LABOUR MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA – REPUBLICS OF EX-USSR – INTERNATIONAL
AUCPB EXPRESSES CLASS SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT
Joint Statement of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the AUCPB for Ukraine, Moldova and Transdniestria and the editorial of AUCPB newspaper "Workers' and Peasants' Truth" (Raboche-Krestyanskaya Pravda)
Dear fellow Kazakh comrades!
We admire your courageous fight for your rights: against rising prices, for higher wages, the establishment of normal working conditions, safety measures, providing good housing and environmental conditions for the establishment and maintenance of independent labour unions.
Together with you, we support your workers’ leaders Natalia Sokolova, Natalia Azhigalievu, Akzhanata Aminov, hunger strikers and other comrades who have selflessly and courageously defended the rights of the oilmen and the rights of the working man.
We note that the conditon of the working class, working people of Kazakhstan - as well as workers in other republics of ex-Soviet Union – which are akin to slave states was a result of the criminal destruction of our great Soviet Motherland, the privatization (embezzlement and misappropriation) of socialist public property and the return to the exploitative capitalist system .
We are deeply outraged by the repression against the protesters, against your workers and union leaders, repression inflicted by the authorities and security forces of the anti-peoples bourgeois regime of Nursultan Nazarbayev - traitor of the Communist Party and Soviet people and faithful servant of capital.
At the same time, we urge you to remain vigilant and not allow the use of the labour movement in Kazakhstan as a tool by the imperialist secret services of the U.S. and the West, when on a wave of indignation of the working masses against the intolerable conditions of life, the top echelons of power of one protege of the bourgeoisie is replaced by another one, and an openly pro-American, pro-Western and anti-Russian one at that.
You can achieve true victory by destroying the power of capital and bringing to power a Soviet workers' government. Let your fight be an inspiring example for the working class and toiling masses of all the other republics ("independent" states) of the ex-USSR.
We wish you success and VICTORY in the struggle!
July 13, 2011
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IN THE PORT OF KALININGRAD, CREW GO ON STRIKE ABOARD A DUTCH CARGO SHIP
Dry cargo ship "Navin Kestrel" belongs to the Netherlands company "NYKI SHIPPING BV". The sailors, among them citizens of Russia and Ukraine have not been paid since May. They refused to sail on and appealed for help to the Kaliningrad inspection ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation).
As reported in the inspection, after negotiating with the Netherlands branch, and having made a collective bargaining agreement with the company, part of the salary was paid. However, now the owner has stopped communicating with the sailors. Then they said that the ship will not leave the port until they are fully paid.
Meanwhile the "Navin Kestrel" fully loaded remain in the port of Kaliningrad. In addition to salaris, the shipowner will have to pay material damages to the maritime authorities of the port. When entering Kaliningrad on electricity on the freighter disappeared, and the ship passed the pier entrance gate.
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IVANOVO WORKERS DEMAND THE REMOVAL OF THEIR UNSCRUPULOUS DIRECTOR
On July 18 at the entrance of "Specialized municipal enterprise for sanitary cleaning of the city and facility improvement of the city of Ivanov", at the initiative of workers of that enterprise and Ivanovo City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a protest was held against the destructive activities of the director of the facilities V.A. Gorobtsov and mass layoffs of workers.
Head of the Administration of Ivanovo A.S. Kuzmichev, denied workers the right to picket at 17.00, and proposed moving it to 19.00. Workers refused to change the time of and gathered at the entrance of the company, as stated in the notice.
By the entrance about 60 people gathered. Conversation took place about the situation prevailing in the enterprise with the new director V.A. Gorobtsov. All that accumulated in recent months, was talked about by people among themselves, and they also so spoke to local TV journalists .
Deputy Mayor of Ivanov K.V. Bocharov came out to the entrance. The workers confidently state that V.A. Gorobtsov was led to the company by precisely K.V. Bocharov. The Deputy Head of the city looked, assessed the situation and emotional intensity of the crowd and invited everyone in the auditorium of the enterprise. The workers, after consulting among themselves, agreed and headed towards the entrance security checkpoint. But it was not so easy to pass it. Security laid down a condition that only 5 people could be allowed to go in at a time. This angered the employees. With indignation at the "draconian order" established Gorobtsov, people left the checkpoint and continued their protest, which in the form could not be seen as a protest, but on the internal content and intensity, it was precisely such.
The police present at the same time, watched what was happening but did not intervene, warning protestors they would not tolerate breaches in public order. I must say that workers at the time of this standing at the entrance, behaved consistently and with dignity, without giving any reason for police intervention.
After some time out of doors of the company, again appeared K.V. Bocharov and repeatedly asked the workers to come into the assembly hall, while ensuring that all interested persons could pass through, except reporters and TV crews. Why the representative of city government suddenly formed a disliking of the media, he failed to explain, and nobody ask him about that. They all took it for granted. What can you do?! That’s the authorities for you ...
The small room dimly lit hall of failed to evoke much optimism, and very emotional situation gathered clouds over the upcoming meeting, and prepared a storm and threat of popular anger.
The hall gradually filled up, and almost all the seats were occupied. At the presidium sat K.V. Bocharov and A.N. Avtoneev, secretary of the Ivanovo city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and chairman of the public association "Perspective".
Bocharov conducted the meeting. Trying to calm the audience, he began the conversation by offering to settle the conflict at the company and begin normal operation, and asked what the workers were not satisfied with at work. His last question "added fuel to the fire." The hall was in uproar.
Valery Lavetkin, a heavy goods driver stood up, and in turn asked Bocharov a number of counter-questions, "Why is the enterprise conducting mass layoffs? At one time you said that it would be better lay off 100 workers rather than one manager, so how do you think about that now? Why lay off people who signed the letter to the President of Russia, just because they put their signature to this letter? Why are entire teams being fired for this?" The hall thundered: "Our demand is that it is necessary to replace the head of the enterprise."
Trying to seize the initiative and reassure those present, Bocharov, not answering the questions by Lavetkin, changed the conversation and said that from Friday (15/07/2011), all orders on reduction in employee number will be revoked, and layoffs on those grounds will not be made. "If there are layoffs, then, only for violations, truancy, boozing, and the rest he will sort out himself", - said deputy head of administration.
It seemed that this message was to reassure people, but no. In the hearts of so many workers boiled resentment at the indignity and humiliation they suffered from the director Gorobtsov, that they did not want to make any concessions. Only one condition, said the workers - the director had to be fired. The hall was buzzing with indignation. People took turns getting up to speak, or directly from their seats, and expressed the bitterness that had accumulated in recent years, with difficulty selecting an expression that would not upset the authorities by the workers’ directness, they demanded from the administration only one thing - replace the director. They were by now not worried about the argument of the presidium, that a worse director could replace the present one. They had only one argument - "It can’t get any worse than it is already."
Again Lavetkin Valery stood up and said: "Today I get cake on one side spread with honey and mustard spread on the other side. If Gorobets remains, then tomorrow he will dismiss all of us one by one from the company. I know him from the Kohomsky DRSU company, which he successfully ruined and bankrupted. I had to leave there. Today, he is destroying the SMP and is preparing me again the fate of an unemployed man."
The workers supported Valery, and voices could be heard saying: "And what about those who have already been fired? They should be reinstated."
After enduring a brief pause, Bocharov agreed with the need to restore the previously dismissed workers. He suggested that those who had already been dismissed, some of whom were present in the hall, write an application for reinstatement.
Only yesterday the authorities were adamant they did not even want to listen to ordinary people, but now are available, softer, supple and making concessions. Politically infantile citizens would ask themselves what happened with the authorities. But something is clear to us. The answer is ridiculously simple. First of all, workers appealed for help to the Communists, and secondly this is all on the verge of elections in October 2011 in the State Duma and in March 2012 - Russian Presidential elections. The "United Russia" party has a problem with getting votes in this election, and in the company a large group of disgruntled workers has formed, so the authorities are rushing to extinguish the conflict and to "stabilize" the situation at least until March 2012. And the elections will pass and again, they will do anything they like, including violate all past commitments, arguing - political expediency. Until the next election which will be in 5 years, during this time, all resentment will be forgotten, and on the shoulders of naive once again they will "enter into power."
Events in the company, are somewhat similar to the situation with the electric trolley buses in the regional center, which the authorities wanted to destroy in the spring. The authorities managed to extinguish the conflict. Will it be able to cope with this?
Times change, people change, and they are not so gullible as they used to be. They frankly do not believe the authorities. That is why in the hall, unflattering accusations flew: "We have two "fronts", one for managers who receive a salary and live happily ever after, and another, our "front" of workers, those who lose their jobs and wages, have lowered allowances, and are denied bonuses".
Presiding Bocharov, knowing that he was unable to control the situation at a meeting, and trying to seize the initiative went on to make further concessions: "As for pay, the foreman puts forward the allowance, and whoever does not agree with this allowance, we will create a commission, which will include a member of HR, a chairman of the trade union ...". The explosion of laughter do not let him finish. Through the laughter of the workers said: "What kind of defenders of the people are they. They follow the bosses orders and have no opinions of their own."
Behind the podium stood Director Gorobets. The words he uttered, a few disconnected phrases and difficult to understand outraged the hall. Sounded: "What is there to talk to him about! Lets get out of here!" The workers all at once got up and walked to the door, talking on the way about this meeting. In their words, there was no optimism, no hope for the future and no satisfaction, even in view of the fact that the employer knocked out individual concessions. They are well aware of their director and are assured that this gentleman will not forgive anyone or anything. People said: "The Rubicon has been crossed" and we should now go to the end, until victory. Only replacement of the director can make a difference to the enterprise."
In the empty hall remained Bocharov, Gorobets, Avtoneev and several people from the administration of the company.
All the workers left the checkpoint, where they were met by waiting journalists and TV people yearning for information and with professional curiosity asked questions and recorded on camera interviews with workers about the meeting in the auditorium and the latest news that the journalists needed but were excommunicated by the will of the local authorities.
Gradually journalistic curiosity was satisfied, cameras and tripods into the cars the media left to return to their studios and editorial offices to prepare new material about the struggle of the workers for their rights, dosing out the truth by measure of their honesty.
The action continued. The workers waited for Andrei Avtoneev who negotiated with Bocharov, and the managers. It was a long wait and the impatient workers went home. But the backbone of about twenty people continued to wait for the result. After half an hour Andrei came out. The workers surrounded him. He said "Bocharov suggested to the protesting workers nominate candidates for the post of Deputy Director of the company." For the workers, this proposal was a surprise. It could be seen that the situation meant the regional governor had to act in any manner in the shortest possible time to extinguish the conflict. So now the city administration has to make concessions, which were unthinkable before even today. A candidate for Deputy Director was immediately found by the workers, and it just this man that Gorobets has long been methodically persecuting trying to drive out of the company under any pretext. The question arises, how the deputy and director to will work, having such a relationship. One gets the impression that the government's current goal is to extinguish the conflict at the enterprise, and after the elections, "We will work out what to do with him."
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
AUCPB PUBLISHES WRITE-UPS
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- The 7th and 8th issues of Serp I Molot, organ of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks of Russia, carried special write-ups on the 17th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung, the 58th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the Fatherland Liberation War and the 66th anniversary of Korea's liberation.
It carried an article titled "DPRK" with a photo of the President discussing the work with leader Kim Jong Il. The article said the President is a benefactor who saved the Korean nation from the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule.
July 8 is not a day of sorrow for the Korean people but a day when they express their boundless reverence for him, it said.
Deep reverence of progressive mankind for him is evidenced by the number of the visitors to the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, it added.
The DPRK is now waging a dynamic drive to build a thriving nation, rallied close around Kim Jong Il, it noted, adding:
We sincerely wish the Korean people greater successes in their efforts to build a thriving socialist nation and reunify the country.
It carried an article titled "DPRK" with a photo of the President discussing the work with leader Kim Jong Il. The article said the President is a benefactor who saved the Korean nation from the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule.
July 8 is not a day of sorrow for the Korean people but a day when they express their boundless reverence for him, it said.
Deep reverence of progressive mankind for him is evidenced by the number of the visitors to the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, it added.
The DPRK is now waging a dynamic drive to build a thriving nation, rallied close around Kim Jong Il, it noted, adding:
We sincerely wish the Korean people greater successes in their efforts to build a thriving socialist nation and reunify the country.
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
AUCPB NEWSREEL 26 JULY 2011
JULY 17 DAY IN NORTH CAUCASUS
The Urals Regional Soviet on July 17, 1918 condemned to death Nicholas the Bloody. Much earlier in a court of the Russian people, who never forgave and could not forgive the former Tsar Nicholas ll for the crimes shed with blood committed by him, warming his relatives, and with complete disregard for the fate of millions of people across Russia, who suffered from his oppression.
In the North Caucasus on July 17, Bolsheviks in the towns of Krasnodar, Ust-Labinsk, Maikop, Seversky district, Vladikavkaz, Pyatigorsk, Georgievska, Min-Voda, Alexandersky and other towns and villages handed out leaflets "Three hundred and four years of rule in Russia by the Romanov dynasty," "About the State Flag of the Russian Federation", "On the State Emblem of the Russian Federation. On the State Anthem of the Russian Federation ", the brochure "Modern China" by A.Mayevsky, and newspapers "Serp and Molot”, " Workers' and Peasants' Truth", "Revolution."
In June and July in the town of Pyatigorsk, Bolsheviks restored a memorial plaque to the mass graves at Krasnoslobodsky cemetery, where the White Guards of General Denikin hacked with swords over 10,000 Red Army soldiers and Bolsheviks. They also renovated commemorative plaques and red stars on all the mass graves and monuments of the Civil War in Russia 1918-1920 and carried out other work.
Eternal memory to the victims in the struggle against the tsarist government, for the cause of the Great October Socialist Revolution!
North Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee of the AUCPB
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REFORM OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR IS IN FINAL STAGE
As we have mentioned before, the current government's emphasising the need to strengthen its internal security forces, police and special forces to suppress the uprising of the people. The reforms are undertaken by the Interior Ministry for this purpose, as recently stated by the head of the police department Nurgaliyev .
KALUGA, July 16. / ITAR-TASS /. Reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is in the final stage. This was stated by the head of the police department Rashid Nurgaliyev at an operational meeting of special forces police.
"Reforming the Ministry of the Interior is now at the final stage", - he said. He recalled that at the moment re-certification of employees of internal affairs is continuing, and " the new structure of central and regional apparatus and territorial bodies had already been approved."
"Despite the fact that the time until August 1 (deadline end of the re-certification process) is short, please step up to the issue with maximum principle", - said Nurgaliyev.
Also, the Interior Minister said that the number of employees of the police special forces during the Interior Ministry reform will not be reduced, and the allowance towards salaries will be increased. "The number of staff groups for special purposes will be retained in full. None of the combat units will be reduced "- he said.
According to him, next year, pending the entry into force of the law on social guarantees, which will soon be signed by the head of state, salary supplements for special forces soldiers will be increased again.
"The present level of social security for special forces soldiers is higher than that of other staff services of the Interior, and rightly so. We will continue to follow this line"- the minister said.
He said that over the past five years, 30 units of special-purpose databases have been reconstructed and commissioned. "This year, by decision of the head of state, another 1.1 billion rubles for technical re-equipping has been allocated from the federal budget," - said Nurgaliyev.
"With increased funding, we will be able to almost double the amount of equipment for the special forces. By 40-45 per cent in 2002-2004, and up to 80-85 percent at the present time ", - said the head of the MVD. According to him, over the past five years, 128 new types of weapons for the armed special riot forces have been adopted. "More than 80 research and development projects have been carried out totaling approximately 300 million rubles," - said Nurgaliyev.
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SECOND STALIN PICKET HELD IN NOVOSIBIRSK
On July 19, in Novosibirsk, on Kalinin Square, a second Stalin picket was held, organized by the AUCPB, Trudovaya Rossiya, AKM-RKSM whichmake up Novosibirsk movement "FOR STALIN!".
Like the first picket, today Bolshevik press, books about Stalin were distributed and signatures gathered collected for the installation of a bust of Stalin in the city of Novosibirsk.
The next rally is on July 22, on Friday, the May 1 Square, at 16.00-19.00, by the stella to the Heros of the Soviet Union.
AUCPB-Novosibirsk
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PRICES RUSSIA HAVE GONE UP BY A THIRD
A hopeless six month summary - as of July 1 results in an increase in food prices by 33% compared with July last year, reports "Nezavisimaya Gazeta".
This is the conclusion of the research agency inFOLIO Research Group, which deals with the analysis of consumer markets. The agency conducted an audit of retail prices in shops in all price segments. The study collected data on basic food products: bread, chicken-broilers, butter, sunflower oil, margarine, milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, eggs, sugar, tea, salt, flour, cereals, pasta, potatoes, cabbage cabbage, onions, carrots, cucumbers, apples, beef, pork (excluding boneless meat), etc.
The leader of food inflation is in the capital region. In Moscow, food prices rose by more than 40%. This is followed by the Far East, Khabarovsk with prices on products growing by 36%. Also, the price tags in stores are not encouraging to people of Siberia, Novosibirsk where prices shuddered at 33% higher. In the major cities of Central and North-Western Federal Districts, prices rose by about 30%. The price of food significantly rose in in the Urals, in Yekaterinburg, with price hikes of more than 20%. The lowest price increase was in the South Federal District - 18-19% increase. "These high rates are provided for by high rates of annual increase in the prices of potatoes (by 54%), vegetables (by 53%) and sunflower oil (by 56%) - the researchers explain. - Other products exhibit lower rates: sugar - by 29%, milk - by 22%, a loaf of sliced bread - by 21%. "
AUCPB editorial comment on the above. We note that the incomes of the population (the average per capita), according to the Federal State Statistics Service, in June 2011 amounted to 20,851 rubles which is only a 9.8% increase compared with data for June last year, and prices on food, according to independent experts has risen by as much as 33%!
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THIRD STALIN PICKET IN NOVOSIBIRSK
On July 22, in Novosibirsk, at the May 1 Square by the stella to the Heroes of the Soviet Union (Novosibirsk), a third Stalin picket was held. The organizers of the rally this time were activists from the AUCPB, Komsomol and "Trudovaya Rossiya".
