KEVIN CAIN READ THE FOLLOWING PAPER TO THE OCTOBER 2005 MEETING OF THE STALIN SOCIETY. THE PAPER DEALS WITH THE DISUNITY WITHIN RUSSIAN COMMUNISM. OF PARTICULAR INTEREST IS THE DIFFERING ATTITUDE OF RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE ATTEMPTS OF THE RUSSIAN BOURGEOIS REGIME TO EXERT INFLUENCE ON RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. MARXIST-LENINISTS ARE ALERT TO THE INFILTRATION OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT BY AGENTS OF THE BOURGEOIS REGIME. MARXIST-LENINISTS IN RUSSIA ARE FIGHTING TO PREVENT REVISIONISTS AND TROTSKYISTS GAINING CONTROL OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT. THE VIEWS RELATED HERE ARE THOSE OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOLSHEVIKS.

THE STATE OF RUSSIAN COMMUNISM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOLSHEVIKS.

Translated by Kevin Cain
from the article by All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (ACPB).

Communist parties in Russia are divided ideologically according to the main question  - of ownership over the means of production and also in relation to the first experience of the construction of socialism in the USSR (in other words, the evaluation of socialism in the USSR) and the attitude to the dictatorship of the proletariat, to class national and religious questions, to the role of the intelligentsia in society, to the future construction of a socialist state and to the methods of achieving power.

The Communist parties are placed in order of how much their positions are Bolshevised according to these criteria: the ACPB (All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks – VKPB), CWR (Party of Communist of Working Russia – Trudovaya Rossiya), RCWP (Russian Communist Workers Party) CU (Union of Communists – CK), RPC (Russian Party of Communists), RCP-CPSU – (Russian Communist Party – Communist Party of the Soviet Union), the newly restored CPSU, the leader, O. SHENIN, the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation, leader, Genadi Zyuganov and ( Tikhanov’s ALL RUSSIA COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE FUTURE OR THE VKPB. YOU SEE THE SIMILARITY WITH THE NAME OF THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY…VKPB OF NINA ANDREEVA. MORE ON THAT LATER. KC)

Many strike the Communist Party of the Russian Federation off the list of communist parties, as it is not classed as a communist party, but a social-democratic party. Actually, according to the opinion of some, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is nevertheless a communist party but deeply infected by opportunism and revisionism. However, according to others, it is a social democratic party in essence, but carrying the name and calling itself ‘communist’.

It is necessary to note, that in connection with the strengthening of capital in Russia and the opportunist behaviour of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the communist movement and the influx into the communist movement of fresh forces small in size, all parties are being reduced in size because of the high death rate of hardened but already elderly comrades. The communist movement is constantly changing and many communists are surprised with this process of splitting and dissociation. Actually, the processes occurring inside the communist movement are quite natural since the self-healing process of the parties from their mistakes is continuing. Ideological Bolshevik tendencies of the line of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin are also functioning.

Only one party – the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (ACPB), the General Secretary N.A. Andreeva – since its founding congress on 7-8 November 1991,firmly takes leading positions in the theoretical and practical study of the main direction of the communist movement on the scale of the former USSR. The ACPB (or VKPB) is the standard-bearer and the trailblazer of the struggle against opportunism in the CPSU and inside the modern communist movement today. The ACPB was formed as a unitary, monolithic party to which it remains and to this day the party armed with the strategy of struggle against capital, with the Party Programme of the ACPB, the Party Rules and the large number of theoretical and practical work regarding the movement, fighting towards the victory of the working class in Russia and the countries formed as a result of the counterrevolutionary coup in the USSR. All parties to some extent are using this work of the ACPB, and are slowly shifting to the left; that is to say, the communist movement is becoming more bolshevised.

The ACPB unequivocally stands up for public ownership of the means of production, carefully relates to the experience of the construction of socialism in the USSR, especially in the period when at the head of the state stood Lenin and Stalin, stands up for the achievement of the dictatorship of the proletariat, not by parliamentary methods but in a revolutionary way, hence the main role it allocates to the hegemony of the working class – which will lead the advanced peasantry, led by the vanguard – the Bolshevik Party. The working class will be assisted by the intelligentsia, being an interclass layer. The party believes that socialism in the USSR as an intermediate phase on the way to communism was built and its experience is also invaluable and will be demanded in the future.

