not and will not threaten the strategic balance with the Russian Federation”.

It speaks for itself…

What about Québec?

By the end of 1977, some student leaders in Québec, including this writer, wanted to have closer relations with the Prague-based International Union of Students (IUS). But the majority of the Central Council and the National Convention of the Québec National Association of Students (ANEQ) was opposed to it, denouncing close links of this Union with Soviet students. The whole thing flawed. Nationalists were strongly combating the idea and red-baited some Executive communist leaders.

Now, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) would like to be in touch with the working class movement in Canada and also in United States of America. Conditions are ripe. Anticommunism does not jeopardize this project, like it was the case with IUS. This Federation gathers 80 million members in more than 130 countries. They will hold their 16th Congress in Athens (Greece) from April 6th to 9th, 2011.

The idea is very timely. We cannot be over enthused and unrealistic. However, it is possible to organize a club or a local grouping with an office in Montréal and gradually inform the Québec workers about the activities of WFTU and build contacts with the national media, while publishing a blog in Québec. All of those people who have been briefed about the project are interested to see its development.
(Logo of the World Federation of Trade Unions, Athens (Greece)

To tell the truth, several workers are sick and tired to talk about the “separation of Québec”. On the other hand, we can consider, even though it is not an official view point of WFTU, this declaration: “Hence the necessity of fighting against the national isolationism, narrow-mindedness and aloofness of the Socialists in the oppressed countries, who do not want to rise above their national parochialism and who do not understand the connection between the liberation movement in their own countries and the proletarian movement in the ruling countries”. (J.V. Stalin, The Foundations of Leninism, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1975, p. 74).

There is every reason to get rid of narrow nationalism. Let’s just consider the recent visit of one of the Québec separatist leaders, Gilles Duceppe, who met in Paris with the general secretary of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s “Union pour un movement populaire (UMP)”, which is not especially recognized to be on the side of the working class (let’s stress that M. Duceppe has been previously one of the leader of the Canadian Communist Workers Party-maoist). UMP proposed to exchange analysis on different topics. The Québec nationalist leader said: “It is a proposal made by UMP and we agreed to it with eagerness”.

Historical certitude: emancipation of the working people

Waiting for visit of a representative of the WFTU, we can recall that “Marx also corresponded with Lincoln and called for the emancipation of slavery and the creation of African-American regiments to help defeat the Southern slaveocracy.” This historical sketch prepared by US communists goes farther: “The Committee of Industrial Organization (CIO), formed in 1935, was the greatest stride forward made by the US labor movement. The Communist Party played a key role in organizing that movement to establish industrial unions in the basic, unorganized industries. The strength of the left in the CIO during its first decade was the result of successful organizing work and militant fighting on the picket lines by Communists.”

In 1941, during WW2, 15 000 Communists joined the armed serviced. Many became officers and many others were decorated for personal bravery…” In 1944, the party had 80 000 members (including the 15 000 in the military). Seven years later, “the FBI stated that 43 000 Communists were being spied on and half a million ‘party supporters’ would be thrown into concentration camps in case of war.

This short story about the Communist Party of America ends up saying: “Strengthening of the CPUSA as a Marxist-Leninist party will allow for new, bright chapters of its history to be written.

“American efficiency is that indomitable force which neither knows nor recognizes obstacles; which with its business-like perseverance brushes aside all obstacles; which continues at a task once started until it is finished, even if it is a minor task; and without which serious constructive work is inconceivable. […] The combination of Russian revolutionary sweep with American efficiency is the essence of Leninism in Party and state work.” (J.V. Stalin, The Foundations of Leninism, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1975, pp. 111-112).

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THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA

vol.1, no. 29

“Here’s to you Nicholas and Bart
Rest forever here in our hearts
The last and final moment is yours
That agony is your triumph!”


Joan Baez wrote these lines to remember the struggle of two Italo-American revolutionaries, Sacco and Vanzetti, who fought injustice in USA and were executed in 1927 for the sake of combating the power of Big Capital and US establishment (YouTube here’s to you Joan Baez).


