In memory of Marshal L.P. Beria in Irkutsk

On March 29, 2020, the Irkutsk Bolsheviks held a commemorative event dedicated to the birthday of Marshal of the Soviet Union L.P. Beria (03/29/1899 - 12/23/1953) - an outstanding party and statesman, leader of the USSR atomic project since 1944 (after V.M. Molotov), leader of Soviet intelligence, "the right hand and knight I.V. Stalin. "

Voting on Amendments to the 1993 Constitution

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the postponement of the “all-Russian vote” on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. “Voting” postponed to a later date, but not canceled

The main essence of the amendments was invented and boils down to finding a legal formula for extending the supreme power of V. Putin. All other “additions” and “changes” are farce and “distracting maneuvers”.

“All-Russian voting” is not a referendum, its decisions are not binding and at the same time, the procedure does not even provide any hint of independent monitoring of the voting process and calculation of its results. The organizers - the bourgeois authorities of the Russian Federation - can easily lead dependent groups of people to the ballot boxes and draw any numbers of results.

Even apolitical citizens understand what the outcome of the “vote” will be. Therefore, in order not to disrupt the appearance, the authorities add various “impregnations” to the Constitution, which are designed to lure the public into the “voting” process.

The Yeltsin Constitution itself, written and carried out under tank volleys in 1993, does not change its essence in any way from the proposed "amendments." It presupposes authoritarian presidential power, designed to ensure the dominance of oligarchic groups of large capitalists in the country. It was for this purpose that it was created during the time of Yeltsin.

It is supposed to entice the "electorate" with caricature-populist phrases, such as a promise of indexation of pensions and equating the minimum wage to the cost of living. It is significant that these cartoonish "amendments" are proposed only a few years after raising the retirement age - after a blow to the most important social achievement that citizens of the Russian Federation simultaneously lost.

At the same time, the Constitution becomes even more reactionary: it is proposed to include the words about “faith in God” in it, at the suggestion of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill.

It is no less significant that the day of "all-Russian voting" was originally scheduled for April 22 - the day of the 150th anniversary of V.I. Lenin. Voting for the reactionary Constitution was scheduled for the birthday of the greatest man in Russian history - apparently to show the depth of degradation and decline that has befallen our country over the past 30 years. Instead of Soviet power, we now have an authoritarian presidential regime, instead of socialism - a "living wage" for poor citizens and the evocative wealth of capitalist oligarchs, instead of the development of education and science - "faith in God" transmitted by "ancestors".

The Bolsheviks urge fellow citizens to boycott the farce, called the "all-Russian vote." Let the capitalists themselves vote for their Constitution and the "amendments" to it.

We will not go to the ballot boxes, and on April 22 we will bring fresh flowers to the monuments of V.I. Lenin, reminding fellow citizens of the alternative to capitalism that offers mankind the teachings of Marxism-Leninism.

The boycott of bourgeois “votes” is a step in the struggle for revolutionary changes in society.

Dar Vetrov

FREEDOM TO GRUP YORUM AND MUSTAFE KOCHAKU!

To the President of the Republic of Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

To the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Turkey

To the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Turkey



APPEAL

Executive Committee and Political Council

Single international anti-imperialist

anti-fascist front (EMAAF)



On the support of the Turkish revolutionary music group Grup Yorum and the communist Mustafa Kochak



For many years, the persecution of communists, as well as democratic and progressive figures: human rights activists, lawyers, artists, musicians, students, workers, who oppose the oppression of world imperialism, against the reactionary policies of the Turkish government, in defense of democratic rights and freedom of the people of Turkey.

One of the irreconcilable fighters against imperialism and reactionary policies of the Turkish government is the revolutionary music group Grup Yorum, created in 1985 after the fascist coup on September 12, 1980.

Grup Yorum is the voice of the oppressed people of Turkey and other oppressed peoples of the world. For 35 years, Grup Yorum has been singing about the disasters and sufferings of peoples, about their oppression and exploitation, about the aggression of world, primarily American, imperialism against the peoples of the world, about the struggle of peoples for their freedom and independence, about the struggle against fascism for socialism.

