July 31, 2013
To the 51st International Annual Anti War Assembly in Japan
A year ago we were with you fighting together against imperialism in the 50th Anti War Assembly.
In times of capitalist crisis, wars and revolutions, tempos accelerate. It seems it was yesterday that we were there, fists high up, undertaking among us to fight recklessly against the foes of the world proletariat. And that was what we did, and now we go on doing, fighting together.
The JRCL and Zengakuren’s flags, together with those of the Fourth International and the FLTI fought together in the streets of Aleppo in Syria against Bashar the Dog, who does the dirty work on behalf of all the imperialist powers and Zionism.
Comrades,
Today, facing the massacre abating the Syrian masses, the isolation they are submitted to by the treacherous leaderships of the world proletariat has but increased. Two million workers and peasants are crammed in tents in true concentration camps in the midst of the desert. There are already thousand hundreds of dead.
The Syrian revolution is a revolution made bled-white and betrayed one and a thousand times. From within it, the Free Syrian Army cadres, under the command of Turkey and the NATO, and the al-Nusra Front, partners of the Saudi bourgeoisie, disorganize and disarm the masses in the liberated territories. Their objective is dissolve the power bodies of the exploited, i.e. the worker and rank and file coordinating committees.
All imperialist agents want to prevent the masses from reaching Damascus. They need to prevent them from defeating Bashar the Dog as yesterday in Libya the masses defeated Qaddafi. They want to prevent the Palestinian masses’ uprising, so as they cannot reach Jerusalem and conquer victory and destroy the Zionist-fascist State of Israel.
As we swore a year ago, we reassert today our convictions: Let’s fight together for the death of Bashar the Dog! Let’s defeat Obama, the NATO, murderous Putin and his new partners, the repressive Iranian bourgeoisie –which has so many times chastised its own people, and now sent its Republican Guard to attack the Syrian masses with the “Go!” of Zionism and imperialism!
In Syria all the forces of counterrevolution have concentrated so that the worker and socialist revolution of Maghreb and Middle East cannot succeed. There a decisive battle for the world proletariat is fought. They want to chastise the world working class with thousand hundreds of dead and razed cities, so that the working class knows what would occur if it dares to rise up in revolutionary struggles for bread, against bankrupt capitalism and imperialism.
Enclosed by the treacherous leaderships of the World Social Forum, by Stalinism and the renegades to Marxism, the Syrian masses still fight and resist; their class brothers and sisters rebel in Lebanon against the bourgeois government of Hezbollah and reappear in the streets of Egypt to fight in Tahrir Square; in Tunisia the masses confront the fascist gangs; and the militia do not surrender in Libya.
From the combats in Aleppo and Qsair, from Tripoli and Bengazhi, we send to you the revolutionary Greetings of the Leon Sedov Brigade to the 51st Anti War Assembly and the commitment of fighting together. Revolution has not yet given in, though its leadership has, long ago. The entire reformist world left wants to enclose our struggle.
Obama and Putin, together with Netanyahu and the Chinese mandarins are preparing with Bashar the Dog and the “oppositionist” bourgeois government in Qatar, a Geneva Conference, allegedly to “conquer peace for Syria”… that is a vile sham. All of them have met with the intention of dismembering Syria, disintegrating it, “Libanize” it, so that imperialism can take it all over the ruins of our revolution and the massacre of our class brothers and sisters.
We ought not allow them to do that! So, our proposal is that to the conference where Obama, Putín, Zionism, Bashar the Dog and the generals-without-battles-fought of the Free Syrian Army we oppose a Counterconference of all of us who are beside the Syrian masses and their revolution, of all who want to break the encirclement which the treacherous leaderships of the international proletariat have one and a thousand times isolated and slandered it with.
We want our comrade Abu Nur, murdered by Bashar the Dog in the battlefields of Syria, to be considered as one more delegate in your Assembly, which, we are sure, will vote alongside us redouble the fight for the success of the Syrian revolution; for the down throw of the governments and regimes expropriating the revolutions in Middle East; for the fall of Zionism; and for the masses’ conquering their bread with the victory of the Socialist Revolution.
Comrades:
As yesterday in Chile and Peru, today the JRCL and the FLTI carry together a struggle that is educating all the advanced workers of the world in the solidarity of the international working class.
