CCOMPOSA 5th Conference Press Release
Press Release of CCOMPOSA, 23rd March 2011 The 5th Conference of the Co-ordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of … Continue reading CCOMPOSA 5th Conference Press Release
‘The Trouble With Trotskyites’
R.I. EDITORIAL COMMENT: The following statement from the MLM organization in Britain, ‘Revolutionary Praxis’, bears so much in common with the role and function of Trotskyism in Canada that we are reproducing it below with our own additions in parentheses, so as to illustrate the identical function of Trotskyism in Canada. Everything that appears in [ ] parentheses is an addition from Revolutionary Initiative.
It is no accident that the imperialist centres have served as headquarters for the Trotskyists, one species of reformist and revisionist ‘Marxism’. It is also no accident that the semi-colonial countries, like Peru, Turkey, India, Philippines, Nepal, have played a leading role in keeping a revolutionary Marxism alive, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and in deed, developing it.
A component of our work as revolutionary communists, as a basis for the refoundation of a proletarian revolutionary Party, is to expose all revisionist ideas, be they borne out of Trotskyism or the revisionist CPs. That said, thanks to Revolutionary Praxis for this statement.
In Britain [and Canada], today there are a number of political organizations which base themselves on the teachings of Leon Trotsky, the counter-revolutionary renegade who defected from and opposed the Soviet Union. These include the Socialist Workers Party [International Socialists in Canada], the Socialist Party, the Alliance for Workers Liberty and a multitude of splinters from these organizations [Socialist Action, the ‘Socialist Caucus’ of the New Democratic Party; Fightback, also trying to transform the NDP into a true ‘workers’ party’; etc.]. Continue reading “‘The Trouble With Trotskyites’”
Bureaucrat capitalism in Libya and the rentier economy
[While not a radical analysis, this Planet Money podcast makes several insightful points on the nature of bureaucrat capitalism and … Continue reading Bureaucrat capitalism in Libya and the rentier economy
Prof. Jose Maria Sison: The Marxian Critique of the Neoliberal Economic Agenda
[More video and text after the break.]
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“Basis of Unity” – Origins of Revolutionary Initiative
[The following document was drafted in the mid-2000s by the group that gave rise to Revolutionary Initiative. While it is a rather rudimentary document and by no means a program for the revolution, its significance stems from the fact that, for a period of time, its formulations provided sufficient ideological and political unity amongst a small core of proletarian revolutionaries to kick-start a Party-building process in Canada.
Through further study, experience in the mass struggle, and criticism and self-criticism, this “Basis of Unity” would come to be replaced by our “Theses on the Party Building Movement in Canada” and a series of more refined ideological, political, organizational, and historical documents to carry forward the party-building process.
However, this short ideological-political document demonstrates that not every question must or can be resolved before a group of proletarian revolutionaries begins carrying forward the practical work of rebuilding a genuine communist party.
For a French translation of this document, click here. – Ed.]
“Basis of Unity”
To eventually form a genuine communist party of Canada, proletarian revolutionaries in Canada must unify around the following points:
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« Base d’unité » – Le précurseur de l’initiative révolutionnaire
Le précurseur de l’ « initiative révolutionnaire »
Ce document a été conçu dans les mi-2000 par un groupe qui a donné naissance à l’ « initiative révolutionnaire ». Bien que ce document est assez rudimentaire et n’est pas dans aucun sens un programme pour la révolution, son signifiance est issu du fait que, pour un moment, ses formulations ont donné une unité idéologique et politique significative parmi le noyau dur d’un petit groupe de prolétariens révolutionnaires afin de commencer le processus de la construction d’une partie prolétarien au Canada.
À travers l’étude, l’expérience dans la lutte des masses, et la critique et l’auto-critique, cette « Base d’unité » à été remplacée par nos « Thèses sur le mouvement de la construction d’une partie au Canada » et une série de documents idéologiques, politiques, organisationnels, et historiques, plus raffinés, qui nous guident dans le processus du mouvement de la construction d’une partie au Canada.