Young people took an active part in the picket - activists from leftist youth organizations of the city of Novosibirsk.
Young people passing by were keenly interested in the initiative to install a monument in Novosibirsk to Generalissimo Stalin, under whose leadership the Soviet people won victory over Nazi Germany in the World War of 1941-45. Young people took the youth newspaper "Revolution" (by the VMGB) and "Control Shot" (by AKM), and the youth organizations conducted a lively debate.
Contrary to the all-out smear campaign by the current government in fooling and dividing the youth, part of it although is interested in the history of their people, trying to think, and find historical truth. And we are confident that the new generation of young people will still be able to shake off the veil from their eyes of bourgeois lies and deception and to devote themselves to the struggle for the emancipation of the working people and our homeland from the yoke of capital, for the triumph of socialism.
The next fourth Stalinist picket will be held on Wednesday July 27, at 17.00-19.00, in Akademgorodok, on a square in front of building on Heroes of Labour Street, No18 / 1.
AUCPB -Novosibirsk
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The Urals Regional Soviet on July 17, 1918 condemned to death Nicholas the Bloody. Much earlier in a court of the Russian people, who never forgave and could not forgive the former Tsar Nicholas ll for the crimes shed with blood committed by him, warming his relatives, and with complete disregard for the fate of millions of people across Russia, who suffered from his oppression.
In the North Caucasus on July 17, Bolsheviks in the towns of Krasnodar, Ust-Labinsk, Maikop, Seversky district, Vladikavkaz, Pyatigorsk, Georgievska, Min-Voda, Alexandersky and other towns and villages handed out leaflets "Three hundred and four years of rule in Russia by the Romanov dynasty," "About the State Flag of the Russian Federation", "On the State Emblem of the Russian Federation. On the State Anthem of the Russian Federation ", the brochure "Modern China" by A.Mayevsky, and newspapers "Serp and Molot”, " Workers' and Peasants' Truth", "Revolution."
In June and July in the town of Pyatigorsk, Bolsheviks restored a memorial plaque to the mass graves at Krasnoslobodsky cemetery, where the White Guards of General Denikin hacked with swords over 10,000 Red Army soldiers and Bolsheviks. They also renovated commemorative plaques and red stars on all the mass graves and monuments of the Civil War in Russia 1918-1920 and carried out other work.
Eternal memory to the victims in the struggle against the tsarist government, for the cause of the Great October Socialist Revolution!
North Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee of the AUCPB
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REFORM OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR IS IN FINAL STAGE
As we have mentioned before, the current government's emphasising the need to strengthen its internal security forces, police and special forces to suppress the uprising of the people. The reforms are undertaken by the Interior Ministry for this purpose, as recently stated by the head of the police department Nurgaliyev .
KALUGA, July 16. / ITAR-TASS /. Reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is in the final stage. This was stated by the head of the police department Rashid Nurgaliyev at an operational meeting of special forces police.
"Reforming the Ministry of the Interior is now at the final stage", - he said. He recalled that at the moment re-certification of employees of internal affairs is continuing, and " the new structure of central and regional apparatus and territorial bodies had already been approved."
"Despite the fact that the time until August 1 (deadline end of the re-certification process) is short, please step up to the issue with maximum principle", - said Nurgaliyev.
Also, the Interior Minister said that the number of employees of the police special forces during the Interior Ministry reform will not be reduced, and the allowance towards salaries will be increased. "The number of staff groups for special purposes will be retained in full. None of the combat units will be reduced "- he said.
According to him, next year, pending the entry into force of the law on social guarantees, which will soon be signed by the head of state, salary supplements for special forces soldiers will be increased again.
"The present level of social security for special forces soldiers is higher than that of other staff services of the Interior, and rightly so. We will continue to follow this line"- the minister said.
He said that over the past five years, 30 units of special-purpose databases have been reconstructed and commissioned. "This year, by decision of the head of state, another 1.1 billion rubles for technical re-equipping has been allocated from the federal budget," - said Nurgaliyev.
"With increased funding, we will be able to almost double the amount of equipment for the special forces. By 40-45 per cent in 2002-2004, and up to 80-85 percent at the present time ", - said the head of the MVD. According to him, over the past five years, 128 new types of weapons for the armed special riot forces have been adopted. "More than 80 research and development projects have been carried out totaling approximately 300 million rubles," - said Nurgaliyev.
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SECOND STALIN PICKET HELD IN NOVOSIBIRSK
On July 19, in Novosibirsk, on Kalinin Square, a second Stalin picket was held, organized by the AUCPB, Trudovaya Rossiya, AKM-RKSM whichmake up Novosibirsk movement "FOR STALIN!".
Like the first picket, today Bolshevik press, books about Stalin were distributed and signatures gathered collected for the installation of a bust of Stalin in the city of Novosibirsk.
The next rally is on July 22, on Friday, the May 1 Square, at 16.00-19.00, by the stella to the Heros of the Soviet Union.
AUCPB-Novosibirsk
Photos
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PRICES RUSSIA HAVE GONE UP BY A THIRD
A hopeless six month summary - as of July 1 results in an increase in food prices by 33% compared with July last year, reports "Nezavisimaya Gazeta".
This is the conclusion of the research agency inFOLIO Research Group, which deals with the analysis of consumer markets. The agency conducted an audit of retail prices in shops in all price segments. The study collected data on basic food products: bread, chicken-broilers, butter, sunflower oil, margarine, milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, eggs, sugar, tea, salt, flour, cereals, pasta, potatoes, cabbage cabbage, onions, carrots, cucumbers, apples, beef, pork (excluding boneless meat), etc.
The leader of food inflation is in the capital region. In Moscow, food prices rose by more than 40%. This is followed by the Far East, Khabarovsk with prices on products growing by 36%. Also, the price tags in stores are not encouraging to people of Siberia, Novosibirsk where prices shuddered at 33% higher. In the major cities of Central and North-Western Federal Districts, prices rose by about 30%. The price of food significantly rose in in the Urals, in Yekaterinburg, with price hikes of more than 20%. The lowest price increase was in the South Federal District - 18-19% increase. "These high rates are provided for by high rates of annual increase in the prices of potatoes (by 54%), vegetables (by 53%) and sunflower oil (by 56%) - the researchers explain. - Other products exhibit lower rates: sugar - by 29%, milk - by 22%, a loaf of sliced bread - by 21%. "
AUCPB editorial comment on the above. We note that the incomes of the population (the average per capita), according to the Federal State Statistics Service, in June 2011 amounted to 20,851 rubles which is only a 9.8% increase compared with data for June last year, and prices on food, according to independent experts has risen by as much as 33%!
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THIRD STALIN PICKET IN NOVOSIBIRSK
On July 22, in Novosibirsk, at the May 1 Square by the stella to the Heroes of the Soviet Union (Novosibirsk), a third Stalin picket was held. The organizers of the rally this time were activists from the AUCPB, Komsomol and "Trudovaya Rossiya".
Young people took an active part in the picket - activists from leftist youth organizations of the city of Novosibirsk.
Young people passing by were keenly interested in the initiative to install a monument in Novosibirsk to Generalissimo Stalin, under whose leadership the Soviet people won victory over Nazi Germany in the World War of 1941-45. Young people took the youth newspaper "Revolution" (by the VMGB) and "Control Shot" (by AKM), and the youth organizations conducted a lively debate.
Contrary to the all-out smear campaign by the current government in fooling and dividing the youth, part of it although is interested in the history of their people, trying to think, and find historical truth. And we are confident that the new generation of young people will still be able to shake off the veil from their eyes of bourgeois lies and deception and to devote themselves to the struggle for the emancipation of the working people and our homeland from the yoke of capital, for the triumph of socialism.
The next fourth Stalinist picket will be held on Wednesday July 27, at 17.00-19.00, in Akademgorodok, on a square in front of building on Heroes of Labour Street, No18 / 1.
AUCPB -Novosibirsk
Photo
Thursday, 21 July 2011
AUCPB AND 17th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEMISE OF PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- Foreign newspapers carried articles on the 17th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung .
The Russian paper of the AUCPB, Raboche-Krestiyanskaya Pravda No. 7 in its article said the President is the great man who liberated the Korean people from the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism.
Noting that the behests of the President are becoming brilliant realities in the DPRK, the paper added: The Korean people are living, confident of the future, enjoying the benefits of free medical care and free education.
The Myanmar paper The City News said in an article on July 7 the President defeated two imperialisms and built a socialist power of Korean style on the debris and brought the people only pleasure and happiness.
It introduced the noble trait of the President who always found himself among people and shared weal and woe with them.
The Romanian paper Romania Muncitoare No. 186 carried an article under the title of "President Kim Il Sung is always alive" illustrated with a photo of the President among schoolchildren.
The President is always alive in the hearts of the Korean people, the article noted, adding that this would be unthinkable without his great feats performed for the people in his lifetime and noble popular traits.
The Russian paper of the AUCPB, Raboche-Krestiyanskaya Pravda No. 7 in its article said the President is the great man who liberated the Korean people from the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism.
Noting that the behests of the President are becoming brilliant realities in the DPRK, the paper added: The Korean people are living, confident of the future, enjoying the benefits of free medical care and free education.
The Myanmar paper The City News said in an article on July 7 the President defeated two imperialisms and built a socialist power of Korean style on the debris and brought the people only pleasure and happiness.
It introduced the noble trait of the President who always found himself among people and shared weal and woe with them.
The Romanian paper Romania Muncitoare No. 186 carried an article under the title of "President Kim Il Sung is always alive" illustrated with a photo of the President among schoolchildren.
The President is always alive in the hearts of the Korean people, the article noted, adding that this would be unthinkable without his great feats performed for the people in his lifetime and noble popular traits.
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
AUCPB-CLASS STRUGGLE 20 JULY 2011
LABOUR MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA – REPUBLICS OF EX-USSR – INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL MARCH OF STUDENTS IN CHILE ENDS IN CLASHES WITH POLICE
Santiago de Chile, July 15 (Prensa Latina). A national march of students in Chile, which was attended by over 100 000 people demanding democratic and non-privatized education ended with heavy clashes with police.
Riot police used tear gas and water cannon against the participants of the mobilization that took place in Heroes' Square, a few blocks from the Palacio de la Moneda.
The police surrounded the demonstrators and was faced with a group of hooded students trying to get out, witnesses reported at the incident.
Earlier, the government authorized the march on the site Alameda Avenue, which was supposed to start at the main railway station and end up at Heroes' Square, not reaching the palace of La Moneda.
Leaders of the Confederation of Students of Chile did not comply with this order, and called on students and other demonstrators to begin the march from Italy Square, in the heart of the capital, and continue along the Alameda to the outskirts of La Moneda, the seat of the government.
The call for demonstrations, which prompted students from different regions of the country, was sent to families of young college students, high school pupils and to society as a whole.
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IN CHILE, PROTESTS IN DEFENCE OF EDUCATION HAVE CONTINUED
Students, teachers, community organizations and citizens of Chile on July 14 became the protagonists of a new burst of a national campaign for free public education.
"Tomorrow we will again conduct a demonstration under the slogan "Yes" and only "Yes" and walk in the march from Italy Square," said the night before, Camila Vallejo, the president of the student federation at the University of Chile,.
The university leader reiterated the decision of students to keep to the previous course to enhance the wave of protests.
Last week, the student movement rejected the proposal of the Government of Chile on Higher Education, which, they argue, does not make deep structural changes in the education system in the South American country's most expensive and very selective, that is not for everyone.
The system does not guarantee the fundamental human rights to education, leaving quality training at the mercy of the market, as stressed in public statements by the student federation.
The call for a demonstration on behalf of the federation of student teachers and the College of Chile was supported by high school students, the confederation of workers, unions, health workers' and the National Federation of Copper Mine Workers, as well as many other organizations.
Agency "Prensa Latina"
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STRIKE BY EMPLOYEES OF BUS TRANSPORT IN VLADIVOSTOK- RUSSIA
Employees of bus companies in Vladivostok on Friday, July 15, held a warning protest against the poverty of the industry, in which work was suspended. For 15 minutes, 10.00 - 10.15 am – cashiers were closed, and buses stopped en route.
Above the cash registers and buses, notices were placed to inform people about the suspension of work for 15 minutes. In addition, passengers were notified verbally. According to reports, there were no complaints form passengers, and they even supported the initiative of the bus workers.
New equipment for maintaining buses which wear, takes about 80% of funds. For three years the price of fuel has increased by 1.5 times, a third - for parts, tires, and municipal services tax, extra-budgetary funds - by 1 / 4. Land tax has to be paid by many, which has risen 12.2 times.
If the measures put forward by members of the bus companies as part of preventive actions are not taken, then they are ready to further and take longer strike action.
On Friday, the action share of employees was supported by the majority of bus companies that are not even in a union. Only Vladivostok commercial buses operating on city routes refused to take part.
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PERFORMERS AT THE BALASHOV DRAMA THEATRE IN THE SARATOV REGION ON HUNGER STRIKE
This took place on July 8, reported to Interfax the chairman of the theatre trade-union, Anna Samson.
Theater workers oppose a 30 percent reduction in staff. Now in the theatre are working 109 people. Management want to fire 33 - on the pretext that there is not enough money in the budget. It has been reported that Russia’s Culture Minister Vladimir Senyukov has gone to Balashov.
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THREE PEOPLE BECOME VICTIMS OF CLASHES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The number of victims of clashes with police which took place in the Dominican Republic accompanying a 24-hour general strike has risen to three. Now on the list of victims - three men.
Two of them were killed in the city of Santiago, located in the north. Also in the course of bitter clashes of protesters with the police 12 people were injured and 20 were arrested.
The unions, who organized the strike in protest against rising food prices, vehicle fuel and medicines, said that their call was supported by about 90% of the workers. Strikers demanded the authorities increase to 35% salaries of civil servants, but also advocated the allocation of additional funds to the education system, according to ITAR-TASS.
KAZAKHSTAN: THE SITUATION IS HEATING UP
Early in the morning of 10 July, about 5 am Astana time, riot police once again moved in and attacked the camp of hunger strikers, many of whom were sleeping, and brutally beat them. Some of the workers were arrested, some activists managed to escape, and those who could not stand up on their own because of the severe weakness due to prolonged hunger (the hunger strike has lasted almost two months), were forcibly placed in hospital under heavy police protection. According to the strikers, against their continued rally at Independence Square in Zhanaozen, a considerable force the Interior Ministry have been mvoing in, including special units with heavy equipment. In the next few hours, they may attack the protesting workers.
Today, the workers managed to get out of the hospital in Zhanaozen, Natalia Azhigalievu a detainee. She was literally lifted out through a window, bypassing the police guards. This was done to prevent the imminent arrest of the activist, as this is her 60th day on hunger strike. Against her as against Akzhanata Aminov and Natalia Sokolova a criminal case has been opened under Article 164 of "inciting social discord" and the secret services intend to put them in prison. Natalia Azhigalivoey’s state of health, according to representatives of independent trade unions, is very serious, as she already recognises the very few people that are present.
Participants in the meeting (5-6 thousand people), which lasts three days, including the striking workers and their families, are expecting over the next few hours, an attack by riot police with reinforcments and other special forces who have gathered around the parts of the city, accompanied with heavy equipment. The workers have publicly declared that, despite the crude blackmail of the authorities to use force to disperse their peaceful rally, they are not going anywhere, and will defend their right to the end. At the same time, through their independent unions, the striking oil workers appeal to the authorities and employers to avoid bloodshed and violence that can lead to casualties. Now the strikers were joined by new labour groups, which suggests that the repression has only spurred a new wave of the strike movement.
Source: socialismkz.info
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NATIONAL MARCH OF STUDENTS IN CHILE ENDS IN CLASHES WITH POLICE
Santiago de Chile, July 15 (Prensa Latina). A national march of students in Chile, which was attended by over 100 000 people demanding democratic and non-privatized education ended with heavy clashes with police.
Riot police used tear gas and water cannon against the participants of the mobilization that took place in Heroes' Square, a few blocks from the Palacio de la Moneda.
The police surrounded the demonstrators and was faced with a group of hooded students trying to get out, witnesses reported at the incident.
Earlier, the government authorized the march on the site Alameda Avenue, which was supposed to start at the main railway station and end up at Heroes' Square, not reaching the palace of La Moneda.
Leaders of the Confederation of Students of Chile did not comply with this order, and called on students and other demonstrators to begin the march from Italy Square, in the heart of the capital, and continue along the Alameda to the outskirts of La Moneda, the seat of the government.
The call for demonstrations, which prompted students from different regions of the country, was sent to families of young college students, high school pupils and to society as a whole.
==================================
IN CHILE, PROTESTS IN DEFENCE OF EDUCATION HAVE CONTINUED
Students, teachers, community organizations and citizens of Chile on July 14 became the protagonists of a new burst of a national campaign for free public education.
"Tomorrow we will again conduct a demonstration under the slogan "Yes" and only "Yes" and walk in the march from Italy Square," said the night before, Camila Vallejo, the president of the student federation at the University of Chile,.
The university leader reiterated the decision of students to keep to the previous course to enhance the wave of protests.
Last week, the student movement rejected the proposal of the Government of Chile on Higher Education, which, they argue, does not make deep structural changes in the education system in the South American country's most expensive and very selective, that is not for everyone.
The system does not guarantee the fundamental human rights to education, leaving quality training at the mercy of the market, as stressed in public statements by the student federation.
The call for a demonstration on behalf of the federation of student teachers and the College of Chile was supported by high school students, the confederation of workers, unions, health workers' and the National Federation of Copper Mine Workers, as well as many other organizations.
Agency "Prensa Latina"
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STRIKE BY EMPLOYEES OF BUS TRANSPORT IN VLADIVOSTOK- RUSSIA
Employees of bus companies in Vladivostok on Friday, July 15, held a warning protest against the poverty of the industry, in which work was suspended. For 15 minutes, 10.00 - 10.15 am – cashiers were closed, and buses stopped en route.
Above the cash registers and buses, notices were placed to inform people about the suspension of work for 15 minutes. In addition, passengers were notified verbally. According to reports, there were no complaints form passengers, and they even supported the initiative of the bus workers.
