From our point of view, it is now possible to launch a new phase in the
development of a revolutionary strategy in the imperialist centres and
to
create, as a condition for this qualitative leap forward, the
international
organization of proletarian struggle in the metropoles, with its
politico-military
nucleus, the West European guerrilla. We arrive at this conclusion as
the
result of objective circumstances:
the central role of West Europe for imperialist reconstruction in
the period following the breakdown of the international relationship of
forces, as a result of the liberation struggles in the South and the
conflict between growing productive capacities and the world market.
This led to the global political-economic-military crisis for the chain
of imperialist states and affected the whole imperialist system;
our experiences in the last years, during which a
revolutionary armed policy has been established in the metropoles and
new struggles have developed around different focal points of the
conflict between imperialism and liberation. These experiences have led
to the development of a common discussion, which is consciously
conducted, about revolutionary strategy and
tactics in the metropoles.
This led to the question of how we can establish a communist
perspective in West Europe on the basis of these experiences. In other
words, as a result of the unification of the imperialist strategy, the
communist guerrilla in West Europe has the following tasks if it is to
make the historical project of the struggle against imperialism
concrete:
LEADING A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE REVOLUTIONARY POLITICAL LINE THAT
WILL MAKE UNITY POSSIBLE IN THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE IMPERIALIST
MACHINE;
DEVELOPING, THROUGH A PRACTICAL PROCESS, A PROLETARIAN POLICY IN
THE CENTRES THAT IN A DIALECTICAL MANNER SUMMARIZES THE UPRISING
AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION
DAILY EXPERIENCED EVERYWHERE WITHIN THE IMPERIALIST SYSTEM AND WHICH
BUILDS
UP THE POLITICO-MILITARY FRONT IN WEST EUROPE AS PART OF THE WORLDWIDE
WAR
BETWEEN THE PROLETARIAT AND THE IMPERIALIST BOURGEOISIE;
DEVELOPING AN OPEN PROCESS DIRECTED TOWARDS A COMMON ATTACK THAT
AIMS TO UNDERMINE THE IMPERIALIST STRATEGY IN ITS OWN CENTRES, BECAUSE
IT IS HERE THAT THEY MUST PREPARE THEMSELVES MILITARILY AND
ECONOMICALLY TO PROTECT THEIR
GLOBAL POWER.
In the present phase, the central project of the imperialist strategy
is to try to weld together the West European states into a homogeneous
structure, into a strong bloc, that is totally integrated into the
nucleus of imperialist power, into NATO, the most advanced imperialist
power structure. The bourgeoisie wants to fortify itself in this
political-economic-military structure in order
to roll back the development of the offensive and of the liberation
struggles,
and in order to impose its structure onto all national or economic
contradictions,
to have absolute power that penetrates all social relationships, with
the
globalization of war as the solution for its overall crisis.
Militarily:
externally, by the ability to wage war against the liberation
struggles in the South, by rolling back the victorious struggles of the
peoples of Asia,
Africa and Latin America and by the concrete preparations for war
against the socialist states in the East.
The "new NATO doctrine" means nothing other than:
the offensive strategy, by which the European states are meant to
relieve pressure on the American military machine, because they need
the
concentration of all forces and means for war on all of the fronts;
the stationing of atomic missiles is only one step, albeit a
decisive one;
the reactivation of the WEU [1],
the building up of the FAR [2] in
France, the debate around German participation in the discussion
regarding the "force de frappe" and its inclusion in NATO.
These are really steps towards military development.
internally it means the reaction to the resistance of a
revolutionary front in the centers and its prevention, because it could
create real resistance to their strategy. Counterinsurgency, the
unified state policy of the imperialist chain, defines the reality here
and is the condition from which all revolutionaries must start today.
Economically:
with the goal of forming a European industry under the absolute
domination of US capital, concentrating on research and production in
strategic areas such as new technologies, electronics and weapons, to
safeguard the position of the imperialist bloc (USA, Japan, West
Europe) and the worldwide conditions for the realization of profit for
multinational capital. That is, a war economy as a means to overcome
crisis.
The pillars of capitalist rule and ideology in the metropoles -
"prosperity", "social security" and "the right to work” - are already
destroyed because of the brutality of restructuring; the elimination of
millions of people from
the productive process through the new international industrial
organization and through automation. It is clear that for people here
this will mean even more exploitation, misery and mass manipulation
through the ruling ideology and social control.
Because of their substantial instability and increasing loss of
legitimacy, the only thing the imperialist states have to show is their
power to rule. Today, they are confronted with the fact that they do
not enjoy passive consent, not for a single one of their measures.
Political agony; that is the other side of their power. This is the
result of the antagonism that has developed worldwide through the
struggle of the proletariat and the oppressed peoples against
imperialism, and it is the terrain on which the offensive for
proletarian power in West Europe can become the decisive factor for
sharpening the deep crisis of the system.
The attacks against the multinational structure of NATO, against its
bases and strategists, its plans and propaganda, were the first big
mobilization under these new political conditions towards a strategy
for proletarian politics in West Europe. This mobilization develops and
reinforces the struggle against the system of exploitation and war, as
one can see in the attacks in Spain, Portugal, Belgium, France and the
FRG [3]. From our point of view, in
contrast to all ideological debates and abstract programs "about
internationalism," the strategy of the West European guerrilla, with
its determination to function as part of the international class war
and, through practice, to create the political unity of communists in
West Europe to organize and attack the entire imperialist system, is
the material transformation of proletarian internationalism that the
situation today demands.
Authentic revolutionary strategy will evolve in West Europe by
attacking the central imperialist projects, just as the collectivity
and coherency of
the combatants will evolve from their specific conditions and prospects.
Unity:
which wins the space for the development of proletarian
consciousness and power by destroying the imperialist structures.
THE WEST EUROPEAN GUERRILLA IS SHAKING THE IMPERIALIST CENTRE!
