Developments in the world imperialist system - the struggle of the peoples

The change in the balance of forces does not change the character of our era, as the era of transition to socialism.

1. The developments in the past four years (the launching of imperialist wars on the pretext of the fight against terrorism, the abolition of rights which the peoples won with their blood and sacrifices, the new methods of robbing the wealth that the working people produce, the mass spread of poverty and misery , disease, the new bonds of dependence and subjugation of the peoples, the triggering of nationalist contradictions and conflicts, the new ways of manipulation, the catastrophic exploitation of the environment etc.), confirm that imperialism, by socializing production at a rapid pace and to a huge extent, continuously intensify the basic contradiction of capitalism: between the social character of production and the private capitalist appropriation of its products. The phenomena of decay and parasitism become all the more evident.

More than a billion people, that is, 21% of the world population, lived in 2001 with less than $1 a day. More than 50% of the world population lives with less than $2 a day. The income of 20% of the richest businessmen in the world increased at record rates while at the same time, the income of 50% of the world population was reduced. The income of 1% of the world population, or 50 million people, is equal to the income of 2.7 billion of the poorest people on the planet. The World Bank publishes estimates that "even in regions that are developing at rapid rates, the quality of life of the poor has not changed, due to lack of sufficient social funding."

The problem of the environment, which constitutes yet another great victim of the policies of monopoly profit and imperialist aggression in general, has worsened greatly. Some of the more characteristic phenomena are: the warming of the Earth, particularly in the northern hemisphere, the destruction of tropical forests, drought, and nuclear waste from the production and use of weapons. The relocation of many polluting industries to countries in Southern and Eastern Asia and the establishment of new industries in these areas, have created a huge brown cloud of carbon dioxide, ozone, nitrogen oxides, etc. Every year, all over the world, 500 million tons of toxic waste are produced while 500,000 tons of pesticides that have been recalled as dangerous have been dumped in the countries of the so-called Third World.

The imperialists are united in the attack against the working people and are competing for markets and zones of influence.

In the framework of the unified strategy of imperialism, inter-imperialist contradictions and competition for the first place in the distribution of markets and spheres of influence in Asia, the Middle East, in Africa are developing. They are expressed, directly or indirectly, in the fronts of war, in the hotbeds of nationalist conflict, in the conflicts between neighboring countries. The capitalist centers, the most powerful imperialist forces, are competing amongst themselves and with the U.S.A., which is trying to maintain and expand its domination.

A number of other rising capitalist countries are participating in this race, demanding a greater share and role in the international imperialist system. New alliances are being formed, temporary or more permanent, at the regional level, such as in Southeast Asia, Latin America, in order to challenge the hegemony of the USA. These alliances claim a greater or equal role in capitalist internationalization with respect to the U.S.A.

The tendency for deterioration of the position of the working class and a significant part of the middle strata in developed capitalist countries is a general trend. It is expressed through competition and inequality at regional and international levels. In all imperialist centers and unions (G8, EU, NATO, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization) contradictions develop due to uneven development and the reshuffling that this causes in the balance of forces.

Developments are accumulating that might cause a reshuffling in the balance of forces in the international imperialist system.

Objectively, the anti-imperialist anti-monopoly struggle has become more connected to and inherent in the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism. This struggle includes, by its very nature, ruptures that undermine the foundations of capitalist rule. It creates pre-conditions for the conquest of political power by the working class at its allies.

The strategy of imperialism aims, on the one hand, to face the difficulty that the capitalist system has today in reproducing social capital in the same way and with the same relative ease that it did before and, on the other hand, to impede in a timely manner whatever challenge to the system might arise in a single country or in a group of countries. It aims to block the emancipation of the peoples for the benefit of socialism.

Around this contradiction is the ideological struggle developing, today.

A Front of ideological-political struggle with the basic fallacies of imperialism

2. The so-called globalization is a basic fallacy, as much as for the bourgeois as for the petty-bourgeois opportunistic ideological currents with some differences in shade, but with a common denominator the effort to cover up its capitalist character, its class character. On the pretext of the accelerating pace of capitalist internationalization that is manifested by the vast increase in the volume of international trade and export of capital and based upon the effect this has on international agreements and unions, the view is projected that the necessity of a revolutionary strategy at the level of individual countries is refuted. Supposedly, organization at the level of the nation-state is being abolished has the tendency to be abolished. Therefore, the necessity to accept and reform imperialist unions is projected as the strategy at the regional and international levels.

