5/23/22 11:48AM
RCWP, International Department of the Central Committee of the RCWP : On the class understanding of the struggle against fascism and the mistakes of the "leftism" of the Greek comrades.
05.2022
Commentary on the article by the International Department of the Central Committee of the KKE "On the position of the RCWP in relation to the imperialist war in Ukraine"
On April 29, 2022, the newspaper "Risospastis", the central organ of the Communist Party of Greece, published an article by the International Department of the Central Committee of the KKE "On the position of the RCWP towards the imperialist war in Ukraine".
The article assesses the actions of the RCWP in connection with the special operation carried out by Russia in Ukraine, expresses extreme resentment for our disagreement with the position of the KKE and argues that the approach of the RCWP is eclectic and that it slides into serious theoretical and political errors, even to "borrowing" bourgeois concepts.
We say outright that we categorically disagree with such assessments, considering them unscientific, but we do not agree even more with the method of conducting discussions on the part of the party, with which we have long-standing friendly relations. At the request of the International Department of the Central Committee of the KKE dated April 28, 2022, we deliberately discussed the situation at a meeting of the Political Council and answered the questions asked. However, it turned out that no one was particularly expecting our arguments, and already on April 29, 2022, the above-mentioned article was published in the newspaper Rizospastis.
Since the main arguments have already been verified by us and passed on to the comrades in the Central Committee of the KKE, we are submitting them for publication on the solid website , trying to adhere to the structure of the article in Rizospastis for better orientation of Greek readers.
A few words about the relationship between the RCWP and the KKE
The Political Council of the Central Committee of our party carefully considered and discussed the letter of the International Department of the Central Committee of the KKE dated April 28, 2022 about serious differences in our positions on a number of issues, primarily on assessing the situation in connection with military operations in Ukraine and Donbass.
We also believe that the time has come to clarify our relations, which have a long history and have for the most part been fruitful and comradely in nature.
We well remember and appreciate the fact that the KKE was one of the first foreign communist parties to establish bilateral relations with the RCWP. Our parties have always treated Marxism as a science in the same way, and our positions on the analysis of the reasons for the defeat of socialism in the USSR practically coincided. At the International Meeting in Leningrad in 1997, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, we, together with 30 parties, signed the declaration "October-80". It can be said that we jointly conducted theoretical work. Thus, at the request of the Greek comrades, we selected relevant literature on economic discussions in the USSR, and our specialists shared their knowledge. A group of scientists, political economists and philosophers (associate professor Yabrova, prof. Popov, prof. Elmeev, prof. Volovich) traveled to Greece to give lectures and participate in scientific discussions. We also recall with gratitude the organization of studies in Greece for a group of our trade union activists. Our party in 1998 immediately supported the initiative of the KKE to hold regular International Meetings of Communist and Workers' Parties and participated in all meetings as a member of the Working Groupsolid. Together, our parties laid the foundations for the International Communist Review (ICE) and the European Communist Initiative Movement (ECI).
The RCWP viewed these forms of interaction as concrete steps to create a communist pole in the international communist movement, which, in our opinion, has had a strong opportunist bias since Gorbachev's time. As you know, our party contributed to overcoming this bias, organizing international conferences of orthodox parties: “100 years of October” in Leningrad, “100 years of the Comintern” and “140 years of I.V. Stalin" in Moscow, "70 years of Victory" in the Donbass, in which the KKE participated.
Unfortunately, in spite of these long-standing comradely relations that have developed between our parties, we have indeed recently come across serious differences in positions.
How did it happen? We also sincerely experience this fact and analyze the previous history. We think it should be said frankly that certain discrepancies appeared much earlier than the military operations of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine began. Previously, there were differences on the issue of scientific understanding of fascism and assessment of the manifestations of fascism in the foreign policy of the United States (i.e., the initiation and support of terrorist forms of capital domination in the “victim” country) and their NATO allies today – “fascism for export”. Significant differences also emerged in the evaluation of the activities of the Comintern.
