PC(AP): Successful Third Congress of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People

Eduardo Artés & others from the PC(AP) at the World Congress for Friendship and Solidarity with the Soviet People

Translation by George G

On the 9, 10 and 11 of September, the Third World Congress of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People took place in Toronto, Canada. It was attended by representatives of many organizations in the world, from different countries such as the former Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia, India, Sri Lanka (Tamil), Chile, United States, Canada, Australia, Finland and Great Britain. There were representatives of different organizations from some countries. Chile was represented by Comrade Eduardo Artés, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile (Proletarian Action). Several delegates were not allowed in the country to attend the Congress because the reactionary government of Canada refused to issue a visa. Nevertheless, to compensate for their absence, those delegates sent many greetings and statements indicating their strong commitment to the struggle for the achievement of our common objectives.

Frank Trampus opened the Congress, while Michael Lucas introduced the delegates participating in the sessions, and, in his capacity as main leader of the International Council, he led and guided the discussions throughout the debates and presentations.

Many topics were discussed: the main report presented by Michael Lucas, the different language editions of the magazine “Northstar Compass”, the situation in each country, the promotion of the magazine and of solidarity with the Soviet peoples, the struggle of communists, the necessary unity of the Soviet Communists on the basis of Marxism-Leninism, the denunciation of and the open struggle against revisionism, and the defence of the legacy of Lenin and Stalin.

All contributions and interventions were followed with great attention and generated several questions and comments from the delegates present. The presentation by Eduardo Artés, on the situation in Chile and on the struggle of the workers and the people, on the tasks of international solidarity and on the promotion of Spanish language edition of Northstar Compass, was greeted with enthusiasm by members present at the Congress.

Two books were launched during the Congress: “Khrushchev Lied”, by Professor Grover Furr, from the United States, and “U.S. Democracy: The U.S. Empire’s Indispensible Myth”, by Ray O. Light, also from the United States. Both authors provided an extensive overview of their works.

Presentations of firm Leninist orientation were made at the Congress by Michael Lucas, Frank Trampus, Antonio Artuso, Angelo D`Angelo, George Gruenthal, Eduardo Artés, María Donchenko, Viktor Bourenkov, Ray-O-Light, Manik Mukherjee, among others. The presence and intervention of General Alexander Fomin, a member of the Union of Soviet Officers, not only recalled the heroic role of the Red Army but also focused the debate on the revisionist treachery of Khrushchev and on the perspective of the revolutionary struggle to rebuild socialism today in what was the Country of the Soviets.

We would like to emphasize that although the Council is a broad international organization dedicated to the defence and promotion of socialism at the time of Lenin and Stalin, because of its superiority, its orientation is clearly defined: it is a Marxist-Leninist organization, focused on the struggle against and the denunciation of the reactionary capitalists in Moscow and the world, against the Trotskyites and the revisionists traitors, enemies of socialism, the working class and peoples.

Although nostalgia was evident, although the memory of socialism in the USSR led, at times, deep emotion among the delegates, particularly facing the current barbaric actions of the imperialist powers in the world, the criminal devastations in country, the brutal re-colonization of the latter, the Congress was in no way nostalgic. Instead, the delegates focused on today’s tasks to achieve the socialist, proletarian and soviet victories of the future.

The Third Congress of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet people was very successful. It ended with the adoption of resolutions and the sharing of tasks for the development of the struggle for socialism throughout the world and for the rebuilding of the Soviet Union. As for our Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP), our activists will firmly carry on our tasks, and we are confident that our comrades from other countries will follow suit. The broad unity and the communist struggle is the only way possible, and we will devote all our efforts to firmly continue on this path.

Long live the Third Congress of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity
with Soviet People!

Today the STRUGGLE, tomorrow SOCIALISM!

National Commission for Communications

Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)

CCP (PA)

PCMLE: The Popular Movement is Reactive

Protest actions produced in the country these days, and several other events held show the revival of social movement. Although in one sense they are still small expressions, are not without importance: its social impact is significant.

The teachers and high school students these days are the main protagonist of the demonstrations against to unpopular measures taken by the government. Public employees, weeks ago, also voiced their dissatisfaction with the Public Service Act, as well as small merchants against a new law that creates more obstacles to develop their productive activity. In areas where mineral resources are concentrated are constants different forms of resistance to large-scale exploitation of these resources promoted by the government. Popular discontent dammed gradually takes the form of open protest.

Another statement of the same phenomenon are unitary efforts within the popular movement with leftist groups and parties, and the work for the strengthening of the various organizations in particular.

Last week was fulfilled successfully, the national convention of the Movimiento Popular Democrático MPD which was able to demonstrate their organizational development. It was attended by representatives of CONAIE, Montecristi Vive Participation, Corriente Soicialista Revolucionaria among others.This is an example of the steps in the field of popular block unit, are given.

It was not a formal presence, it occurs in the context of work to build and consolidate La Coordinadora Plurinacional de Organizaciones de Izquierda, on the one hand it is preparing for a national convention in November, and on the another, in the context national and local unit meetings of popular organizations have been made. In either case, efforts to give local organizational forms are ongoing.

Part of this Popular dynamic is also the next National Assembly of El Frente Popular which groups major unions and popular organizations in the country. Undoubtedly, the FP is one of the main pole of political and popular movement in Ecuador.

Our Party has the political commitment to work for these efforts to reach unit higher levels, and build a powerful instrument of struggle of the workers and peoples of Ecuador to face a government that wants to lord it on the basis of pressure and blackmail.