July 28th, 2017

To the 55th Annual Anti War Assembly

To the Zengakuren [Japanese Federation of Self-Organized Student Associations]
To the Anti-War Youth Committee
To the Revolutionary Communist League of Japan - Revolutionary Marxist Fraction (JRCL-RMF)

Comrades,

We salute the 55th Anti-War Assembly, which takes place at a crucial moment for the world working class.
Reformism, Stalinism and renegades of Marxism wanted to make the workers believe that capitalism would emerge from the global crack of 2008 without attacking all the gains of the working class decisively, without counterrevolutionary coups and without wars. They announced -as did social-imperialist currents such as the French NPA, the Argentine PTS, the English SWP and other renegades of Marxism, along with Stalinism- that imperialism dominated the planet by expanding democracy. Reformism wants to sell a venomous delusion to the workers, i.e., that there is a youthful and flourishing capitalist system, while in fact it is already decrepit and in a state of putrefaction; and in a moment it expands not democracy but fascism and war.

Here and there, reformism tied the hands of the working class so that it could not respond to the fierce war that the imperialist world capitalist system has been launching against the international working class since 2008.

From the FLTI / Collective for the re-Foundation of the Fourth International, comrades, we then greet your Anti-War Assembly. You are leading the battles of the Japanese workers against the anti-worker government of Abe, a partner of the US imperialism. You call for defeating the imperialist war machine. You have stated that your enemy is at home, while the workers and oppressed peoples of the world and the Pacific in particular are your allies; the Japanese working class will find in them the decisive force, on condition of being able to unite their claims and combats against the imperialism, with the Chinese, Korean, Filipino, etc., workers.
We salute the struggle both of us waged together, on the same barricade of the exploited in the fights of the Maghreb and Middle East and Syria in particular, where we faced genocidal Bashar al-Assad, the massacres of assassin Putin and imperialism.
Together, we fought the labour aristocracies and bureaucracies of the trade unions and Stalinism, which in 2017, when the 100th anniversary of the victory of the October Revolution is to be celebrated, is still alive and still betraying and bringing cruel defeats to the world working class.
After 1989 and the final handout of the USSR to imperialism, the bourgeoisie protected Stalinist parties from all over the world so that, from the unions and the mass struggle organizations, they continue to fulfil their perfidious counterrevolutionary role of class collaboration. They held Stalinism as a counterrevolutionary force of capitalist restoration, as in Cuba, China, Vietnam, etc. For this, they counted with the help of the liquidators of the Fourth International, the renegades of Trotskyism. They, surrendering the program of revolutionary socialism, went openly into the field of Stalinism, renouncing the struggle for socialist revolution. So they became neo-Stalinists.

Comrades,
We participate in this Anti-War Assembly on the centenary of the heroic revolution of October, which demonstrated that the world proletariat could seize power and that its victory was only possible with the triumph of the world socialist revolution, or else any conquest would be lost.
That was what the internationalists of Kienthal and Zimmerwald, the revolutionary Marxists of the 20th century, claimed. We pay homage to those who 100 years ago pushed the proletariat to storm the heavens.

We denounce the traitors, the Stalinist scourge who sold out that huge conquest that the USSR meant. More than ever, we keep saying that the only immediate solution to the bankruptcy of the capitalist system, the unprecedented suffering of the exploited masses of the world, and the wars and genocides - which go on worsening in the twenty-first century - is the victory of the socialist revolution. Today, as in the past, in order to achieve this, we must help the international proletariat to get rid of Stalinism, the renegades of Marxism and all the workers' bureaucracies bought by the world capitalist system that, at every step, betray the workers and exploited masses’ struggles and surrender all their achievements.
Let's fight together to recover the lost conquests. Our struggle will not cease until the socialist revolution triumphs internationally. This is our best tribute to the October Revolution and to the current struggles of the martyred world working class.

The Bolsheviks, taking power together with the internationalists of Europe, demonstrated how to defeat the imperialist wars and their own imperialist gangs and their counterrevolutionary offensives in the world. The war cry was "the enemy is at home" and they called on the working class to turn the rifle against its own executioners and to the victory of the socialist revolution. There is no other way out of the quagmire of crisis, barbarism, fascism and war to which this bankrupt system leads. The alternative today more than ever remains: socialism or barbarism.
That's why we shout together: Long live the October Revolution! Open the road to militant internationalism!

