Arbeit Zukunft: Russian Federation – Growing protest on the streets of Russia

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Correspondence: After the parliamentary elections on 4th December took place in Russia, the largest rallies and demonstrations in 20 years. This was a reaction against the ruling party “United Russia”, which was confronted after the announcement of election results with massive allegations.

Unfair elections, rigged elections (“dirty election”) and the exclusion of opposition members have earned the Chairman and President Putin, Medvedev, who took a leading candidate, the election victory, according to the allegations. Of course no one knows about the extent of electoral fraud. A repeat of the elections has so far categorically excluded from the rulers. Officially, the official result, slipped from the ruling party a two-thirds to 49 percent. In addition, it should come in the upcoming presidential elections in April to a castling, Putin will replace Medvedev as president again. Not only is the straw man haggling over the deal but also a “new government team” from the old government team makes the whole world the impression of a sham democracy with fanciful moments, and has also fueled the protest movement. Has been since early last year with the establishment of an “All-Russian Popular Front” have tried to combat this development and to acquire new people for the party in decline.

Several times in December last year, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against electoral fraud and for more democracy. The power of the state initially responded with brutal force. As at present in many other parts of the world, the government first tried to crush the protest as soon as possible to stick ends special forces and water cannons. Only when the protest movement was expected to be more stable than the government, drew this one a bit.

You can listen to the protesters wanted to respect the protests and examine the allegations, the statements by Russian officials. The ruling party, United Russia, Putin could, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and after the Yeltsin era with stability and predictability to promote themselves. But stability and predictability can not be leased. More and more people in Russia feel betrayed.

“Nobody wants a mess,” was announced, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the start of the protests. But most people in Russia live in a kind of chaos, because they lead a life of poverty every day that just enough times to life as has a layer of super-rich evolved very quickly and this wealth also shamelessly showing off. Here, the economy of the Russian Federation is still determined substantially by the sale of oil and natural gas. In addition to the remaining military-industrial complex, there are a number of investors, such as the automotive industry, are manufacturing in Russia. The national innovation and technological development in Russia, however, remains on track. Foreign banks and corporations are interested mainly in their own profit.

Still, there are primarily young people and students, the urban middle class and the bourgeois opposition which it floats on the streets and squares. Participating organizations such as the revisionist nationalists and Although KPRF suggest a wide range, but is the most important social force, the working class, far involved more reserved. This may have several reasons, which should be investigated. The absence of a Marxist-Leninist organization with mass effect but also shows in Russia as elsewhere, the deficits in organization, leadership and ideology of the working class.

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Joint communiqué of the Organization for the Construction of the Communist Workers Party of Germany Arbeit Zukunft (Work Future) and the KPD/ML

The members of the Organization for the Construction of the Communist Workers Party of Germany (below Arbeit Zukunft) and the KPD/ML (Red Star) have merged into a single organization. This is the result of more than three years of continual friendly and good collaboration based on solidarity and criticism. In the unity process the concluding joint talks showed that there were no essential differences in the ideological and political views of the two organizations that would justify the continued existence of two separate organizations before the working class.

In recent years, the working class in Germany has been facing the harshest attacks of the ruling bourgeoisie, of capital and the State since the destruction of the Nazi regime. We mention only the Agenda 2010 and the placing of the whole burden of the current overproduction crisis solely on the backs of the working people. The workers and other working people are on the defensive in this fight and are forced to continually defend themselves against a massive loss of their social rights and gains!

The lack of a strong Communist organization based on the teachings of Marxism-Leninism that irreconcilably confronts the interests of capital is a decisive weakness, which hinders the power of the workers not only in the defensive fight against these attacks. Both Arbeit Zukunft as well as the KPD/ML have been trying for many years to build up such a Communist leadership, but they were conscious of the fact that they could not fulfill the demands of the class struggle here.

Why don’t you finally unite! – That is the demand of the workers, employees, unemployed people, progressive and revolutionary-minded people again and again to us and to the countless other groups that consider themselves communist. With their merger, Arbeit Zukunft and the KPD/ML want to contribute to meeting this demand of the working class. The merger will improve our work and strengthen our forces.

