June 15th, 2020 Against the unified party comprising Trotskyism renegades and Stalinism that support bankrupted capitalism For an internationalist bloc of the revolutionary forces of the world working class! Letter to the JRCL-RMF of Japan   Dear Comrades of the JRCL-RMF, How are you all? We hope you are well. We are following the events of the USA to the day. We have sent you the last note we have published, about the joint fight of black people and workers in Seattle. Likewise, we are sending you as an attachment a video that we received from one of the leaders of the Black Vests of France, of the demonstration that took place last Saturday in Paris. The comrade, who has fraternal relations with us, spoke in that action. We are sending you the transcription, translated into English. Today we have just found out that there were demonstrations also in Tokyo and South Korea for the murder of George Floyd. We hope to hear from you in this regard. Likewise, the struggle of Nissan and Renault workers in Barcelona, ​​France and England, fighting against the reconversion and restructuring plan of the automotive industry -which will leave thousands of workers on the street- puts the European proletariat on its feet as well. In addition to this, there is the call for an international fight made by the GM workers in northern Mexico. Undoubtedly, the auto workers, metalworkers and also workers in the big steel mills -like the struggling ArcelorMittal workers in Italy- have their eyes set and are waiting for the response that the Japanese workers of Mitsubishi and Toyota. We send you again the statement that we have written around the combat of the auto workers, around the Nissan in Barcelona. We are eager to know your position in the face of these events and also your views of how the working class is in Japan in the face of this centralized attack plan by the imperialist transnational companies, which also deserves a coordinated and centralized response from workers at the international level. It would also be extremely important for us to be able to coordinate with you the battles of the workers in this branch of production that have their main focus of struggle in France, Barcelona and Mexico. But above all, it would be qualitative for the working class of this branch of production, where there is reconversion and concentration of capital and a brutal attack on the workers. They need an international centralization of their combats. Today the working class has left-beaten at the international level all the treacherous leaders of Stalinists and renegades of Marxism and has surpassed them both in the USA and in France and to a large extent throughout Western Europe. As reflected in the fighting of the black movement and the solidarity that it has developed, there is a revolutionary awakening of the masses in the countries that are now coming out of quarantine. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the exploited have suffered the worst inequities on the part of this rotting capitalist system that is in open decomposition and crash and of the governments and bourgeois regimes that seek to lead them to produce under conditions of hunger, layoffs, labor flexibility, etc. The working class is bursting into a wave of international struggle to stop the offensive of imperialism, that is throwing all its crisis onto the masses. The Minneapolis spark spread throughout the United States and internationally, despite and against all Stalinist, social-imperialist and Marxism renegade leaders. As we stated in our last statement on the Seattle combat, the masses drew a 180º angle with their leaderships at a time when Sanders and the entire reformist left were trying to hand the American proletariat back to the Democratic Party and deflect the terrible social, economic and political crisis to the electoral trap of next November. The working class and the laws of history were more cunning than the cynical plan of the imperialist bourgeoisie to throw all its crisis and economic catastrophe on the masses in the US and in entire regions of the planet. The outbreak of the black movement in Europe, especially in France and England, is also an open break with the union bureaucracy. In France, the black and immigrant movement plays a fundamental role as part of that country’s working class, which Stalinism constantly tries to divide from the rest of the struggling workers. In England today the masses are breaking out against the two bourgeois alternatives that the treacherous leaderships impose on them: either the proletariat continues to suffer an ordeal under the imperialist Maastricht or it ends up in the boiling embers of the London pact with Wall Street. We are facing real independent action by the working class and the exploited in England, who have opted for the path of knocking down the statues of slavers and throwing them into the water. These combats had repercussions in the enormous mobilization that took place in the Spanish State led by the black movement, as well as in the general strike that took place in Italy in support of the ArcelorMittal workers. This shows that the working class after the quarantine is not willing to pay for the economic crisis, much less to withstand the new attacks that the big employers and their governments want to impose on it. From our point of view, in the United States independent mass revolutionary days are taking place. The