Grup Yorum constantly takes part in protests and rallies organized by workers, peasants, students and high school students across the country. The group travels around the country, performing songs for the people, drawing strength and creative spirit from the people.

Throughout the 35 years of their work, members of Grup Yorum have been persecuted for singing the truth about the life of ordinary people. During this time, 400 members of Grup Yorum were arrested, many musicians were tortured, more than 400 lawsuits were brought against them, 170 concerts of Grup Yorum were banned in Turkey.

Since the declaration of the state of emergency in Turkey in the summer of 2016, the repression of the Turkish government against Grup Yorum has intensified. All Grup Yorum concerts in Turkey were banned, musicians were arrested, charges were brought against them without evidence, police regularly raided their Idil cultural center in Istanbul, during which musical instruments were broken and books were torn.

In February 2018, 6 members of Grup Yorum were put on the wanted list, and remuneration in the amount of 300,000 Turkish liras (about $ 48,000) was announced for their heads.

In the summer of 2019, three imprisoned Grup Yorum musicians, Helin Bölek, Ibrahim Goekcek and Bahar Kurt, went on an indefinite hunger strike to protest the persecution of Grup Yorum and unfair trials of the musicians. In November 2019, Helin Bölek and Bahar Kurt were released after the trial, but continued their hunger strike (Bahar Kurt recently suspended her hunger strike). In February, for health reasons, Ibrahim Goekcek was released, who also continued to head free.

Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Goekcek have been starving for more than 250 days. Now they are on a hunger strike to death, which means that either their demands will be accepted or they will die. Musicians demand the release of all members of Grup Yorum who are still in prison, and the termination of cases against them, the termination of police raids on the Idil Cultural Center, the exclusion of 6 members of Grup Yorum from the wanted list, and the lifting of all bans on Grup Yorum concerts in Turkey.

Another fighter against fascism and imperialism is the Turkish communist Mustafa Kochak, who was unfairly accused of providing weapons to attack prosecutor Mehmed Selim in 2015 and illegally sentenced to life imprisonment. The verdict was issued on the basis of false testimony of a police informant; no other evidence was brought against Mustafa Kochak's guilt.

In protest against an illegal court and an unfair sentence, as well as against specialized courts conducting political trials, against torture used by the police, against laws encouraging police informants, Mustafa Kochak began a hunger strike on July 3, 2019, which he subsequently went on a hunger strike until of death. Mustafa Kochak has been on hunger strike for more than 240 days.

Hunger strike is one of the important and sometimes inevitable means of combating repressive state policy in Turkey. But this tool is often very expensive for those who use it.

The health status of Helin Bölek, Ibrahim Goekcek and Mustafa Kochak is very serious and worsens every hour.

Executive Committee and Political Council of the United International Anti-Imperialist Anti-Fascist Front

- express solidarity with the people of Turkey fighting against fascism and imperialism;

- recognize the claims of Helin Bölek, Ibrahim Goekcek and Mustafa Kochak

- and consider that these requirements should be immediately satisfied
Turkish authorities.

FREEDOM GRUP YORUM AND MUSTAFE KOCHAKU!

            A.E. Gigova, Chairman of the Executive Board of the EMAAF

              B. B. Zelikov, Chairman of the Political Council of the EMAAF

N.V. Sablina, member of the Political Council of the EMAAF



EMAAF Headquarters,

Varna city (Bulgaria),

02/29/2020

About the All-Union referendum on March 17, 1991

The above date is deeply memorable, deeply significant, for everyone who has the Soviet Union as their homeland, for everyone who was painfully worried and worried about the destruction of our common Fatherland during the criminal counter-revolution of 1985-1993, organized and conducted by state criminals united under the nickname "Democrats." Honest Soviet people are firmly convinced of the realization of our great dream - the revival of a single, free and beautiful Soviet Motherland.

More than a quarter of a century has passed since the active phase of the counter-revolution of 1985-1993. Some important details of the events of those years were erased from memory. We have not yet comprehended sufficiently deeply the methods and essence of the entire sequence of actions of the "democrats" to destroy the Soviet Union, we do not understand everything. And we must thoroughly study the history of the tragic events of the counter-revolution in administrative, political, legal terms, objectively, without emotions, to understand - where were the "weaknesses", defects in this, it seemed, impeccably debugged, powerful design. It is necessary to objectively identify all the good that was in the experience of the Soviet Union, take this "note". At the same time, having studied the tactics of its enemies in the experience of the destruction of the USSR, tightly “putty” those “crevices” and “holes” in which the counter-revolution grew and gained strength.