The ACPB is convinced that the Russian worker as the most advanced detachment of the exploited masses will lead the future victorious proletarian revolution and will lead other national groups of workers in a future multinational society. The ACPB is an atheist party, which by Lenin and Stalin’s example, is against the kindling of interreligious and interethnic conflicts but is for friendship between peoples, for Soviet patriotism. The aim – is the construction of socialism and communism. If one looks closely at these characteristics, then it is a criteria of the Bolshevik party, a worthy continuer of the shining path of Lenin-Stalin. The party does not believe it must have a large number of members, especially in the present conditions of revelry, of lawlessness, persecutions, slander and murders of its supporters, which the party is being exposed to on the part of the existing Zionist –comprador regime in the Russian Federation, and also because of careful selection of candidates for the ranks of the party.

The party “Communists of Working Russia” – the CWR (Trudovaya Rossiya it is called in Russia), was formed after the exit from the RCWP of the left wing of this party led by V.I. Anpilov. Having undergone some changes in the name of the party, it was finally formed on the movement “Working Russia” (Trudovaya Rossiya). In ideology it is close to the RCWP, but differs with its weak theoretical preparation, showy activity, frequently untimely, without any positive result for the party and the communist movement. The dream of the leadership to transform it into the leading party of the left flank with a membership of more than 50 thousand has been unsuccessful. All attempts to independently take part in election campaigns into the higher state bodies of the Russian Federation and to register the party in the Ministry of Justice have failed. On the boundary of 2004, the youth section of the party – Avant Guarde of Red Youth (AKM) left, crossing over into the sphere of influence of O. Shenin’s restored CPSU.

The Russian Communist Workers Party (RCWP), the first secretary of the Central Committee V.A. Tyulkin, the neighbour of the ACPB on a number of ideological questions and on some questions including unity of action, their work was frequently carried out jointly. But this party, calling itself a workers party, already from the end of 1991 has been trying to solve the problem, which had already been solved even before the October Revolution in 1917, the name of which is anarcho-syndicalism. The leaders of the party, flirting with the working class, want to organise the workers into something similar to collective farms, not on state farms with state ownership, but namely collective farms in relation to workers, i.e. to give factories to workers into private, collective ownership of workers, to give workers complete control, which is something which the Bolsheviks never ever proposed. It is an obvious attempt to transform workers into a petty-bourgeois mass that in itself is a withdrawal from the basis of Marxism-Leninism.

Stalin in his “Economic problems of socialism in the USSR” unequivocally specified the necessity of the transformation of co-operative-collective farm property into common ownership at the next stage of the building of communism.  The RCWP takes a step back already by a whole century and hopes that workers will flood into this party for this bourgeois gingerbread. Somehow, the workers in the past 15 years have not been rushing to join such a party. It is the only communist party of the Russian Federation calling itself a workers party, like it is paying a lot attention to the workers, but actually has no appreciable advantage over other communist parties on influencing the working class.  In membership numbers, it has no more than 15% of workers in its ranks, i.e. like the members of the party themselves say, the workers are not following it.  The name of the party itself pushes away the peasantry and intelligentsia although the latter dominates it.  With the peasantry, the connection of the party is very small if not completely absent. 

The misunderstanding of the character of the class struggle during Soviet times, especially during the period under Stalin, very much prevents any growth in authority of the party and has led to a significant number of members and leadership members of the party to not recognising the fact that socialism in the USSR was built, and they negative judge the entire epoch under Stalin, the Stalin constitution of 1936, accusing the generations of builders of socialism of partocratic degeneration and snatching power from the workers,  merging with this is Trotskyism, though in the party the percentage of admires of Stalin has gone up quite a lot.  Most unattractive of all is the rejection of revolutionary strategy of struggle and instead it lobbies for parliamentary methods of struggle and economic struggle, which speaks about its weak positions and work in ideology, ignoring of the co-ordinated political directives with the RPC, fixed before the unification of the two parties over 2,5 years ago, has resulted more recently, on February 22, 2004, in the split of the party into two initial ones – the RCWP and the PRC. This disintegration has called into question the methods of the consecutive unification of communist parties through unity if action, political and organisational unity and has shown that the RCWP is not suitable for the role of unifier.

