To the 59th International Anti-War Assembly in Japan
To the Zengakuren [All-Japan Federation of Students' Self-Governing Associations]
To the Antiwar Youth Committee
To The Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) (JRCL-RMF)

We are with you on this day of internationalist combat of the revolutionary Marxists of Japan!

We are together with you fighting in the first lines of combat of the rebellious masses of Colombia and Chile. We do it in the martyred Syria and its heroic resistance. Together, we have fought for the freedom of Syrian, Palestinian, Chilean, Colombian, Bolivian, Chinese political prisoners to free these fighters of the world working class taken hostage in the dungeons of murderous states and regimes.

We stand alongside the huge general strike of millions of Iranian workers who show that only the working class will be able to liberate that nation from imperialism, seizing power and defeating the infamous counterrevolutionary regime of the Ayatollahs, as part of one and the same revolution throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East. This is the only way to defeat Zionism, which occupies the Palestinian nation, and imperialism that plunders all the wealth of that region.
We fight alongside the masses of Hong Kong and Myanmar. Together, we raise the cry of freedom and the right to self-determination of the Uyghur people in China, as part of the struggle of the proletariat of that country to end the counterrevolutionary regime of the “red businessmen” of the Communist Party.
In the victory of these revolutionary battles today there is the only possibility to stop the capitalist catastrophe, its barbarism and the imperialist wars that threaten to plunge the entire civilization.

Comrades,
The capitalist system has entered a cycle of acute decomposition. In 2008, just like a large Titanic, the world economy collided with the underwater rocks of a phenomenal financial crash. The capitalists had spent benefits that human labour had not yet produced, as they continue to do now.
In a spiral way, the crisis, here and there, scourges different parts of the planet, creating and recreating new bubbles, fictitious profits, parasitism, looting and wars.
In 2020 a new heart attack of capitalism has developed. It had survived distributing the "zero interest rate" loans as investment profits. With these loans, the imperialist states supported their companies. Then they did the same with the fresh funds that the imperialist states gave to finance capital to "ease the crisis of the pandemic", while leaving the working class to its "fate": unemployment, the high cost of living and death. The decline in the growth of the imperialist powers is nothing more than the theft, looting and parasitism of finance capital.
Here and there, destructive forces continue to be developed, that is, producing weapons and supplies for war. While the 1% of parasites continues to concentrate the wealth of the planet, more than 300 million migrant workers are looking for a country and a job to survive. The Covid-19 pandemic only has exacerbated this crisis and stagnation of the world economy.

The system expected a new economic revival with the decrease in the health crisis, despite the plummeting of entire branches of production such as aeronautics, tourism, etc. But the crash is so acute that the news about the spreading of the "Delta" variant of Covid-19 alone, set off a new stock market crisis.

In the central countries, the big imperialist laboratories monopolized the vaccines and left 90% of the semicolonial world devastated by the pandemic and the stagnation of its economy, without vaccines, without work and without bread for the masses. This is what we saw and still see in Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Peru in Latin America. These are the same causes for which Swaziland and South Africa are burning today. In the latter, the starving masses take the supermarkets to get food for themselves and openly confront the regime of "reconciliation" of Stalinism and the black bourgeoisie with imperialism. It is the current catastrophe that has once again set the Middle East ablaze with blows of revolution and counter-revolution.
It is these contradictions of imperialism that lead it to bite its own tail. It destroys the areas of the planet from which it obtains its superprofits with plunder and wars.  This rotten capitalist system has long deserved to die.

Comrades,
In this way, the semi-colonial world has been populated with enormous revolts, insurrections and mass uprisings, as well as new betrayals and new counterrevolutionary blows to crush them. Regimes lose legitimacy. Imperialism and the bourgeoisie throw their entire crisis on the workers and the exploited. And in the central countries, settled in the labour aristocracies and bureaucracies and their counterrevolutionary parties, they blackmail the masses with economic crash, layoffs and chronic unemployment.
In the US, the working class had entered a phase of ascent and, fighting against murderous police, unemployment and misery wages, had forced Trump himself to hide in a bunker under the White House. But the treacherous leaderships of Stalinism and the renegades of Trotskyism led the exploited in the US to support Sanders and the so-called “democratic socialists”, who in turn tied the fate of the oppressed masses to Biden, the new butcher of Wall Street pirates.

With the perfidious policy of class collaboration with imperialism and all its regimes, Stalinism, now with the open complicity of the renegades of Trotskyism, has subjected the working class to its "democratic" or "progressive" -as they say- executioners in each revolutionary process, with the excuse of "defeating the bourgeois right-wing." Thus, with the lies of the Constituent Assemblies, electoral traps, “siren songs”, they disorganize from within and paralyse the revolutionary mass offensives, while fascism and Bonapartism crush the best of the vanguard, as it happens in the uprisings of the exploited in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The reformist leaderships have integrated themselves into the full functioning of the bourgeois parliaments. They are far from using them as a tribune to develop the extra-parliamentary mobilization of the masses.

