Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)
Dear comrades,
I would like to greet you on behalf of our party, the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action), and especially on behalf of our First Secretary, Eduardo Artes. Unfortunately, we were unable to attend the meeting of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform this time, as we are very busy with political matters in our own country at the moment, but we still wanted to greet you and say that we consider this meeting to be very important and we also hope that we can participate next time.
The union and the work that the World Anti-Imperialist Platform is doing are of the most importance, especially in the current international situation in which we find ourselves. We all see that the possibility of a third world war is getting closer and closer. In this situation, it is particularly important that the communist forces position themselves correctly. Unfortunately, many communist forces have moved away from the true revolutionary and anti-imperialist position and are now working on the side of imperialist ideology.
For example, as you all know, the Communist Party of Greece has adopted the position that both the imperialist bloc, the G7, which leads NATO, and the non-imperialist countries, by which we mean China, Russia and other countries such as Iran that play an important role in the confrontation between imperialist forces, are equated with the imperialist states.
While we are recording this, the BRICS summit is taking place in Kazan, Russia, which is attended by many countries of the South. There are great hopes associated with the BRICS summit because it enables an alternative economic relationship between countries that is not based on the master-servant relationship.
Dear comrades, it is no coincidence that the Bricks summit was poorly portrayed in all of our well-known monopoly media, which reflect the interests of the ruling classes. Nevertheless, we could see fear in the reporting and this fear is justified because we live in a new era in which the peoples of the world are once again standing up against imperialism with increasing courage. The darkest days of the last few years, after the defeat of the socialist camp, seem to be coming to an end.
We are seeing more and more unrest in South America, more and more governments that are progressive and anti-imperialist, from Cuba to Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia and other processes in the region, such as Mexico. We see the anti-colonial movements that are growing stronger and stronger in Africa, which have begun in the Sahel after the coups. We see that in the Middle East the struggle is growing and especially around Palestine.
Dear comrades
In Palestine, despite the terrible images we see every day, there are also very positive processes. We have seen Hamas agree to an historic union with Hezbollah, something that might have been unimaginable three years ago; we have seen the Ansar-allah in Yemen fighting ever more vigorously and purposefully, and we have seen Iran respond firmly to Zionist attacks. Syria, Iraq, more and more countries are joining the fight against Zionism.
In the current international situation, equating the imperialist states with the states that are playing an anti-imperialist role today, as the Communist Party of Greece does, is not only wrong but also historically, politically and practically disastrous. With this position, the Greek Communist Party and all those who follow it tend to separate the communist movement from the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggles that are taking place today world wide. In Palestine, an anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggle is taking place. In Ukraine, Russia is not only fighting against NATO, and thus against imperialism, and not only fighting against fascism, against the fascist government that was able to take power in Ukraine in 2014 after the Maidan-Coup supported by the West. Russia is also fighting for its own survival and against a possible Third World War, which NATO is determined to provoke. It is the imperialist states, that are currently experiencing a structural crisis that could put an end to their hegemonic position once and for all.
Ironically, they are fighting for survival, with the significant difference that the imperialist states are fighting for survival in order to maintain their hegemony, while the Russians are fighting for survival in order to remain a nation.
This struggle of Russia against NATO cannot be separated from the struggle of the Palestinians and the bloc of resistance against fascist Zionism, which in turn cannot be separated from the growing conflict that China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have with the imperialist forces, led by the United States, followed by Great Britain, France and Germany, and the regional lackey states of Australia, Japan, Indonesia and others. And these conflicts, in turn, cannot be separated from the struggles in Africa, South America, and by that I mean Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia and also other countries such as Mexico, but also Colombia and Brazil, which are at least trying to take, if not an anti-imperialist, but an independent position on imperialism.
The Communist Party of Greece wants to obscure this understanding of world events today and thus separate the communist movement from these current events.
This position is not only wrong, but also extremely dangerous, because today in particular, the communist forces must be on the right side of history.
That is why we support all struggles that have an anti-imperialist, anti-fascist character, regardless of whether they are religious or not.
Finally, I would like to make a comment on behalf of the party. China is the country that is building socialism. China is also the country that is taking the economic lead in the South. China is economically the great support of most countries in the South and also the basis on which many countries in Africa and South America are slowly industrialising. Once this is understood, it is clear that the confrontation we face is not only between great powers, but also between systems, between dying capitalism and socialism, which is slowly rediscovering its historic path. As Marx said, capitalism is the last prehistoric system of human society.
So today we can say that we are experiencing the second phase, the first began in 1917, of humanity’s transition from barbarism and prehistoric existence to socialist civilisation.