But even more significant, from our point of view, is the fact that differences gradually accumulated more and more in the vision of our parties as a way to form a communist pole. We certainly recognize the merits of the KKE in initiating and creating the ICO and then the ECI, but we are forced to note that these organizational forms have not been developed as active forms of collective struggle against opportunism and revisionism. They were limited to the exchange of opinions of the parties among themselves, but did not find continuation in practical joint work - they did not provide even the most elementary joint coordinated actions of the parties of the pole outside, for example, at such forums as general meetings of solid. For the sake of ensuring visible unity and preventing a split in the system , solidThe KKE constantly held back attempts to organize a common front against the opportunism of the Euroleft and other parties with a right bias, although it itself spoke out on questions of theory and current politics mostly correctly, from revolutionary Marxist positions.
We have to add to this that, from our point of view, the comrade leaders of the KKE, from the time of the first meetings, became somewhat arrogant, as they say in Russia, bronzed, began to present their opinion as the ultimate truth or even in the form of lectures, and the IKO and ECI began to turn into to the support agencies of the KKE line. We think that this is the reason for the recent decision of the Presidium of the Hungarian Workers' Party to end the participation of the party in the Secretariat of the European Communist Initiative, since the comrades can no longer take responsibility for various political documents adopted on behalf of the Secretariat.
We are heavy-hearted, but forced to carry on this conversation. As V.I. Lenin: "... there are moments that oblige to put the question point-blank and call things by their real name, under the threat of causing irreparable harm to both the party and the revolution."
Report of the Central Committee of the RCWP and objections of the comrades from the International Department of the Central Committee of the KKE
The comrades from the KKE really studied the report of the Central Committee of the RKRP ( https://rkrp-rpk.ru/2022/03/31/on-the-r ... y-actions/) and correctly note that we are saying - "wars on land The Soviet Union was brought by capitalism. We assess the nature of the war as imperialistic - that "the true source of the conflict in Ukraine being analyzed is the inter-imperialist contradictions of the USA, the EU and Russia, into which Ukraine is drawn ". The RCWP also believes that Ukraine is a fascist state and that fascism in this country is " Ukrainian only in its place of manifestation, in language, in historical continuity and in personnel composition, and in origins it is completely American."
After that, the comrades state that they do not agree with the RCRP’s understanding of the Leninist theory of imperialism, they do not agree with the theory of “fascism in foreign policy”, they do not share the conclusion of the RCWP, which believes that what is happening in Ukraine has a positive side - helping the people of Donbass in the fight against American fascism in foreign policy, and therefore she supports him. The theorists of the KKE claim that it is allegedly eclecticism in the position of the RCWP that eventually leads it to support the imperialist war. Like, exactlytherefore, the RCWP supported Russia's imperialist invasion of Ukraine and did not sign the Joint Statement, supported by 42 communist and workers' parties and 30 communist youth organizations from around the world, issued at the initiative of the KKE, the Communist Workers' Party of Spain, the Communist Party of Mexico and the Communist Party of Turkey, in contrast to its youth organization RKSM (b) - the Revolutionary Communist Youth Union (Bolsheviks), which maintains bilateral relations with KMG.
Comrades from the KKE regret that the RCWP is not among the 42 Communist and Workers' Parties that signed the Joint Declaration against the imperialist war in Ukraine. We, too, regret and worry. But at the same time, we are forced to note that a certain arrogance and disdain for the opinions of comrades also manifested themselves here. The statement was initiated by the Communist Party of Greece, the Communist Workers' Party of Spain, the Communist Party of Mexico and the Communist Party of Turkey. We respect these parties, but we consider it simply indecent that, before submitting the draft for general familiarization, the authors did not consult with the communists of Donbass, Russia and Ukraine. But together we held an international conference in the Donbass on the problems of combating fascism in 2015. in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. How could one act so tactlessly, knowing that the war against Donbass has been going on for 8 years and has already claimed 15,000 lives, mostly civilians? The comrades of the KKE and other signatories rightly noted that the Russian bourgeoisie is engaged in denazification not at all for ideological reasons, that it is not going to uproot the capitalist roots that give rise to fascism. But, we ask them, what should have been done - to wait and endure further? You know that we (RKRP, KRO LPR and RFD) have always not only allowed, but insistently demanded more help from bourgeois Russia, but in the statement you are examining, you did not even mention thatthe war on the part of the workers and communists of Donbass is just anti-fascist in nature . Or do you disagree with this?