In the political arena of the country, during the days of the referendum, it was simply "stormy"! This is the “rollback” of the nationalist struggle of the leadership of the Union republics with the center, and the “circus struggle” of the allied Gorbachev with the Russian Yeltsin, and a complete misunderstanding by the masses that Gorbachev-Yeltsin is the same as in the saying: “two boots are a pair”. On June 12, 1990, the Supreme Council of the RSFSR adopted the so-called Declaration on State Sovereignty of the RSFSR, which initiated the "parade of sovereignty."

What methods did the “democrats" manage to promote the "nationalist whirlwind"? Indeed, the principles of the equal rights of all nations, the friendship of peoples, and proletarian internationalism have always been at the core of Bolshevik national politics. It was on these principles, distorting them in every possible way, that the “democrats" “beat”, destroying the main bonds that connected the Soviet republics — the friendship of peoples. Cries of democrats like: "Everyone wants to take everything from Russia"; “Russia will cease to be a cash cow”; “Juices ceased to suck from us”, “All republics were like a load — Russia would be easier without them”, etc., alas, they continue to be popular among the Russian masses now. And the “democrats", in turn, said to Ukrainian, or Kazakh, or Uzbek residents: they finally got rid of these Russian colonialists who pumped cotton from us (lard, diamonds, substitute whatever you want).

In such a “dilapidated” state, the Soviet Union came to an All-Union referendum. Add to this the crisis state of the economy, inter-ethnic conflicts blazing in many regions of the country, the complete destruction of the defense system associated with the Warsaw Pact. December 24, 1990 IV Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR on the proposal of M.S. Gorbachev adopted a resolution stating: “In connection with the numerous appeals of workers expressing concern about the fate of the USSR, and given that the preservation of a single union state is an important issue of state life, it affects the interests of every person, the entire population of the Soviet Union, the People’s Congress of deputies of the USSR decides: to hold a referendum of the USSR to resolve the issue of maintaining the renewed Union as a federation of equal sovereign Soviet Socialist Republics taking into account the results of voting in each republic separately. "

Finally, the question of the referendum scheduled for March 17, 1991, was formulated and published as follows: "Do you consider it necessary to maintain the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as an updated federation of equal sovereign republics, in which human rights and freedoms of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?" . The answer is yes or no. It can be seen: despite mentioning the full name of the Motherland beloved by Soviet people, a seemingly insignificant detail was left in the wording of the question - the “updated federation of sovereign republics”. The question of the referendum itself, as it were, hinted at veiled plans to use the referendum of the USSR for bourgeois reform of the country.

In the RSFSR, the Belorussian SSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the Uzbek SSR, the Kazakh SSR, the Azerbaijan SSR, the Kyrgyz SSR, the Tajik SSR, the Turkmen SSR, central republican referendum commissions were created, constituencies were formed, district and precinct commissions formed, other measures were taken to guarantee citizens the opportunity to participate in the All-Union popular vote. Thus, a referendum was held in most republics. Throughout the country, 185 million citizens were put on the voting lists, 80 percent of those eligible to vote took part in the referendum. The Central Referendum Commission of the USSR determined: 77.85 percent of citizens

The USSR said "yes" to the union state.

Summing up the results of the All-Union referendum, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, in a resolution of March 21, 1991, emphasized that the decision of the people adopted at the referendum was final, binding, and should be fully reflected in the draft new Union Treaty.

The results of the referendum were a clear and unequivocal indicator of the desire of the majority of Soviet people to live together, to preserve the Union. However, the leaders of several republics openly called for not to reckon with its results. Back in January 1991, representatives of "Democratic Russia", gathered at the Democratic Congress in Kharkov, decided to abolish the Union and replace the Federation with the Commonwealth of States. In February, shortly before the referendum, it was reported that the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan sent representatives to Minsk to consider proposals for the creation of the Commonwealth without the participation of the union leadership, which meant, in essence, the transformation of a single union state into an amorphous confederate Community of Independent States.

