Communist Workers Party RUSSIA: European values ​​and duties of workers
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Communist Workers Party RUSSIA
European values ​​and duties of workers
Translation: Agkarra

The propaganda machine of bourgeois Russia, all major local media have shifted their attention from the coverage of events in Ukraine and Syria and put more focus on heterogeneous and contradictory explosions on information violence and other atrocities by migrants on Europe's roads, when during the New Year eorgasmon later. Various kinds analysts also do everything possible to interpret these facts. The interpretations also differ widely.

We should remember that the deterioration of the internal political situation due to ethnic clashes, explosions national sentiment and criminal activity ethnic groups is nothing new to capitalism. And in Russia known such events. Let us recall the events in Biryulevo Moscow in 2013. An isolated crime there led to an explosion of popular anger, which was due to both a general dissatisfaction with the authorities, and in dissatisfaction with ethnic criminal groups activities. The mass protests quickly took the form of the struggle against foreign and nationalists took control. However, we should always remember that every situation, let alone those that are emerging in different countries has its own particularities.

There is however no doubt that there is common ground in these incidents. We know with certainty that these events are unavoidable and common to each type of capitalism. Capitalism was brought conflicts and wars on the peoples of the Soviet republics and member of the Jena such conflicts in Europe. It belongs to the essence of capitalism that the general discontent and vigor of protests that accumulates in a society constantly put on the easier direction, namely nationalism, searching an enemy embodied by peoples of different ethnicity and religion, which does Chapter and often assisted by the authorities. It is clear that the main objective of the ruling class of the exploiters remains the same: to maintain their dominant position, namely the maintenance of capitalism and also try to eliminate anything that is a threat to him. To ensure this mobilized the whole bourgeoisie, and with it the state apparatus.

As we analyze the current refugee crisis should understand that these imperialists, who are trying to cover the fact that they are the same people who, seeking their morbid purposes, waged bloody wars in the Middle East, ruined the whole traditional way of life and there, and created unbearable conditions, leading large masses of people to seek refuge from the horrors of war and poverty clearly deduced richest European countries. Natural and next is that the citizens of European countries proved totally unprepared for this sudden influx (though nothing is so unexpected - you only had to calculate the consequences of his actions a little better ...). The authorities in European countries have the refugee issue as some sort of natural disaster. The problem is considered the main European political focal point, and are fighting over quotas by country and measures on migration. The employees at the same time separated, implanted hostility and mutual suspicion, and this leads to the strengthening of right-wing forces. The attention of the masses distracted from the real culprits, and first of all from the problem of the increasing exploitation of both immigrants and ntopioon. Again showing fake enemy to the people. The real enemies of the oppressors and exploiters, replaced by strangers, which can easily be extruded into wrong acts under unfamiliar conditions and stress.

No wonder bereft and poorly educated people to break windows and burn cars instead of trying to understand the causes of katastasistous and begin to run counter to the economy of the capitalist market. On the other, it is easier for locals to show aggression to strangers instead to fight against the whole bourgeoisie. It is easier to blame the authorities for not doing enough to solve the problem of afiknyomenon immigrants and limit the action of the revived and ekthrasymenon Nazis, instead of asking the authorities to take care of the whole working people.

Communists continue to explain that these are false targets, introduced deliberately and that the purpose is to lead the struggle to a dead end, where it is not possible to solve any basic problem of life of the people, including the question of the relationship between nations. Real communists in different European countries already took place against the attempts to reduce all problems, both old and new, in conflict issues between nations. They show the true source of these catastrophes: capitalism in chorestous. What we need today is not the unification of Europe, immigrants, Muslims, Christians, these compounds directed against each other. What we need today is unity of all working people, all who are in good faith against market capitalism and opposed to this proletarian solidarity of labor.

We must emphasize that both the instability in Europe and the mess in the Middle East primarily justifiable the largest imperialist players: the US, using these problems to further enhance their competitiveness.

As regards the reaction of the Russian media and authorities, we can say that it is not something new. They decided to make the refugee crisis in Europe main theme. One can observe an ever increasing rate chaireaias and rhetorical attacks on western competitors. It's like they want to say: look what happens to countries which impose sanctions on Russia! Look: there is the Maidan and the war in Ukraine, ataxia and threat of total chaos and dissolution in Europe, while in Russia, despite the crisis, there is order and tranquility, and all thanks to national leader Vladimir Putin. So those who oppose the system as a whole, all those who are against the Russian capitalism, are enemies of the people, as he put his loyal supporter of Putin, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Meanwhile, no one would find much to criticize in the roguery of domestic capitalism, and when they come to the surface, the unrest subsides quickly. Anyone ever heard of mass protests against mass rape Russian women? Remember where was such rape on a massive scale in Russia? Let us remember: he was the village Kushchevka, and the perpetrators were immigrants, were local criminals of notorious gang Tsapok, all of them with a European appearance and origin. No, we call on the lynching, but we should not forget that there was no such call you ...

Historically, there is only one example of a successful solution to the national question in a multinational state - that of the USSR. It proved long ago that only the power of the working people, that is the Soviet power, socialism, is able to resolve this issue.

Under conditions of more and deeper economic crisis, the Russian workers in need, more than ever, the organization and the common struggle against the capitalist class and the bourgeois government.

Proletarians of all countries and nations, unite in your power struggle of working people for decent living, against pests of all nations!

Secretariat of the CC of non-alloy

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Timely piece, I've 'unfollowed' quite a few on twitter due to the racism they display.

On the other hand......

What should happen in Russia, so that it becomes a normal state?
colonelcassad
January 31 11:05

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A certain Alexander of Tver RPR-Parnassus in touch.

What should happen in Russia, so that it becomes a normal state?

1) Decommunization recognition of the criminal Communist ideology. Demolition of all the monuments, renaming of streets, banning all Communist parties. Ban from public office anyone who was a member of the Communist Party.
2) De-Stalinization in particular. Official equating Stalin with Hitler, the opening of all archives of the KGB in free access, a sharp condemnation of the policy of Stalin.
3) Dispelling the main historical propaganda myth of the Great Patriotic War. The recognition of this day the day of mourning, the whole truth about the war. There is no Second World War and the Second World War there. Who started, someone who helped - the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This hubris and arrogance of Russians who privatized the right to the winners and do not know a damn thing about the war should go into the past.
4) Dissolution of the FSB. Completely. Until recently, the lieutenant and secretary. Creating a fundamentally new structure with new people really meet the requirements of Russia's security and citizens. And this is that there is now working - deprived of all titles and banned from any position in such structures.
5) Lustration current officials. The President, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Council of Federation, the State Duma, the governors. All these people dismiss, to conduct a legal assessment of their activities and to judge if it is necessary. Banned from politics for life. The same hold with the Federal Constitutional Court.
6) to withdraw from Ukraine to return the Crimea, to withdraw its troops from Syria, to stop all subsidies to Chechnya - to begin the slow process of its disconnection.
7) declare that any republics and regions in Russia may hold a referendum for their independence.
8) The dismissal of 80 percent of journalists in the state channels and the wolf ticket to the profession. With public condemnation.
9) Manufacturing. Start to produce something of their own.
10) The sharp cuts in defense spending, down to a minimum, just to keep all the money for medicine, education, science and the public sector.
11) The new people who understand that the essence of the state - in the affairs of its citizens and their decent life. The people who will respect themselves and others. People with self-respect, not superiority. People with a fundamentally new understanding of citizenship, decency and pride.
12) Full separation of church and state. Without preferences of any of the religions.
Now tell me that Russia is not lost and that you are confident in the bright future occurrence.