It happened 10 years after the socialist October Revolution in Russia led by the communist party (Bolshevik). It shows that struggles for the workers’ power are not that easy. But, we cannot live in the past. Joseph Stalin wrote about the 1905 revolution in Russia - that failed- and concluded that: “This was a period when our Party turned from the open revolutionary struggle against tsardom to roundabout methods of struggle, to the utilization of each and every legal opportunity – from mutual aid societies to the Duma (Parliament, Ed.) platform…” (Verbatim Report of the Fifteenth Party Congress, Russ. Ed. pp. 366-67, 1935)

In Canada, always in the aftermath of cold war, the Saskatchewan Peace News reported that “over 100 people were treated to two hours of nearly non-stop entertainment […] Bob Hughes from the Saskatchewan Coalition Against Racism and one of the festival’s organizers summed things up by saying, ‘The turn-out was great, the weather fantastic and everyone had a wonderful time and is looking forward to next year!’ Progressives, including communists join in action; in this November 2010 issue, they also ‘support the call for parliament to discuss and end Canada’s military presence in Afghanistan!’”
(Photo Internet: Joseph Stalin)


In Toronto, people sharing those viewpoints met in September 2010 to declare with their president, Michael Lucas: “Although it was many times a hard road to travel before we reached this 20th anniversary, the gratification, the successes, the influence that NSC (Northstar Compass, Ed.) gained in 76 countries of the world with its English, French, Russian and Spanish Editions, is something that we all should cherish and vow to ourselves to keep on going, as friends of Socialism, Soviet People and for the rebirth of a New Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!” (NSC, vol. 20 # 8-9, Sept./Oct. 2010, Toronto, p. 3)


We are no more in years of retreat. Now is the time to move forward and propose to Canadians the way-out to the crisis and re-establish the reputation of Canada as a peace-loving country. This is why; it is rather strange to read the last Editorial of the communist newspaper People’s Voice that printed “… Mr. Harper can never be trusted to keep his word on anything, other than his commitment to turn Canada into a loyal foot-soldier for U.S.Imperialism. […] We must also note the shameful role of other Parliamentary parties in this endless war. On this occasion, Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals were the main offenders, singing the ‘humanitarian’ chorus which gave Harper a fig leaf to claim support for extending Canada’s military role. But Jack Layton’s NDP also bears its share of blame. […] While the Harper Tories are the most dangerous, militaristic party in parliament, the Liberal and NDP opposition parties also have blood on their hands.” (People’s Voice, December 1-31, 2010, p. 4)


So, nobody is good! It is a bit schematic. In the Province of Québec, for instance, La Vie Réelle in English maintains very courteous relations with members of the Liberal Party of Canada, the main opposition party in Ottawa; the contacts are even friendly with some former deputies, including some Secretary of State in the House of Commons. We all share the deeply-rooted aspirations of the French-Canadian people for peace and return of the Canadian troops from Afghanistan. Although, we have a rather superficial knowledge of the situation in English-speaking Canada, we have the belief that millions of workers share the attitude of their French-Canadian counterparts.


The Communist Party of Canada must take the lead and call upon all peace-loving forces in Canada, including small-business, self-employed and working-class people to force the Harper Tories to respect the initial decision, i.e. the return for July 1st 2011 of the Canadian troops, which would open the road to a new majority in the House of Commons and the rout of the Conservatives all over Canada in the coming electoral race.


Let’s come back to the years of the past-General Secretary Tim Buck (1929-1962). The party had then elected seats in Canada at several levels (provincial, federal, municipal). It was deeply involved in the trade-union movement.

The skeptical will nod. But, what about Stalin? The Australian communist Guardian paper underlined in its November 24 issue (Bob Treasure, Ed.): “The aim of the revisionist history, therefore, is to conflate Hitler and Stalin as roughly the same (after all, they were both ‘dictators’), revivify Hitler’s purpose in smashing the Soviet Union and the ‘communist menace’, and portray Stalin as a blundering and heartless leader who had needlessly sacrificed his people on the altar of Marxist ideology. Stalin is made responsible for the loss of some 20-30 million Russian lives in WW2.
[…]
Now, however, a goldmine of source material has been made available: the minutes of Politburo meetings, Stalin’s conversations with his many visitors in the Kremlin, wartime and military archives, as well as police files. Geoffrey Roberts, an English Don and no friend of communism, has written a revealing book (Stalin’s Wars) which gives the lie to the prejudices and downright falsehoods being spread in many present-day documentaries and media-grabs on the subject of Stalin and the German invasion of the Soviet Union.”


Except for a recent article of The New York Times (Dec. 6th 2010), the media are rather silent about the real criminals, the torture-makers of the Nazi regime, protected by the CIA in USA. A report of the Department of Justice declares that more than 10 000 of these henchmen found a refuge in our southern neighbour territory. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was informed of this horrible reality; a former SS Waffen soldier, Tscherim Soobzokov confirmed his role to the CIA during the war, soon after he entered in USA.