New equipment for maintaining buses which wear, takes about 80% of funds. For three years the price of fuel has increased by 1.5 times, a third - for parts, tires, and municipal services tax, extra-budgetary funds - by 1 / 4. Land tax has to be paid by many, which has risen 12.2 times.
If the measures put forward by members of the bus companies as part of preventive actions are not taken, then they are ready to further and take longer strike action.
On Friday, the action share of employees was supported by the majority of bus companies that are not even in a union. Only Vladivostok commercial buses operating on city routes refused to take part.
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PERFORMERS AT THE BALASHOV DRAMA THEATRE IN THE SARATOV REGION ON HUNGER STRIKE
This took place on July 8, reported to Interfax the chairman of the theatre trade-union, Anna Samson.
Theater workers oppose a 30 percent reduction in staff. Now in the theatre are working 109 people. Management want to fire 33 - on the pretext that there is not enough money in the budget. It has been reported that Russia’s Culture Minister Vladimir Senyukov has gone to Balashov.
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THREE PEOPLE BECOME VICTIMS OF CLASHES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The number of victims of clashes with police which took place in the Dominican Republic accompanying a 24-hour general strike has risen to three. Now on the list of victims - three men.
Two of them were killed in the city of Santiago, located in the north. Also in the course of bitter clashes of protesters with the police 12 people were injured and 20 were arrested.
The unions, who organized the strike in protest against rising food prices, vehicle fuel and medicines, said that their call was supported by about 90% of the workers. Strikers demanded the authorities increase to 35% salaries of civil servants, but also advocated the allocation of additional funds to the education system, according to ITAR-TASS.
KAZAKHSTAN: THE SITUATION IS HEATING UP
Early in the morning of 10 July, about 5 am Astana time, riot police once again moved in and attacked the camp of hunger strikers, many of whom were sleeping, and brutally beat them. Some of the workers were arrested, some activists managed to escape, and those who could not stand up on their own because of the severe weakness due to prolonged hunger (the hunger strike has lasted almost two months), were forcibly placed in hospital under heavy police protection. According to the strikers, against their continued rally at Independence Square in Zhanaozen, a considerable force the Interior Ministry have been mvoing in, including special units with heavy equipment. In the next few hours, they may attack the protesting workers.
Today, the workers managed to get out of the hospital in Zhanaozen, Natalia Azhigalievu a detainee. She was literally lifted out through a window, bypassing the police guards. This was done to prevent the imminent arrest of the activist, as this is her 60th day on hunger strike. Against her as against Akzhanata Aminov and Natalia Sokolova a criminal case has been opened under Article 164 of "inciting social discord" and the secret services intend to put them in prison. Natalia Azhigalivoey’s state of health, according to representatives of independent trade unions, is very serious, as she already recognises the very few people that are present.
Participants in the meeting (5-6 thousand people), which lasts three days, including the striking workers and their families, are expecting over the next few hours, an attack by riot police with reinforcments and other special forces who have gathered around the parts of the city, accompanied with heavy equipment. The workers have publicly declared that, despite the crude blackmail of the authorities to use force to disperse their peaceful rally, they are not going anywhere, and will defend their right to the end. At the same time, through their independent unions, the striking oil workers appeal to the authorities and employers to avoid bloodshed and violence that can lead to casualties. Now the strikers were joined by new labour groups, which suggests that the repression has only spurred a new wave of the strike movement.
Source: socialismkz.info
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011
AUCPB - NEWSREEL 19 JULY 2011
NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA JULY 12: UNLIMITED PROTEST MARCH CONTINUES
On July 12, Novosibirsk, another regular protest action by pensioners against the decision of the Governor Yurchenko abolish unlimited discount rides on public transport took place. The action took place on the same route as before: first, a meeting at the residence of the governor and then a march to a rally at Lenin square by the monument to Lenin. At a rally in front of the residence of the governor were about 300 protestors.
This time, the authorities invented another "way" to disrupt the protest by pensioners. After filing notice by the organizers of the campaign on July 12, suddenly the next day (but not the day of submission) it was announced that at the initiative of the local Novosibirsk Government, "that the Ecological Action "Green trolleybus” had already served notice to hold a meeting at the same place and at the same time". However, the organizers expressed their firm intention to pursue their protest.
Then the police during the protest completely barricaded the entire area in front of the residence of the governor, having constructed out of metal turnstiles two "pens." Children and their caregivers were slightly surprised when they were invited to carry out "protest" inside a "metal fence." But the pensioners refused to go under the escort of policemen into their "pen" and said they would carry out their action directly on the road. The police officers then "realized" that it was better to remove the turnstiles (which were then moved quickly and now placed along the road) in case the pensioners suddenly decided to inadvertently block the road itself ...
In the photograph: Before the action. Metal turnstiles, one section - for children (further away), the other (which is closer) - for the senior citizens. At the entrance to the section was place the convoy. Here it is, democracy!
The rally at the residence of the governor was opened by the leader of the Novosibirsk AUCPB Alex Denisyuk and he's been leading the column of protesters. At the meeting senior citizens themselves spoke, saying that they had become sick to the soul. In the time, when a delegation of senior citizens had registered in the Administration their resolution, the protesters loudly and in unison chanted "Yuschenko – Out!, " "Down with the anti-peoples power!" "The party of crooks and thieves," "The authorities who are profiting at the expense of pensioners – shame!”, and other similar slogans, protesters chanted and during the march. The youth, who came to support the pensioners, chanting "Revolution!"
The authorities expected the wave of protests to come to nothing, but miscalculated again – as this time there were was even more people than June 12, and the mood was militant. The pensioners are going to fight to the end (see the resolution of the meeting.) After all, the protests with systematic regularity, have been going on for six months. Note that this is the thirteenth protest. The next event will be on August 12 at the same time and same place.
At the end of the protest, as always, the police wrote up reports of "administrative violations" ("unsanctioned" event) against the organizers and active participants. The authorites are seriously trying to intimidate the organizers with administrative terror. Thus, since the first protest on 29 December last year to this day, more than 50 administrative protocols have been drawn up, and the total sum of penalties dished out by the courts, equal to about 40 thousand rubles!
Gregory Pavel'ev
Photos
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STALIN PICKETS IN NOVOSIBIRSK
On July 15, on Lenin Square, a Stalin picket was held, organized by the movement "FOR STALIN!", AUCPB, Trudovaya Rossiya and AKM-Komsomol. This is the first of six Stalin pickets, to be held in Novosibirsk in the summer.
On Lenin square in front of the underground station, a Bolshevik picket was set up with red banners and portraits of Stalin, which circulated newspaper "Hammer and Sickle", "Workers 'and Peasants' Truth", "Revolution" and others, as well as books on Stalin .
The picketers put up a sketch of a proposal to set up in Novosibirsk a Gallery of Commanders of the Great Patriotic War, including a bust of Stalin, and were collecting signatures in support of this initiative. Over a hundred signatures were collected.
The city folk, among whom there were many young people, were interested in the picket, took the newspapers, asked about a monument to Stalin in Novosibirsk, and left their signatures.
The next rally will be held in Novosibirsk on Tuesday, 19 July, 16.00-19.00, on Kalinin Square, by the book shop Dom Knizhki.
AUCPB-Novosibirsk
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CAPITALISM LEAVING BILLIONS OF PEOPLE TO STARVE
The world population is growing at an impressive pace, causing scientists to worry about our future comfortable life. Already this year, the number of people on this planet will exceed seven billion people, and by 2023 will reach eight billion. Such a forecast was published by the UN World Population Day.
This date is related to the day when in 1987, the world population reached five billion. For the first time, the alarming growth in the number of people was talked about in the 1960-s of last century. From 1960 to 1999, the number of people living on the planet has more than doubled, breaking in October 1999, the six billion threshold. Then the growth rate went in decline, down from 2% to 1.3%. However, the absolute annual increase for today still accounts for nearly 77 million people.
95% of them occur in the developing, that is, the poorest countries.
This growth rate has a very negative impact on the overall standard of living for Earthlings. Already, 67 million children worldwide have no access to education, and about 925 million people worldwide experience chronic malnutrition.
The largest state by population in the near future will be India. In the developed European countries and Russia, their population, despite the global trend, will decline. Already, in Russia, the number of potential mothers is beginning to shrink. In the period from 1992 to 2007 the natural population decline Russia reached 12.3 million people. True, it was partly offset by immigration. From 2008 to 2025 the natural population decline Russia will exceed 11 million. Besides, there will be 14 million fewer people of working age and the number of pensioners will increase by approximately five million people.
In February this year, experts from the American Association for the Advancement of Science have warned that famine threatens the Earth’s population due to overpopulation. According to their forecast, by 2050, the world population may exceed nine billion, and then people will be forced to fight for food. Overpopulation by almost four times and the final impoverishment, according to experts, threatens poor countries in Africa and South Asia. Rich countries, by contrast, will increase their incomes. But this too is not good. Increase in wages will inevitably lead to an increase in appetite. Thus, after 40 years, humans will consume annually as much as was produced during the previous eight thousand years, scientists have said.
In another report, prepared last summer, the WWF, Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network, noted that recently, people have spent twice as much resources than in the past 50 years. Thus the capacity of the planet may be exhausted by 2030. If people in the next few years do not change their way of life, they will need an additional planet to survive, experts have warned. According to them, in the near future inhabitants of the earth will not have enough food, water and even air.
And recently, experts from the environmental organization Global Footprint Network said that people have already used up the water which spontaneously refills reservoirs, together with grass growing in pastures, fish from the seas and lakes, and they have harvested all the crops from fertile lands and stolen all the gifts of the forest. And at the same time, they have exhausted the usable space for storage of waste from greenhouse gases, generating climate chaos.
"Sovietskya Rossiya" [12/07/2011]
Comment from AUCPB editor.
Bourgeois sociologists try to justify the surplus population, starvation and misery of hundreds of millions of people by the false Malthusian reference as if they say, the world population is growing much faster than the means of subsistence. Hence - their justification for world wars, epidemics and reducing fertility. But such speculation has nothing to do with reality. The forming of overpopulation is due to the excessive influence of the capitalist law of population, discovered by Marx, with rapacious capitalist exploitation of natural resources. "The greater the social wealth, functioning capital, size and energy of its growth ... the more extensive the permanent overpopulation, poverty is directly proportional to the labour pains of the active army of labour. Finally, the more impoverished layers of the working class and the industrial reserve army, the more official pauperism. This is an absolute general law of capitalist accumulation "(Marx," Capital ", Vol.1).
In the USSR, under socialism, the population grew at a rate far exceeding the population growth in the capitalist countries (in the USSR during the period from December 1926 to January 1939, the population increased by 23.6 million, i.e. an increase of around 2 million per year; - compare, in today's bourgeois Russia with a population decline by 1 million per year and with it – the wholesale impoverishment of workers), while it grew in the USSR and material well-being of workers increased and unemployment by the end of 1930 had been eliminated.
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PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV IS SATISFIED WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIA
Medvedev is very satisfied with what has been happening to Russia over the past 20 years. The president quotes to RIA "Novosti" - "I think that in this sense, the generation of people who, relatively speaking, remember Brezhnev and studied under Gorbachev or later, and is living now, is perhaps the happiest generation of our people. Why? Because we have the opportunity to compare what happened in the previous era, under the previous political system, and what we have today. And this is the most important human quality - to be able to collate and to compare ".
The President recalled the time when the country "had no consumer goods, and when it was terrible to go in a store."
Of course, Medvedev admitted, he would like more progress, but according to him, when he was a university student, a graduate student, he dared not even hope for a tenth of the current progress.
Indeed, when he was still a student at Leningrad State University (graduated - in 1987) Medvedev, and not only him, dared not even suggest what a first place in the 20 years of "progress" Russia would occupy...
Russia now ranks first place in the world for:
the absolute size of population decline,
the number of suicides among the elderly,
the number of divorces and children born out of wedlock,
the number of children abandoned by parents,
the number of suicides among children and adolescents,
mortality from diseases of the cardiovascular system,
the number of patients with mental illness,
human trafficking,
total abortions and maternal mortality,
sales of spirits,
consumption of alcohol and alcohol products,
growth rates of smoking,
the number of smoking by children,
the growth rate of HIV infection,
total number of plane crashes (13 times the world average)
2nd place in the world for billionaires (after the U.S.),
2nd place in the world for suicide (after Lithuania),
2nd place in the world for murders per capita (after Colombia),
2nd place in the world for the dissemination of counterfeit drugs, (after China) (Further reading about China is in A. Maeyevsky’s book entitled “Modern China” )
2nd place in the world in terms of porn production,
2nd place in the world in the number of Russian children adopted in the U.S.,
2nd place in the world in the number of migrants,
2nd place in the world in the number of prisoners per 1000 people (after the U.S.),
2nd place in the list of countries with the largest number of small arms,
2nd place in the world in the number of journalists killed over the past ten years (after Iraq),
3rd place in the world in the number of refugees,
3rd place in the world for influx of migrants,
3rd place in the world for the dissemination of child pornography,
3rd place in the world in terms of totalitarian sects,
27th place in the world for quality education,
32 place in ecological ranking of countries,
57th position in the world for quality of life,
62 place in the world in terms of technological development (between Costa Rica and Pakistan),
65 place in the world standard of living,
70th place in the world in use of information and communication technologies,
71st place in the world in terms of human development,
72nd place in the world in terms of the state's spending per person,
97th place in per capita income,
120th in terms of economic freedom,
127th place in the world for public health,
134-rd the world in life expectancy,
147th place in the degree of press freedom (out of 168),
159th in the world in terms of political rights and freedoms,
175th in the world in terms of physical security of citizens,
The President is right, there is something to compare - in comparison with what place the Soviet Union occupied in the world.
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IN PENZA, RUSSIA, A MONUMENT TO STALIN HAS BEEN UNVEILED
On Friday, July 15 in the city of Penza, in front of the building of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), an opening ceremony to the unveiling of a monument to J.V. Stalin took place. The event was attended by war veterans, home front workers and activists of the CPRF, as well as ordinary citizens, who learned from the media about the setting up of the monument. Many of the newcomers brought along red carnations and roses to lay at the foot of the monument.
As the Regional Committee of the CPRF for Penza reports, the monument was set up on money donated by Penza patriots. People donated what they could towards the building of the monument. Amounts in this case ranged from 50 to 10,000 rubles. Thanks to this, after a half-century pause, Penza was once again able to see Stalin. Now, thea monument to Stalin is available to all comers.
Source: CPRF in Penza
kprfpenza.ru
The unveiling of a monument to Stalin, once again demonstrates that Stalin's authority among the people is growing, despite the vicious smear campaign unleashed by the present corrupt media and the current anti-people’s government to demonize Stalin and everything Soviet.
Photo
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On July 12, Novosibirsk, another regular protest action by pensioners against the decision of the Governor Yurchenko abolish unlimited discount rides on public transport took place. The action took place on the same route as before: first, a meeting at the residence of the governor and then a march to a rally at Lenin square by the monument to Lenin. At a rally in front of the residence of the governor were about 300 protestors.
This time, the authorities invented another "way" to disrupt the protest by pensioners. After filing notice by the organizers of the campaign on July 12, suddenly the next day (but not the day of submission) it was announced that at the initiative of the local Novosibirsk Government, "that the Ecological Action "Green trolleybus” had already served notice to hold a meeting at the same place and at the same time". However, the organizers expressed their firm intention to pursue their protest.
Then the police during the protest completely barricaded the entire area in front of the residence of the governor, having constructed out of metal turnstiles two "pens." Children and their caregivers were slightly surprised when they were invited to carry out "protest" inside a "metal fence." But the pensioners refused to go under the escort of policemen into their "pen" and said they would carry out their action directly on the road. The police officers then "realized" that it was better to remove the turnstiles (which were then moved quickly and now placed along the road) in case the pensioners suddenly decided to inadvertently block the road itself ...
In the photograph: Before the action. Metal turnstiles, one section - for children (further away), the other (which is closer) - for the senior citizens. At the entrance to the section was place the convoy. Here it is, democracy!
The rally at the residence of the governor was opened by the leader of the Novosibirsk AUCPB Alex Denisyuk and he's been leading the column of protesters. At the meeting senior citizens themselves spoke, saying that they had become sick to the soul. In the time, when a delegation of senior citizens had registered in the Administration their resolution, the protesters loudly and in unison chanted "Yuschenko – Out!, " "Down with the anti-peoples power!" "The party of crooks and thieves," "The authorities who are profiting at the expense of pensioners – shame!”, and other similar slogans, protesters chanted and during the march. The youth, who came to support the pensioners, chanting "Revolution!"
The authorities expected the wave of protests to come to nothing, but miscalculated again – as this time there were was even more people than June 12, and the mood was militant. The pensioners are going to fight to the end (see the resolution of the meeting.) After all, the protests with systematic regularity, have been going on for six months. Note that this is the thirteenth protest. The next event will be on August 12 at the same time and same place.
At the end of the protest, as always, the police wrote up reports of "administrative violations" ("unsanctioned" event) against the organizers and active participants. The authorites are seriously trying to intimidate the organizers with administrative terror. Thus, since the first protest on 29 December last year to this day, more than 50 administrative protocols have been drawn up, and the total sum of penalties dished out by the courts, equal to about 40 thousand rubles!
Gregory Pavel'ev
Photos
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STALIN PICKETS IN NOVOSIBIRSK
On July 15, on Lenin Square, a Stalin picket was held, organized by the movement "FOR STALIN!", AUCPB, Trudovaya Rossiya and AKM-Komsomol. This is the first of six Stalin pickets, to be held in Novosibirsk in the summer.
On Lenin square in front of the underground station, a Bolshevik picket was set up with red banners and portraits of Stalin, which circulated newspaper "Hammer and Sickle", "Workers 'and Peasants' Truth", "Revolution" and others, as well as books on Stalin .
The picketers put up a sketch of a proposal to set up in Novosibirsk a Gallery of Commanders of the Great Patriotic War, including a bust of Stalin, and were collecting signatures in support of this initiative. Over a hundred signatures were collected.
The city folk, among whom there were many young people, were interested in the picket, took the newspapers, asked about a monument to Stalin in Novosibirsk, and left their signatures.
