Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 01:04:58 -0400 From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki) Subject: M-G: COCKROACH! EXTRA! (Radiotime) COCKROACH! EXTRA! (Radiotime) A EZINE FOR POOR AND WORKING CLASS PEOPLE. WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS. It is time that the poor and working class people have a voice on the Internet. Contributions can be sent to <malecki-AT-algonet.se> Subscribtions are free at <malecki-AT-algonet.se> Now on line! Check out the Home of COCKROACH! http://www.algonet.se/~malecki How often this zine will appear depends on you! Back issues of Cockroach and my book at http://www.kmf.org/malecki/ ------------------------------------------------------- Below are the two latest reports for Straightfacts radio taped on August 9, 1997.. Good Evening. This is Bob Malecki reporting for Straight Facts somewhere in northern Scandinavia quite near the Polar Circle! In fact, for our listeners, I should mention that the nearest large city, to me, is Murmansk, which houses the Russian North Atlantic fleet (including its once powerful nuclear submarine base). Finland 1997! Tens of thousands of workers and their families on souplines and breadlines, as ruling class/bougeoisie bathe in champagne! Block long lines of workers and their familes, in every city and large town in Finland standing in breadlines and souplines awaiting a handout of food has become everyday life on the Scandinavian peninsula! This is not the depression of the 30s but Summer 1997! This is everyday reality for tens of thousands of workers in Finland as the Finnish ruling class baths literally in champagne as profits for Finnish capitalism sore to new breathtaking heights! Begging for a bowl of soup and a bag with bread! The Finnish ruling class has a particully brutal and vicious history going back to the great October Revolution in Russia in drowning the Finnish working class in blood! Already soon after the victory of the Russian October Revolution, where Lenin and Trotsky declared that Finland, then a Russian Province, was given the right to self-determination and the building of a Finnish state. This step led to a bloody civil war where the working class and its parties were defeated and hundreds of thousands either died or were imprisoned. During World War 2 the Finnish ruling class, seeing their chance when the Soviet Union was invaded by the Nazis, got involved in the war on the Nazis' side. With the defeat of the Nazis,and before a peace treaty forced on Finland which meant that a large part of Finland (Karelen) became part of the Soviet Union. Today the Finnish ruling class with a long history of blood of the Finnish working class on its hands not only remembers and wants to take revenge on the ex-Soviet Union, but has the long-term goal of getting the land area lost at the end of World War 2 (which is ironically still today called "Finnish Karelen") back. But getting back to the soup lines and bread lines of tens of thousands of workers and their families, the situation must be seen in light of the special treaty that was signed between Finland and the ex-Soviet Union at the end of the war. This treaty imposed on a weakened Finnish ruling class by Stalin in a sense led to the situation that capitalism in Finland although weakened by the war was never smashed, but became subsevient to the rulers of the Kremlin and rebuilt their industries on the basis of contracts of products and services to rebuild the ex-Soviet Union which was devastated by the Nazi invasion. This special treatment for the Finnish capitalists led to the creation of the modern Finnish welfare state along the lines of its neighboring Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. With the distintegration of the Soviet Union, Finland with its special historical compromise of producing goods and services for the degenerated workers state practically disappeared overnight! Leading to a million workers being thrown out on the streets in unemployment and now soup and breadlines in order for their families to survive. Now that the Finnish economy is not only picking up, but reaching new records of profits (especially in the timber and paper industries) connected to production of machinery, factories around these industries mainly with new markets orientating towards Europe, but also NEW capitalist enterprises in the ex-Soviet Union to rip off the ex-Soviet Union forests to supply both the Swedish and Finnish paper industries with cheap raw material -- the Finnish bougeoisie like their counterparts in Sweden are bathing in champagne. This as the soup lines and bread lines for Finnish workers just get longer and longer! And what is extremely sadistic about this soup and breadline operation is the fact that the food is coming from the Common Market warehouses where over-production of food products are stored at the same time as the common market is subsidizing big farmers with billions of Euro-dollars in support for this over-production! Cynically the present Social Democratic government in Sweden has refused this help from the common market over-production warehouses, claiming that in Sweden "we have a welfare state"! But the truth is that the soup lines and bread lines at the Salvation Army in Sweden are just getting longer and longer also! A representative of the Finnish ruling political coalition of the bourgeois Center Party and the Finnish Social Democrats when questioned by reporters about the block-long soup and breadlines said: "Well, ten years of mass unemployment in Finland has unfortunately created a 'lifestyle' for people here who do not want to work! And the government will just have to find some new solutions to the problem!" In fact, the Finnish ruling class with its vicious and bloody history are quickly dismantling the "Finnish" model of the welfare state as are their Swedish partners. The new plans will be more cuts in the public sector connected to driving down wages and introducing house help and cleaning ladies to take care of their homes and children as they go off to the next champagne and caviar party! Connected to this is the fact that the Finnish ruling class is prepared to march on the orders of NATO into the ex-Soviet Union in order to take back the "Finnish Karelen" and much more if possible! The desperate need of a Bolshevik/Leninist Trotskyist Party in Finland as well as Sweden to fight with a program to smash the ruling classes in these countries and especially the Finnish ruling class whose history is the blood of millions of Finnish workers and their families going back