Https://m.facebook.com/TverskoyAA/posts/1 648,112,852,076,048 - Zinc

What is "remarkable "Program remake" euromaidan "in the Russian Federation. On the content of the typical diminutive "natsdemovschina" which so clearly flourished in Ukraine. According to the goals - a program of deconstruction of the Russian Federation and its division into several Bantustans. And all because the people again, "benefactors" not that he was caught. It is necessary to replace it with "new people." Valery Ilnichna died long ago, but that's how it reads in the living fiery fighters with the "commies" and "bloody gebni." It is noteworthy that the fight against communism and Soviet history in these characters is one of the priorities required for the collapse of the country. Even ahead of lustration and overclocking the FSB. The example of Ukraine, where the fight against Lenin and the communist past, among other things led to the falling away of the Crimea and Donbas as it hints at the consequences, but apparently this is what wanted. I have my own version remedy the situation. When these characters begin compulsory treatment under the the revival of punitive psychiatry, and camp once again open their doors for those who are actively trying to implement such "program" in Russia, that's when we can talk about improving the situation and the approach to a brighter future.

PS. It seems that the character is the link to the article uttered, starting with a public appeal for the return of the Crimea. Interested persons can safely write to the relevant authorities for his personal lustration.

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Yes indeed, Boris got the plan.

What should happen in Russia, so that it becomes a normal state?

1) Decommunization recognition of the criminal Communist ideology. Demolition of all the monuments, renaming of streets, banning all Communist parties. Ban from public office anyone who was a member of the Communist Party.
2) De-Stalinization in particular. Official equating Stalin with Hitler, the opening of all archives of the KGB in free access, a sharp condemnation of the policy of Stalin.
3) Dispelling the main historical propaganda myth of the Great Patriotic War. The recognition of this day the day of mourning, the whole truth about the war. There is no Second World War and the Second World War there. Who started, someone who helped - the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This hubris and arrogance of Russians who privatized the right to the winners and do not know a damn thing about the war should go into the past.
4) Dissolution of the FSB. Completely. Until recently, the lieutenant and secretary. Creating a fundamentally new structure with new people really meet the requirements of Russia's security and citizens. And this is that there is now working - deprived of all titles and banned from any position in such structures.
5) Lustration current officials. The President, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Council of Federation, the State Duma, the governors. All these people dismiss, to conduct a legal assessment of their activities and to judge if it is necessary. Banned from politics for life. The same hold with the Federal Constitutional Court.
6) to withdraw from Ukraine to return the Crimea, to withdraw its troops from Syria, to stop all subsidies to Chechnya - to begin the slow process of its disconnection.
7) declare that any republics and regions in Russia may hold a referendum for their independence.
8) The dismissal of 80 percent of journalists in the state channels and the wolf ticket to the profession. With public condemnation.
9) Manufacturing. Start to produce something of their own.
10) The sharp cuts in defense spending, down to a minimum, just to keep all the money for medicine, education, science and the public sector.
11) The new people who understand that the essence of the state - in the affairs of its citizens and their decent life. The people who will respect themselves and others. People with self-respect, not superiority. People with a fundamentally new understanding of citizenship, decency and pride.
12) Full separation of church and state. Without preferences of any of the religions.
Now tell me that Russia is not lost and that you are confident in the bright future occurrence.

Https://m.facebook.com/TverskoyAA/posts/1 648,112,852,076,048 - Zinc

This could have been written by Brzezinski. Wiping out Russia's past; executing or jailing everyone who has a past; zeroing-out Russia's military spending; breaking up the country into smaller, weaker, mini-states; making all those "sub-states" dependent upon US empire. The perfect, Brzezinski outcome...

About the national idea

colonelcassad
February 4, 9:27

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Yesterday authorities reiterate the field of searches of national idea.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is convinced that in Russia there can be no other unifying ideas except patriotism; "This is a national idea." He said this during a meeting with businessmen, members of club leaders. "If we want to live better, it is necessary that the country was more attractive for all" "We do not have and may not have any other unifying ideas except patriotism", - said the head of gosudarstvOn noted that both business and government officials, and the general all citizens work for the country to become stronger. "because if this, every citizen will live better, - said Putin -. and wealth will be more comfortable and will, etc. It is a national idea." He emphasized that this idea is not ideologized, not connected with the work of the party or any social structure. "This is a rallying point - if we want to live better, it is necessary that the country was more attractive for all citizens, more effective, and the bureaucracy, and the state apparatus should be more effective " , - he added, stressing that the country - people. According to the president, for the implementation of the national idea is not enough to the president or anyone else about it once he said. "To do this consciousness and constantly need to talk about it, at all levels, is constantly", - he concluded.

Http://tass.ru/politika/2636647 - zinc

PS. Actually, I would attribute this to the usual rhetoric, because:

"We need to be competitive in the whole person must be competitive, city, village, industry production and the country That is our main national idea today..." (c) Putin. February 12, 2004
http://www.sova-center.ru/democracy/news/a rchive / de-liberal / 2004/02 / d1734 / - zinc

"And us, in Russia, there is such an ancient Russian fun - search for a national idea. It is something like the search for meaning in life. Occupation in general not useless and uninteresting. This you can do always - forever. We will not open discussion of these issues today.
But I think many will agree with me that solving the challenges we face and using the all-the-art, all the newest, generating this novelty, we nevertheless must and will rely on the basic moral values ​​elaborated by the people of Russia for more than a thousand years of its history. Only in this way we will be able to correctly identify landmarks of the country. Only in this case, we will succeed. "
(C) Putin. 26 April 2007.
http://www.zlev.ru/153/153_30.htm - zinc

