PCRV: Fighting Regionalism & Ethnicism with the Utmost Energy!

PCRV – CENTRAL REGIONAL COMMITTEE

The reactionary power of the Fourth Republic was erected regionalism and ethnicism method of government. These two very dangerous for national unity have never reached such a crisis level in our country under the reign of Captain Blaise Compaore.

The Ambassador of France Alain Deschamps in his book “Burkina Faso 1987-1992″ Reports about a government minister of the Popular Front, who complained that there are too many non-Mossi in the government of about openly and ethnicist regionalist are publicly held by certain nationals of the Centre. At the height of the movement “enough is enough”, some said that Blaise could kill 100 people a day. They would support him because he is their son;

Ziniaré which is a stone’s throw from Ouagadougou, was erected in the chief town of province first, then region; Manga has been erected in the chief town of the region at the expense of Po based on the same considerations; II is not necessary to dwell on the behaviors of some uneducated educated nationals of the Centre particularly as the brothers Oubritenga Koutaba, Konseibo of ENRAF, Cyril Goungounga Saaba (whose only regret on attach to this Department was “no longer belong to the same province as the Head of State”) who think out of the thigh of Jupiter. Proponents of this propaganda and practices of chauvinism great Mossi were recruited from the Centre:

• the middle of feudalism with Moogho Naaba top and activists such as El Hadj Yugo, Seydou Ouedraogo Sas Naaba, Adama for for more mad;
• Christian churches with Archbishop Jean-Marie Compaore, I Bishop Seraphim Rouamba, pastors Compaore Freeman, Samuel Yaméogo etc.;
• the Muslim community with the sheiks Aboubacar Sana, Mamadou Band, El Hadj Yugo etc..
• environment with intellectuals such as Edouard Ouedraogo occult advisors and Edmond de Nana “1′Observateur Paalga” Harouna lawyers and Benoit Ouedraogo, Senior Pacéré Titinga. They even created a group within the ARC Centre of intellectuals Mossi;
• with the political Nayabtigoungou Congo Kabore Moss and his party Tenga Pen Pasgo (posted in Tanghin Dassouri great on the road to Bobo), Issa Tiendrébéogo, Cyril Goungounga Achilles Tapsoba, Simon Compaore, the Larlé Naaba for more visible. Their actions helped defeat the various national minorities and under serious threat on cohesion and national unity.

The PCRV called people of different nationalities and regions of our country:

• denounce and combat regionalism and ethnic hatred and their authors whatever;
• cohesion and unity of different nationalities in respect of their difference;
• join its ranks for the overthrow of the pro-imperialist struggle of the 4th Republic of Captain Blaise Compaore and his gang.

Not to regionalism and tribalism!
Long live the unity of various nationalities called Upper Volta Burkina Faso!
Forward for the Provisional Revolutionary Government and the Constituent Assembly!
Voting is not compulsory!
Boycott the elections on November 13, 2005!

Tunis Declaration

On July 26, 2011, a meeting of the Communist Party of Benin (PCB), the Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia (PCOT), the Revolutionary Communist Party of the Ivory Coast (PCRCI), the Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta (PCRV) and “The Democratic Road” Organization of Morocco was held in Tunis. The parties exchanged their views on the international situation, the tasks that it induces for the proletariat, the revolutionaries and the peoples of Africa and propose signing the Declaration whose content follows:

1) The crisis of the capitalist and imperialist system, which arose in 2007-2008, is a structural crisis that has called neoliberalism into question and put the thought of Karl Marx on the agenda. This crisis is deepening, striking with full force the economies of the countries of the world, including the economies of developed countries such as Greece, Spain etc.

2) With the appearance in strength of emerging countries and the capitalist crisis, there is the exacerbation of inter-imperialist contradictions on the one hand and that between the imperialist powers and the emerging countries on the other hand, tending towards a multi-polarity in the leadership of world affairs, in contrast to the hegemonic unipolarity of the United States of America that existed since 1990-1992. This exacerbation of contradictions is leading to a redivision of the world with consequences of wars having their fields of operations in the neo-colonial and dependent countries. The recent intervention of the French army and that of other imperialist forces in the Ivory Coast to install one of their pawns (Ouattara) in place of another (Gbagbo), the current aggression by the forces of NATO, France, England and the United States in Libya under the false pretext of establishing a so-called democratic regime, thus undermining the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people for freedom and democracy, are acts that confirm what has been said above.

