95 years ago ..

BAKU

September 1920

An "Eastern Orchestra" played for delegates during the September 1920 Baku Congress ("The International".

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"We must, by the united efforts of the working people of all lands, put an end to world imperialism and the coercion of one nation by another.

We must put an end to the colonial policy of the capitalist powers and enable all countries to live in freedom and independence.

For this it is necessary to take the revolutionary road and prepare for the decisive battle, prepare the masses for immediate armed offensive, in serried ranks and close columns. Make haste, for one cannot postpone the revolution !

Delay means Death !"

(First Congress of the Peoples of the East)

Messages of Solidarity

September 1920 - September 2015

Statement of the Komintern (SH)

on occasion of the

95th anniversary of the

Congress of the Peoples of the East

Today we celebrate the 95th anniversary of the First Congress of the Peoples of the East which took place from 1. - 8. September 1920 in Baku.

The First Congress of the Peoples of the East called for the offensive military alliance of the working masses of East and West !

The First Congress of the Peoples of the East called for the international Soviet Republic of Labour in which there will be no enslaved, no oppressed peoples !

The First Congress of the Peoples of the East called for Soviet power throughout the world !

The First Congress of the Peoples of the East declared solidarity with the Comintern, the leader of the proletarian, socialist world revolution !

The first (and at the same time last) Congress of the Peoples of the East took place at a time when the Russian Bolsheviks were faced with very difficult conditions, when spreading the ideas of communism in the colonial countries. Soviet Russia was still in the middle of the Civil War. Moreover, the Bolsheviks had to care about the construction of the new proletarian Soviet state. The Bolsheviks had to solve the problem of the protection of fledgling dictatorship of the proletariat against world imperialism.
The border areas of Soviet Russia played an important strategic role in this historical situation.
These border regions formed a geo-political bulwark of Soviet Russia against the imperialist invaders. And conversely Soviet Russia was a protective shield for the peoples of the East against the imperialists.
The brotherhood of the Russian working class and the peoples of the East was not only a prerequisite for the strengthening of the Soviet State of Russia, but also a condition for the victory of the world socialist revolution. It was not only a mighty lever for the socialist revolution in the Western capitalist states, but also a strong weapon for the destruction of the imperialist hinterland and the liberation of the oppressed peoples in the East. The victory of the world socialist revolution was based on the alliance between the working masses in the oppressed and oppressor nations. The mobilization of the revolutionary struggle of the peoples of the East was a powerful lever for the common liberation from world imperialism. And therein lies fundamentally and historically the importance of the First Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku. This is still one of the most important prepositions for the preparation of the socialist world revolution of today.

Under today's conditions of globalization, world imperialism has reached its highest and last stage. All countries of the world have been transformed into capitalist countries with a more or less developed proletariat. The world proletarian army is objectively ripe for the overthrow of world imperialism through the victory of the socialist world revolution. The establishment of the dictatorship of the world proletariat guarantees the abolition of the inevitability of oppressed and oppressor nations.

The First Congress of the Peoples of the East was held immediately after the Second Congress of the Comintern. This congress served not only directly to the implementation of the decisions of the Second Congress of the Comintern in concern of the national and colonial question, but was also carried out by a decision of the Second Congress of the Comintern.
A reference to the decisions of the Comintern on the national and colonial question is indispensable for evaluating the significance of the First Congress of the Peoples of the East:
On 25 July 1920, the Commission for the national and colonial question was convened by the II Congress of the Comintern. This Commission, guided by Lenin, consisted of 20 representatives of the following countries:
Bulgaria, China; Germany, England, France, Holland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Korea, Mexico, Austria, Russia, Turkey, Hungary and the USA. This Commission began its activities with the discussion of Lenin's Theses on the National and Colonial Questions.
One month later, the first Congress of the Peoples of the East was held in Baku.
Its political basis were Lenin's theses on the national and colonial question, adopted by the II World Congress of the Comintern.
These Leninist theses can be summarized as follows:

1. Distinction between oppressed and oppressor nations as a guiding principle of all theses.

2. The whole world system of states is determined by the struggle of a small group of imperialist nations against the Soviet movement and the Soviet states - with Soviet Russia at the top.

