Egypt in flames
A powerful wave of anger among the Arab masses poor and jobless shakes the young, voracious capitalism and brutal countries of North Africa and the Middle East supported by the old and bloody capitalism in Europe and America. Anticipation of a social wave that can not be concluded for the majority of the population by the emergence of the working class.
last 5 days the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and many other Egyptian cities have witnessed a great wave of anger among the masses who can no longer bear to live in unemployment, poverty and the hunger after Tunisia and Algeria is now the turn of Egypt. Media
the opulent western world, which now can no longer hide the savage police repression, focus all their information on the "lack of reforms" and the absence of a "true democracy"! It was not until the masses, defying the crackdown, do break their anger by attacking government buildings, burning what they could, throwing stones, knocking tanks, competing in melee with police, defying curfew and the shooting of law enforcement, for these media recognize that these plans bribed, protected and armed by Western democracies and primarily the United States, have maintained order and social control by a widespread and systematic police violence, they were arrested, tortured and silenced all opposition by whatever means, to have a free hand in a few years and accumulate enormous wealth to their clans - and their foreign sponsors. The timid
requests made by Obama, Merkel, Sarkozy and Mubarak regime Co. (and formerly the Ben Ali) to do it urgently concessions to meet the urgent demands of the masses (bread and work, eventually) show how the imperialists were surprised by the wave of riots that spread in the Maghreb and the Middle East.
Western democracies would care they suddenly experienced the misery for years the proletariat and the peasant masses of these countries?
Not at all!
In countries where capitalism is developing in the only way possible, given the ruthless imperialist competition that requires people worldwide economic oppression, social and military, that is to say, the most savage and brutal as history has known, in countries where the capitalist mode of production claimed to bring welfare and civilization, there is no another perspective for the masses that the exploitation, repression, poverty and hunger. These regimes for decades as Egypt or Tunisia crush their people and who now receive in return a very small fraction of the violence inflicted on the masses once were all the time points of support of the imperialist powers' democratic "that dominate the world.
Given the irresistible explosion of anger among the Arab masses deprived Washington, Berlin, Paris, Rome, London and Brussels, send in Cairo yesterday as Tunis and Algiers, the board allow the freedom of expression, make reforms, to stop repression .... Empty words that only serve to make people believe that with more "democracy, less corruption and less brutality of the authorities, would improve the situation of the masses. Western leaders know from experience that the one thousand cards of "democracy" can be played in different scenarios to divert the struggles of the masses towards objectives that do not challenge capitalism, but are limited to changes of government. It is no coincidence that the events in the various opposition parties put forward the demand, "Ben Ali released!", "Mubarak released!" They just want to take advantage of the riots to replace Ben clans Ali and Mubarak in the governments of these countries.
What will change fundamentally for the masses? Nothing.
With only a little more freedom of expression and free elections, it will be the continuation of the brutal exploitation of the masses proletarianized that capitalism inflicts under the whole heaven, but it adds that the aggravating imperialist oppression that fills the vaults of American and European middle classes and allows them to buy the complicity of reformist organizations managing their own working class!
The riots that shook the Arab world today announce tensions and riots in Europe: the Mediterranean, mare nostrum of the ancient Romans, could turn into a lake of fire burning the continent because the economic crisis that has Western economies falter and whose consequences, delayed but inexorable batter countries on their periphery, can be overcome by the oppressive capitalism that further the proletarian masses of the world. The proletarians
North African, Middle Eastern and Albanian scream to the world by their riots in recent weeks, that capitalism is unable to meet the basic requirements of the masses and that this intolerable situation must change. The proletariat of Europe and America are watching with amazement, but also worried happy revolts that put to flight the bloodthirsty rulers. The proletarians of the richest countries in the world, who knew too a steady deterioration of their living and working conditions, lack the strength to rebel in the same way. They were educated in respect of "democratic legitimacy", they are poisoned for decades by the myth of democracy that they find each day the failure to solve their problems of daily life, but they can nevertheless not free himself to give expression to the revolt that any slave feels inevitable.
