WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
FOR BOLSHEVISM
FOR BOLSHEVISM
INSIDE THE COMMUNIST AND WORKERS' MOVEMENT
No 2 (47) FEBRUARY 2007
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CONTENTS
1. SPEECH BY GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE AUCPB - N.A. ANDREEVA AT THE MEETING DEDICATED TO THE 89TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA
2. 7 NOVEMBER IN MOSCOW
3. VAIN ATTEMPTS OF THE PERSECUTORS
4. RESOLUTION OF THE PROLETARAIN MEETING ON 7 NOVMEBER 2006 IN KRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA
5. MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION BY AUCPB ON 23 FEB ON 89 ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMING OF THE SOVIET ARMED FORCES
6. TO THE WORKERS' MOVEMENT - AN ORGANISED CHARACTER!
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SPEECH BY GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE AUCPB - N.A. ANDREEVA AT THE MEETING DEDICATED TO THE 89TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA
(Next to the statue of V.I. Lenin by the Finland station). Leningrad 7 November 2006
Dear friends, comrades, like-minded thinkers and sympathizers. I greet all of you who have come to this meeting today in conditions when the ruling bourgeois regime has banned any marches and demonstrations on this Great Day. The last two years the powers have been trying to replace this this day with 4 November, a so insignificant day in the history of Russia, trying to root out of the consciousness of the people everything that had been connected to the years of Soviet power, the building of socialism, to our Great and Mighty Soviet Union, broken up on the strength of betrayal by the high-ranking party nomenclatura of the then ruling CPSU, the obsequious and malicious petty partocracy, who will serve anybody so long as it is profitable and lucrative. 7 November - is a day of the carrying out of a Great Proletarian Revolution - it belongs not just to Russia, to Soviet citizens. We Russians are very proud of the fact that the Third Revolution - the Great October Socialist Revolution was carried out namely in Russia and that it was carried out namely by the Russian proletariat.
But it belongs to the whole of humanity, for the 7 November 1917 - is a revolutionary leap forward in the development of world civilisation, a revolutionary break through into the future, the transition of civilization over onto a new level of development - from class antagonistic society over to a classless, communist society.
7 November marks the beginning of a new era in the development of civilization since it means the rejection of all kinds of private ownership over the tools and means of production and its transition over into a new quality, into common people’s property, with the liquidation of all forms of exploitation of a person by another person. And nobody has the right to abolish this day - 7 November.
All previous changeovers from one social-economic formation meant the change of the type of ownership of the tools and means of production and therefore as K. Marx said, all of them were only the pre-history of Man on the path towards classless, communist society via a transition period - socialism. Under communism, a person is free from any form of exploitation under the presence of highly developed production powers of society, and will not use up much time on obtaining foodstuffs and providing a comfortable life for oneself. All a person’s main time will be used up on educating children, developing ones own natural gifts, occupying oneself with sport, art, on the development of ones elf as an individual found in complete harmony with nature.
Today, a criminal regime is ruling Russia, due a policy from which the population of the country, according to statistics, is every year becoming extinct and falling by 2 million 300 thousand people, despite the huge hordes of poverty-stricken people from the former republics of the USSR coming to Russia to earn money in order to send back home to their families so that they can buy food, bread. The ruling bourgeois regime is all the more tightening the rope around primarily old-age pensioners’ necks. In St. Petersburg the government has deprived all pensioners of subsidies formerly handed out to them, for paying in part for housing. During the year of 2006, in Sobs, pensioner were persuaded to refuse to take subsidised medicines, (all the same there are none in the pharmacies) and trips to health sanatoriums (which were provided very rarely anyway, but all the same were provided). The majority of pensioners agreed and then at the same time, the size of the pension was “raised” as well as their “living-subsistence wage”. Presently, starting from November 06 everyone is being refused housing benefits because the government has significantly lowered the living wage to 2500 roubles ($85, or approx. 50 odd quid month) and therefore the majority of pensioners, taking into consideration the refusal by them to take subsidised medicines and having the subsidies replaced by cash - added to pensions, the size of the pension turns out to be higher than the “minimum subsistence wage”. Now, each pensioner will have to pay out from their own tiny pension up to 40% for housing -communal services(!). In the USSR payment for housing was only of a nominal size and never exceeded 3% of the average salary earned. Thus the authorities have once again robbed us and this time, quite a lot. The “minimum subsistence wage” of pedigree Putin, I presume is tens of times higher than the minimum subsistence wage of today’s pensioner, whose labour during the years of Soviet power created huge material and spiritual values of the country. But now, pensioners are not needed, they are a burden for the bourgeois power and therefore have to be physically exterminated on the strength of the impossibility of being able to live, exist on the extremely low pension handed out by the state.
The monstrous plundering of the country’s natural resources is underway. We are pumping to the West all our energy resources and natural mineral wealth to our best “friends” - the Germans, Americans and others to the delight of president Putin and his ruling host.
The Russian lower house of parliament - the State Duma, having passed laws directed towards at the suffocation of the people and the plunder of our resources thinks only of how to be able to live more comfortably, at one time in power and at the feeding trough. Therefore, the heart-rending calls of the “communists” to vote for them in usual elections is hypocrisy, being covered up with pro-communist calls and slogans. Indeed is historically well known that the parliamentary route for winning power in the conditions of the complete lack of confidence on part of the people, indifference and hate towards the power on part of the majority of the population which has for a long time now being voting “against all” candidates, is a dead end path. Now in the State Duma a law on elections is being prepared which envisages the complete removal of the election percentage barrier on how many need to vote in order for an election to be passed as valid. Under that law, any number of voters can cast their votes to make elections valid, and the elected deputies will be “elected by will of all the people”. But if these authorities are not elected by us, and we do not vote for them , expressing our complete contempt and distrust, then to overthrow this power before which we have no obligations - is a most legitimate and valid cause.
They are constantly hammering into our consciousness like nails into a board, that there is no road back. Yes, we agree with this. THERE IS NO ROAD BACK! For turning back takes us nowhere. We have already been thrown back in time by an entire historical formation back to criminal capitalism due to the counter-revolution. Yes, we should have a long time ago put an end to the plundering of our natural resources and wealth, with poverty of the people, the people- who triumphed over fascism in the Second World War.
It is time finally for the leaders of communist and pro-communist parties to begin taking action together with us Bolsheviks in unity and not to tear into the bourgeois organs of power to the well-paid bourgeoisie (for betrayal, obviously of the interests of the working class) to the feeding trough or more so into presidents of a bourgeois state where Mafiosi oligarchs rule.
Unity in action of all of us, who are for SOCIALISM, WAS, IS AND WILL REMAIN the slogan of the day of our struggle.
LONG LIVE THE 89TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!
LONG LIVE THE FUTURE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION!
LONG LIVE THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE OF ALL DECENT PEOPLE OF THE PLANET FOR PEACE, FOR SOCIALISM ON THE PLANET!
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7 NOVEMBER IN MOSCOW
After the bourgeois power had “abolished” a red day on the calendar - the celebration of the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, of course the day has not vanished - it remains in the hearts of all decent and honest Soviet people, but this day of celebration has taken on new unseen before special characteristics. The march along Gorky street from Mayakovsky Square towards the statue of Karl Marx was by the Mayor of Moscow under an invented pretext, banned.
At 16.30 when the people had gathered near the statue of the great proletarian poet, the militia via a megaphone obtrusively bawled out: “This march is unsanctioned! Find your own way down to Teatralny Square on public transport to where the meeting is being held”. And all the people had arrived! By 17.00 there were already several thousand people. Attempts by the organisers of the meeting to persuade the militia in the illegality of their actions for banning the march, and to contact the Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov came to nothing. The ban on the march remained in force! Thousands of demonstrators finished up having to walk along the pavement to Teatralny Square with flags and banners in hand. A chain of militia walked along the edge of Mostovy, not allowing any of the demonstrators to enter go onto the large road of a main street in Moscow.
This is where it is, the pathological hatred of the present regime towards the proletarian day of celebration! Thousands of Muscovites, many of whom had defended our Motherland in the Great Fatherland War and had rebuilt the capital city after the war had ended were deliberately and demonstratively humiliated and insulted. Only at the very end of the march, at the last hundred metres were the demonstrators able to break through the files of militia and into Mostovy and with a wide, powerful column of demonstrators move towards the aim - the statue of Karl Marx. According to militia data (obviously less than the real number) ten thousand demonstrators took part in the meeting.
Music and songs played and sung by well known opposition singer Kharchikov were loudly greeted by those at the meeting. Zyuganov, devoted a large part of his speech at the meeting to outlining the upheavals of talks with the city authorities having expressed indignation at the illegal banning of a people’s march and having said at the end of this part of the speech - well not to worry, what happened is what happened, you can’t do much about it now. Well, may Luzhkov and others know that in future we shall get our legal right to a march by all means necessary! The second half of his speech was devoted to the usual next election “incantations” : “…we must consolidate our forces towards the next elections into the State Duma (legislative- lower house of Russian parliament); carrying out an energetic pre-election campaign we must, without doubt get a majority of seats in the Duma, and from here give a hand towards the revival of Soviet power and the Soviet Union. We shall by peaceful means carry out a political coup!” If only you were right, Gennady Andreevich! Remember the already long history of political struggle between 1991 - 2006 in the Russian Federation, take a glance at the example of Moldavia, where for several years the “communists” of the Voroninsky flood have been in power. Stop fooling the people!
Without doubt, the main aim of the ruling regime in relation to the great proletarian day of celebration is the aim of wiping out of the people’s memory the essence of it as a glorious date of the world’s first socialist revolution, which radically altered the historic path and our country as well as the whole of Mankind. The means of doing this are well known: ban, slander and undermine the essence of the day of celebration. The latter they serve by a “parade’ on the sacred place for every Soviet person - Red Square, and attempts to wipe out the Great 7 November and replace it with a 100% fake day “For national unity” 4 November. It won’t work, gentlemen!