Putin named a new national idea a few years ago, Putin said that the national idea of the country - it is competitive in all. Now, answering the question of Russian magazine VIP-Premier about the national idea, he said, that this saving naroda.V interview Putin said: "I'm often asked this question, and I will allow myself to repeat and quote Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who once called our national idea of "saving people." in this sentence, in fact, lies the main goal of modern Russia, all the transformations that occur in the economy, the social sphere, social and political life. "
(c) 01.06.2011
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Putin instructed to invent a national idea ombudsmen For sample, President advised to take the experience of the USSR, which was the concept of "the Soviet people as a new community of people." According to Putin, "it had a strong consolidating effect." "If someone offers something similar in the new conditions, it would be great", - said the president. Ombudsmen reminded Putin: today this notion - the Russians. On the president rather sluggishly he nodded and said nothing. It is clear why he is now talking about unifying national idea. Our society is atomized to the extreme, torn apart by conflicts on national and social grounds. We are worse understand what we want from the government. That, it seems, and she does not know what he wants from us. Each other we are also poorly understood. Accrues universal mutual animosity. We do not know where to move and why. And whether it is going? Or stuck in place? In the USSR, it was not so. The country has good or bad, but it was the ideology - communism. We have built a socialist, classless society. Individualism is not encouraged. On the contrary - a community of people, joint accomplishments, collectivist consciousness. Today, none of that - every man for himself. We're not sure about the future, exhausted by phobias and anxieties. We have now is not what the national idea - even the motto not, on the basis of which it could be formulated. The Soviet Union was - "Forward to the victory of communism!". In the Russian Empire - the same: "Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Nationality." There are slogans and other countries. In Cuba - "Homeland or Death!". In the United States - "God Bless America!". Germany - "Unity, the law of liberty." In the UK - "God and the right person." In South Korea - "All for the good of the people." The list goes on. We have the official propagandists have tried to put into circulation the formula "Russia, forward!". But it is good only for the fans in the stands. Meaning there is no - one emotions. Where - forward? By the victory of capitalism? He already won. What is the open gate to break something?
(C) 05/13/2013
http://mirnov.ru/arhiv/mn974/mn/02-1.php - zinc

For more information on this topic here http: //colonelcassad.livejournal. com / 122 6976.html - in search of a national idea

now is the formula with "patriotism" was born, but seems to be in the current iteration of the ideological research, it also will remain in words, like previous treatments. The national idea should be based on a certain ideology. Patriotism is not an ideology, patriotism is a tool for implementation of a particular ideology. For example Soviet patriotism was tool implementation (cohesion) Soviet (socialist / communist) ideology. In the Russian Empire patriotism it was bound implementation of the Orthodox-autocratic "ideology." The tool can not be the target of this facility.

Regarding the stated objectives, the goal of "a better life" in indvividualisticheskom society is very abstract, because why should the representatives of the big bourgeoisie should take care of "a better life" for the poor, rather than to focus on increase their own wealth? Well, except for the natural fear of a revolution? As the realities of the current crisis (and not only in Russia), aggravation of the socio-economic contradictions does not lead to unity and disunity because of a banal situation, when in a crisis the rich get richer even more, and the poor get poorer even more.

In this regard, in my opinion before our classic ideological ersatz designed at least outwardly to cover the ideological void, because there is an understanding that in a conflict that does not turn soon stop, society must offer some "higher purpose", which should motivate tolerate the current and future challenges, on the other hand necessary ideological model for the study of this course is not (for the previous 20 years since its set up and do not bother, though this kind of problem, first staged by Yeltsin and then Putin). So are the classic ideological substitutes that can mimic the ideology, but not replace it as their "national ideas" do not call. In conclusion, it is worth noting that the two leading countries (USA and China) are thoroughly ideologized where ideology largely determines the internal and foreign policies of these states. The conscious rejection of ideology is a banal statement of the barriers to their own development and in this respect the legacy of the 90's in Russia until the end and has not been eliminated.

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El Murid's excellent essay "Substitution / falsification of concepts":

"... None of the leaders of the country after Stalin was never able to master at least one theoretical text -.. Not to mention the serious scientific work in the field of management ideology of nation-building None Which, incidentally, speaks of their intellectual poverty and the inability to distinctly formulate their thoughts ....

The Putin regime has managed to formulate only one requirement for an ideal man. Words gravedigger education of ex-Minister Fursenko: "... The disadvantage of the Soviet education system was an attempt to form the Person-creator, and now our goal is to grow that qualified consumer ..."

This is the central idea around which formed the current inhuman society. The idea, which is fully in agreement thieves and criminals fated to become the country's leadership. Profit above all, wealth is pleasing to God - this is also the idea that they were proclaimed ideological forefathers. It is on this ideological basis of modern Western capitalism, with its frankly brutal entity was created. Protestants are more than three hundred years fought for to abandon the seven deadly sins - and eventually won. At first, they were able to give up greed as a deadly crime before God, then things got fun.

The current Russian gangsters also preach this ideal, and demand greater patriotism, which declares the leader of the Russian conglomerate OPG - a requirement to maintain the current state of thieves, the requirement to stand for it the mountain, and if necessary - and then to give him health and life. That's just under the state need to understand the yacht Abramovich and Sheremetyevo Rothenberg - this is what the state should protect. Anyone who dares to question the right of thieves to rob, he will be the enemy of the state. Which, incidentally, is quite logical. ... The ruling class today - officials and oligarchs. And it ordered them to love and protect.

Therefore, Putin and risks not to proclaim the central idea of ​​man. Because it is necessary in this case to characterize it. What kind of person is ideal for thieves? Speaking the language of thieves - the Loch. Where you can cheat, rob, plunder, and he will dutifully give the latter. It is clear that such a right can not be said, therefore, there is such a complex design and slurred about patriotism. Loving the motherland in the abstract and separately from its regime impossible. If this regime confined to the destruction of the country - that show patriotism towards it - it is to be an accomplice of state crime. Again - classic criminal scheme to cover up the blood. Make an accomplice, then - where did you get away?

In general, the patriotism - it is good. Now I would like specifics. What exactly is meant by this Putin. Not birch and native open spaces - that's understandable. What kind of home, he calls on love. Homeland Deripaska and Medvedev? Gref and Timchenko?
By Posted Vladimír Suchan AT 7:07 AM

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El Murid translated by Google.

United Russia renews leadership, sees Communists as main competitors in upcoming elections

Published time: 8 Feb, 2016 10:36

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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev addresses the plenary meeting at the 15th Congress of the United Russia Party. February 6, 2016. © Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik

The latest convention of parliamentary majority party United Russia ended in staff rotation in its ruling bodies and the introduction of the first ever primaries procedure with which the politicians plan to beat leftists in the 2016 State Duma elections.
During the convention in Moscow over the past weekend, United Russia leader Dmitry Medvedev ordered urgent development of the program to be used at the forthcoming parliamentary elections, due in September. Members of the convention voted to set up a special commission for this purpose headed by Medvedev himself.

Major principles of the future program, outlined by United Russia leader at the congress demonstrate a shift from social-oriented policies successfully used by the party to gain popularity during the recent economic boom to pro-business steps and measures that would help to maintain social peace in times of the economic crisis. For this, United Russia launched a separate initiative group, or platform, within its ranks that would concentrate on support to various entrepreneurial initiatives.