3. The bourgeois liberation movements in the colonial countries can only be supported if these movements are really revolutionary ("national revolutionary movements"), that is, when their representatives do not hinder us to educate and organize the peasantry and the broad masses of the exploited in a revolutionary spirit. If these conditions do not exist, the Communists in these countries must combat the reformist bourgeoisie, which also includes the heroes of the Second International.

4. There are pre-capitalist relations in the colonial countries. There is no pure proletarian movement (industrial proletariat). Nevertheless, the communist tactics and the idea of ​​Soviet organization can also be applied under feudal, semi-feudal, peasant conditions (peasants' Soviets) - ie it is not limited to proletarian Soviet organizations.

5. With the help of the victorious proletariat of the Soviet republics and by support of the proletariat of the advanced countries, backward countries can reach to communism, even without having to go through the capitalist stage of development.

6. The II International supports the own bourgeoisie in suppressing the uprisings in the colonial countries instead of helping the colonial peoples in their struggle against the imperialist troops of the oppressing nations.

7. In the fight against petty-bourgeois nationalism and pacifism it is necessary to convert the system of the dictatorship of the proletariat from a national dictatorship (ie, a dictatorship which exists only in one country and thus is incapable of determining world politics) into an international one (ie into the dictatorship of the proletariat, at least in several advanced countries, for the purpose to exert a decisive influence on the world politics).
In contrast to the national egoism demanded proletarian internationalism:
firstly, that the interests of the proletarian struggle in every country are subordinated to the interests of the proletarian struggle on a world scale;
secondly, that the nation that achieves victory over the bourgeoisie, must be able and willing to make the greatest national sacrifices for the overthrow of international capital.

8. The Comintern has a duty to be particularly careful and pay special regard to the national feelings of the peoples in the oppressed countries.
It is our obligation to make certain concessions, so that the distrust (that has arisen by the treachery of the II International) and prejudices among the colonial peoples against the proletarians of the most advanced countries can be rapidly overcome. Without the voluntary striving of the proletariat and that of all the toiling masses of all countries and nations throughout the world, without unity in the struggle of the proletariat in the capitalist countries and the oppressed peoples, the victory over capitalism can not be completed successfully.

Lenin created the famous slogan: "Workers of all countries and oppressed peoples, unite!"

The Congress of the Peoples of the East held in Baku in September, 1920 holds a special place in the history of the Communist movement. It was the first attempt to appeal to the exploited and oppressed peoples in the colonial and semi-colonial countries to carry forward their revolutionary struggles under the banner of Marxism and with the support of the workers in Russia and the advanced countries of the world.

The Congress of the Peoples of the East was a chain-link in the process of the formation of the Soviet Union, in particular, and for the formation of the World's Soviet Republic, in general. The mobilization of the peoples of the East on a Congress was the one matter. The mobilization of the peoples of the East for the armed liberation struggle was another matter.

Without the armed liberation war under the leadership of the Red Army, the formation of the Soviet Union would have been impossible. Last not least, the formation of Soviet Union confirmed brilliantly the teachings of Marxism-Leninism on the absolutely necessary armed revolutionary struggle under the leadership of the proletariat and its Bolshevik party with its leaders Lenin and Stalin at the top.

The Russian working class liberated from tsarism, and with the Russian workers also peoples of the East liberated from tsarism.

The world proletariat liberates from world imperialism, and with the proletarians all peoples of the world. This is an inevitable process of the socialist world revolution, and the revolutionary liberation struggle of oppressed peoples is immanent part of it.

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Central to the decision to hold the Congress was the need for solidarity between the working class of the advanced countries and the oppressed peoples of the colonies and semi-colonies.

The opening of the congress on September 1 was preceded by an opening rally held the day before under the auspices of the Baku Soviet and the Trade Union Congress of Azerbaijan.

The gathering was by far the largest assembly of delegates organized by the Comintern up to that date. Participants are 1891 (!) delegates from more than 30 countries. The result is the creation of a revolutionary action committee to operate under guidance of the Communist International.

Transportation was difficult, with many delegates traveling together from Moscow following conclusion of the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern in a special train designated for that purpose. Even this was no easy task, as the train passed through territory wracked by the ongoing Russian Civil War, passing destroyed train stations and railway sidings littered with burned rail cars.

The British imperialism did everything to prevent this Congress. In the bombing of a ship even two Persian delegates were killed.

The governments of Armenia and Georgia banned attendance of the conference, forcing delegates to use stealth at border crossings from these countries.