Comrades,
Imperialism and the bourgeoisie have taken care of giving Stalinism a survival after it handed over the former workers' states in 1989, so that they continue to act as true internal police in the mass organizations and the unions, as well as to be themselves those who administer the capitalist restoration, as they do in China, Vietnam and Cuba itself, becoming a new ruling class. Meanwhile, Stalinism openly handed over the former USSR to imperialism, dissolving the CP of the USSR and becoming themselves different gangs of the nascent new bourgeoisie.
This cynical policy of preserving Stalinism, the most capable counterrevolutionary agent the bourgeoisie had in the 20th century along with social democracy, has been the worst blow to the world working class for more than 30 years. This question confirms the Marxist thesis that the crisis of the world proletariat is reduced to the crisis of its leadership, which has worsened even more since the renegades of Trotskyism handed over the clean banners of the Fourth International to Stalinism to give it a leftist varnish so that it can wash its hands full of blood and betrayals in the eyes of the new generation of the world working class.

In Latin America, under the command of the Cuban Communist Party, they have consolidated this pact to cover up the capitalist restoration in Cuba from the left. The cry "socialism is no more, not even in Cuba" came from there. This is the cruellest blow to the fight for socialist revolution in the entire continent.
Thousands of workers have taken to the streets of Havana and the main cities of the island, driven by HUNGER.
The party of Castroism, which is associated with the French, Spanish and Canadian transnationals in nickel, tourism, hotels and tobacco, speaks in the name of “socialism” and “communism”. The Spanish imperialism has more than 300 companies that do fabulous business in Cuba. In addition to this, hundreds and hundreds of new capitalist companies are already proliferating throughout the island, managed by different gangs of the Cuban CP. They do all this from their luxury homes in private countries, while the Cuban people are starving. And above all, the Stalinists shout from the rooftops that they "fight against the US blockade", when they have been in charge of betraying each of the revolutionary processes in the American continent in recent decades.

Comrades,
How can it be possible to defeat the Gringo blockade in Cuba together with Castroism, if this party of the new "red businessmen" is in the boards of oil companies such as Total, the Meliá hotel group, the Canadian nickel transnationals, when all these are listed not only in the European stock markets, but also in New York and distribute dividends from the exploitation of the Cuban masses on Wall Street? How to combat the US blockade on Cuba by begging Biden to lift it and receiving Obama with honors before, as Castroism did? This is a lie, a thousand times a lie. The embargo on Cuba or the looting of any oppressed nation in the world cannot be defeated without defeating the native bourgeoisies that have succulent businesses as minor partners of imperialism.
The US blockade, like the embargo on Iran, can only be defeated as in Vietnam and Iraq: with the call for an ironclad alliance with the American working class that together with the heroic resistance of the exploited of those nations, forced the US imperialism to flee from those countries.
Today the Gringo blockade in Cuba would only be defeated by expropriating imperialism and its companies that plunder the wealth of that nation in association with the new businessmen of the Communist Party. The blockade would be defeated by expanding the socialist revolution in Latin America and by not supporting decadent bourgeois regimes which exploit the masses, such as those that constitute this farce of the "Bolivarian Revolution" just as decades ago it was the infamy of the "peaceful way to socialism", by which Chile and the entire continent were drown in a bloodbath in the '70s.

Comrades,
The treacherous leaderships are those that block the way to the arming of the proletariat in each revolutionary offensive. They are the ones who betray the General Strikes and lead the working class to a state of despair, as it happens in South Africa. The same is happening in Venezuela, where the "Bolivarian bourgeoisie" has drained hundreds of millions of dollars from that country and is keeping the workers and the poor people under conditions of extreme misery, even pushing them into mass exile.
Stalinism and the renegades of Marxism are the ones who have subjected the indomitable Greek working class to a popular front policy and class collaboration, as they did yesterday with Syriza. With Podemos and the so-called “Anticapitalists”, true loyalist forces to the Bourbon monarchy, they crushed the Catalan insurrection. They surrendered the struggle of the workers of France in defence of their conquest of the 35-hour workweek. They are the same ones who subjected the working class of Donbass in Ukraine to the butcher Putin and covered his back so that he could divide the proletariat of that country and take the Crimean Peninsula.
It has been these and dozens of others betrayals that are giving time, calm and relative stability to the governments of the imperialist powers to unload all their crisis on their own working class, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

It is in these conditions that, under Biden's leadership, the US "returns to the world", after the failure of Trump's "trade war".
This time with the Democratic Party, the US imperialist establishment recognizes that the US cannot keep being "first" in the world without making pacts and agreements with the rest of the imperialist powers to share the current business of the world economy.
The US cannot be "first" either if it destabilizes the institutions of domination of the planet. In its attempt to control the world, at every step US imperialism but create and recreate political crises that open gaps which the masses can break through.
The US blanket can no longer cover the entire world market, when France and Germany have conquered its "living space" throughout Europe, from Portugal to the Russian steppes.

