January 12, 1920 - January 12, 2020

Learning from the history of the CPUSA

ECCI

Letter from the ECCI to the Central Executive Committee of the CPA and National Executive Committee of the CLPA,

January 12, 1920.

A document in the Comintern Archive, f. 515, op. 1, d. 17, ll. 1-3.

Russian language original (with handwritten amendments) in same delo, ll. 4-9.

TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEES OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST LABOR PARTY.

Dear Comrades,

From the reports of the comrades who arrived from America and who represent both tendencies of American Communism, the Executive Committee of the Communist International had the opportunity of acquainting itself with the differences between the American comrades; differences which have led to an open split and to the formation of two communist parties. The question was submitted to the consideration of an extended session of the Executive Committee of the Communist International at which, besides the members of the EC there were also present representatives of both American parties as well as representatives from France, Switzerland, Hungary, Fin- land, and Yugoslavia. Arising out of this meeting the Executive Committee came to the following conclusion:

The split has rendered a heavy blow to the communist movement in America. It leads to the dispersion of revolutionary force, to a harmful parallelism, and absurd partition of practical work, and senseless discussions and an unjustifiable loss of energy in interfractional quarrels. A concentration of American bourgeois forces has increased to an unprecedented extent, while the class struggle is becoming more acute every day and demands unprecedented sacrifices from the American proletariat. The world revolution is in- exorably growing; great possibilities and brilliant perspectives are opening up before the American proletariat. This is not the time for division of communist forces.

In addition to this we must assert that the split has not been caused by any profound differences of opinion as regards program. At bottom there are but certain disagreements on the question of tactics, principally questions of organization.

Under such circumstances this split has not the slightest justification and should be liquidated at all costs. In so far as both parties stand on the platform of the Communist International — and of this we have not the slightest doubt — a united party is not only possible but is absolutely necessary, and the EC categorically insists on this being immediately brought about.

The necessity for the immediate unification is imperatively dictated by the further fact that the two parties represent, as it were, varying sides of the communist movement in America. The American Communist Party is principally a foreign party embracing so-called “national” federations. The American Communist Labor Party chiefly represents American or English-speaking elements. If the first is more developed theoretically and is more closely connected with the traditions of the revolutionary struggle of the Russian working class, it is on the other hand more isolated from the mass movement and mass organizations of the American workers who are gradually entering the broad path of the struggle between the classes. The second party, which has not passed through a similar revolutionary school, has received less training in the subtle ties of Marxist theory and is in need of a certain intellectual guidance, nevertheless has the advantage in that it may more easily influence American labor — which is to play the most important part in the coming decisive battles of the class war. Thus both parties naturally supplement each other, and only by their unification is it possible to create in America an efficient Communist Party which must take the lead in the mass movement; and in the oncoming communist revolution.

With the aim on bringing about this unification, the Executive Committee of the Communist International proposes to both parties to immediately convene a joint Conference whose decisions shall be binding for both sections. We suggest that an organizing bureau composed of an equal number of representatives of both parties should be set up for the purpose of preparing and convening the conference and also for the coordination of the work of both parties. The platform of the Communist International and the resolutions of the Executive Committee regards it necessary to point out the following to the American comrades:

1. The Communist Party should strive to unite in its ranks all those elements which recognize the necessity for seizing power and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat. It should be understood that this recognition should not be only verbal or theoretical, but the recognition must be proved by the obligation being imposed upon every member of the party and every proletarian conscious of his class interests of taking part in the determined struggle to overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the working class. In the face of this great problem all disagreements on other questions, as the employment of parliamentary action and other legal measures, on the application of one or another means of struggle or on the various forms of organization, disappear. Disagreements of this character are inevitable in all countries where it is necessary to form a communist party of various elements — left socialists leaving the old parties, non-party people who have come over to the point of view of the inevitability of the class struggle, anarchists and syndicalists who recognize the necessity of seizing power and establishing the proletarian dictatorship — but to split over these differences, which in a period of revolution have only a secondary importance, is absolutely inadmissible. The only thing that the party must demand in the event of differences between organizations and individual comrades, is unconditional discipline, the absolute submission of the minority to the majority. Before the acceptance of any resolution it is essential that there should be possibilities of full and frank discussion of the question and freedom of criticism within the ranks of the party. But after an authoritative resolution of the party has been carried, all members are obliged to carry it out without reserve, including those who do not agree with it. On the one hand there must be the widest tolerance for differing opinions during the period of discussion. On the other hand the strictest discipline must be observed in carrying out the decisions of the party. These are the fundamental conditions without which the creation of a strong proletarian revolutionary party is impossible.

2. The complete break with the old socialist parties, the SP and the SLP, is naturally a condition for the creation of a communist party in America. But this by no means signifies that the communist party cannot accept individual comrades and whole organizations officially regarded as part of old parties who have decisively come over to the point of view of consistent class war and proletarian dictatorship. The communist party must be a mass organization and not a close narrow circle. “Isolation from non-communist elements” should be understood in the sense of separation from the hardened social-treacherous [sotsial- predatel’skikh] elements in the old parties, particularly from those leaders who have compromised themselves; but it must not be taken to mean self-isolation from and repelling those workers who were formerly members of the old parties but who have now broken with them. The doors of the communist party must be open wide for proletarians, even if they have not mastered all subtleties of Marxist theory, but are sincerely loyal to the cause of proletarian revolution and are actually conducting a struggle against the domination of the bourgeoisie. The communist party will be for them the best school of communism.