An enormous international solidarity reached Las Heras, in the south of Argentina, from hundreds of workers’ organizations in the world. This solidarity reached the court of the counter revolutionary judges of the imperialist oil companies, enemies of the workers, breaking the silence and the isolation that the workers had for years. The Argentine left has kept a vile silence about the workers imprisoned and tortured for years. The question is that in their uprising, one of the assassin policemen of the bourgeois state died. The left paid condolences to the assassin police, and this is the truth of why that silence and why they left isolated innocent workers that only demanded bread and dignity.
The JRCL and the courageous Zengakuren were de outpost of this international solidarity. The red banners written in Japanese are seen with surprise by the repressors and the assassin army men, together with the banners of tens of workers organizations that were in common cause with the workers at the gates of the court. The Japanese, Argentine, Bolivian, African, American and European working classes are there.
This enormous solidarity helped the people and the workers of that city to give up the fear.
This is the international solidarity that the working class needs to recover to fight. The JRCL and the FLTI head this internationalist revolutionary struggle. Let us send you, on behalf of our comrades and families submitted to the jeer of a gibbet of the bourgeois justice of the imperialist oil companies, a greeting to their class brothers and sisters, the revolutionary workers of Japan.
Here, among the most perspicacious layers of workers of Argentina, there is a demand that boomed in the streets when the revolution grew worse in 2001. The scream was: if one of us is touched or beaten, we all are touched or beaten! Long live the unity of the international working class!
Then, let’s proclaim together: For the dissolution of the repressive court of the imperialist oil companies in Argentina! Free the oil workers of Las Heras! Free the Palestinian prisoners, those in Guantanamo, and the Suzuki workers in India! Let’s take revenge and do justice against the exploiter governments in the whole world, fighting for the liberation of our comrades, who are hostages of the ruling classes to extort the workers and their struggles!
Comrades,
In the past year, the collision between classes has deepened in an international level. Imperialism –supported by Stalinists, renegades of Marxism, workers’ bureaucracies and aristocracies, that isolated the struggles of the proletariat in each country-, could contain an enormous offensive of the masses; putting itself upright in key points of the planet, it concentrated its forces and could turn back enormous revolutionary processes.
This is what it did in Syria to prevent the spark that lighted in Tunisia in 2011, set on fire the Maghreb and the Middle East.
Imperialism concentrated its forces in Greece to extinguish the spark of Athens that threatened to set on fire the whole Europe. With the demagogy of Syriza, that augured the end of the sufferings of the masses through the “peaceful way towards socialism”; with the Communist Party breaking the heads of those workers who tried to occupy the parliament of the Troika, that voted the worst anti-workers plans, the struggles in the streets of the workers were drawn to the attrition and demoralization. As an answer, emerged Golden Dawn and the fascist gangs that attack the workers and the immigrants daily. This way, the capital thrown the whole weight of its crisis on the European working class. The trade union bureaucracies and the social imperialist parties allowed that to be possible and, momentarily, took the hard struggles of the workers of Portugal, Spain, Italy… to a blind alley.
In Latin America, the “Bolivarian” bourgeoisies of Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina and Venezuela have demonstrated to be as lackey of imperialism and anti workers, as those of Chile, Colombia, Peru, that are in the Free Trade Treaty with US. With UNASUR, with CELAC, with the military bases, US have finally recovered the control of its backyard.
Obama received a price from the hands of Stalinism and the renegades of Trotskyism who openly gave Cuba away to the world capitalism, integrating it into a bourgeois “free trade treaty” as the ALBA (Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ecuador, etc.), liquidating the monopoly of the foreign trade, restoring the right of inheritance, and dealing in the whole Latin America, as another branch of production, with the Cuban public health and education, that from being a great conquest of the revolution, are a great business fort the new rich men of the Cuban Communist Party, today.
The Castro brothers gave up the Colombian resistance and, together with Chavez, proclaimed that their candidate in US was Obama. This way, when wide strips of the North American working class tried to retake the way of the struggle against the war, for the immigrants and against the attacks from Wall Street, they were taken by the North American left and Castroism to support Obama. Today, the North American and world working class are paying for this policy of the treacherous leaderships.
In March, the World Social Forum met in Tunisia. 5.000 organizations that vindicated Khadafy, paid homage to Chavez and, or kept a shameful silence or openly supported the massacre of the assassin Al Assad, and called to be confident in the parliamentary ways out, in the traps of the constituent assemblies and the fraudulent elections, with which, for the moment, the revolutionary processes in the North of Africa and the Middle East were expropriated.
