As communists and internationalists, we know, through memory and the science of history, that, in the age of imperialism, any mission, whatever mask it may wear, is a war mission. The attack on the latest puppet in the imperialist chain, Colonel Gheddafi, is no exception.
Imperialism does, in fact, mean more international competition, more aggressive trade wars, export of capitals that inevitably enter into conflict with one another, control over the sources of raw materials and their transport routes and thus the attempt to exclude competitors, right up to the uncontrolled explosion of conflicts that start out as local and then, in perspective and where favourable material conditions exist, become worldwide.
This is what has been going on for decades (since the appearance of a new economic crisis of over-production on the scene of world capitalism) and still regards firstly the area reaching from the Balkans and embracing the Middle East as far as Afghanistan and Pakistan, the crossroads of more or less legitimate and legal trade (arms and drugs), of vital trade corridors, oil- and gas-lines, oil fields and sources of water, which imperialism has always been ogling and clutching at – not latest Italian imperialism which has considerable interests not just dating from the day before yesterday and which in any case wants (must) try to carve out for itself, in order to maintain its own portion of presence.
The bloody scenes of armed repression have now been joined by the area of the Maghreb, swept by a vigorous rebellion by the dispossessed proletarian masses. After Egypt, where the army imposed itself in Cairo with its massive line-up of tanks, the highest expression of bourgeois dictatorship, as a guarantee of the passage to so-called democracy; and after Tunisia, where the union organization Ugtt, a carbon copy of the national corporations dominating Europe, devoted itself to the social control of the Tunisian proletariat, the armed conflicts between separate sectors of the Libyan bourgeoisie have had the effect of suffocating any possibility of connection between the proletarians in the area, above and beyond borders. The broad-spectrum military attack by the imperialist powers (USA, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Arab League, etc.) confirms that the objective of the surgical operation is not so much and not only the colonel but social control of the whole North-African area.
Nothing could have been better suited than the pretext of a so-called Libyan war between factions of the bourgeoisie for exploiting the ‘casus belli’ with a “humanitarian” intervention (in aid of the so-called rebels), the military potential of which is beyond imagination. According to script, this has been joined by pacifists who deplore the excessive use of violence, nationalist partisans and democrats of all descriptions, Libyan and non, whose only purpose is to check the social earthquake that has been threatening to cause havoc in their capitalist interests. All the bourgeois parties, all the sickening, war-mongering and democratic nationalism, are thus united in this Holy Alliance, with an openly anti-proletarian function.
As communists and internationalists, we know that it will be the proletarians and poor, dispossessed masses of all countries that will be paying the price. And as communists and internationalists, our slogans are clear, against any form of pacifism and national partisan movement:
Refusal of any military adventure (whatever the mask it wears: humanitarian, democratic, bringer of civilization) by the home bourgeoisieRefusal to accept sacrifices in the name of the “national economy” (military expenditure is an essential component of any national budget, in war as in peace)Organization of struggles in defence of the proletariat’s living and working conditions, as an obligatory move for dealing a hard blow to the war effort of the home bourgeoisieA decisive return to the methods and objectives of the class war, breaking all ties with any logic of social harmony and peace – methods and objectives that for now represent the only real internationalist solidarity of proletarians in the imperialist strongholds against the oppression of the proletarian masses
Only according to these basic premises, which imply independent action by the proletariat, can open revolutionary defeatism be organized by placing it at the centre of the class strategy so that it can break and destroy the war front.
In this struggle who are our allies? Our allies are proletarians all over the world and in particular those from the countries massacred by the imperialist war. They are not and never will be any bourgeois faction, however armed or “resistant”, whatever appearance it may take, religious or reformist, democratic or so-called “anti-imperialist”.
The interventions that have been taking place in the last decade show that the capitalist mode of production has come to the end of its path; that its long agony is merely destructive; that it is therefore necessary to put it out of its misery, to finally achieve, through the violent seizing of power and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat directed by the communist party, a classless society, communism. Thus the true achievement of the present age is the rebirth, extension, sinking of roots of the world communist party, whose programme and strategy may provide fuel for the class organizations that will arise to defend the living and working conditions of the proletariat.
International Communist Party
(Il programma comunista – Cahiers internationalistes – Internationalist Papers)