to the great Russian Revolution has been on the order of the day for decades. The Finnish workers and their families have a score to settle with the bloody Finnish ruling class going back a very long time! This connected to Bolshevik/Lenists Trotskyist Parties in a Revolutionary International on the European continent fighting for the leadership of the working class with the goal of new October Social Revolutions from Portugal to the Urals! This is Bob Malecki reporting for Straight Facts! ------------------------------------------------------- Albania... Good Evening. This is Bob Malecki reporting for Straight Facts somewhere in northern Scandinavia quite near the Polar Circle! In fact, for our listeners, I should mention that the nearest large city, to me, is Murmansk, which houses the Russian North Atlantic fleet (including its once powerful nuclear submarine base). Albania Ex-Stalinist Popular Front electoral victory solves nothing! Many of you have probably heard in recent months from bourgeois newspapers about the "disturbances" in Albania -- in reality a premature 1905 rising of Albanian workers and toilers -- leading to a situation where the entire population has been taking over military installations and arming themselves and in fact creating workers councils and town councils... The fundamentals of this pre-revolutionary situation developed because of a gigantic economic scam by the post-Stalinist capitalist counter-revolutionary regime led by former President Sali Berisha. This fact was brought about by the fall of the once bizarre Stalinist-led government of Envar Hoxa which came crashing down in the wave of capitalist counter- revolutions that in recent years has seen one East European Stalist regime fall after another. The gigantic economic scam by the post-capitalist regime of the Berisha government must be seen both in the light of the illusions that Albanians have had in the pie-in-the-sky, get-rich schemes (western consumerism) that have been dominant in wide circles of the working population and the cynical real attempts of the new capitalist class and its regime to line their pockets with gold as Albania goes deeper and deeper into ecomomic ruin. One must understand that Albania with its bizarre Stalinist leadership in the form of Envar Hoxa, who in Albania was presented as a god on the same level as Stalin and Kim Il Sung -- the now dead ex-god of North Korea -- is connected to a country which Bolshevik/ Leninists Trotskyists characterized as a country of "Soviets without electricity" with its bizarre Stalinist leadership that isolated this little country for years from the rest of the world -- in fact, in a very primitive, almost peasant economy connected to building "Socialism in One Country". When the pre-revolutionary situation recently developed, with an entire population armed to the teeth, and workers and town councils started popping up like mushrooms, creating an extremely voitile situation not unlike the entire Balkans and ex-Yugoslavia, NATO intervened by sending the imperialist Italian Army to restore order and carry out "democratic" elections. A point worth making here is that this same Italian army being mobilized for Albania were being considered for use against the massive Italian strikes and demonstrations that were taking place against the ruling class's attempts to make cuts and smash many of the post-war reforms that came out of the post war economic boom around this time. So now, on the bayonets of the Italian army and with the majority of Albanians still armed to the teeth, a "democratic" election has taken place. Mind you that this election has taken place in an atmosphere of growing violence and confrontaions which has led to the fact then dozens of people and workers are being shot down in gun battles in various different parts of the country almost every day! The result of the election is that the hated post-capitalist counter-revolutionary regime of Berisha, who through their gigantic economic scam brought tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of poor and working class families to the edge of ruin, was soundly defeated by a popular front coalition of bourgeois parties and the ex-Communist Party of Hoxa. This popular-front victory is in fact a huge defeat for poor and working class people in Albania! Not only are these ex-Stalinists and their bourgeois allies a guarantee for the new capitalist society, but they have put as the first order of the day "disarming the entire population and getting back to normality" (!) This all under the watchful eyes of NATO in the form of Italian army bayonettes! The first and best advice any serious Communist can give to the Albanian workers and toilers is: Do not give up the guns! Defend the workers and village councils! But this will hardly be enough to solve the problems of the Albanian working class, with many decades of Stalinists' counter-revolutionary misleadership, which in the final analysis led to capitalist counter-revolution, and the hated Berisha regime departure ... And now these ex-Stalinists, in a popular front with other bourgeois formations after their "democratic" election victory, just want to put a human face on capitalist counter-revolution and disarm the workers and toilers of Albania. NO and No again! What is needed in Albania as elsewhere is a Bolshevik/Leninist Trotskyist Party devoted to proletarian independent struggle and armed with a program of smashing the capitalist counter-revolution now being pawned on them by the ex-Stalinists and their bourgeois partners. Not in the least, Bolshevik/Leninist Trotskyist parties in Italy and Albania dedicated to building a revolutionary International on this continent with the goal of new October social revolutions from Portugal to the Urals is the only real way forward out of the dead end that Albania finds itself in at present! In fact, if the ideas of an armed population and workers councils were to spread to neighboring countries like Italy with a Bolshevik Leninist Trotskyist vanguard party in the leadership -- who knows what could happen! This is Bob Malecki reporting for Straight Facts in Sweden! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out My HomePage where you can, Read or download the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara, Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Crystalball! And Now the International Communist League Page! Just push on the "Soartacist" Button. Or Get The Latest Issue of, COCKROACH, a zine for poor and working-class people. NEW! 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