Medvedev told the congress participants that he considered it appropriate for United Russia MPs to voluntarily refuse salary compensations they are entitled to because of the polls’ rescheduling for an earlier period. When the Russian parliament voted to move the date of the polls from December to September it also agreed that the state must compensate the lost three months of salaries of State Duma members who either refuse to run or lose their seats.

Medvedev noted that despite the fact that the State Duma voted against cancelation of this compensation, the voluntary refusal to receive it by United Russia members would greatly boost the party’s image.

At the same time, the head of the party commission for work with citizens’ addresses, Galina Karelova, promised to conduct a research into the results of implementation of previous social projects and include those of them that had not yet been implemented into United Russia’s new elections program.

Speaking before the congress, Medvedev strongly denounced any attempts to use the revision of current property rights in the elections rhetoric, saying that such extreme ideas could lead the nation to catastrophic times, similar to those that followed the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

The congress also introduced one major novelty for the party – the primaries or “preliminary party voting” that would take place on May 22.

The United Russia chairman told his colleagues that the rotation of party leadership was very important and assured them that only the candidates who would secure strong popular support would represent the party in the September elections.

The changes came into effect right away – the voting held during the convention resulted in replacement of about a third of people in its top bodies – the Supreme Council and the General Council. The people who had to leave the ruling bodies included federal ministers, such as Education Minister Dmitry Livanov and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Khloponin. This step had been anticipated by analysts, who said the party was about to get rid of figures connected with the social sphere as in crisis times they are too likely to become easy targets for critics.

Medvedev also told the convention participants that it faced competition from all sides of political spectrum – the leftists who attacked any pro-business initiatives and the rightists who were ready to completely cancel all social spending and projects. However, the prime minister named the Communist Party o the Russian Federation (KPRF) as the main competitor at the forthcoming polls, due to the difficult situation in the economy and populist rhetoric that the leftists had already perfected.

The countermeasures suggested in Medvedev’s speech included counter-attacks on the Communist Party, detailing its own problems and laying out an “alternative agenda” that would counter leftist ideas.

http://houstoncommunistparty.com/united-russia-renews-leadership-sees-communists-as-main-competitors-in-upcoming-elections/

Communists plan ‘popular patriotic coalition’ to counter United Russia at future polls
Published time: 9 Feb, 2016 14:17

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The leader of the Russian Communist Party has told reporters that they intend to unite all “patriotic forces” under the program of “leftist-centrist turn” to counter the pro-business anti-crisis initiatives of the ruling United Russia party.
“We think that the moment of truth has arrived, it is very important that the party of power starts a direct dialogue with popular patriotic forces, that debates are held live on television in which they demonstrate two programs – the one of the ruling party and our program, the program of the popular patriotic forces,” Communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov told reporters Tuesday. “The elections are exceptionally important, but they must be the competition between teams and programs, not the primaries game.”

He also appealed to the authority of President Vladimir Putin, who has urged his allies to do everything to ensure that the parliamentary elections are honest and that people trust their results.

Zyuganov noted in his media comments that the global economic crisis first hit Russia back in 2008, but the country’s authorities “instead of swimming towards the surface only paddled a bit and last year sank to a new depth, beating everyone in the world by the fall of major indices.” He added that his party had a surefire plan of economic recovery, similar to one introduced by the Russian government headed by Yevgeniy Primakov after Russia’s 1998 default on short-term loans and the subsequent collapse of the economy. The plan introduced in December 1998 included broad social support to boost the demand combined with state measures aimed against price hikes, attracting foreign investment, restructuring of the national banking system and a tougher approach to taxation.

Zyuganov also told reporters that in early February his party planned to hold an economic forum to adopt an anti-crisis program that would be presented ahead of the elections to Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma. The suggested that measures include steps to increase budget revenues, such as a progressive tax scale and a state monopoly on alcohol and tobacco trade.

“United Russia must report on the result of their leadership and then present their own program and start a dialogue. The victor should be decided by the voters,” the Communist leader said.

Zyuganov’s speech was a reply to the major convention held by United Russia over the weekend. During the convention, party leader Dmitry Medvedev ordered urgent development of the program to be used at the forthcoming parliamentary elections, marking a shift from social-oriented policies of the prosperity period to pro-business steps and measures that would help to maintain social peace in times of economic crisis.

Medvedev also warned his party comrades about the threat from the leftists, who would attack any pro-business initiatives and use populist rhetoric that they had already perfected. The countermeasures suggested in Medvedev’s speech included counterattacks on the Communist Party, detailing its own problems and laying out an “alternative agenda” that would counter leftist ideas.

http://houstoncommunistparty.com/communists-plan-popular-patriotic-coalition-to-counter-united-russia-at-future-polls/

Sentence

February 12, 2016 09:39 pm
One of the fugitive thieves Luzhkov call Pugachev the banker convicted British court for 2 years on a bouquet is not too serious, but nonetheless crimes. In addition, his property seized - at the very least, it is $ 2 billion. Sam Pugachev is in France, so that the English prison soup it up today for dinner still is not threatened. In fact, nothing unusual - our oligarchs and authoritative thieves have some weight and show off their extraordinary business capacity only when they have a cover authorities. Once they lose their protection - their talents somewhere instantly disappear and they become ordinary criminal rabble of small spills.



When our cancer, called elite, eat up the country and try to go to their new home, where she has carefully prepared zapachnye airfields, most of them unpleasant surprise understand that without Russia they - no. At all. Fate belemigrantov, ended his days Parisian taxi drivers and prostitutes, they learned nothing. Instead of having to develop their country, they twine her in the hope that they know that the most intelligent and cunning - they pass this fate. British, display all the remaining mentally - no, not escape. All sit down, and the property will be on the spot. But not in your hands. The subtlety is that as long as these problems do not affect each person present, who have been a grimace of destiny of our rulers, they did not understand this truth. Count on the fact that they will stop stealing and start to rebuild the devastated country - is naive. The cancer can not stop. She does not have such a program.

http://el-murid.livejournal.com/2685968.html

Communist MPs urge Putin to reform healthcare using Soviet model

Published time: 24 Feb, 2016 14:09Edited time: 24 Feb, 2016 14:11

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A group of Communist Party lawmakers are calling on President Vladimir Putin to halt the current healthcare reforms because market-oriented optimization could allegedly boost mortality rates and lead to violations of basic Human Rights.
The letter was signed by 50 lower house MPs, including the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennadiy Zyuganov. Its main provisions are based on the 2015 Audit Chamber report that listed a number of serious negative effects of the healthcare reforms that were launched in Russia several years ago.

In particular, the authors of the petition point to the mass personnel cuts in medical institutions that are being held “without any prior planning or consideration of the capabilities of those who remain.”

The reported growth in the average salary in the medical sphere has been achieved not through the growth of wage rates, but through the seriously increased work load for the average worker, the authors of the letter noted. At the same time, the quality and availability of medical services have not yet improved, they added.