The signatory Parties condemn these imperialist aggressions against the peoples of these countries and call for their immediate cessation.

3) Africa, which is the epicenter of the world inter-imperialist contradictions because of the huge mineral resources that it abounds with, is thus suffering full force not only from the effect of these inter-imperialist rivalries with the consequences such as wars, but also all the ills of humanity such as hunger, illiteracy, disease and backwardness of all kinds. Africa is the most enslaved of all the continents and its liberation from the imperialist yoke will be a decisive milestone in the liberation of all humanity. This liberation is looming on all parts of the continent.

4) The signatories Parties state that the major urgent challenge for the emancipation of the proletariat and the peoples of Africa is the formation of vanguard parties, particularly communist parties and the strengthening of their union based on Marxist-Leninist principles, which must be remembered.

5) The Tunisian revolution underway, which began with the flight of the dictator Ben Ali on January 14, 2011, has inaugurated a new era of the revolution in the world, and particularly in Africa. Its impact, which can be seen up to now in the world and in Africa (in Egypt, Morocco, Benin, Burkina Faso, Senegal etc.), show the proletariat and the peoples of the world and Africa in particular that by rising up, the people can get rid of all the powers including the dictatorial powers no matter how powerful they are.

The signatory Parties salute this great victory of the Tunisian people and encourage them to continue the fight until the completion of the revolution.

The PCB, PCRCI, PCRV, “The Democratic Road” Organization of Morocco and the other signatory Parties salute the PCOT for its important contribution to the movement that led to the overthrow of the dictator Ben Ali; they encourage it to continue along this road until the overthrow of the regime put in place by the latter and they assure it of their unwavering support for the achievement of this objective. They understand that the greatest support for the Tunisian revolution is for each Party to lead and carry out the revolution in their own country.

The PCB, PCOT, PCRCI and PCRV salute the struggle begun in Morocco by the February 20 movement to demand a democratic constitution chosen by the people. They denounce the repression by the Makhzen [royal elite – translator’s note] against the movement and express their full solidarity with the comrades of the Democratic Road and the February 20 movement.

The PCB, PCOT, PCRCI, PCRV, “The Democratic Road” Organization of Morocco and the other signatory Parties to this Declaration, call on the African communists, revolutionaries and patriots throughout the African continent to form themselves into real vanguard Parties particularly Communists Parties to lead the current and future struggles for the emancipation of the African proletariat and peoples so that they free themselves from the yoke of the imperialists and from capitalist exploitation.

Tunis, July 26, 2011

Communist Party of Benin (PCB)

Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia (PCOT)

Revolutionary Communist Party of the Ivory Coast (PCRCI)

Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta (PCRV, Burkina Faso)

The Democratic Road (Morocco)

Solidarity with the people of Volta and the PCRV

Resolution of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations on the Revolutionary Process in Burkina Faso and the Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta

As throughout the world and particularly in Africa, Burkina Faso is undergoing a many-sided structural adjustment crisis -an economic, political and institutional, social and moral crisis. The horrible assassination of the progressive journalist Norbert Zongo and his three friends on 13 December 1998 in Sapouy (100 km. from the capital city Ouagadougou) by the authorities of the IVth Republic is one of the factors that has revealed this crisis. It has also been the trigger of a vast popular movement (“Enough is Enough”) against exemption from punishment and for winning political liberty which, under the leadership of the Collective of Mass Democratic Organisations and Political Parties (CODMPP), has been shaking the country for more than 16 months. The platform of the Collective takes into account the democratic aspirations of the people of Burkina Faso and their desire for a qualitative political change in their favour.

Faced with this unprecedented powerful popular movement, which has undergone a burst of patriotic energy for national liberation, the authorities of the IVth Republic -with the mafia clan of Blaise Campoar and his party-state, the Congress For Democracy (CDP) at its head- supported by imperialism, especially French imperialism, has done everything in their power to stifle the legitimate aspirations of the people of Burkina Faso.