A large period of time from the referendum to the events commonly referred to as the State Emergency Committee (August 1991) was filled with a fierce, largely “undercover” struggle of such different groups as those connected with Gorbachev and Yeltsin, but, as we now understand, they had only global goals - to destroy socialism, destroy the USSR. The market struggle has caught the eye of ordinary people. The main object of disagreement of that time was - which Union treaty to conclude? After March 17, the President of the USSR led a double game. Meeting on April 23 in Novo-Ogaryov with the leaders of nine republics, he signed with them the so-called “9 + 1 Statement”. A new body, which was not stipulated by the Constitution and actually opposed to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, was formed and began to operate - the Novo-Ogarevsky conference of leaders of the republics. Despite the loud statements, in fact, from the very beginning of the negotiations in Novo-Ogaryov, it was a question of a community, not a federation. The President of the USSR tried to play the role of an arbiter at the meeting, but essentially gave up one position after another, departing from the federation’s demand fixed in the referendum. That is why on July 12, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted another Decree, which indicated that the Treaty could be signed only after serious revision and coordination between the republics with the participation of the plenipotentiary union delegation formed at the session of the Supreme Council. This delegation again, for the third time, was instructed to proceed, first of all, from the results of the All-Union referendum. In giving the commission of the Union delegation, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR unambiguously determined the procedure for signing the Union Treaty, indicating that it meant "to sign it at the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR."

At a secret meeting on July 29 and 30 in Novo-Ogaryov, which Gorbachev held with Yeltsin and Nazarbayev, firstly, the text of the Union Treaty was significantly changed towards de-federalization - the concept of union property disappeared from the project, and annexes on the mechanism for implementing the Treaty were removed. But the most important thing: after the signing of the Treaty, the Constitution of the USSR was supposed to cease to be in effect, and in a significant part - the Constitution of the RSFSR. Secondly, the signing of the Union Treaty was postponed to August 20, 1991. Thirdly, the signing was planned to be carried out in several stages by representatives of individual republics, and not at the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, which was seen as a hindrance to the implementation of the intended plan.

All of this together - global betrayal, deception of the population and deputies, monstrous (then not yet commonplace) violation of the rule of law and the will of the people, expressed in a referendum on March 17 - and became the reason for the creation of the State Emergency Committee. And finally, after the August counter-revolutionary coup two weeks before the Bialowieza conspiracy, on November 27, 1991, Gorbachev unveiled his latest document - the draft “Treaty on the Union of Sovereign States”. It no longer mentions the referendum of March 17, and the state system of the union says the following: “The Union of Sovereign States (GCC) is a confederate democratic state ... The states that make up the Union retain the right to independently resolve all issues of their development .. . ". As we see, the peoples of the Soviet Union were offered, instead of the federation for which they voted, even if they were not fully aware of its meaning, an amorphous confederate entity.

Now we understand that the negative course of events that led to the collapse of the Union was the result of the actions of those forces that, having lost all sense of proportion, sought to seize power in any way. It is the thirst for power that explains the extreme intolerance and aggressiveness of the national elites in the Union republics, which sacrificed the interests of their peoples, vitally interested in preserving the union state, to their own ambitions. In fact, the referendum of March 17, 1991 became a referendum on the "reformatting" of the country.

A special place in adventure
The "democrats" of "destruction" of the USSR played a criminal disregard for the law "On the Procedure for Solving Issues Related to the Exit of the Union Republic from the USSR" adopted by the Supreme Council of the USSR on April 3, 1990 (No. 1409-1). The Law says: The decision on the withdrawal of a Union republic from the USSR is made by free expression of the will of the peoples of the Union Republic through a referendum (popular vote). A decision is considered adopted if at least two-thirds of USSR citizens who permanently reside in the republic by the time the question of withdrawal is voted for it. If it is established that the referendum has been held in accordance with the law, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR submits the matter for consideration by the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. The Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR establishes a transitional period not exceeding five years, during which issues arising in connection with the republic’s withdrawal from the USSR must be resolved. During the transition period, the Constitution of the USSR and the laws of the USSR remain in effect on the territory of the outgoing republic.