No amount of banning by the authorities, no amount of pressure on part of the law-enforcement bodies can abolish the great proletarian day of celebration dedicated to the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, which was carried out by our and your fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers!
S.V. KHRISTENKO
AUCPB member
Moscow
(Serp I Molot No 12, 2006)
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THE VAIN ATTEMPTS OF THE PERSECUTORS
The bolshevization of the communist movement has taken the bourgeois power unawares. They turned out obviously unprepared for such a situation in the opposition. An impression is being formed that the law enforcement structures know only what they have heard about the Bolsheviks or in general know nothing about them.
It goes without saying that for the power of the embezzlers of public funds, they have had to start trying methods like blackmail and intimidation to fight against this danger of bolshevization. But they soon understood that this not helping and now they are running to the courts. Summons have been raining down thick and fast like from out of the horn of plenty, and now without the need to sign protocols - the court judges demand the voluntary payments be made, like we print the banknotes ourselves. They find the administrative fines from miserly pensions. Mainly, they put pressure on me as the chairman of the executive of the movement “Trudovaya Krasnoyarsk” in Krasnoyarsk city, and on deputy of the Krasnoyarsk town soviet (council) as well as the leader of the movement “Women of Native Krasnoyarsk” N.I. Safanov. Half the pension is taken and Safanov has been deprived completely of her deputy salary because of her radicalism and steadfastness in the struggle.
Well to hell with the bureaucrats, enforcers and courts, and may a piece get stuck in their throats on the money they used from our pensions. Only - it’s hardly likely - they are empty people, without honesty, conscience or compassion. The only trouble is that valuable time is being lost in procrastination. Having understood that these methods too do nothing, on 7 November the head of Central ROVD (Dept. internal affairs of Russia) declared he would not allow us to march along the city’s main street. What a blockhead - “I’ll let through who I want.” Like we are not on our own land, in our own city. Participators in the meeting decided not to stop the march from going ahead and from the tribune declared that if anything happens we shall not be afraid to spill blood, but what will you be fighting for OMON riot police sitting on your buses sent to restrain the people’s resistance?
And hundreds of people of Krasnoyarsk city marched behind the Bolsheviks from Revolution Square (Ploshad Revolyutsia) to Red Square where tributes were also paid to those who died defending Soviet power during the Civil War. Nobody got off their buses or dared to interfere with the people’s march. The intention to use force if needed was broken up. But now we have the courts again. In this direction the local legislators have already invented a law abolishing Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The newly cooked up law besides the necessity of informing them, organisers also have to get agreement from bureaucrats of the local administration to hold events, bureaucrats who interpret this “agreement” in such a way that we must agree with any proposals put forth by representatives of the administration otherwise - we finish up in court. Although Article 55 of this same constitution of RF proclaims the rights and freedoms of Man can only be limited by federative law, and only for protecting the constitutional system, morality, health, right and lawful interests of other individuals, providing defence and state security.
According to Article 8 - section 1, 2 of the law of the RF, public events can be held in any suitable places as long as by holding them there is no threat to participators of the events from falling buildings, structures or other threats to the safety to the participators of the public event.
It turns out that the local legislators have broken the main law by the fact that they have introduced this unlawful fake law. But nevertheless this law operates. But the bourgeois constitutional watchdog fails to see this. That is the kind of “democracy” here, the kind of “constitutional” system in place.
Vladimir Komarov
Editor of “Serp I Molot, member of the AUCPB
(Serp I Molot No 12, 2006)
From the newspaper’s editorial board: The Krasnoyarsky organisation of the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation -leader Zyuganov) held a demonstration and meeting on 6 November. Bolshevik V.N. KOMAROV made a speech calling for the most decisive struggle against the enemies of the working people.
And on 7 November the demonstration and meeting were organised by the local organisation of the AUCPB and their allies in the revolutionary movement.
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RESOLUTION OF THE PROLETARIAN MEETING ON 7 NOVEMBER 2006 IN KRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA
7 November 2006 marked the 89 anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The rotten thieving power of capital has stopped at nothing in trying to destroy the memory of the day of celebration of all those who are oppressed and unfortunate. The powers to be are afraid like crazy of any dissatisfaction shown by the people. They want so that the whole country was quiet, peaceful, sleepy and remembered the rotting and stinking in the eyes of the world Kremlin bog. But it is in vain that the bourgeoisie and their loyal spongers are pinning their hopes on the people forgetting about Great October. The people never forget about anything. They will not forget about those fighters for justice who have been thrown into the prisons of the Putin regime.
The Great October Socialist Revolution is the main event of the XX century. It provided all social guarantees of people, led our country - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the forefront in development of industry, science, education, culture. Victory was brought about over fascist Germany and the Soviets were the first into space. All the people lived in a united friendly family. The betraying of the ideals of the revolution took place in the high echelons of the party- state apparatus. Today on the day of the 89th Anniversary we state the following:
1) Until the carrying out of a Revolution, take the 7th November not as a day of celebration but as another day of the people’s struggle against the unjust and rotting to the core power of capital.
2) Fight against the oppressors more decisively since meetings alone and shedding tears will change nothing.
3) Recognise Rima Shaigalimova sentenced to a 6 months in prison as a political prisoner. Demand that the authorities free all political prisoners languishing in the country’s prisons.
4) Recognise and believe that the condition of the majority of inhabitants of Krasnoyarsk to be critical, demanding a speedy solution.
5) The actions of the authorities on the destruction of the Soviet legacy, in particular , the banning of the name of the day of the Revolution 7 November to be a crime against their own people.
6) Declare the regime of Mr Putin and his stooges - to be a criminal one equal to that of the Chilean dictator Pinochet and Somoza in Nicaragua.
7) For betraying Soviet power and the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Yeltsin, Kravchuk, Shushkevich are to be tried at a people’s court and sentenced to death.
8) Carry out acts of resistance to the bourgeois regime, organise pickets and meetings against the deepening thieving measures taken by the criminal power and against the impoverishment of the people. Use all forms of struggle of the proletariat up and including the use of force to topple the power of the enemies of the people
9) Ignoring all decrees and orders by the bourgeois power, (the power of the exploiters and embezzlers of public funds) we are to mark the anniversary of the October Revolution only on 7 November each year.
10) All revolutionary activity to be carried out not inside the framework of criminal laws cooked up by the criminals themselves for the their impunitive plundering of citizens of their own country but henceforth for the destruction of bourgeois so-called “legality”.
Adopted at the Bolshevik meeting in Krasnoyarsk on 7 November 2006
(Serp I Molot No12 2006)
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THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOLSHEVIKS (CC AUCPB) CONGRATUALATES THE VETERANS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR, VETERANS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE USSR AND ALL SOVIET CITIZENS ON THE 89TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMATION OF THE SOVIET ARMED FORCES
Dear comrades! Below is printed a speech by J.V. Stalin made at the Moscow Soviet dedicated to the 10th Anniversary since the formation of the Red Army, how it differs from the armies of capitalist states, its ideological basis and principles. It is namely on this ideological basis that the Armed Forces of the revived Soviet Union will be built upon.
Comrades! Allow me to greet in the name of the Central Committee of our party the fighters of our Red Army, the fighters of our Red Navy, the fighters of our Red Air Force and finally our youth undergoing pre-conscription military training, the armed workers of the USSR.
The party takes pride in the fact that it has been successful in forming with the help of workers and peasants the world’s first Red Army, in great battles defending and protecting the freedom of the workers and peasants.
The party is proud of the fact that the Red Army succeeded with honour to pass through the difficult path of the most brutal battles against internal as well as external enemies of the working class and peasantry of our country, that it succeeded in forming itself into the greatest fighting revolutionary force to the fear of the enemies of the working class and to the joy of all oppressed and enslaved people.
The party is proud that the Red Army, passing through a lengthy road of liberating the workers and peasants from the yoke of the landowners and capitalists, won finally their right to celebrate the 10th anniversary since it was formed.
Comrades, where does the strength lie and where is the source of the strength of our Red Army?
What are those special characteristics which in root form differentiate our Red Army from all the other armies which existed in the world?
What are those special characteristics which make up the source of the strength and might of our Red Army?
The first and main special quality of our Red Army lies in the fact it is an army of liberated workers and peasants, it is an army of the October Revolution the army of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
All armies that up to now exist under capitalism, no matter who they have serving are still armies that strengthen the power of capital. They were and remain armies of the rule of capital. The bourgeoisie of all countries are lying when they say the army is neutral. This is not true. In bourgeois states, the army is deprived of political rights, it is removed from the political arena. This is true. But this does not at all mean that it is politically neutral. On the contrary everywhere and always in all capitalist countries the army was brought and still is brought into the political struggle serving as a tool for suppressing the working people. Surely this is true that the army suppresses the workers and that it serves as the bulwark of the gentlemen capitalist masters?
Compared to other armies our Red Army possesses that quality of it being an instrument of establishing the power of the workers and peasants, an instrument of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, an instrument for the liberation of the workers and peasants from the yoke of the landowners and capitalists.
Our army is the army of liberation of the labouring people.
Have you paid attention Comrades, to the fact that deep the past and still nowadays in capitalist countries, the people were afraid and still are afraid of the army, that between the people and the army there exists a barrier separating the army from the people? But what about in our country? We have on the contrary the people and the army make up a single united family. Nowhere in the world are there such loving and caring attitudes on part of the people towards the army like we have here. In our country, the army is loved, respected and cherished by the people. Why is this? Because for the first time in the world the workers and peasants formed their own army which serves not the gentlemen capitalists but the former slaves but liberated workers and peasants.
This where the source of our Red Army comes from.
But what does love of the people to their own army mean? It means that the army will have the strongest rear, and that kind of army is invincible.