The FBI on the other hand published facts on Hate Crime Statistics, which can be alleged as political offenses. “Today (November 22, 2010, Ed.), the FBI released 2009 statistics which indicated that 6 604 criminal incidents involving 7 789 offenses were reported as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. The Reporting Program includes data from hate crime reports submitted by law enforcement agencies throughout the nation.”


In this country, many observers join their voice to support the California’s new top cop, San Francisco’ progressive District Attorney Kamala Harris, vowed to insure ‘the law of this state is on the side of the people.’” (Ref. People’s World, Dec. 7th)


However, is she, alongside with other Democrats, going to solve a major problem, source of criminality in any capitalist country: unemployment? The New York City Metro newspaper said the same day: “… despite signs of improvement, strains remain in the labor market. The number on emergency unemployment benefits increased 142,874 to 3.94 million in the week that ended Nov. 13 […] The White House urged Congress on Thursday to extend unemployment aid and warned that failure to act would inflict a heavy toll on millions of Americans that could put the U.S. economic recovery at risk.”
(Photo Internet: Tim Buck, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, 1929-1962)



Nevertheless, the American working people will be represented at the coming 16th Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions in Athens (Greece), April 6-9th 2011. With the thousands representing 80 million workers of more than 130 countries, the U.S. representatives, including some from Washington, will discuss with their comrades from around the world and map out an alternative to the economic crisis, inherent to the capitalist way of “living”.

North American workers are entering into a new stage. Surely it has a lot to do with those courageous American workers rebuilding their Communist Party, club after club, with the aim to give a more militant tone to the voice of the organized labor, the AFL-CIO.


Meanwhile, the Canadian Communists are, on their own, rebuilding their networks of solidarity and unity, wherever you come from: Québec or English-speaking Canada, especially putting forward the legacy of our giants such as Tim Buck.


“Communism, did you say?” The Canadian youth will tell you –with a smile- that they don’t know concretely what it's all about, but at first sight, like anything else, it does not scare them; after all: “I have somebody in the family who went to Cuba during the winter season and he found that it is just great there, especially for a small country!”



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CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE

vol. 1, no. 28

Often, I wish I could speak better in English and let my wrath explode. Canadian communists, be they French or English, love their motherland. They are proud to defend workers’ values. The young generation is not taught about the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion's fight to save democracy in Spain before WWII against fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and totalitarian Franco hordes. Many Canadian fighters later on joined the Canadian armed Forces to battle against Hitler's onslaught against peaceful peoples in other European countries.

Established in 1921 by young revolutionaries who met in Guelph (Ontario) to work for a socialist alternative to capitalism, the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) was still in the 1940s a young political party.

(Photo Internet: Tim Buck, general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, 1929-1962)

At the outcome of the Second World War, the party benefited from the great victories of the Red Army over Hitler's Wehrmacht. In 1943, Montréal workers elected Fred Rose, the first communist Member of the Parliament in the federal capital (Ottawa). Actually, Dorise Nielsen was the CPC's first MP, elected from Saskatchewan in 1940. The CPC's popularity increased during WW2 and the party went on to elect provincial representatives in Manitoba and Ontario. Soon after Hitler's Germany was defeated in 1945, big Capital initiated the Cold War to undermine communist support and sympathy towards the Soviet Union. The media portrayed Stalin as a monster and red tyrant to scare the workers, to rid them of any aspirations for socialism and for a better world.

The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union/Bolsheviks states: “during the years of reaction, the work in the Party organizations was far more difficult than during the preceding period of development of the revolution. The Party membership had sharply declined. Many of the petty-bourgeois fellow-travelers of the Party, especially the intellectuals, deserted its ranks from fear of persecution by the tsarist government”. Though referring to Soviet history, the same thing happened in Canada during the cold war.

In Québec, it was only in 1965, that courageous leaders such as Sam Walsh reorganized the provincial CPC into the Parti communiste du Québec (PCQ) to increase support for French-Canadian working class struggles and rising national consciousness. For the first time, the french working class became proud of being Québécois.

The Federal Government attempted to shatter the new feelings of french national pride in 1970, using the pretext of an “insurrection” in Québec. It declared martial law after the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped provincial cabinet Minister Pierre Laporte and a British Trade Representative James Richard Cross. The Canadian Army took control of cities and towns across Québec.