According to official plans, by 2018 the Health Ministry intends to close 11.2 percent of hospitals and 7.2 percent of all clinics and dispensaries.

At the same time, the quality and affordability of medical services are becoming worse, the Communists said in their letter. They pointed out that in some places across the country people have to travel dozens of kilometers to see a doctor or wait for up to six weeks to get an ordinary ultrasound scan. “As a result, few people, especially in villages, can receive their medications, even if these medications are sponsored from the budget. Even fewer people can afford to buy medications from their own budget,” the letter reads.

The lawmakers noted that in 2014 the mortality rate was up by 2.2 percent compared to the previous year, and attributed this fact to the alleged failure of the reforms.

“The optimization of the medical sphere has violated the basic Human Right of Russian citizens – the right to healthcare. The policy of cutting jobs in medical institutions and the liquidation of these institutions must be radically reconsidered,” the MPs wrote in their letter.

In addition, the Communist lawmakers proposed that the Health Ministry consider the possibility to introduce a different payment system in the medical industry and get rid of the “unjustified gap” between the incomes of hospital directors and ordinary doctors. They also urged the authorities to introduce a type of system that would guarantee the responsibility of civil servants for the results of the various reforms they launch.

The head of the lower house Committee for Healthcare, MP Sergey Furgal (LDPR), commented on the letter, saying that the problem it highlighted certainly existed, but could be solved without the president’s involvement. “We have already passed in the first reading the bill that forbids the closure of medical institutions without approval from ordinary citizens living in the region where this happens. We have practically stopped this process already,” Frugal told the online daily Gazeta.ru.

He added that people in the Health Ministry also understood the problem and were looking at a number of measures to keep the negative consequences of the planned changes to a minimum.

Earlier this month, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation approved and forwarded to the president an anti-crisis program based on the nationalization of mineral resources, a state monopoly on alcohol and tobacco, and restrictions on capital outflows. Communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov promised that the anti-crisis proposals would form the core of the broader program prepared by his party for the next State Duma elections, due in September.

http://houstoncommunistparty.com/communist-mps-urge-putin-to-reform-healthcare-using-soviet-model/

Communist MPs demand parliamentary probe into police break-up of meeting with voters
Published time: 9 Mar, 2016 14:52

https://www.rt.com/politics/335015-communist-mps-demand-parliamentary-probe/

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The Communist Party has demanded an investigation into a recent incident in which police first tried to prevent and then later dissolved a public meeting between lawmakers and voters in Moscow, reportedly inflicting injuries to a lower house MP.
The head of the Communist Party’s Moscow City Committee, Valery Rashkin MP, told Kommersant daily that 90 lower house lawmakers had signed the petition asking State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin to start a parliamentary enquiry into the incident, which took place in mid-December last year.

Back then, several Communist Party deputies held a meeting with voters in central Moscow, which according to Rashkin was attended by about 1,000 people. The city police had allegedly attempted to disrupt the event before it had even started by blocking entry to the square where it was due to be held and telling the public the meeting had not been coordinated with the authorities. When people refused to leave, law enforcers started to push them away from the square, detaining several demonstrators and inflicting light injuries to lower house MP Aleksandr Potapov, who showed his ID and tried to persuade the police that the meeting between voters and lawmakers was legal and required no licensing.

“In the light of forthcoming elections many State Duma MPs are interested in the probe into these events because they feel that their immunity status is now under threat,” Rashkin told reporters. “It is very important for our country that no one threatens the constitutional right of voters to meet the lawmakers,” he added.

Another opposition party MP – Aleksandr Ageyev of the center-left party Fair Russia – agreed with his Communist colleagues. “The authorities take advantage of their abilities and only license rallies in inconvenient places. Because of this we use the only opportunity we have and hold meetings with voters in the streets,” he told Kommersant.

The current Russian Law on Rallies, introduced in 2012, demands that the organizers of any street action coordinate it with the municipal authorities. Holding unlicensed rallies is punishable with heavy fines, and repeated violators of public order at rallies can be sentenced to up to five years in prison.

However, large cities have dedicated places where rallies can be held without a license – sites which the Russian mass media have dubbed “Russian Hyde Parks.” The rules for events are regulated by regional legislatures and differ across the country, and single-person pickets can be held without a license or any notification of the authorities.

http://houstoncommunistparty.com/communist-mps-demand-parliamentary-probe-into-police-break-up-of-meeting-with-voters/

Communist Party of the Russian Federation recognizes the Communist Party of Lugansk
March 18th, 2016 ~ Fort Russ ~

Semen Doroshenko - Politnavigator - translated by J. Flores ~



(Editor's note - this is significant for two reasons - 1, the new CP rejects the line of the old CP which tried to remain 'legal' in the eyes of Kiev, and did not recognize the LPR and 2., Russia's official CP now recognizes this CP, and by extension, also condemns the old line that was against independence from Kiev.)

March 12th, 2016 at the initiative of the majority of city and district committees of the Communist Party, and public organizations of the "Union of Communists of the Lugansk region," "The People's Movement for the Restoration of Donbass", "Heritage", the 1st Constituent Congress of the Communist Party of the Lugansk People's Republic was held, in Lugansk.

It is reported that more than 100 delegates attended the congress. As guests coming to the Congress were the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic, Boris Litvinov and 2nd Secretary of the Communist Party of the DPR Nikolay Zhuravlev. The Communist Party Congress in Lugansk alsso had representatives of the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Kazbek Taysaev - State Duma deputy, first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.







"The deputy of the People's Council of LC (LPR), the former head of the Communist Party faction in the Lugansk regional council Alexander Andrianov, announced his entry into the steering committee for the LC, condemning the betrayal of former head of the Lugansk regional committee of the Communist Party who did not support the will of Lugansk on the referendum on independence and the collapse of the LC regional party organization. On behalf of the party organization of Krasny Luch, the speaker said that "the need to create KPLPR not only ripe but overdue."

Former 1st secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of Lugansk (. 1995-2003) Vladimir Zemlyakov also expressed support for "participation in the KPLNR and reminded the audience of the responsibility that lies on the shoulders of the Communists in a difficult time for the Lugansk region, ".