Recent active participation of the RCWP in parliamentary elections under the banners of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) is not enough for the party. The party, having shifted to the right, will continue this drift for at least four years, and that certainly does not strengthen the party and the communist movement.

It is necessary to note that the attitude to the Stalin epoch among communists is like some kind of litmus piece of paper in that by its colour it is immediately possible to define how far this or that party is communistic and to what degree it has been infected with trotskyism, which in the Russian Federation is not dead although does not come out strong in itself.

Union of Communists – UC (CK), the leader S.I. Stepanov. A small party having suffered a deep split almost immediately after its own formation (RCP-CPSU), left it and has not managed to overcome this split lately. The party has made recent unsuccessful attempts to enter the RCWP-RPC. It is possible that it may join any other Communist Party since it is not capable of carrying out independent action. Because of the hardly appreciable practical work of the party, it is difficult to judge its activity though it has a “red enough” Party Programme and Party Rules. In known practical activities, it aspires to form blocs with leftist, socialist and national movements, propagating the priority of the inadmissibility of the destruction of Russian society.

The Russian Party of Communists – RPC.  The Chairman of the Political Council of the Central Committee is A.V. Kryuchkov.  It is a small party, considering itself  “revolutionary” and adopting revolutionary forms of struggle.  Until recently, strongly infected with trotskyism as in it there was a significant number of people with trotskyite views of which the party has in part got rid of in the last few years, and with the rare exception, found on positions of malicious anti-Stalinism, the leadership denying the fact of the construction of socialism in the country and the policy of the party on collectivisation of agriculture, de-kulakization by “violations of legality” in the socialist society in the 1930s and in the post-war period. The majority of members of this party do not accept and do not understand the character of the class struggle when building socialism in the USSR.  Nevertheless, the party and its leader A.V. Kryuchkov since 1995, have taken active steps on the creation of a united Communist Party in the Russian Federation, the first step, which was the creation of the Roscomsoyuz (Russian Communist Union) from 4 parties:  the RPC, ACPB, RCP-CPSU, providing unity of action, which in many regions of the Russian Federation as a whole has been carried out.  It has searched for ways of unifying Communist Parties and went as far as unifying 2,5 years ago with the RCWP, which was nevertheless unsuccessful. On the national question stands on positions of internationalism, and in religious questions – on militant atheism. The party is strong in the organisational plan, regarding party discipline and party comradeship, in relation to the given word, though not everything is right with ideology. Over the last months, uneasy negotiations have been undertaken for a secondary entrance of the RPC into the RCWP-RPC, which recently came to little perspective compromise.

The Russian Communist Party – Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The First secretary of the Central Committee A.A. Prigarin, left the Union of Communists (CK) by way of a split into two parts. In the past 5-7 years, the party leadership has taken to arming itself with a non-Marxist slogan about revolution and the decisive role of the intelligentsia in the conditions of struggle against capital in the Russian Federation. It managed to increase party membership repeatedly in separate regions of the Russian Federation, but for only a short time. Then, in connection with the formation of the CPU and other processes, a large number of members left the party, including some of the leadership.  The party somehow at once crumbled and could not be restored numerically or independently carry out action. Among members of the party and a section of the leadership, trotskyite positions are strong as well as the negative attitude to the Stalin epoch, to the so-called “repressions” of 1937, non acceptance of the fact of collectivisation of agriculture, and the economic policy in the Stalin and post-Stalin period. The party tried to play the role of unifier, and even appropriated an additional name to the party i.e. the “CPSU”, but that has changed nothing – it did not receive the property of the CPSU, and stable growth in party membership has not taken place. Numerous attempts of the RCP-CPSU to unite or enter the RCWP, RPC, UCP-CPSU has not been crowned with success in connection with the unreasonable demands of the party. Characteristic of this party is the militant atheism and the hostile attitude to Stalin’s personality and practical affairs.