Comrades,
Today we see a new wave of 2008 global crack. Today a crack new tornado hits the BRICS, opening crisis, recession and stagnation that threaten to ruin Brazil, India, South Africa; and a crisis is already hitting Russia and China’s doors.

The capitalist world market has narrowed. The capitalization of companies in the main stock exchanges in the world was reduced by 50%. International trade stagnated. International financial transactions contracted by 33%. The price of raw materials fell dramatically. As an example, the price of oil fell from 140 dollars a barrel in 2011 to 50 dollars at present. Imperialist banks are still accumulating junk bonds.

8 years after the Great Recession, let’s see how this system could keep sustained. It has been thanks to the agents of Big Capital, who in the labour movement have dedicated themselves to undo every attempt of revolutionary mass offensive that since 2008 has hit the planet. Union bureaucracies and the social-imperialist parties have disorganized the offensive of the European working class, stabbing its vanguard in the back, as to the revolutions in Greece, Ukraine and the combats of the French working class. They subjected the working class of the old continent to imperialist Maastricht.
They supported the assassin Putin, who acts as a true gendarme on account of world capitalism throughout the Eurasian area.
In Latin America, the World Social Forum and Stalinism delivered Cuba to imperialism, surrendered the Colombian resistance and, with the farce of the "Bolivarian revolution", betrayed the revolutionary rise of the masses of that sub-continent.
Meanwhile, they had a pact with the butcher Obama, that blackened Bush who was the great organizer behind scenes of the massacre of the masses in the Middle East and who led one of the biggest attacks on the American working class by taking away all their achievements. They supported the "leftist" Sanders, who deceived the American workers with his "socialist" verbiage and then he brought them to the feet of Clinton.

Comrades,
The greatest tragedy occurred when imperialism concentrated all its forces to stop this revolutionary offensive of the masses. This happened in Ukraine and Syria, where the revolutionary wave that started in 2011 in Tunisia was restrained and also the European upsurge that with the revolutionary events of Greece had threatened to expand to East Europe.

Today, the result of this policy is concentrated in martyred Syria and on the masses of the Middle East, as in Yemen, Morocco, Bahrain, Egypt and the same Palestinian masses massacred at close range.
In Syria 600,000 exploited were killed in a cruel counterrevolutionary war. This is equivalent to two and a half times the destruction caused by the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan) together at the end of the Second World War. Napalm and white phosphorus became daily visitors to crush a heroic mass revolution and to chastise all oppressed workers and peoples of the world there.
Syria was invaded and divided. Its revolution was bloodied, besieged and sold out from within by the cynical Sunni bourgeoisie at the Astana conference, which guarantees the survival of the genocidal regime of al-Assad.

This counterrevolutionary offensive was concealed on all five continents through the so-called "war on Islamic terrorism": a sinister policy of the treacherous leaderships and Stalinism in particular, which depicted the fascist al-Assad, the counterrevolutionary hitman Putin and the slave-owning mandarins of China as the greatest allies of the world exploited. All of them colluded in developing an Islamophobia that was the base of support that imperialism had for consummating its massacre all over the Middle East and continuing to steal the oil and the riches of that entire region.

 

Comrades,
The different imperialist powers have managed to stop a revolutionary offensive and throw their crisis to the masses. Now an open dispute between them has started around the world market, which has gone down terribly. Capitalism goes on in a crisis. A brutal trade war has begun.
Imperialist Germany allied with no less imperialist France has climbed the Maastricht EU ship of and begun to openly dispute US over spheres of influence.
Imperialist Japan has been linked by thousands of ties to the USA pirates, together with whom it intends to completely dominate and control the Pacific area.

The Trump government has broken the pacts, such as the Atlantic and Pacific ones, with which Obama’s US had tried to maintain its supremacy in world politics and economy. US pirates voted "US first" and broke trade agreements with Germany and Maastricht EU. They announced they will lead a commission of parliament to sanction all companies that trade with the US doing dumping. They closed the borders with Mexico from where Germany with its 2000 companies floods the US market. They deepened the embargo on the accounts of the Great Russian aristocracy and new oligarchy. This indicates that they are going to dispute Putin's agreement with Merkel that allows Germany to receive cheap gas directly from Russia without going through US-controlled Ukraine. The last US sanctions against Russia are about that, to prevent the completion of this NordStream 2 pipeline.