Cependant, ce court document idéologique-politique démontre qu’il est impossible de résoudre toutes les questions pertinentes avant qu’un groupe de révolutionnaires prolétariens ne commence le travail pratique de la reconstruction d’une vraie partie communiste.
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« Base d’unité »
Pour éventuellement créer une vraie partie communiste de Canada, les révolutionnaires prolétariens au Canada doivent s’unir autour des indices suivants:
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En même temps que la crise avance, le mouvement pour la révolution avance aussi
This is a French translation of our document “As the crisis advances, so to will the movement for revolution” from November 2008.
Novembre 2008-IR Organe central
Le capitalisme global entre dans une phase de crise aux niveaux historique, le pire depuis l’effondrement qui a mené à la Grande Dépression. Cette crise a déjà mené aux ralentissements de la production, un arrêt dans l’investissement du capital, la perte des emplois, et un augmentation de l’oppression et de l’exploitation subi par les masses prolétariens autour du monde. Ce qui met cette récession à part des crises cycliques produites par le capitalisme, n’est pas seulement sa sévérité, mais ses origines également. Opposé aux effondrements passés comme l’effondrement « dot-com » des 90s, cette crises a lieu au sein même du système impérialiste, au coeur du capital financier monopole. Elle commence à se répandre dans d’autres domaines de l’économie et mènera à la destruction généralisée de la moyenne de la production quand les usines des industries diverses commencent à ralentir la production ou même ferment leurs portes, ainsi que l’accélération de la processus de la concentration du capital dans les mains des monopoles. Continue reading “En même temps que la crise avance, le mouvement pour la révolution avance aussi”
Thèses sur le mouvement de construction du Parti au Canada
This is a French translation of our document “Theses on the Party Building Movement in Canada” from the Spring of 2008.
Printemps 2008 – Organe dirigeant de Revolutionary Initiative
Introduction
Le prolétariat canadien a besoin d’un véritable Parti communiste. Depuis plus d’un demi-siècle, le prolétariat se retrouve sans véritable parti d’avant-garde. Il a été désarmé, pacifié, et induit en erreur par le révisionnisme, la social-démocratie, le trotskysme, l’anarchisme et autres tendances contre-révolutionnaires qui ont empêché le développement d’un véritable mouvement révolutionnaire pour renverser le capitalisme monopolistique. Afin de construire ce mouvement ainsi que la capacité de lutter du prolétariat, nous avons besoin d’un parti. Ce parti devra prendre racine dans la lutte et être guidé par la forme la plus avancée de l’idéologie prolétarienne, nommément : le marxisme-léninisme-maoïsme. Continue reading “Thèses sur le mouvement de construction du Parti au Canada”
Street art and revolution: “It’s beautiful. It’s spreading everywhere.”
By Simon of Revolutionary Initiative.
In his Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art, Mao said that revolutionaries and specialists in the arts should pay attention to the art produced by the masses, whether it be literature, drama, music, visual art or reporting in village level newspapers. Street art would be no exception.
The importance of street art to the people comes through in the following film about revolutionary graffiti in Egypt. Contrary to the view promoted by the state and the bourgeoisie that street art is vandalism and a threat to public safety, an artist describes how revolutionary murals gives oppressed communities a sense of pride and solidarity.
More revolutionary Egyptian street art can be found on the facebook group Revolution Graffiti.
Street art is also not limited to traditionally painted murals. Street artists around the world are also constantly innovating new practices to communicate with the people. Let’s look at some examples.
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The Imperialist Intrigues Against Libya
Expose and oppose all designs against the Libyan People
Revolutionary Initiative (Canada)
Statement from the General Secretary
March 13, 2011
Gaddafi’s relationship to imperialism
In stark contrast to the manner in which the Western imperialists have responded to developments across North Africa and the Middle East over the last two months, for the armed opposition in Libya they have been only too ready to support the anti-Gaddafi movement. For all their clamoring about the necessity for “peaceful transitions” where the masses threatened their clients in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere, the imperialists have abandoned their pacifist demagogy when it has come to Libya. NATO is pushing for a military assault against Libya that could range in devastation anywhere from NATO’s operation against Kosovo in 1999 to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