More specialized theories are developing, based upon the imperialist fallacies, regarding "the end of work and the working class", "the abolition of private capitalist ownership due to new technologies" and "the post-industrial and immaterial society". The theory of "social economy", "the clash of cultures", "the clash of religions".

The social-democratic parties, the opportunistic forces, systematically proclaim their harmful and unscientific conceptions that imperialism has given way to a new reality in which the contradiction between the productive forces and productive relations plays no role. A systematic effort is being made by some who use the scientific term "imperialism" in order to refute it, by putting forward the classless term of "globalization", or with unscientific references to the unipolarism and hegemony of the U.S.A. They consciously disregard the co-responsibility of other imperialist forces and international unions, the united strategy that is of imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism.

Certain ideological currents project the position that a new stage of social-economic development has been created, in the form of "Empire", which supposedly constitutes "a worldwide form of domination." According to their viewpoint, this empire consists of a series of national and supranational organizations, without contradictions and competition, whereas the role and the rule of the national state is weakened or has disappeared, without a territorial center of power.

In order to support their theory regarding the new social-economic reality, they project the argument that the flow of finance capital is independent of industrial capital. Reality confirms that the major part of the flow of capital is controlled and guided by monopoly trusts which are based in the three largest imperialist centers. The Contemporary phenomena that are evident in the circulation of money are the products of capitalist development. They express the parasitic character of capitalist reproduction, under historical conditions projecting the need for social ownership of the means of production.

They project "the outbursts of the multitude" as the revolutionary subject, in contrast to the movement of the alliance between the working class and other popular strata; in contrast to the role of the revolutionary vanguard in the anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly movement, in the struggle for socialism.

The common denominator of contemporary social-democratic and opportunistic fallacies, despite their differences, is in their efforts to obscure the character of imperialism as monopoly capitalism whose historical continuation is socialism.

The supporters of a classless globalization or the so-called Empire, when they are forced to recognize problems that come along with capitalism or when they criticize "globalization", project as a solution the adjustment of the world market with recipes for the "management of the crisis". They systematically proclaim a spirit of fatalism, as well as the self-deception that radical changes must either happen everywhere or nowhere. They orientate the working class to abandon the struggle for power at a national level. Not to link it dialectically with international action, but to take off from reality, preferring periodic international protests against global networks or companies, again with the logic of managing the crisis.

To the bleak reality of today they contrast a "more moral and human" capitalism where supposedly the forces of capital and the forces of labor can both profit.

The imperialist strategy against "terrorism". The relations among the U.S.A., NATO, and the EU

3. On the political front, the most powerful section of international imperialism, under the leadership of the U.S.A. and the pretext of the terrorist strike on September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington, firmly established the doctrine of "the worldwide threat of terrorism" as an invisible enemy that is found everywhere and the doctrine of a "pre-emptive strike". The USA and its allies have given themselves the right to intervene, to blackmail, to terrorize and to threaten countries and governments, even friendly governments, when they are not considered to be in full compliance with their wishes. In other cases, they try to change these governments, preferring solutions that are more beneficial to their interests.

This new imperialist doctrine has been applied in the last four years in Afghanistan and Iraq and is apparent in the aggressive policies and subversive activities and provocations against Cuba, the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, Syria, Venezuela, etc.

The Prague NATO Summit (November 2002) constitutes a very significant development, in which NATO is "transforming" and adapting its aggressiveness. It is setting up more flexible forces and is shifting eastwards. It proclaims itself "an anti-terrorist organization", with the doctrine of "defense against terrorism." It officially declares as its enemy the internal mass movements of countries. It is modernizing its military means of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear warfare in order to defend the interests of capital, with the pretext the defense against weapons of mass destruction.

The fact that NATO was given the role of security protection at the Olympic Games in Athens demonstrates a characteristic application of this doctrine

The USA is not the one and only power that threatens militarily, politically and economically and aims to maintain and expand its worldwide domination against the people and the competing imperialist powers. In contemporary so-called anti-terrorist politics, imperialist centers such as the European Union are aligned, despite the contradictions and the antagonism among them. The majority of capitalist states are aligned. Even Russia is now adopting "anti-terrorist" policies. Many capitalist governments are adapting their national laws against the popular movement. They are giving "the green light" to exporting their national military forces to participate in joint actions with the USA and NATO against peoples and movements.