(Photo Internet: Fred Rose, first communist elected to the House of Commons in Ottawa, 1943-1947)

While the FLQ, founded by young leftists, initially enjoyed public support, it lost most of this support after the kidnappings. The government of Prime Minister Pierre-Elliot Trudeau and the big business community committed a big mistake declaring martial law. Even today 40 years later, the population remembers with a strange emotion how belittled they felt during the FLQ crisis.

The so-called “Federalists” will never quench the Québec people's thirst for independence, which does not and will never mean the desire to live in a separate country. Even today, the majority of the population elects the Bloc québécois to Ottawa; it is out of bravado and unrest.

The PCQ has difficulties finding its place in this political restlessness. Some older comrades, who gave their last shirt for Canadian working class unity, feared that the national movement would take the road to fascism. In fact, it is the consequence of the Party's lack of political work among workers. Also constant anti-communist campaign isolated the Communists from their natural hotbed, the trade-union movement. However, the real influence of the Communist Party cannot be seen yet in its public meetings. It has influence over the people’s movements in Québec. Young people are interested in CPC history. The Cuban Revolution is very special to them and they care for other nation’s struggles, especially in South America.

Some 50 young Canadians took part in the World Youth and Students Festival in South Africa.
Maybe, naturally maybe, the most important move forward is this new interest for would-be, have-been or being communists towards unity. If we can create a Pole (not in opposition to the Communist Party of Canada), but a “meeting place” (by the way, we learned in secondary-level school that it is what “Toronto” means in one of the First Nations language) where Marxists-Leninists of Canada can initiate discussions, proposals for the working class of Québec and English-speaking Canada (both on a equal footing) and casting an eye on the future of Canada, it would be a radical change ahead.

La Vie Réelle came across new friends in 2010: Canadians for peace and socialism, Northstar Compass, The Regina Peace Council… There is room for dialogue. The Communist Party of Canada can attract all of these people; it is worthy to mention that, at least in Québec, several trade unionists reassess the role of the party in the working class struggles for peace, progress and democracy.
(Photo Internet: Johan Boyden, general secretary of the Young Communist League of Canada, reelected in fall 2010 at the 25th Central Convention)

This dedication at home must never divert us from solidarity with peoples abroad, especially now with the Cuban Five who keep up fighting after 12 years of incarceration based on false charges while they were struggling against anti-Cuban terrorism. These young men's spirit is deeply rooted in our communist minds and hearts.

Probably, we also need a better paper. We need a militant, attractive and frequent paper available for the working families on a very regular basis; a new goal for Clarté and People’s Voice.

Would it not be nice that at the May Day Rallies in Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal, Halifax, Winnipeg and many more places, the communists and their so many friends will say to their co-workers: “Hey, buddy, it’s the new party paper, have a look; it just talks about us?”

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LE PARTI LIBÉRAL SUR LA CORDE RAIDE

LES TRAVAILLEURS CONTRE LE CAPITALISME

vol. 1, no. 27

On ne peut pas dire maintenant que les travailleurs du monde occidental soient largement en faveur du communisme. Mais quelque part dans la nuit, lors de cette écriture, vient à l’esprit que certes la classe ouvrière est de moins en moins en faveur du capitalisme. Et il y a de quoi. « Les Canadiens qui gagnent le mieux leur vie et qui représentent 1% de la population du pays ont empoché près de 14% des revenus déclarés en 2007, conclut une étude du Centre canadien des politiques alternatives, qui est basée sur les déclarations de revenus. »

Le journal Métro qui rapporte cette nouvelle, le 2 décembre, poursuit : « C’est tout le contraire de ce qui se passait dans les années 1940, quand les personnes les plus riches étaient essentiellement des entrepreneurs qui faisaient fortune grâce aux revenus de leur compagnie, et non grâce aux bénéfices décidés par un conseil d’administration et des actions ».

On ne pourra en vouloir à la jeunesse de se révolter contre cette réalité. Quel avenir le grand Capital leur réserve-t-il? Le journal de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ), Ultimatum Express, dénonce les projets de privatisation des campus qui visent « la maximisation des profits ». Ils ont frais dans leur mémoire la récente crise financière. Ils doutent que « les marchés » puissent guider le véritable progrès dans la société. L’ASSÉ, ce n’est pas tout à fait un groupuscule. Elle s’étend à l’échelle du Québec avec près de 42 000 membres, étudiants de collège ou d’université; elle se veut la continuatrice du radicalisme étudiant, né il y a plus de 40 ans; on parle donc de notre Association nationale des étudiants du Québec (ANEQ) qui a gagné les conditions actuelles d’études, notamment un certain gel des frais de scolarité.