But the proletarians of Europe, however, have a history of class struggles, struggles not just revolutionary against the old feudal system, but also against capitalism. It is this history that they can and must reclaim if they will not remain forever subject to their imperialist bourgeoisie, they must rediscover the teachings of the glorious history of class struggles and true social revolutions that have shook all the imperialist!
If the proletarians of the Maghreb and the Middle East who have stood against their plans to leave channel in the path of democracy and elections allegedly rigged not to direct them where the opposition parties, they fail to find a perspective for their class, they fail to free themselves from exploitation and oppression that condemn them to poverty and tomorrow turn into cannon fodder, as has already been case in the countless wars that bloodied the region. Nationalism in which the various Arab states have watered the masses to defend the interests of scheduled castes and bourgeois factions allied to particular imperialism are the other side of the coin, which is entirely consistent, if the need arises to link extra social with religious fundamentalism, as demonstrated by the Ayatollahs in Iran and Zionism in Israel.
The proletarians today who express their anger without any instrumentalization of religion, will not stay long in this situation. Even when the bourgeois regimes through a serious political crisis as is the case in Egypt and Tunisia (and perhaps tomorrow in Morocco, Jordan, Libya or elsewhere), the absence of the class party, armed with the program Communist revolutionary and determined to prepare the workers for future anti-capitalist revolution, the masses can be "neutralized" by the action always effective democracy, and if necessary by using an alternative type of Islamic ..
The proletarians have before them three possibilities: to fall back into silence as before the revolt, with some freedom of expression and organization permitted by a new legally imposed by new bourgeois fractions with the agreement of the imperialism; be represented by parties like the Islamic, which by their denunciation of corruption and bad morals, succeed in capturing the disgust of the masses against the current leadership, and then take the path of the class organization for the defense without compromising their immediate interests with a view to overthrowing bourgeois society plunged into the commodification of all social relations and human resources exist.
This path of class struggle is undoubtedly the more difficult it seems more distant because the bourgeois society in the competition of everyone against everyone pushes each individual to only see itself, to think only of its personal needs (or those of his family) over those of their neighbors. But the proletariat is a class based on relations of production and social needs: they are the class that the capitalists have to operate for profit; is the material condition of labor force employed proletarians who makes a class where people have the same interests and feel the need to unite to defend it in this extensive material in this movement of defense born solidarity and awareness of having a force that does not limit itself to expressing anger, but can be arranged for a future that is no longer that of eternal exploitation by capitalism!
The European proletarians, meanwhile, have everything to lose just watch passively what's happening on the other shore of the Mediterranean, the revolt of the proletariat and the poor masses of Africa and the Middle East are interested first and foremost: it is their class brothers who revolt, driven by hunger and poverty, and repression a triumph Some of them will seek opportunities in Europe they have more life in them, as happens in decades - further evidence that the proletarian condition is the same everywhere. Capitalism can not fail to use these new entrants to increase competition among workers, which is why the revolt of the masses also Mediterranean direct relevance to European proletarians. The workers are the only ones who have nothing to fear from these riots, which have no reason to fear that the fire does not touch the Social European cities. These are lonely because they are part of the same class of employees, operated by capital belonging to networks of interests that bind the middle classes to one another, and must be fought everywhere.
But to be effective, this struggle must overcome the myths of "democracy" and a "legalism" that every citizen, every capitalist, under pressure from the street, is ready to claim against other citizens hated and discredited, even then, the dust has settled, to trample shamelessly!
revolts which succeed in Arab countries give a lesson of proletarian struggle:
the way forward for the workers of the two shores of the Mediterranean as in all countries of the world, is the path of struggle of class, the struggle in which the proletariat not rise in defense of a false bourgeois democracy, but of their own class interests, which also represent the future of human society because they involve the end of the capitalist mode of production and therefore of all social, political and economic oppression that characterize military bourgeois society.
International Communist Party, 01/30/2011
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