The party has no chance of being the leading party regarding unification of communist forces and, most likely has no prospects of its own independent existence, that is why, sooner or later it will join another party. It has a patient attitude in relation to the opinion of the minority and towards factions, i.e. when unifying, it is possible to expect from its members negative consequences from the point of view of the unity of members of the party.

An extremely negative role in the communist and working-class movement is being played by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), the Chairman if the Central Committee G.A. Zyuganov, the party having declared itself as the inheritor of the CPSU, the former ruling party, and it should take into account first of all, the reason for the lost of power and break up of the USSR, but it has not done this.  It being, in a numerical sense in membership, the largest party of the Russian Federation, has made many serious mistakes affecting it, and especially on the prestige of the idea of communism.

Firstly, it behaved absolutely amorally during the counter-revolutionary coup in 1991, having under V.A. Kupsov, handed over the CPSU, Soviet Power and the USSR without a fight.

Secondly, after the ban on the CPSU was introduced, the CP of the RSFSR (Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) fell asleep in the “trenches”, and appeared absolutely nowhere, while the ACPB and the RCWP and others were actively conducting work on the organisation of communist and workers forces.

Thirdly, when restoring the party after the lifting of the ban on it at the end of 1992, it relying on the gone bankrupt, but still preserved personnel command system, it did not unify with the active communist forces struggling against the Zionist-comprador regime. Having lost the trust of the masses, and its authority, but, probably, being tormented by remorse, a number of heads of the party such as Ligachev, Kryuchkov, Lukyanov, Ryzhkov, Zyuganov, etc. wanted to rehabilitate themselves for the worthless, without resistance, hand over of the party and socialism to a handful of vermin – capitalists, using parliamentary methods, but this is turning out badly for them.

Fourthly, in the last days of September 1993, it withdraw its members from the walls of the building of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR and by that helped the Yeltsinist regime to carry out its slaughter against the defenders of Soviet power.

After the execution of Soviet power by tank cannon fire in 1993, the majority of the population of the Russian Federation and all Communist Parties refused to take part in elections “based on blood” into a bourgeois parliament i.e. the State Duma, and actively boycotted elections. But the Communist Party of the Russian Federation went on to co-operate with the regime and by that legalised it and, having given it its 18% of the vote, help the regime drag in an anti-peoples, bourgeois constitution, helped the regime during the most difficult time to become consolidated and fixed and “not sink” in a sea of indignation from its open gangsterism on the question of power. Now the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is unsuccessfully  “struggling” with the constitution that dragged through by them, which in a difficult way, is reflected in all aspects of the life of the working people of town and villages.

Sixthly. In the first State Duma, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, having more than a third of the seats, could have actively protected the interests of workers, by blocking the adoption of some draconian laws against the working class and the budget, etc. This was not done.

Seventhly.  During the economic default of August 17, 1998, the CPRF, during a desperate time for democrats and Yeltsin, supported the government, explaining the default to be the possible downfall of Russia (only what kind of downfall?). In practice, the regime used the time for strengthening its difficult situation, and then, having become stronger, sacked the government as surplus to requirement. It was the last real opportunity of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to assist in the “downfall” of a bankrupt bourgeois regime, but because of the short-sightedness of the leadership of the CPRF this did not take place.

ABOUT THE PROSPECTS OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

In an atmosphere when national Russian capital is becoming stronger and has made its way to power and attempts are already being or have been made to form its union with the Zionist-comprador capital (the fuss with Luzhkov, the games played with Berezovsky, Gusinsky, Khodorkovsky, etc.), the communist movement in conditions of disorder, swaying and splitting will for a time lose its positions and as a result of this, the ruling regime, most likely, will be able to bring about “unpopular” measures directed against the working people in the field of the introduction of laws on housing and communal services, labour legislation, on land, insurance, etc. This will give capital the means for the further strengthening and propagation of its “successes” among the population. Not to allow capital to do this is the task of the communist and workers movement. Natural disassociation inside the communist movement and its Bolshevization will continue. All the more groups of communists and the working class will arm themselves with the advanced theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin, getting rid of the elements of opportunism and revisionism. At the head of the communist movement stood and stands the ACPB, armed with Bolshevik ideology, which is the only one on the scale of the USSR since November 7, 1991, which is conducting an uncompromising struggle against capital and asserting the political interest of the proletariat, which will fulfil its ideological mission as the grave-digger of the bourgeoisie.

