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The Economic Recession of Capitalism and the Response of
Worker-communism!
The
capitalist world has been in a very deep recession for three
years. Although the states and the centres of bourgeois
policy, ideology and economy tried at first to limit their
crisis in a corner of the world and named it as a financial
crisis of the banks just in some countries, the fact emerged
that under the rule of capitalism this crisis will cover the
whole world and spread to all the bases and foundations of
capital. At last the bourgeoisie is obliged to consider the
current crisis deeper than that of the ends of the twenties
of the last century and that before the Second World War.
The
current crisis of bourgeoisie is not the crisis of a model
of capitalism against another one. It is not the crisis of
the collapse of state capitalism model against the
capitalism of the free market; it is the crisis of the
capitalism of free market itself, i.e. the capitalist system
of today itself. The capitalist system, a class system which
gains benefit and accumulates capital by controlling the
product of labour of workers, has shown its failure
concerning the economic and social life of humanity. The
current recession confirms, to the workers and the whole of
humanity, that this class system is contradictory to the
lives and future of the human beings. That is why in order
to survive the recession and prolong its life, it victimises
workers, deprived people and the whole of humanity.
To get
rid of its crises, the bourgeoisie has always brought about
catastrophes against society. Wars and genocides were always
the result of conflicts among the bourgeois wings. Recent
examples include the two World Wars, as well as the regional
wars and the bloody conflicts created by the bourgeoisie
states. In addition, the solution of the bourgeoisie and its
states to its recessions was always followed by attacking
the political and economical achievements of the working
class and imposing more taxes just to save the capitalists
and bank owners. The right wing parties coming into power in
most European countries; the attacks of Sarkozy in France;
the conservative government in the Britain; the so-called
socialist government in Greece against workers, students and
poor people; the failure of Obama’s call for change after
just two years of governing in the White House, all these
show the level of the attacks by the bourgeoisie against
workers and the deprived people.
Alongside
these attacks by the bourgeoisie, the workers’ confrontation
has begun. The working class in Europe is in the fore front
of this confrontation. The students, who are the successors
of the working class, have taken part in the struggle of
their parents to defend their future. The great
demonstrations of workers and students in Greece, the
enormous demonstrations in France and the wide support of
people, the strikes in Spain and Portuguese and
demonstrations of workers and students in Britain are all
trenches of the class struggle that has now begun between
the bourgeoisie and the proletariat of Europe. The
bourgeoisie, by its entire means, its intellectuals,
politicians, mass media, governments, army and police forces
is taking part in the battle against working class. The
latter should be ready for this battle with everything it
has; otherwise it will lose the battle.
Although
the workers are defending themselves, their existence and
their political, social and economical achievements, they
cannot face the severe battle against the bourgeoisie only
through its trade unions and syndicates. The trade unions
and syndicates, even the most radical and militant of them,
are bound to just one side of that confrontation and their
ability is limited. Strikes and demonstrations are not quite
enough to make the bourgeois governments withdraw their
attacks concerning the pension age, unemployment, cutting
public services, education and heath benefits. These attacks
are just a part of a wider class struggle, whose aim is to
keep the capitalist system living off the lives and future
of the working class and its political, social and
economical position.
The
answer of the working class to the recession of capitalism
and its whole depressive system is socialism. To get this
aim to society we need to seize power and to organize a
social revolution. The Paris Commune has proved that the
solution to the greed and encroachment of the bourgeoisie on
the lives and rights of the working class and deprived
people is workers’ revolution and taking the power of the
state from the bourgeoisie. The October revolution led by
Lenin has proved that revolution and the establishment of
the workers’ state cannot be achieved without a political
party of the working class. This is why history has shown
itself once again to be on the side of the working class in
Europe and worldwide, and that to abolish the unequal and
depressive bourgeois system and establish a modern and equal
society we need revolution. And a revolution can be
fulfilled only by a Marxist militant party who has a
political and social effect among the working mass.
The
triumph for the working class in Europe and America in their
struggle to defend their lives and achievements, and to
decide their future, is based on the existence of
worker-communist parties who have a clear view about the
trenches of the working class and lead them to their final
goal. There is the need of a party which can lead the
current struggle, protest and confrontations of the workers
against the bourgeois attacks and conduct it to a mass
political struggle to disable the machine of the bourgeois
state. This is a duty put in front of every worker-communist
activist, Marxist and workers’ leader.
Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan (Iraq)
December
2010
Contact:
www.hkkurdistan.org
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