During the transitional period, the fate of all-Union property located on the territory of the republic (enterprises and complexes of basic industries, space research, energy, communications, sea, rail and air transport, communication lines, trunk pipelines, property of the USSR Armed Forces, defense and other objects), as well as the property of all-Union public organizations; financial and credit settlements of the leaving republic with the USSR were settled, and bank relations; regulated property and financial-credit relations of this republic with other union republics, autonomous entities; coordinated the status of territories that did not belong to the leaving republic at the time of its entry into the USSR (remember the Crimea!); guarantees have been provided for the maintenance of historical and cultural monuments and burial sites in the territory of the outgoing republic; the outgoing republic compensates all the costs associated with the relocation of citizens from the borders of the republic.

Absolutely unconstitutional is the recognition of the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, which followed on September 6, 1991 and was formalized by a resolution of a certain USSR State Council. Further more. Here is the notorious Decree B.N. Yeltsin No. 1400 of 1993 and much, much more.

With the advent of "democrats", we live in a world of absurd "virtual" constitutionality, generated by liberal pro-Western doctrine, to which the Soviet people have never had anything to do.

Fighting for the reconstruction of our homeland - the USSR, we, the Bolsheviks, are obligated to pay priority attention to exposing the lies that the "democrats" diligently sow in the media, the Internet, speeches and speeches. The truth will win!

S.V. Khristenko

Nina Andreeva: Putin's amendments should be rejected

Interview N.A. Andreeva edition of "Interlocutor" March 18, 2020

In March 1988, the teacher of the Leningrad University Nina Andreeva, the author of the famous article “I Can’t Give Up Principles” (was published in “Soviet Russia”), put the Politburo on its ears and made the whole country talk about itself.

Then Andreeva expressed concern about the course pursued by Mikhail Gorbachev. Now, after 32 years, she is still worried about the future of a country that is again at a turning point.

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Today Nina Andreeva once again appeals to readers. But not in connection with perestroika, but after the Constitutional Court legalized the right of Vladimir Putin for the fifth and sixth terms. Andreeva calls for a boycott of the vote on amendments that, in her opinion, “are designed to give the appearance of legality to preserve the power of President Putin, who has been at the head of the country for twenty years. It is supposed to change the form of power in Russia so that Putin remains its sovereign leader, and the political regime itself does not change its essence. ”

According to Nina Andreeva, “the balance of power between capital and the masses can be changed only as a result of the revolutionary struggle of the working masses for their rights and interests - for socialism. No hope for a “parliamentary republic" or a "good president" is real. "

"When will this banditry by the authorities end?"

“The purpose of my letter in 1988 was to urge people to pay attention to what is being done in the country and where the current government is leading,” says Nina Andreeva. - Exactly the same thing I'm talking about now. But the situation has changed. People are so absorbed in the fight against poverty that the bulk of the population is not up to politics.

I lead the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, which we created in 1991, and I know what is happening in the regions: people are fighting for survival. They are afraid to lean out so as not to lose that very little that they have today. The impoverishment of the population is evident.

It’s not enough to say that people were crushed. They were all dragged into a noose. They don’t even pay salaries, which is wildness. This is a mockery of common sense when those in power determine the minimum wage of 11 thousand rubles. Probably, to feed Putin’s dogs, which he already has a whole kennel, and then you need more every day than this cost of living for a simple hard worker for a month. When will this banditry by the authorities end? It is impossible to live on the money that she defines as a living wage.



"The skin is torn so that nothing remains even under the skin"

- Pensioners of our two capitals - northern and Moscow - still make ends meet somehow. But in the regions, people who have worked for 40 years receive a pension of 7-8 thousand rubles. This is a mockery! And how much are the drugs? And housing services? What about transport? What about food? The population was reduced to the position of slaves. Of course, one cannot be content with this.

What is happening with healthcare now ?! This is a disgrace! If you want to get more or less tolerable treatment, you have to go to a paid clinic. But the paid system bites too much, it is not available to the vast majority of citizens. Although all these benefits are created by these our hard workers. Someone from the American billionaires formulated the idea well: the bees collect honey, but they do not use it. Do our workaholic bees use the wealth that they should have, based on their contribution to national income? The answer is obvious. The situation is critical.