The crisis, the crack and the shrinking of the world market have already led to an open trade war that raises the following question: if the US is doing well, the imperialist Europe of Maastricht will do badly, and vice versa.

The "US First" policy also means that, in order to maintain its supremacy, the USA must lock in and kick the customs barriers all over the world and including its competitors’.

"US first" means that the US doubles its military budget and multiplies by thousands the production of destructive forces.
Trump has already projected an investment of $ 700 billion for military spending, which is equivalent to two thirds of the total military budget of the 28 NATO countries together. And the US imperialists have already begun to spend in advance. This investment in the military industrial apparatus - which adds up to the 280,000 million dollars for high-tech companies in ballistic research - explains the growth of 1.6% of the US economy in the last 3 years: That means war... the development of an economy for destruction.

Comrades,
The military and counterrevolutionary offensive of imperialism has already begun.
The battles that are being prepared for the control of the Pacific are not the first ones. We must speak clearly.
US bombings in 2017 in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, have increased by 50%, compared to previous years. The US dropped 15,000 high-destructive bombs on the planet in the first four months of this year. It has left nations massacred; not only Syria, but also Yemen...
The Hiroshima-Nagasaki catastrophe is here, with conventional weapons of even more destructive power than the nuclear bombs that were dropped at the end of the Second War in Japan.
And this is only a preview of what imperialism has prepared to get out of its crisis, if the world working class does not stop it.

Trump said that "there is no dominant power that does not win a war"... and it’s been long years since the US imperialists cannot win one clean-cut because the workers of their country do not allow it, as they did not allow it in Vietnam in 1960s or Iraq in 2008. And yet, with the support of the treacherous leaders, creating a sinister Islamophobia campaign, they have began to lay the groundwork for the US return with its gunboats firing openly in the Middle East, as we see now in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, with the excuse of the "fight on terror".
This huge imperialist victory is what today allows it to go to higher offensives in the Pacific and threatens to attack North Korea militarily. It has found a new "axis of evil": Kim Jong-un’s counterrevolutionary gang. These would be the "new nuclear terrorists" ... the perfect excuse to prepare a large-scale military attack.
The military threat against North Korea is also part of a strategic offensive by the US and Japan to semi-colonize China. This time, imperialism's plan in China is not only to break the latter’s customs barriers limiting US trade, but also its goal is to snatch all the state-owned companies that are profitable and supply the imperialist transnationals in that country. This is the imperialist plan that explains the enormous tension in the South China Sea.

If the US imperialists want to completely dominate the Pacific, they must reverse the defeat they suffered by the hands of the Korean masses in 1952. They must recover the land from the 38th parallel to China’s border and transform that peninsula into a large colony that could allow it to completely semi-colonizing or even dividing China.
At this point, this means that the US and Japan must compel China to force its ally Kim Jong-un to disarm and surrender. They must send men to its border with Korea. Trump has already made the Chinese mandarins responsible for any military action by Kim.

To this end, the United States –while placing its entire war arsenal in military operations on the Pacific- is negotiating harsh trade sanctions against North Korea, so to encircling it, and -by confiscating the north of the Peninsula- multiply the unseen sufferings of the North Korean people, subdued to a chronic famine in its interior.
In North Korea, a blockade of this type at this precise time IS A BEAT OF THE SAME OR EVEN GREATER EXTENT THAN A NUCLEAR BOMB, because this sanction and economic embargo comes at a time when in North Korea one of the worst droughts in its history is beginning to develop, perhaps one higher than which occurred at the end of the 1990s that cost 2 million dead.
What are they all afraid of? An outbreak of the hungry, the slaves of North Korea, who could defeat the Kims, take their armaments, unite with the workers of South Korea and reopen the road of the Korean revolution that hits hard to the Chinese borders and arouses the Chinese working class.
The murderous autocracy of the Kims want to sustain themselves militarily by controlling the masses and administering their business of smuggling arms and charging a commission for the slave labour in the prison-factories that this bourgeoisie has in the Kim FEZ on the border with South Korea and which produce for the transnationals. With their military threats and showing a minimum atomic and missile arsenal, they want to blackmail imperialism so it acknowledges their regime as gendarme of Korea. The Kims, belatedly, want that US acknowledge them as the counterrevolutionary guarantor of the stability in the region and being the ones who attack and discipline their working class (one of the most slashed and overexploited of the world). The Kims have been playing this role very well since Second World War.