The participants of the Congress of the Communist Party of LC "have unanimously condemned the betrayal of the former first secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of Lugansk S. Kilinkarova, which was just a pseudo-opposition, and together with their cohorts and elites in Lugansk from Kiev, together with the neo-Nazi political technocratic Kiev authorities, engaged in a dirty campaign to discredit the Communist Party, for which he was expelled by a resolution of the joint plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party from the ranks of the Communist Party of Ukraine. "

In his speech at the Luganks Congress, Kazbek Taysaev wished the communists resoluteness, purposefulness, the energy in the fight for "our common victory" and said:

"Creation of the Communist Party of the LC was a logical continuation of the tremendous work done by the Communists in Lugansk, carries much weight and is vital for the republic. Since the first days of military confrontation, and then in a difficult period of reconstruction of the economy destroyed by the war, the Communists were in the forefront, setting an example of exceptional resistance, courage and devotion to the ideals of freedom and independence. "

The congress elected the governing bodies of the Communist Party of the LC. First Secretary of the Central Committee KPLNR unanimously elected Igor Gumenyuk as leader of the Union of Communists of Lugansk, and secretaries of the Central Committee: Valentin Popov and Oleg Popov, Chairman of the Central Auditing Commission Vadim Lisitsyn.

http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/03/communist-party-of-russian-federation.html

On the question of drapery Mausoleum
colonelcassad
April 8, 22:25

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About a month before the celebration next May 9 again emerges painful question of hide and seek from the Mausoleum of cardboard. This time the topic raised by the deputy of the Communist Party Ryabkov who wrote an open letter to Putin.

On the inadmissibility of draping the Mausoleum of VI Lenin on the Victory Day

Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich

Not later than February 3, 2016 You are in a meeting with the leader of the club to talk about patriotism, and argued that: "There can be no other unifying ideas except patriotism. It is a national idea. " I will not argue that at the request of patriotism does not arise from nothing appears. Patriotism - a landmark and the greatest phenomenon of people coming not only from the soul, but of the whole of human nature. And he was always the class. Yes, we have patriotism, but it is the bourgeois, and working for him are irrelevant.

Patriotism is a proletarian, is when workers are willing to make great labor and feats of arms in the name of prosperity and preservation of their homeland. And what patriotism can give rise to the capitalist system, living in our country and the operating person, turning him into insignificance and disconnecting each other.

It would seem that in recent years, we began to hold military parades on the main (Red) area of the country with a special "patriotic" scale . But, for some reason, stubbornly do not want to show and tell about the greatness of the Soviet period of our country, and a huge work on creation of the first truly national socialist state and its founder, VI Lenin. After all, as the great Mikhail said Lomonosov. "People who are ignorant of its past has no future,"

Every year, draping the mausoleum VI Lenin May 9, you will not only stimulate the patriotism of our people, and educate hatred to the existing bourgeois power. For patriotism in the broadest sense - is the love and respect, including the authorities. This patriotism is based on a deep understanding of the past, its historical and political processes, it is in the past, draws people experience for the building of the future. And without the knowledge of the history of the state and respect for authority, true patriotism can not be.

Draping Mausoleum, power destroys not only patriotism but every basic respect for the history of his country, thereby leading to a revival of vandalism, especially among young people. Since April 3, 2016, in the town of Uren Nizhny Novgorod region in the local House of Culture unknown staged a brutal act of vandalism towards our fathers and grandfathers - were shot and slashed a stand with photographs of "Immortal regiment", hung on a memorial wall.

Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, in 2015, I appealed to you to carry out a May 9 parade open Mausoleum. But you have not received such seemingly the only true solution. I hope for your understanding in this time and beyond. Despite the fact that many of the members of the government are not worthy to be on the podium of the Mausoleum, however, May 9, 2016, a parade of troops should be taken from the rostrum of the Great Lenin. You can invite to the podium and last characters, combatants in Syria, astronauts and other particularly worthy citizens of the country.

As for May 1 will be whether or not you attend the podium, but the mausoleum and the entire pantheon should be open.

Regards,

Deputy of the State Duma RF

FS NF Ryabov,

April 6, 2016.

Https://kprf.ru/dep/gosduma/activities/1 53542.html - zinc

PS. This topic is not new, for several years, and have even not only the Communists, indicate that the authorities hide from the Mausoleum of cardboard look is just ridiculous.
I will not repeat too much, still painted in the last year.

Http: // colonelcassad .livejournal.com / 214 6837.html - This is our last anniversary
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/216 2065.html - Historical hide
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/213 8916.html - Historical truth Victory Parade

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Most Russians regret USSR collapse, dream of its return, poll shows
Published time: 19 Apr, 2016 10:00

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More than half of all Russian citizens believe the collapse of the Soviet Union was a bad thing that could have been avoided, while even more people say they would welcome the restoration of the socialist system and the Soviet state.
According to the latest poll conducted by the independent research agency Levada Center, the proportion of those who confessed to negative feelings over the collapse of the USSR is currently 56 percent, with 28 percent claiming their sentiments are entirely positive and 16 percent deeming the question too complex to give an unambiguous answer.

Fifty-one percent of respondents told researchers that in their opinion the collapse of the USSR could have been avoided, while 33 percent said they considered it inevitable. Some 17 percent said they couldn’t answer.

When researchers asked the public if they would like the Soviet Union to be restored, 58 percent replied in the affirmative,
with 14 percent saying they considered such project quite realistic at the moment. Forty-four percent view the restoration of the USSR as unfeasible, even though preferable. Thirty-one percent said they would not be happy if events took such a turn, while 10 percent could not give a simple answer to the question.

In the press release dedicated to the poll, Levada specialists said the level of nostalgia for the USSR among Russians is now the highest in five years, but it is still far from the maximum of 75 percent registered in 2000.

In April 2005, President Vladimir Putin called the USSR’s collapse “the major geopolitical disaster of the [last] century” in a public address to the Russian parliament. This quote was circulated by the international mass media that claimed that it revealed the Kremlin’s alleged plans to return to socialism. However, the Russian leader has repeatedly rejected these allegations, explaining that he meant the negative effect of radical and quick changes on the lives of everyday people.

In 2015, Putin was interviewed for a documentary and directly stated that Russia had no plans to bring back the USSR, but complained that no one wanted to believe in this. He went on to accuse European governments of confusing modern Russia with its Communist-run predecessor and of sacrificing the interests of common people in post-Soviet republics like Ukraine for the sake of preventing an imaginary threat.

https://www.rt.com/politics/340158-most-russians-regret-ussr-has/

Can't tell your commies without a scorecard...

Twisting the knife: Young leftist party seeks ban on computer game featuring autopsy of Lenin
June 20, 2016 | 8:07 pm
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Published time: 20 Jun, 2016 13:09

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The Communists of Russia, a relatively young leftist party, is demanding that the authorities ban a computer game in which the player can perform an autopsy on Vladimir Lenin’s body and extract the organs of the late Bolshevik leader.
The secretary of the Krasnodar regional committee of the Communists of Russia party, Mikhail Abramyan, has addressed the state internet watchdog Roskomnadzor with a request to ban the game titled ‘What happened to Lenin in the morgue’, distributed through the App Store on iOS devices.

The politician wrote that the gameplay of the controversial application included an autopsy of Vladimir Lenin’s body and the removal of internal organs. “This is a monstrosity and requires an immediate reaction from state regulators and law enforcers,” Abramyan wrote.

The party members also filed a request with the Prosecutor General’s Office, asking for the author of the game to be identified and held responsible for insulting Lenin’s memory.