The next rally will be held in Novosibirsk on Tuesday, 19 July, 16.00-19.00, on Kalinin Square, by the book shop Dom Knizhki.
AUCPB-Novosibirsk
Photos
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CAPITALISM LEAVING BILLIONS OF PEOPLE TO STARVE
The world population is growing at an impressive pace, causing scientists to worry about our future comfortable life. Already this year, the number of people on this planet will exceed seven billion people, and by 2023 will reach eight billion. Such a forecast was published by the UN World Population Day.
This date is related to the day when in 1987, the world population reached five billion. For the first time, the alarming growth in the number of people was talked about in the 1960-s of last century. From 1960 to 1999, the number of people living on the planet has more than doubled, breaking in October 1999, the six billion threshold. Then the growth rate went in decline, down from 2% to 1.3%. However, the absolute annual increase for today still accounts for nearly 77 million people.
95% of them occur in the developing, that is, the poorest countries.
This growth rate has a very negative impact on the overall standard of living for Earthlings. Already, 67 million children worldwide have no access to education, and about 925 million people worldwide experience chronic malnutrition.
The largest state by population in the near future will be India. In the developed European countries and Russia, their population, despite the global trend, will decline. Already, in Russia, the number of potential mothers is beginning to shrink. In the period from 1992 to 2007 the natural population decline Russia reached 12.3 million people. True, it was partly offset by immigration. From 2008 to 2025 the natural population decline Russia will exceed 11 million. Besides, there will be 14 million fewer people of working age and the number of pensioners will increase by approximately five million people.
In February this year, experts from the American Association for the Advancement of Science have warned that famine threatens the Earth’s population due to overpopulation. According to their forecast, by 2050, the world population may exceed nine billion, and then people will be forced to fight for food. Overpopulation by almost four times and the final impoverishment, according to experts, threatens poor countries in Africa and South Asia. Rich countries, by contrast, will increase their incomes. But this too is not good. Increase in wages will inevitably lead to an increase in appetite. Thus, after 40 years, humans will consume annually as much as was produced during the previous eight thousand years, scientists have said.
In another report, prepared last summer, the WWF, Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network, noted that recently, people have spent twice as much resources than in the past 50 years. Thus the capacity of the planet may be exhausted by 2030. If people in the next few years do not change their way of life, they will need an additional planet to survive, experts have warned. According to them, in the near future inhabitants of the earth will not have enough food, water and even air.
And recently, experts from the environmental organization Global Footprint Network said that people have already used up the water which spontaneously refills reservoirs, together with grass growing in pastures, fish from the seas and lakes, and they have harvested all the crops from fertile lands and stolen all the gifts of the forest. And at the same time, they have exhausted the usable space for storage of waste from greenhouse gases, generating climate chaos.
"Sovietskya Rossiya" [12/07/2011]
Comment from AUCPB editor.
Bourgeois sociologists try to justify the surplus population, starvation and misery of hundreds of millions of people by the false Malthusian reference as if they say, the world population is growing much faster than the means of subsistence. Hence - their justification for world wars, epidemics and reducing fertility. But such speculation has nothing to do with reality. The forming of overpopulation is due to the excessive influence of the capitalist law of population, discovered by Marx, with rapacious capitalist exploitation of natural resources. "The greater the social wealth, functioning capital, size and energy of its growth ... the more extensive the permanent overpopulation, poverty is directly proportional to the labour pains of the active army of labour. Finally, the more impoverished layers of the working class and the industrial reserve army, the more official pauperism. This is an absolute general law of capitalist accumulation "(Marx," Capital ", Vol.1).
In the USSR, under socialism, the population grew at a rate far exceeding the population growth in the capitalist countries (in the USSR during the period from December 1926 to January 1939, the population increased by 23.6 million, i.e. an increase of around 2 million per year; - compare, in today's bourgeois Russia with a population decline by 1 million per year and with it – the wholesale impoverishment of workers), while it grew in the USSR and material well-being of workers increased and unemployment by the end of 1930 had been eliminated.
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PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV IS SATISFIED WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIA
Medvedev is very satisfied with what has been happening to Russia over the past 20 years. The president quotes to RIA "Novosti" - "I think that in this sense, the generation of people who, relatively speaking, remember Brezhnev and studied under Gorbachev or later, and is living now, is perhaps the happiest generation of our people. Why? Because we have the opportunity to compare what happened in the previous era, under the previous political system, and what we have today. And this is the most important human quality - to be able to collate and to compare ".
The President recalled the time when the country "had no consumer goods, and when it was terrible to go in a store."
Of course, Medvedev admitted, he would like more progress, but according to him, when he was a university student, a graduate student, he dared not even hope for a tenth of the current progress.
Indeed, when he was still a student at Leningrad State University (graduated - in 1987) Medvedev, and not only him, dared not even suggest what a first place in the 20 years of "progress" Russia would occupy...
Russia now ranks first place in the world for:
the absolute size of population decline,
the number of suicides among the elderly,
the number of divorces and children born out of wedlock,
the number of children abandoned by parents,
the number of suicides among children and adolescents,
mortality from diseases of the cardiovascular system,
the number of patients with mental illness,
human trafficking,
total abortions and maternal mortality,
sales of spirits,
consumption of alcohol and alcohol products,
growth rates of smoking,
the number of smoking by children,
the growth rate of HIV infection,
total number of plane crashes (13 times the world average)
2nd place in the world for billionaires (after the U.S.),
2nd place in the world for suicide (after Lithuania),
2nd place in the world for murders per capita (after Colombia),
2nd place in the world for the dissemination of counterfeit drugs, (after China) (Further reading about China is in A. Maeyevsky’s book entitled “Modern China” )
2nd place in the world in terms of porn production,
2nd place in the world in the number of Russian children adopted in the U.S.,
2nd place in the world in the number of migrants,
2nd place in the world in the number of prisoners per 1000 people (after the U.S.),
2nd place in the list of countries with the largest number of small arms,
2nd place in the world in the number of journalists killed over the past ten years (after Iraq),
3rd place in the world in the number of refugees,
3rd place in the world for influx of migrants,
3rd place in the world for the dissemination of child pornography,
3rd place in the world in terms of totalitarian sects,
27th place in the world for quality education,
32 place in ecological ranking of countries,
57th position in the world for quality of life,
62 place in the world in terms of technological development (between Costa Rica and Pakistan),
65 place in the world standard of living,
70th place in the world in use of information and communication technologies,
71st place in the world in terms of human development,
72nd place in the world in terms of the state's spending per person,
97th place in per capita income,
120th in terms of economic freedom,
127th place in the world for public health,
134-rd the world in life expectancy,
147th place in the degree of press freedom (out of 168),
159th in the world in terms of political rights and freedoms,
175th in the world in terms of physical security of citizens,
The President is right, there is something to compare - in comparison with what place the Soviet Union occupied in the world.
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IN PENZA, RUSSIA, A MONUMENT TO STALIN HAS BEEN UNVEILED
On Friday, July 15 in the city of Penza, in front of the building of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), an opening ceremony to the unveiling of a monument to J.V. Stalin took place. The event was attended by war veterans, home front workers and activists of the CPRF, as well as ordinary citizens, who learned from the media about the setting up of the monument. Many of the newcomers brought along red carnations and roses to lay at the foot of the monument.
As the Regional Committee of the CPRF for Penza reports, the monument was set up on money donated by Penza patriots. People donated what they could towards the building of the monument. Amounts in this case ranged from 50 to 10,000 rubles. Thanks to this, after a half-century pause, Penza was once again able to see Stalin. Now, thea monument to Stalin is available to all comers.
Source: CPRF in Penza
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The unveiling of a monument to Stalin, once again demonstrates that Stalin's authority among the people is growing, despite the vicious smear campaign unleashed by the present corrupt media and the current anti-people’s government to demonize Stalin and everything Soviet.
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Thursday, 14 July 2011
IMPERIALISM, CHINA AND THE MODERN DEVELOPING WORLD
Modern China in the political arena most of all, presents itself as a kind of "thing in itself”, talk of which, risks uncertainties. However, the occupying by the Middle Kingdom of second place in the world in GDP terms, indicates the success of the country's economy, which is impossible to ignore. The appearance of an excellent booklet by A.A. Mayevsky, entitled "Modern China"
is fully justified. At the same time, there are no grounds to say that part of his book, describing the economics of China, fully clarifies the situation.
First of all, an analysis of the political life of China can not build on the economic patterns of Western analysts of the world market for one reason: this material in itself is a basis for inflating the "financial bubble" and clarity in the analysis is not added. At the same time, we must not forget that the political component of Chinese life should not be taken out of the overall picture of the former Third World countries which are now the developing world. And in this developing world, the Celestial Empire has become the recognized leader. In addition, current speculation by present day "communists" that pop up from time to time in bourgeois parliaments about the success of China, on the one hand, is justified, but on the other hand, is a traditional expression of "parliamentary cretinism" by "leftist" MPs masking the imperialist essence of exploitation. And this should be discussed in more detail when this business touches upon the essence of anarcho-syndicalism.
But when analyzing the current state of China, one can not ignore the phenomenon of the selling of labour power for maintaining the services of imperialism. Accordingly, the alliance between the Chinese bourgeoisie, which has become the leading force of society, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is cautious . As such, the alliance seeks the establishment of National Socialism. And all this on a the background of the fact that the role of Fuehrers in the modern world of imperialism have already been allocated, since those willing to perform the functions of the world of violence have taken shape in the face of American and Zionist capital, ready at the first opportunity to launch their military machine of repression into action.
Therefore, examining China is possible only through the prism of the modern national liberation struggle, marked by Lenin as "concessions on capitalist foundations means war." That is, it makes sense to analyze it only through similar stages of Soviet Russia’s exit of from the clutches of concessions, since the modern developing world is also seeking to break free from imperialist stranglehold. And here you can see many similarities between the 1920-s in the young Soviet republic and the current years in the developing world. In essence, we must consider how the patriotic section of the bourgeoisie was able to help in the electrification of the entire country "when the productive forces of the working class of Russia were very weak. Now what is required is an assessment of the ability (or patriotism) of that section of bourgeoisie of the Middle Kingdom, with which it can fit into the “electrification of the whole of China", when the productive forces of the country are not yet able to assume the leadership role.
We can not ignore the fact that the wave of revolutionary unrest in the Muslim world is expressed, above all, by the interests of small capital, crushed by imperialism and by their own dictators. At the same time, the military vehicles of U.S. and NATO have dramatically stirred into action, and like a magnet, have gravitated towards the oil-bearing regions of north Africa and the Middle East in order to impose their order in those areas. Therefore, the wave of national liberation struggle in the Islamic world, which expresses the interests of the economic base of electrification in need of accessible energy resources, the U.S. and NATO unleash a policy of imposing unaffordable prices for "black gold". That is, if in fact this struggle tends to demand lower prices for gasoline and natural gas, which in the long term applies to the whole energy sector, this demand finds confirmation in low electricity tariffs. Moreso, this access applies to the entire energy transmission of a developing country, and ensures stability at the enterprises owned and run the national bourgeoisie. And then these revolutionary waves for affordable energy at the grassroots level, imperialism seeks to translate into an economic crisis, which can be created only due to additional printing of dollars in the U.S.. At this stage, the revolutionary forces are forced to either apply a policy of nationalization of enterprises, pointing them towards prices of their own existing "black gold", or the national economy without its own energy, has to go for a merger with foreign capital and, consequently, suffer a cataclysmic rise in inflation, caused by the work of the dollar printing press. The problems of such revolutions lie always in their duration, i.e. the ability to retain "the electrification of the entire country" to ensure national interests for as long as possible. The faster imperialism penetrates into the management of such economies of developing countries, the faster the flywheel begins to spiral up inflation, which raises a new wave of revolutions. And the same scenario is repeated, the foundations of which Marx outlined way back in the XIX century. But if, as in China, its own base of electrification has been created, able to withstand inflation imposed by imperialism, then the country can put forward its plans to increase GDP and development.
The difference of economic approaches towards the understanding of development, is that in place of monetary parity of gold, there arrived a new gold parity - the consumption of "black gold" (oil) in production. It is for this "black gold" that the modern-day class struggle is being carried out. However, in these conditions, imperialism unleashes its accountants and demands payments in dollars, rather than in the cost of energy. In this case, the leading U.S. economists impose their own pricing policies on all the rest of us. As a result of such pricing policies, imperialism itself establishes wages and living standards in all countries. Those countries which do not agree with this, fall under economic sanctions or embargos, balancing on the brink of military intervention by the U.S. and NATO.
China's political system can not be regarded as just a growing imperialist power. It should be judged as a power that has to to reckon with the established orders of imperialism on the world stage. In this case, the desire of CCP to create its own economic base is quite clearly demonstrated, which is based entirely on state energy, corresponding to policy of the yuan and its own agriculture. This gives grounds to see a significant part of the “electrification of the whole of China” in industrial potential. But the trouble is for the Chinese people and its leadership, is that the main source of energy for such electrification is coal. For the country itself has only reserves of coal on which long-term economic policy can be built. But this energy source is very time consuming and can not actively increase productivity. The buying of oil and gas on the world market is expensive and puts energy under constant price fluctuations. Fluctuations in prices do not allow electrification to become stable in developing countries. Therefore, in China one will see a doubling of the economy: on the one hand, "the electrification of the whole country”, and on the other, a game on the world market under the laws of imperialism. Actually, on the global market, one can only exist under the laws of imperialism, since by acting according to humane laws in front of "jaws" of the market, we resign ourselves to being eaten up.
The presentation by the CCP of some moral requirements for such an economic policy is all quite meaningless. Since the responsibility for the situation in China is carried by Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and their surrounding "loyal Leninists." That Khrushchev, Brezhnev partocracy pushed the Chinese communists away from Soviet oil and later from gas at stable prices. And what was the reason? The reason was Stalin. If the Chinese comrades rejected Stalin, they would get their oil and gas. Otherwise, oil and gas would go to the Eastern European allies who had turned their backs on Stalin. And as it turned out, these allies had simultaneously rejected the electrification of their own countries. For example the closest associate of the USSR, Poland, stated a couple of years ago that it was not worried by the European debates about gas, because 95% of their own energy needs are met by using their own coal, and that says a lot. Where then, did the Soviet oil and gas flow to, if all these "Druzhba" pipelines and other "pipes" were built for the electrification of its closest allies? It turns out that the energy went further and into West only to return to Eastern Europe as payment in dollars for rejecting electrification.
With regard to the contradictions of China's economy, they are derived from the impact of the initial economic leap, as the revolutionary success of the country during the transition to socialism was compensated by the industrial breakthrough reached with the assistance of the Soviet Union and Stalin personally. On this leap, China gained its electrification, which was literally in its infancy. After the betrayal by "the loyal Leninists" of the Soviet Union, all subsequent economic breakthroughs initiated by the CCP did not give the desired results, because its own economic base of electrification remained at the 1950-s level. Not having any significant oil and gas reserves, China's next economic breakthrough could be realized only on the reforms of Deng Xiaoping's "socialism with Chinese characteristics." The basis of these "characteristics" was simply the hiring out the Chinese labour force for recruitment by imperialism. At the same time, the capacity of Chinese coal-fired power stations (something similar to early Soviet electrification – GOELPO) began to increase. And under this consumption of coal at their own power station plants, their own currency base - the yuan took shape. Their own reformed agriculture fell under the yuan. Everything else was handed over under the custody of the dollar. What might have been the alternative to such a policy? The alternative could only have been the complete surrender of China to the mercy of imperialism. Surrender of the Latin American type, with a dictator of a Somoza or Pinochet type.
Then the logical question arises: what happened to those countries which have placed themselves at the mercy of imperialism?
The answer is contained in the examples of countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia. Both these states are leading exporters of oil and the leading apologists for Islam. And while these countries were compling with all demands of the U.S., the dollar was dictating all the conditions. But in 1979, Iran had the Islamic revolution which overthrew the pro-U.S. shah and established an Islamic regime, with national interests aimed at the realisation of energy reserves. At that time, Saudi Arabia, located in the Arabian Desert and known for its Mecca, as a place of worship of the prophet Muhammad, is doing everything to rescue the dollar, by increasing oil exports. This sparsely populated country, which uses a mainly foreign labour force and specialists in oil, though rescuing the struggling dollar, after Iran left the watchful eye of the U.S., it has been unable to provide reliable support for the dollar. There is a growing crisis. The opportunists brought the economy of the USSR to its knees before imperialism, and the energy resources from post-Soviet territory have rushed to rescue and support the dollar. And there still is not enough to prop up the dollar. In Iran, the Islamic revolution creates its own domestic energy, accelerating the construction of its own nuclear power plant in Bushehr. Oil prices are increasing. We are entering the world economic crisis of capitalism. But this crisis does not hurt countries such as China, India, Brazil, Argentina, etc. These countries are developing, they have found their own bases of electrification or reliable allies in the supply of energy. And the more large underdeveloped countries have their own bases of electrification, the less they need the mediation of the dollar and even may well do a substantial part of procurement with friendly countries without the dollar. Venezuela, Iran and other countries are such countries that are only just creating their own bases of electrification.
This example is similar to the occurrence in Soviet Russia in the electrification of the entire country, starting with the occurrence of concessions offered by the West. Then, Lenin warned of their size: "Concessions are not terrible if we give the concessionaires a few factories, keeping most of them for us, that’s nothing terrible. Of course, utterly ridiculous it would be if the Soviet government handed out a big part of what belongs to it to concession: then that would not be a concession, but a return to capitalism." (MSS, t.32, pp. 275). And since the bulk of the industrial potential of countries such as China, India, Brazil and others, present their own resources handed over together with the workforce as a concession to imperialism, then there can be no talk about an independent economic policy of the developing world. They follow a policy of economic requirements of capitalism. However, the output of China in second place in the world in GDP, suggests a planning policy by the governing structures of the CPC, which can be carried out only on the basis of their own electrification. Therefore there is respect in the CPC for Stalin's role in history, revealed not only in the respect of traditions, but also expressed as a direct continuation of the cause of Stalin in the economy. Hence it is not random attacks by the U.S. against the policy of the Yuan, which has stood on guard over electrification of the whole of China. Suffice to say that those developing countries that have a relative base of electrification, do not fall under the bastion of imperialist bellicose statements. Therefore, at this stage of development of China, all will depend on what benefits the proletariat will receive from the development of electrification and whether it can form itself into an independent working class?
