Solidarity messages to WWP: Economic crisis, elections are big issues

Following are excerpts from some of the 25 messages of solidarity to the Nov. 15-16 Workers World Party National Conference, focused on the worldwide capitalist economic crisis. More will appear in a future issue.

From the Communist Party of Venezuela: “Our Party awaits with great interest the conclusions of your conference, since surely it will deal with the important issues that also have implications in Venezuela: the policy of North American President-elect Barack Obama and the financial and economic crisis, events that require a rigorous analysis.

“The world is immersed in a persistent and ever-larger discussion in the search for alternatives that make it possible to end poverty, inequalities and war. Socialism has become the most viable option as a system to allow the development of nations, faced with the destruction that capitalism and neoliberalism have inflicted upon us.”

The Pole of the Communist Rebirth in France comments: “Less than 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the defeat of the European socialist camp, the same capitalism that then proclaimed that it was the end of history has entered into a structural crisis that Marxists have analyzed as sharpening over the last period.”

The Communist Party of Bolivia adds: “The methods the Bush administration has adopted are aimed at saving the bankers and in general the big bourgeoisie, passing on the costs [of the crisis] to the true producers of social wealth, who are the workers. Also, the peoples of the world, especially those in the weakest position, will also suffer the effects of the crisis. At the same time this will contribute to clarifying the minds of the people so they see that it is the capitalist system in its entirety that is guilty of creating this suffering.”

From the Spanish state, the Red Current group writes: “You know that your struggle provides an example for workers in countries like ours, with very similar models of growth, and in which the consequences of the crisis affect the working class in a similar way: massive layoffs, scarcities of necessities of life and loss of homes.

“We are facing, as you are too, the need to rebuild the workers’ movement. Your fight is central for all the peoples of the world and we value your efforts as we do our own.”

The Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain adds: “At this time, the tremendous bankruptcy of the model of capitalist domination confirms and validates the justice of our vision of the world, of Marxist-Leninist analyses and of the necessity of our struggle.”

The Socialist Unity Center of India points out that “in all the countries the capitalist class, in its fanatic bid to tide over the crisis, is trying to shift and pass on the entire burden arising out of this crisis to the working class of the respective countries. We strongly feel that at this juncture, it is the first and foremost duty of all genuine Marxist-Leninist parties to come forward to organize the working class against these onslaughts.”

The New Left-Caamanistas Circles of the Dominican Republic says: “The great crises of capitalism are breeding ground for self-determination, new democracies and new socialisms.”

The Union of the People of Galicia writes: “We are also in agreement regarding the [conference’s] objectives: the defense of the working class and the oppressed people, beginning with the conviction that—as you write in your poster—‘Capitalism is the problem and socialism is the solution.’”

The Danish Communist Party says: “It is precisely in moments of serious structural crisis that there are real possibilities of mobilizing the working class and its allies in order to challenge the very exploiting logic of the capitalist system and replace it with a human system built upon new relations of solidarity, social property and internationalism.

“Let the capitalists pay for their own crisis!”