Comme l’indique une association locale de sciences humaines : « cette année, la campagne de l’ASSÉ sera contre la privatisation, la tarification et les compressions dans les services publics [ils s’opposent] à toute hausse des frais de scolarité, dans une perspective de gratuité scolaire. Un tel projet nécessite un système d’impôts progressifs sur le capital des entreprises ».
(Photo Internet: Tim Buck a longtemps dirigé le Parti communiste du Canada qui a joué un rôle plus qu'important dans la démocratisation du Canada, et le développement économique, politique et social de la classe ouvrière du pays).

DANS LE MONDE

À l’échelle internationale, « les militants, les cadres et les leaders de la FSM (Fédération syndicale mondiale, ndlr) ses organisations membres, ses bureaux régionaux, associations et organisations professionnelles […] font face avec les travailleurs, et avec les peuples du monde aux attaques du grand Capital contre les droits et les intérêts de ces derniers et de leurs gains sociaux. » Ils ne veulent pas faire les frais de la crise du système capitaliste. (Reflects, FSM, #2, Octobre 2010, p. 4-5, en langue anglaise).

L’Europe au cœur : l’Allemagne

Quand le Capital ne peut plus gouverner comme d’habitude, il lui reste la dictature scabreuse, brutale et violente qu’est le fascisme. Étudions le cas de l’Allemagne. « Le membership du Parti communiste allemand (PCA) s’était accru de beaucoup, jusqu’à 360 000 membres en février 1932, soit trois fois plus que trois ans auparavant. Le 6 novembre 1932, eurent lieu les élections au Reichstag. Le PCA reçut environ six millions de voix, soit 600 000 de plus qu’aux élections du 31 juillet 1932; et 100 sièges –au lieu de 77- au Reichstag. Les Nazis avaient perdu deux millions de voix [Le secrétaire général du PCA, Ernst Thaelmann] rassembla autour du parti révolutionnaire la classe ouvrière pour le socialisme. » Il révéla les liens entre « le fascisme et le grand Capital ». Il appela à la formation d’un puissant bloc antifasciste, unissant les communistes, aux social-démocrates. Ceux-ci refusèrent. S’ensuivit la provocation : le feu au Reichstag que les Nazis se dépêchèrent d’attribuer aux communistes (de mauvaises langues ont établi un parallèle avec les tours du World Trade Centre de New York et la guerre au « terrorisme », ndlr)!

« Le 3 mars 1933, le chef du parti communiste d’Allemagne […] fut arrêté. » Malgré tout, il a maintenu un certain lien épistolaire jusqu’en 1935 avec la Komintern; d’où est né le nom de ce bulletin.
« Quand l’Armée soviétique a franchi la frontière et commencé la libération de l’Europe, les fascistes et Hitler en personne, rageant de haine animale et dans la crainte du châtiment, ont ordonné l’exécution du communiste Thaelmann. On l’a tué dans la nuit du 18 août 1944 dans le camp de concentration de Buchenwald. » (Mysl, no. 4, Moscou, p. 1-2, en langue russe).

Les travailleurs allemands ont été les premières victimes des Nazis. On les a trompés outrageusement. On n’a cessé de traquer les progressistes. Même ces dernières années, tout a été fait et financé par les Konzerns germaniques, les milieux dirigeants des USA, avec la complicité des néo-capitalistes de Russie pour embobiner et dévoyer la conscience du peuple de la République démocratique allemande –l’Est, et jeter à bas, non pas un mur à terre, mais bien le socialisme sur le sol allemand; bien sûr ce pays avait ses faiblesses et ses déficiences, mais il avait réussi à éradiquer le fascisme, garantir la sécurité de chacun, le travail pour tous et des programmes sociaux que les travailleurs et chômeurs (ainsi que la jeunesse) regrettent amèrement aujourd’hui. Le socialisme n’est pourtant pas une vue de l’esprit pour la classe ouvrière allemande.

Ainsi, le journal du Parti communiste allemand (PCA), Unsere Zeit, affirmait : « Karl et Rosa (Liebknecht et Luxemburg, ndlr) se prononcent aussi comme Karl Marx, Frédéric Engels et Vladimir Lénine pour la solidarité internationale du mouvement communiste, pour l’Internationalisme, également nous voulons réitérer cette prise de position au début du Nouvel An (2010, ndlr). Nous faisons partie de ces presque 200 partis communistes et ouvriers à travers le monde. » (UZ, 42. Jahrgang, Nr. 1, Essen, 8. Januar 2010, en langue allemande).