Instead, you speak rather ironically about the nature of the so-called "People's Republics" of Donbass , which has nothing to do with the nature of the People's Republics that emerged after World War II in Europe .
Yes it is. We and the communists of Donbass know this and speak in sufficient detail and directly in our agitation about the loss of elements of the nationality in the government of the republics. But let me suggest that the nationality of these republics is generated and conditioned by the unwillingness of the people to submit to the dictates of the fascists, the unwillingness to repeat the fate of the burnt House of Trade Unions in Odessa. The people of Donbass at the referendums in May 2014 said their "OKHI" to the fascist punishers in Kyiv. It is on this that such , in your opinion , is based, incorrect , but what kind of nationality of these republics is.
The fact that it is impossible for the republics of Donbass to survive in this struggle without the help of bourgeois Russia has been absolutely clear since 2014, especially since they are opposed to the combined forces of world imperialist capital. But this does not mean at all that the republics should refuse this assistance from the Russian Federation. Let us repeat, the RCWP has always not only allowed, but always demanded from the authorities more assistance, including military assistance. For some reason you didn't mind before. Today, do you think that it was not necessary to help the fight against American fascism in foreign policy? We believe that the Nazis must be beaten with any weapon, always, using all allies and fellow travelers.
An erroneous approach to considering the modern world and Russia RCWP or KKE?
Comrades from the KKE write to Rizospastis: “ It is clear that, unlike the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the RCWP is trying to approach current events from class positions, but it is slipping into serious theoretical and political mistakes, even to “borrowing” bourgeois concepts from those forces that it calls opportunistic. Such blunders lead to the justification of an unacceptable Russian military invasion, which, as she herself admits, is carried out for imperialist purposes under the pretext of saving the people of Donbass.
The claims are really serious. The difference in assessments of the nature of the imperialist war must be dealt with seriously, since this is a matter of science and theory.
Earlier, in the course of working on articles for the ICE, we expressed our opinion to you that the ideological department and the leadership of the KKE, from our point of view, somewhat incorrectly interprets the Leninist theory of imperialism in relation to today's reality. You present the matter in such a way that today the whole world is imperialist, monopolies rule in all countries, and one should consider only a kind of pyramid of imperialists of the highest category, second and third levels, etc. Everyone is at odds with each other, and everyone exploits and plunders the weaker ones.
At the same time, you seem to be forgetting Lenin's conclusion that capitalism has now singled out a handful (less than one tenth of the world's population, with the most "generous" and exaggerated calculation - less than one fifth) of especially rich and powerful states that rob - the whole world . This objective position was even reflected, albeit in a distorted form, in the bourgeois concept of the "golden billion", named after the total number of those "prosperous people" who live in "robber states".
You somehow modestly hush up this moment and consider this Leninist provision supposedly outdated. You write just like that, that on the basis of this distorted understanding of the modern world, the RCWP interprets Lenin's statement about a "bunch of countries", written when ¾ of the planet was still colonies, at its own discretion .
You substantiate this by saying that it is allegedly possible to reduce the issue of the struggle against imperialism to exclusively anti-Americanism, which is typical of many national bourgeois states and the corresponding political forces. This, of course, should not be done, we agree with you. But the core of Lenin's theory of imperialism, along with its economic basis, the monopolization of production, is the proposition that a handful of leading imperialist powers, which have divided the world and are fighting for its redivision, under imperialism plunder all other bourgeois countries. Today the essence of imperialism has not changed . The meaning of the "handful" and its influence in today's world has definitely increased compared to Lenin's times.
Today this handful is headed precisely by the United States of America. The rest play the role of tie-ins. Do you disagree? Is Greece an imperialist country? Or even the much more powerful EU countries? By and large, none of these countries today can disobey the United States, can not show independence, which is remarkably confirmed by the entire practice of imposing sanctions against the Russian Federation. And even obviously to the detriment of themselves! Don't you see it? Not to see that today a handful of the most powerful predators, led by the USA and NATO, are forming "a solid basis for imperialist oppression and exploitation of most nations and countries of the world, capitalist parasitism of a handful of the richest states!",From our point of view, this is a very big mistake. The political practice of the behavior of the EU countries and other leading imperialist powers in connection with the conflict in Ukraine has shown that there is almost no independent policy of the EU countries, there is the fact that these countries are dancing to the tune of the United States, even to the detriment of their economies for the sake of hope to continue plundering the rest of the world in the future. The United States is carrying out the most profitable operation - lending, ideologically and politically shaping fascism, which is hostile to them and destroys even bourgeois democracy, hanging over the peoples of the world. At the same time, significantly weakening the EU countries, at least in the short term, and strengthening its presence in this market.