But the counterrevolutionary offensive of Yankee imperialism gives no respite. Its strategists know perfectly well what is at stake in the region. They want to force Kim Jong-un to surrender, just as the Stalinist bureaucracy of the USSR surrendered, which had an arsenal of 6,000 nuclear warheads, and ended up as managers of the City Bank and smaller partners of Merkel/Basf/E.oN in the looting of Russia by Germany. They want Kim’s surrender, as happened with Chavezismo in Venezuela, with Lula and the PT in Brazil, or with the Iranian Ayatollahs, who acted as Gurkha-like troops of US imperialism against the Syrian revolution.
In order to increase its counterrevolutionary offensive on China and the definitive control of the Pacific Rim –an area concentrating 40% of world trade, mostly in the hands of the MNCs-  the imperialist policy is to create direct agents of imperialism in Korea and throughout the region. This includes kicking the Kims’ gang, whether with invasion, sieges and blockades, or recreating a pro-Japanese fraction inside the North Korean army. All that has a single aim: imposing a favourable relationship of forces and proving that USA is THE power in the Pacific.

Though, imperialism does not have a free hand within the USA and Japan, since it has not yet conquered a mass support for large-scale counterrevolutionary actions. Neither a nuclear attack of the imperialist power would get support internationally.
But this does not mean -and we cannot rule out- imperialism seeking, through its economic, political and military offensive against North Korea, a change in the relationship of forces at international level.
For that reason, a leap in military, even nuclear, conflagrations in that region begins to be placed on the agenda in the new historical period of imperialist counter-offensive that is opening up.
Trump’s government has made responsible –and has threatened- not only China, but also Russia for what the Kims’ regime do. US imperialism’s strategic offensive has that goal, which means disputing the Chinese and Russian markets to Germany and Maastrich Europe. Germany disputes those markets only commercially per now, and USA also militarily.

The world proletariat must pay great attention to the events and wars that are emerging in the Pacific. Perhaps the life of the present and the next generations of the proletariat depend on it.
No doubt the commercial war between the imperialist blocs that are forming, fighting for the world market, will end tomorrow like the vultures, pecking at the prey, that is, opening the way to the Third World War, which, if the proletariat does not prevent it, will begin as the second ended: with nuclear bombs.

Comrades,
This imperialist system must die! Before us it only deploys famine, fascism and wars.
Meanwhile, this New Left of Syriza, Podemos, Stalinists and renegades of Trotskyism, has declared that their struggle is “to expand democracy”. They are the heirs of counterrevolutionary politics centralized from Moscow in the last century; of the WSF that comes from burying the revolutionary processes of the last decades. They are the New Left that has formed a movement called "real democracy." There vocal "anti-capitalist" -and in fact renegades of the struggle for socialism- have also been organized. These people have long since broken with the struggle for socialist revolution... but of new it has even given up talking about it. They hide in the bourgeois democracy that comes out of the same sewer as fascism and war: the world capitalist system.

Comrades,
The crushing of the Syrian revolution was what opened the possibility of a military attack concentrated in North Korea. It emboldened imperialism with its destructive power. It allowed it to gain confidence and launch a large-scale attack on the conquests of the world working class.
The defeats of the Middle East, the surrender of Cuba to imperialism, the European working class sold out struggles are what ultimately created the conditions for imperialism to fill the Pacific with blood.
Throughout this region the first task of the working class is to fight for the expulsion, dissolution and dismantling of all Japanese and US imperialist military bases in that region... from Japan to South Korea, from Chile to the Philippines, and expropriating and seizing all the assets of imperialism, its transnationals and its banks that sack the 15 countries of the Pacific Rim (China included).
The obligations of the Japanese workers, as you, brave revolutionary communists of Japan pose, is to disarm Japanese imperialism and expel US bases in that country; forge a strong unity with the American workers, who have in their hands the power to paralyze the largest counterrevolutionary war machine on the planet. That is the way to unify with the Chinese and Korean workers to destroy and demolish that infamous pact of the USA and Japan that enslaves the Pacific and the whole world.