Now coming on to the political arena there is, as frequently occurs in history, a new wave of opportunism, more subtle, more astute and more refined. But the task is the same – to divert the communist movement away from class struggle. Having pinched revolutionary slogans from the ACPB which were proclaimed at the moment of its founding in 1991, these loyal “Leninists-Stalinists” suddenly and unexpectedly began to see the light, after they had quarrelled with the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the CPU, and the CPB (Communist Party of Belarus). O Shenin’s recently announced is related, for example, to such “non-Bolsheviks”. The party structure formed by him is nothing other than a neo-Gorbachev CPSU. The leader of this party, Shenin, has already been in the leadership of the Gorbachev CPSU. As is known, Gorbachev replaced all members of the Politburo with his own people, i.e. those who were loyal to him and were to carry out his policy.  Certainly, it was by no accident that O. Shenin fell into this company. And he also does not hide this. We read in the brochure “In the line of fire”, ‘I fully and will for always share the policy of April 1985, directed at the improvement of the lives of the people, at democratisation. But I am against the policy of April 1991 when the country slid towards catastrophe, to the complete demise of the Soviet Union and went onto the road of capitalism, to the impoverishment of millions of Soviet people and the enrichment of a handful of thugs’. Now I expect you understand? He fully shared Gorby’s policy at the start of his arrival to power. But was not clear, that Gorbachev’s policy of 1985 and Gorbachev’s policy of 1991 were steps in the one and same direction – the direction of the rejection of Marxism-Leninism which inevitably had to lead to treachery.

If one follows the path of O. Shenin in the communist movement after the counterrevolutionary coup in 1991, he goes on to revive the CPSU in the form of the Union of Communist Parties  - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) that was neither a party or union of parties, into which enter opportunist communist parties of the former soviet republics, parties like the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, communist Party of Ukraine and others like them, recognising mullet-layered economies and negating the dictatorship of the proletariat, believing parliamentariansm and parliamentary activity to be the main direction of their work. The acceptance of the CPRF into the membership of the UCP-CPSU clearly showed O. Shenin’s position as a centrist, covering up the opportunist essence of those so-called communist parties which entered the UCP-CPSU with revolutionary phrases. And social democrat, Gennadi Zyuganov, leading the CPRF, quietly and peacefully got on with his work under Shenin’s leadership for 10 years without conflict. These days, when the opportunist essence of the CPRF, CPU, CPB, Party of communists of the republic of Moldavia is becoming ever more obvious and these parties lose their authority and support of the working people, Shenin revives the CPSU and proclaims it an all-union Leninist-Stalinist party of communist Bolsheviks. Shenin did this namely at a time when the Zyuganov CPRF fully revealed itself as a pseudo-communist, social democratic party. Anti-Stalinist, Anti-Bolshevik, pseudo-communist, pro-Gorbachev man, Shenin adopts the rely race from Zyuganov on discrediting and then with that, destroying communist ideology and the communist movement, a bird that flew from the same nest as the Gorbachevite-Yakovlevite Politburo of the CC of the CPSU.

Another aspect is who is Shenin as an organiser – unifier? Everything that was earlier created by Shenin has fallen to pieces and is now inactive. These days, he comes out calling for ‘communist solidarity’! With whom? Who is he able to unify? Who will want to unify with him besides those party-nomenclature “centrists”? And in the name of what? To us Bolsheviks it is clear that this is being done in the name of destroying Bolshevism.  From here flows the pathological hatred to Bolsheviks and to Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva.

