WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
FOR BOLSHEVISM
FOR BOLSHEVISM
INSIDE THE COMMUNIST AND WORKERS' MOVEMENT
No 4 (49) APRIL 2007
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CONTENTS
1- THINK AND FIGHT IN A LENINIST WAY
2- INSIDE THE COUNTRIES OF SOCIALISM - THE DPRK
3- THE AUCPB - 15 YEARS OLD
4- ANGLO-AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
5- WE SHALL DEFEND OUR LAND FROM THE THE BOURGEOIS SWINDLERS!
6- THE GREAT STALIN EPOCH
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THINK AND FIGHT IN A LENINIST WAY
22 April 1870 is the day when Vladimir Ilyich LENIN was born - the genius theoretician of Marxism -Leninism, the founder and leader of the Bolshevik party under the leadership of which the Great October Socialist Revolution was carried out, the founder of the world's first multinational state of workers and peasants - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the leader of the working people, oppressed and deprived people of the whole world.
Below we have published an article that reflects one of the stages of the multisided activity of the V.I. Lenin on the path towards carrying out a socialist revolution.
16th April 1917 - a week before his birthday - V.I. Lenin after a lengthy period underground, returned to Russia by now no longer a monarchist Russia but a bourgeois-democratic Russia. The following day, he read out the speech on war and revolution at a meeting of Bolshevik party activists, and afterwards at a meeting of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks - delegates of the All-Russian assembly of workers and soldiers deputies. On 20th April a theses under the title of “On the tasks of the proletariat in the present revolution” were published in the newspaper “Pravda”. A little later on, they were reprinted in Bolshevik newspapers “Social -Democrat” (Moscow), “Proletarian” (Kharkov), Krasnoyarsky Rabochy”, “Vperyod” (Ufa), “Bakinsky Rabochy”, Kavkazsky Rabochy” (Tiflis) and others.
What was the reason for the appearance of these thesis, what preceded them?
The First World War was underway. The defeat of the Russian troops, the reactionary tsarist government, destruction and famine brought about deep dissatisfaction among the broads masses of the people, assisted the growth of class consciousness of the workers, peasants and town petty bourgeoisie against the imperialist war and tsarist autocracy. Bolshevik organisations unfurled a struggle for the transformation of the imperialist war into a civil war for overthrowing Tsarism and establishing a democratic republic.
The concentration of industry that was taking place, the merging of bank and industrial capital, the growth of monopolies and the transformation of monopoly capitalism into state-monopoly capitalism created the material prerequisites for the transition over to socialism. The aggravation of the conflict between the development of production forces and capitalist production relation, the growth of the class struggle in the country and the general crisis in the world capitalist system that had begun during the war created the conditions for the carrying out of revolutionary transformations across the entire country. In Petrograd, the capital city of the Russian empire, in February the first to come out on strike were the workers-putilovtsy, and they were supported by those women of the city who had gone on strike, the Vyborgsky storona rose up. At the end of February all these acts merged into a general political strike under the slogans “Down with the tsar!” “Down with the war!” and “Bread”! Political strikes and demonstrations grow into an uprising. The February -bourgoies democratic revolution is carried out which toppled the tsarist autocracy. Deputies of the state Duma from the bourgeoisie and petty bourgoies parties form a Provisional Committee. On the call of the Bolsheviks, workers at manufacturing plants and factories elect the Petrograd Soviet of Workers Deputies. The majority in the Soviet were the Mensheviks and SR-s (Socialist Revolutionaries) and they ran this Soviet. Such a situation was formed as a consequence of insufficient class consciousness and organisational abilities of the proletariat, then when they still believed the postulates of the demagogues of the appeasing parties. During the revolution, millions of inexperienced people were drawn into politics. “A giant petty bourgeois wave flooded everything, suppressed the conscious proletariat but not only by its sheers numbers but ideologically, that is, infected, seized the very wide circle of workers with petty bourgeois views on politics”, wrote Lenin after in his article “The tasks of the proletariat in our revolution”.
The S.R - Menshevik leaders of the Petrograd Soviet sneakily behind the backs of the Bolsheviks made deals with the representatives of the bourgeoisie and those landowners who became bourgeoisie on the forming of the Provisional government. The result - an interesting interweave of two powers, two dictatorships, a dictatorship of the bourgeoisies in the form of the Provisional government and the dictatorship of the proletariat in the form of Soviets of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies.
In this atmosphere a new direction was needed for the party and the revolutionary proletariat. “The old pre-revolutionary platform of directly overthrowing the government was clear and well-defined, but was not suitable for the new conditions. By now it was not feasible to go directly towards overthrowing the government for it was tied in with the Soviets… But at the same time it would be incorrect to have carried out a policy of support to the Provisional government for it was a government of imperialism. What was needed was a new direction of the party in the conditions of the struggle… Lenin gave new direction to the party in his famous April thesis”, wrote J.V. Stalin in his article “Trotskyism or Leninism”.
What was this direction of the party?
In the thesis, V.I. Lenin explained that the revolution having overthrown Tsarism, had passed the first stage. The bourgeois-democratic revolution was over, power had been transferred from the landowners over to the bourgeoisie.
By now it was imperative to put a end to the war, the Provisional government which did not refuse to participate in and not just in that, but on the contrary aimed to continue it to a victorious end”. Before the party stood the task of in detail, consistently and persistently explaining to the labouring masses the connection of capital with war of plunder, to prove that it would be impossible to gain a true democratic world without overthrowing capital. V.I. Lenin connected the ending of the war with the main question of the revolution - with the question of power. In order for the war to come to an end, he asserted, power must go over onto the hands of the revolutionary working class.
For this, it is necessary to carry out a transition to a second, proletarian revolution, which must pass power into the hands of the working class and the poorest peasantry. Not providing any support to the Provisional government, unmasking the falsity of all its pledges, use the maximum legality and absence of direct violence over the masses for a peaceful transition of power over to the Soviets by way of winning over the majority in them by the Bolsheviks and their supporters and the forming of a Soviet republic. Namely a Soviet republic and not a parliamentary one.
This was the direction for the peaceful development of the revolution.
In the thesis, the main economic problems were dealt with which were necessary to solve in the quickest possible time and direct party tasks. In particular it was proposed that the party be renamed. Lenin demanded the casting out of “dirty underwear” - to reject the name of social- democratic for the party, disgraced by opportunists and call it a communist party, like Marx and Engels called their party.
The Leninist Thesis spread across in all three to four pages directed the party to the struggle for the transition from the bourgeois-democratic revolution over to a socialist revolution in a peaceful way. In this lay the essence of the new orientation of the party.
When this was unsuccessful due to a number of reasons, then the VI party congress adopted a new policy - a policy towards the preparation and the carrying out of an armed uprising. And in October 1917 a proletarian revolution was carried out which went down in history as the Great October Socialist Revolution.
To truthfully evaluate the situation that had formed, to take the most correct and well-grounded decisions and take them to the deep consciousness of the labouring people and together with them, leading them, fight for the bringing of these decisions in to life - such are the traditions of a Leninist Bolshevik party.
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It is namely on the basis of a deep and all-round analysis of the internal contradictions of imperialism at the present stage that General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB) Comrade N.A. Andreeva drew the conclusion: “The impending socialist revolution - is a natural flow of modern history, since the completely socilialized production powers of society have outgrown the private ownership production relations. Therefore a revolution is inevitable and we need to prepare for it”.
G.D. ORLOV
(“Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda” No 4 (109)
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INSIDE THE COUNTRIES OF SOCIALISM
THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA - (DPRK)
In April 2007 the Korean people honour three legendary dates:
- the 95th anniversary since the day of birth of the Great leader president of the DPRK Comrade KIM IL SUNG (15th April);
- the 14th anniversary since the commencement of work by Comrade KIM JONG IL as Chairman of the State Committee for Defence of the DPRK (9th April);
- the 75th anniversary since the founding of the Korean People’s Army (25th April).