The protest is ripening among the people, and it is no different from the “yellow vests” protest in France. All 25 points put forward by the French workers in front of their government and President Macron are the same as ours. On the so-called pension reform, as a result of increasing the retirement age, the state has already saved 20 billion rubles over the past period. And for the year 2020 this will amount to 50 billion. The skin is being torn! And as they tear, nothing remains even under the skin.

"Putin is surrounded by a gang of" reformers "from the Lake cooperative

- For changes to take place in the country, it is necessary that the communist and protest movement be ready for action. But by the attempts of the authorities, we have so many registered pseudo-communist parties that today there is no single communist movement. As well as there is no single protest movement.

There are no leaders in the communist movement. Those that are, for the most part, are fiction, figlars. Being essentially Kremlin projects (the more parties and leaders, the easier it is to neutralize them), they put above all not business, not the interests of the people, but their own “I”, opportunism and a good everyday life. Everyone is sitting shut, if only they who did not pick them up. Their goal now, at the moment, is to drag people into polling stations on April 22 with beautiful words.

The liberals, like us, are in favor of a boycott of the vote on constitutional amendments, which I think is absolutely right, because the sole purpose of the vote is to legitimize everything that happened under Yeltsin. But liberals are not defenders of Russia: they look
They are working in the West, and mainly due to the fact that they receive generous grants from abroad. We are out of the way with them. They yell, “Down with Putin!”, And we say that today, by and large, the issue is not Putin, but the whole oligarchic criminal system, this capitalist bourgeois system, which was established through a political coup in 1991 against the will of the people.

Look who surrounds Putin - a gang of "reformers" from the Lake cooperative, his fellow students at the law faculty of Leningrad University, employees of the city administration (city hall) of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) when Mayor A. Sobchak was working (when Putin worked there), KGB associates, relatives of varying degrees of kinship. They are all upstairs, they are almost all billionaires. Did they give something back without a fight?

The robbery of the country continues on an enormous scale. And if we take into account that all the natural resources of our country are in private hands, then we can safely say: they steal from us to the point of insanity. And nothing says that the government will stop it. Because oligarchs are power.

The President, to put it mildly, was misleading, recently answering a question from the TASS correspondent about oligarchs in the draft “20 Questions to Putin”. He said that we have no oligarchs. They supposedly remained in the past. Now there are billionaires ... How is it not the oligarchs ?! If they are not deputies of the State Duma, but are mayors or heads of large industrial holdings and banks, this does not mean that they do not rule the current government in the country. Even how they rule! And only the "naive" cannot fail to understand this.

“We call for a boycott of the vote”

- The current economic system has long become obsolete. If everything remains as it is, and Russia continues to follow the market economy, then the country will face very difficult times. I think that Russia is unlikely to hold on as an independent state.

Life itself requires a change in the socio-political system: we need a complete rejection of the liberal capitalist system, a transition to the Stalinist model of economic management, which has shown full effectiveness. Russia needs socialism. Putin will naturally not do this. Obviously, the tops do not want to change anything.

To change the country, it is necessary that the lower classes be capable of organized action against the existing oligarchic regime. The Russians are not yet ready for this. But they are quite capable of boycotting the upcoming vote. The proposed “new” Yeltsin Constitution with Putin’s cosmetic patches, enshrining further lawlessness of the people, should be rejected.

We Bolsheviks are calling for a boycott of the vote on April 22, 2020.

Nina Andreeva.

https://sobesednik.ru/politika/20200318-ta-samaya-nina-andreeva-poprav?utm_referrer

Human opinion on capitalism

Most of the world's inhabitants have become disillusioned with Western-style capitalism and liberal democracy, and see little future for themselves.

Such conclusions follow from the report of the authors of the Edelman Trust Barometer study, conducted in October-November 2019. In the course of this study, more than 34 thousand people were interviewed in 28 countries of the world, and 56% agreed that capitalism does more harm than good.