The unified character of the strategy of the international imperialist system become obvious also in the decisions of NATO, which are adopted by the totality of its member-states as well as by their allies, regardless of whether they belong to the organization or not. They align themselves with NATO decisions both in internal and external policies.

During the NATO Summit in Prague, a temporary compromise was achieved between the contradictions of the EU and NATO, on the basis of mutual reinforcement, within the framework of respecting the "autonomy of the two organizations". An autonomy which, for the time being, does not contravene the participation of member-states of the EU in NATO. The EU demands full participation in imperialist actions, in reaping the harvest of imperialist aggressiveness. On these grounds, various contradictions are expressed in one form or another and are sharpening, especially after the enlargement of the EU and the increase in the influence of the USA through the new member- states.

The unified imperialist strategy is evident in the parallel enlargement of both the EU and NATO. This simultaneous enlargement not only does not negate the internal imperialist contradictions but in fact, it reproduces and strengthens them. It strengthens as well the contradictions between leading powers and other member-states.

In the period following the 16th Congress, the relations between the two most powerful imperialist centers, the USA and the EU, became more competitive, more compound and more complex, due to the fact that within the EU internal contradictions are sharpening on the issue of the relations with the US. Both within the EU and at a worldwide level, various blocs and alliances with the major antagonistic imperialist states are being restructured.

The enlargement of both NATO and the EU towards Eastern Europe, the creation of the Euro-Army, following the logic of NATO strategies and incorporated in NATO operations, has created a new geo-political situation in the continent. The terms of the competition are unfavorable for the people much more than from in the past, due to EU membership. However, the bourgeoisie of the former socialist countries is trying to obtain, through EU membership, powerful external incentives, political and economic benefits. They are attempting to fortify their position against domestic resistance, and avert the danger of development of powerful movements which, given the miserable life people are living under capitalist conditions, will put forward the issue of socialism.

In the EU member-states , within the framework of the common area of "freedom, security and justice," military-police operations are being instituted. Justice is adapted accordingly, as a mechanism for legalizing state repression and the operation of the oppressive mechanisms that are being created.

The situation is made all the more worse by the "European Constitution". It constitutes a new treaty, which incorporates all of the reactionary regulations, and treaties of the EU. Overall, the content of the "European Constitution" is in full harmony with the interests of the monopolies and the support of capitalist profit. The Euro-Army, EuroPol and the "Anti-Terrorist Laws" all operate in this direction.

The "European Constitution" represents a more reactionary development in that it takes new steps in the direction of strengthening repression and militarization.

The EU, in the recent period, is applying more decisively the reactionary decisions of the Lisbon Summit.

NATO policies in the Mediterranean. The plan for the "democratization of the Arabic countries". The policy of imperialism in the region of the former USSR

4. The strategy of NATO in the Mediterranean, which was formulated at the Istanbul Summit (June 2004) as a plan for the "democratization of the Arab regimes", opened the road for new threats against the people of the region, against the issue of peace in general. It implies military interventions, triggering of civil wars and provocations, even more so in regions of high tension. It is a policy of creating divisions, aiming to facilitate the hegemony of the US or the leading forces of the EU.

Following 2001, American military installations extend from the Balkans to the Chinese border, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Indian region. Thirteen new bases in nine countries encircle Afghanistan at the flanks of Russia. The USA, despite its concern on whether the EU will be steadily at their side in consequent operations, despite their effort to divide Europe into "old" and "new", feel so secure such that they are considering movements and changes in the deployment of their military installations in the East.

The USA is putting emphasis on Africa, which they declare "a center of threat" which requires "attention", with the argument-pretext that in that continent there are "ungovernable states that could become terrorist safe haven." The antagonism between the USA and the leading European imperialist forces is expressed more forcibly in the area of Northern Africa.

In the territory of the former USSR there are still hotbeds of nationalist antagonism that capitalist restoration has provoked. These are systematically refueled by imperialist intervention, especially by the USA but also by certain leading European forces, as well as European monopoly alliances.