Declaration of the PCRCI and PCRV on the Xenophobia and Chauvinism in the Ivory Coast

The wave of xenophobia that has swept the Ivory Coast since 1993 has led, at the present time, to unparalleled violence in that country. Certain bourgeois politicians have decided to resort to xenophobia as a way to attain and hold power. Carried to the point of caricature by the current rulers who are trying to make it into a theory, this ideology of identity has become their only weapon against Alassane Dramane Ouattara. Unable to wage this fight with rational arguments, which were nevertheless not lacking, they decided to denigrate him as a foreigner, in particular a Burkinabe [person from Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) - translator].
Everyone knows in fact that many foreigners live in the Ivory Coast, of whom more than three million are from Burkina Faso. It is easy, in these present conditions of acute capitalist crisis, to make them scapegoats, the source of the misery of the Ivorians [people from the Ivory Coast - translator].

They use every means available, stretching decency and ethics to the limit, to present Ouattara as a Burkinabe national who is trying to usurp the post of president of the Republic of the Ivory Coast to the detriment of the “true Ivorians.” This can only incite feelings of repulsion and hatred among those who are suffering but are unaware of the real cause of their suffering. This manipulation has led to all kinds of demagogy. This is the front line of defense of the present rulers, who are using tribalism and xenophobia to brush aside their political opponents.

The Burkinabe residents in the Ivory Coast and other foreign nationals are victims of conflicts between bourgeois clans whose interests are different from their own. But the new rulers are not prepared to renounce these policies. According to them, the rejection of foreigners is “a social phenomenon in the Ivory Coast;” the exploitation of this by politicians allows them to hold on to their power and particularly to eliminate their sworn enemy, Ouattara, forever from all political processes in that country.

The government of Blaise Compaoré [of Burkina Faso - translator], as usual, has kept quiet and taken a wait and see attitude in regard to the painful events that the Burkinabe people in the Ivory Coast are undergoing. This is because the governments of the two countries have very little regard for life and human dignity. The two governments already have many political crimes in their record and are thus basically of the same nature.

The consequences of this situation are numerous: popular condemnation of the foreign communities, particularly Burkinabes, the destruction of goods and extortion of funds belonging to them, police harassment, humiliations of all kinds, beatings, killings. The toll of the attacks against these communities, at the call of the social-chauvinist regime of Gbagbo [of the Ivory Coast - translator], remains to be calculated. That will allow people to assess the extent of the disaster.

The Revolutionary Communist Party of the Ivory Coast (PCRCI) and the Revolutionary Communist Party of Upper Volta (PCRV), very concerned by this situation:

1) express their indignation and reprobation at this social-chauvinist policy of the Ivorian government, the complicity of the Burkinabe government and of French imperialism, their master;

2) condemn the violent oppression of the xenophobic Ivorian government and demand the immediate halt to the attacks against the nationals of other African countries, particularly of Burkinabe nationals;

3) demand that light be shone on all the consequences of the current political events and the violence that they generate;

4) call upon the Ivorian working class and the working people to abstain from all attacks against the Burkinabe working people of town and country living in the Ivory Coast and, in general, against all foreign nationals;

5) call upon the Burkinabe working class and people to refrain from all attitudes of chauvinism and revenge and from all forms of reprisals against the Ivorian nationals living in Burkina Faso;

6) invite the working people of the two countries to thwart the Machiavellian maneuvers of the Gbagbo regime who are inciting hatred against foreigners in his competition with Ouattara Dramane Alassane;

7) call for vigilance and effective solidarity of the Ivorian and Burkinabe working people in their fight against their common enemies: the fascistic regime of Blaise Compaoré, the social-chauvinist regime of Laurent Gbagbo and French imperialism which are the basis of their misery.

Long live proletarian internationalism!

Abidjan, December 2000

Central Committee of the PCRCI
Central Committee of the PCRV

PCRV: News from Burkina Faso

Live from Ouagadougou
Thursday, April 28

1) “The situation is still tense in Ouagadougou and across the country yesterday, the police returned to the drawing dance all night from 27 to 28 and taking some hostage arteries, such as the road to Tanghin at side of the police, not far from the camp school and power plant Paspanga. The first minister Luc A TIAO began negotiations with police.

2) Koudougou Mayor CDP strong believer, closed shops and merchants on the night of April 26 to 27 for unpaid fees shed market, while the associations of merchants had succeeded, by dint of persuasion , to pay more than 87% of the market traders. What, however, the mayor acknowledged relevant and he even praised the merchants.