About 70 per cent were members of communist organizations, the other nationalist and Islamic groups. Only 55 women were among the delegates, but three of them were delegated to the Bureau, "to accelerate the emancipation of women in the East."

In a resolution (unanimously adopted by the Congress) Bela Kun denounced the representatives of the Turkish bourgeois nationalism.

The Congress was guided by the criminals of Zinoviev and Radek who were later sentenced to death as traitors of the Soviet Union. Stalin wrote:

" Their villainies over a period of twenty years were committed, it transpired, with the participation or under the direction of Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin, Rykov and their henchmen, at the behest of espionage services of bourgeois states. The trials brought to light the fact that the Trotsky-Bukharin fiends, in obedience to the wishes of their masters -- the espionage services of foreign states -- had set out to destroy the Party and the Soviet state, to undermine the defensive power of the country, to assist foreign military intervention, to prepare the way for the defeat of the Red Army, to bring about the dismemberment of the U.S.S.R., to hand over the Soviet Maritime Region to the Japanese, Soviet Byelorussia to the Poles, and the Soviet Ukraine to the Germans, to destroy the gains of the workers and collective farmers, and to restore capitalist slavery in the U.S.S.R. These Whiteguard insects forgot that the real masters of the Soviet country were the Soviet people, and that the Rykovs, Bukharins, Zinovievs and Kamenevs were only temporary employees of the state, which could at any moment sweep them out from its offices as so much useless rubbish."

(Stalin: History of the CPSU B, "Short Course")

In the end of our special website we attach importance to the publication of the teachings of comrade Stalin on the national and colonial question.

Furthermore we published the historical documents of the Congress of the Peoples of the East for study purpose. These documents should be studied critically namely by simultaneously studying the lessons of Lenin and Stalin (In 1920, the Bolshevization of the Comintern was in the very beginning).

special website in English language

Messages of Solidarity

Call of the Comintern (SH)

September 1, 1939 - September 1, 2015

Long live the Red Anti-War-Day 2015 !

On September 1, 1939, the Second World War began

Imperialism means war!

World imperialism is the cause of all imperialist wars!

The imperialist world powers must all be overthrown!

World imperialism will be overthrown by the violent proletarian, socialist world revolution!

At the forefront of anti-imperialist peoples, the revolutionary world proletariat will establish its armed proletarian dictatorship in order to guarantee a lasting world peace!

On the ruins of world imperialism, we will build world socialism and eliminate the inevitability of imperialist wars forever!

Let us fight for a world without classes and without wars!

Let us fight for world communism!

What is an imperialist war?

An imperialist war is the inevitable redivision of the world by continuing the imperialist policy by military means.
An imperialist war is the inevitable continuation of the political struggle of the imperialist world powers for the conquest or maintenance of world domination by military means. "

What is an anti-imperialist war?

An anti-imperialist war is the inevitable continuation of the political struggle of all the oppressed and exploited classes, under the leadership of the world proletariat, on the Elimination of world imperialism by military means.

What is Stalinism - Hoxhaism in today's question of war and peace?

Stalinism-Hoxhaism in the question of war and peace is the Marxist-Leninist theory and tactics of victory in the anti-imperialist war by means of the world proletarian revolution under the conditions of globalization in general;
And in particular, it is the Marxist-Leninist theory and tactics of the armed defense of the dictatorship of the world proletariat.
Stalinism-Hoxhaism is the doctrine of the abolition of the wars of world imperialism, is the doctrine of the abolition of the inevitability of imperialist war, is the doctrine of the victory of socialist peace over the imperialist war on a global scale, is the military doctrine to protect the world domination of the proletariat as a guarantor of world peace.

Furthermore, Stalinism-Hoxhaismuses is the theory and tactics of the transition to non-violent and classless society on a global scale, the abolition of class wars in the period of the world communism.

For deeper study, we recommend the chapter II of the general line of the Comintern (SH)

"World revolution and imperialist war" (English)

and the book

"Enver Hoxha - The 5th Classic of Marxism-Leninism and the Foundations of Hoxhaism"

Chapter: "Hoxhaism and War" (English)

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How should the anti-imperialist war be conducted?

The anti-imperialist war must be conducted with the goal of world socialist revolution.

The anti-imperialist war is thus a lever of world socialist revolution and thus subordinate to the socialist world revolution.