Today, Shenin is leading a very dangerous and criminal game on the Arena of the international communist movement. The international communist seminar in Brussels earlier this year clearly demonstrated this criminal game of a wolf coated in sheep’s wool. Shenin successfully deceived the president of the Workers Party of Belgium, Ludo Martens with his pseudo-CPSU "communisticness". It is a pity that the Workers Party of Belgium fed off the disinformation from the skilful in intrigues party-nomenclature of the highest rank, Shenin, and slid over onto centrist positions. With this, a blow has been dealt to the communist movement in the world as a whole.

The question on the unifying of actions and efforts of the communist parties on the territory of the USSR, the necessity of which we, Bolsheviks put 10 years ago at the March Plenum of the Central Committee of the ACPB in 1994, still remains unresolved, relevant, and its discussion in the communist movement remains painful, does not find due understanding on the part of the majority of leaders of coexisting communist parties.

At the Meeting of leaders of Communist Parties of Russia (RKRP, RPK, RPK-CPSU) with the participation of the ACPB (All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks) on the22 April 2000, we characterised the deepening process of disassociation in the communist movement as objective, connected with the crisis of the so-called parliamentary parties, with the exposure of the opportunist positions of the leaders of such parties, the splitting of parties and their departure from the historical, political arena in CONNECTION with the fact that they have done nothing for the advancement of the struggle of the proletariat for power, for the establishment (revival) of the dictatorship of the proletariat. But the question of the recognition or non-recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat was, is and will be the main one in the theory of Marxism-Leninism, litmus paper in defining the communist character and the true revolutionism of the party.

Today the process of disassociation in the communist movement continues. We consider it as a natural and necessary condition for purging the communist movement from hidden and obvious anti-communists, opportunists and anti-Stalinists. We welcome this process for it lights up the true positions of a party calling itself communist, promotes an evaluation of its essence and correct conclusion for those who are members of such parties by way of insufficient political literacy or by virtue of the well –camouflaged anticommunism of the leaders of the parties.

Earlier we proposed the only possible plan for the unification of communist parties, in particular, in particular the parties of the RosComSoyuz (Russian Communist Union). UNITY of ACTIONS which when achieved, it is possible to move to a united political position, and then ideological position from which it is possible to cross over onto organisational unification. This plan proposed by us has been ignored by leaders of the parties of the RosComSoyuz. But life has itself shown that repeated attempts being made at organisational unification on part of the RKRP (Tyulkin) and V. Anpilov and the UCP-CPSU and other except for a waste of time and effort did not give an result neither could they essentially.

With the effort of the ruling regime since 1993 (the lifting by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of the ban on the activity of the CPSU), there has been a constant initiated forming of a mass of new, small pocket-sized parties,  which only split the communist movement, offering nothing new, but bring turmoil into the minds of citizens and consequently serve and work for the regime.

Lately, the administration of the Kremlin, has been scrupulously studying our Bolshevik party documents, and is undertaking serious action on the creation of communist parties, parties of “communist-Bolsheviks” not just to destroy the communist movement on the territory of Russia, but also “to eradicate Bolshevism in all fields of activity of society” (A.N. Yakovlev, the ideologist of Gorbastroika-perestroika)

On September 11, 2004, under the most powerful of financing by the Kremlin, the All-Russia Communist Party of the Future (Budushevo) (ACPB) with the abbreviation stolen from the Bolsheviks – ACPB was formed. The regime picked up well the leader of the newly appeared “communists” among the loyalists to the Putin regime, an administrative person from the town of Ivanovo, the governor of which is Tikhonov.

On September, 11, 2004 near Moscow in Golitsino a “congress” of a splitter group from the Zyuganovite Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a congress of arrogant pseudo-communists grouped closer to the authorities around the Ivanovo governor V. Tikhanov took place.

The participators in Golitsino quickly declared the creation of one more “Communist Party”, the so-called All-Russia Communist Party Budushchevo (of the future) with the abbreviation of the ACPB (our All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks); thus they have appropriated something not belonging to them and stolen from us Bolsheviks – our abbreviation.

HOW are we Bolsheviks, to regard this act by the bourgeois regime?