The share of such answers was especially high in Thailand (75%) and India (74%), however, more than half of the respondents in their seemingly prosperous countries such as France (69%), Italy (61) declared their disappointment in modern capitalism. %), Spain (60%), the Netherlands (59%), Ireland (57%), Germany (55%), Singapore (54%) and the United Kingdom (53%). In Russia, 55% of respondents agree that there is more harm than good from capitalism. The increase in general pessimism is logically accompanied by a decrease in confidence in the political system: 57% of the respondents said that the authorities serve the interests of the minority.

Most are dissatisfied with capitalism, even in "developed countries."

Distrust of the market system and the demand for an alternative that would meet the needs and requirements of the majority of the population is a growing phenomenon, but not a new one. Back in 2010, according to Gallup polls, more than a third of Americans spoke positively about socialism, despite the fact that the term and generally any idea of ​​a social and economic system alternative to a market (i.e. capitalist) in the USA were carefully trampled on and denigrated by decades of powerful propaganda for all levels: from the media, schools and churches to specialized foundations and institutions.

A similar picture can be observed in the UK: YouGov polls in 2016 showed that the majority of respondents are more likely to have a negative attitude towards capitalism and rather a positive attitude to socialism, especially among young people. The situation in Germany is even more obvious. It is significant that such sympathies are often not expressed in greater support of the official left-centrist, left-liberal and social-democratic parties, which over the past 30-40 years have finally refused even in words the transformation of the capitalist system into something else, and they are only talking about its cosmetic improvements and regulation.

The mood of Russian citizens as a whole is in line with world trends, which is clearly seen from a study conducted in 2017 and 2019 by the Carnegie Moscow Center. Residents of the Russian Federation more and more want changes, moreover, "decisive and large-scale." But no matter how the authors of the study try by carefully selecting questions and directing respondents to achieve the picture they want for themselves — that citizens want changes in a liberal way, more than “democracy” and the market, the results are completely opposite.

Russian citizens lose faith that “stability” and the market are good for them

The number of Russian citizens who believe that decisive full-scale changes are needed has increased from 42% (as of July 2017) to 59% (as of July 2019).

Liberal reforms interest people far less than affordable medicine and education, job creation, lower prices for food and utilities. Even the item “redistribute resources in favor of the poor at the expense of the rich” gained more than “carry out democratic reforms”. In the same way, people in their desire for change do not want to focus on the United States, and even less so Ukraine: the desire to rely "only on their own experience" is leading, which the authors of the study reluctantly respond, "Perhaps they mean Soviet management practices. " And only 18% of those surveyed by the Carnegie Center agreed that "the market will regulate everything." It is also characteristic that as the main opponents of change, the respondents called not only “officials and bureaucracy”, but also big business, and the proportion of those who think so has grown sharply since 2017.

Another part of the study, devoted to “personal contribution to change”, in our opinion, speaks more about the researchers themselves than about the citizens they interviewed. As possible options for what citizens would have to do to improve their lives, they offered them a list of “change of profession / retraining,” “partial payment of medical services,” “canceling part of social benefits,” “expanding the system of paid education,” and “ raising utility bills ”. It is logical that most people who wanted and want from the changes are not shocking liberal reforms in the Ukrainian style agreed only on the first point - retraining and changing their profession, and rejected all the others. The authors of the study, of course, are blatantly annoying.



There is nothing strange in such moods in Russia and around the world. Another Oxfam study showed that the state of billionaires around the world - there are about 2.1 thousand people - exceeds the total state of 60% of the world's population, or about 4.6 billion people. And if we take the entire population of the planet, then the people included in 1% of its richest inhabitants, in aggregate, have a fortune twice the wealth of 6.9 billion people in the world.

Similar reports are made almost every year, and every year the situation becomes even worse. But a lot has already been written about this situation with glaring inequality and the injustice of the socio-economic structure both in the Russian Federation and in all other parts of the global system. As well as what is proposed to do with it.

