A WORLD TO WIN    #17   (1992)

 

Down with the Imperialist World Order, Old and "New"!

Fight for the Communist Future!

- Statement by the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement

1st May 1991

In the six week rape of Iraq, the system which rules the world has again revealed its dreadful nature. All the rulers' talk of international law and democracy shows itself to be but the make-up behind which are found the most hideous features. Their civilisation is founded on the robbery of the many by the few and it is enforced through violence. Their professed concern for "peace" is seen to be nothing but a selfish desire to suffer no consequences while raining terror and devastation down upon others.

The rulers of the world, the imperialist ruling classes of a handful of advanced capitalist states, believe that they can impose their will anywhere on the earth - by their economic mastery of the world's wealth or, when necessary, by their massive machinery of death and destruction. The rulers of the U.S. believe that they can sit on top of this pyramid of oppression and exploitation for "one hundred years". But this assumes that the people will cower before their might, that the slaves of this earth will give up their struggle against the conditions of slavery. Furthermore, the enemy hopes that the masses will forget that the imperialists have been defeated in the past and that the proletariat has shown that it can lead the people in constructing a wholly different society. The imperialists of the West are seizing upon the collapse of the phoney-socialist but real-capitalist East bloc as "proof" of the impossibility of communism. However, it is the communist future of a world no longer divided into classes and in which some nations no longer feed on others which will prevail over the imperialist dream of "a new world order".

By sucking the blood of the labouring people the world over and by enforcing this set-up with the sword, the imperialists compel the people to resist. And when the proletariat and the people become conscious of the source of their oppression and the means to eliminate it, the resistance of the masses becomes the fight for revolution. Today this is seen most sharply in Peru where, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Peru, the people have successfully carried out ten years of revolutionary warfare. Our comrades in Peru are giving life to the slogan "Yankee Go Home!" as they meet the increasing and more direct intervention of the U.S. against the revolution with stepped-up warfare. In the mountains of Peru, the workers and peasants are already constructing the new society in the areas liberated from the reactionary regime.

Over the next period the world will continue to be jolted. The imperialists, emboldened by their massacre in Iraq, will continue to swagger about - and we should be particularly alert for new attacks on the People's War in Peru. The economic system will continue to lurch ahead in one spasm after another. The political "stability" of many countries will grow less and less steady. The imperialist system is becoming increasingly intolerable for the majority of people on the earth.

The path of revolution is the only way out for the oppressed people in every country. The "peaceful path" is worse than illusion - it leaves the masses defenceless before an enemy that has shown again that it will not hesitate to resort to any crime.

For a long time, the revisionist/capitalist rulers of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe masqueraded as "communist" and tried to confuse the people. Now the true nature of revisionism is clear for all to see. In order to defeat our enemies - imperialism and the reactionary regimes dependent upon it - it is necessary to build a vanguard party based on Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought. Without such a party the sacrifices of the people will be wasted, victory cannot be achieved, and the masses cannot come to power and embark on creating the new world.

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