“The Dear Leader dedicated his whole life and soul to the cause of the Motherland and the people, and has done a great service to the epoch and Mankind”.
KIM JONG IL
Comrade KIM IL SUNG was born on 15 April 1912 in a family of patriots - revolutionaries in the Mangyongdae district, Pyongyang.
In his memoirs, “In the vortex of the century” Comrade KIM IL SUNG wrote: “Our family was humble and down-to-earth just like any other you might see in any village and in any small town in Korea. It was poor and did not differ in any way from other families and did not have any distinguishing marks.
However, each member of our family never forgot about their Motherland and gave all their strengths to the cause of namely the Motherland and nation, and each did their bit to the best of their ability.”
Comrade KIM IL SUNG at an early age stood on the path of revolutionary struggle for the liberation of the Motherland from Japanese colonial rule. On 17 October 1926 he formed the Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU) - the first revolutionary organisation in Korea made up of his supporters among the youth.
In June 1930 at a Meeting in Kalunske, Comrade KIM IL SUNG marked out the path of the Korean revolution: - total liberation from Japanese colonial slavery. At this Meeting, Comrade KIM IL SUNG noted that for the successful carrying out of the Korean revolution it is necessary to organise a broad anti-Japanese armed struggle, unite patriotic forces and speed up preparations for the forming of a party.
On 25 April 1932, he formed the very first revolutionary armed forces in Korea - the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army (Korean People’s Revolutionary Army) and declared the start of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. Such was the starting point of becoming a revolutionary, commander-in-chief and leader of the Korean revolution.
Victory in the fierce and arduous anti-Japanese armed struggle in August 1945 brought about conditions for the revival of the sovereignty of the Korean nation, the achieving of independence of the country and opened the path to a new life.
Studying the experience of the anti-Japanese struggle under the leadership of the Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG, has great international significance. Thus, in January 1968 the Worldwide Conference on culture adopted a document called “The Anti-Japanese armed struggle of the Korean people organised and carried out under the direct leadership of Comrade KIM IL SUNG”. On the basis of studying the experience of this struggle it was decided to work out a strategy and tactics of an anti-imperialist national-liberation struggle of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
On 10th October 1945, Comrade KIM IL SUNG formed the Workers’ Party of Korea - the headquarters of the revolution.
A little later at a mass meeting in Pyongyang on 16 October Comrade KIM IL SUNG called on the people to unite efforts on the building of a new society.
- “The time has come when our Korean nation must unite its forces in the name of building a new democratic Korea. All representatives of various layers of the population with patriotic enthusiasm must rise up to the building of a new Korea. Each must actively participate in state construction : whoever has strength - may they use their strength, whoever has knowledge - may they use their knowledge, whoever has money - may they use their money. All compatriots who truly love their country, their nation and democracy, must unite into one and build a sovereign and independent democratic state”.
Less than two years under the leadership of Comrade KIM IL SUNG and in Korea the tasks of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic revolution had been successfully solved and in North Korea a people’s democratic system had been established.
It is important to note that after the liberation of Korea from the Japanese, by request on part of the Koreans, the Soviet troops were withdrawn from the Korean Peninsula. But the Americans refused to do the same, having started a struggle for the dividing of the Korean nation, and hindering in any way possible the holding of general elections in the South and North of the country that were organised by the communists under the leadership of Comrade KIM IL SUNG. This confrontation on part of the USA became the start of the dividing of the Korean nation and a great source of pain for Koreans during the days after and up to the present day.
As a result of the elections of 9 September 1948, the DPRK was formed. With the direct cooperation of the imperialist circles of the USA in the South of Korea, separate elections were held that were in contradiction to the general election. US puppets came to power in the south. Presently located in South Korea there is a huge contingent of US troops at military bases, and South Korea itself has become a launch platform for carrying out a military strike against the DPRK with the aim of overthrowing the communist regime and liquidating the socialist system.
The successes in the construction of socialism in the DPRK under the leadership of Comrade KIM IL SUNG are truly amazing and demonstrate clearly the advantages of the socialist system. We have spoken much in detail about this in our Bolshevik press. The service of Comrade KIM IL SUNG in the building of socialism - are invaluable. The Juche idea, formed by the Great Leader and developed into a harmonious theory by his worthy successor the Great Leader Comrade KIM JONG IL is today the shining light of the development of socialist Korea under the Songun policy in defending the sovereignty of the state and socialist path of development, chosen by the people themselves in extremely difficult conditions of an all-round unprecedented pressure on the DPRK on part of US imperialism.
During his entire life, Comrade KIM IL SUNG with difficulty endured the presence of the division of the nation and did much work on the question on the possible ways of unifying the North and South of the country. On the last day of his life on 7 July 1994, the Great Leader was working on a document on solving the problem of unification.
The Great Leader Commander-in Chief President Comrade KIM IL SUNG died during the night on 8 July, 1994. His contribution to the development of the Korean nation , Korean culture, in the steady movement of the country in the name of prosperity and development of the Socialist Motherland is immeasurable. Therefore, today the DPRK is living and constructing socialism under the slogans: “the Great Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG is always with us!”, “We shall even stronger arm ourselves with the revolutionary ideas of the Great Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG!” Koreans call the Great Leader the FATHER OF THE NATION.
The contribution of Comrade KIM IL SUNG to the development of civilization is also huge. His name is forever written in the chronicle of the most outstanding politicians and statesmen of the planet Earth of the XX century.
Today, socialist Korea under the leadership of General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Committee for Defence of the DPRK, Supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army Comrade KIM JONG IL is successfully building socialism despite the most brutal all-round blockade and attempts at stifling the DPRK on part of the USA.
We sincerely wish Socialist Korea new outstanding successes in the development of its society and in the speedy unification of the Korean nation.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOLSHEVIKS (CC AUCPB), Leningrad
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On the occasion of each of these famous dates, the General Secretary of the CC AUCPB Comrade N.A. Andreeva has sent a congratulatory telegram to Pyongyang in the name of the Great Leader Comrade KIM JONG IL.
(“Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda” )
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THE AUCPB - 15 YEARS OLD
The editorial board continues to receive letters dedicated to the 15th year since the forming of our party - the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Here is another.
PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION AS THE RESULT OF JOINING BOLSHEVISM WITH THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT
“The party is the backbone of the working class… The brain of the class, the cause of the class, the strength of the class, the glory of the class - that is what a party is…’
V.V. MAYAKOVSKY
That is what Soviet poet-Bolshevik wrote about the party of communists-Bolsheviks headed by V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin under the leadership of whom the Great October Socialist revolution was carried and socialism was built.
But there has never ever been a straight path in social development. While there exist two opposing classes - the bourgeoisie and the proletariat the struggle for power and social wealth will not stop.
The epoch of imperialism as Lenin showed is the final stage of capitalism. And from the very beginning of the existence of the power of the proletariat and up until the final days of the USSR, imperialism had spend a lot of capital for stifling this power.
