Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 79

14 Coming to the end 14 Coming to the end 14.1 Preparing for hard times I am not able to present a list of all necessary strategic demands and fronts for the next years. This will depend on what will happen worldwide, for example let Trump become the next US president, 52 or a lunatic regime throws an atomic bomb, or China starts a war on Japan in the South China Sea, or wide areas of the Atlantic world will descent into authoritarian, neofascist chaos calling for an immediate cross-border anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian front to hide and shelter illegalized activists let’s say from Poland, Hungary, Turkey, may be France or a Trump-US and to organise necessary fighting back Résis- tance structures. Nobody can foresee the precise course of history. Nevertheless, there exist inherent directions of inevitable developments we have to discern behind the surface of current events to make up the right course for politics. For my part, I am sadly sure that the peoples glob- ally are going to get into really hard times the next one or two dec- ades. We have to prepare for that, theoretically, strategically and or- ganisationally. It might be that we will not gain a sweeping impact on the masses at the moment, that we are denounced to be radicals near terrorism that they will agitate against us personally and ideo- logically. Let them bark. Be sure, they will run the peoples into yet unknown global economic crises with terrible impacts on the Europe- an peoples too. Greece is merely the precursor of dire hardships in wide parts of a nation states Europe fighting against each other for survival. And then, friends, colleagues and comrades, then it will be- come decisive what we will have to say, what we are prepared for, that peoples can count on us and trust us. The vital point is to take part und be part of all social, political and economic fights, not by infiltrating them from outside but by winning their campaigners for the common cause. Our task will be to add a realistic view on the events, not to enforce leadership by biting off other organisations and movements and - a last pious wish – never 52 Shortly after I wrote these lines it happened: Trump is elected President. 73