containment walls that the bourgeoisie wanted to impose have been broken “from the left” due to the rise of the black people, who are accompanied by the workers, the unemployed and the rebel youth. All of them see that if they defeat the police and hit the government hard, they will be in unbeatable condition, weakening the regime and the state, in order to achieve their most pressing demands, such as health, work, housing, wages, etc. In the semicolonial world, in many countries the pandemic is still striking together with the crisis that it opens. The unprecedented sufferings of the exploited multiply by a thousand under these conditions. The masses of Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina prepare for tough class fighting. Many of them are already anticipating. We write to you with some anxiety and a lot of enthusiasm since we know that the intervention of the proletariat of the metropolises places the uprising of the Japanese proletariat at the order of the day. We consider your responses to these events very important. The world working class needs the Japanese, Chinese and Pacific-wide working class and the voice of the revolutionary Marxists in Japan. We are waiting to know more about your positions and your current combat. They must be known to workers around the world. We believe that the struggle of the workers of the automakers in Japan will play a decisive role in the next period for the proletariat of the big transnational companies that is entering the battle. Comrades, not only the exploited enter the fight in the central countries, but also in the Middle East the processes of rebellion and mass revolution are still open. The fall in the price of oil is causing enormous economic catastrophes and famines in all the countries of the region. This situation has sparked new revolutionary eruptions, as in Lebanon, where the currency has been brutally devalued (from 1,400 Lebanese pounds to the dollar to 7,000 in a few days). This has made food inaccessible and the masses have taken to the streets and burned the Central Bank. Likewise, the exploited Iraqis and Iranians are in a state of combat, while the Syrian exploited again rise in the territories controlled by al-Assad himself. The engine is again hunger and a huge resistance fight that is developing at a time when Idlib has not fallen. In this regard, we have sent you the latest statement of the latest uprisings in Lebanon on 6/6/2020, the call from Syria to fight together with the US on 6/2/2020, the May manifesto of Abu Muad and Steif Abu Izen from Syria and a note on the demonstrations in Iraq. As we said before, in Latin America, although the processes of struggle have slowed down as a result of the catastrophe of the pandemic, hatred continues to accumulate in the masses for the terrible inequities to which they are being subjected. The spark of the uprising after the murder of George Floyd, has set fire to a ready prairie internationally, where there was dry firewood and a state of the masses ready to enter the battle, pushed by unprecedented suffering. This threatens the generalization of a mass offensive internationally. We guess whether we are perhaps in the first steps of a tendency towards a generalized revolutionary struggle, that will put a new 1968 -‘74 of the exploited on the order of the day, if the treacherous leaders fail to divert, interrupt or abort it. We have already sent you our materials on the vision of the crash of the world economy that opened this year as a new heart attack from the crisis of 2008, as well as from the acute crisis that imperialist Maastricht is undergoing and the bankruptcy in which the United States is immersed. Surely this has consequences for Japan’s position in its alliances at the international level, at a time when US imperialism seeks to dispute alone the world market that it may lose. Is the Nissan-Mitsubishi-Renault agreement perhaps anticipating that Japanese imperialism is acting more independently with respect to the United States and is seeking different alliances to accommodate its multinationals in the concentration processes that are taking place in the different branches of production and even in the dispute of the areas of influence? A crisis of inter-imperialist relations and imperialist blocs is ongoing. The disputes between them become and will become a thousand times sharper. Meanwhile, China has been prostrated by a harsh recession and the imperialist powers will go for it. We are on the threshold of new and profound changes in the world situation. Conditions are objectively revolutionary and are already decomposing rapidly. They will be completely rotten if the proletariat does not give an answer to the current catastrophe. Capitalism does not and will not fall alone. The deepening of the world depression is opening and will still open new opportunities and businesses so that capital, by concentrating itself can reactivate here and there different poles or branches of production in small sectors of the world-economy, while the vast majority of the latter will be in conditions of chronic destruction. Undoubtedly, the Chinese proletariat and the Eastern European working class have yet to join the revolutionary torrent. We know that today in the Donbass there is a huge mineworkers’ struggle. The reason is that the scam of the “Republic of Novorrosia” has only served for Putin and his gang of oligarchs to loot