World experience of bourgeoisie and landowner governments has worked out two means of restraining the people under oppression. The first - is with violence.. But there is another method, best of all designed by English and French bourgeoisie “taught” alongside the revolution and revolutionary movements of the masses. This is a means of deceit, flattery, phrase, a million promises, miserly handouts, retreat from the unimportant, preservation of the important”. (Lenin) - “The tasks of the proletariat in our revolution”. With the help of the second method after the death of J.V. Stalin under the leadership of N. Khrushchev and L. Brezhnev, and after, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin, there took place a crossover with the help of revisionism and reformism and after that direct betrayal by the Gorbachev hierarchy from socialism to capitalism. One has to fight for communism, but capitalism came along by itself when the dictatorship of the proletariat ceased to exist, liquidated by Khrushchev. During he Khrushchev and Brezhnev period socialism was only rocked slightly, it still lived since there was social ownership over the means of production. Gorbachev and Co. in conspiring with the imperialists began to introduce capitalism via reforms. In the Yeltsinist - Putin period the entire Soviet social wealth is “on the quiet” sold off. Soon we shall all be living in a foreign land. It will belong to imperialist countries and home-bred oligarchs.
Soviet people being made fools of by 3.5 decades of Khrushchev- Brezhnev opportunism did not provide corresponding rebuff to the arrival of capitalism. They have only just begun realising what they have lost, and then not everybody.
However, in the USSR a part of the people understood what was happening very well. When a large section of the high echelons of the CPSU headed by Gorbachev betrayed the party and country, and many rank and file communists showed indifference, ordinary communists: today’s General Secretary of the CC AUCPB N.A. Andreeva, her husband professor of philosophy, Doctor of Sciences V.I. Klyushin (1926 - 1996) with other rank and file communists formed the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. The AUCPB openly came out against the destruction of socialism and the treacherous policy of Gorbachev and Co. and Yeltsin. But the people of the USSR having been fooled by the bourgeoisie as Lenin wrote in the “April Thesis” did not understand the impending threat.
The AUCPB during its fifteen years of work has carried out a lot of political- agitation work. During this period many active Bolsheviks have died. Glory and honour to them! The work of the AUCPB has not gone without leaving a trace. I noticed this whilst distributing Bolshevik newspapers in 1993. The arrival of capitalism brought not just a multitude of negative phenomena in society, but also the threat of transforming the country into a colony and the destruction of the majority of the population of our Motherland - the USSR. Imperialism is already stomping around our country, it stands on various tribunes during days of celebrating the victory of the Soviet people. Traitors having pillaged the USSR materially and spiritually put forward its successes.
At the March (1994) Plenary Session of the CC AUCPB the General Secretary of the CC AUCPB N.A. Andreeva said: “Speaking in short, Bolshevization means the transfer over onto Leninism as the theory and practice of revolutionary Marxism, answering to the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolutions and the transfer of humanity from capitalism over to socialism… Bolshevization - is not a policy of parliamentary reforms, but the carrying out of a second socialist revolution…Bolshevization is party building on the basis of democratic centralism, criticism and self-criticism, strict party discipline… And finally, Bolshevization means the constant strengthening of ties with the working people, defending their political and economic interests.”
At the II Congress of the AUCPB, N.A.Andreeva with her report to the congress noted that “without the joining of the workers’ movement to socialism there can be no victory of a proletarian revolution in which the main moving force is the working class”. At the 4th Congress of the AUCPB, N.A. Andreeva called for a transfer over onto positions of attack.
Such are the tasks that the AUCPB has taken on. Explaining to the people the necessity of revolution is also a movement in the direction of revolution.
Lenin, in “Tasks of the proletariat” wrote “The less the Russian people are organised the more decisively we need to move towards the organised building of the people themselves…”. Since the time of Lenin, many changes have taken place. After the Great Patriotic War (1941- 1945) there was the large socialist camp. All of this was an achievement of the working class and peasantry of the world, of our Soviet people. Many supporters of socialism remain and all of them are allies of the working class.
The present-day comprador power finds it profitable to keep the people in the dark, to push social development backwards in the interests of huge profits for themselves and the bourgeoisie. A fierce battle for power is underway between the comprador and national bourgeoisie and this weakens the power of capital. The proletariat can make use of this.
P.S.: in Russia since 11 May 06 the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of defence together with the party “United Russia” have been carrying out propaganda under the name “Russia - NATO”, unified efforts - 2006”. The main task behind this is to “humanize” the savage essence of this aggressive military bloc. The old rule by colonisers is in operation: first the missionary goes in, after that, the merchant moves in and afterwards - the soldiers go in.
N.E. LEGEN’KOVA
From NABEREZHHIE CHELNY
(Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda No1 (118)
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ANGLO-AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROBBERY
Not one state in the world has ever invaded other countries, carried our military interventions, direct or by way of hirelings carried out coups and anti-government coups in other countries as much as the USA have done in their 230 year old history of existence. One may without exaggeration ascertain that the history of the USA has not only being written by the ink of news reporters but also by the blood of people who have been killed by the hands of the US imperialists. Mexico and Cuba, Columbia and Panama, Dominion Republic and Nicaragua, China and Korea, Vietnam and Laos, Angola and Afghanistan, Lebanon and Grenada - and that is not the whole list of sovereign states that have experienced in practice the aggressive policy of the USA. After the destruction of the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, Yugoslavia and Iraq have been added to this pitiful list, the first act of aggression that was carried out back in 1991. Not too far into over the hill there is a possible military expansion against Iran which is being accused of carrying out illegal nuclear research leading to the ability of building a nuclear weapon.
Every time when the US prepare to grab up a sovereign state, a “woof” is always let off about some mythical “nuclear threat” or some violation of “human rights’. The US has claims to North Korea. The reason - the same one as always - it has a nuclear weapon which act as a restraint, quite successfully, against the appetites of the imperialist predators.
A close ally in the expansionist -Zionist policy of the US - is Britain. The States have acquired much from this country of classic capitalism. Firstly the experience of colonial policy and the carrying out of wars of invasion interests the US. In Spring 1982, the British government led by the conservatives unleashed a colonial war against Argentina over the Falkland (Malvinas) islands that lie 13 thousand km-s from the shores of Britain. Speaking in favour of a peaceful settlement to this conflict, in practice the Reagan administration from the outset sided with Britain and provided Britain with all-round support. “The British operation on getting back the Falklands in 1982 could not only have not been won but could not have been carried out without the help of the Americans”, quoted one influential London journal of business circles “economist” two years after. Having deployed a British armada of 100 ships into a war of invasion, there was a great need in obtaining fuel, ammunition and “air- to -air” missiles. For carrying out military operations first of all there was a demand for air reconnaissance, detailed intelligence on the location of Argentinean warships. For this information, London turned to Washington and President Reagan issued an order to supply the US ally in NATO with everything necessary . Firstly, the US provided the British warships and aircraft carriers with aviation fuel which was delivered to the Ascension Islands. For fast pumping of fuel to the islands, the Americans built special pipelines. The newspaper “Washington Post” later reported that the US had sent 47.5 million litres of fuel .
Among the weapons supplied by the US, was the “Sidewinder AIM 9L” missiles which played a decisive role for the campaign , as they hit the most targets amounting to the same number hit by all the remaining weapons systems taken together. Besides this, the Pentagon supplied the British with “Strike” missiles for use against radar transmission systems, “Harpoon” anti-warship missiles, anti-aircraft “Stingers“, various ammunition, night vision optics and many others. By some accounts the value in the amount of weapons supplied came to more than 60 million dollars.
Most important was the US intelligence data obtained with the help of US satellites and sent to the British. On the request of London, the Pentagon transferred one of its satellites equipped with high resolution apparatus into orbit for observing the region of the Falkland Islands. The British processed on average 800 signals a day, obtained from the satellite and were constantly aware of the location of any Argentinean surface vessel or submarine vessel!