The USA as much as the EU aims to win Russia over to their own circle of alliances and influence. Each one of them wants to gain, for their own benefit, the advantage of access to Russia's natural, industrial and human resources; to curb the tendency of Russia to play a dominant role in the area of the former USSR and in the imperialist pyramid. Russia has already adopted the policy of "pre-emptive strike"

The leadership of Russia, within which capitalism is getting stronger compared to the previous decade, steadily aims at shaping alliances in the economic field such as the one which includes Russia, the Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Kazakhstan. There is as well the ‘Agreement of Collective Security' (Russia, the Ukraine, White Russia (Byelorussia) Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan) and the Organization of Cooperation of Shanghais (China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan and Uzbekistan). These forms of cooperation are faced with skepticism that goes as far as open animosity from the competing imperialist forces.

In the next few years, the effort and the competition of imperialist forces for the control of the regions of the Caspian, Caucasus, and Siberia will intensify and may lead to rapid socio-political developments which are difficult to predict today.

The situation in Cuba, the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, China and Vietnam

5. The people of Cuba, with great and noteworthy battles, are struggling against the imperialist effort to create the prerequisites for the overthrow of socialism through the embargo, the anti-socialist campaign and overt sabotage. The uprooting of the network of counter-revolutionaries-mercenaries of imperialism was an important success.

The EU co-aligned itself with the American anti-Cuban campaign, and so did the social-democratic "new left" opportunists and all sorts of apologists of imperialism. Solidarity with Cuba constitutes a crucial test for judging political stance.

In Cuba, under the guidance of the CP and the government, different forms of economic cooperation with foreign capital as well as small private ownership in trade, in agrarian economy and in tourism especially, have been put forward with the aim of relieving the country from the embargo. At the same time, the international initiatives of the country and of the CP of Cuba against imperialist policies have been strengthened. Their practical internationalist solidarity towards the peoples and the movements of Latin America and to the Chavez government in Venezuela is important.

The Democratic Peoples Republic (DPR) of Korea is also in the eye of the imperialist cyclone, which is "irritated" by the idea only that this country has the right to take self-protective measures against imperialist intervention. The DPR of Korea gained international recognition from a series of new countries, including Greece. Solidarity with the Korean people must be strengthened. American military forces and nuclear weapons must be withdrawn from South Korea. Imperialist interventions in the Korean Peninsula must be repelled.

The Peoples Republic of China is continuing its policy of opening up its economy to the international capitalist market. It has joined the World Trade Organization. It has been associated with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It has established economic zones of "free trade", with relations of production on capitalist basis. It aims to attract foreign capital and high technology.

The economy of China already influences in an important way the economies of the countries of Asia and the Pacific. It is facing the intense reaction of Japan, who, together with the USA, is interested in blocking the widening of its influence and its cooperation with Russia.

The economy of China has one of the highest rates of development on a worldwide scale. At the same time, domestic contradictions are sharpening, the most characteristic being social class differentiations and a rise in unemployment, which are affecting the political system and external relations. The CP of China, in its previous Congress, accepted the participation of capitalists in its ranks. The appearance of exploitative social forces in the political expression of the Chinese society represents a danger not only for the interests of the Chinese people, but also for its role in the international anti-imperialist movement.

In Vietnam, the Communist Party and the government of the country are continuing their efforts to improve the living standard of the people. They public character of strategic sectors of the economy has been preserved. However, certain multinationals have infiltrated and a certain sector of the economy has entered into capitalist relations, more specifically through privatizations and the establishment of a stock market.

The Movements of the Peoples

6. An important fact is the development and appearance of movements, centers of resistance of the people, of radical forces that tend to touch up the full spectrum of imperialist policies with their demands and aims of struggle. At the center are the issues of unemployment and poverty, of wars and interventions, of profits and the profit-making character of capital. There are also the issues of militarization, state repression and violence, the struggle for democratic liberties and political rights, against the robbery of the environment and raw materials by the monopolies, the fight against racism and the persecutions against those who challenge the new world order. A characteristic trend is also that various movements start projecting a combination of anti-war and social aims. The fight on social problems is expanding in all continents; it is characterized by its duration and the employment of different forms of struggle. The anti-war struggle involves greater mass mobilization, a higher level of international coordination, however it has not taken on a permanent character as of yet and continuity.