the mines in the region. Meanwhile, the US was supported by Kiev fascism, controlling the gas of a split and bled Ukraine, with a working class that has been divided. A stiff resistance has been developing from the Chinese working class, hit by the recession and the cruelty with which the regime exposed them to the pandemic, which has led to a new martyrdom for the Chinese people. We know that new mass outbreaks are taking place there, though the authorities are constantly trying to keep them hidden. Comrades, the new international conditions are once again turning into a red hot imperative the need for a regrouping of all the internationalist revolutionary forces to fight common battles. Reformism has already set up a “progressive international”, which is a parody by reformist bourgeois intellectuals who belatedly seek to deceive the masses. This “progressive international” has already been tried: neither Sanders, nor Chomsky nor any of them could contain the uprising that has begun in the US and in Europe. The Bolivarian bourgeoisies and the old World Social Forum have given in all the anti-imperialist struggles of the masses and no longer have the authority to expropriate any revolutionary combat from the oppressed peoples. Meanwhile, the so-called “anti-capitalists”, both in Greece and the Spanish State, are trying to separate themselves from the open support they gave to the Syriza government and also to Podemos, which has proven to be the Bourbon’s bourgeois left, while maintaining their pacts and agreements with the Stalinists in the unions. Likewise, the renegades of Trotskyism and Stalinism advance in different parts of the planet to set up common blocks and parties to contain and betray the working class. That is what they have prepared for and that is the role they play in the so-called New Left. This is the case of the deal among Savas Matsas’ EEK of Greece, their partners in Turkey and the divided Argentine Partido Obrero (Workers’ Party) with Mitina and Russia’s Unified Communist Party (OKP), which have become a true counter-revolutionary pole. These renegades of Marxism have just sent greetings to the Donbass oligarchs, Putin’s allies, on the anniversary of the founding of that fictional “Novorrosya” republic. They have done so at a time when, as we have already said, a huge mining strike is taking place there. This “left” of Putin is in charge of controlling the workers’ movement in Greece and the Balkans and of painting red the Stalinist rascals in Moscow, who are nothing more than bourgeois secretaries of the counter-revolutionary clique of Russian oligarchs. Cuba finds the renegades of Trotskyism with a sector of the Cuban CP founding a common international current to intervene in Latin America, with a magazine called “La Comuna”. This policy aims at whitewashing Castro’s face, which can no longer directly intervene in any other revolutionary process in Latin America since he is no longer credible. The Castroes come from supporting Obama, supporting the millionaire Bolivarian bourgeoisie, and becoming a new possessing class with the restoration of the capitalist on the island. That is why Castroism has detached a sector of Cuban university professors who, together with the PTS of Argentina, the English SWP and the current of Alan Woods, march to make a unique party of Stalinists and renegades of Trotskyism to contain on the left the masses already radicalized in Latin America and the USA. This was founded in the forum that was held last year in Havana, where the alleged “Trotskyists” embraced a fraction of the Cuban Stalinist party, the same one that received Mercader, Trotsky’s murderer, with honors when he was released from prison in Mexico. For their part, not only in Spain, but also in France, the “anti-capitalists” openly support the Stalinist bureaucracy of Martínez of the French CGT. All of them together at the international level continue to support al-Assad’s murderous army in Syria, the Iranian ayatollahs and Hezbollah who are confronting with bullets the revolutionary uprisings of the masses. Meanwhile, the LIT-CI with the CSP-Conlutas union center in Brazil, allied with Solidaires in France and the neo-Stalinist current of the Spanish CGT, with their so-called “International Union Network”, monitors all the processes to the left of the union movement worldwide, to control and suffocate them from the beginning. We are facing a rare “International Trade Union Network” that since it exists, more than a decade and a half ago, has not organized a single centralized and coordinated action on the streets by the 70 union organizations that it groups worldwide. We are before a real relief wheel of the renegades of Trotskyism to save the Stalinist bureaucracy in the unions around the world. These currents play their entire role in the name of “Marxism”, at a time when imperialism in crisis is forced to wear up, expose and burnout leftist and reformist bourgeois leaderships that are quickly repudiated by the masses. That’s because in this period of crash, catastrophe and bankruptcy of the world capitalist system, an era of counter-reform has deepened and continue deepening. We revolutionary Marxists must boldly intervene in it, since the masses that enter the battle do not deserve these leaderships that put themselves at their head to betray them. Then there is an urgent need for a revolutionary regrouping and the setting up of an