An analysis of events suggests that if Russia did not possess nuclear weapons, it is quite possible that it could have suffered the fate of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya. But given the power of the defense potential of the Russian Federation inherited from the USSR, the US and EU imperialists have chosen the tactics of resurrecting fascism in Ukraine and inciting it against the Donbass and the Russian Federation. The pumping of weapons on their part and the political aggravation of the situation on the line with the Donbass, as many countries and parties admit, if not forced, then pushed the Russian authorities to start preventive military actions.
Defective, allegedly, the theory of "fascism for export"?
It must be said that some of our and foreign comrades are confused by the very term "fascism for export." It slightly reminds someone of the concept of "export of revolutions", which the communists do not support. Someone primitively interprets it as a real export, i.e. export of fascism. Moreover, after translation from the great figurative Russian language for foreign comrades, the essence can be difficult to grasp. We do not hold on to the term, for us it was born as a publicistic image. More important is the very essence of the phenomenon - fascism in foreign policy. Particularly noteworthy are the assertions of the Greek comrades that the RCWP in its analysis repeats the harmful theory of "fascism for export". They even agreed to"Fascism for export" is a bourgeois theory that was first put forward by Russian bourgeois political forces during the "orange revolution" in 2006 in Ukraine.
It is inconvenient for us to make this remark, but, firstly, this is an outright lie. An analysis of the manifestations of fascism in foreign policy, which in journalism we often call "fascism for export", was carried out for the first time, incl. with our participation, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR Boris Lavrentievich Fetisov and published in 2009 by the Russian socio-political newspaper Narodnaya Pravda. After that, it was discussed, agreed upon and adopted as a position at the plenum of the Central Committee of the RKRP. Then the Solidnet was brought to the attention of the parties in 2012. The Greek comrades mention that there was a serious discussion in the pages of the ICE magazine. At the same time, they believe that the practice wasfully confirmed the warning made by the KKE in 2014 that this theory would lead, de facto, to an erroneous course of cooperation with bourgeois political forces.
We affirm that practice has fully confirmed our analysis and foresight. And the discrepancy between our assessments is caused by the departure of the Greek comrades from the positions of the scientific approach and, as a result, the rejection of the Comintern definition of fascism. The comrades somehow openly and directly do not speak about this, but write very intricately: “ However, one should not forget that this definition made by the Comintern took shape during a period of serious polemics on the part of a number of leaders of the Comintern, and it was in practice that his inability to show the connection between fascism and capitalism and take this into account in the strategy of the international communist movement.
Strange and even painful to hear. This Dimitrov definition turned out to be untenable? We remind you: “ Fascism in power is an open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, most imperialist elements of finance capital, a special form of class domination by the bourgeoisie… Fascism is not supra-class power and not the power of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen proletariat over finance capital. Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. This is the organization of terrorist reprisals against the working class and the revolutionary part of the peasantry and intelligentsia. Fascism in foreign policy is chauvinism in its crudest form, cultivating zoological hatred against other peoples.
In our analysis, we are talking about fascism in foreign policy!Fascism consists in the rejection of democratic forms of bourgeois domination and the transition to open bourgeois imperialist terror. In the modern world, most of the most developed bourgeois states use various forms in their domestic politics with the appearance of bourgeois democracy, refraining from exercising dictatorship in an open terrorist form. Another thing is in the international arena. We argue that after the defeat (we are sure temporary) of socialism in the USSR and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, there was a negative change in the balance of power that determines the situation throughout the world. First, in the absence of examples from socialist countries, capital went on an all-out attack on the rights of workers in domestic politics. And secondly, the imperialists are trying to solve their internal problems through external expansion. In foreign policy, world imperialism, and above all, its shock detachment in the person of the US imperialists and NATO countries, began to act much more unbridled, aggressively, without looking back at the bourgeois-democratic norms of international law and the so-called public opinion. An example of this is the reprisals against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, today - Syria, threats against the DPRK and Iran, the initiation and support of today's bloody conflict in Ukraine. In the words of V.I. Lenin, “we have before us a completely naked imperialism, which does not even find it necessary to clothe itself in anything, believing that it is already magnificent.”