Oddly enough, but here the question arises. And what is more important in the struggle against imperialism: to build socialism or build ones own base of electrification?
The answer is quite simple. Without its own base of electrification, not one socialism will be able to stand the test of time. Because you can only build communism, the road to which lies via the economic base of electrification. For communism is a rejection of the monetary system, in the place of which the consumption of "black gold" grow for the manufacture of tools of labour and commodities for consumption. From which the economic base serves as a record keeper of electrification in the national economy, regardless of whether professionals working in it want this or not. In this, the base of electrification passes the reins of power in the accounting system to the working class, as the closest to the cost accounting of energy invested in manufacturing turnover. And it is the working class, as Lenin said, "each parish, each workshop” is able to calculate the costs of "black gold" for their small turnover. And if the working class is going to badly calculate the consumption of "black gold", as happened in the USSR, then they will pass through another re-education in the practices of capitalism, so that afterwards, they will be be able to calculate correctly. Therefore, the development of the historical process moves not so much according to what state we have built, whether a socialist or capitalist state, but moves according to whether the monetary system retreats for calculation in energy consumption. Socialism, of course, is well able to help the development of the base of electrification. But the example of successful development in China, India, Brazil and other developing countries, which have learned to consider the costs for energy, during the world economic crisis of capitalism, allowed them not to feel this crisis, at that same time as the leading imperialist countries are mired up to their eyes in an economic bog.
And the problem of the world market crops up again, which very cleverly distributes the results of the global division of labour, allowing the imperialist powers to lead a comfortable life, and leaving the developing world, mostly in poverty. Accordingly, Lenin's conclusion comes to mind regarding this problem: "Using a currency such as gold, you should not forget that there is no free market, that the entire market or almost entire market is occupied by syndicates, cartels and trusts that manage their imperialist profits, and items of supply are given the workers only for their own businesses and not for others, because the old capitalism - in the sense of the free-market – is no longer with us. "(t.32. s.283-284). Therefore, the proletarian leader proposed the economic base of electrification, as opposed to the global market of imperialism. Since in practice, Leninist electrification, due to prices on energy resources, made it possible to monitor turnover of agricultural production, moving away from the arbitrariness of the world market of imperialism, opposing its own monetary unit, which also participates in the turnover on a par with the expended energy.
To understand how and why opposition was growing between the world market and local turnover, one should more carefully consider the question: why was the colonial policy of imperialism replaced by the policy of concessions, and now currency wars are raging?
Currency wars as a continuation of the colonial policy of imperialism.
The Great French Revolution did not have time to properly consolidate the capitalist system in Paris, before her longing to seize the territories of others, already captured mostly by the British. Greed for colonial policy ruined many of the French and exposed the policy of England, which was won by the bourgeoisie closely within the British Isles, and she quietly plundered all the overseas colonies. The First World War further exposed the imperialist desire of syndicates and cartels to the division of the world and the new seizure of foreign territories. At the same time, maintaining colonial armies was expensive. And carrying on wars for colonies ended in failure for some of the leading imperialist powers. Also, the imperialists began to apply the policy of concessions when a weak state donated a portion of their resources to concession (ie, rebate) to some imperialist conglomerate. And this international conglomerate, using the in-country legislation, continued its colonial policies already within the officially sanctioned legal framework. This eliminates the expense of the imperialists to maintain their armies, but the host country pays a tax. Accordingly, the appetites of the leading monopolies in such plunder of the weaker nations will only increase. Here is the stage of the policy of concessions that Lenin saw that instead of the national liberation struggle of the colonies there is a "war of concessions with capitalist foundations”.
Looking ahead, we can say that the emergence of fascist regimes in the camp of imperialism and in the dependent states, was dictated by the same laws of economics in colonial politics. Fascism with its pathological cruelty tried to realize itself on the fear of weak opponents and to ensure power and the needed resources. Only the motives of national liberation from economic bondage has always prevailed. Therefore, colonialism, and its derivative in the form of fascism as an instrument of imperialist policy, had to go depart everywhere from the political arena.
However, in the early twentieth century, the young Soviet republic became the political arena for the "war concessions with capitalist foundations”. And Leninist electrification became the tool in the fight against the aggressive pressure of the global steel market. It was the economic basis of electrification in Soviet Russia that immediately led to two trends in the communist movement. The first was the "Left" deviation and identified with the name of Leon Trotsky, calling only for the military development of the revolution. The second trend, was the “Right” deviation, its leader Bukharin, called for a truce with bourgeois reformism and was directly drawn towards capitalism. And very soon the similarity of these two party deviations was discovered, or afterwards as the delegates of Stalinist Party congresses themselves joked: "If you go "left"- you will arrive on the right." But what united them was what Lenin called anarcho-syndicalism, "the true Makhnovshchina”. For anarcho-syndicalism combined the economic interests of the Trotskyists and Bukharinites. Gradually, anarcho-syndicalism became the leading policy of imperialism and a tool for self-collapse of electrification in less developed countries. Why did this happen?
Bourgeois governments of Western countries, including Russia in the present, tend to convince both its own population and the population of states dependent on them, that they live in the era of greatest prosperity, "democracy" and are required to span all economic thought of liberalism. Meanwhile, Western "democracy" means in translation, the power of the people, and the under-developed world was able to actually recognize the power of the "money bag", with all that ideological scope of liberalism in fact expressed in corrupt collaborationism.
Modern imperialists long ago ought to have erected a monument to Nestor Makhno as the ideologist and organizer of Western policy. At the base of the monument should be placed the Tsarist prisoners, realising the need to place the felon Makhno with political prisoners. Political literacy for the criminal world has given its results and the at one time leader of anarcho-syndicalism has learned a special result in economic education: it’s not important for whom to fight for, whether it be for the whites or reds, it is important that following the battle, sacks of money can be "grabbed up-via privatization". Strictly, the whole ideology of anarchy is placed on the bag with the money, "as the mother of order." Therefore, in 1921, it was no accident that Lenin happened to see in anarcho-syndicalism a force that was stronger than any throughout the military intervention, along with its own White Guards, who tried to win the civil war. And this force was distributed in the party ranks on the right and "left", uniting all in the attractive force of the money bag. For the Trotskyists, not to mention the Bukharinites quietly redeemed their "r-revolutionary' fervor for a quiet life in a large abundance, being provided by significant financial costs out of the pocket of the devastated Soviet republic. Of course, this ability of anarcho-syndicalists to pump money out of the socialist state, could not be missed by imperialism. And imperialism itself adopted this skill by the followers of Makhno: for the profits, "fight" for the whites or reds. All political principles of the followers of Makhno were sent to the dump, leaving on the horizon, only one dream in the form of an eternal craving for a bag of money. Although, of course, over time, the rough shape the money bag gave way to respectable suitcases or briefcases and sometimes, as appropriate, accompanied by even the use of a box of money fresh from under the copying machine. But in the end, the desire to grab just any offshore zone frantically stirred liberal thought. The "mother of order" does not like to waste time on trifles.
The two-faced policy of the West and the absence of any principles in politics have so bankrupted social thought of the leading capitalist countries that since the second half of the twentieth century in the place of politics, religion has increasingly made a return, more recently, squeezing "democratic" society further out in its remoteness from the state. And the most bizarre result of the return of religion into the political limelight has been the advancement of "revolutionary Islam" on guard over "electrification of the entire country." Imperialism, of course, has achieved much in its own rot and decay, having being able to engage in this "fascinating" lesson many "leftist" trends, now sunk into oblivion under the weight of Eurocommunism and opportunism. However, a considerable part of the world is taking over the objective laws of social development, spontaneously expressing what Lenin established in scientific and revolutionary theory. Objectively, for many developing countries, the economic base of electrification is becoming "closer to the body", and not thanks to the “good” intentions of liberal thought.
Under Stalin, the Soviet economic potential for the first time opened the door, which by the way Lenin's electrification paved the way for the destruction of money. With it, profits from turnover in large part were transfered into lower prices, thereby declaring the intention of the monetary system to tend to zero and pass control over the costs to the economic base of the country's energy consumption. Of course, such control over energy resources could be carred out en masse only by the working class, led by the advanced revolutionary vanguard. Therefore, the main opponent of imperialism was precisely the Leninist-Stalinist Party of the Soviet Union which carried on a clear class policy. And Khrushchev, regardless of whether he wanted it or not, was a direct protege of imperialism, carried out the rescue of the monetary system of capitalism.
However, the global market of imperialism will die at such a speed as the policy of success in increasing the profits from leading monopolies. And they have one problem: their lack of control over the circulation of goods. In fact in the world market, stringent regulation of goods and a system of prohibitions, and even direct blockade of some states are established to ensure their prices for raw materials by leading imperialist conglomerates. From this there is the an overabundance of food at one pole and starvation of millions on the other. And the deaths of millions of people means nothing, compared to the ability to control the world by establishing their own prices and the possibility of distributing goods. The dollar here serves as a screen behind which the policy of divide and conquer is pursued. But if things take a nasty turn, then the dollar can be charged as the culprit, so that throwing it at another deal, even more profit can be gained.
The modern world is not just the current West, the oracles of which fill television space across the world and carry to the masses under the ideas of liberalism, the economic policies of the casino. For its the casino owners who always seem to win. Otherwise, the casino would not have taken in the second half of the twentieth century a leading position in the capitalist economy. But 5 / 6 of the modern world still draws attention to the principles of conduct, morality, which is inherited from previous generations. And this world seeks to articulate its interests not through the world market, but through its own turnover, controlled by the economic base of electrification. Of course, this electrification is expressed spontaneously. But the practice of conducting their own monetary units experiencing the oppression of pressure of leading currencies of imperialism assumes this. This is for the underdeveloped countries the only way out, providing an ever-visible position of their own independent existence, remaining with policies on the basis of planning their own electrification, beyond which there is no salvation. That is why modern China will be forced to tighten the policy of "electrification of the entire country”, reaching the second position in the world. And that means leadership on the economic basis of electrification, which must be maintained.
How does imperialism carry out modern neo-colonialist policies?
Modern neo-colonialist policies of imperialism are carried out on two fronts. On the one hand, currency revolutions are being carried out against weak countries, that are implemented by modern rentiers of the world market by sales of mainly dollars, with increased rate of some monetary units in the underdeveloped world. Owners of an undeveloped currency need dollars, because they will have to buy energy at the same world market, so they buy them. But then, when the local currency of a developing country falls sharply, investors in the world market quickly buy up commodities at a reduced price, which will then be sold at an inflated dollar price at home. Outwardly, these speculations are almost invisible, as they are sometimes carried out in fractions of percent in currency fluctuations, but the sums injected into circulation should always exceed one million dollars. Otherwise, those fractions of a percent, the difference in exchange rates, under which the vast amount of currency is thrown in from some of the leading capitalist countries, will not bring a tangible profit in the currency wars. Such a policy of carrying on currency wars prevents local currencies stabilizing, so that weak states can not establish their own accounting of energy consumption and consequently, can not establish their own economic base of electrification.
On the other hand, the grabbing up of fixed assets of enterprises in underdeveloped countries takes place at the expense of the money supply of leading imperialist conglomerates. Here the game is played at the level of balancing profits and outgoing costs of enterprises accounted for on the world market. And it is here that, on their own sweat, there toil the billionaires. The main fight is for energy, energy branches, metals (“blue chips”). The aircraft and defence industry are closed subjects for the world market, and with them everything is decided "under the carpet." Enterprises of the “second plan” that are unrelated to the "blue chips" are accounted for on the world market only due to their increased prices that could affect the balance of power in economic battles. Everything else is left to the mercy of the rentier, who manages to earn good money in the currency wars. In the space of energy resources are developed the major economic wars, turning into real military action. For the sale of energy resources, especially the most essential, oil, is carried out in dollars, allowing the leading imperialist country –the United States – to consider themselves the pantry of "black gold" that allows banking transactions on the global market. Any underdeveloped country, before you buy the same oil, is forced to first buy dollars through the sale of their goods, which, of course, speculators will buy at the lower exchange rate of the underdeveloped country. In the U.S. those dollars are just printed and exchanged for goods to those who would seek to buy oil. Other leading capitalist countries support the U.S. in the work of the printing press to produce dollars, as they are interested in the functioning of one currency for the purchase of energy resources. And the U.S. will share profits with them by increasing appreciation of the euro by 30 - 35% against the dollar. And countries such as Russia's own rate of the rouble against the dollar, they can lower the rate by thirty times. As a result, energy-rich Russia will be forced to sell petrol to its own population at five times the price than in other oil rich developing countries, to pay the permanent penalty for its own capitalism to Uncle Sam. And Uncle Sam with its own bell tower of the world market will provide credit only to those "blue chips" in Russia, who support the stability of the dollar policy. And exactly the same policies of the world market are carried on in respect of other weak states. However, on an economic basis saturated by the dollar, in the leading capitalist countries, nothing but crises will grow.
In both cases, the economic policy of the dollar pursues a single goal: to achieve instability in the local monetary system in a developing country and force its economy to seek assistance from the imperialist monopoly leading the business. Since a leading monopolist is interested in the economy of an dependent country existing in this condition for as long as possible, in which there is a serf at the service of his master, then in the charge of such "human rights" is both NATO and the forces of reactionary feudalism.
Therefore, to ensure some semblance of development on the fake dollar note and, thus, prolong the agony of modern imperialism, in the second half of the twentieth century, the unscrupulous policy of "human rights" was built. Because behind "human rights", the rights of the dollar always grow, the possibility which is problematic and is carried out on the verge of balancing between "left" and right-wing political sentiments. In this sense, a justifiable measure on part of the U.S., is the forming in the Muslim world of the ultra-Islamic organization al-Qaeda aiming at running ahead of the Islamic revolution in Iran. This is reminiscent of ultra-Trotskyism in Russia, trying, by forcing the waves of world revolution, to solve the problem of world domination of Zionism. Only these days, the current followers of bin Laden are trying to accommodate Islamic national revolutions against the U.S. policy in favour of Saudi Arabia policy fully standing on guard in the economic interests of the United States and Israel. Because only the preservation by the imperialists of a feudal relic, like Saudi Arabia, performing the role of "mother of order" in the Islamic world and which is simultaneously the leading country for the sale of oil, allows the U.S. to maintain its position of a benefactor of Islam and implement the dictatorial policies of the global market. Policies swollen by ambiguous predictions for the future and burst financial bubbles in the present.
Nevertheless, all dictatorial regimes come and go, but Lenin's electrification remains. And no matter how the oracles of capitalism distort Lenin's electrification, it always remains the sole life-giving source of the economy, from which the poor countries are able to quench their thirst and begin development. All underdeveloped countries, with rare exceptions, aim towards gaining and increasing their own turnover, and from turnover, rid themselves from the dictatorship of imperialism. And in this way, they will create the electrification of their own countries and move away from the dictatorship of the dollar and tyranny of the global market.
And although the podium model of imperialism demonstrates to the whole community the imperturbable manner of setting up on the table of the "global casino" of "blue chips", it cannot not hide from public opinion the rotting smell of parasitic paper dollars behind the chips. And since beyond the gaming table of the "global casino", parades and public demonstrations with different sexual orientations try to express a clear vision of the future better than the others, then their capacity to bear fruit wipes out the ability of capitalism itself to live and build. Yes, the modern gravedigger of capitalism lies in the Asian expanse and is looking quite ripe for this mission, with convincing support for its own principles of conduct and traditions of understanding.
Energy disaster in Japan: Causes and Consequences.
While the negative effects of a cold and snowy winter in Russia alternated every possible cut-offs, threatening to transform into a chain reaction for disabling the country’s main life support systems, there were no signs of storms in other regions of the world. As other regions of the world are not so cold and have much less snow fall, then causes of large-scale disasters occur much less. But a strong earthquake overtook Japan, accompanied in such cases, by the associated tsunami. And thus, until more recently, the second largest economy in the world, rolled into a ditch. In the centre of the disaster and destroyed, was Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. The nature of the accident at the plant largely repeats the events of the American nuclear power plant disaster at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, which took place in 1979. The difference is that at Three Mile Island, the misfortune befell on one reactor, but at the Fukushima-1, such fate hit four of six reactors. Also, in Japan after the earthquake, a few other nuclear reactors entered a state of emergency.
In the press, reports were leaked that the IAEA back in 2008 warned the government of Japan of the unstable state of Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, and of an impending earthquake with devastating consequences. But the loudest of all to declare to themselves environmentalists are those following the U.S. authorities step by step, having for a long time cemented over every nuclear power plant construction. And at this stage of development of nuclear energy, a disappointing fact should be recognized: the service life of reactors used in the Fukushima-1, were so exhausted that they should have not only been cemented over in just Japan, but also in other regions of the world, including Russia.
Why is there a need to shut down and cover over these reactors? The reason is that nuclear reactors, as well as all sorts of generating capacities in conventional power, are designed for a lifespan of 25 years. Anyway, in the Soviet Union in such reactors a payback period of 12 years was established, which corresponded to the price of electricity and heat, and the period of operating the generating resources at 25 years. Further use in the work of such power is dangerous, because the growing fatigue properties and the metal losing its strength. In any case, more frequent accidents on heating pipelines and power outages demonstrate such wear and tear. The reactors at Fukushima-1, as evidenced by press reports, operated for about 40 years. That is, the equipment was worn to the limit. And when the tremors tested the Fukushima strength, this strength was insufficient. The Fukushima nuclear reactors began to collapse like a house of cards.
In these circumstances, the bourgeois media imposed on world public opinion an analysis of the type "who said what to whom." The Bolshevik opinion in this situation can only be one: lack of planning. Namely the lack of plans to replace their exhausted reactor resources, both in Japan and around the world, places humanity on the brink of disaster. For the resource of stability has been used up along with also a significant number of conventional thermal generators, which can fall apart and turn off the life support system of the population. And it would be absurd to choose a way of dying either from nuclear radiation or from the cold due to the shutdown of traditional thermal power stations, since both types of power generating equipment are is in a very worn out state. The only difference is that the people of warm climates do not face death from cold, so they justifiably express their emotions against a surge in nuclear power plants.