Providing assistance to London , to its closest ally in NATO, the US did not fulfil its own commitments to Argentina. A number of documents signed between there US and Argentina and also multiparty agreements envisaged the mutual provision of aid in the case of an attack against one of the parties. The USA not only did not provide military aid to Argentina but having betrayed her went over onto the side of Britain . The Argentinean people like the people of many other countries whose sons were killed by weapons “Made in the USA” will never forget the recklessness and brutality of American (Anglo-American ) imperialism…
Victoriously for the USA ended the War of Independence (1775 - 1783) and the might of the American army strengthened in battles was directed at expanding territory of the young state on the backs of colonial rule of European powers and lands belonging to the Indian tribes. In the Pentagon multivolume history is says that just in the XIX alone, the troops if the US had carried taken part in 8600 battles and other military conflicts. They were mainly against the Indians, the native inhabitants of the continent. Before the start of the migration of European colonial settler there were 15 million native people in the US. Now there are less that 800 thousand and they have been driven into 267 reservations that have practically transformed into ghettos. There you have it - the democracy and freedom of “white” America!
During the period of its several century old history, humanity has never found itself in such a complex situation. Bring into a vital demand the ancient Roman postulate “divide and rule” world imperialism in the face of the USA and its accomplices in NATO are carrying out a policy of globalisation, igniting fires of military conflicts in different corners of the planet.
Only a socialist revolution will put an end to the threat of nuclear war and all wars in general. The collapse of imperialism is inevitable.
V. POTACHKIN
VINNITSKAYA REGION
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THE GREAT STALIN EPOCH
After the Great October Socialist revolution , the overthrown classes of capitalist and landowners unleashed a civil war against their own people and to their aid came the troops of the interventionists from 14 imperialist states. For three years they taunted the young Soviet Republic. Our country was transformed into a heap of ruins. Poland had split, having grabbed up Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. The border passed alongside Minsk and from there not far to Moscow. It was bad in the Baltic states. For centuries Russia struggled for an exit into the Baltic sea and with difficulty chopped a “window” out into Europe, and now everything has collapsed. From out of the makeup of Russia went Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. We have instead of wide window only a little narrow “window” - from Petrograd via the shallow Gulf of Finland.
In the Far East - a “Buffer” republic. In Central Asia, the Khans were the masters along with the Emirs and the ever bigger influence of the British was felt.
There was another side of the question. We, Great Russians have for a long time not felt and endured what the minority peoples have and continue to be pressured by - the danger of enslavement and destruction. Russia has somehow lost that feeling of danger, like Ukraine to a certain degree also. And for the Georgians, for other peoples of the Caucasus this danger was and remains a terrible reality. It is no accident that in its time, Armenia, Azerbaizhan, and Georgia voluntarily entered the makeup of the Russian state and became stronger under a trustworthy shield.
J.V. Stalin brilliantly presented the picture of the near future. He understood that Armenians given half a chance would mercilessly slaughter the Turks, Persians, Kurds, Turkish Churkes. The Georgians do not escape their fate; division and savage destruction. And the same with the Azerbaizhanians: there are too many hunters for its territory, for its oil. Industry is falling into the hands of the British, Persia joins to the land and South Azerbaizhan adds Northern Azerbaizhan to itself….
By 1922, from the former huge empire is preserved only the skeleton, true, firm and loyal, - the Russian Federation (RSFSR). Belarus was closely tied in with Russia. In Ukraine it was more complicated. If the eastern regions and its centre with a mixed population with ancient Russian traditions, aimed towards a united state, and in the western region there were many Petlurovsky and Hetmansky failures who were ready to fight for their own “independent” Ukraine, the more for the leading posts in the proposed separatist - operetta power. What is there to talk about there concerning nation and peoples: nearly every principality (guberrniya) has tried to become a state, uyezds and even volosts have declared themselves as independent republics, forming their own “armed forces”.
Everybody is fed up with destruction, disorder, bloodshed and disease.
In order to defend ourselves from another round of aggression by the imperialists, not to allow economic and financial suffocation, with joint efforts we can restore the destroyed during the First World War , Civil War and military intervention, national economy and instead build socialism. In December 1922 with four Soviet Socialist Republics, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Caucasian Federation (into which Armenia, Azerbaizhan and Georgia were united), was on a voluntary and equal basis formed the world’s first workers’ and peasants ‘ state - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
J.V. Stalin said that “We lag behind advanced countries by 50 - 100 years. We have got overtake this distance in 10 years. Either we do this or else or they will swallow us up.” In those days the country of Soviets was a “complete ants nest”; every person was busy working for the cause and built up their state. During the first five-year plan there were 4.5 thousand large factories built: Azovstal steel plant, Magnitogorsk metallurgical plant, Zaporozhstal steel plant, Dneproges hydroelectric dam, Stalingradsky and Kharkovsky tractor factories, aviation, defence and many other huge projects of the national economy were built. Already by 1933 the volume of production in the USSR had grown to more than twice compared to that of 1929 and was 201.6% (in the USA for the same period it had lowered to 64.9%).
Foreign specialists , writers, guests who had visited Soviet enterprises, schools, higher learning institutions , culture establishments, were amazed at what they saw. Read their memoirs and articles and on every page you will meet the words: “Fantastic! Incredible”! One becomes infected with their extolment and you start to understand the titanic labour went into the raising of a huge country from ruins. British capitalist Gibson wrote in 1932 : “Don’t try to underestimate the Soviet plans. The state of the USSR - is a country of amazing activity… The easy it seems is that the most important is in the one thing, that the youth and workers have one thing which unfortunately is lacking in capitalist countries, and that is namely - hope”. The German writers and publicist E. Ludwig before the war visited the USSR and noted: “Bolshevism of 1941 - is a social order which is on the verge of completion”, “Stalin organised the people into a remarkable state - the USSR”. And there were thousand of such responses.
This automatically brings to mind the famous words: “There are no fortresses that the Bolsheviks cannot take”.
True, not all progressive people applauded the USSR. A. Einstein criticized the Soviet system. But when he was given the chance to get to know the true state of affairs in the USSR and the scale of the harm, he changed his opinion and rejected his earlier statements.
This is understandable! In the USSR everyone had equal rights and opportunities. Stalin headed the state for three and half decades and there was no need to bury him. He did not think about capital and domestic peace like his compatriots did. Therefore, the Soviet people built under his leadership the world’s first workers’ peasant state and held onto victory in the Great Patriotic War. But the lackeying ink-slingers in front of the Ukrainian national bourgeoisie whine on “repressions”, “famine”, “gulags”, “totalitarianism”, personality cult”. These pitiful toadies do not see that the more they whine on about this the quicker the “democratic” rubbish will be blown away from the grave of a great person by the wind of truth.
It is nowadays, under our “democracy” that shorthand reports of judicial processes are not printed in newspapers. But then under the Stalin “totalitarian regime”, the trials of enemies of the people, betrayers and traitors took place openly with the publication of shorthand reports of the processes, and from the courtroom, loudspeakers were placed out on the streets so it could be heard from there. The divergent argument about pressure on part of the investigation, torture, slander…… It would only take one of the defendants to state in the open process that they had been slandered and the charges would drop like a house of cards. The grandiose international scandal - the hall was full of foreign journalists, lawyers and diplomats. But… the accused themselves convince us: “Remember gentlemen ill-wishers of Stalin - we were guilty, we were against Soviet power, we were wreckers”…
And no matter how pretty today’s authorities paint a picture of our life on entertainment channels and foreign TV serials, the “deformed appearance of “democratic capitalism” having become the thing in modern day Ukraine, is becoming ever more obvious to the people who were deceived during the years of perestroika.
Slowly, the people are waking up. Hatred towards these authorities is growing. The number of people devoting themselves to the struggle against the bourgeoisie as the chief enemy of the working people, is growing.
Having tasted all the joys of this bourgeois-independent life, seeing the dead-end of the authorities, the people are already openly demanding “Give us Stalin”! With the arrival of new generations, the Stalin epoch will ever more attract attention and his personality will be the eagle of greatness of all times and peoples.