We regard the ongoing escalation of tension in the Middle East, in Ukraine as the spread of neo-fascism - "fascism for export". "Fascism for export" is an undisguised, ignoring all the laws and norms of international law terrorist imperialist policy of violence and bloody solution of issues of ensuring the interests of world imperialism, the core of which is financial capital. This is a modern form of fascism. At the same time, chauvinism in its crudest form today manifests itself in the statements of US presidents about evil empires, about outcast countries, about the special responsibility of the United States for the fate of the whole world, with the conclusion that they have been given the right to decide everything!
The denial of this fact, the reactionary dominance of the United States, is detrimental to determining the position and tactics of the struggle of the Communist Parties. This is the source of your skepticism about the manifestations of fascism in foreign policy - "fascism for export", and even the rejection of the Comintern definition of fascism. And in the end, this led to a mechanical transfer of assessments of 1914–1917, the time of the First Imperialist War, to the current situation.
You write that the criticism of the RCRP is unfounded and unfounded, but we reflected all these points in the Report of the Central Committee to the March plenum (03.26.2022) “On the attitude of the RCWP to the military actions of the government of the Russian Federation and the armed forces of Donbass in Ukraine” (https: // rkrp-rpk.ru/2022/03/31/about-attitude-rkrp-to-military-operations/). You can read the report, and we are quite ready to answer questions and criticism. Only people who are not confident in themselves are afraid of criticism. The RCWP is confident in its position and is ready to clarify relations.
You, dear comrades, write that “ on the one hand, the RCRP verbally recognizes the imperialist war, which is the result of inter-imperialist clashes, and on the other hand, declaring the “protection of the people of Donbass” and the alleged “denazification” of Ukraine, it actually supports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine , the imperialist war and the Russian bourgeoisie, whom it regards as the guarantor of the fight against fascism ."
But this only shows that you just haven’t figured out, in Lenin’s words, “on the basic economic question, without studying which it is impossible to understand anything in the assessment of modern war and modern politics (here and below, ed.), namely: in the question of economic essence of imperialism.
Of course, the war is for the Russian bourgeois class, which is much weaker, which is in the process of becoming imperialism, is also in the process of becoming imperialistic, since bourgeois Russia defends its interests, its desire to operate gas and oil pipelines, others, incl. country's human resources. But this does not mean at all that the working class of the Russian Federation is indifferent to the long, stubborn and aggressive attack on Russia by the forces of the United States, NATO and the EU, that we do not notice the use of open fascism as a weapon in Ukraine, that the prospect of repeating the fate of Yugoslavia, Iraq or Libya for the worker class of Russia is more preferable than the oppression of the domestic bourgeoisie. Today, the military actions of the Russian Federation are no longer aimed at seizing resources and markets through the subordination of Ukraine, but at protecting the interests of bourgeois Russia, Russian capital and even the integrity of the country. We do not support the government and do not call for all forces to rally around it, as the Communist Party does, on the contrary, we call for using the situation to clarify the true causes of the tragedies experienced and to organize the struggle against capitalism, for socialism and the restoration of the USSR. But we do not call and juststop the war, because this essentially means a call to stop the war against fascism. With real fascism, which is fed and directed by the biggest imperialist predators, which calls itself the successor of the cause of the fascists of 1941-45, which today openly uses civilians as human shields. We cannot do this. We believe that it is possible and necessary to beat the Nazis with any weapon with the involvement of all possible forces. At the same time, a conscious factor should be introduced there, i.e. to agitate for the development of the anti-fascist struggle into the struggle for socialism.
And calls for the defeat of one’s own government in this war do not correspond to the essence of the moment, do not contribute to the approach of the revolution, since there is no corresponding situation, and today, in the words of Lenin, it is still impossible for revolutionary movements in all the warring countries to correspond and cooperate with each other. The victory of the USA and NATO today will be the victory of advancing fascism. Strengthening fascisation of regimes is observed in all EU countries, especially in the Baltic States.