What is an army without a strong rear? It is nothing. The biggest and most heavily armed armies have collapsed and been ground to dust without a strong rear, without any support and sympathy on part of the rear, on part of the labouring population. Our army which has the sympathy and support on part of the workers and peasants. The strength lies in this, in its fortress.
Here is how mainly our Red Army differs from all other armies that have existed in the world.
The party’s wishes, its tasks are so that this special quality of the Red Army, its closeness, its brotherly ties with the workers and peasants is preserved and strengthened behind our Red Army.
The second special quality of our Red Army consists in the fact that our army is an army of brotherhood between nations of our country, an army of liberation of the oppressed nations of our country, an army of the protection of the freedom and independence of our country.
In olden times usually armies were educated in the spirit of great power chauvinism, in the spirit of invading other countries, in the spirit of having to subjugate weaker nations. This is explained by the fact that older type armies, capitalist armies were together with those armies of national, colonial oppression. This was one of the biggest weaknesses of the old armies. Our army at the roots differs from other armies of colonial oppression. Its entire essence, its entire system is founded on strengthening friendship between nations of our country, on the idea of liberation of the oppressed peoples, on the idea of defending freedom and independence of the socialist republics that make up the Soviet Union.
In this second and main source of strength and might of our Red Army. In this is the token of the fact that our army at a critical moment will find the greatest support in the millions of the masses of people of all nations and nationalities who inhabit our immense country.
The wishes of the party and its task are that this special quality is preserved and strengthened behind our Red Army.
Finally, the third special quality of the Red Army. It consists in the education and strengthening of the spirit of internationalism inside our army, in the presence of the spirit of internationalism penetrating throughout our Red Army.
In capitalist countries, armies are usually educated in the spirit of hatred towards other states, in the spirit of hatred towards workers and peasants of other countries. What is this done for? It is done to transform the army into a obedient herd in case of a military confrontation between state, between countries. In this lies the source of weakness of all capitalist armies.
Our army is built on a completely different basis. The strength of our Red Army consists in that it is educated from the very first day of its birth in the spirit of internationalism, in the spirit of respect to peoples of other countries, in the spirit of love and respect to workers of all countries, in the spirit of preserving and strengthening peace between countries. And namely because our army is educated in the spirit of internationalism, in the spirit of unity of interests of workers of all countries, namely therefore it is our army and is the army of workers of all countries.
And the fact that this fact is the source of the strength and might of our army, the bourgeoisie of all countries will soon find out if they ever decide to attack our country, for they will see then that our Red Army educated in the spirit of internationalism has an infinite number of friends and allies from all parts of the world from Shanghai to New York, from London to Calcutta.
There you are Comrades, the third and main special quality that penetrates the soul of our army and forming the source of its strength and might.
The wish of the party and its task consists in order that this special quality of our army is also preserved and strengthened. Our army with is strength and might owes itself to these three special qualities.
With this, thus explains the fact that our army knows where it is going because it is not made up of tin soldiers but out of real people, aware and understanding where they are going and what to fight for.
But an army that knows what it is fighting for is invincible comrades.
This is why our Red Army has all grounds to be the best army in the world.
Long live our Red Army!
Long live its fighters!
Long live its leadership!
Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat which gave birth to the Red Army, giving it victory and crowned with glory!
TO THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT - AN ORGANISED CHARACTER!
ABOUT THE TASKS OF THE COMMUNISTS IN THE CAUSE OF ORGANISING THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT AND INSTILLING MARXIST-LENINIST IDEOLOGY INTO THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WORKING CLASS
1. The working class is the main revolutionary force of the future socialist revolution in Russia.
In the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR and the catastrophic destruction of industrial production that has led to the sharp fall in the size of the working class, to the destruction of production work collectives, out of the camp of the bourgeois ideologists to all and their collaborators of all shades - opportunists have been handed out the assertion that there is no longer a working class in Russia, like it has degraded and been shattered completely. All of these assertions of the enemies of the working class have led to one sole thought - that the modern-day working class has allegedly ceased to play a progressive role in the development of society and no longer has any historical future.
The task of these venerable ideologues of the bourgeoisie was and is ideologically and morally disorganise the working class of Russia - the main antagonist and gravedigger of the bourgeoisie , to sow in its consciousness distrust in in its revolutionary possibilities, to undermine the belief of a section of politically conscious workers who have taken to the path of class struggle in the correctness and truth of Marxist-Leninist ideology - the only true and only revolutionary ideology pointing out the way and methods of the working class and all working people from capitalist slavery. Bourgeois ideologues faithfully carrying out the orders of their masters on discrediting Marxist -Leninist theory have aimed their weapon first and foremost against the doctrine on the world-wide historical mission of the proletariat as the main moving force in the cause of the liquidation of capitalism and the building of a new communist society.
However, with this, these stooges of the bourgeoisie thus could not with any sense explain who then, personally speaking creates all the material values of modern bourgeois society, who sows the bread and produces foodstuffs, builds machines and constructs buildings and housing, builds roads, extracts oil, drives trains and buses, who provides the functioning of our production enterprises, despite their destruction on a gigantic scale and mass closures.
Even the bourgeois statistics show that around half of all those people working in the economy work in branches of material production that is - industry, agriculture, construction , transport and communications, branches where the national income of society is created and where a significant share of it is formed by branches of industry - the main branch of capitalist economy. Despite all the cunningness and falsification of bourgeois propaganda, the working class was and remains the main productive force of society, the main producer of material wealth.
Before crossing over to a short analysis of the state and size of the working class in Russia, we need to defining the working class from the Marxist -Leninist point of view.
Under capitalism, the working class or the proletariat is a class of hired workers deprived of their own means of production, living exclusively by way of the sale of his or her labour power and exploited by capital directly in the process of capitalist production. It is namely the working class that is occupied in the branches of material production, creates the national income of society which as a consequence is distributed between the main classes and stratum of bourgeois society including a huge part that goes into the non-productive sphere.
If one turns to the skimpy data of bourgeois statistics relating to state and number of workers of Russia then it turns out that the Russian working class and its natural allies - the working peasantry and working intelligentsia come out as the main social force of the restored in Russia bourgeois society.
According to data of Russian bourgeois statistics (mainly the “Russian annual of statistics” -2005) in all branches of the economy, around 30 million workers are occupied in work which makes up approximately half of people occupied in the economy, and the majority of these workers relate to branches of material production, to the sphere of industry, construction, agriculture and forestry, transport and communication. One has to note that during the last few years (1999 -20040 a positive tendency of the growth in the number of workers by 2 million has been observed, but with this mainly in the sphere of construction, transport and non-productive /service sphere. The number of industrial workers from year to year is falling due to mainly the transfer of workers from industry over into other branches of social production.
Further, one needs to note that together with workers registered at enterprises and by state statistics, there exists a huge mass of workers in different branches of the economy having immigrated from the republics of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), primarily from Central Asia and Caucasus working in Russia illegally. According to statistics, the number of illegally working migrants in Russia amounts to around 10 million people. And more than that, one has to consider that the a large layer of hired workers are employed and occupied in the so-called in the unofficial sector (13 million). The number of unemployed mostly industrial workers searching for work amounts to 5 million. Thus, these figures substantially increase the size of the working class in Russia.
Further, despite the destruction of major industrial enterprises and work collectives, which has led to the scattering and declassifying of the working class, industrial workers continue to play the decisive role among other units of the working class and all working people. In industry the most qualified section of the working class is concentrated (around 2/3 of industrial workers are skilled), around 1/3 of all workers work in industry (just over 9 million industrial workers), where compared to other branches, a high level of concentration of production and labour force has been preserved. One cannot but notice that in industry, enterprises are advantageously related to major enterprises, that is, with the number of workers at an enterprise amounting to more than 500 people. Despite the fact that machine building and metallurgy have been to great extent destroyed - the leading branched of material production, more than 1/3 of the total number of industrial -production personnel are employed namely in these branches.
From these facts it is obvious that it is namely the working class which is the most concentrated and skilled out of all the other ranks of the working people, out of common mass of workers of hired labour. this cannot but determine its fighting qualities, spirit of collectivism and cohesion, a level of awareness and organisational character, that is, those qualities which play the decisive role in the organised struggle of the working people against capital and strongly differ the working class from other ranks of the exploited masses.
Thus, despite the sharp fall in the numbers that make up the working class during the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR, the destruction of large-scale production collectives, the processes of declassifying the working class, despite all this, the working class has been kept intact and preserved, and preserves its main quality as the main production and social force of society.
Further, one should not forget that the working class has its loyal and natural allies - the working peasantry and working intelligentsia. In the process of the scientific-technolo gical revolution the number of allies of the working class expands, firstly among the agricultural workers, working intelligentsia, some workers in the retail trade employed in the branches of capitalist economy and living sole on the sale of his or her own labour power, allies who by their relationship to property and ownership along with other class-forming signs, side with the working class, by its material status is found even in a worse situation than others units of the working class (teachers, doctors, hired workers the retail trade, peasants), and that is even before talking about the most impoverished layers of the population (pensioners, student youth and others). All this strengthens the social base of the working class, its possibility to unite to the various stratum of the population, making them its allies.
In present-day conditions, the working class and its allies - the working peasantry and working intelligentsia is the main social force and natural revolutionary force, and they make up by far the majority of the population of the country. The leading role, the role of the leader in the struggle for a socialist revolution like before belongs to the working class, the proletariat as the main productive force of society, as the most organised and concentrated by the process itself of major capitalist production unit of all the working people and exploited masses.
2. The reasons for the political apathy of the modern Russian working class and its allies.
The working class and its allies preserve their main quality as the main revolutionary force of the epoch, as the fundamental moving force of the future socialist revolution in Russia.