We regard this act of stealing our abbreviation as politically stupid and a filthy invention of the ruling regime against us, Bolsheviks, as another attempt to discredit our party and Bolshevism as a whole and Bolshevism as the theory and practice of revolutionary Marxism of the XX and XXI centuries.

Bolshevism is terrifying to the enemies of socialism because of its irreconcilability to the present counterrevolutionary authorities who have stolen everything from all of us, Soviet people, our Socialist Fatherland, our pride of our Soviet Motherland, our confidence in tomorrow, our full security in the past from any encroachments into our life as compared to the regime in criminal Russia and the countries of the CIS when you may be shot at any time, whilst in the street or at home.

Yes, we, Bolsheviks, are terrifying to traitors and traitors of the Socialist Motherland, to all those who have broken the military and state oath of allegiance of service to the socialist Fatherland and Soviet people. Their treachery, their crime before the people have no limited period and is not subject to any kind of amnesty.

Because of our irreconcilability and abhorrence to the bourgeois counterrevolution, the ruling regime from the moment of the creation of our party (the ACPB), has made the most refined attempts in destroying us, including the murder of our most talented and active comrades. Concerning the party, the regime had been attacking it via the infiltration of its own agents into the upper structures of our party (who we get rid of in the process of them being exposed) and attempts have been made to “strangle us in the open arms” of various unifiers of the communist movement – pseudo-communist parties created in parallel with us and engaged and are actively engaging in communist demagogy with the aim of leading away from us, from Bolshevism, as many people as possible. TO a certain degree, they have been successful in this. With their activity, they have weakened the communist movement on the territory of the ex-USSR

Having exposed themselves and become exhausted in playing the game of bourgeois parliamnetarism, the pseudo-communists with much eagerness have been engaged in intercepting our slogans and Bolshevik theories, perverting them in their own manner under a kind of “new assessment of Marxism” and have even pasted a false label onto themselves as being “Bolshevik” parties.

Thus in 2004, the bourgeois regime organised another act of provocation against the ACPB. O. Shenin proclaims the “revival of the CPSU”, a party supposedly made up of “communists-Bolsheviks”. Our attitude to this provocation by the bourgeois regime is stated in the article “who is reanimating the CPSU and why”. We consider the revival or reanimation of the CPSU as the use of the regimes last reserve, the use of the generals of the party nomenclatura of the CPSU, more than anyone guilty in bringing about the bourgeois counterrevolution.

The CPSU has no chance of success. The improbable efforts undertaken by O. Shenin for advertising his CPSU, will not be adequate for the sickly authority of the party, as people remember by the style of leadership and the way of life of the party-nomenclatura and do not accept the reanimation of the CPSU.

The All-Russia Communist Party Budushchevo (of the future), proclaimed in September 04 has now being called upon to fuel the communist movement with anti-Bolshevism. What is this “party of the future” going to be engaged in? It is the same with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, with its leader Zyuganov – parliamentary vanity promising to raise the membership up to 100 thousands (not clear how, if in 2000 the entire Communist Party of the Russian Federation totalled no more than 100 thousand members, and the “party of the future” – is only its splinter, and not the biggest one at that. The “party of the future” is going to accept into its ranks businessmen too (they love money and want it), and managers at various levels (Putinist officials). In other words, the newly formed party is blinded by the Zyuganovite social democratic Communist Party of the Russian Federation. All the noise has been caused, as is presented, by the self-advertising and desire of Governor V. Tikhonov to curry favour with the regime.

We, Bolsheviks, members of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, are impossible to break or intimidate, since we, struggling against democrats-anti-Communists by the words of one of their political scientists,  “at least cannot be bribed, since they are inspired by a great idea”.

The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks is the carrier of the idea of Bolshevism. Primordially have taken on the role as the flagman of the communist movement, the ACPB causes rage and fury by the anti-peoples regime. The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks struggled, struggles and will struggle for the cause of the working people, for the rebuilding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for socialism, the route towards which lies through proletarian revolution.