The Communists of Russia is a minor project that should not be confused with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) – a major opposition party with parliamentary representation and the official heir to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The former cannot claim any significant public support but are very good at establishing media presence, both by reacting to latest fads and sensations and by creating news through various bizarre suggestions.

Their recent stunts include: a threat to launch mass protests if US actor Leonardo Di Caprio gets to play Vladimir Lenin; a proposal to ban handheld monopods, aka ‘selfie sticks’ at street celebrations on Victory Day; an initiative to bar US athletes from participating in the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and a plea to the Central Bank to restrict sales of foreign currency to citizens.

However, the KPRF has proved that it holds the image of Vladimir Lenin equally dear. In January this year, the Communists warned President Vladimir Putin that “history won’t forgive” him for comments he made concerning Bolshevik leader Lenin’s concept of the Soviet state, comparing it to an “atomic bomb planted under Russia.”

http://houstoncommunistparty.com/twisting-the-knife-young-leftist-party-seeks-ban-on-computer-game-featuring-autopsy-of-lenin/

Obvious baiting, not sure if this s the best response.

The Synthetic Public Ideology of Putin’s Russia
by Padraig McGrath


Situated adjacent to the Crimean Parliament building in Simferopol, the newly rebuilt Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky is a magnificent structure. Gilded onion-domes, Greco-Roman columns and pediments – it looks every bit as classy as a well financed Orthodox cathedral should be. On entering, a question occurs to me, however – why are the icons not completely flat? The depictions of the various saints seem almost crypto-Catholic, more three-dimensional than you’d expect, not like Byzantine iconography. Novgorod it ain’t.

My friend Nikita explains that the local bishop is a western Ukrainian, so this style of iconography just seems more natural to him. Locals refer to it as “Disney-style.” I smile at this answer – is there a residual attempt toward “Ukrainianization” at work? Nikita doesn’t think so – any Orthodox bishop in present-day Crimea pushing an agenda of “Ukrainianization” on any level whatsoever would very quickly find himself without an office – sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The rebuilding of this cathedral has been a long time in coming. Started in 2000, the project ran into financial difficulties, but was almost complete by the time of Crimea’s re-unification with Russia in March 2014. At that point, there was a federal cash-injection to accelerate the final phase, and authorization was received to name President Vladimir Putin as the project’s political sponsor. Most renovations or reconstructions of buildings of cultural significance in Russia have named political sponsors. For example, the planned Cathedral of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in the Ak-Mechet area of Simferopol is sponsored by the current governor of the Republic of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov.



The claim that, under Putin, there has been a “re-Sovietization” of Russia is far too simplistic. The public ideology of Putin’s Russia is synthetic and amorphous.

Right outside the cathedral-fence, there’s a memorial-space dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The centre-piece of the war-memorial is a T-34 tank mounted on a marble pedestal. Somebody, probably a member of the public, has hoisted a Soviet flag on the hatch of the tank, and there is a candle-holder placed beside it. Right next to the newly rebuilt Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky. This is striking when you consider that the original cathedral was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1930. It is also noteworthy in that this war-memorial was redesigned in 2003, when Crimea was still under Ukrainian administration – for those living under Ukrainian jurisdiction, Soviet patriotism had not been a taboo until quite recently. But then again, this is Crimea.

It is almost inconceivable that these two spaces, the cathedral and the war-memorial, were not conceptualized in tandem. There seems to be a quite conscious fusion of Orthodox Christian and Soviet symbols. Ideological synthesis par excellence. And, however much it has subsequently been deemed problematic in crisis-ridden Ukraine, you will find this symbolic fusion of Orthodox Christianity with Soviet patriotism throughout Putin’s Russia today. The claim that, under Putin, there has been a “re-Sovietization” of Russia is far too simplistic. The public ideology of Putin’s Russia is synthetic and amorphous. It manifests itself in architecture and on public holidays rather than through formal argumentation. One of the central modalities of that ideology is to continuously invoke symbols from the two worldviews which have most shaped Russian people’s collective historical experience – Orthodox Christianity and communism. Whatever tensions may or may not be seen to arise between the formal propositional contents of these views of the world, there are also deep commonalities, most notably the emphasis on ethical collectivism. And this taps into the zeitgeist quite well – at street-level, there are a lot of Ortho-communists in Russia today.


In Russian group-consciousness, in Russian thought about society and morality, there is a self-aware tension between two contradictory impulses. We could label these impulses “the transcendentalist impulse” and “the historicist impulse.”

The transcendentalist impulse is evident in a whole range of manifestations of Russian culture and Russian self-consciousness. We can see it in the work of Leo Tolstoy. We can see it in the heroic stoicism which Russians have displayed during their periods of most dire social crisis, and their resulting capacity for self-sacrifice. It’s there in front of you every time you step inside an Orthodox church. Of all of the variants of Christianity still to be found in the world today, the one with the most transcendental conception of God is Orthodox Christianity.

However, this transcendentalist impulse operates in continuous tension with the historicist impulse. Ultimately, Russians see collective historical experience as the acid-test of a worldview’s validity. That is to say, their epistemological criteria for evaluating views of the world are explicitly not transcendental. At the risk of a reductive transcription, this is something akin to what American philosophers refer to as “pragmatism” – the belief that the truth is that which works. For example, take the relationship which many Russians have simultaneously with Orthodox Christianity and Marxism as belief-systems. 57% of Russians identify as Orthodox Christians but, in many cases, their philosophical and political coordinates are still broadly Marxist. More generally, however, we could describe the prevailing synthetic ideological impulse as “Ortho-Sovietism” rather than “Ortho-communism” or “Ortho-Marxism” – the communist symbols are usually more an expression of Soviet patriotism than about theories of political economy.

http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/the-synthetic-public-ideology-of-putins-russia

I think this jibes with what we've seen in Donbass.

A new October lies ahead!

Statement of the United Communist Party (OKP)

2017 is here -- the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

In February 1917, under the blows of almost all sectors of society, Tsarism fell. The history of the Russian monarchy, which had become an obstacle to further economic and social progress, came to an end. The centuries-old dream of Russia's best minds for the elimination of autocracy as a "primitive state of human nature" (A.N. Radishchev) came true. Peasants, workers, soldiers, and the oppressed peoples of the empire breathed freer. However, those who took power -- a block of large landowners, capitalists and moderate parties -- could not solve, and did not want to solve, the centuries of accumulated social contradictions, nor could they give convincing answers to the fundamental questions facing contemporary Russian -- about the world, about peace, about real democracy, elimination of church dictates in education, abolition of class and national privileges, restrictions on workers' control over production, reduction of the working day, refusal to pay the debts accumulated by the Tsarist government to its Western "allies." Therefore, further development of the revolution was inevitable and necessary.