But at the same time in modern conditions the working class is not demonstrating the necessary political activity in the struggle against bourgeois society in accordance with its historically determined role as the gravedigger of capitalism and the creator of a new socialist society, in the mass of its own does not trust and is not moving towards communism, does not except Marxist -Leninist ideology as its own.
The explanation to this one needs to search for in the deep processes that have occurred in the past several decades in objective as well as subjective order.
One of the main reasons is in the sharp decline and declassification of the working class in the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR that could not but undermine its militant, revolutionary characteristics and its collective spirit.
The sharp fall and destruction of the main productive force of society - the working class was conditioned not only and even not so much the action of the spontaneous laws of the restored capitalist economy, but primarily by the deliberate activity of the newly appeared bourgeoisie who its main blow directed towards the destruction of major production collectives, towards the destruction of the Soviet working class which made up 60% of the population and was the chief social danger for the appearing bourgeoisie . The bourgeoisie understood perfectly well that the working class comes out as the main social defence for socialist society, its moving force.
If one takes the number of industrial-producti on personnel (workers and engineering -technical workers) as the basis, then in general, the following picture is drawn. For the period of the restoration of capitalism, the number of industrial-producti on personnel of Russia dropped practically by twice (from 20 thousand in 1990 to 14 thousand in 2004) and the number of workers in industry has continued to decline over the past few years and continues unabated today. The sharp fall in the size of the industrial proletariat is connected with catastrophic destruction of major industrial enterprises, whole giants of industry built by several generations of Soviet people and stolen from them by the restorers of capitalism, and together with them, the destruction of major work collectives, having been the concentration of the working class, its collectivism, unity and solidarity.
It was not only the sharp fall in the numerical size of the working class that occurred, but an intensive process of its dismemberment and declassification also took place which is continues today. Workers, technicians, engineers and other workers of enterprises have been thrown onto the streets, forced to take up trading, commerce, search for work on the side, sign on at job centres etc. Workers started becoming disunited and an huge number of workers lost connection with their work environment, with their production collectives, became declassed and dequalified. More than that, also in the framework of the given production enterprises the process of their break up and splitting took place (the number of operating major and middle-sized organisations in industry during the period 1990 - 2004 grew approximately 6 times with a two-fold reduction in industrial -production personnel), which weakened the connection of workers in the framework of the given collective.
All this has undermined and continues to undermine the militant qualities and collectivist spirit of the still preserved but quite broken up work collectives as stronghold of the workers’ movement, as the stronghold of the political activity of the masses. All this has led to and is leading to a strengthening of the bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideology among the working masses.
Further, the working class today like in the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR in the main is occupied with the problem of survival. One cannot but remember the words of Lenin when he said that modern wage slaves on the strength of capitalist exploitation remain so oppressed by need and poverty that they are not “up to democracy”, “not up to politics”, that “under the normal peaceful flow of events, the majority of the population is removed from participation in social-political life. (Col. works v.33 p.87, Russian).
In modern conditions when the bourgeoisie has finally been able to pay bay all wage arrears, the stop the mass barrage collapse in industry and other areas of the economy none the less cannot stop the further absolute and relative impoverishment of the proletariat and other working people of Russia.
It is not just the gap between the rich and the poor, between a small handful of capitalists and the huge masses of working people that is growing, but on a daily basis the material condition of the workers is getting worse, and uncertainty in the morrow is growing. The further attack of capital against the rights and interests of the working people is happening, along the line of social benefits, along the line of rising rent tariffs, for public services, for petrol and basic foodstuffs. The salaries of the majority of workers remains like before at an extremely low level, at the level with at times not providing enough for the reproduction of slave labour. Such unprotected layers of the population such as pensioners, war and labour veteran and invalids live in extreme poverty. Housing, cars, expensive household goods up to now remain inaccessible to the majority of the working people, especially for young workers. Education, medicine and science are all being hurriedly transferred over onto a commercial basis which then in turn attracts further hikes in prices for services in education and medicine. The threatening process of population extinction continues unabated, the population of which is falling by 1 million people each year and this is taking into account immigration into Russia from other countries of the CIS. And that is not speaking about the high level of unemployment, the growth of child homelessness, disease, crime, moral degradation of society etc., etc.. The sanitary-hygiene conditions and health and safety conditions in industry remain horrific, confirmed by periodic explosions in mines, air crashes and other catastrophes which are the consequence of the continuing degradation of the material-technical base of the economy.
One cannot but notice the fact also that during the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR as well as in the present conditions, the bourgeoisie aims to disunite and alienate the working class on national, professional , wealth and other signs with the aim in undermining solidarity between workers, to infect them with the virus of nationalism and individualism. National discord between the Russian working class and workers who have arrived, immigrant workers firstly from the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Sections of the workers engaged in material production, especially foremen, leading hands/supervisors, sections of the most highly qualified workers and engineer-technical workers, and sections of workers working in the branches of export of products like oil, gas are bribed at a higher level than other working people in wages and reasonable conditions of existence. The bourgeoisie in modern conditions do everything in order to form among the workers a layer of workers’ aristocracy, and rely on this layer to exert on the main mass of workers a strong influence of the bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideology. For igniting hostility between workers, the bourgeoisie uses the workers’ division according to profession - divided into skilled and unskilled workers, into workers and engineers-technical workers, into the main mass of the production collectives and non-commissioned officers (supervisors- leading hands, foremen, heads of production shop floors and sections, economists-technolo gists, accountants and others)into workers who are in trades unions and workers who are not members of any union, into “blue-collar” workers and “white-collar” workers etc..
Disuniting and splitting the workers, the bourgeoisie relying on the ramified state apparatus, on the punitive organs, using the courts, prosecutors, police, special police battalions (OMON), they aims, by use of threats, blackmail, violence and other dirty methods and means not distaining to anything in suppressing and smashing the political will of the workers for struggle, demoralising them and dispelling them of their smallest desire to defend their rights and interests. The factory administration and local organs of power threaten workers with dismissal for participating in strikes, persecute activists of the workers’ movement by way of bringing about administrative and criminal cases against them, pressurise the workers via pressure on their loved ones and relatives, beat up activists of the movement. There have also been cases of weapons being used against workers and connected to blood spilling among workers (events at the Vyborgsky TsBK plant). This cannot but have a negative impact on the workers, the moral and psychological pressure on the workers’ masses, especially on the more unsteady and politically unaware elements, by dampening any kind of wish to fight for their rights and defend their comrades with whom they work.
One of the factors of the lowering of the political activity of the masses is the fact that the bourgeoisie has been in the past few years hurriedly trying to satisfy one of the main demands of the working people of the middle and end of the 1990-s, which brought about strong legal indignation and anger of people of labour - to put an end to wage arrears which were held back for months at a time. The working people have received satisfaction in the main concerning the given demand, lost some of their hardness tempered in struggle and took to survival.
Further. The main tragedy which reveals the deep causes of the absence of political activity among workers, their distrust towards communists and socialist ideology is the fact that the main strike force of the restoration of capitalism was the CPSU - the political headquarters of the working class, its vanguard. In the period of Gorbastroika when the material state of the workers sharply worsened, chaos arose in the economy of the country, periodic queuing , a shortage of foodstuffs, when the Gorbachev leadership of the CPSU was feeding the workers with empty pledges and promises, the CPSU lost any kind of trust among workers and all working people. The loss of trust in the leadership of the CPSU meant the loss of trust in communists in general and to the communist ideology as such. This explains why the workers did not follow the communists - who they stopped trusting, but followed the restorers of capitalism who promised the working people an improvement in their material conditions and overcoming chaos in the economy.
When the restorers of capitalism as a result of the breaking up of production and direct theft of the working people and all the national wealth showed their true face in the eyes of the working people as class enemies, the workers once again have turned their eyes towards the communists, and reorientation of the consciousness of the working people has occurred onto the side of recognising the necessity of resurrecting socialism, onto the side of a socialist prospect of the development of the country. This is explained in particular by the fact that in the parliamentary and presidential election campaigns of 1995 -1996 and 1999 - 2000, the majority of working people spoke out against the existing bourgeois regime (around 2/3 of the population), a significant number of them voted for the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation - (Zyuganov)), who in those conditions they saw as a communist party coming out in favour of the revival of socialism. This was trust, once again shown to the communists and the communist idea.
But that is just the point, that the relay baton that the Khrushchevite - Brezhnevite and Gorbachev- Yakovlevsky leadership of the CPSU on fooling the masses was seized by the Zyuganovite leadership of the CPRF, these abettors of the class of exploiters, betrayers of socialism. Instead of firmly keeping to a policy towards a transition of a revolutionary situation in the country into a socialist revolution which would have stopped the restoration of capitalism and guaranteed the revival of socialism, the CPRF turned to class betrayal of the interests of the working class, to conspiring with the counterrevolutionar y power of Yeltsin, having replaced revolutionary work with some useless parliamentary chitter-chatter, letting off of steam during meetings and demonstrations. The working class was once again deceived and disorganised. The workers nowadays believe neither the restorers of capitalism or the communists (who have embodied themselves with the counterrevolutionar y , traitorous CPSU and the social-democratic, bourgeois CPRF0, they have for a long time been fed up with empty promises and in their fight for survival rely solely on themselves.
There is hardly anything surprising in the fact that the workers do not trust the communists who they embodied themselves with the CPSU, with those partocrats of the higher or middle rank, 87% of whom as a result became businessmen, traders of stocks and shares, bankers, well known officials in the Yeltsinist administration, tore into the process of robbing the common wealth and dignity of the working people. And the CPRF when in its membership stand big businessmen, when the well-fed leaders of the CPRF flicker in front of the working people from the TV screens, with their parliamentary (Duma) privileges and apartments, with their high salaries and carefree life cannot also but summons justifiable repugnance on part of the working people.