Comrades,
Imperialism was able to take a breath. It was achieved by concentrated all his paid agents in the worker movement to strangle the revolutionary processes. Capitalism doesn’t fall alone. If the proletariat doesn’t take power, the imperialism throws his crisis over the exploited and the colonial and semi-colonial world. The capitalist system survives by destroying the vast majority of the planet, making smaller the market and developing a pole of the economy at expense of smashing the majority of the world production.
The youth that fenced Wall Street were and are right: it’s necessary to end up with the 1% of parasites, that is, the super-finance oligarchy that lives cutting coupons, enslaving the vast majority of the human civilization.
A huge process of concentration of cartels and transnationals, crisis and fusions is in development in every production branches of the world economy.
A finance super-oligarchy concentrates an enormous power in the world economy. An study on the biggest 43.000 MNCs societies of the world that is already public in the same Wall Street divulges that due to a cobwebs of investments, a control of stocks and managements, 1318 companies are the core of the world economy and 147 of them shape a super-finance oligarchy controlling 40% of the planet wealth. The vast majority of them are composed by Anglo-American, German and Japanese finance capital proving that in those imperialist powers the central core of the international finance capital is located.
Such concentrated international finance capital retains almost 80% of the 200 billion of dollars out of the total of the world’s wealth.
Half of the poorest world population has 2% of the wealth and 1.200 millions of inhabitants survive with less than 2 dollars per day. That is the rotten world imperialist capitalist system that survives backed by the union bureaucracy, aristocracy and treacherous worker parties that live from the crumbs falling from the working class’ exploitation to prevent the proletariat from taking power!
How right the outrage youth (Indignados) of Wall Street were! They see in those 8 squares the 1% super- finance oligarchy of the planet that the proletariat must expropriate to live!
Unlike the epoch of free exchange, today the rivalry is put on his knees. Far from the emergence of new imperialist powers, many of them are disappearing or like Europe end up submitted as minor powers to true Versailles Agreements. The crisis of Wall Street and the City of London is paid by the working class of U.S., Europe and the world as well as the imperialist powers defeated in the Commercial war. Germany and USA have imposed a true Versailles Agreement on the minor imperialisms in Europe.
Germany and U.S.A. are the creditors of Europe and with France has signed the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Treaty, a region of free trading between U.S.A. and Europe that nowadays have reciprocal investments for 2,8 billions of Euros. 350 stockholders of the big European and US corporations gathered to plan the last details of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Treaty that since the military viewpoint was already proved in the invasion on Mali. From the US-French military base in Chad and from the US military command they monitor the defense of the UK-US and French MNCs’ interests that plunder the minerals and precious stones in the Africa stained in blood.
Such Transatlantic Trade and Investment Treaty sustained in a the armed branch NATO-the troop of major capacity of destruction in the planet-, has 55 millions of m³ gas annually that BASF take out from Russia of a 1.224 km gas pipe. Meanwhile, the Great Russian bourgeoisie that inherited the URSS0’s military apparatus receives technology from Germany for his development and expansion. Thus, Russia, one of the major exporters of weapons in the world fulfills his role of country dependant on imperialism by controlling with his military bases in the Central Asia the routes of opium and the “trafficking”, fundamental raw material for the big German and US labs.
U.S. that together with Stalinism and Bolivarians ended up controlling his backyard in Latin America is advancing with the Transpacific Trade Partnership in which 11 countries are ready to create the biggest zone of free trading in the world under the command of Obama and Japan. This Treaty to submit all the oppressed peoples of the region and control the 45% of the world trade that circulates on his coasts, contains the aim of controlling, fencing and preparing new counterrevolutionary besieges against China. Now, imperialism wants to keep the domestic market of that country through the banks and big MNCs after super-exploiting during decades the labor force that is the main Chinese commodity.
The world market gets smaller, even, to continue sharing out with the native bourgeoisies, no matter how independent they can be.
Transpacific Trade Partnership is just a warning campaign for the world proletariat because if the imperialist beast is not stopped –in this case USA and Japan- it will come for everything. As they are doing today with Syria, breaking it up and disintegrating it; facing the first strikes of the crack which are coming due to the housing and financial bubble of China, the imperialist beast without hesitating will break up China to dispute the slave labor force and his wealth.
Huge presences of the imperialist financial capital in the Chinese Banks where they are the main stoke holders will lead to the disintegration of the Chinese provinces.
Japan became a US military base will be the beach head of the next imperialist landing in China.
The threat of war and barbarian are getting closer to the human kind if the socialist revolution does not success. However, the working class has not said the last word. The aims of commercial and military wars are written and developed in the general staff of the transnational and the military academy. They are run and decided in the battle field of the class struggle.
