interest, and even less the interests
of the workers, but the profits of the
monopoly groups that support
these forces. We have to demand
the regularisation and parity of
wages and rights for immigrant
workers, the abrogation of the
racist laws and measures. This is
very important, in consideration of
the economic and social basis of
present-day nationalism.
The revolutionary proletariat
must be the pioneer of the unity of
the working class in the struggle
against every form of chauvinism,
national hate, racial and religious
prejudice, the most determined
defender of the oppressed nations,
the pioneer of the struggle by all
means of the dependent and
colonial
countries
against
imperialism.
What is necessary is to work,
in each context, in order to unmask
all the social-patriotic, chauvinist
and bourgeois nationalist positions
and phrases, and to explain that
the freedom and independence of
nations are unthinkable without the
revolutionary break with imperia-
lism, without the defeat of the
bourgeoisie of the oppressor and
oppressed countries.
In the imperialist countries it is
necessary to oppose utterly the
policy of the “sacred union”, of the
“governments of national unity”, of
“national emergency” and of
“national defence”, spreading and
sustaining the slogan “NO to
national unity with the imperialists”.
Most of all in the imperialist
countries, in the oppressing and
war-mongering States, it is
necessary to struggle resolutely
against all types of occupation and
imperialist violence – first of all the
violence of one’s own imperialism
– for the independence of the
colonies and the liberation of the
oppressed nations, for the
complete equality of rights of
nations, for the right of self-
determination, up to secession, for
all the oppressed nations, for the
sovereignty , freedom and national
independence of the peoples
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against the oppression and the
exploitation of imperialism and
capitalism.
The aid to the struggles for the
self-determination of the peoples
is a constant of internationalist
practice. Only the revolutionary
policies of the proletariat defend in
a consistent way the sovereignty,
freedom and independence of the
peoples, which coincides, in most
cases, with the interests of the
revolution and socialism. Therefore
we have to call for the common
struggles of the proletariat of the
oppressor nations and of the
revolutionary movements of the
proletariat of the oppressed nations
and colonies.
As far as concerns the struggle
for peace and against imperialist
war, we emphasize the necessity to
concentrate the activity against the
principal imperialist instigators of
war at a particular moment, and the
necessity to combine the struggle
against the war with the struggle
against reaction and fascism, to
strengthen the struggle against the
arms race among the imperialists,
against the establishment of police
States, for the withdrawal from the
warmongerings alliances (such as
NATO) and the withdrawal of the
troops sent abroad, for the support
to the struggles and liberation wars
of the peoples subjugated by
imperialism.
We must give particular
attention to the struggle against
chauvinist ideology, in order to free
the masses from xenophobic
prejudices and to struggle against
the preparation of a new world
imperialist war.
It is up to us to fight the
ideological mystifications and the
falsifications of the history of the
peoples, enlightening the working
classes about the past, connecting
the present struggles to the
revolutionary traditions.
We have the task of mer-
cilessly denouncing and unmasking
the sophisms and rhetoric of the
social-democrats and the trade
union bureaucrats, the shameful
class collaboration policy, the policy
of sacrifices “for the national
interest”, the social-patriotism,
socialimpe-rialism, pacifist phrases
that mask the imperialist and war-
mongering
plans
of
the
bourgeoisie.
We must conduct this struggle
with particular energy within the
workers’ movement and also within
the ranks of the progressive and
communist parties, chiefly in those
that are working in the imperialist
countries, in which the ideological
influences and prejudices of the
imperialist bourgeoisie and
reformism are variously reflected.
Owing to the growth of chauvinism
and fascism, the work for the
development of the policy of a
proletarian united front and, on its
basis, of a popular front, is an
imperative task for all communists
and revolutionaries.
We have to try our best for the
establishment
of
popular,
antifascist and anti-imperialist
fronts (or alliances, blocs,
coalitions, etc.), which gather –
under the leadership of the
proletariat – the small farmers, the
impoverished urban workers, the
masses of the oppressed nationa-
lities, the genuine progressive and
democratic forces, on the basis of
a program of specific demands of
these sectors of workers, in line with
the fundamental interests of the
proletariat.
The decisive question for the
formation of these popular fronts
is the resolute action of the
proletariat for the defence of its
own interests in combination with
the defence of the demands of the
other exploited working people.
Clearly, in each country there
exist a certain number of crucial
questions, of fundamental
demands, which the large masses
of the workers support. The
formation of the popular fronts can
be accelerated around these
demands.
January 2018
(Courtesy: Revolutionary Democracy)
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