Imperialist aggression did not succeed to immobilize and subjugate the different movements, their struggles against imperialist occupation and intervention.

The workers' struggle in some cases and regions have taken on bigger dimensions, fights develop against privatization, the problems of education and social policy.

In recent years, people have challenged in a more concrete manner the policies of the EU, NATO and other imperialist unions. Slogans are put forward against the concept of "one-way roads", demands are being put forward for more general social change. Such tendencies appeared also in Europe, in public referenda and in the recent European Elections.

The most consistent forces of the workers and communist movements have spearheaded and inspired great mobilizations against war, in support of social issues, for democratic liberties. In some countries the communist parties have raised their role in the popular movement with mobilizations and heroic struggles that have had to one or another degree an important positive international effect.

The development of struggles reflects to a large extent a spirit of awakening that has not taken on an upward course and dynamic yet. It is still very far from expressing a comprehensive alternative political proposal that will lead to confrontation and rupture with the monopolies and imperialism both at the national and the international level.

The action of reformist, opportunist forces and the internationalist movements of the peoples

7. Within the ranks of the popular movements, acute contradictions between the reformist opportunist forces of consent and the forces which, to one degree or another, project the need for radical solutions, goals and demands of struggle in an anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly direction, are increasingly evident.

Today, just as in the entire history of the international workers movement, the strategic goal of capital and the political parties that serve it, is the dissolution, the castration and the subjugation-assimilation of the international workers' trade union movement and, more generally, the international struggle of the people.

Businessmen, monopoly group executives, sold-out trade union cadre are shaping a new form of trade union organizations; they finance the establishment and maintenance of new workers confederations everywhere, especially in the former socialist countries. In this category fall a great number of so-called Non-Governmental Organizations. Their intervention is supplemented by networks, whereas various organizations and movements are financially "assisted" with all means, so that anything that might take on an anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly character might be controlled on a worldwide scale.

Social-democratic forces dominate the leadership of the new structures that have been formed, such as the World Social Forum and its regional structures. Representatives of business groups also participate, forces of consent and compromise that openly declare their hostility towards the communist workers' movement. They negate the contribution of the socialist system that was developed in the 20th century. Even governmental forces and mechanisms of imperialist countries participate and play a leading role.

Inter-imperialist contradictions, sharpening as the USA demands the lion's share of the loot , resulted in a series of social-democratic forces in Europe taking on initiatives to utilize and direct the movements into a line of support for French-German imperialism; to de-orient the movements and to assimilate political forces into a mere struggle against neo-liberal practices, without, however, an anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly orientation, into a melting pot of "Center-Left" and "the rebirth" of social-democracy.

Every single view that considers the so-called movement against globalization as marking "the end of the communist movement" is systematically put in the forefront; views and concepts that project a kind of socialism with a capitalist market, in radical contradiction to the historical continuity of the socialism that we have known, the historical continuity of the communist movement. These views simply refer to a better management of the capitalist system.

The World Social Forum, with its actions, attempts to trap and to assimilate radical forces, forces that express militant attitudes of the working class and other social strata. They intend to assimilate them into a one-sided struggle against the USA, for the benefit of other imperialist forces that demand a greater share or at least equal terms with the USA in the redistribution of markets.

The slogan that they project, "another world is possible", is supplemented by a program and framework of struggle which, in essence, calls upon workers to self-limit their demands. What is presented as necessary for the people does not come in contradiction with the needs and the interests of the capitalist system.

The struggle against imperialism, the struggle against the forces of assimilation and consent, for the time being, remains imbalanced. It has not yet taken on the form of a coordinated united counter-attack.

The development of an anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly movement can only be realized if the international communist movement faces up to the serious problems that characterize it, given that it has not yet recovered from the crisis resulting from the victory of counter-revolution. It depends as well on the course of the workers' trade union movement, which is in a period of re-orientation, as it also has not yet recovered from a stage of retreat and crisis.

Moreover, the popular movements are functioning under conditions where anti-communist, so-called "anti-terrorist laws" and a more general suffocating framework of laws that block mass action, both in the workplace and in general.