This moment is very difficult to understand, because. there is a great temptation to simply transfer the assessments of the times of the First Imperialist War to the present day.
Criticism of the KKE
You write that the RCRP unfoundedly accuses the KKE of “mistakes”, as well as the lack of solidarity with the people of Donbass. This, of course, is not at all the case. We certainly recognize that you sympathize with the people of Donbass and condemn the fascist manifestations of the Kyiv regime. We, together with the communists of Donbass and Ukraine, are grateful to the KKE for the consistent protests that have been held since 2014, including from the rostrum of the European Parliament.
But this is solidarity and support for the victims, protection of the suffering and oppressed population, and we, as a party, first of all, support the struggle of this people themselves against the fascists, and we ourselves participate in it to the best of our ability, helping the formation of communist forces in the republics.
We take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the deputies from the KKE, who, for their political activities against the war, were included in the official "black list" of the Kyiv reactionary regime. But let me tell you that our comrades-in-arms in the Donbass are directly involved in hostilities, suffering losses both in the wounded and in the lives of their comrades. Our mutual friend, the leader of the Workers' Front of Donbass, Nikolay Belostenny, who fought in 2014-15, went to enroll in the militia at the military registration and enlistment office, but his 69-year-old has not yet been taken. Today he works as an ambulance driver, sometimes carrying the wounded under fire, incl. soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from Mariupol to the hospitals of the DPR. And the guys who are younger are fighting. And the fact that the Russian bourgeoisie, not at all for ideological reasons, is forced to help their struggle does not negate its just character and absolute necessity.
Intra-party processes in the RCWP
The Greek comrades note: “ Recent events threaten to become a crushing ideological and political blow to the RCWP, as evidenced by the so-called “Conference in support of the struggle against fascism in Ukraine”, held on March 20, 2022 at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the RCWP.”
You know that certain tensions have also arisen in our Party in connection with this question. There are even exits of unstable comrades from the Central Committee and from the ranks of the Party. And we have to note with regret that, willingly or unwittingly, comrades from the KKE contribute to these processes, including by accepting the signature of a group of young people, allegedly from the organization of the RKSM (b), under the Declaration of 42 parties, although we informed you that this is actually provocateurs trying to capture the Komsomol brand and website. You did not react to this and even repeated this misinformation in the newspaper Rizospastis for the mass reader, actually misleading in relation to the position of the RKSM (b). We think that such actions also do not contribute to the strengthening of comradely relations between our parties.
In addition, we note your attempts to interfere in our internal political work with the voice of opponents of our party. So, you write to us: “... with great sadness we observe your holding joint events with Russian far-right, nationalist organizations, such as the Other Russia party (“National Bolsheviks”).
We have already provided clarifications on these issues on the party website and in the TR newspaper, which you could read. The Other Russia is by no means a socialist organization, but it is by no means an extreme right-wing party. In fact, it is not quite a party, since it does not have clearly defined class positions, but it does not support the private capitalist system, and one of the populist slogans is the statement “Capitalism is shit!”. These are mostly young people, they are not so much nationalists as patriots of the Soviet past and the greatness of the USSR, in which all peoples occupied a worthy place. Hoisting a red flag over Riga (November 17, 2000) is in the baggage of their deeds, for which the comrades received real prison terms. Their representatives are fighting in the Donbass not for the Russian world, but against the Nazis. We are trying to introduce elements of class consciousness into this youth subculture, incl. on the example of Lenin's understanding of the national pride of the Great Russians. We don't always do it, but quite often it works. We have been cooperating for many years and will continue.
Therefore, we would like you to consult with us before drawing conclusions. In any case, we are not going to silently tolerate distortions of our position and even of the historical facts themselves.
The fact that not the most advanced, but various Orthodox, Cossack, national-patriotic and even anti-communist elements often fight in the militia of Donbass does not change the nature of the anti-fascist struggle at all. It is impossible to win with one vanguard, as Lenin taught. It is necessary to attract and use any forces, you need to beat the Nazis with any weapon. And it is not by chance that the core of the resistance to the Nazis was made up of miners and tractor drivers, which even President Putin had to admit. And you shout guard when "in the name of the fight against fascism, the way is opened for cooperation with the opportunist forces, with the Social Democracy, with sections of the bourgeoisie." Yes, even with black! We will learn from the USSR and Stalin.