N.V. KIPESHUK
From Lebedin
(Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda No 1 (118)
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No 4 (49) APRIL 2007
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CONTENTS
1- THINK AND FIGHT IN A LENINIST WAY
2- INSIDE THE COUNTRIES OF SOCIALISM - THE DPRK
3- THE AUCPB - 15 YEARS OLD
4- ANGLO-AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
5- WE SHALL DEFEND OUR LAND FROM THE THE BOURGEOIS SWINDLERS!
6- THE GREAT STALIN EPOCH
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THINK AND FIGHT IN A LENINIST WAY
22 April 1870 is the day when Vladimir Ilyich LENIN was born - the genius theoretician of Marxism -Leninism, the founder and leader of the Bolshevik party under the leadership of which the Great October Socialist Revolution was carried out, the founder of the world's first multinational state of workers and peasants - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the leader of the working people, oppressed and deprived people of the whole world.
Below we have published an article that reflects one of the stages of the multisided activity of the V.I. Lenin on the path towards carrying out a socialist revolution.
16th April 1917 - a week before his birthday - V.I. Lenin after a lengthy period underground, returned to Russia by now no longer a monarchist Russia but a bourgeois-democratic Russia. The following day, he read out the speech on war and revolution at a meeting of Bolshevik party activists, and afterwards at a meeting of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks - delegates of the All-Russian assembly of workers and soldiers deputies. On 20th April a theses under the title of “On the tasks of the proletariat in the present revolution” were published in the newspaper “Pravda”. A little later on, they were reprinted in Bolshevik newspapers “Social -Democrat” (Moscow), “Proletarian” (Kharkov), Krasnoyarsky Rabochy”, “Vperyod” (Ufa), “Bakinsky Rabochy”, Kavkazsky Rabochy” (Tiflis) and others.
What was the reason for the appearance of these thesis, what preceded them?
The First World War was underway. The defeat of the Russian troops, the reactionary tsarist government, destruction and famine brought about deep dissatisfaction among the broads masses of the people, assisted the growth of class consciousness of the workers, peasants and town petty bourgeoisie against the imperialist war and tsarist autocracy. Bolshevik organisations unfurled a struggle for the transformation of the imperialist war into a civil war for overthrowing Tsarism and establishing a democratic republic.
The concentration of industry that was taking place, the merging of bank and industrial capital, the growth of monopolies and the transformation of monopoly capitalism into state-monopoly capitalism created the material prerequisites for the transition over to socialism. The aggravation of the conflict between the development of production forces and capitalist production relation, the growth of the class struggle in the country and the general crisis in the world capitalist system that had begun during the war created the conditions for the carrying out of revolutionary transformations across the entire country. In Petrograd, the capital city of the Russian empire, in February the first to come out on strike were the workers-putilovtsy, and they were supported by those women of the city who had gone on strike, the Vyborgsky storona rose up. At the end of February all these acts merged into a general political strike under the slogans “Down with the tsar!” “Down with the war!” and “Bread”! Political strikes and demonstrations grow into an uprising. The February -bourgoies democratic revolution is carried out which toppled the tsarist autocracy. Deputies of the state Duma from the bourgeoisie and petty bourgoies parties form a Provisional Committee. On the call of the Bolsheviks, workers at manufacturing plants and factories elect the Petrograd Soviet of Workers Deputies. The majority in the Soviet were the Mensheviks and SR-s (Socialist Revolutionaries) and they ran this Soviet. Such a situation was formed as a consequence of insufficient class consciousness and organisational abilities of the proletariat, then when they still believed the postulates of the demagogues of the appeasing parties. During the revolution, millions of inexperienced people were drawn into politics. “A giant petty bourgeois wave flooded everything, suppressed the conscious proletariat but not only by its sheers numbers but ideologically, that is, infected, seized the very wide circle of workers with petty bourgeois views on politics”, wrote Lenin after in his article “The tasks of the proletariat in our revolution”.
The S.R - Menshevik leaders of the Petrograd Soviet sneakily behind the backs of the Bolsheviks made deals with the representatives of the bourgeoisie and those landowners who became bourgeoisie on the forming of the Provisional government. The result - an interesting interweave of two powers, two dictatorships, a dictatorship of the bourgeoisies in the form of the Provisional government and the dictatorship of the proletariat in the form of Soviets of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies.
In this atmosphere a new direction was needed for the party and the revolutionary proletariat. “The old pre-revolutionary platform of directly overthrowing the government was clear and well-defined, but was not suitable for the new conditions. By now it was not feasible to go directly towards overthrowing the government for it was tied in with the Soviets… But at the same time it would be incorrect to have carried out a policy of support to the Provisional government for it was a government of imperialism. What was needed was a new direction of the party in the conditions of the struggle… Lenin gave new direction to the party in his famous April thesis”, wrote J.V. Stalin in his article “Trotskyism or Leninism”.
What was this direction of the party?
In the thesis, V.I. Lenin explained that the revolution having overthrown Tsarism, had passed the first stage. The bourgeois-democratic revolution was over, power had been transferred from the landowners over to the bourgeoisie.
By now it was imperative to put a end to the war, the Provisional government which did not refuse to participate in and not just in that, but on the contrary aimed to continue it to a victorious end”. Before the party stood the task of in detail, consistently and persistently explaining to the labouring masses the connection of capital with war of plunder, to prove that it would be impossible to gain a true democratic world without overthrowing capital. V.I. Lenin connected the ending of the war with the main question of the revolution - with the question of power. In order for the war to come to an end, he asserted, power must go over onto the hands of the revolutionary working class.
For this, it is necessary to carry out a transition to a second, proletarian revolution, which must pass power into the hands of the working class and the poorest peasantry. Not providing any support to the Provisional government, unmasking the falsity of all its pledges, use the maximum legality and absence of direct violence over the masses for a peaceful transition of power over to the Soviets by way of winning over the majority in them by the Bolsheviks and their supporters and the forming of a Soviet republic. Namely a Soviet republic and not a parliamentary one.
This was the direction for the peaceful development of the revolution.
In the thesis, the main economic problems were dealt with which were necessary to solve in the quickest possible time and direct party tasks. In particular it was proposed that the party be renamed. Lenin demanded the casting out of “dirty underwear” - to reject the name of social- democratic for the party, disgraced by opportunists and call it a communist party, like Marx and Engels called their party.
The Leninist Thesis spread across in all three to four pages directed the party to the struggle for the transition from the bourgeois-democratic revolution over to a socialist revolution in a peaceful way. In this lay the essence of the new orientation of the party.
When this was unsuccessful due to a number of reasons, then the VI party congress adopted a new policy - a policy towards the preparation and the carrying out of an armed uprising. And in October 1917 a proletarian revolution was carried out which went down in history as the Great October Socialist Revolution.
To truthfully evaluate the situation that had formed, to take the most correct and well-grounded decisions and take them to the deep consciousness of the labouring people and together with them, leading them, fight for the bringing of these decisions in to life - such are the traditions of a Leninist Bolshevik party.
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It is namely on the basis of a deep and all-round analysis of the internal contradictions of imperialism at the present stage that General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB) Comrade N.A. Andreeva drew the conclusion: “The impending socialist revolution - is a natural flow of modern history, since the completely socilialized production powers of society have outgrown the private ownership production relations. Therefore a revolution is inevitable and we need to prepare for it”.
G.D. ORLOV
(“Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda” No 4 (109)
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INSIDE THE COUNTRIES OF SOCIALISM
THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA - (DPRK)
In April 2007 the Korean people honour three legendary dates:
- the 95th anniversary since the day of birth of the Great leader president of the DPRK Comrade KIM IL SUNG (15th April);
- the 14th anniversary since the commencement of work by Comrade KIM JONG IL as Chairman of the State Committee for Defence of the DPRK (9th April);
- the 75th anniversary since the founding of the Korean People’s Army (25th April).