In his first tour as US president, Biden has travelled to Europe to propose a pact to the Franco-German axis to reconstitute institutions of stable rule, on the condition that it subsidizes and guarantees the support of NATO, under the command of US imperialism. Biden has agreed to the completion of the construction of Nord Stream 2, the gas pipeline that goes directly from Russia to Germany, while guaranteeing him and his family the business of the gas that circulates through Ukraine.
Biden also met with Putin, his partner in the massacre of the Syrian masses, to whom he proposed to support the counterrevolutionary pact in Geneva. From there, Russia together with Turkey guarantee stability not only in Syria, but throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East in the face of the crisis of Zionism and the weakening of Iran. The US relies on the emergence of the "great" Turkey, a minor power that controls all the gas pipelines that run from the Caucasus and the Middle East to the Mediterranean and the world.

The US can no longer be "first" without recognizing the true balance of forces it has with the rest of the imperialist powers. And Biden went for his goal: to propose to all - Japan included - a front to strike together to subdue China and take over its domestic market of 400 million consumers and its large conglomerates of big state-owned companies.
On his trip, Biden proposed the German and French companies for them to be the ones to control the market for the production of microchips for war industry, auto industry, electronics, etc. so that the great conglomerates of China that falsify and copy the patents of the US and European imperialist powers could not.

Days ago, when it was the stock market crisis, all these companies, both state owned and private ones, were immediately withdrawn by the Chinese government from Wall Street Stock Exchange. This was because the "red entrepreneurs" in Pekin were in panic that the price of these companies could be devalued and so the US imperialist pirates would buy most of their shares at a very low price. The reason is that imperialism is not only attacking China politically, but also financially.
America first…  Off the shores of China, the US imperialists show their gunboats, in an aggressive and offensive policy, sustained even from its military base installed in Japan. While China develops an arsenal and a defensive military force on its borders, it is the United States that travels with its military fleets and bases throughout the Pacific.
Today, to get out of the current catastrophe, imperialism prepares new wars and economic and military blows to control China. The economic and political battle for China gets deeper under Biden's command, as guns and gunships are deployed over the Pacific.

Comrades,
The road to war must be stopped. The capitalist catastrophe and imperialism's parasitism, place the masses under conditions of unprecedented sufferings and the prospect of new military conflagrations.

The implementation of a revolutionary strategy for the victory of the world working class is the central task of the international Marxist movement.
The struggle to break with all kinds of class collaboration policy is a priority in the revolutionary program. The fight to defeat the imperialist domination of the colonial or semi-colonial countries will not succeed by sealing pacts with the low native bourgeoisies, as Stalinism and all the renegades of Marxism proclaim. Those bourgeoisies are minor partners of imperialism and will always be united with it to attack the masses, defending their own private property. On the contrary, it is a question of uniting the working class with the impoverished layers of the peasantry and the people to seize power and thus liberate every oppressed nation from the imperialist yoke. For the proletariat of the central countries, the "enemy is at home". Only along this path will the working class be able to conquer its international unity.

Reformism intends to fight fascism and bonapartist regimes by subjecting the proletariat to the fractions of the bourgeoisie that claim to be "democratic". This is a fallacy. The proletariat defends democratic freedoms with arms in hand and with the method of proletarian revolution.
The fight to set up bodies of armed dual power of the masses at the beginning of any pre-revolutionary or revolutionary situation is a key and decisive issue for the victory of the masses and to prevent their crushing at the hands of fascism.
The fight to conquer revolutionary leaderships in the unions, based on the most audacious workers' democracy is the way to collaborate decisively with the masses to get rid of the treacherous leaderships.
Imperialism centralizes its offensive and the treacherous leaderships. Uniting the international struggle of the proletariat is an urgent necessity.

Comrades, the iron alternative today is no other than socialism or barbarism; socialism or war.

Let us continue fighting together against imperialism, the bourgeoisie and the enemies of the world proletariat!
For the working class and the oppressed peoples of the world to live, imperialism must die!

Carlos Munzer, Abu Muad and Paula Medrano
for the Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International / International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction (FLTI)