The anti-imperialist war has an international character, just as the imperialist war has an international character.

And just as the imperialist war spreads out globally, it can only be abolished on a global scale.

The creation and safeguarding of world peace is impossible without the revolutionary world proletariat under the leadership of the Communist International.

The anti-imperialist war is a global war for liberation from the world-imperialist slavery.

The anti-imperialist war is not only directed against the one or the other imperialist world camp, but aims for the destruction of the entire world-imperialist system. Tactically, our anti-imperialist war will take advantage of all contradictions among the imperialists. It is the contradictions among the imperialists which not only make our victory possible, but also inevitable.

Basically, the anti-imperialist war takes place in every country of the world namely against both the external and internal enemies.

Anti-imperialist means war against both the imperialists and their stooges and lackeys in each country.

The imperialist war is struggle against the socialist Revolution by means of military weapons, namely not only in single countries, but against the socialist revolution all over the world. The anti-imperialist war in every country serves - without exception - the world socialist revolution.

Further reading we recommend the study of this book:

"About the Marxist-Leninist foundations of world-proletarian military science and the world-revolutionary class warfare" (German)

What is the attitude of the revisionists concerning the anti-imperialist war?

The revisionists are only in words against the imperialist war. In reality, they are on the side of the imperialists. They propagate the "peaceful road to socialism". Historically, this ends up always and inevitably in strengthening the domination of the imperialists. World imperialism can never be overcome in a peaceful manner.
The revisionists stand on the side of the supposedly "weaker" imperialist powers to fight allegedly against the supposedly "stronger" one. The revisionists are only for the replacement of one world imperialist power by another imperialist power and not for revolutionary destruction of the whole imperialist system of the world. This way it is impossible to achieve the long-lasting world peace. Therefore the revisionists are ultimately servants in maintaining the world imperialist system, ie enemies of the world proletariat, enemies of communism.
The revisionists do in truth everything to hinder the revolutionary anti-imperialist war. And in case of victory of the anti-imperialist war, the revisionists do everything possible to restore the world imperialist exploitation and oppression and hence the inevitability of ever new imperialist wars.
The revisionists are revisionists because they hide their true reactionary intentions behind the proletarian ideology, to deceive the revolutionary forces of the world proletariat and of all the oppressed and exploited classes. They are enemies of the anti-imperialist war and the world socialist revolution.

What is the attitude of the neo-revisionists concerning the anti-imperialist war?

The neo-revisionists call themselves "anti-revisionists", however they are only "anti-revisionists" in words.
They are "anti-revisionists" in words and revisionists in deeds.
Behind their "anti-revisionist", "revolutionary" Facade they try to hide their true revisionist face to deceive the oppressed and exploited classes in the anti-imperialist war and to lead them on the peaceful road to revisionism.
The neo-revisionists are pioneers of the restoration of revisionism at power. They are "socialists" in words,and stooges of the imperialists in deeds. They are in fact accomplices of the social-imperialists by helping them to restore their power. They are enemies of the anti-imperialist war of the world proletariat and all the oppressed and exploited classes.

What is the attitude of the centrists concerning the anti-imperialist war?
The centrists masquerade as representatives of the so called "united front" in the anti-imperialist war with the aim of achieving unity between the neo-revisionists and the Stalinists-Hoxhaists and other revolutionary forces. Since the neo-revisionists in truth are enemies of the anti-imperialist war,the neo-revisionists and Stalinists-Hoxhaists are unconciliatory in anti-imperialist war. Every attempt of compromisism between these antagonistic forces leads unavoidably to the weakening of the united front of the anti-imperialist war and thus the centrists are the fifth column of the world imperialists.
The anti-imperialist war ends inevitably in a defeat, if the influence of the centrist "united front" is not inhibited.
We are for the unity in the anti-imperialist war, but not for the unity with the centrists.

How do we assess the current situation?

Today we can no longer speak about only "threat" or "danger" of an "expectable" imperialist war.
Today we are already - more or less "creeping" - in a new imperialist world war.

Today, the slogan of the anti-imperialist war is on the agenda namely as its necessary practical solution.

We are already in the beginning of the world war, that is already reflected by the rapid increase of refugee flows from several war zones.

The imperialist wars have already begun to influence and dominate the entire life of the world society.