“The Dear Leader dedicated his whole life and soul to the cause of the Motherland and the people, and has done a great service to the epoch and Mankind”.
KIM JONG IL
Comrade KIM IL SUNG was born on 15 April 1912 in a family of patriots - revolutionaries in the Mangyongdae district, Pyongyang.
In his memoirs, “In the vortex of the century” Comrade KIM IL SUNG wrote: “Our family was humble and down-to-earth just like any other you might see in any village and in any small town in Korea. It was poor and did not differ in any way from other families and did not have any distinguishing marks.
However, each member of our family never forgot about their Motherland and gave all their strengths to the cause of namely the Motherland and nation, and each did their bit to the best of their ability.”
Comrade KIM IL SUNG at an early age stood on the path of revolutionary struggle for the liberation of the Motherland from Japanese colonial rule. On 17 October 1926 he formed the Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU) - the first revolutionary organisation in Korea made up of his supporters among the youth.
In June 1930 at a Meeting in Kalunske, Comrade KIM IL SUNG marked out the path of the Korean revolution: - total liberation from Japanese colonial slavery. At this Meeting, Comrade KIM IL SUNG noted that for the successful carrying out of the Korean revolution it is necessary to organise a broad anti-Japanese armed struggle, unite patriotic forces and speed up preparations for the forming of a party.
On 25 April 1932, he formed the very first revolutionary armed forces in Korea - the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army (Korean People’s Revolutionary Army) and declared the start of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. Such was the starting point of becoming a revolutionary, commander-in-chief and leader of the Korean revolution.
Victory in the fierce and arduous anti-Japanese armed struggle in August 1945 brought about conditions for the revival of the sovereignty of the Korean nation, the achieving of independence of the country and opened the path to a new life.
Studying the experience of the anti-Japanese struggle under the leadership of the Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG, has great international significance. Thus, in January 1968 the Worldwide Conference on culture adopted a document called “The Anti-Japanese armed struggle of the Korean people organised and carried out under the direct leadership of Comrade KIM IL SUNG”. On the basis of studying the experience of this struggle it was decided to work out a strategy and tactics of an anti-imperialist national-liberation struggle of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
On 10th October 1945, Comrade KIM IL SUNG formed the Workers’ Party of Korea - the headquarters of the revolution.
A little later at a mass meeting in Pyongyang on 16 October Comrade KIM IL SUNG called on the people to unite efforts on the building of a new society.
- “The time has come when our Korean nation must unite its forces in the name of building a new democratic Korea. All representatives of various layers of the population with patriotic enthusiasm must rise up to the building of a new Korea. Each must actively participate in state construction : whoever has strength - may they use their strength, whoever has knowledge - may they use their knowledge, whoever has money - may they use their money. All compatriots who truly love their country, their nation and democracy, must unite into one and build a sovereign and independent democratic state”.
Less than two years under the leadership of Comrade KIM IL SUNG and in Korea the tasks of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic revolution had been successfully solved and in North Korea a people’s democratic system had been established.
It is important to note that after the liberation of Korea from the Japanese, by request on part of the Koreans, the Soviet troops were withdrawn from the Korean Peninsula. But the Americans refused to do the same, having started a struggle for the dividing of the Korean nation, and hindering in any way possible the holding of general elections in the South and North of the country that were organised by the communists under the leadership of Comrade KIM IL SUNG. This confrontation on part of the USA became the start of the dividing of the Korean nation and a great source of pain for Koreans during the days after and up to the present day.
As a result of the elections of 9 September 1948, the DPRK was formed. With the direct cooperation of the imperialist circles of the USA in the South of Korea, separate elections were held that were in contradiction to the general election. US puppets came to power in the south. Presently located in South Korea there is a huge contingent of US troops at military bases, and South Korea itself has become a launch platform for carrying out a military strike against the DPRK with the aim of overthrowing the communist regime and liquidating the socialist system.
The successes in the construction of socialism in the DPRK under the leadership of Comrade KIM IL SUNG are truly amazing and demonstrate clearly the advantages of the socialist system. We have spoken much in detail about this in our Bolshevik press. The service of Comrade KIM IL SUNG in the building of socialism - are invaluable. The Juche idea, formed by the Great Leader and developed into a harmonious theory by his worthy successor the Great Leader Comrade KIM JONG IL is today the shining light of the development of socialist Korea under the Songun policy in defending the sovereignty of the state and socialist path of development, chosen by the people themselves in extremely difficult conditions of an all-round unprecedented pressure on the DPRK on part of US imperialism.
During his entire life, Comrade KIM IL SUNG with difficulty endured the presence of the division of the nation and did much work on the question on the possible ways of unifying the North and South of the country. On the last day of his life on 7 July 1994, the Great Leader was working on a document on solving the problem of unification.
The Great Leader Commander-in Chief President Comrade KIM IL SUNG died during the night on 8 July, 1994. His contribution to the development of the Korean nation , Korean culture, in the steady movement of the country in the name of prosperity and development of the Socialist Motherland is immeasurable. Therefore, today the DPRK is living and constructing socialism under the slogans: “the Great Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG is always with us!”, “We shall even stronger arm ourselves with the revolutionary ideas of the Great Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG!” Koreans call the Great Leader the FATHER OF THE NATION.
The contribution of Comrade KIM IL SUNG to the development of civilization is also huge. His name is forever written in the chronicle of the most outstanding politicians and statesmen of the planet Earth of the XX century.
Today, socialist Korea under the leadership of General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Committee for Defence of the DPRK, Supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army Comrade KIM JONG IL is successfully building socialism despite the most brutal all-round blockade and attempts at stifling the DPRK on part of the USA.
We sincerely wish Socialist Korea new outstanding successes in the development of its society and in the speedy unification of the Korean nation.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOLSHEVIKS (CC AUCPB), Leningrad
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On the occasion of each of these famous dates, the General Secretary of the CC AUCPB Comrade N.A. Andreeva has sent a congratulatory telegram to Pyongyang in the name of the Great Leader Comrade KIM JONG IL.
(“Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda” )
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THE AUCPB - 15 YEARS OLD
The editorial board continues to receive letters dedicated to the 15th year since the forming of our party - the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Here is another.
PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION AS THE RESULT OF JOINING BOLSHEVISM WITH THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT
“The party is the backbone of the working class… The brain of the class, the cause of the class, the strength of the class, the glory of the class - that is what a party is…’
V.V. MAYAKOVSKY
That is what Soviet poet-Bolshevik wrote about the party of communists-Bolsheviks headed by V.I. Lenin and J.V. Stalin under the leadership of whom the Great October Socialist revolution was carried and socialism was built.
But there has never ever been a straight path in social development. While there exist two opposing classes - the bourgeoisie and the proletariat the struggle for power and social wealth will not stop.
The epoch of imperialism as Lenin showed is the final stage of capitalism. And from the very beginning of the existence of the power of the proletariat and up until the final days of the USSR, imperialism had spend a lot of capital for stifling this power.
World experience of bourgeoisie and landowner governments has worked out two means of restraining the people under oppression. The first - is with violence.. But there is another method, best of all designed by English and French bourgeoisie “taught” alongside the revolution and revolutionary movements of the masses. This is a means of deceit, flattery, phrase, a million promises, miserly handouts, retreat from the unimportant, preservation of the important”. (Lenin) - “The tasks of the proletariat in our revolution”. With the help of the second method after the death of J.V. Stalin under the leadership of N. Khrushchev and L. Brezhnev, and after, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin, there took place a crossover with the help of revisionism and reformism and after that direct betrayal by the Gorbachev hierarchy from socialism to capitalism. One has to fight for communism, but capitalism came along by itself when the dictatorship of the proletariat ceased to exist, liquidated by Khrushchev. During he Khrushchev and Brezhnev period socialism was only rocked slightly, it still lived since there was social ownership over the means of production. Gorbachev and Co. in conspiring with the imperialists began to introduce capitalism via reforms. In the Yeltsinist - Putin period the entire Soviet social wealth is “on the quiet” sold off. Soon we shall all be living in a foreign land. It will belong to imperialist countries and home-bred oligarchs.