The wars that are under way will only be stopped by the working class, if it is able to distinguish that behind the counterrevolutionary Fascist Kim government there is a working class, working as a slave in sweat-shops and rice fields, who desperately fight for surviving in the midst of a widespread famine that has begun.
Only the South Korean working class fighting against Moon Jae In’s government, a lackey of imperialism in South Korea, united with their siblings in the North, will be able to defeat the gang of counterrevolutionary murderers of the Kim dynasty and conquer a unified, socialist and independent Korea.
If North Korea is defeated by imperialism the workers of the Pacific and the world must know, they and the whole Peninsula will be subdued to sufferings and slavery a million times harder than those imposed by the Kims. An imperialist military and nuclear arsenal will be imposed there, a million times more destructive. In order to perceive the degree of barbarism and national backwardness that imperialism as a victorious force over the peoples it oppresses, we have to look at the oppressed nations invaded and smashed by the forces of counterrevolution and imperialism in the Middle East.

Only the working class of the Korean Peninsula and from all the countries in the Pacific, moving towards socialist revolution, can stop the wars that are on the works.
The war cry of workers in South and North Korea cannot be other than: "one nation, one socialist Korea without transnationals, without the Kims, without foreign military bases, to guarantee bread and decent work for all and national independence". The Korean revolution will complete the task that Stalinism aborted in 1952; i.e. expelling US imperialism and its agents from the Korean Peninsula… throwing them out from the 38th parallel up to the sea. That is the only way to end all destructive adventure of the Pacific jackals.

Comrades,
The task of the moment is to regroup the ranks of the world proletariat to stop this counterrevolutionary offensive of imperialism.
The masses haven't given up. Neither the Syrian resistance nor the Palestinian masses let alone the US working class were removed from the scene.
In Latin America, the Bolivarian bourgeoisies fall apart on their knees, while selling out the nations of that sub continent to imperialism. This is made by Maduro in Venezuela, Castro selling out Cuba, Morales in Bolivia or Kirchner in Argentina. Now, imperialism comes to take it all and the working class fights, with heroic strikes as that of the miners and the teachers in Peru and Colombia, or the struggles of the workers in Argentina and the powerful Brazilian working class.
In the Black Africa, the workers movement once again rises claiming for justice for the mineworkers that worked in Anglo American mines that were murdered on August 16th, 2012, in Marikana (South Africa).
Those shameless of the imperialist gangs and their henchmen of G20 gathered together in Hamburg have realized that they are very far away from settling their current partial victories. In there, the rebellious youth and the advanced workers of Europe reminded them -with the hell unleashed in Hamburg's streets- that the working class still stands and hasn't given up. Those who have given up were the treacherous leaderships. That fire of Hamburg's hell needs to be taken to every exploiter in the planet. In that fire, also the leaderships that betray the world working class must burn.

We must stop the massacres and genocides and the counterrevolutionary wars that are under way against the exploited of the whole world!
We must completely defeat Stalinism and its henchmen, the renegades of Marxism, who have saved the capitalist world system for now.
A conference and an international fighting front must be set up to break the siege and stop the massacre of the Syrian masses of Yemen, Egypt and the entire Middle East. An international conference and fighting front to unite and centralize the struggle of the world working class to stop all military aggression of imperialism and the counterrevolutionary forces against the working class of the Pacific.

The time has come for the unity of the internationalists to centralize their combat throughout the world. The time has come to disperse the forces of reformism, the traitors to the proletarian revolution. We cannot waste any more time.
Let us regroup the forces of international revolutionary Marxism! Let us defeat the stumbling blocks of Stalinism and the renegades of Marxism that prevent the victory of the working class and its fighting!
Fighting for the socialist revolution, let us defeat the bourgeois regime, imperialism and its wars!

For the working class to live, imperialism must die.

Collective for the Re-foundation of the IV International / FLTI