In analyzing the situation at the Japanese nuclear power plants, one also has to turn to history. This must be done to understand why all these powerful nuclear and thermal power plants were built during the first three decades after World War II. After that, there has been slump, then stagnation. The last two decades, energy has evolved mostly in the underdeveloped world, where there has been capital fed into, while the cost to the leading companies in the development of thermal and electrical energy of the leading capitalist countries, in dollar terms, has grown with incredible speed. As a result, the industrial race between socialism and capitalism started after World War II, forced the planning of the development of generating capacities. And although to capitalism it was distasteful to have to plan to develop its own industry, the imperialists had no other way of competing with the Stalinist model of economy in the USSR. This is one reason why the figure of Stalin became for the hosts of the leading conglomerates the most hated person, since he had forced them to engage in not extracting the highest profit, but forced them to plan development and that it was necessary to make investments in the economy that, were not, from a practical business point of view, justified. And also, the proletariat of developed capitalist countries at that time had considerably more respect for the Soviet working class, seeking in their own struggle, large wage increases and better working conditions. The situation changed with the coming to power in the USSR of the open anarcho-syndicalists, first, Khrushchev, then Brezhnev. As soon as the planning system in the Soviet Union collapsed and in place of the economic base of electrification, the monetary criteria for profit arrived (Kosygin reforms in 1965), this opened the prospects of managing the world economy through the dollar, which after 1945 became the main currency of the world market of capitalism for energy trade. The possibility of the U.S. to control via the dollar "black gold", allowed, in conditions of anarcho-syndicalism in the Soviet Union, to seize political domination in the world. Moreover, anarcho-syndicalism was a very useful political tool for maintaining the foundations of capitalism itself that imperialism had taken into service. In the 1970’s, the U.S. had already no need for advanced technologies in nuclear power, as nuclear power itself was no longer necessary. (On this subject, read the article "The impending economic collapse - a natural result of the capitalization of the economy of the USSR" on the website of the AUCPB (FB- Russian website vkpb.ru). Therefore, the U.S. began to mothball the construction of nuclear power plants both in the USA and abroad. Japan also finished up with their own obsolete nuclear power plants built by the U.S. during the cooling of competition between the two systems (capitalism-socialism) and has not engaged in their modernization. After the 1970’s, the building of nuclear power plants has declined sharply, and after Chernobyl, it has ceased, except for the underdeveloped world. What could the Japanese do under the circumstances of the earthquake of 2011? Simply shut down all the reactors, which had operated for over 25 years? But capitalism can not afford to stop the expensive equipment, which brings in huge profits. Who will finance the losses? It turns out that these nuclear plants were doomed to work until extraordinary circumstances forced them to shut down.
On the background of the disaster in Japan politicians in Germany sharply jumped into action, where the situation with deterioration of nuclear reactors is similar. Obviously, fear is forcing the Germans to shut down all their reactors which have been operating for over thirty years.
A most tense situation with nuclear energy has developed in France. There, more than 75% of all energy is produced from nuclear power. Those Frenchmen are proud of. But it is very unlikely that there exists a planning system and or expanded reproduction of nuclear power plants. The bourgeois model of economy needs profit and not reliability of energy equipment. Therefore, in the near future we should expect to see a sharp increase in interest from the media towards the French network of nuclear power, and we can gather some information regarding the reproduction of nuclear reactors in one of the leading capitalist countries.
As for Russia, here all traditional power generation is in another “GOELRO-2” plan of Chubais. On paper, the planning is finished, but in practice, there is no money for construction. A similar plan for the commissioning of new plants was announced in Russia several years ago, but with the financing – everything as usual with Chubais in GOELRO-2 (no money for it). Therefore, for new Russian nuclear reactors, there are projects under construction in the developing world, but the construction projects in Chubais’s own home country, Russia, have been as usual, either mothballed or gone into stagnation.
We may have got the impression that the tragedy in Japan would encourage the construction of modern nuclear power plants and it would quickly get underway. But there are no grounds for this forecast to come to life. Firstly, the U.S. has long ceased all nuclear plant construction and will be unable to reach the same level of development of new reactors for at least the next decade. In addition, the U.S. already does not have the personnel that are capable of at least the previous level of technology to build new nuclear power plants. Secondly, Russia's potential for nuclear plant reproduction is too outdated, there is no growth in capacity, and the only thing enhanced, is the safety factor in case of emergency. However, these reactors of the 1970’s are not able to break onto projected construction sites. Thirdly, France, saturated by nuclear plants, after Fukushima-1, is unlikely to make up for its own outages and rejuvenate the stagnant nuclear power industry. The most realistic forecast of what the next decade has to offer, in one way or another, is whether or not nuclear power plants should be build in the first place, and if built, what kind of plants should be built and to what standards ... There are always more questions in these situations than there are answers. But during this decade, the remaining nuclear power plants work the resources in forty years, since the folding up of nuclear power plant construction began after the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979. In any case, nuclear reactors with three decades of life will not be shutdown in the meantime, and it would be impossible, because their shutdown would bring about an energy catastrophe. It turns out that on the political wave of anarcho-syndicalism, Europeans and North Americans turned out hostages to the global market.
And now we come to the central question: WHAT does planning in the field of energy sector actually mean?
Planning in the energy sector means, in essence, life or death, because without planning, the energy sector can not exist. Without energy, the developed world cannot live.
Therefore, it is worth turning to the experience of the Soviet Union during the period of industrialization in order to understand how to implement this planning, not for money, but for energy transmitters. And because the experience of planning starts from Lenin's plan for electrification (GOELPO), it is necessary to look at all the thermal power stations generated by this plan. What do we then see? We will see a number of second and even third phases of construction of power plants. You can also see that each subsequent phase of construction in the energy sector far exceeded the volume of previously generated power. That is, every power plant built was projectedly and practically paid off in 12 years, then earning its own expanded reproduction and beginning to build itself up and grow. In this case, further construction was calculated so that after 25 years of work of the original power capacity input, a new power capacity could be introduced, much more superior to its predecessors. This required an increase in the rate of productivity in the energy sector and rejuvenation of production itself. Nuclear energy began to develop on these principles. And while these rules of planning electrification were adhered to, the growth of the country’s industrial component was impressive, which was accompanied by an increase in the living standards for the vast majority of the population. The turnover of energy resources in the economic base of electrification was the guarantee of success, which dropped the cost of fuel for the production per unit of output of industry and agriculture.
Maybe there are still people who believe that Khrushchev began criticizing "Stalin's personality cult," to pursue a good cause ... In fact, Khrushchev fought for the monetary policy of the U.S. dollar, thereby undermining the Leninist policy of electrification and put into practice by Stalin. However, we must recognize that the scope of Khrushchev, like that of Brezhnev who succeeded him, did not extend beyond the ideology of Makhno. For that, of course, the then-members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CC CPSU) took responsibility. Therefore the desire of the anarcho-syndicalists for a simple sack of money was more important than the desire to continue the policy of moving away from money, begun by Lenin by moving towards communism through the economic base of electrification. This brings to mind the false attempt to leap into communism by 1980 –Khrushchev-style. Waving his fists, and almost falling off the podium, Khrushchev announced his wording, "communism - this is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country, plus chemicalization of the national economy" ... Does anyone know what this Makhnovite meant, when he intended to build communism on the basis of "chemicalization of the national economy”? Obviously, it was that bomb that blew up Leninist electrification and behind the smokescreen of the explosion made it possible to start moving to that bag, with money ...
But now, after the disaster in Japan, there is every reason to say "chemicalization of the national economy" in the entire capitalist world. The imperialists with the help of the "Khrushchevites” sowed the wind in the Soviet Union, but are now reaping the storm at home. They should not have spat into the well of the Leninist electrification. Since from of this well, now the world will have to satisfy its economic thirst. And presumably to warm up to Uncle Sam, we may soon have to burn bundles of dollars, since the day of ending of trading energy in dollars is not far off.
As a conclusion.
The contemporary developing world has therefore ceased to be simply the Third World, since it has embarked on a policy of economic base of electrification and begun to truly develop. But imperialism continues to celebrate the success of the collapse of the economic policies of the Soviet Union. In this, the "wise" uncles of the dollar policy never think that the collapse of Leninist electrification in the camp of socialism, they have destroyed their own base of electrification and doomed themselves to a recession. As a result, the developing world is forced spontaneously to save itself from imperialist tyranny, to develop its own bases of electrification.
Of course, Western politicians more typically pull down everything that is created in the underdeveloped world, without feeling remorse, going to direct aggression by the collapse of weak electrification. Key strikes are inflicted on socialist economies, DPRK and Cuba. They are heading towards oil-rich Iran, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela and others. It is no accident that big money, noted in the press, is being thrown by the imperialists into the wave of "colour" Arab revolutions. What is the West is seeking through the "colour revolutions" in the Arab world? The West seeks to expand the number of allies of Saudi Arabia in the Arab world and thus change the balance of power in this oil-rich region in its favour. Attempts by the same forces to place Islamic republics of the Caucasus in Russia under the control of Saudi Arabia is no accident. Attempts by the Wahhabis of Saudi sheikhs to place under the control of Al Qaeda the entire Islamic world, through well-organized terrorism, is no accident. Accordingly, the pious "democratic" liberalism of the West with great artistry uses the theatre of Batko Makhno "to fight terrorism and tyranny."
What role does this theatre of the West play in the struggle for "human rights"? This theatre clears the field for dollar rights, leading the rights of Arabs and Muslims under the rule of feudal monarchs, such as Saudi Arabia. Although in such a situation, the artistic image of the Western politician "indignant and deeply concerned" by the signs of tyranny in Saudi Arabia, there is no other way out for the West! For the other option is Leninist electrification. And what in this situation will the Western politician choose for "human rights" in the Islamic world? The Western politician, they say, having clenched his will into a fist, with great reservations and with a mass of various amendments to a resolution, will point out the feudal version of the Saudi monarch to adopt. And it would be absurd if that same Western politician agreed on the need to revive the economy of the West, dying in crisis, by using the experience in planning of electrification under Stalin. The majority of these politicians had spent almost their entire lives working towards the collapse of the Stalin model of economic base.
The accident at Three Mile Island, at Chernobyl and at the Fukushima-1 has put at stake not just the question as to whether or not nuclear power will survive in general. They have put at stake the question of the future of all humanity. This applies, above all, to the elimination of the economic base of the best means of increasing labour productivity through the use of peaceful nuclear energy. By renouncing nuclear reactors, humankind abandons the most advanced generation capacity, which conventional generating power simply can not make up for. In addition, after the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, nuclear power was not only not saved, but it was deliberately destroyed. And carried to an extreme degree of wear, it could not express itself any differently than in the disaster at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in Japan.
What once again do our sugar daddies offer us as an alternative to nuclear power plants?
We have traditionally been offered renewable energy sources instead of nuclear power. Thus recently, somewhere a year and a half ago, a construction project of a power plant run on solar energy in the African desert has already been proposed, which will then going transfer energy to Europe. When the costs were calculated, the tears flowed. The project was elementary quackery. Now allusions are made toward the use of wind energy. Although this is not new, it is quite a development of power equipment. Only these "windmills" are also very expensive, and produce very little energy. They won’t feed large industry. Therefore, they put "windmills" in remote places where conventional power lines are expensive and the small generating capacity involved can be covered at the expense of the wind turbine. In addition, discussions about renewable energy sources are not carried out by professional energy experts alone, but also by people from the cash registers, accustomed to lending money at high interest. For them, the main thing "crowed" about is also, if they do not borrow money at high interest, don’t even let them get off the ground.
And what can imperialism present us with as an alternative to nuclear power? With what are these uncles with dollars going to save us from further falls in production? In this respect, oddly enough, but other than the alternative of the "deeply respected" monarchy of Saudi Arabia, sitting on the oil "pipeline", for these owners of dollars, there is no alternative. In the same direction, the modern "colour" revolutions in the Arab world are being carried out. And in this respect, the Russian government mimics them, focusing on the economic effect of the oil "pipeline". But then another question arises: how is the morality of the wahhabiing feudal sheikh better than the morality of Hitler's fascism?
Under these conditions, for modern China becomes a matter of honour to respond to this challenge. Only China, now in second place is able to undertake development projects of nuclear reactors and start to work on construction of nuclear power. This is needed most of all by the Chinese economy, which can no long operate on its own existing coal-fired energy resources. And the solution to the issue of developing nuclear power will become a bid for leadership in the world. In addition, scientific thought on the post-Soviet territory, in terms of nuclear power stations, is dragging out a miserable existence and is ready to earn a bit extra. And since the Chinese Communist Party has not abandoned the ideology of Stalin, they need to implement Stalin's economic base of electrification, with the expectation of predictable results for improved productivity.
Either planning and the economic base of the electrification will destroy the monetary system and cross over to calculating the costs for energy, or the monetary system will destroy humanity itself. There is no other option.
Vladimir Ryabov
Member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks
(CC AUCPB)
Further reading on the Chinese economy:
"Modern China" by A.A. Mayevsky member of the CC AUCPB
is fully justified. At the same time, there are no grounds to say that part of his book, describing the economics of China, fully clarifies the situation.
First of all, an analysis of the political life of China can not build on the economic patterns of Western analysts of the world market for one reason: this material in itself is a basis for inflating the "financial bubble" and clarity in the analysis is not added. At the same time, we must not forget that the political component of Chinese life should not be taken out of the overall picture of the former Third World countries which are now the developing world. And in this developing world, the Celestial Empire has become the recognized leader. In addition, current speculation by present day "communists" that pop up from time to time in bourgeois parliaments about the success of China, on the one hand, is justified, but on the other hand, is a traditional expression of "parliamentary cretinism" by "leftist" MPs masking the imperialist essence of exploitation. And this should be discussed in more detail when this business touches upon the essence of anarcho-syndicalism.
But when analyzing the current state of China, one can not ignore the phenomenon of the selling of labour power for maintaining the services of imperialism. Accordingly, the alliance between the Chinese bourgeoisie, which has become the leading force of society, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is cautious . As such, the alliance seeks the establishment of National Socialism. And all this on a the background of the fact that the role of Fuehrers in the modern world of imperialism have already been allocated, since those willing to perform the functions of the world of violence have taken shape in the face of American and Zionist capital, ready at the first opportunity to launch their military machine of repression into action.
Therefore, examining China is possible only through the prism of the modern national liberation struggle, marked by Lenin as "concessions on capitalist foundations means war." That is, it makes sense to analyze it only through similar stages of Soviet Russia’s exit of from the clutches of concessions, since the modern developing world is also seeking to break free from imperialist stranglehold. And here you can see many similarities between the 1920-s in the young Soviet republic and the current years in the developing world. In essence, we must consider how the patriotic section of the bourgeoisie was able to help in the electrification of the entire country "when the productive forces of the working class of Russia were very weak. Now what is required is an assessment of the ability (or patriotism) of that section of bourgeoisie of the Middle Kingdom, with which it can fit into the “electrification of the whole of China", when the productive forces of the country are not yet able to assume the leadership role.
We can not ignore the fact that the wave of revolutionary unrest in the Muslim world is expressed, above all, by the interests of small capital, crushed by imperialism and by their own dictators. At the same time, the military vehicles of U.S. and NATO have dramatically stirred into action, and like a magnet, have gravitated towards the oil-bearing regions of north Africa and the Middle East in order to impose their order in those areas. Therefore, the wave of national liberation struggle in the Islamic world, which expresses the interests of the economic base of electrification in need of accessible energy resources, the U.S. and NATO unleash a policy of imposing unaffordable prices for "black gold". That is, if in fact this struggle tends to demand lower prices for gasoline and natural gas, which in the long term applies to the whole energy sector, this demand finds confirmation in low electricity tariffs. Moreso, this access applies to the entire energy transmission of a developing country, and ensures stability at the enterprises owned and run the national bourgeoisie. And then these revolutionary waves for affordable energy at the grassroots level, imperialism seeks to translate into an economic crisis, which can be created only due to additional printing of dollars in the U.S.. At this stage, the revolutionary forces are forced to either apply a policy of nationalization of enterprises, pointing them towards prices of their own existing "black gold", or the national economy without its own energy, has to go for a merger with foreign capital and, consequently, suffer a cataclysmic rise in inflation, caused by the work of the dollar printing press. The problems of such revolutions lie always in their duration, i.e. the ability to retain "the electrification of the entire country" to ensure national interests for as long as possible. The faster imperialism penetrates into the management of such economies of developing countries, the faster the flywheel begins to spiral up inflation, which raises a new wave of revolutions. And the same scenario is repeated, the foundations of which Marx outlined way back in the XIX century. But if, as in China, its own base of electrification has been created, able to withstand inflation imposed by imperialism, then the country can put forward its plans to increase GDP and development.
The difference of economic approaches towards the understanding of development, is that in place of monetary parity of gold, there arrived a new gold parity - the consumption of "black gold" (oil) in production. It is for this "black gold" that the modern-day class struggle is being carried out. However, in these conditions, imperialism unleashes its accountants and demands payments in dollars, rather than in the cost of energy. In this case, the leading U.S. economists impose their own pricing policies on all the rest of us. As a result of such pricing policies, imperialism itself establishes wages and living standards in all countries. Those countries which do not agree with this, fall under economic sanctions or embargos, balancing on the brink of military intervention by the U.S. and NATO.
China's political system can not be regarded as just a growing imperialist power. It should be judged as a power that has to to reckon with the established orders of imperialism on the world stage. In this case, the desire of CCP to create its own economic base is quite clearly demonstrated, which is based entirely on state energy, corresponding to policy of the yuan and its own agriculture. This gives grounds to see a significant part of the “electrification of the whole of China” in industrial potential. But the trouble is for the Chinese people and its leadership, is that the main source of energy for such electrification is coal. For the country itself has only reserves of coal on which long-term economic policy can be built. But this energy source is very time consuming and can not actively increase productivity. The buying of oil and gas on the world market is expensive and puts energy under constant price fluctuations. Fluctuations in prices do not allow electrification to become stable in developing countries. Therefore, in China one will see a doubling of the economy: on the one hand, "the electrification of the whole country”, and on the other, a game on the world market under the laws of imperialism. Actually, on the global market, one can only exist under the laws of imperialism, since by acting according to humane laws in front of "jaws" of the market, we resign ourselves to being eaten up.