Soviet people being made fools of by 3.5 decades of Khrushchev- Brezhnev opportunism did not provide corresponding rebuff to the arrival of capitalism. They have only just begun realising what they have lost, and then not everybody.
However, in the USSR a part of the people understood what was happening very well. When a large section of the high echelons of the CPSU headed by Gorbachev betrayed the party and country, and many rank and file communists showed indifference, ordinary communists: today’s General Secretary of the CC AUCPB N.A. Andreeva, her husband professor of philosophy, Doctor of Sciences V.I. Klyushin (1926 - 1996) with other rank and file communists formed the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. The AUCPB openly came out against the destruction of socialism and the treacherous policy of Gorbachev and Co. and Yeltsin. But the people of the USSR having been fooled by the bourgeoisie as Lenin wrote in the “April Thesis” did not understand the impending threat.
The AUCPB during its fifteen years of work has carried out a lot of political- agitation work. During this period many active Bolsheviks have died. Glory and honour to them! The work of the AUCPB has not gone without leaving a trace. I noticed this whilst distributing Bolshevik newspapers in 1993. The arrival of capitalism brought not just a multitude of negative phenomena in society, but also the threat of transforming the country into a colony and the destruction of the majority of the population of our Motherland - the USSR. Imperialism is already stomping around our country, it stands on various tribunes during days of celebrating the victory of the Soviet people. Traitors having pillaged the USSR materially and spiritually put forward its successes.
At the March (1994) Plenary Session of the CC AUCPB the General Secretary of the CC AUCPB N.A. Andreeva said: “Speaking in short, Bolshevization means the transfer over onto Leninism as the theory and practice of revolutionary Marxism, answering to the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolutions and the transfer of humanity from capitalism over to socialism… Bolshevization - is not a policy of parliamentary reforms, but the carrying out of a second socialist revolution…Bolshevization is party building on the basis of democratic centralism, criticism and self-criticism, strict party discipline… And finally, Bolshevization means the constant strengthening of ties with the working people, defending their political and economic interests.”
At the II Congress of the AUCPB, N.A.Andreeva with her report to the congress noted that “without the joining of the workers’ movement to socialism there can be no victory of a proletarian revolution in which the main moving force is the working class”. At the 4th Congress of the AUCPB, N.A. Andreeva called for a transfer over onto positions of attack.
Such are the tasks that the AUCPB has taken on. Explaining to the people the necessity of revolution is also a movement in the direction of revolution.
Lenin, in “Tasks of the proletariat” wrote “The less the Russian people are organised the more decisively we need to move towards the organised building of the people themselves…”. Since the time of Lenin, many changes have taken place. After the Great Patriotic War (1941- 1945) there was the large socialist camp. All of this was an achievement of the working class and peasantry of the world, of our Soviet people. Many supporters of socialism remain and all of them are allies of the working class.
The present-day comprador power finds it profitable to keep the people in the dark, to push social development backwards in the interests of huge profits for themselves and the bourgeoisie. A fierce battle for power is underway between the comprador and national bourgeoisie and this weakens the power of capital. The proletariat can make use of this.
P.S.: in Russia since 11 May 06 the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of defence together with the party “United Russia” have been carrying out propaganda under the name “Russia - NATO”, unified efforts - 2006”. The main task behind this is to “humanize” the savage essence of this aggressive military bloc. The old rule by colonisers is in operation: first the missionary goes in, after that, the merchant moves in and afterwards - the soldiers go in.
N.E. LEGEN’KOVA
From NABEREZHHIE CHELNY
(Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda No1 (118)
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ANGLO-AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROBBERY
Not one state in the world has ever invaded other countries, carried our military interventions, direct or by way of hirelings carried out coups and anti-government coups in other countries as much as the USA have done in their 230 year old history of existence. One may without exaggeration ascertain that the history of the USA has not only being written by the ink of news reporters but also by the blood of people who have been killed by the hands of the US imperialists. Mexico and Cuba, Columbia and Panama, Dominion Republic and Nicaragua, China and Korea, Vietnam and Laos, Angola and Afghanistan, Lebanon and Grenada - and that is not the whole list of sovereign states that have experienced in practice the aggressive policy of the USA. After the destruction of the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, Yugoslavia and Iraq have been added to this pitiful list, the first act of aggression that was carried out back in 1991. Not too far into over the hill there is a possible military expansion against Iran which is being accused of carrying out illegal nuclear research leading to the ability of building a nuclear weapon.
Every time when the US prepare to grab up a sovereign state, a “woof” is always let off about some mythical “nuclear threat” or some violation of “human rights’. The US has claims to North Korea. The reason - the same one as always - it has a nuclear weapon which act as a restraint, quite successfully, against the appetites of the imperialist predators.
A close ally in the expansionist -Zionist policy of the US - is Britain. The States have acquired much from this country of classic capitalism. Firstly the experience of colonial policy and the carrying out of wars of invasion interests the US. In Spring 1982, the British government led by the conservatives unleashed a colonial war against Argentina over the Falkland (Malvinas) islands that lie 13 thousand km-s from the shores of Britain. Speaking in favour of a peaceful settlement to this conflict, in practice the Reagan administration from the outset sided with Britain and provided Britain with all-round support. “The British operation on getting back the Falklands in 1982 could not only have not been won but could not have been carried out without the help of the Americans”, quoted one influential London journal of business circles “economist” two years after. Having deployed a British armada of 100 ships into a war of invasion, there was a great need in obtaining fuel, ammunition and “air- to -air” missiles. For carrying out military operations first of all there was a demand for air reconnaissance, detailed intelligence on the location of Argentinean warships. For this information, London turned to Washington and President Reagan issued an order to supply the US ally in NATO with everything necessary . Firstly, the US provided the British warships and aircraft carriers with aviation fuel which was delivered to the Ascension Islands. For fast pumping of fuel to the islands, the Americans built special pipelines. The newspaper “Washington Post” later reported that the US had sent 47.5 million litres of fuel .
Among the weapons supplied by the US, was the “Sidewinder AIM 9L” missiles which played a decisive role for the campaign , as they hit the most targets amounting to the same number hit by all the remaining weapons systems taken together. Besides this, the Pentagon supplied the British with “Strike” missiles for use against radar transmission systems, “Harpoon” anti-warship missiles, anti-aircraft “Stingers“, various ammunition, night vision optics and many others. By some accounts the value in the amount of weapons supplied came to more than 60 million dollars.
Most important was the US intelligence data obtained with the help of US satellites and sent to the British. On the request of London, the Pentagon transferred one of its satellites equipped with high resolution apparatus into orbit for observing the region of the Falkland Islands. The British processed on average 800 signals a day, obtained from the satellite and were constantly aware of the location of any Argentinean surface vessel or submarine vessel!