Against all odds, on the night of April 26 to 27, the “chatter” and shopkeepers shut down and seal shops of traders of date of payment, and the morning of 27 traders find the facts and pass the attack: the ransacking of the home market leader, ransacked the home of the mayor who was burned, all gamy toll. Traders were supported by the school and students who spontaneously joined the movement.

Last Thursday, the traders observed a transaction “dead city” in Koudougou and demanded the departure of the mayor. The fighting spirit and sharpens people learn to better organize for their rights. That’s up a notch battles.

3) The first minister has announced the abolition of the Municipal Development Tax, dear Simon Compaore, Mayor of Ouagadougou, which had promised to take action against violators of the tax. She, however, doubled. Since 1995, a decree establishing the tax we pay through the purchase of fuel. Therefore, we refuse to pay since 2008 this famous TDC. He promised to get tough and, for our part, we were also ready to respond. People have understood and adhered to the struggle of the CCVC (Coalition to Fight against high prices, corruption, and for freedom) against this tax and many other points. The strong reaction came from a rural Yatenga, where people, through the support of the CCVC, refused to pay the fee and drove the zealous police who were trying to ensure control.

Mayors of Burkina Faso, met yesterday with Simon Compaore, requested the suspension of the CCT. The minister said the present government has just decided its removal.

4) In his first press conference held yesterday evening, Luke A TIAO promised:

- Reduction of 10% IUTS (),

- Suspending fees for late payment of electricity charges until late June (if you have a late payment in two days, you pay two thousand francs more on your invoice SONABEL);

- Abolition of the special police at the University of Ouagadougou in place since 2005 following the struggles of the ANAB (). For wages, he promises to see the first health state budget before voting and asked the understanding of unions and CCVC.

In short, we accept things that yesterday were denied. It’s a good thing to do, but we expect to see the application and the removal of TDC, the lifting of the special police at the university of which they recognize the futility. These are points of the claims of workers and the people but we must remain vigilant. It is clear that the regime seeks to calm the situation.

We are in full preparation of the May 1st!

[Source: http://www.pcof.net/%5D

Coalition against high prices: the PCRV made ​​its public appearance

By Moussa Zongo

The demonstration of April 8 has kept all its promises. For the first time that the coalition is mobilizing all the world. Let us consider the three major events that have marked the day.

For the first time, the Revolutionary Communist Party Voltaic (PCRV) made a public appearance. The underground party, known for his statements, this time made a public display of banners through preaching “to a provisional revolutionary government” pending the arrival of a “modern democratic Republic.” The PCRV is finally out of the woods. Maybe the big night is below. The signs and banners have attracted the attention of many protesters who see the output PCRV certainly a new tactic of fighting for the overthrow of the power he preaches from his birth in 1978. In his statement delivered on site, PCRV clear that the revolt in Burkina is “a popular revolutionary deep and broad indicating a deepening of the revolutionary crisis that has shaken our country …” The young people who were holding these signs hesitate not, however, to the openly brandish before the cameramen and photographers eager to capture many? the event.

Second highlight of the meeting, the message of the coalition. It is a short statements distributed by the PRCV from the perspective of the analysis. All agree that the crisis the country is the result of poor governance. Much of the emphasis is on the crisis in Burkina since the death of Zongo Justin on February 22 in Koudougou and events that followed until the death of the young Madina Bouda April 6, victim a stray bullet on the night of March 30 in the crow’s feet, during the hours of curfew.

Tole Sagnon returned to the impunity under the fourth republic and the lack of solutions to the problems of the population. And the coalition wants to take the bull by the horns. It requires action by the government for the cessation of acts of aggression against freedom, against impunity and for truth and justice and the end of the lifting arms and militias against the citizens. The coalition also wants answers about the cost of living. However, these requirements sound like a better tactic to return. The coalition said not to expect anything of consultations initiated by Blaise Compaore with different social groups to discuss their concerns. For them, the objective of the head of state in this new approach is to reduce social fever. No credit is granted then this approach. Since 2008 the CCVC beating the pavement for a satisfaction of its platform of action and so far, the government turned a deaf ear. The coalition compares the new address Blaise Compaore people than in 1999 after the filing of the report of the inquiry into the murder of Norbert Zongo. The authority had also promised the end of violent crimes on the occasion of the national day of pardon in March 2001. Evidence to show that one should not expect satisfactory answers in relation to popular demands.

