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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 01:04:58 -0400
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-G: COCKROACH! EXTRA! (Radiotime) 


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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!
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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!
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