The presentation by the CCP of some moral requirements for such an economic policy is all quite meaningless. Since the responsibility for the situation in China is carried by Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and their surrounding "loyal Leninists." That Khrushchev, Brezhnev partocracy pushed the Chinese communists away from Soviet oil and later from gas at stable prices. And what was the reason? The reason was Stalin. If the Chinese comrades rejected Stalin, they would get their oil and gas. Otherwise, oil and gas would go to the Eastern European allies who had turned their backs on Stalin. And as it turned out, these allies had simultaneously rejected the electrification of their own countries. For example the closest associate of the USSR, Poland, stated a couple of years ago that it was not worried by the European debates about gas, because 95% of their own energy needs are met by using their own coal, and that says a lot. Where then, did the Soviet oil and gas flow to, if all these "Druzhba" pipelines and other "pipes" were built for the electrification of its closest allies? It turns out that the energy went further and into West only to return to Eastern Europe as payment in dollars for rejecting electrification.
With regard to the contradictions of China's economy, they are derived from the impact of the initial economic leap, as the revolutionary success of the country during the transition to socialism was compensated by the industrial breakthrough reached with the assistance of the Soviet Union and Stalin personally. On this leap, China gained its electrification, which was literally in its infancy. After the betrayal by "the loyal Leninists" of the Soviet Union, all subsequent economic breakthroughs initiated by the CCP did not give the desired results, because its own economic base of electrification remained at the 1950-s level. Not having any significant oil and gas reserves, China's next economic breakthrough could be realized only on the reforms of Deng Xiaoping's "socialism with Chinese characteristics." The basis of these "characteristics" was simply the hiring out the Chinese labour force for recruitment by imperialism. At the same time, the capacity of Chinese coal-fired power stations (something similar to early Soviet electrification – GOELPO) began to increase. And under this consumption of coal at their own power station plants, their own currency base - the yuan took shape. Their own reformed agriculture fell under the yuan. Everything else was handed over under the custody of the dollar. What might have been the alternative to such a policy? The alternative could only have been the complete surrender of China to the mercy of imperialism. Surrender of the Latin American type, with a dictator of a Somoza or Pinochet type.
Then the logical question arises: what happened to those countries which have placed themselves at the mercy of imperialism?
The answer is contained in the examples of countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia. Both these states are leading exporters of oil and the leading apologists for Islam. And while these countries were compling with all demands of the U.S., the dollar was dictating all the conditions. But in 1979, Iran had the Islamic revolution which overthrew the pro-U.S. shah and established an Islamic regime, with national interests aimed at the realisation of energy reserves. At that time, Saudi Arabia, located in the Arabian Desert and known for its Mecca, as a place of worship of the prophet Muhammad, is doing everything to rescue the dollar, by increasing oil exports. This sparsely populated country, which uses a mainly foreign labour force and specialists in oil, though rescuing the struggling dollar, after Iran left the watchful eye of the U.S., it has been unable to provide reliable support for the dollar. There is a growing crisis. The opportunists brought the economy of the USSR to its knees before imperialism, and the energy resources from post-Soviet territory have rushed to rescue and support the dollar. And there still is not enough to prop up the dollar. In Iran, the Islamic revolution creates its own domestic energy, accelerating the construction of its own nuclear power plant in Bushehr. Oil prices are increasing. We are entering the world economic crisis of capitalism. But this crisis does not hurt countries such as China, India, Brazil, Argentina, etc. These countries are developing, they have found their own bases of electrification or reliable allies in the supply of energy. And the more large underdeveloped countries have their own bases of electrification, the less they need the mediation of the dollar and even may well do a substantial part of procurement with friendly countries without the dollar. Venezuela, Iran and other countries are such countries that are only just creating their own bases of electrification.
This example is similar to the occurrence in Soviet Russia in the electrification of the entire country, starting with the occurrence of concessions offered by the West. Then, Lenin warned of their size: "Concessions are not terrible if we give the concessionaires a few factories, keeping most of them for us, that’s nothing terrible. Of course, utterly ridiculous it would be if the Soviet government handed out a big part of what belongs to it to concession: then that would not be a concession, but a return to capitalism." (MSS, t.32, pp. 275). And since the bulk of the industrial potential of countries such as China, India, Brazil and others, present their own resources handed over together with the workforce as a concession to imperialism, then there can be no talk about an independent economic policy of the developing world. They follow a policy of economic requirements of capitalism. However, the output of China in second place in the world in GDP, suggests a planning policy by the governing structures of the CPC, which can be carried out only on the basis of their own electrification. Therefore there is respect in the CPC for Stalin's role in history, revealed not only in the respect of traditions, but also expressed as a direct continuation of the cause of Stalin in the economy. Hence it is not random attacks by the U.S. against the policy of the Yuan, which has stood on guard over electrification of the whole of China. Suffice to say that those developing countries that have a relative base of electrification, do not fall under the bastion of imperialist bellicose statements. Therefore, at this stage of development of China, all will depend on what benefits the proletariat will receive from the development of electrification and whether it can form itself into an independent working class?
Oddly enough, but here the question arises. And what is more important in the struggle against imperialism: to build socialism or build ones own base of electrification?
The answer is quite simple. Without its own base of electrification, not one socialism will be able to stand the test of time. Because you can only build communism, the road to which lies via the economic base of electrification. For communism is a rejection of the monetary system, in the place of which the consumption of "black gold" grow for the manufacture of tools of labour and commodities for consumption. From which the economic base serves as a record keeper of electrification in the national economy, regardless of whether professionals working in it want this or not. In this, the base of electrification passes the reins of power in the accounting system to the working class, as the closest to the cost accounting of energy invested in manufacturing turnover. And it is the working class, as Lenin said, "each parish, each workshop” is able to calculate the costs of "black gold" for their small turnover. And if the working class is going to badly calculate the consumption of "black gold", as happened in the USSR, then they will pass through another re-education in the practices of capitalism, so that afterwards, they will be be able to calculate correctly. Therefore, the development of the historical process moves not so much according to what state we have built, whether a socialist or capitalist state, but moves according to whether the monetary system retreats for calculation in energy consumption. Socialism, of course, is well able to help the development of the base of electrification. But the example of successful development in China, India, Brazil and other developing countries, which have learned to consider the costs for energy, during the world economic crisis of capitalism, allowed them not to feel this crisis, at that same time as the leading imperialist countries are mired up to their eyes in an economic bog.
And the problem of the world market crops up again, which very cleverly distributes the results of the global division of labour, allowing the imperialist powers to lead a comfortable life, and leaving the developing world, mostly in poverty. Accordingly, Lenin's conclusion comes to mind regarding this problem: "Using a currency such as gold, you should not forget that there is no free market, that the entire market or almost entire market is occupied by syndicates, cartels and trusts that manage their imperialist profits, and items of supply are given the workers only for their own businesses and not for others, because the old capitalism - in the sense of the free-market – is no longer with us. "(t.32. s.283-284). Therefore, the proletarian leader proposed the economic base of electrification, as opposed to the global market of imperialism. Since in practice, Leninist electrification, due to prices on energy resources, made it possible to monitor turnover of agricultural production, moving away from the arbitrariness of the world market of imperialism, opposing its own monetary unit, which also participates in the turnover on a par with the expended energy.
To understand how and why opposition was growing between the world market and local turnover, one should more carefully consider the question: why was the colonial policy of imperialism replaced by the policy of concessions, and now currency wars are raging?
Currency wars as a continuation of the colonial policy of imperialism.
The Great French Revolution did not have time to properly consolidate the capitalist system in Paris, before her longing to seize the territories of others, already captured mostly by the British. Greed for colonial policy ruined many of the French and exposed the policy of England, which was won by the bourgeoisie closely within the British Isles, and she quietly plundered all the overseas colonies. The First World War further exposed the imperialist desire of syndicates and cartels to the division of the world and the new seizure of foreign territories. At the same time, maintaining colonial armies was expensive. And carrying on wars for colonies ended in failure for some of the leading imperialist powers. Also, the imperialists began to apply the policy of concessions when a weak state donated a portion of their resources to concession (ie, rebate) to some imperialist conglomerate. And this international conglomerate, using the in-country legislation, continued its colonial policies already within the officially sanctioned legal framework. This eliminates the expense of the imperialists to maintain their armies, but the host country pays a tax. Accordingly, the appetites of the leading monopolies in such plunder of the weaker nations will only increase. Here is the stage of the policy of concessions that Lenin saw that instead of the national liberation struggle of the colonies there is a "war of concessions with capitalist foundations”.
Looking ahead, we can say that the emergence of fascist regimes in the camp of imperialism and in the dependent states, was dictated by the same laws of economics in colonial politics. Fascism with its pathological cruelty tried to realize itself on the fear of weak opponents and to ensure power and the needed resources. Only the motives of national liberation from economic bondage has always prevailed. Therefore, colonialism, and its derivative in the form of fascism as an instrument of imperialist policy, had to go depart everywhere from the political arena.
However, in the early twentieth century, the young Soviet republic became the political arena for the "war concessions with capitalist foundations”. And Leninist electrification became the tool in the fight against the aggressive pressure of the global steel market. It was the economic basis of electrification in Soviet Russia that immediately led to two trends in the communist movement. The first was the "Left" deviation and identified with the name of Leon Trotsky, calling only for the military development of the revolution. The second trend, was the “Right” deviation, its leader Bukharin, called for a truce with bourgeois reformism and was directly drawn towards capitalism. And very soon the similarity of these two party deviations was discovered, or afterwards as the delegates of Stalinist Party congresses themselves joked: "If you go "left"- you will arrive on the right." But what united them was what Lenin called anarcho-syndicalism, "the true Makhnovshchina”. For anarcho-syndicalism combined the economic interests of the Trotskyists and Bukharinites. Gradually, anarcho-syndicalism became the leading policy of imperialism and a tool for self-collapse of electrification in less developed countries. Why did this happen?
Bourgeois governments of Western countries, including Russia in the present, tend to convince both its own population and the population of states dependent on them, that they live in the era of greatest prosperity, "democracy" and are required to span all economic thought of liberalism. Meanwhile, Western "democracy" means in translation, the power of the people, and the under-developed world was able to actually recognize the power of the "money bag", with all that ideological scope of liberalism in fact expressed in corrupt collaborationism.
Modern imperialists long ago ought to have erected a monument to Nestor Makhno as the ideologist and organizer of Western policy. At the base of the monument should be placed the Tsarist prisoners, realising the need to place the felon Makhno with political prisoners. Political literacy for the criminal world has given its results and the at one time leader of anarcho-syndicalism has learned a special result in economic education: it’s not important for whom to fight for, whether it be for the whites or reds, it is important that following the battle, sacks of money can be "grabbed up-via privatization". Strictly, the whole ideology of anarchy is placed on the bag with the money, "as the mother of order." Therefore, in 1921, it was no accident that Lenin happened to see in anarcho-syndicalism a force that was stronger than any throughout the military intervention, along with its own White Guards, who tried to win the civil war. And this force was distributed in the party ranks on the right and "left", uniting all in the attractive force of the money bag. For the Trotskyists, not to mention the Bukharinites quietly redeemed their "r-revolutionary' fervor for a quiet life in a large abundance, being provided by significant financial costs out of the pocket of the devastated Soviet republic. Of course, this ability of anarcho-syndicalists to pump money out of the socialist state, could not be missed by imperialism. And imperialism itself adopted this skill by the followers of Makhno: for the profits, "fight" for the whites or reds. All political principles of the followers of Makhno were sent to the dump, leaving on the horizon, only one dream in the form of an eternal craving for a bag of money. Although, of course, over time, the rough shape the money bag gave way to respectable suitcases or briefcases and sometimes, as appropriate, accompanied by even the use of a box of money fresh from under the copying machine. But in the end, the desire to grab just any offshore zone frantically stirred liberal thought. The "mother of order" does not like to waste time on trifles.
The two-faced policy of the West and the absence of any principles in politics have so bankrupted social thought of the leading capitalist countries that since the second half of the twentieth century in the place of politics, religion has increasingly made a return, more recently, squeezing "democratic" society further out in its remoteness from the state. And the most bizarre result of the return of religion into the political limelight has been the advancement of "revolutionary Islam" on guard over "electrification of the entire country." Imperialism, of course, has achieved much in its own rot and decay, having being able to engage in this "fascinating" lesson many "leftist" trends, now sunk into oblivion under the weight of Eurocommunism and opportunism. However, a considerable part of the world is taking over the objective laws of social development, spontaneously expressing what Lenin established in scientific and revolutionary theory. Objectively, for many developing countries, the economic base of electrification is becoming "closer to the body", and not thanks to the “good” intentions of liberal thought.
Under Stalin, the Soviet economic potential for the first time opened the door, which by the way Lenin's electrification paved the way for the destruction of money. With it, profits from turnover in large part were transfered into lower prices, thereby declaring the intention of the monetary system to tend to zero and pass control over the costs to the economic base of the country's energy consumption. Of course, such control over energy resources could be carred out en masse only by the working class, led by the advanced revolutionary vanguard. Therefore, the main opponent of imperialism was precisely the Leninist-Stalinist Party of the Soviet Union which carried on a clear class policy. And Khrushchev, regardless of whether he wanted it or not, was a direct protege of imperialism, carried out the rescue of the monetary system of capitalism.
However, the global market of imperialism will die at such a speed as the policy of success in increasing the profits from leading monopolies. And they have one problem: their lack of control over the circulation of goods. In fact in the world market, stringent regulation of goods and a system of prohibitions, and even direct blockade of some states are established to ensure their prices for raw materials by leading imperialist conglomerates. From this there is the an overabundance of food at one pole and starvation of millions on the other. And the deaths of millions of people means nothing, compared to the ability to control the world by establishing their own prices and the possibility of distributing goods. The dollar here serves as a screen behind which the policy of divide and conquer is pursued. But if things take a nasty turn, then the dollar can be charged as the culprit, so that throwing it at another deal, even more profit can be gained.
The modern world is not just the current West, the oracles of which fill television space across the world and carry to the masses under the ideas of liberalism, the economic policies of the casino. For its the casino owners who always seem to win. Otherwise, the casino would not have taken in the second half of the twentieth century a leading position in the capitalist economy. But 5 / 6 of the modern world still draws attention to the principles of conduct, morality, which is inherited from previous generations. And this world seeks to articulate its interests not through the world market, but through its own turnover, controlled by the economic base of electrification. Of course, this electrification is expressed spontaneously. But the practice of conducting their own monetary units experiencing the oppression of pressure of leading currencies of imperialism assumes this. This is for the underdeveloped countries the only way out, providing an ever-visible position of their own independent existence, remaining with policies on the basis of planning their own electrification, beyond which there is no salvation. That is why modern China will be forced to tighten the policy of "electrification of the entire country”, reaching the second position in the world. And that means leadership on the economic basis of electrification, which must be maintained.
How does imperialism carry out modern neo-colonialist policies?
Modern neo-colonialist policies of imperialism are carried out on two fronts. On the one hand, currency revolutions are being carried out against weak countries, that are implemented by modern rentiers of the world market by sales of mainly dollars, with increased rate of some monetary units in the underdeveloped world. Owners of an undeveloped currency need dollars, because they will have to buy energy at the same world market, so they buy them. But then, when the local currency of a developing country falls sharply, investors in the world market quickly buy up commodities at a reduced price, which will then be sold at an inflated dollar price at home. Outwardly, these speculations are almost invisible, as they are sometimes carried out in fractions of percent in currency fluctuations, but the sums injected into circulation should always exceed one million dollars. Otherwise, those fractions of a percent, the difference in exchange rates, under which the vast amount of currency is thrown in from some of the leading capitalist countries, will not bring a tangible profit in the currency wars. Such a policy of carrying on currency wars prevents local currencies stabilizing, so that weak states can not establish their own accounting of energy consumption and consequently, can not establish their own economic base of electrification.
On the other hand, the grabbing up of fixed assets of enterprises in underdeveloped countries takes place at the expense of the money supply of leading imperialist conglomerates. Here the game is played at the level of balancing profits and outgoing costs of enterprises accounted for on the world market. And it is here that, on their own sweat, there toil the billionaires. The main fight is for energy, energy branches, metals (“blue chips”). The aircraft and defence industry are closed subjects for the world market, and with them everything is decided "under the carpet." Enterprises of the “second plan” that are unrelated to the "blue chips" are accounted for on the world market only due to their increased prices that could affect the balance of power in economic battles. Everything else is left to the mercy of the rentier, who manages to earn good money in the currency wars. In the space of energy resources are developed the major economic wars, turning into real military action. For the sale of energy resources, especially the most essential, oil, is carried out in dollars, allowing the leading imperialist country –the United States – to consider themselves the pantry of "black gold" that allows banking transactions on the global market. Any underdeveloped country, before you buy the same oil, is forced to first buy dollars through the sale of their goods, which, of course, speculators will buy at the lower exchange rate of the underdeveloped country. In the U.S. those dollars are just printed and exchanged for goods to those who would seek to buy oil. Other leading capitalist countries support the U.S. in the work of the printing press to produce dollars, as they are interested in the functioning of one currency for the purchase of energy resources. And the U.S. will share profits with them by increasing appreciation of the euro by 30 - 35% against the dollar. And countries such as Russia's own rate of the rouble against the dollar, they can lower the rate by thirty times. As a result, energy-rich Russia will be forced to sell petrol to its own population at five times the price than in other oil rich developing countries, to pay the permanent penalty for its own capitalism to Uncle Sam. And Uncle Sam with its own bell tower of the world market will provide credit only to those "blue chips" in Russia, who support the stability of the dollar policy. And exactly the same policies of the world market are carried on in respect of other weak states. However, on an economic basis saturated by the dollar, in the leading capitalist countries, nothing but crises will grow.