We see this not only by ever-expanding war herds all over the world, the military impact of the world crisis, the increasing economic war among the imperialist world powers etc. In the moment, there is the largest general military arms race and the most advanced militarization and fascisation of the society - unparalled in history of mankind.

This can be seen in the increasing war propaganda in the media of the mutually warring ruling classes.

After the revisionists had restored capitalism, the concept of the enemy "aspiration of communism's world domination" had lost its acutely threatening character. And after the Cold War there was - initially - a lack of any enemy images. Then the imperialists created the bogeyman of terrorism. With that struggle against terrorism the imperialists prepared for the violent crushing of expectable uprisings of the exploited and oppressed masses. And now they teeter on the brink of war, comparable with the beginning of the First and Second World War:
Warmongering and naked pro-war propaganda, directly aimed at rivaling imperialist world powers.

So the enemy image of today serves openly to a war among the imperialist world powers, which means nothing but a third world war in the interest of the redivision of world hegemony.

The media are now misused directly to support the imperialist war. The war coverage is under the military command of the belligerent powers. With the censored war reporting, the masses are no longer lulled with pacifist slogans. The propaganda of the imperialists now aims at preparing the masses for the inescapability of the third imperialist world war, namely in the same way as before the First and Second World War.

Everyone sees now that the secret services are directly guided by the imperialists and used directly for their military purposes. It's no longer just about the spying and collecting computer data. Now there is already a global cyberwar. Increasingly, missions of unmanned drones are in full swing, and this since several years.

Previously you could say that a war begins with the invasion of foreign troops. Is that today even the most? No, not necessarily.

Today the war has begun unseen by military missions of computer. Drones kill thousands of people and destroy targets as closed missions. These are war crimes that are never punished by anyone.
The invasion of occupying troops in war zones is declared as "leasure activities of soldiers on vacation" . Aircrafts of civil aviation shot down by missiles, and nobody is brought to justice.

Today, the world imperialists are able to force any country to surrender, namely from anywhere in the world without even having thrown a single bomb and without having made a single step on foreign soil - by means of computers. They have long been technically able to stop each power plant, every hospital. They are able to disable all communication and infrastructure of a country, and to bring it under their own control. Within seconds, anywhere in the world, the lights go down - without even a single shot.

We consider this modern warfare from the standpoint of the world proletarian revolution.

The peculiarity is that today there is no international anti-imperialist war front compared with the time of the Patriotic War, which was an existential threat to the rule of the world-imperialist system.

Today there is no bulwark of world peace like Stalin's socialist world camp.

Even the international front the anti-imperialist national liberation war was misused by the imperialist world powers for their own purposes. Heroic anti-imperialist wars of liberation, such as in Kurdistan, still remain as the exception.

But when viewed objectively, the current situation there is absolutely no reason for pessimism for the world proletariat and the oppressed peoples .

On the contrary.

Under the present conditions of the world crisis we see the downfall of world imperialism. The socialist world revolution and the epoch of world socialism is closer than ever. The world imperialism is shaken by deep crises and stands on the precipice today. However, without anti-imperialist war, without sacrifice on the part of the armed revolutionary forces, world imperialism can not be plunged into the abyss.

Today the Comintern (SH) is the only organization in the world that appeals the world proletariat to the preparation for the anti-imperialist war.

Apart from the world proletariat there is no one in the world who would be able to put an end to imperialist wars.

That is why the Comintern (SH) advocates the creation of a proletarian red world army.
However, we will not make the second step before the first one. At first, it is our task to convince the revolutionary forces about the necessity and inevitability of the revolutionary anti-imperialist war. First we begin to propagate the anti-imperialist war, and then we will prepare and organize the mobilization of the masses all over the world.

Our goal must be to transform the imperialist weapons into weapons of revolutionary liberation of the world proletariat and the peoples, and to place them into service of the socialist world revolution.

We will transform the imperialist war into a civil war!

Let's break the political and military power of world imperialism!

Long live the Red Anti-War Day 2015!

Long live the anti-imperialist war!

Long live the world proletarian army!

Long live the armed proletarian world revolution!

Long live the armed dictatorship of the world proletariat!

Long live Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Enver Hoxha!

Long live the Communist International (Stalinist - Hoxhaists)!

Long live world socialism and world communism!

Take to the streets for the

war against imperialist war!