Obviously, the coalition does not exclude actions in the fight to end the suffering of the people. Tole Sagnon even noted in his introduction that some might find that the strike is 24 bit, but he reminded activists that the motion of January 3, 1966 which claimed the power of Maurice Yameogo happened in 24 hours. Everything is in the hands of the people and is a matter of mobilization capacity. The final highlight is the mobilization of traders. In the long route, in some markets and Yaari, merchants closed their shops to attend the event. They were victims of the mutiny of the military on the night of March 22 to 23. Their representative, Moussa Dabo, vice president of the national organization of traders in Burkina (ONACOMB) who spoke on behalf of his fellow protesters to inform traders that are now in all the events that target the well-being populations. Referring to the movement in the Maghreb, he thinks that 2011 is the year chosen by God to the people in suffering. He therefore urged the people not to miss this opportunity.

Rally in Burkina Faso a Great Success

Mobilization from April 8 to Burkina was a great success

Here is a brief comment from a friend who attended this memorable day.

Some echoes of the strike on April 8 hosted by the CCVC which mobilized a huge crowd. Not since early in the case of Norbert Zongo to see such a world. Slogans contained very combative and revolutionary content. The award of Labour has refused the world, some were on the trees outside, others sitting on the tarmac outside the Labour Exchange.

For once, the market for e Ouaga been closed all day, paralyzed economic activities. In Bobo, Koudougou Dori Banfora Gaoua, Manga, everywhere, the mobilization was flawless.

The 5 gold mines in operation also took part in the struggle. TV5 has a unique story about this fight. Getting ready for May 1st and already teachers and SYNTER SNESS are on strike on 13, 14 and 15 April for specific claims.

The PCRV participated in the strike with its publications and banner see pictures.

Plenum of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Upper Volta (PCRV)

From Bug-Parga Takisse Jewol-Jema

Central Political Organ of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta

No. 52 [August 1995]

Last July the Central Committee of the PCRV held an ordinary Plenum:

Analyzing the experience of socialism and its defeat on a world scale as a social system, the Plenum showed that this defeat is temporary and that the objective causes exist more than ever today that make the march of history lead only to socialism as well as communism. The tasks of communists is to work for the realization of the subjective conditions, in this case the creation and/or the reinforcement of genuine Communist Parties, the elaboration of correct revolutionary strategies and tactics in view of a fierce struggle for the destruction of capitalism by the taking of power and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat for the construction of Socialism and Communism.

Analyzing the international situation, the Plenum showed that the defeat of socialism has as a direct consequence that capitalism, as a social system, rules on the entire globe in a hegemonic manner under the direction of American imperialism, with the emergence of a single world capitalist market, and that from now on the world is marked by three fundamental contradictions, that is:

• the contradiction between the imperialist powers
• the contradiction between imperialism and the peoples
• the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

The dismemberment of the USSR and the collapse of the revisionist regimes of East Europe have put an end to the bipolar division of the world which placed on one side the USA and its European allies and on the other the USSR and its satellites.

The Plenum showed that the economic and political upheavals taking place in the world, the prodigious changes and developments taking place in all spheres of life through the Scientific and Technical Revolution (STR) and its consequences, have not changed the character of our epoch, which remains the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolutions.

Analyzing the national situation the Plenum showed:

* the complete restriction of the political life of our country by setting up a Party-State.

* the ruin of the economy and social misery by the selling off of the national patrimony, the corruption, the exclusion of the large masses from health service and education, the reduced diet, etc.

The Plenum analyzed the internal situation of the Party and decided on measures for its reinforcement and the elevation of the level of its activity.

In conclusion, the Plenum elaborated the tactics of the Party for:

- the advance of the struggle for the revolution in our country;

- its contribution to the struggle for the reinforcement of the International Communist Movement (ICM).

Long Live the immortal doctrine of Marxism-Leninism!

Long live socialism and communism for the national and social liberation of the peoples!

Long live the PCRV Party of Revolutionary Action!

BREAD AND LIBERTY FOR THE PEOPLE!

July 1995
The Central Committee of the PCRV.