The RCWP allegedly embarked on a dangerous political path
In conclusion, we are compelled to object categorically to you regarding the statement of the International Department: “ With this letter, we call on you to reconsider your position, which not only does not correspond to the founding declarations of the ICE and ECI, but also cuts you off from the line of consistent forces of the international communist movement.” Allow me to ask who gave you the right to single-handedly determine the boundaries of the consistent or inconsistent forces of the communist movement? Both in the ICE and in the ECI, as we know, there is a procedure for collective consideration of issues and decision-making. In our opinion, here again that element of communist swagger is manifested in you, which we have already mentioned and which has ruined many parties with a glorious revolutionary past.
In conclusion, we directly say that, of course, we agree with your statement: the RCWP has embarked on a dangerous political path . We only did it in the bowels of the CPSU, fighting against its degeneration and Gorbachevism, we did it in 1991, when in response to Yeltsin’s ban on the activities of the CPSU, they answered that in 1941 bans and more abruptly came and established the RCWP. In 1993, when they participated in the defense of the House of Soviets, shot by Yeltsin from tanks. We quite consciously embarked on the path of struggle and are well aware of the danger of deviation from the principles of Marxism-Leninism. Learning from the Bolsheviks and Lenin: "It is possible to defeat a more powerful enemy only with the greatest effort and with the obligatory, most thorough, caring, cautious, skillful use of any, even the slightest, "crack" between enemies, any opposition of interests between the bourgeoisie of different countries, between different groups or types of the bourgeoisie. within individual countries, as well as any, even the slightest, opportunity to get a mass ally, even if it is temporary, shaky, fragile, unreliable, conditional. Anyone who has not understood this has not understood a grain of Marxism and scientific, modern socialism in general.”
Only people who are not confident in themselves can be afraid of temporary alliances, even with unreliable people. We are confident in ourselves, therefore, respecting you, we reserve the right to defend our Marxist-Leninist approach to political practice.
We will not falter on the chosen path!
With comradely greetings and wishes, to think about the questions raised.
May 19, 2022 Leningrad. The article was sent to the solidnet website
http://solidnet.org/article/Russian-CWP--00007/
(Edited to correct for repeated text which sometimes occurs during the c&p/translation of Russian on Google.)
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Officials of St. Petersburg wrote debts for housing and communal services in receipts in small print
05/22/2022
Now citizens must pay a total of 5 billion rubles
In St. Petersburg , a scandal flares up around exorbitant debts to the Capital Repair Fund. About 800 thousand citizens suddenly received debt receipts. It turned out that the debts dragged on for a whole year: officials masked the true amounts of payments in receipts so as not to provoke indignation of citizens. In addition, according to officials, there were “mistakes” in the charges . Who will bear responsibility for the situation (and whether it will bear responsibility at all) remains unclear. And citizens, as usual, will have to shake out their wallets.
Where to look for a debt in a receipt, a fragment from the video
The capital repair fund in St. Petersburg sent out about 800,000 promissory notes. This is about a third of all apartments in the city. The total amount of debts is about 5 billion rubles . Many townspeople were surprised, as they regularly paid their bills. It turned out that the receipts have nuances in small print.
Since June 2021, many have been receiving unified payment documents that look like Petroelectrosbyt forms , but, in addition to the electricity bill, they also include contributions to the Capital Repair Fund. As it turned out, in these documents, debts to the Capital Repair Fund are indicated in small print. At the same time, only the last accrual was presented for payment in the receipt itself. People did not read the fine print and paid the amount indicated in large.
For what reason did the officials decide not to focus the attention of the townspeople on the debts to the capital repairs fund? This was frankly told by the general director of the unified information and settlement center "Petroelectrosbyt" Denis Shabarin :
“When a single receipt was issued in May last year, these amounts aroused indignation among the residents. And in order to remove this tension, it was decided not to show this debt in the sum of “total”, but leave it for reference.”
It also turned out that “mistakes were made” due to the change in the organization that carried out the accruals for major repairs. It took a whole check to fix the situation. And while it was going on, "Petroelectrosbyt" included data on the debt "for reference", that is, in the form of notes in small print. Dmitry Shutov , Acting General Director of the Capital Repair Fund, had to admit that "during the whole year, citizens' awareness of the debt was insufficient."