There is nothing determined. The proletariat from the Pacific is honored for giving the greatest defeat in history to imperialism, from China to North Korea and from Vietnam to the Indo Chine peninsula. It is not said that this time will be different. The offensive of the masses from the Pacific has to reach San Francisco Bay and upsurge the US working class.
The Revolution in the North of Africa and Middle East hasn’t yet exhausted his potentiality as it is showed by the upheavals of Egypt and Tunisia, and the resistance of the heroic Syrian masses. Despite and against the treacherous and union leaderships, millions of exploited from Brazil entered the combat to recover their health, education and decent salary. The Chilean youth and working class don’t give up and millions of enslaved women workers in Bangladesh have already rebelled, as the workers slaved by Anglo American in Africa, and as it is shown day by day the workers in the jail-factories, as in Foxcom fight against the transnational companies and the “red” businessmen of the Chinese Communist Party.
USA puts its burden as dominant power by throwing the crisis to the other imperialist powers and the world. It does it by the dollar devaluation and inflation. They are making dozens of regional trade agreements to control the world economy and commerce and be in better conditions to smash revolution.
Germany and France in Europe and Japan in the Pacific are the great allies of US-UK imperialism to control the world. But there is a difference: Japan and Germany are not allowed to get armed beyond what US allows them as they were the losers powers in the last inter-imperialist war.
The imperialism in bankruptcy has conquered a new precarious political, economic and military point of equilibrium…that is, a breath. The world proletariat hasn´t surrendered and opens new revolutionary offensives.
Comrades,
Your call for the Anti War Assembly is an example for the entire working class and for the Marxists at an international level. You call the workers in China and the Pacific Rim to fight together with you against the Japanese and US imperialism and the pacts the latter have concocted against the countries and masses they oppress.
As the 3rd International stated, no one call him/herself a Marxist in an imperialist country whoever does not say that the chief enemy is at home, and that his/her chief ally is the working class in the nation which his/her imperialist bourgeoisie exploits and oppresses.
From martyred Africa, from our fighters in Libya and Syria, from the workers in Chile, Peru, Colombia that fight alongside you in the Pacific coasts against imperialism, we of the FLTI cannot but stand up, applause, put up our fists together with you and show all the workers in the world the historic lesson of internationalism that you are giving us all.
In the call for this Assembly you state a commitment: never more in the name of the Japanese or any other imperialist country’s working class a nation belonging in an oppressed country or its working class will be massacred and/or enslaved (as Japan did against China and the martyred masses of the Pacific Rim well before the Second World War).
In that way, any worker that fights in China, the Philippines, Korea, Malaysia, etc. already knows that his/her greatest allies are in this Assembly for attaining victory, for defeating imperialism, the bourgeoisie and its governments that oppress and exploit him/her all over the region.
Now the Chinese workers will know that their ally lives in the revolutionary workers in Japan and not in the big henchmen and exploiters as the Chinese mandarins of the CCP and the generals of their cowardly and murderous army, which is only brave for massacring and soaking in blood the Chinese people, as they did in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and in thousands of revolts that army smashed to iron and fire in the last few years.
Now, then , we will certainly be in better conditions for fighting for the destruction of the US and Japanese military bases in Japan, as the main forces of aggression and offensive against the working class in the Pacific Rim. This has become in a priority as a task, not only for the Japanese working class but also for the masses all through the Pacific Rim, i.e., the Chinese, Korean, Philippines’’, Vietnamese, Chilean, Colombian, Malaysian, etc. workers… and also of the US workers!
Thus, it becomes urgent that we make together a call to the US working class. It is urgent to defeat the military base in Okinawa! It is necessary to defeat and expel the US military bases all over the Pacific Rim and worldwide! The US working class must stand up!
The defeat of the US military base in Okinawa will be conquered with the Us working class rebelling against the war and puttong again in place the Movement of the Million Workers Against the War, as it did against Bush, this time breaking with Obama the chief of the imperialist bandits.
To the Transpacific Trade Partnership treaty we must oppose as soon as possible a treaty of all the workers in the Pacific Rim for expelling and expropriating the MNCs; for smashing the murderous regimes and governments of the bourgeoisie and imperialism.
An internationalist agreement of the Pacific Rim working class to confront the governments and regimes that have restored capitalism, and to restore under revolutionary forms the worker states of China, Vietnam, Kampuchea, and defeat imperialism, conquering a reunified and socialist Korea.
