We publish this text from Fraction of International Communist Left (FICL) because we are totally in agreement
with its contents.
It is important at present because the bourgeoisie of Quebec
speak about the elections to settle the student strike.
« Working class participation in the electoral circus
and in the various parliaments is the best means the bourgeoisie has found to
divert the proletariat from its historic task, the emancipation of all
humanity. Just as with fascism, “bourgeois democracy” is a terrain in which the
proletariat has no real place. »
Basic positions of the Internationalist Communists –
Klasbatalo!
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The result of the first round of the French presidential race
comes at the very moment we end up this bulletin. These elections don't
interest only the French bourgeoisie. Their results have an international
significance, or at least European, at the time many countries of this
continent will live new elections at the regular term of the previous mandates
- Germany in particular - and at the very moment other national
bourgeoisies provoke anticipated elections - such as in Netherlands. It is this
international significance we want to highlight.
Actually, new configurations of the political apparatus are
dawning with these elections which will tend to reproduce in the months and
years to come. It is actually almost sure that the Socialist Party's candidate,
François Hollande, will be the next French President (Note 1). The other outstanding fact of this election is
the rising of a "Left of the Left" - the Front de gauche [Left Front] with Melenchon
at its head - whose vertebral column is being the old stalinist apparatus
of the PCF [French Communist Party]. This two political parties (PS and Front
de gauche) of the Left of capital, far for being opposed one another as they
attempt to make appear, are actually the two sharp edges of the single and same
arm that the bourgeoisie intends to utilize today against the proletariat.
So we have a Left of "government" which will lead a
policy in which the State intervention, State capitalism, will grow and
strengthen, a neo-Keynesian policy - it is the meaning of Hollande's
willingness to re-negotiate the "Stability Pact" with Merkel and the
German bourgeoisie "to introduce some growth". It matters to
underline that this willingness for "introducing a constituent of
growth" in the European policy in front of the crisis is making progress
within the different ruling classes : at the very moment the Dutch
bourgeoisie is provoking anticipated elections, it is interesting to note that
its fractions, up to now aligned on the "drastic reduction of the deficits
and the sovereign debts" policy put forwards by Germany, wish to introduce
"more growth". No illusion within the bourgeoisie : it knows
that a possible growth "due to credit" won't solve the crisis. It
knows that capitalism's contradictions express in a crisis of generalized over-production.
And no illusion for the proletarians : this possible "growth"
won't bring them any relief in their sufferings, nor pauses of the attacks they
suffer. The willingness to impose, at least in Europe, an economical policy
with a "constituent of growth" corresponds amongst the clever
fractions of the bourgeoisie to their consciousness of the need to develop a
European war industry even more efficient and a European defence which really
deserves this name.
And we have with the Front de gauche a Left "called to
remain in the opposition", with a "social" language, indeed
"revolutionary" and "classist" one, which doesn't want to
be "governing" and whose aim is to control, to flank, and to derail,
then to defeat, the inescapable workers struggles in front the crisis and the
attacks that the "Socialist governments" will hurl at. As doesn't
stop claiming Melenchon, "we are here to go on for long !" The existence of the same
kind of party is not new in Europe and the Party of the Left in Germany, Die Linke, exists now since many
years, actually since the drastic measures of the German bourgeoisie has taken
against the working class during the government of the... Socialist Schröeder.
Actually, the national bourgeoisies must adapt their State
apparatus, and in particular the political apparatus, to the new conditions
that the economical crisis imposes. In their great majority, in particular in
Europe, the bourgeois teams in power are government teams which were formed
before 2008, before the "sub-primes" crisis. They are marked by the
"neo-liberal free-market" ideology and theories in fashion in the
1980's. And yet the bankruptcy of "economical liberalism" handicaps
seriously and deeply today these teams at the economical as well as political
level. Actually, politicians, economists and other high-ranking officials or
specialists who were brought up with the liberal free-market ideology, can
certainly not apply from one day to another with the maximum effectiveness, it
means from the point of view of the bourgeoisie of course, the new State
measures and the more direct and massive intervention of the State, to conduct
neo-keynesian policies...
From this point of view, Hollande's election in France will
certainly end up with the procrastinations and the hesitations of Sarkozy's
"foreign" policy who, pro-American by "personal liking" if
so we can say, had finally to submit to the requirements of the profound
tendencies of the imperialist interests of the French bourgeoisie which
inexorably drive it to remain linked and aligned with Germany. Nevertheless,
there is no doubt that his figure is not enough reliable at that level and that
the coming to power of a convinced pro-European will mark a supplementary step
in the development and the affirmation of a more determined imperialist policy,
in a more asserted European diplomacy and policy of defence, in international
initiatives towards the "emerging powers", China, Latin-America,
which raise against the United-States, in the questioning of the dollar as
"the international reserve currency", etc...
Far from representing a decline of the attacks against the
proletariat and even less a relief for this one, the adaptation of the
political apparatus of the bourgeois States, included and above all with Left
governments, means that the ruling class is preparing to bring even stronger
attacks. Far from representing a lull of the classes struggle, the coming of
these new apparatus marks at the contrary the increase and the escalation of
the class contradictions. Far from meaning a slack period, the coming of new
government teams accompanied with radical Left forces in the opposition, means
the worsening of the bourgeoisie's offensive against the proletariat.
The FICL, April 22nd 2012
http://fractioncommuniste.org/index_eng.php
1.We
don't take too much risks betting on his election in 15 days according to the
polls. But in case it won't happen and Sarkozy would finally be re-elected, we
don't think this would question the basic question of our stance. The last
"arguments" of the latter's electoral campaign, in particular his
willingness to reconsider the European Stability Pact in favour to a policy of
more sustained economical growth, the withdrawal of the French troops from
Afghanistan - just for mentioning only these two significant elements amongst
others -, take up the orientations put forwards by Hollande. The
difference will be that Hollande's new team would be less marked by the
orientations and the politics of the past and thus more capable to lead it than
Sarkozy whose neoliberal past and its continual zigzags and hesitations at the
level of the international politics have sowed doubt about his ability as State
leader within the French bourgeoisie.
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