internationalist bloc of Marxist currents and revolutionary forces that has led the workers’ movement at home with its struggles at the international level. There is no time to lose, because an enormous process of radicalization is underway, which is beyond the control of the treacherous leaderships. Comrades, on the other hand, and as an expression of these new phenomena unfolding in the world situation, the “International Network for the freedom of the world’s political prisoners” is playing an increasingly dynamic role in trying to coordinate the struggle and the demands for the freedom of all the imprisoned fighters who have been taken hostage by the bourgeois states. The Association of victims, deceased, wounded and prisoners of the Senkata massacre in Bolivia has been strengthened, while the struggle of the commission that has stood up in Chile for the freedom of more than 2,500 political prisoners is deepening. We always remember that in both places we have fought together, against the governments and regimes that have imprisoned and murdered the best fighters. Today there is a true awakening, which is generalized throughout the world, of the fight for the freedom of political prisoners as the bourgeoisie increasingly represses the masses, and its governments and regimes have Bonapartized and armored. A huge mobilization has begun in the Basque Country for the freedom of prisoners. Also the fighting for the freedom of George Abdallah, a fighter for the Palestinian cause, who has been detained in France for more than 30 years. The fight for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal and all the Black Panthers prisoners who are still in prison in the United States is the order of the moment. We have also just received a call and request for solidarity for the freedom of Iranian prisoners. We are sending it to you here as an attachment. You will see there how Ayatollahs and clerics torture prisoners worse than Nazi generals, just as al-Assad also does in Syria. In addition, we wanted to tell you that Sebastián Romero, a labor leader of the GM of Argentina who had an arrest warrant by Interpol, was arrested a few days ago in Uruguay. The extradition process is already underway to take him to Argentina and punish him for the “crime” of fighting the theft from retirements by the capitalist government two years ago. The fight then for the freedom of the political prisoners of the world is another task that we have planned to deepen in common, as we have been doing. We hope that the latest statements from the “International Network” have already reached you, such as the one calling for the freedom of Sebastián Romero, which we believe is key for you to know so that we can continue to intervene together in this fight throughout the world. Comrades, we are awaiting your response to this letter and the proposals that we are making in it. We are convinced that the time has come to deepen the struggle that we have been giving in common at the international level. It is necessary to extend and generalize the internationalist fighting of the working class, which at every step breaks the fences and levees of the treacherous leaderships, threatening a widespread offensive by the exploited throughout the planet. Capitalist bankruptcy can no longer be sustained. The masses are no longer willing to bear it. The cry of “no justice, no peace” resounds in dozens of capitals in countries of the world. The fight against slavers is already here. Workers revolt in the great concentrations of workers in Europe and the US, which breaks the isolation of the struggle of the oppressed peoples against imperialism. We affirm that the fighting of the Pacific workers is decisive and that the positions of the revolutionary Marxists in Japan can and should play a central role in a new revolutionary regroupment of the world working class. The catastrophe is already here, but the fight for the socialist revolution is also open, while the class enemy prepares new wars, fascism and counter-revolutionary blows against the exploited. The alternative of socialism or war is already open. But the working class has not yet said their last word. Comrades, we look forward to hearing from you. We are communicating and coordinating revolutionary actions, as we have done at key moments in the class struggle. The Syrian comrades send you a great and affectionate greeting from the resistance, where our forces are regrouping. Chile finds us in a common fight for the freedom of political prisoners and for organizing the resistance of the working class in the face of the humanitarian catastrophe experienced by the poor people. Your positions have reached the commission of relatives of political prisoners and the Pinochetista regime prisons where more than 2,500 of them are found. Our comrades in Africa, under conditions of unprecedented hardship, are organizing the fight to get the black working class in the continent on their feet. And of course, all FLTI members are sending a big hug to all of you. We hope you are all in good health. You know that we are always at your disposal, and also how much we appreciate you, because we feel you are our comrades. Let’s fight together! Julián Juárez and Lourdes Fernández for the Secretariat of International Coordination of the Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International / FLTI

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