In both cases, the economic policy of the dollar pursues a single goal: to achieve instability in the local monetary system in a developing country and force its economy to seek assistance from the imperialist monopoly leading the business. Since a leading monopolist is interested in the economy of an dependent country existing in this condition for as long as possible, in which there is a serf at the service of his master, then in the charge of such "human rights" is both NATO and the forces of reactionary feudalism.
Therefore, to ensure some semblance of development on the fake dollar note and, thus, prolong the agony of modern imperialism, in the second half of the twentieth century, the unscrupulous policy of "human rights" was built. Because behind "human rights", the rights of the dollar always grow, the possibility which is problematic and is carried out on the verge of balancing between "left" and right-wing political sentiments. In this sense, a justifiable measure on part of the U.S., is the forming in the Muslim world of the ultra-Islamic organization al-Qaeda aiming at running ahead of the Islamic revolution in Iran. This is reminiscent of ultra-Trotskyism in Russia, trying, by forcing the waves of world revolution, to solve the problem of world domination of Zionism. Only these days, the current followers of bin Laden are trying to accommodate Islamic national revolutions against the U.S. policy in favour of Saudi Arabia policy fully standing on guard in the economic interests of the United States and Israel. Because only the preservation by the imperialists of a feudal relic, like Saudi Arabia, performing the role of "mother of order" in the Islamic world and which is simultaneously the leading country for the sale of oil, allows the U.S. to maintain its position of a benefactor of Islam and implement the dictatorial policies of the global market. Policies swollen by ambiguous predictions for the future and burst financial bubbles in the present.
Nevertheless, all dictatorial regimes come and go, but Lenin's electrification remains. And no matter how the oracles of capitalism distort Lenin's electrification, it always remains the sole life-giving source of the economy, from which the poor countries are able to quench their thirst and begin development. All underdeveloped countries, with rare exceptions, aim towards gaining and increasing their own turnover, and from turnover, rid themselves from the dictatorship of imperialism. And in this way, they will create the electrification of their own countries and move away from the dictatorship of the dollar and tyranny of the global market.
And although the podium model of imperialism demonstrates to the whole community the imperturbable manner of setting up on the table of the "global casino" of "blue chips", it cannot not hide from public opinion the rotting smell of parasitic paper dollars behind the chips. And since beyond the gaming table of the "global casino", parades and public demonstrations with different sexual orientations try to express a clear vision of the future better than the others, then their capacity to bear fruit wipes out the ability of capitalism itself to live and build. Yes, the modern gravedigger of capitalism lies in the Asian expanse and is looking quite ripe for this mission, with convincing support for its own principles of conduct and traditions of understanding.
Energy disaster in Japan: Causes and Consequences.
While the negative effects of a cold and snowy winter in Russia alternated every possible cut-offs, threatening to transform into a chain reaction for disabling the country’s main life support systems, there were no signs of storms in other regions of the world. As other regions of the world are not so cold and have much less snow fall, then causes of large-scale disasters occur much less. But a strong earthquake overtook Japan, accompanied in such cases, by the associated tsunami. And thus, until more recently, the second largest economy in the world, rolled into a ditch. In the centre of the disaster and destroyed, was Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. The nature of the accident at the plant largely repeats the events of the American nuclear power plant disaster at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, which took place in 1979. The difference is that at Three Mile Island, the misfortune befell on one reactor, but at the Fukushima-1, such fate hit four of six reactors. Also, in Japan after the earthquake, a few other nuclear reactors entered a state of emergency.
In the press, reports were leaked that the IAEA back in 2008 warned the government of Japan of the unstable state of Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, and of an impending earthquake with devastating consequences. But the loudest of all to declare to themselves environmentalists are those following the U.S. authorities step by step, having for a long time cemented over every nuclear power plant construction. And at this stage of development of nuclear energy, a disappointing fact should be recognized: the service life of reactors used in the Fukushima-1, were so exhausted that they should have not only been cemented over in just Japan, but also in other regions of the world, including Russia.
Why is there a need to shut down and cover over these reactors? The reason is that nuclear reactors, as well as all sorts of generating capacities in conventional power, are designed for a lifespan of 25 years. Anyway, in the Soviet Union in such reactors a payback period of 12 years was established, which corresponded to the price of electricity and heat, and the period of operating the generating resources at 25 years. Further use in the work of such power is dangerous, because the growing fatigue properties and the metal losing its strength. In any case, more frequent accidents on heating pipelines and power outages demonstrate such wear and tear. The reactors at Fukushima-1, as evidenced by press reports, operated for about 40 years. That is, the equipment was worn to the limit. And when the tremors tested the Fukushima strength, this strength was insufficient. The Fukushima nuclear reactors began to collapse like a house of cards.
In these circumstances, the bourgeois media imposed on world public opinion an analysis of the type "who said what to whom." The Bolshevik opinion in this situation can only be one: lack of planning. Namely the lack of plans to replace their exhausted reactor resources, both in Japan and around the world, places humanity on the brink of disaster. For the resource of stability has been used up along with also a significant number of conventional thermal generators, which can fall apart and turn off the life support system of the population. And it would be absurd to choose a way of dying either from nuclear radiation or from the cold due to the shutdown of traditional thermal power stations, since both types of power generating equipment are is in a very worn out state. The only difference is that the people of warm climates do not face death from cold, so they justifiably express their emotions against a surge in nuclear power plants.
In analyzing the situation at the Japanese nuclear power plants, one also has to turn to history. This must be done to understand why all these powerful nuclear and thermal power plants were built during the first three decades after World War II. After that, there has been slump, then stagnation. The last two decades, energy has evolved mostly in the underdeveloped world, where there has been capital fed into, while the cost to the leading companies in the development of thermal and electrical energy of the leading capitalist countries, in dollar terms, has grown with incredible speed. As a result, the industrial race between socialism and capitalism started after World War II, forced the planning of the development of generating capacities. And although to capitalism it was distasteful to have to plan to develop its own industry, the imperialists had no other way of competing with the Stalinist model of economy in the USSR. This is one reason why the figure of Stalin became for the hosts of the leading conglomerates the most hated person, since he had forced them to engage in not extracting the highest profit, but forced them to plan development and that it was necessary to make investments in the economy that, were not, from a practical business point of view, justified. And also, the proletariat of developed capitalist countries at that time had considerably more respect for the Soviet working class, seeking in their own struggle, large wage increases and better working conditions. The situation changed with the coming to power in the USSR of the open anarcho-syndicalists, first, Khrushchev, then Brezhnev. As soon as the planning system in the Soviet Union collapsed and in place of the economic base of electrification, the monetary criteria for profit arrived (Kosygin reforms in 1965), this opened the prospects of managing the world economy through the dollar, which after 1945 became the main currency of the world market of capitalism for energy trade. The possibility of the U.S. to control via the dollar "black gold", allowed, in conditions of anarcho-syndicalism in the Soviet Union, to seize political domination in the world. Moreover, anarcho-syndicalism was a very useful political tool for maintaining the foundations of capitalism itself that imperialism had taken into service. In the 1970’s, the U.S. had already no need for advanced technologies in nuclear power, as nuclear power itself was no longer necessary. (On this subject, read the article "The impending economic collapse - a natural result of the capitalization of the economy of the USSR" on the website of the AUCPB (FB- Russian website vkpb.ru). Therefore, the U.S. began to mothball the construction of nuclear power plants both in the USA and abroad. Japan also finished up with their own obsolete nuclear power plants built by the U.S. during the cooling of competition between the two systems (capitalism-socialism) and has not engaged in their modernization. After the 1970’s, the building of nuclear power plants has declined sharply, and after Chernobyl, it has ceased, except for the underdeveloped world. What could the Japanese do under the circumstances of the earthquake of 2011? Simply shut down all the reactors, which had operated for over 25 years? But capitalism can not afford to stop the expensive equipment, which brings in huge profits. Who will finance the losses? It turns out that these nuclear plants were doomed to work until extraordinary circumstances forced them to shut down.
On the background of the disaster in Japan politicians in Germany sharply jumped into action, where the situation with deterioration of nuclear reactors is similar. Obviously, fear is forcing the Germans to shut down all their reactors which have been operating for over thirty years.
A most tense situation with nuclear energy has developed in France. There, more than 75% of all energy is produced from nuclear power. Those Frenchmen are proud of. But it is very unlikely that there exists a planning system and or expanded reproduction of nuclear power plants. The bourgeois model of economy needs profit and not reliability of energy equipment. Therefore, in the near future we should expect to see a sharp increase in interest from the media towards the French network of nuclear power, and we can gather some information regarding the reproduction of nuclear reactors in one of the leading capitalist countries.
As for Russia, here all traditional power generation is in another “GOELRO-2” plan of Chubais. On paper, the planning is finished, but in practice, there is no money for construction. A similar plan for the commissioning of new plants was announced in Russia several years ago, but with the financing – everything as usual with Chubais in GOELRO-2 (no money for it). Therefore, for new Russian nuclear reactors, there are projects under construction in the developing world, but the construction projects in Chubais’s own home country, Russia, have been as usual, either mothballed or gone into stagnation.
We may have got the impression that the tragedy in Japan would encourage the construction of modern nuclear power plants and it would quickly get underway. But there are no grounds for this forecast to come to life. Firstly, the U.S. has long ceased all nuclear plant construction and will be unable to reach the same level of development of new reactors for at least the next decade. In addition, the U.S. already does not have the personnel that are capable of at least the previous level of technology to build new nuclear power plants. Secondly, Russia's potential for nuclear plant reproduction is too outdated, there is no growth in capacity, and the only thing enhanced, is the safety factor in case of emergency. However, these reactors of the 1970’s are not able to break onto projected construction sites. Thirdly, France, saturated by nuclear plants, after Fukushima-1, is unlikely to make up for its own outages and rejuvenate the stagnant nuclear power industry. The most realistic forecast of what the next decade has to offer, in one way or another, is whether or not nuclear power plants should be build in the first place, and if built, what kind of plants should be built and to what standards ... There are always more questions in these situations than there are answers. But during this decade, the remaining nuclear power plants work the resources in forty years, since the folding up of nuclear power plant construction began after the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979. In any case, nuclear reactors with three decades of life will not be shutdown in the meantime, and it would be impossible, because their shutdown would bring about an energy catastrophe. It turns out that on the political wave of anarcho-syndicalism, Europeans and North Americans turned out hostages to the global market.
And now we come to the central question: WHAT does planning in the field of energy sector actually mean?
Planning in the energy sector means, in essence, life or death, because without planning, the energy sector can not exist. Without energy, the developed world cannot live.
Therefore, it is worth turning to the experience of the Soviet Union during the period of industrialization in order to understand how to implement this planning, not for money, but for energy transmitters. And because the experience of planning starts from Lenin's plan for electrification (GOELPO), it is necessary to look at all the thermal power stations generated by this plan. What do we then see? We will see a number of second and even third phases of construction of power plants. You can also see that each subsequent phase of construction in the energy sector far exceeded the volume of previously generated power. That is, every power plant built was projectedly and practically paid off in 12 years, then earning its own expanded reproduction and beginning to build itself up and grow. In this case, further construction was calculated so that after 25 years of work of the original power capacity input, a new power capacity could be introduced, much more superior to its predecessors. This required an increase in the rate of productivity in the energy sector and rejuvenation of production itself. Nuclear energy began to develop on these principles. And while these rules of planning electrification were adhered to, the growth of the country’s industrial component was impressive, which was accompanied by an increase in the living standards for the vast majority of the population. The turnover of energy resources in the economic base of electrification was the guarantee of success, which dropped the cost of fuel for the production per unit of output of industry and agriculture.
Maybe there are still people who believe that Khrushchev began criticizing "Stalin's personality cult," to pursue a good cause ... In fact, Khrushchev fought for the monetary policy of the U.S. dollar, thereby undermining the Leninist policy of electrification and put into practice by Stalin. However, we must recognize that the scope of Khrushchev, like that of Brezhnev who succeeded him, did not extend beyond the ideology of Makhno. For that, of course, the then-members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CC CPSU) took responsibility. Therefore the desire of the anarcho-syndicalists for a simple sack of money was more important than the desire to continue the policy of moving away from money, begun by Lenin by moving towards communism through the economic base of electrification. This brings to mind the false attempt to leap into communism by 1980 –Khrushchev-style. Waving his fists, and almost falling off the podium, Khrushchev announced his wording, "communism - this is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country, plus chemicalization of the national economy" ... Does anyone know what this Makhnovite meant, when he intended to build communism on the basis of "chemicalization of the national economy”? Obviously, it was that bomb that blew up Leninist electrification and behind the smokescreen of the explosion made it possible to start moving to that bag, with money ...
But now, after the disaster in Japan, there is every reason to say "chemicalization of the national economy" in the entire capitalist world. The imperialists with the help of the "Khrushchevites” sowed the wind in the Soviet Union, but are now reaping the storm at home. They should not have spat into the well of the Leninist electrification. Since from of this well, now the world will have to satisfy its economic thirst. And presumably to warm up to Uncle Sam, we may soon have to burn bundles of dollars, since the day of ending of trading energy in dollars is not far off.
As a conclusion.
The contemporary developing world has therefore ceased to be simply the Third World, since it has embarked on a policy of economic base of electrification and begun to truly develop. But imperialism continues to celebrate the success of the collapse of the economic policies of the Soviet Union. In this, the "wise" uncles of the dollar policy never think that the collapse of Leninist electrification in the camp of socialism, they have destroyed their own base of electrification and doomed themselves to a recession. As a result, the developing world is forced spontaneously to save itself from imperialist tyranny, to develop its own bases of electrification.
Of course, Western politicians more typically pull down everything that is created in the underdeveloped world, without feeling remorse, going to direct aggression by the collapse of weak electrification. Key strikes are inflicted on socialist economies, DPRK and Cuba. They are heading towards oil-rich Iran, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela and others. It is no accident that big money, noted in the press, is being thrown by the imperialists into the wave of "colour" Arab revolutions. What is the West is seeking through the "colour revolutions" in the Arab world? The West seeks to expand the number of allies of Saudi Arabia in the Arab world and thus change the balance of power in this oil-rich region in its favour. Attempts by the same forces to place Islamic republics of the Caucasus in Russia under the control of Saudi Arabia is no accident. Attempts by the Wahhabis of Saudi sheikhs to place under the control of Al Qaeda the entire Islamic world, through well-organized terrorism, is no accident. Accordingly, the pious "democratic" liberalism of the West with great artistry uses the theatre of Batko Makhno "to fight terrorism and tyranny."
What role does this theatre of the West play in the struggle for "human rights"? This theatre clears the field for dollar rights, leading the rights of Arabs and Muslims under the rule of feudal monarchs, such as Saudi Arabia. Although in such a situation, the artistic image of the Western politician "indignant and deeply concerned" by the signs of tyranny in Saudi Arabia, there is no other way out for the West! For the other option is Leninist electrification. And what in this situation will the Western politician choose for "human rights" in the Islamic world? The Western politician, they say, having clenched his will into a fist, with great reservations and with a mass of various amendments to a resolution, will point out the feudal version of the Saudi monarch to adopt. And it would be absurd if that same Western politician agreed on the need to revive the economy of the West, dying in crisis, by using the experience in planning of electrification under Stalin. The majority of these politicians had spent almost their entire lives working towards the collapse of the Stalin model of economic base.
The accident at Three Mile Island, at Chernobyl and at the Fukushima-1 has put at stake not just the question as to whether or not nuclear power will survive in general. They have put at stake the question of the future of all humanity. This applies, above all, to the elimination of the economic base of the best means of increasing labour productivity through the use of peaceful nuclear energy. By renouncing nuclear reactors, humankind abandons the most advanced generation capacity, which conventional generating power simply can not make up for. In addition, after the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, nuclear power was not only not saved, but it was deliberately destroyed. And carried to an extreme degree of wear, it could not express itself any differently than in the disaster at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in Japan.
What once again do our sugar daddies offer us as an alternative to nuclear power plants?
We have traditionally been offered renewable energy sources instead of nuclear power. Thus recently, somewhere a year and a half ago, a construction project of a power plant run on solar energy in the African desert has already been proposed, which will then going transfer energy to Europe. When the costs were calculated, the tears flowed. The project was elementary quackery. Now allusions are made toward the use of wind energy. Although this is not new, it is quite a development of power equipment. Only these "windmills" are also very expensive, and produce very little energy. They won’t feed large industry. Therefore, they put "windmills" in remote places where conventional power lines are expensive and the small generating capacity involved can be covered at the expense of the wind turbine. In addition, discussions about renewable energy sources are not carried out by professional energy experts alone, but also by people from the cash registers, accustomed to lending money at high interest. For them, the main thing "crowed" about is also, if they do not borrow money at high interest, don’t even let them get off the ground.
And what can imperialism present us with as an alternative to nuclear power? With what are these uncles with dollars going to save us from further falls in production? In this respect, oddly enough, but other than the alternative of the "deeply respected" monarchy of Saudi Arabia, sitting on the oil "pipeline", for these owners of dollars, there is no alternative. In the same direction, the modern "colour" revolutions in the Arab world are being carried out. And in this respect, the Russian government mimics them, focusing on the economic effect of the oil "pipeline". But then another question arises: how is the morality of the wahhabiing feudal sheikh better than the morality of Hitler's fascism?
Under these conditions, for modern China becomes a matter of honour to respond to this challenge. Only China, now in second place is able to undertake development projects of nuclear reactors and start to work on construction of nuclear power. This is needed most of all by the Chinese economy, which can no long operate on its own existing coal-fired energy resources. And the solution to the issue of developing nuclear power will become a bid for leadership in the world. In addition, scientific thought on the post-Soviet territory, in terms of nuclear power stations, is dragging out a miserable existence and is ready to earn a bit extra. And since the Chinese Communist Party has not abandoned the ideology of Stalin, they need to implement Stalin's economic base of electrification, with the expectation of predictable results for improved productivity.
Either planning and the economic base of the electrification will destroy the monetary system and cross over to calculating the costs for energy, or the monetary system will destroy humanity itself. There is no other option.
Vladimir Ryabov
Member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks
(CC AUCPB)
Further reading on the Chinese economy:
"Modern China" by A.A. Mayevsky member of the CC AUCPB
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