But now the Petersburgers were informed about their debts, as they say, in full.
Stop hapremont!
The gamble with fees for "overhaul" was carried out by the authorities in 2015. It was accompanied by a gross violation of the law and a large number of corruption scandals . In many regions, the overhaul program was immediately failed. According to sociologists, about 88% of Russians opposed this idea. Rallies against the “hapremont” were held all over the country , but the protest was not massive and organized enough to achieve results.
The housing and communal services of St. Petersburg have long been the subject of complaints from citizens and caustic satire. For example, the famous singer Sergey Shnurov in January shot a scabrous video clip about the state of city streets.
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The government allowed the production of cars without ABS and airbags
05/21/2022
Will they start installing carbureted engines soon?
According to government decree No. 855 of May 12, 2022, automakers can now produce cars without some of the systems that turned out to be inaccessible due to the imposition of sanctions. The production of cars without ABS, ESP is allowed, the ERA-GLONASS system may have fewer functions. It is also allowed to produce cars of all environmental classes, starting with Euro-0.
Moscow in 2023Government measures are aimed at avoiding the collapse of auto production associated with a shortage of a number of components. However, the anti-lock braking system (ABS), ESP, ERA-GLONASS are theoretically not necessary systems for a car, but an electronic engine control system for modern gasoline engines is a necessary part. Without this system, it is impossible to manufacture a modern injection engine, so it is not clear how the Russian auto industry will replace these parts. Further degradation will be a return to carburetor engines, which now no longer looks very unlikely.
In the last 10-15 years, Russia has seen a steady decline in the number of accidents and deaths in them, despite a significant increase in the number of cars in the country. This was largely due to the introduction of these systems, including in Russian cars. The current situation will inevitably increase the number of accidents and deaths from them. The decrease in environmental standards for new cars will lead to a deterioration in the environmental situation in cities, especially in large ones. All this will worsen an already bad demographic situation.
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More than a third of Russians can't afford a week's vacation
05/19/2022
No money, but still holding on
In 2021, about 30% of those surveyed could not afford a week's vacation. In May 2022, the SuperJob portal conducted a study that showed that the number of people unable to save up for a week's vacation increased to 35%. And in general, the situation is disappointing: Russians on average (including the richest and poorest) are ready to allocate about 40 thousand rubles for vacations.
Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova in the Maldives
Men are ready to spend more on vacation than women - 40 and 33 thousand, respectively. Residents of Moscow are traditionally able to allocate more funds than other citizens, about 50 thousand rubles. Residents of St. Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk - 43 thousand each. Residents of Voronezh and Volgograd are ready to allocate only 33 thousand rubles.
The real incomes of Russians have been showing steady negative growth for several years in a row. Most citizens are forced to tighten their belts. According to a survey by the Zarplata.ru service, most citizens are trying to cut costs in all respects.
The study, conducted from April 28 to May 3 among 1720 Russians, showed that a third of the respondents had already "pulled up their wallets" by 10-20%, and 8% of the respondents - by 20-30%. They save the most on holidays (13%) and restaurants (12%), the next item on the list is groceries (9%), 7% shrink at the expense of clothes, shoes and such pleasures as beauty salons, and 3% and 2% of Russians accordingly decided to abandon the furniture and appliances.
But rich citizens have a rest in a big way. Eminent figure skaters change countries like gloves: after Dubai - Egypt. What for? Swimming, sailing, showing off new lovers on Instagram. Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova bought a yacht for numerous vacations at the price of a luxury apartment.
https://www.rotfront.su/bolshe-treti-ro ... t-pozvoli/It is not surprising that incidents involving the super-rich take place in the country. In mid-May, Boris Yeltsin's daughter's Porsche was smashed in the Moscow region. The editors believe that such actions can be the anger and despair of the rapidly impoverished sections of the Russian people.
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I suspect that too many Americans, upon hearing those numbers, will think that the Russians don't have it that bad because they cannot afford a vacation either. The ass-backwards thinking of decreasing expectations. People in thriving societies expect more, not less.
The bread is disappearing, the circus is on your screen.