It is clear to us that this only is a small step in fulfilling our duties in the class struggle. Even after our merger we can barely begin the tasks to be dealt with by a real Communist Party. Both Arbeit Zukunft and the KPD/ML know that, outside their and other organizations, there are unorganized people who are sympathetic with socialism or communism, who are confused by the many left groups. We hope that through our merger we can give these people more confidence.

It is also clear to us that we must work together with other organizations who consider themselves Marxist-Leninist. Thus we have the goal, not only of becoming stronger through concrete actions, but in particular of merging.

We do not want an unprincipled merger. The old Communist parties suffered a historic defeat, both in the formerly socialist countries where they were in power, as well as in the capitalist countries. We expect to work in the future for a unity that draws relentless consequences from this failure – especially from the defeat of the previous attempts of building socialism: in ideology and theory, in political program and the relation of a Communist Workers Party to the workers and working people. We see the roots of the defeat of the socialist countries in the continuing existence of capitalist birthmarks, and in the unconscious or conscious redevelopment of capitalist relations and their corresponding class structures. Without criticism of the ideological cover up, the clarification of these relations, without criticism of revisionism and without clarity and self-criticism there will be no new attempts at socialism. For us, the clarification of the past is the basis for the future. We must learn, so that it does not go wrong again!

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement! Lenin’s words applied today mean no less than to accomplish this task.

Our now united organization is called “Organization for the Construction of the Communist Workers Party of Germany / Arbeit Zukunft”. We think that a new, third name would only lead to more confusion. The two newspapers will to continue to exist, but with different emphases. The newspaper Arbeit Zukunft should be oriented to reach the largest number of working people, including those who so far are still not close to socialism or communism. Red Star should continue – with increased strength – as the future theoretical organ.

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The KPD Anti-Revisionist Struggle in East Germany during the period 1976-1982

“Voice of Truth”, no EQUALITY. 3, 1-15 October 1993, p. 4

Among other discussions held in camps, international youth (fascist – anti-imperialist – young Marxist-Leninist party) from 07/23/1993 to 08/01/1993 in Berlin, was the mention of his companions KPD (Communist Party of Germany) part of the East. Germany for the action of the party during the period of Honecker.

The part of the KPD in East Germany was illegal and was founded in 1976 with a continuous action until 1982, where he was rounded up by security Honecker.

This section consisted of too many party organizations, but it was built in such a manner where each party organization was 3-5-member with no connection between the party organizations among them.

The action part of the KPD looked out the illegal calls and illegal newspaper KPD, “ROTER MORGEN”, but with action open to the unions, which was the long arm of the revisionist party.

Also sourced and traded illegally from the Albanian embassy works of Enver Hoxha and the general content of Marxist books.

These books left in the accessible parts of the world, as well as items traded by the Soviet army, which angered the Soviet Military Governor of the Magdeburg region. It also handled and handed out the “Red Flag” illegal Marxist-Leninist Party of Poland to the Polish workers who worked occasionally in eastern Germany.

The positions of the Board on the status Honecker seemed generally to the following issues: – The scheme is sosialfasistiko – challenged the official propaganda and looked under the ML reality – the poor state of East Germany in this period could not be corrected reform but revolution – With this concept one must understand the position and state capitalism in East Germany – This capitalism has nothing to do with classical capitalism but in a society in transition from socialism to capitalism. – It was emphasized that this society had outside of the socialist housing, but in contrast was especially strong on democracy when it collapsed. For example, any citizen initiative qualified as a crime by the official bureaucracy. – Of course at home was why Marxism – Leninism, dictatorship of the proletariat, etc. from the official propaganda to divert to trap passivation and the masses that everything is going well on the basis of Marxism-Leninism.

All this angered the Honecker regime, the secret service and various mechanisms have moved vigorously to stop the action of the party, which failed in 1982.