The uprising of the workers and soldiers in October 1917 ousted the worthless Provisional Government. Responsibility for the situation in the country was borne by the authorities that came from the people themselves -- the Soviets. The leading role was played at that time by the only party fully reflecting the aspirations of the broad masses of the working people -- the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

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As a result of the victory of the socialist revolution, the age-old backwardness inherited from Tsarist Russia was overcome in the shortest possible time. For the first time in history, the exploitation of man by man was eliminated, and the right to work, rest, education, healthcare and social protection was realized. The Soviet government began the construction of a just society, which for centuries working people and the great minds of humanity had only dreamed of. The October Revolution not only saved historical Russia from disintegration, but also showed an example of rallying the unity of the working people of different nationalities in a new type of state -- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. By ensuring all nations the unique conditions for peaceful coexistence, the Soviet Union was able to commit to industrialization, a radical transformation of agriculture, and a large-scale and comprehensive cultural revolution. The advantages of the socialist system included: public ownership, planned development, the opportunity to focus on key areas of society, collectivism, proletarian internationalism. These played a decisive role in the fact that the Soviet Union broke the spine of fascism in the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War, and in a short time restored the economy, began the world's first space exploration, defended world peace, and came to the forefront of scientific, technological, social and cultural development.

The Great October Socialist Revolution, being a proud feat of our people, became, at the same time, an historical contribution to the progress of all human civilization. It started an upsurge of the world revolutionary movement, and the formation of Communist Parties in the colonies and dependent countries increased the national liberation struggle, which led to the abolition of the colonial system of imperialism. The process begun by October reached its peak after the Second World War, when under the influence of the Soviet Union, revolutionary victories took place in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and a world socialist system began to develop.

The experience of the Great October Revolution and the socialist revolutions in other countries, the practice of socialist construction, and the temporary defeat of socialism provide an opportunity to talk about important things that must be understood.

Were conditions ripe for socialism in the world and, in particular, in backward Russia, a hundred years ago? Yes, they were ripe. When capitalism entered the stage of imperialism, the necessary material preparation for socialism was completed. The unevenness of capitalist development, in conditions of acute class contradictions, creates the preconditions for breaking the chain of imperialism -- not necessarily in the most developed countries, but in the country where the social contradictions are most acute at the time, and where there is development of not only a workers’ but also a broad democratic movement. A hundred years ago that country was Russia, and the socialist revolution was a natural phenomenon. It confirmed in practice the possibility of the victory of socialism in one country. If the Parisian working class in the 19th century made the proletarian revolution and held the Paris Commune for 72 days, the Soviet government lasted for more than seven decades. This proves that despite all shortcomings, weaknesses and mistakes made on this difficult path, in the USSR socialism advanced beyond scientific prediction and dreams and became a reality.

The presence of the objective prerequisites of socialism by itself does not automatically lead to the victory of the workers. The victory of the revolution and construction of socialism is impossible without the subjective factor -- the leadership of the Communist Party, armed with advanced scientific theory. The party grows and is strengthened when it is not afraid of criticism and self-criticism, if it does not gloss over the mistakes and shortcomings of its work, if it teaches and educates its members about errors in party work, if it can correct its mistakes in time. Scientific and class-based principles governing the policies of the Communist Party are a prerequisite of socialist construction. Conversely, the loss of these principles leads to the growth of opportunism in the party, which becomes a counter-revolutionary force. That is what happened to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by the end of the 20th century.

The Great October Revolution raised the question of the role of personality in history in a new way. The revolution was carried out not only by objective factors and the heroic struggle of the masses, but also because of the theoretical and organizational genius of Lenin. And the successful construction of socialism was possible in the USSR not in the least because there was a cohort of revolutionaries, outstanding statesmen and party leaders, headed by J.V. Stalin, who acquired the necessary knowledge, passed through the school of revolutionary struggle, and participated in the victory of the party. Alas, the party subsequently practiced the nomination of "technocrats,” not burdened with scientific knowledge and communist convictions. This process resulted in a large concentration of careerists and miscreants in the political leadership of the USSR, and Marxists were in the minority in the CPSU.

The victory of the revolution would have been a hopeless case if the Bolshevik Party was not based in the Soviets, trade unions, factory organizations, and workers’ militias. The soviets were the apparatus of power by which millions of workers were involved in the practical struggle for socialism. Their sacrifice, enthusiasm, and unparalleled heroism helped our country rise from devastation and backwardness to the heights of economic and social development. Over time, the increasing political consciousness, cultural and professional level of the workers demanded the revival of the soviet system, thoughtful reforms for the democratization of public life, and the expansion of self-rule. Alas, the political system of socialism remained without significant changes until the end of the 1980s. The passivity of the masses was growing. This led to disorientation during perestroika, as Soviet workers were unable to work out a correct evaluation of what was happening and defend the socialist system.

The most important lesson of October is that by embarking on the path of radical changes in social reality, the people must be able to defend their choice, sometimes very firmly, with arms in their hands, against the encroachments of internal enemies and their foreign backers. "No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself ..." – this case has proven the truth of Lenin’s words. Therefore, preserving the dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of full communism is imperative. Rejection of the proletarian dictatorship, its weakening, leads to the erosion of the socialist system and its subsequent liquidation.

In the late 1980s-early 1990s, in our country and in Eastern Europe, socialism suffered a temporary defeat. As it turned out, despite all the successes and achievements, serious crisis affecting the economy and all aspects of social life could ripen in Soviet society. A real opportunity to move to a new stage of socialism was missed, which could effectively combine social property, social justice and political democracy. As long as the productive forces are not fully and finally developed away from capitalist relations of production, the danger of restoration of capitalism persists. Socialism must always and in all areas prove its superiority over capitalism until the disappearance of the latter, and the inhibition of socialist development leads to a revival of the preconditions for the return of capitalism which persist in socialist society. This is the main lesson of Soviet history.

This lesson is sure to be learned. We believe that the triumph of the counter-revolution will not last forever. There are no and can be no forces that can turn back the wheel of history. The social and economic setbacks, destruction of businesses, unemployment and poverty, division of society into masters and servants, concentration of wealth in the hands of the oligarchic elite, will be overcome. We have reason for optimism. On our side is the objective course of history, the advanced science of society -- Marxism, confidence in the ability of the masses to become creators of deep social transformation. Another world is possible! Mistaken or lying are those who declare capitalism the "end of history", the final "station" of human development, after which only unimportant changes will take place.

100 years ago, the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution marked the beginning of humanity’s path "from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom." As V.I. Lenin rightly pointed out: “We have made the start. When, at what date and time, and the proletarians of which nation will complete this process is not important. The important thing is that the ice has been broken; the road is open, the way has been shown."

Thus, the 21st century will bring us new revolutionary battles and victories.

Comrades! Join the United Communist Party! Let us fight together to build a truly just society -- socialism.

Forward to the upcoming anniversary of the Great Revolution!

A new October lies ahead!

Moscow, January 2017

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