A. KRYLENKO
Member of the AUCPB
Novosibirsk
(Article to be continued)
(Serp I Molot No 11 November 2006)
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CONTENTS
1. SPEECH BY GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE AUCPB - N.A. ANDREEVA AT THE MEETING DEDICATED TO THE 89TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA
2. 7 NOVEMBER IN MOSCOW
3. VAIN ATTEMPTS OF THE PERSECUTORS
4. RESOLUTION OF THE PROLETARAIN MEETING ON 7 NOVMEBER 2006 IN KRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA
5. MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION BY AUCPB ON 23 FEB ON 89 ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMING OF THE SOVIET ARMED FORCES
6. TO THE WORKERS' MOVEMENT - AN ORGANISED CHARACTER!
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SPEECH BY GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE AUCPB - N.A. ANDREEVA AT THE MEETING DEDICATED TO THE 89TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA
(Next to the statue of V.I. Lenin by the Finland station). Leningrad 7 November 2006
Dear friends, comrades, like-minded thinkers and sympathizers. I greet all of you who have come to this meeting today in conditions when the ruling bourgeois regime has banned any marches and demonstrations on this Great Day. The last two years the powers have been trying to replace this this day with 4 November, a so insignificant day in the history of Russia, trying to root out of the consciousness of the people everything that had been connected to the years of Soviet power, the building of socialism, to our Great and Mighty Soviet Union, broken up on the strength of betrayal by the high-ranking party nomenclatura of the then ruling CPSU, the obsequious and malicious petty partocracy, who will serve anybody so long as it is profitable and lucrative. 7 November - is a day of the carrying out of a Great Proletarian Revolution - it belongs not just to Russia, to Soviet citizens. We Russians are very proud of the fact that the Third Revolution - the Great October Socialist Revolution was carried out namely in Russia and that it was carried out namely by the Russian proletariat.
But it belongs to the whole of humanity, for the 7 November 1917 - is a revolutionary leap forward in the development of world civilisation, a revolutionary break through into the future, the transition of civilization over onto a new level of development - from class antagonistic society over to a classless, communist society.
7 November marks the beginning of a new era in the development of civilization since it means the rejection of all kinds of private ownership over the tools and means of production and its transition over into a new quality, into common people’s property, with the liquidation of all forms of exploitation of a person by another person. And nobody has the right to abolish this day - 7 November.
All previous changeovers from one social-economic formation meant the change of the type of ownership of the tools and means of production and therefore as K. Marx said, all of them were only the pre-history of Man on the path towards classless, communist society via a transition period - socialism. Under communism, a person is free from any form of exploitation under the presence of highly developed production powers of society, and will not use up much time on obtaining foodstuffs and providing a comfortable life for oneself. All a person’s main time will be used up on educating children, developing ones own natural gifts, occupying oneself with sport, art, on the development of ones elf as an individual found in complete harmony with nature.
Today, a criminal regime is ruling Russia, due a policy from which the population of the country, according to statistics, is every year becoming extinct and falling by 2 million 300 thousand people, despite the huge hordes of poverty-stricken people from the former republics of the USSR coming to Russia to earn money in order to send back home to their families so that they can buy food, bread. The ruling bourgeois regime is all the more tightening the rope around primarily old-age pensioners’ necks. In St. Petersburg the government has deprived all pensioners of subsidies formerly handed out to them, for paying in part for housing. During the year of 2006, in Sobs, pensioner were persuaded to refuse to take subsidised medicines, (all the same there are none in the pharmacies) and trips to health sanatoriums (which were provided very rarely anyway, but all the same were provided). The majority of pensioners agreed and then at the same time, the size of the pension was “raised” as well as their “living-subsistence wage”. Presently, starting from November 06 everyone is being refused housing benefits because the government has significantly lowered the living wage to 2500 roubles ($85, or approx. 50 odd quid month) and therefore the majority of pensioners, taking into consideration the refusal by them to take subsidised medicines and having the subsidies replaced by cash - added to pensions, the size of the pension turns out to be higher than the “minimum subsistence wage”. Now, each pensioner will have to pay out from their own tiny pension up to 40% for housing -communal services(!). In the USSR payment for housing was only of a nominal size and never exceeded 3% of the average salary earned. Thus the authorities have once again robbed us and this time, quite a lot. The “minimum subsistence wage” of pedigree Putin, I presume is tens of times higher than the minimum subsistence wage of today’s pensioner, whose labour during the years of Soviet power created huge material and spiritual values of the country. But now, pensioners are not needed, they are a burden for the bourgeois power and therefore have to be physically exterminated on the strength of the impossibility of being able to live, exist on the extremely low pension handed out by the state.
The monstrous plundering of the country’s natural resources is underway. We are pumping to the West all our energy resources and natural mineral wealth to our best “friends” - the Germans, Americans and others to the delight of president Putin and his ruling host.
The Russian lower house of parliament - the State Duma, having passed laws directed towards at the suffocation of the people and the plunder of our resources thinks only of how to be able to live more comfortably, at one time in power and at the feeding trough. Therefore, the heart-rending calls of the “communists” to vote for them in usual elections is hypocrisy, being covered up with pro-communist calls and slogans. Indeed is historically well known that the parliamentary route for winning power in the conditions of the complete lack of confidence on part of the people, indifference and hate towards the power on part of the majority of the population which has for a long time now being voting “against all” candidates, is a dead end path. Now in the State Duma a law on elections is being prepared which envisages the complete removal of the election percentage barrier on how many need to vote in order for an election to be passed as valid. Under that law, any number of voters can cast their votes to make elections valid, and the elected deputies will be “elected by will of all the people”. But if these authorities are not elected by us, and we do not vote for them , expressing our complete contempt and distrust, then to overthrow this power before which we have no obligations - is a most legitimate and valid cause.
They are constantly hammering into our consciousness like nails into a board, that there is no road back. Yes, we agree with this. THERE IS NO ROAD BACK! For turning back takes us nowhere. We have already been thrown back in time by an entire historical formation back to criminal capitalism due to the counter-revolution. Yes, we should have a long time ago put an end to the plundering of our natural resources and wealth, with poverty of the people, the people- who triumphed over fascism in the Second World War.
It is time finally for the leaders of communist and pro-communist parties to begin taking action together with us Bolsheviks in unity and not to tear into the bourgeois organs of power to the well-paid bourgeoisie (for betrayal, obviously of the interests of the working class) to the feeding trough or more so into presidents of a bourgeois state where Mafiosi oligarchs rule.
Unity in action of all of us, who are for SOCIALISM, WAS, IS AND WILL REMAIN the slogan of the day of our struggle.
LONG LIVE THE 89TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!
LONG LIVE THE FUTURE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION!
LONG LIVE THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE OF ALL DECENT PEOPLE OF THE PLANET FOR PEACE, FOR SOCIALISM ON THE PLANET!
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7 NOVEMBER IN MOSCOW
After the bourgeois power had “abolished” a red day on the calendar - the celebration of the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, of course the day has not vanished - it remains in the hearts of all decent and honest Soviet people, but this day of celebration has taken on new unseen before special characteristics. The march along Gorky street from Mayakovsky Square towards the statue of Karl Marx was by the Mayor of Moscow under an invented pretext, banned.
At 16.30 when the people had gathered near the statue of the great proletarian poet, the militia via a megaphone obtrusively bawled out: “This march is unsanctioned! Find your own way down to Teatralny Square on public transport to where the meeting is being held”. And all the people had arrived! By 17.00 there were already several thousand people. Attempts by the organisers of the meeting to persuade the militia in the illegality of their actions for banning the march, and to contact the Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov came to nothing. The ban on the march remained in force! Thousands of demonstrators finished up having to walk along the pavement to Teatralny Square with flags and banners in hand. A chain of militia walked along the edge of Mostovy, not allowing any of the demonstrators to enter go onto the large road of a main street in Moscow.
This is where it is, the pathological hatred of the present regime towards the proletarian day of celebration! Thousands of Muscovites, many of whom had defended our Motherland in the Great Fatherland War and had rebuilt the capital city after the war had ended were deliberately and demonstratively humiliated and insulted. Only at the very end of the march, at the last hundred metres were the demonstrators able to break through the files of militia and into Mostovy and with a wide, powerful column of demonstrators move towards the aim - the statue of Karl Marx. According to militia data (obviously less than the real number) ten thousand demonstrators took part in the meeting.
Music and songs played and sung by well known opposition singer Kharchikov were loudly greeted by those at the meeting. Zyuganov, devoted a large part of his speech at the meeting to outlining the upheavals of talks with the city authorities having expressed indignation at the illegal banning of a people’s march and having said at the end of this part of the speech - well not to worry, what happened is what happened, you can’t do much about it now. Well, may Luzhkov and others know that in future we shall get our legal right to a march by all means necessary! The second half of his speech was devoted to the usual next election “incantations” : “…we must consolidate our forces towards the next elections into the State Duma (legislative- lower house of Russian parliament); carrying out an energetic pre-election campaign we must, without doubt get a majority of seats in the Duma, and from here give a hand towards the revival of Soviet power and the Soviet Union. We shall by peaceful means carry out a political coup!” If only you were right, Gennady Andreevich! Remember the already long history of political struggle between 1991 - 2006 in the Russian Federation, take a glance at the example of Moldavia, where for several years the “communists” of the Voroninsky flood have been in power. Stop fooling the people!
Without doubt, the main aim of the ruling regime in relation to the great proletarian day of celebration is the aim of wiping out of the people’s memory the essence of it as a glorious date of the world’s first socialist revolution, which radically altered the historic path and our country as well as the whole of Mankind. The means of doing this are well known: ban, slander and undermine the essence of the day of celebration. The latter they serve by a “parade’ on the sacred place for every Soviet person - Red Square, and attempts to wipe out the Great 7 November and replace it with a 100% fake day “For national unity” 4 November. It won’t work, gentlemen!