Le même journal disait deux semaines plus tard : « Le 13 février, une action de masse aura lieu sous la bannière de : ‘Combattons-les résolument- Ensemble bloquons-les!’ Contre la marche organisée dans la ville de Dresde. Chaque année des milliers de néo-nazis marchent dans les rues de Dresde. Le prétexte est le bombardement de la ville par les Alliés en février 1945. La large alliance antifasciste : ‘No pasaran’ se mobilise contre cette marche. » (UZ, Nr. 3, 22 Januar 2010, en langue allemande).

En 1934, Joseph Staline, en présentant le Rapport du Comité central au 17ème Congrès du Parti communiste de l’URSS avait signalé que : «… on sait, au cours de la première guerre impérialiste, on voulait anéantir l’une des grandes puissances, l’Allemagne et s’enrichir à ses dépens. Qu’en est-il résulté? Ils n’ont pas anéanti l’Allemagne, mais ils y ont semé une telle haine contre les vainqueurs et créé un terrain si propice à la revanche, que, jusqu’à présent, ils ne peuvent encore, et je pense qu’ils ne pourront de longtemps encore se tirer de et ignoble pétrin dont ils ont eux-mêmes pétri la pâte. »

Retour au Québec

Bon, c’est bien beau toute cette incursion dans l’histoire, mais à quoi ça rime : Staline, Thaelmann, et tutti quanti? S’interrogeront, non sans raison, la plupart des lecteurs.
Depuis des mois, La Vie Réelle et Pour la KOMINTERN now! analysent la scène québécoise et il appert maintenant que les critiques à l’égard du Parti libéral du Québec et de son chef Jean Charest ne visent pas le progrès, l’essor économique au Québec. Les mass média ont fait leurs choux gras des scandales (i.e. des allégations de trafic d’influence dans la nomination des juges, des tractations douteuses entre le monde interlope et le gouvernement dans l’octroi des contrats de construction, pour ne mentionner que ces cas qui ont éveillé la colère du peuple québécois).

Le Parti québécois, ancré dans le nationalisme étroit et s’appuyant sur des notions en faveur du grand Capital... désormais, mais sous le couvert de la social-démocratie, veut récupérer à tout prix la grogne populaire. D’autres mouvements font monter les enchères et courtisent à qui mieux mieux les grands milieux d’affaires. Ceux-ci, bien que dans le sillage des monopoles nord-américains, espèrent se ménager une place de choix dans les estrades du pouvoir économique en Amérique du Nord, surtout dans le milieu financier et aussi dans la possibilité de se créer des marchés pour certains produits finis au Québec, tout en continuant l’exportation de l’énergie à bon marché pour les géants de l’industrie états-unienne.

Bien sûr, les communistes ne font pas leur tasse de thé des malversations et de la gabegie, mais ils ne croient pas qu’il faille déshabiller Paul pour habiller Jacques. En un mot : le Parti québécois ne fera pas mieux que le Parti libéral. Toutefois, la séparation de la classe ouvrière n’augure rien de bon pour les travailleurs québécois ni pour les travailleurs canadiens-anglais. La politique des communistes est claire : ouvrons le contrat de mariage et établissons pour de bon l’égalité des partenaires. Ce ne sont pas les esprits échauffés et particulièrement déstabilisants des nationalistes qui sauveront la mise. Ils font parti du problème.
(Photo Internet: le premier député communiste élu à Montréal, après la 2ème Guerre mondiale; affiche pour sa ré-élection).

Un parti de centre-gauche comme le Parti libéral du Québec, qui a une longue expérience, est capable de redorer son blason; mais il doit accepter, tacitement à tout le moins, que le vrai parti de l’opposition dans la société québécoise, soit le Québec solidaire, se taille une meilleure place à l’Assemblée nationale. La Vie Réelle ne détient pas la vérité absolue et peut errer, mais ses principes de justice sociale, de progrès économique et de libertés politiques lui font dire que les électeurs du Parti libéral du Québec partagent des repères démocratiques nombreux et importants avec les communistes.

On ne peut accepter la politique du pire au nom du changement vers l’itinérance économique et des positions à courte vue face à la crise financière. Par contre, comme en Europe, les travailleurs n’ont pas à faire les frais de cette crise. Ils n’ont pas à être coincés dans le fanatisme idéologique des nationalistes du Parti québécois. Quant aux autres mouvements, la droite extrême peut toujours se les garder. Voilà, La Vie Réelle ne peut être plus claire!

danieleugpaquet@yahoo.ca

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