In the fight against the Transpacific Trade Partnership treaty the road is but the combat for unifying the ranks of the working class all over the region against the bourgeoisies and imperialism, for the destruction of the imperialist military bases.
Down with the Transpacific Trade Partnership concocted by Japan and United States! Out with imperialism from the entire region! Down with the regime of the murderous Chinese mandarins, of the red bosses, that handed out the biggest quantity of slave labor to capitalism in order to drown the wage of the working class worldwide, thus extending the life span of rotten capitalism!
Our victory in the region will only come in the hands of the conquering of the Socialist United States of the Pacific Rim.
Comrades,
If in US and the imperialist Europe the forces of the working class regroup establishing –as you do in this Assembly Against the War- that they make themselves responsible, hardly combating against their own imperialism, of stopping the aggressions and lootings of Africa and Latin America, the counterrevolutionary wars and for the withdraw of the imperialist military basis, the situation of the class struggle would be different. The proletariat would began to recover its militant internationalism, that social democracy, Stalinism and all the renegades of Trotskyism have devoted themselves to bury in the past decades.
If this was in this way today, Syria would not be isolated and massacred by the jackal Al Assad, when Europe has a thirty per cent of its working class composed by immigrants from the rebelled peoples of the Maghreb and Middle East. Long time ago would the international brigades left to fight in Syria, to break the fence and to fight for a workers’ leadership of the war against Bashar.
Social imperialism has stick the most cruel stab on the back of the world proletariat: it has destroyed its militant internationalism. Fighting for the refundation of militant internationalism in the world working class, we are fighting together, the revolutionary Marxists of Japan and the internationalist revolutionary Trotskyists of the FLTI. On the side of chauvinism and treachery are the World Social Forum with the waste of Stalinism, socialdemocracy and the renegades of Trotskyism.
Comrades,
Two years ago, the congress of Conlutas took place in Brazil. The whole Brazilian and international left, went to that Congress. Chukaku-ha, went to that meeting too. All of them joint to strangle the left wing of the Latin American and world proletariat.
In that congress, the friends of Lula and the PT did not let speak the Trotskyists and the revolutionaries of the JRCL, Reading the common statement we have sent…
We were right. Our struggle was correct. Today There are millions of exploited people in the streets fighting against the police, the government of hunger and misery of the PT in Brazil. That reformist left comes from signing agreements as the one with GM in which, in Sao Paulo, they gave up wages and jobs of the workers of Brazil. Today there are them the ones who cannot speak nor join the movilizations in the streets, and this time there are the workers and the exploited youth who do not allow them to do it.
As it is shown by the experience in these years of a steady joint international struggle, it is absolutely clear for everyone that the world working class needs a strong pole of international regrouping of the forces of the international Marxist movement! The time is here, there is no time to waste!
New defeats of the proletariat will irremediably take towards fascism and the war.
The Marxists know that there is no way to defeat the counterrevolutionary wars of the bourgeoisie and imperialism but with the victory of the socialist revolution. There is not nuclear arsenal of any country of the world that can be shot against its own working class if it enters in revolutionary struggle, because the bourgeoisie would never shoot itself nuclear bombs.
The way to prevent new wars and catastrophes is the advance of the socialist revolution in the imperialist powers. This is why the speed race is between barbarism, war and fascism or the victory of the socialist revolution.
Finally we propose you to pay tribute to the textile workers slaughter in Bangladesh where for U$ 2 per day even forced to work in factories which fall in their heads. They represent the most exploited of the world proletariat: OPEN THE ROAD TO THE WOMAN WORKER!
A regrouping of the vanguard of the international proletariat will be the first step in the way towards victory. Long live the world working class! Long live the socialist revolution! Death for imperialism!
Today more than ever: Let’s fight together!
Fracción Leninista Trotskysta Internacional-Collective for the Fourth International
Integrated by:
Chile: Partido Obrero Internacionalista – Cuarta Internacional (POI-CI)
Zimbabwe: Workers International League (WIL)
Syria: Brigada Sevian Al-Laith (Brigade Leon Sedov)
Libya: Movimiento de Obreros voluntarios Internacionalistas del Magreb
Bolivia: Liga Trotskista Internacional (LTI)
Colombia: Grupo Socialista Revolucionario Trotskista Leninista, “Comuneros”
Brazil: Comité por la Refundación de la IV Internacional
Peru: Liga Socialista de los Trabajadores Internacionalista
Venezuela: Liga Comunista de los Trabajadores (LCT)
Argentina: Liga Obrera Internacionalista-Cuarta Internacional (LOI-CI)