Providing assistance to London , to its closest ally in NATO, the US did not fulfil its own commitments to Argentina. A number of documents signed between there US and Argentina and also multiparty agreements envisaged the mutual provision of aid in the case of an attack against one of the parties. The USA not only did not provide military aid to Argentina but having betrayed her went over onto the side of Britain . The Argentinean people like the people of many other countries whose sons were killed by weapons “Made in the USA” will never forget the recklessness and brutality of American (Anglo-American ) imperialism…
Victoriously for the USA ended the War of Independence (1775 - 1783) and the might of the American army strengthened in battles was directed at expanding territory of the young state on the backs of colonial rule of European powers and lands belonging to the Indian tribes. In the Pentagon multivolume history is says that just in the XIX alone, the troops if the US had carried taken part in 8600 battles and other military conflicts. They were mainly against the Indians, the native inhabitants of the continent. Before the start of the migration of European colonial settler there were 15 million native people in the US. Now there are less that 800 thousand and they have been driven into 267 reservations that have practically transformed into ghettos. There you have it - the democracy and freedom of “white” America!
During the period of its several century old history, humanity has never found itself in such a complex situation. Bring into a vital demand the ancient Roman postulate “divide and rule” world imperialism in the face of the USA and its accomplices in NATO are carrying out a policy of globalisation, igniting fires of military conflicts in different corners of the planet.
Only a socialist revolution will put an end to the threat of nuclear war and all wars in general. The collapse of imperialism is inevitable.
V. POTACHKIN
VINNITSKAYA REGION
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THE GREAT STALIN EPOCH
After the Great October Socialist revolution , the overthrown classes of capitalist and landowners unleashed a civil war against their own people and to their aid came the troops of the interventionists from 14 imperialist states. For three years they taunted the young Soviet Republic. Our country was transformed into a heap of ruins. Poland had split, having grabbed up Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. The border passed alongside Minsk and from there not far to Moscow. It was bad in the Baltic states. For centuries Russia struggled for an exit into the Baltic sea and with difficulty chopped a “window” out into Europe, and now everything has collapsed. From out of the makeup of Russia went Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. We have instead of wide window only a little narrow “window” - from Petrograd via the shallow Gulf of Finland.
In the Far East - a “Buffer” republic. In Central Asia, the Khans were the masters along with the Emirs and the ever bigger influence of the British was felt.
There was another side of the question. We, Great Russians have for a long time not felt and endured what the minority peoples have and continue to be pressured by - the danger of enslavement and destruction. Russia has somehow lost that feeling of danger, like Ukraine to a certain degree also. And for the Georgians, for other peoples of the Caucasus this danger was and remains a terrible reality. It is no accident that in its time, Armenia, Azerbaizhan, and Georgia voluntarily entered the makeup of the Russian state and became stronger under a trustworthy shield.
J.V. Stalin brilliantly presented the picture of the near future. He understood that Armenians given half a chance would mercilessly slaughter the Turks, Persians, Kurds, Turkish Churkes. The Georgians do not escape their fate; division and savage destruction. And the same with the Azerbaizhanians: there are too many hunters for its territory, for its oil. Industry is falling into the hands of the British, Persia joins to the land and South Azerbaizhan adds Northern Azerbaizhan to itself….
By 1922, from the former huge empire is preserved only the skeleton, true, firm and loyal, - the Russian Federation (RSFSR). Belarus was closely tied in with Russia. In Ukraine it was more complicated. If the eastern regions and its centre with a mixed population with ancient Russian traditions, aimed towards a united state, and in the western region there were many Petlurovsky and Hetmansky failures who were ready to fight for their own “independent” Ukraine, the more for the leading posts in the proposed separatist - operetta power. What is there to talk about there concerning nation and peoples: nearly every principality (guberrniya) has tried to become a state, uyezds and even volosts have declared themselves as independent republics, forming their own “armed forces”.
Everybody is fed up with destruction, disorder, bloodshed and disease.
In order to defend ourselves from another round of aggression by the imperialists, not to allow economic and financial suffocation, with joint efforts we can restore the destroyed during the First World War , Civil War and military intervention, national economy and instead build socialism. In December 1922 with four Soviet Socialist Republics, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Caucasian Federation (into which Armenia, Azerbaizhan and Georgia were united), was on a voluntary and equal basis formed the world’s first workers’ and peasants ‘ state - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
J.V. Stalin said that “We lag behind advanced countries by 50 - 100 years. We have got overtake this distance in 10 years. Either we do this or else or they will swallow us up.” In those days the country of Soviets was a “complete ants nest”; every person was busy working for the cause and built up their state. During the first five-year plan there were 4.5 thousand large factories built: Azovstal steel plant, Magnitogorsk metallurgical plant, Zaporozhstal steel plant, Dneproges hydroelectric dam, Stalingradsky and Kharkovsky tractor factories, aviation, defence and many other huge projects of the national economy were built. Already by 1933 the volume of production in the USSR had grown to more than twice compared to that of 1929 and was 201.6% (in the USA for the same period it had lowered to 64.9%).
Foreign specialists , writers, guests who had visited Soviet enterprises, schools, higher learning institutions , culture establishments, were amazed at what they saw. Read their memoirs and articles and on every page you will meet the words: “Fantastic! Incredible”! One becomes infected with their extolment and you start to understand the titanic labour went into the raising of a huge country from ruins. British capitalist Gibson wrote in 1932 : “Don’t try to underestimate the Soviet plans. The state of the USSR - is a country of amazing activity… The easy it seems is that the most important is in the one thing, that the youth and workers have one thing which unfortunately is lacking in capitalist countries, and that is namely - hope”. The German writers and publicist E. Ludwig before the war visited the USSR and noted: “Bolshevism of 1941 - is a social order which is on the verge of completion”, “Stalin organised the people into a remarkable state - the USSR”. And there were thousand of such responses.
This automatically brings to mind the famous words: “There are no fortresses that the Bolsheviks cannot take”.
True, not all progressive people applauded the USSR. A. Einstein criticized the Soviet system. But when he was given the chance to get to know the true state of affairs in the USSR and the scale of the harm, he changed his opinion and rejected his earlier statements.
This is understandable! In the USSR everyone had equal rights and opportunities. Stalin headed the state for three and half decades and there was no need to bury him. He did not think about capital and domestic peace like his compatriots did. Therefore, the Soviet people built under his leadership the world’s first workers’ peasant state and held onto victory in the Great Patriotic War. But the lackeying ink-slingers in front of the Ukrainian national bourgeoisie whine on “repressions”, “famine”, “gulags”, “totalitarianism”, personality cult”. These pitiful toadies do not see that the more they whine on about this the quicker the “democratic” rubbish will be blown away from the grave of a great person by the wind of truth.
It is nowadays, under our “democracy” that shorthand reports of judicial processes are not printed in newspapers. But then under the Stalin “totalitarian regime”, the trials of enemies of the people, betrayers and traitors took place openly with the publication of shorthand reports of the processes, and from the courtroom, loudspeakers were placed out on the streets so it could be heard from there. The divergent argument about pressure on part of the investigation, torture, slander…… It would only take one of the defendants to state in the open process that they had been slandered and the charges would drop like a house of cards. The grandiose international scandal - the hall was full of foreign journalists, lawyers and diplomats. But… the accused themselves convince us: “Remember gentlemen ill-wishers of Stalin - we were guilty, we were against Soviet power, we were wreckers”…
And no matter how pretty today’s authorities paint a picture of our life on entertainment channels and foreign TV serials, the “deformed appearance of “democratic capitalism” having become the thing in modern day Ukraine, is becoming ever more obvious to the people who were deceived during the years of perestroika.
Slowly, the people are waking up. Hatred towards these authorities is growing. The number of people devoting themselves to the struggle against the bourgeoisie as the chief enemy of the working people, is growing.
Having tasted all the joys of this bourgeois-independent life, seeing the dead-end of the authorities, the people are already openly demanding “Give us Stalin”! With the arrival of new generations, the Stalin epoch will ever more attract attention and his personality will be the eagle of greatness of all times and peoples.
N.V. KIPESHUK
From Lebedin
(Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda No 1 (118)
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