No amount of banning by the authorities, no amount of pressure on part of the law-enforcement bodies can abolish the great proletarian day of celebration dedicated to the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, which was carried out by our and your fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers!
S.V. KHRISTENKO
AUCPB member
Moscow
(Serp I Molot No 12, 2006)
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THE VAIN ATTEMPTS OF THE PERSECUTORS
The bolshevization of the communist movement has taken the bourgeois power unawares. They turned out obviously unprepared for such a situation in the opposition. An impression is being formed that the law enforcement structures know only what they have heard about the Bolsheviks or in general know nothing about them.
It goes without saying that for the power of the embezzlers of public funds, they have had to start trying methods like blackmail and intimidation to fight against this danger of bolshevization. But they soon understood that this not helping and now they are running to the courts. Summons have been raining down thick and fast like from out of the horn of plenty, and now without the need to sign protocols - the court judges demand the voluntary payments be made, like we print the banknotes ourselves. They find the administrative fines from miserly pensions. Mainly, they put pressure on me as the chairman of the executive of the movement “Trudovaya Krasnoyarsk” in Krasnoyarsk city, and on deputy of the Krasnoyarsk town soviet (council) as well as the leader of the movement “Women of Native Krasnoyarsk” N.I. Safanov. Half the pension is taken and Safanov has been deprived completely of her deputy salary because of her radicalism and steadfastness in the struggle.
Well to hell with the bureaucrats, enforcers and courts, and may a piece get stuck in their throats on the money they used from our pensions. Only - it’s hardly likely - they are empty people, without honesty, conscience or compassion. The only trouble is that valuable time is being lost in procrastination. Having understood that these methods too do nothing, on 7 November the head of Central ROVD (Dept. internal affairs of Russia) declared he would not allow us to march along the city’s main street. What a blockhead - “I’ll let through who I want.” Like we are not on our own land, in our own city. Participators in the meeting decided not to stop the march from going ahead and from the tribune declared that if anything happens we shall not be afraid to spill blood, but what will you be fighting for OMON riot police sitting on your buses sent to restrain the people’s resistance?
And hundreds of people of Krasnoyarsk city marched behind the Bolsheviks from Revolution Square (Ploshad Revolyutsia) to Red Square where tributes were also paid to those who died defending Soviet power during the Civil War. Nobody got off their buses or dared to interfere with the people’s march. The intention to use force if needed was broken up. But now we have the courts again. In this direction the local legislators have already invented a law abolishing Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The newly cooked up law besides the necessity of informing them, organisers also have to get agreement from bureaucrats of the local administration to hold events, bureaucrats who interpret this “agreement” in such a way that we must agree with any proposals put forth by representatives of the administration otherwise - we finish up in court. Although Article 55 of this same constitution of RF proclaims the rights and freedoms of Man can only be limited by federative law, and only for protecting the constitutional system, morality, health, right and lawful interests of other individuals, providing defence and state security.
According to Article 8 - section 1, 2 of the law of the RF, public events can be held in any suitable places as long as by holding them there is no threat to participators of the events from falling buildings, structures or other threats to the safety to the participators of the public event.
It turns out that the local legislators have broken the main law by the fact that they have introduced this unlawful fake law. But nevertheless this law operates. But the bourgeois constitutional watchdog fails to see this. That is the kind of “democracy” here, the kind of “constitutional” system in place.
Vladimir Komarov
Editor of “Serp I Molot, member of the AUCPB
(Serp I Molot No 12, 2006)
From the newspaper’s editorial board: The Krasnoyarsky organisation of the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation -leader Zyuganov) held a demonstration and meeting on 6 November. Bolshevik V.N. KOMAROV made a speech calling for the most decisive struggle against the enemies of the working people.
And on 7 November the demonstration and meeting were organised by the local organisation of the AUCPB and their allies in the revolutionary movement.
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RESOLUTION OF THE PROLETARIAN MEETING ON 7 NOVEMBER 2006 IN KRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA
7 November 2006 marked the 89 anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The rotten thieving power of capital has stopped at nothing in trying to destroy the memory of the day of celebration of all those who are oppressed and unfortunate. The powers to be are afraid like crazy of any dissatisfaction shown by the people. They want so that the whole country was quiet, peaceful, sleepy and remembered the rotting and stinking in the eyes of the world Kremlin bog. But it is in vain that the bourgeoisie and their loyal spongers are pinning their hopes on the people forgetting about Great October. The people never forget about anything. They will not forget about those fighters for justice who have been thrown into the prisons of the Putin regime.
The Great October Socialist Revolution is the main event of the XX century. It provided all social guarantees of people, led our country - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the forefront in development of industry, science, education, culture. Victory was brought about over fascist Germany and the Soviets were the first into space. All the people lived in a united friendly family. The betraying of the ideals of the revolution took place in the high echelons of the party- state apparatus. Today on the day of the 89th Anniversary we state the following:
1) Until the carrying out of a Revolution, take the 7th November not as a day of celebration but as another day of the people’s struggle against the unjust and rotting to the core power of capital.
2) Fight against the oppressors more decisively since meetings alone and shedding tears will change nothing.
3) Recognise Rima Shaigalimova sentenced to a 6 months in prison as a political prisoner. Demand that the authorities free all political prisoners languishing in the country’s prisons.
4) Recognise and believe that the condition of the majority of inhabitants of Krasnoyarsk to be critical, demanding a speedy solution.
5) The actions of the authorities on the destruction of the Soviet legacy, in particular , the banning of the name of the day of the Revolution 7 November to be a crime against their own people.
6) Declare the regime of Mr Putin and his stooges - to be a criminal one equal to that of the Chilean dictator Pinochet and Somoza in Nicaragua.
7) For betraying Soviet power and the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Yeltsin, Kravchuk, Shushkevich are to be tried at a people’s court and sentenced to death.
8) Carry out acts of resistance to the bourgeois regime, organise pickets and meetings against the deepening thieving measures taken by the criminal power and against the impoverishment of the people. Use all forms of struggle of the proletariat up and including the use of force to topple the power of the enemies of the people
9) Ignoring all decrees and orders by the bourgeois power, (the power of the exploiters and embezzlers of public funds) we are to mark the anniversary of the October Revolution only on 7 November each year.
10) All revolutionary activity to be carried out not inside the framework of criminal laws cooked up by the criminals themselves for the their impunitive plundering of citizens of their own country but henceforth for the destruction of bourgeois so-called “legality”.
Adopted at the Bolshevik meeting in Krasnoyarsk on 7 November 2006
(Serp I Molot No12 2006)
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THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOLSHEVIKS (CC AUCPB) CONGRATUALATES THE VETERANS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR, VETERANS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE USSR AND ALL SOVIET CITIZENS ON THE 89TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMATION OF THE SOVIET ARMED FORCES
Dear comrades! Below is printed a speech by J.V. Stalin made at the Moscow Soviet dedicated to the 10th Anniversary since the formation of the Red Army, how it differs from the armies of capitalist states, its ideological basis and principles. It is namely on this ideological basis that the Armed Forces of the revived Soviet Union will be built upon.
Comrades! Allow me to greet in the name of the Central Committee of our party the fighters of our Red Army, the fighters of our Red Navy, the fighters of our Red Air Force and finally our youth undergoing pre-conscription military training, the armed workers of the USSR.
The party takes pride in the fact that it has been successful in forming with the help of workers and peasants the world’s first Red Army, in great battles defending and protecting the freedom of the workers and peasants.
The party is proud of the fact that the Red Army succeeded with honour to pass through the difficult path of the most brutal battles against internal as well as external enemies of the working class and peasantry of our country, that it succeeded in forming itself into the greatest fighting revolutionary force to the fear of the enemies of the working class and to the joy of all oppressed and enslaved people.
The party is proud that the Red Army, passing through a lengthy road of liberating the workers and peasants from the yoke of the landowners and capitalists, won finally their right to celebrate the 10th anniversary since it was formed.
Comrades, where does the strength lie and where is the source of the strength of our Red Army?
What are those special characteristics which in root form differentiate our Red Army from all the other armies which existed in the world?
What are those special characteristics which make up the source of the strength and might of our Red Army?
The first and main special quality of our Red Army lies in the fact it is an army of liberated workers and peasants, it is an army of the October Revolution the army of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
All armies that up to now exist under capitalism, no matter who they have serving are still armies that strengthen the power of capital. They were and remain armies of the rule of capital. The bourgeoisie of all countries are lying when they say the army is neutral. This is not true. In bourgeois states, the army is deprived of political rights, it is removed from the political arena. This is true. But this does not at all mean that it is politically neutral. On the contrary everywhere and always in all capitalist countries the army was brought and still is brought into the political struggle serving as a tool for suppressing the working people. Surely this is true that the army suppresses the workers and that it serves as the bulwark of the gentlemen capitalist masters?
Compared to other armies our Red Army possesses that quality of it being an instrument of establishing the power of the workers and peasants, an instrument of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, an instrument for the liberation of the workers and peasants from the yoke of the landowners and capitalists.
Our army is the army of liberation of the labouring people.
Have you paid attention Comrades, to the fact that deep the past and still nowadays in capitalist countries, the people were afraid and still are afraid of the army, that between the people and the army there exists a barrier separating the army from the people? But what about in our country? We have on the contrary the people and the army make up a single united family. Nowhere in the world are there such loving and caring attitudes on part of the people towards the army like we have here. In our country, the army is loved, respected and cherished by the people. Why is this? Because for the first time in the world the workers and peasants formed their own army which serves not the gentlemen capitalists but the former slaves but liberated workers and peasants.
This where the source of our Red Army comes from.
But what does love of the people to their own army mean? It means that the army will have the strongest rear, and that kind of army is invincible.
