Proletarians, comrades!
And so, in Egypt, Mubarak has resigned and the army has assumed full power, with the blessing of the United States (which has continued to finance it, interest-free, over all these decades) and the whole of the European bourgeoisie (whose only interest is to keep their own economic and strategic influence in the area).Everything is changing so that nothing will change!
“Events in Egypt” (a change of régime and not a revolution), which have involved at least three hundred deaths, have filled the front pages of all the media over the past two weeks, obscuring the fact that the whole of the “half moon”, reaching from Morocco to Jordan and Yemen has been overrun – in some places more than others – by a powerful movement of struggle.
Driven by increasingly hard living and working conditions, precariousness,oppression, the proletarian and proletarianized masses have taken to the streets. But their revolt, an instinctive, mass rebellion, has quickly been exploited to be used by those sectors of the national and petit bourgeoisie that have long been interested in modernizing their régimes, something made even more urgent by the pressing world economic crisis. Thus, in Egypt (the most significant country from an economic and strategic point of view), the wave of struggle has rapidly been channelled towards democratic objectives of reform and the fight against corruption: it has thus been deprived of its potential power. This could not have been otherwise, given the instinctive nature of the revolt and the absence of a revolutionary force able to pose openly, once and for all, the question of power: that is, the issue of who really rules – not one individual or another, but which class and in whose interests.
Proletarians from Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and from all the countries in the area!
Have no illusions! The army will not be a guarantee of “greater freedom”! It will guarantee exclusively the interests (opposite to ours) of national and international capital. In the short term it may even make some concessions and allow a few illusory crumbs to fall. But they will be crumbs. The world economic crisis is rife and destined to become more serious: thus the army will guarantee … a return to work and to exploitation, putting everyone back into chains again and squeezing hard to obtain profits (not by chance one of its first measures was to ban strikes!). And if it then occurs to anyone to demonstrate again for living and working conditions that are less harsh, to obtain more bread and houses and be less exploited , the “army of freedom” will do what all bourgeois armies do whenfaced with a warring proletariat: use beatings, guns and cannons!
Proletarians, comrades!
To the north and to the south of the Mediterranean, two objectives are always on the agenda, difficult ones but – as history teaches us – not impossible:
- resurgence of open class warfare, against our bourgeois counterparts, breaking the social peace that has been suffocating us for decades, answering every attack by capital blow for blow, organizing ourselves above and beyond any geographical, political, linguistic or religious barriers;
- strengthening of the international roots of the revolutionary party, the only guide and general staff of a final attack against our enemy – the capitalist mode of production and the State that defends it – , for the dictatorship of the proletariat and communism.
These are two enormous objectives, but urgent and inalienable ones. Any other path would only lead to more suffering and more massacres.
International Communist Party
(International Papers - Cahiers Internationalistes - Il Programma Comunista)
