From: "BC" <batcom-AT-ibrp.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:22:10 +0200
Subject: AUT: The IBRP in Genoa


<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>This is the English text of the trilingual document which is 
distributed during the different events against the G( in genoa and 
elsewhere.


<bold><FontFamily><param>Bookman Old Style</param><bigger><bigger>Anti-Globalisation?  

Anti-capitalism for Communism!


<smaller>Comrades


</bold>Globalisation is a term dear to the bourgeoisie 
and its mass media but we=92d prefer to call it what 
it really is - <bold>imperialism</bold>.  With this term we 
means the present mode of existence of 
capitalism which sees the undisputed 
domination of finance capital on the one hand 
and the capacity to distribute throughout the 
entire planet the different stages of the process 
of production (from tinned tomatoes to cars or 
toys) on the other.*

Domination of finance capital is not the 
command of an unique centre, because the 
financial capital is made of many capitals that 
link up with centres of imperialist interests and 
aggregations of States that are competing and 
fighting each other.


The present phase of capitalism coincides with, 
and is also a response to, the crisis of the cycle 
of capitalist accumulation, or rather the process 
of valorisation of capital.  

That means that capital is able to extort even 
lower profit rates out of production processes 
and the exploitation of the working class. The 
only way for saving the profit rates is the 
increase of the exploitation by means of the 
squeeze of the wages and/or the shift of the 
productions where the wage is lower. There are 
no alternatives to these processes, while 
remaining inside the capitalist mode of 
production. The only alternative known by the 
capital is the imperialistic war.  And as in all 
crises of the cycle of accumulation, even this 
one, it reopens the perspective of the historic 
alternative: imperialist war or proletarian 
revolution.


Of the two previously competing blocs, NATO an 
the Warsaw Pact, the latter has disappeared.  
<bold>The implosion of the Soviet imperialist bloc, 
misrepresented as the collapse of =85 socialism, 
has thrown the line up of the former into 
confusion, opening up the possibility of a 
reshuffling of the cards which is fatally leading 
to the formation of new blocs on the basis of a 
rupture in the former NATO front.


</bold>If anyone thinks  that the G8 Summit is to make 
an agreement for the government of the world in 
a hypothetical super-imperialism they are 
making a big mistake.  In every summit the Big 
Eight always end up arguing.  This time at 
Genoa the Europeans appear a little stronger 
thanks to the agreements reached in 
Gothenburg on apparently key issues such as 
the environment and the Kyoto Protocol, as well 
as on those less trumpeted but equally 
important issues such as the world steel trade.


<bold>Comrades

</bold>A big new trap is looming, through which the 
American and European bourgeoisie =96 
independently of any splits, even in Europe =96 
will call on their respective proletariats to form 
up around them against the enemy in order to 
defend =93sacred national interests=94 or the equally 
sacred ideologies. The strength of the present 
anti-globalisation movements is linked to their 
ability not to break the line-ups which 
imperialism is preparing.  Bush has already 
sounded his siren-call to the AFL-CIO and the 
American steel industry.  Their anti-globalisation 
demands , he claims, coincide with the need to 
protect US steel and the trade balance.  The 
condition for a large civil movement to resist 
imperialist divisions would be the adoption of a 
class viewpoint. It must be transformed into a 
real anti-capitalist movement for the communist 
revolution.  Only a strong revival of working class 
initiative, even if only against the very heavy 
attacks of capital can drag these movements of 
so-called civil society onto a solidly anti-capitalist 
terrain.


<bold>And for this the priority for revolutionaries is 
to contribute - as far as possible to the 
subjective forces - to revive proletarian 
struggle autonomously from the trades union 
policy of class collaboration and from the 
unionist logics </bold>


But even the class revival cannot have any 
prospect of victory without a political 
organisation equipped to lead the titanic 
struggle of the future: the international party of 
the proletariat.  Too many times we have seen 
the objectively class movements (from the Poland 
of August =9280 to the British miners movement=85) 
to surrender to the sirens of the reformism and 
to the flatteries of the political radical bourgeois 
market, cause of the showy absence of an 
adequate political force, organized on the 
revolutionary programme. The necessity of the 
international revolutionary party of the working 
class is more and more imperative.

<bold>And this is why we call on the vanguard of the 
working class to join and strengthen the  
sections and sympathising organisations of 
the IBRP


<flushright>The International Bureau for the 
Revolutionary Party</flushright>

<flushright></bold>13-7-2001</flushright>


*We would also remind confusionists that 
imperialism is no more than a phase of the 
capitalist mode of production.  It is not a =85 
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