What is an army without a strong rear? It is nothing. The biggest and most heavily armed armies have collapsed and been ground to dust without a strong rear, without any support and sympathy on part of the rear, on part of the labouring population. Our army which has the sympathy and support on part of the workers and peasants. The strength lies in this, in its fortress.
Here is how mainly our Red Army differs from all other armies that have existed in the world.
The party’s wishes, its tasks are so that this special quality of the Red Army, its closeness, its brotherly ties with the workers and peasants is preserved and strengthened behind our Red Army.
The second special quality of our Red Army consists in the fact that our army is an army of brotherhood between nations of our country, an army of liberation of the oppressed nations of our country, an army of the protection of the freedom and independence of our country.
In olden times usually armies were educated in the spirit of great power chauvinism, in the spirit of invading other countries, in the spirit of having to subjugate weaker nations. This is explained by the fact that older type armies, capitalist armies were together with those armies of national, colonial oppression. This was one of the biggest weaknesses of the old armies. Our army at the roots differs from other armies of colonial oppression. Its entire essence, its entire system is founded on strengthening friendship between nations of our country, on the idea of liberation of the oppressed peoples, on the idea of defending freedom and independence of the socialist republics that make up the Soviet Union.
In this second and main source of strength and might of our Red Army. In this is the token of the fact that our army at a critical moment will find the greatest support in the millions of the masses of people of all nations and nationalities who inhabit our immense country.
The wishes of the party and its task are that this special quality is preserved and strengthened behind our Red Army.
Finally, the third special quality of the Red Army. It consists in the education and strengthening of the spirit of internationalism inside our army, in the presence of the spirit of internationalism penetrating throughout our Red Army.
In capitalist countries, armies are usually educated in the spirit of hatred towards other states, in the spirit of hatred towards workers and peasants of other countries. What is this done for? It is done to transform the army into a obedient herd in case of a military confrontation between state, between countries. In this lies the source of weakness of all capitalist armies.
Our army is built on a completely different basis. The strength of our Red Army consists in that it is educated from the very first day of its birth in the spirit of internationalism, in the spirit of respect to peoples of other countries, in the spirit of love and respect to workers of all countries, in the spirit of preserving and strengthening peace between countries. And namely because our army is educated in the spirit of internationalism, in the spirit of unity of interests of workers of all countries, namely therefore it is our army and is the army of workers of all countries.
And the fact that this fact is the source of the strength and might of our army, the bourgeoisie of all countries will soon find out if they ever decide to attack our country, for they will see then that our Red Army educated in the spirit of internationalism has an infinite number of friends and allies from all parts of the world from Shanghai to New York, from London to Calcutta.
There you are Comrades, the third and main special quality that penetrates the soul of our army and forming the source of its strength and might.
The wish of the party and its task consists in order that this special quality of our army is also preserved and strengthened. Our army with is strength and might owes itself to these three special qualities.
With this, thus explains the fact that our army knows where it is going because it is not made up of tin soldiers but out of real people, aware and understanding where they are going and what to fight for.
But an army that knows what it is fighting for is invincible comrades.
This is why our Red Army has all grounds to be the best army in the world.
Long live our Red Army!
Long live its fighters!
Long live its leadership!
Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat which gave birth to the Red Army, giving it victory and crowned with glory!
TO THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT - AN ORGANISED CHARACTER!
ABOUT THE TASKS OF THE COMMUNISTS IN THE CAUSE OF ORGANISING THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT AND INSTILLING MARXIST-LENINIST IDEOLOGY INTO THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WORKING CLASS
1. The working class is the main revolutionary force of the future socialist revolution in Russia.
In the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR and the catastrophic destruction of industrial production that has led to the sharp fall in the size of the working class, to the destruction of production work collectives, out of the camp of the bourgeois ideologists to all and their collaborators of all shades - opportunists have been handed out the assertion that there is no longer a working class in Russia, like it has degraded and been shattered completely. All of these assertions of the enemies of the working class have led to one sole thought - that the modern-day working class has allegedly ceased to play a progressive role in the development of society and no longer has any historical future.
The task of these venerable ideologues of the bourgeoisie was and is ideologically and morally disorganise the working class of Russia - the main antagonist and gravedigger of the bourgeoisie , to sow in its consciousness distrust in in its revolutionary possibilities, to undermine the belief of a section of politically conscious workers who have taken to the path of class struggle in the correctness and truth of Marxist-Leninist ideology - the only true and only revolutionary ideology pointing out the way and methods of the working class and all working people from capitalist slavery. Bourgeois ideologues faithfully carrying out the orders of their masters on discrediting Marxist -Leninist theory have aimed their weapon first and foremost against the doctrine on the world-wide historical mission of the proletariat as the main moving force in the cause of the liquidation of capitalism and the building of a new communist society.
However, with this, these stooges of the bourgeoisie thus could not with any sense explain who then, personally speaking creates all the material values of modern bourgeois society, who sows the bread and produces foodstuffs, builds machines and constructs buildings and housing, builds roads, extracts oil, drives trains and buses, who provides the functioning of our production enterprises, despite their destruction on a gigantic scale and mass closures.
Even the bourgeois statistics show that around half of all those people working in the economy work in branches of material production that is - industry, agriculture, construction , transport and communications, branches where the national income of society is created and where a significant share of it is formed by branches of industry - the main branch of capitalist economy. Despite all the cunningness and falsification of bourgeois propaganda, the working class was and remains the main productive force of society, the main producer of material wealth.
Before crossing over to a short analysis of the state and size of the working class in Russia, we need to defining the working class from the Marxist -Leninist point of view.
Under capitalism, the working class or the proletariat is a class of hired workers deprived of their own means of production, living exclusively by way of the sale of his or her labour power and exploited by capital directly in the process of capitalist production. It is namely the working class that is occupied in the branches of material production, creates the national income of society which as a consequence is distributed between the main classes and stratum of bourgeois society including a huge part that goes into the non-productive sphere.
If one turns to the skimpy data of bourgeois statistics relating to state and number of workers of Russia then it turns out that the Russian working class and its natural allies - the working peasantry and working intelligentsia come out as the main social force of the restored in Russia bourgeois society.
According to data of Russian bourgeois statistics (mainly the “Russian annual of statistics” -2005) in all branches of the economy, around 30 million workers are occupied in work which makes up approximately half of people occupied in the economy, and the majority of these workers relate to branches of material production, to the sphere of industry, construction, agriculture and forestry, transport and communication. One has to note that during the last few years (1999 -20040 a positive tendency of the growth in the number of workers by 2 million has been observed, but with this mainly in the sphere of construction, transport and non-productive /service sphere. The number of industrial workers from year to year is falling due to mainly the transfer of workers from industry over into other branches of social production.
Further, one needs to note that together with workers registered at enterprises and by state statistics, there exists a huge mass of workers in different branches of the economy having immigrated from the republics of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), primarily from Central Asia and Caucasus working in Russia illegally. According to statistics, the number of illegally working migrants in Russia amounts to around 10 million people. And more than that, one has to consider that the a large layer of hired workers are employed and occupied in the so-called in the unofficial sector (13 million). The number of unemployed mostly industrial workers searching for work amounts to 5 million. Thus, these figures substantially increase the size of the working class in Russia.
Further, despite the destruction of major industrial enterprises and work collectives, which has led to the scattering and declassifying of the working class, industrial workers continue to play the decisive role among other units of the working class and all working people. In industry the most qualified section of the working class is concentrated (around 2/3 of industrial workers are skilled), around 1/3 of all workers work in industry (just over 9 million industrial workers), where compared to other branches, a high level of concentration of production and labour force has been preserved. One cannot but notice that in industry, enterprises are advantageously related to major enterprises, that is, with the number of workers at an enterprise amounting to more than 500 people. Despite the fact that machine building and metallurgy have been to great extent destroyed - the leading branched of material production, more than 1/3 of the total number of industrial -production personnel are employed namely in these branches.
From these facts it is obvious that it is namely the working class which is the most concentrated and skilled out of all the other ranks of the working people, out of common mass of workers of hired labour. this cannot but determine its fighting qualities, spirit of collectivism and cohesion, a level of awareness and organisational character, that is, those qualities which play the decisive role in the organised struggle of the working people against capital and strongly differ the working class from other ranks of the exploited masses.
Thus, despite the sharp fall in the numbers that make up the working class during the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR, the destruction of large-scale production collectives, the processes of declassifying the working class, despite all this, the working class has been kept intact and preserved, and preserves its main quality as the main production and social force of society.
Further, one should not forget that the working class has its loyal and natural allies - the working peasantry and working intelligentsia. In the process of the scientific-technolo gical revolution the number of allies of the working class expands, firstly among the agricultural workers, working intelligentsia, some workers in the retail trade employed in the branches of capitalist economy and living sole on the sale of his or her own labour power, allies who by their relationship to property and ownership along with other class-forming signs, side with the working class, by its material status is found even in a worse situation than others units of the working class (teachers, doctors, hired workers the retail trade, peasants), and that is even before talking about the most impoverished layers of the population (pensioners, student youth and others). All this strengthens the social base of the working class, its possibility to unite to the various stratum of the population, making them its allies.
In present-day conditions, the working class and its allies - the working peasantry and working intelligentsia is the main social force and natural revolutionary force, and they make up by far the majority of the population of the country. The leading role, the role of the leader in the struggle for a socialist revolution like before belongs to the working class, the proletariat as the main productive force of society, as the most organised and concentrated by the process itself of major capitalist production unit of all the working people and exploited masses.
2. The reasons for the political apathy of the modern Russian working class and its allies.
The working class and its allies preserve their main quality as the main revolutionary force of the epoch, as the fundamental moving force of the future socialist revolution in Russia.