Analysing the situation in the communist movement on the territory of the Russian Federation, you come to a conclusion that the situation on unifying on a Marxist-Leninist basis remains at present objectively weak by virtue of the fact that the process of disassociation is proceeding with acceleration. Parties of the RoscomSoyuz as the meeting has shown, alas, are not capable of becoming the unifying factor of the Communist movement.  Their position in relation to the created in the Kremlin Tikhonovite ACPBu testifies that they as a matter of fact are rolling about in a bog of opportunism and rejection of Marxist-Leninist principles. IT IS NOT THEY WHO WILL LEAD THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT this decade.

The Zyuganovite Communist Party of the Russian Federation after the splitting from it of the Tikhonvites shifted a little more to the left, it was cleared of the odious shouters yelling about the communist adherence to principles and from people, who do not understand anything neither in policy, nor in Marxism as a whole and consequently turning out to be the usual adaptors, wishing to nestle more closely to the present authorities for the sake of their own full contentment. The desire of the Kremlin to saddle the communist movement and to take it under its control and to direct it – has failed and will always fail! But attempts and attacks by the Kremlin will continue, attacks rather furious and refined. We should be ready for this.

Proceeding from the development of the negative situation in Russia in the near future in the direction of a failure of the Putinist reforms in housing and communal services (ZhKKh), (complete chaos in the housing-and-municipal economy in the big and small cities, thrown into self-survival for a long 20-30 years), deepening unsolved problems in the economy, disintegrating processes on the territory of the RF (Kaliningradskaya region, the Chechen Republic, etc.) as a result and ardent love to us, to Russia, of our “best friends” abroad and V. Putin’s best friends across the Atlantic, the growth of social tension in society, etc. – all this is objectively developing in the public opinion of the millions of deprived in a direction towards socialism and to Bolshevism as the only scientific “trend of political thought”,  as “to a sample of tactics for all”, to a “guide to action”, as the revolutionary theory and practice of the XXI century.

The aggravation of the international situation due to an unrestrained growth of aggression of the ruling Zionist-imperialist circles of the protégés of the military-industrial complex of the USA, the aspiration of the USA to unleash new local wars in the Near (Middle) and Far East, the new term of activity of the fascistised president of the USA G. Bush who has become stupid and deranged from impunity (while) his criminal policy concerning Iraq, the countries of socialism, first of all the DPRK, other independent and freedom-loving states possessing powerful energy and bio-resources, including the most valuable minerals etc. – all this testifies to the development of a crisis situation in the world. Again only socialist revolution can save the world from inevitable global catastrophe, like at the start of the XX century – in Russia as the weakest link of the imperialist chain of states, in the country where people know WHAT SOCIALISM IS and can make conclusions about WHAT SYSTEM protects the interest of the working people and millions of workers, AGAIN, having become proletarians.

Objectively, socialism is the only system that can save the peoples of the Planet from, economic, ecological, demographic and other global crisis as if most fully reflects universal values. Victorious socialism will open boundless opportunities of self-improvement.

And lastly, society’s interest in our party – the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks is growing. We draw this conclusion, proceeding from the growth of interest towards our newspapers, our party information on the website on the Internet (growth of attendance on the website of the ACPB and the youth organisation of the party).  We have had recently a good growth in the numbers of our young cadres.

Yes, we, the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, operate and propagate our Bolshevik ideas, outstripping time by 3-7 years before society becomes ready to perceive our Marxist-Leninist ideology. We like before, remain a vector of development of the communist movement across the entire territory of the ex-USSR. And consequently, we are the organisers of the future socialist revolution. This demands from us Bolsheviks more active work with all progressive forces and layers of society, in the working class, among workers of agriculture, among the working intelligentsia.

We, members of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, recognise the responsibility for the development of the communist movement as a whole and for the future of the country. Therefore we shall overcome the very difficult path in the direction towards a socialist revolution, its preparation and realisation, the path to the revival of our fine and great multinational Socialist Motherland – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

EVERYONE to whom our fine Socialist Fatherland is dear and who feels the responsibility for future generations need not be afraid of joining our ranks!

Workers of all countries, Unite!

Material Source: All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (ACPB)

Read by Kevin Cain to the October, 2005 meeting of the Stalin Society (Britain).