In the new countries of the EU, prohibitions against communists and their parties are being enforced. Hundreds of thousands of working people have been deprived of their basic rights, among which their electoral rights. The parties of the European social-democrats have aligned themselves fully with the liberal parties; they do not tolerate any reference to socialism in their party programs.

The international militant organizations that exist have not yet dealt with the obstacles facing them so that they might create the necessary infrastructure on a worldwide basis, in order to develop stronger communication structures with forces that are being reorganized and revitalized in many countries.

To a greater or lesser extent, international organizations such as the World Peace Council, the World Federation of Trade Unions, the World Federation of Democratic Youth, the Women's International Democratic Federation, have taken important steps in the direction of international struggle and the coordination of action among themselves. Many organizations and movements are having difficulties still, in that they do not have resources and the means to develop internationalist action, to share the responsibility of building a pole of action that will fight against imperialism in a consistent manner. They are characterized on a national and regional level by internal contradictions and differences, because of the struggle between the forces of consent and the forces of emancipation.

The situation in the International Communist Movement

8. A significant number of Communist and Workers Parties were better equipped to confront imperialist aggressiveness and to take action against the unjust imperialist war in Afghanistan and especially Iraq. In the previous years, many efforts were made to coordinate the action of the CPs. There has been an increasing number of multilateral initiatives by the. Important meetings took place in South America, in the Middle East, among the Arab CPs, in the Balkans and in Western Europe. The relations of cooperation between communist youth in Europe are being strengthened and stabilized. The international meetings of workers and communist parties that take place in Athens have been instituted.

Despite all this, the International Communist Movement remains organizationally and ideologically fragmented; it is experiencing a crisis. The struggle between revolutionary communist viewpoints and reformist, opportunist viewpoints continues within its ranks. The conflict between the line of "resistance-rupture" and the line of "adaptation - assimilation" into the imperialist system continues.

At the center of the struggle are: the contemporary relevance of Marxism - Leninism, the development of our theory in the period of transition to socialism under conditions of temporary victory of counter-revolution, the character of the Communist Party, the character of imperialism, political alliances, the stance of communists in the mass movements, their stance on the capitalist crisis and the inter-imperialistic contradictions, policies against intra-state regional and international unions, the historic role of the working class, the inevitability of socialist revolution and the building of socialism.

The creation of the "Party of the European Left" (EL), with the participation of certain Communist Parties, expresses the trend of adaptation to the negative balance of forces. Objectively, independently of subjective choices and declarations, it constitutes a fatalistic acceptance of the bourgeois legitimacy. The EL refutes the theory of scientific socialism, the communist traditions.

The reservations and skepticism that certain parties express towards the main duty of the CPs, to form a distinct pole of cooperation, is not due to hesitation based on negative experiences which, in their view, appeared in the framework of the Communist International. It is mainly due to the recent pressure that they have experienced, and generally, to the underestimation of the basic governing principles of the theory of scientific socialism.

Under these conditions, the ideological counter-attack of the communist movement that believes in the necessity and the realistic possibility of a struggle for the overthrow of the capitalist system, is of vital importance. Communists believe in the role of the international workers' and anti-imperialist movement, in the international revolutionary process. The ideological counter-attack constitutes one of the most basic preconditions for strengthening the worldwide movement of the peoples and the militant alliances.

The internationalization of the struggle against imperialism cannot acquire a mass and especially a stable character if it is not based upon a distinct and powerful communist pole which, once established, can become a driving force for a positive influence of the peoples on international developments. This will form a powerful basis for a wider anti-imperialist alliance.

The people's answer to imperialist strategy, to contemporary barbarism, can only be one, given the conditions under which we live:

To unite their forces in the struggle against the monopolies and imperialism at the national, regional and international level; to decisively fight back against the forces of capital, on all fronts of struggle for economic and social rights, against military, economic and political interventions. The struggle against imperialist barbarism will assume the greatest possible effectiveness, mass character and mobilization, will conquer victories to the extent that the movement of the working class and its allies shape political demands and terms of struggle that are determined by the historic position of imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism that reveals the historic necessity of the passage to socialism.

The primary target of imperialist policy is the right of every people to determine by themselves, without foreign intervention, the social and political system of their country. For this reason it is necessary to strengthen the solidarity with the peoples who endeavor to build socialism, who struggle and envision the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of socialist power.

The necessary, achievable and different world for the peoples is socialism.