But at the same time in modern conditions the working class is not demonstrating the necessary political activity in the struggle against bourgeois society in accordance with its historically determined role as the gravedigger of capitalism and the creator of a new socialist society, in the mass of its own does not trust and is not moving towards communism, does not except Marxist -Leninist ideology as its own.
The explanation to this one needs to search for in the deep processes that have occurred in the past several decades in objective as well as subjective order.
One of the main reasons is in the sharp decline and declassification of the working class in the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR that could not but undermine its militant, revolutionary characteristics and its collective spirit.
The sharp fall and destruction of the main productive force of society - the working class was conditioned not only and even not so much the action of the spontaneous laws of the restored capitalist economy, but primarily by the deliberate activity of the newly appeared bourgeoisie who its main blow directed towards the destruction of major production collectives, towards the destruction of the Soviet working class which made up 60% of the population and was the chief social danger for the appearing bourgeoisie . The bourgeoisie understood perfectly well that the working class comes out as the main social defence for socialist society, its moving force.
If one takes the number of industrial-producti on personnel (workers and engineering -technical workers) as the basis, then in general, the following picture is drawn. For the period of the restoration of capitalism, the number of industrial-producti on personnel of Russia dropped practically by twice (from 20 thousand in 1990 to 14 thousand in 2004) and the number of workers in industry has continued to decline over the past few years and continues unabated today. The sharp fall in the size of the industrial proletariat is connected with catastrophic destruction of major industrial enterprises, whole giants of industry built by several generations of Soviet people and stolen from them by the restorers of capitalism, and together with them, the destruction of major work collectives, having been the concentration of the working class, its collectivism, unity and solidarity.
It was not only the sharp fall in the numerical size of the working class that occurred, but an intensive process of its dismemberment and declassification also took place which is continues today. Workers, technicians, engineers and other workers of enterprises have been thrown onto the streets, forced to take up trading, commerce, search for work on the side, sign on at job centres etc. Workers started becoming disunited and an huge number of workers lost connection with their work environment, with their production collectives, became declassed and dequalified. More than that, also in the framework of the given production enterprises the process of their break up and splitting took place (the number of operating major and middle-sized organisations in industry during the period 1990 - 2004 grew approximately 6 times with a two-fold reduction in industrial -production personnel), which weakened the connection of workers in the framework of the given collective.
All this has undermined and continues to undermine the militant qualities and collectivist spirit of the still preserved but quite broken up work collectives as stronghold of the workers’ movement, as the stronghold of the political activity of the masses. All this has led to and is leading to a strengthening of the bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideology among the working masses.
Further, the working class today like in the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR in the main is occupied with the problem of survival. One cannot but remember the words of Lenin when he said that modern wage slaves on the strength of capitalist exploitation remain so oppressed by need and poverty that they are not “up to democracy”, “not up to politics”, that “under the normal peaceful flow of events, the majority of the population is removed from participation in social-political life. (Col. works v.33 p.87, Russian).
In modern conditions when the bourgeoisie has finally been able to pay bay all wage arrears, the stop the mass barrage collapse in industry and other areas of the economy none the less cannot stop the further absolute and relative impoverishment of the proletariat and other working people of Russia.
It is not just the gap between the rich and the poor, between a small handful of capitalists and the huge masses of working people that is growing, but on a daily basis the material condition of the workers is getting worse, and uncertainty in the morrow is growing. The further attack of capital against the rights and interests of the working people is happening, along the line of social benefits, along the line of rising rent tariffs, for public services, for petrol and basic foodstuffs. The salaries of the majority of workers remains like before at an extremely low level, at the level with at times not providing enough for the reproduction of slave labour. Such unprotected layers of the population such as pensioners, war and labour veteran and invalids live in extreme poverty. Housing, cars, expensive household goods up to now remain inaccessible to the majority of the working people, especially for young workers. Education, medicine and science are all being hurriedly transferred over onto a commercial basis which then in turn attracts further hikes in prices for services in education and medicine. The threatening process of population extinction continues unabated, the population of which is falling by 1 million people each year and this is taking into account immigration into Russia from other countries of the CIS. And that is not speaking about the high level of unemployment, the growth of child homelessness, disease, crime, moral degradation of society etc., etc.. The sanitary-hygiene conditions and health and safety conditions in industry remain horrific, confirmed by periodic explosions in mines, air crashes and other catastrophes which are the consequence of the continuing degradation of the material-technical base of the economy.
One cannot but notice the fact also that during the period of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR as well as in the present conditions, the bourgeoisie aims to disunite and alienate the working class on national, professional , wealth and other signs with the aim in undermining solidarity between workers, to infect them with the virus of nationalism and individualism. National discord between the Russian working class and workers who have arrived, immigrant workers firstly from the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Sections of the workers engaged in material production, especially foremen, leading hands/supervisors, sections of the most highly qualified workers and engineer-technical workers, and sections of workers working in the branches of export of products like oil, gas are bribed at a higher level than other working people in wages and reasonable conditions of existence. The bourgeoisie in modern conditions do everything in order to form among the workers a layer of workers’ aristocracy, and rely on this layer to exert on the main mass of workers a strong influence of the bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideology. For igniting hostility between workers, the bourgeoisie uses the workers’ division according to profession - divided into skilled and unskilled workers, into workers and engineers-technical workers, into the main mass of the production collectives and non-commissioned officers (supervisors- leading hands, foremen, heads of production shop floors and sections, economists-technolo gists, accountants and others)into workers who are in trades unions and workers who are not members of any union, into “blue-collar” workers and “white-collar” workers etc..
Disuniting and splitting the workers, the bourgeoisie relying on the ramified state apparatus, on the punitive organs, using the courts, prosecutors, police, special police battalions (OMON), they aims, by use of threats, blackmail, violence and other dirty methods and means not distaining to anything in suppressing and smashing the political will of the workers for struggle, demoralising them and dispelling them of their smallest desire to defend their rights and interests. The factory administration and local organs of power threaten workers with dismissal for participating in strikes, persecute activists of the workers’ movement by way of bringing about administrative and criminal cases against them, pressurise the workers via pressure on their loved ones and relatives, beat up activists of the movement. There have also been cases of weapons being used against workers and connected to blood spilling among workers (events at the Vyborgsky TsBK plant). This cannot but have a negative impact on the workers, the moral and psychological pressure on the workers’ masses, especially on the more unsteady and politically unaware elements, by dampening any kind of wish to fight for their rights and defend their comrades with whom they work.
One of the factors of the lowering of the political activity of the masses is the fact that the bourgeoisie has been in the past few years hurriedly trying to satisfy one of the main demands of the working people of the middle and end of the 1990-s, which brought about strong legal indignation and anger of people of labour - to put an end to wage arrears which were held back for months at a time. The working people have received satisfaction in the main concerning the given demand, lost some of their hardness tempered in struggle and took to survival.
Further. The main tragedy which reveals the deep causes of the absence of political activity among workers, their distrust towards communists and socialist ideology is the fact that the main strike force of the restoration of capitalism was the CPSU - the political headquarters of the working class, its vanguard. In the period of Gorbastroika when the material state of the workers sharply worsened, chaos arose in the economy of the country, periodic queuing , a shortage of foodstuffs, when the Gorbachev leadership of the CPSU was feeding the workers with empty pledges and promises, the CPSU lost any kind of trust among workers and all working people. The loss of trust in the leadership of the CPSU meant the loss of trust in communists in general and to the communist ideology as such. This explains why the workers did not follow the communists - who they stopped trusting, but followed the restorers of capitalism who promised the working people an improvement in their material conditions and overcoming chaos in the economy.
When the restorers of capitalism as a result of the breaking up of production and direct theft of the working people and all the national wealth showed their true face in the eyes of the working people as class enemies, the workers once again have turned their eyes towards the communists, and reorientation of the consciousness of the working people has occurred onto the side of recognising the necessity of resurrecting socialism, onto the side of a socialist prospect of the development of the country. This is explained in particular by the fact that in the parliamentary and presidential election campaigns of 1995 -1996 and 1999 - 2000, the majority of working people spoke out against the existing bourgeois regime (around 2/3 of the population), a significant number of them voted for the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation - (Zyuganov)), who in those conditions they saw as a communist party coming out in favour of the revival of socialism. This was trust, once again shown to the communists and the communist idea.
But that is just the point, that the relay baton that the Khrushchevite - Brezhnevite and Gorbachev- Yakovlevsky leadership of the CPSU on fooling the masses was seized by the Zyuganovite leadership of the CPRF, these abettors of the class of exploiters, betrayers of socialism. Instead of firmly keeping to a policy towards a transition of a revolutionary situation in the country into a socialist revolution which would have stopped the restoration of capitalism and guaranteed the revival of socialism, the CPRF turned to class betrayal of the interests of the working class, to conspiring with the counterrevolutionar y power of Yeltsin, having replaced revolutionary work with some useless parliamentary chitter-chatter, letting off of steam during meetings and demonstrations. The working class was once again deceived and disorganised. The workers nowadays believe neither the restorers of capitalism or the communists (who have embodied themselves with the counterrevolutionar y , traitorous CPSU and the social-democratic, bourgeois CPRF0, they have for a long time been fed up with empty promises and in their fight for survival rely solely on themselves.
There is hardly anything surprising in the fact that the workers do not trust the communists who they embodied themselves with the CPSU, with those partocrats of the higher or middle rank, 87% of whom as a result became businessmen, traders of stocks and shares, bankers, well known officials in the Yeltsinist administration, tore into the process of robbing the common wealth and dignity of the working people. And the CPRF when in its membership stand big businessmen, when the well-fed leaders of the CPRF flicker in front of the working people from the TV screens, with their parliamentary (Duma) privileges and apartments, with their high salaries and carefree life cannot also but summons justifiable repugnance on part of the working people.
A. KRYLENKO
Member of the AUCPB
Novosibirsk
(Article to be continued)
(Serp I Molot No 11 November 2006)
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