On the other hand, barricades, among major business figures and various international structures, are increasing expectations of an imminent crisis. Everyone understands that the market system creates large-scale crises that destroy the lives of millions of people with an enviable frequency, and the time is right for another crash. The pessimism of top managers regarding the growth rate of the global economy has reached record levels. The problems of the world economy are exacerbating even faster than expected, and the head of the IMF at the forum in Davos warns that the world will face a new Great Depression. Some domestic experts are also talking about the impending crisis in the world economy, although it is still unclear whether their specific forecasts will come true. Perhaps all that is missing is the trigger in the form of some kind of malfunctioning of exchange software in the USA or a sudden epidemic in Asia.

Everyone is restless. Such a respectable magazine as Forbes wrote at the end of last year that large-scale upheavals await modern society, calling even the world revolution among the possible. The realization that the global socio-economic system, based on private property and a free market, has exhausted the possibilities of its development and leads mankind to perish, is already coming to those who derive the most benefits from its existence and would like to close it most of all eyes.

The environment is being destroyed at a record pace

The demand from the working population for an alternative to a market socioeconomic system, crushed in the 80s and 90s of the last century, is growing as more and more people realize that while maintaining the current order, nothing shines for them. Worse, the continued existence of the system in its same form threatens them not only with ordinary living in poverty and exhaustion in the constant rat race of the market. Events looming on the horizon, threatening a much faster loss of livelihoods, and even life: due to another crisis swollen by speculation in the global economy, more frequent wars in an unstable international environment or the consequences of mindless environmental destruction.

Of course, you should not take it for granted, or succumb to premature panic. The global market system is unlikely to collapse from the next crisis, but it will certainly aggravate the already troubled situation in the world. It is unlikely that a new world war will begin from today to tomorrow, but the world more and more begins to resemble the beginning of the twentieth century, on the eve of the First World War. Environmental degradation will not lead to the instant death of mankind in a cataclysm of absurd proportions. Natural disasters will simply become more frequent, resources will be depleted, and pollution will accumulate further. Life will become worse, usually slowly and not so noticeably, and sometimes - by sudden leaps.

Those who want to seriously fight for the interests of the working-class majority need to bear in mind these threats, as well as the growing demand for a different, more just and sustainable social structure. The ground for the development of a movement aimed at fundamental changes in life already exists. We need to work on preparing this event now, so that at a crisis moment the working people are ready to take the fate of humanity into their own hands.



2020.01.25 https://www.pf.team/articles/kapitalizm-nadoel-bol%2527shinstvu__bGtpaZYF

March 8 - Day of International Solidarity of Working Women

Dear women!

The Central Committee of the AUCPB heartily congratulates you on International Communist Women's Day on March 8 - the Day of International Solidarity of Working Women in the struggle against the bourgeois system, against the exploitation of man by man, for economic, social and political equality, for the bright future of future generations, for socialism and peace on Earth!

We celebrate March 8th Day in the year of the 150th anniversary of V.I. Lenin and the 75th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people over fascist Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

Then, in the formidable 1941, women, together with men, rose to the defense of the Soviet Motherland. The whole burden of the war was on the shoulders of women who remained in the rear. They, working on collective farms, factories and factories, raising children, fighting the Nazi invaders in the Red Army and the Red Navy, in partisan detachments and hospitals, forged the coming Victory of 1945.

The Soviet woman carried on her shoulders the restoration of the USSR after the devastating fascist invasion, at the same time giving birth to children, raising Soviet science to the heights of Cosmos, launching the first Cosmonaut of the USSR and the world Yu.A. Gagarin ...

Soviet women, like the entire Soviet people, due to the bourgeois counter-revolution that took place in the 1990s, not only lost the Socialist Fatherland, but also turned out to be doomed to slave exploitation by the capitalists - the “new Russians”.

Nowadays, prices are constantly rising in the bourgeois RF, a significant part of industry has been destroyed, even the birth of children and the big problem of finding them in kindergartens, education at schools and institutes have become paid. Normal comfortable housing became burdensomely paid, and for a significant part of the population - inaccessible.

Equality for women today is purely declarative.

     In Russia, the protest movement against capitalism as the initial stage of the class struggle is only growing every year, especially in the regions.

A woman worker, as part of the working class, the working peasantry and the working intelligentsia, can find her true happiness, love and freedom only under socialism, only by fighting for it against criminal capitalism.

Dear women, we wish you success in this difficult path of struggle for a worthy future.

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