3. The party must take party in the everyday incidents of the class war. Up till now the American left wing socialists devoted most of their attention to agitation and propaganda, and in this direction did important work. But, confined in a more or less close circle of comrades all thinking alike, they, to a large extent, stood aside from the everyday class struggle of the proletarian masses which is flowing in broad streams throughout the country; at any rate they did not play the leading part in the greater conflict be- tween capital and labor. It is particularly necessary to remember that the stage of verbal propaganda and agitation has been left behind, the time for decisive battles has arrived. Uniting in its ranks all the class conscious and most active elements of the working class, and developing the widest propaganda of communist ideas, the communist party must at the same time strive to become the leader in the proletarian class struggle in all its various aspects, from separate economic strikes, demonstrations, mass meetings and election campaigns, to general political strikes and armed insurrection of the proletariat. The most important task confronting the American communists at the present moment is to draw the wide proletarian masses into the path of the revolutionary class struggle.

4. Cooperating in hastening the process of dis- solution of the AF of L and other craft unions associ- ated with it, the party must strive to establish the closest connection with those working class economic organizations in which industrial unionist tendencies are being manifested (IWW, “One Big Union,” WIIU), as well as with separate unions breaking away from the AF of L. The party must work in closest contact with these organizations, striving at the same time to unite them and to create a powerful centralized strictly economic organization of the proletariat imbued with class consciousness. Supporting the industrial unions in their everyday struggle for direct economic demands, the party must strive to deepen and widen the struggle and convert it into a struggle for the final revolutionary aims of the proletariat, for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, and the abolition of the capitalist system.

5. The party must support the formation of factory workers’ committees in the factories alongside with the communist party groups, with might serve on the one hand as the base for the everyday economic struggle, and on the other hand as a school for the training of the advanced guard of labor in the management of industry in the event of the dictatorship of the proletariat being achieved. It is of course understood that these factory committees should work in closest contact with the industrial union organizations.

6. The party must not represent a conglomeration of independent or semi-autonomous “national federations.” The national federations played an important historical part in the American Socialist movement, for many years conducting a systematic opposition in the old party, and being largely instrumental in creating the Socialist Propaganda League and the Left Wing. But in the future, with the rapid intensification and widening of the class struggle, and the great complexity of problems confronting the proletariat of America, the foreign-born communists will only be able to carry out their task by entering into the closest possible relations with their brothers in the American labor movement. Being in general better trained theoretically, and being more closely bound to Russian revolutionary traditions, the members of the federations may in the future have a guiding influence in the American Communist movement; but this influence must be exercised not by means of separate national federations, but from within a united strongly- centralized Communist Party. The sudden and complete break-up of the historic form of organization of the federations is certainly undesirable, as this might lead to the disintegration of the foreign-born movement, which has been the chief promulgator of communist ideas in America. Moreover, the national federations, strictly as organizations of propaganda among their own countrymen, are still and will for a long time be necessary in America. But at the same time the foreign-born workers must recognize the principle that in the sphere of political and economic activity these federations must be wholly subject to the leadership of the organs of the party as a whole, and that the chief function of the national federations is to prepare the foreign-born workers to take their places in the English-speaking Communist movement.

7. During a period of social revolution, the employment of referendums should be reduced to a minimum. In any case questions requiring speedy decision under no circumstances can be submitted to a referendum. In the intervals between conferences the Central Committee of the party must wield complete authority [vseiu polnotoiuvlasti].

8. One of the most important practical tasks which imperatively confronts the Communist Party of America at the present moment is the establishment of a large daily political newspaper, which should be not only an organ of theoretical propaganda and training, but should be a leading organ in the political struggle giving information on all public events from the communist point of view and [put] forward the regular battle cries reflecting the everyday proletarian class struggle.

9. The Executive Committee urges the American comrades immediately to establish an underground organization, even if it is possible for the party to function legally. This underground organization shall be for the purpose of carrying on direct revolutionary propaganda among the masses, and, in case of violent suppression of the legal Party organization, of carrying on the work. It should be composed of trusted comrades, and kept entirely separate from the legal Party organization. The few people who know about it the better. For the formation and control of this underground organization, a small sub-committee of the National Executive Committee can be appointed. An underground printing plant and distribution machinery should be established.

Moscow, January 12, 1920.

President of the Executive Committee of the Communist International

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from an American comrade

 The Fascist leaders of the Republic of Iran have admitted to “accidentally” shooting down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 killing all 176 persons aboard the majority of whom where Iranian and Canadian. This shoot down and cover up sparked outrage from the Iranian people who took to the streets with cries out “no more lies” and "death to liars“ among other chants of similar themes, Donald Trump apparently deciding to ignore the words “death to liars” issued a massive lie in English and Farsi  which I will Quote here 

“To the brave and suffering people of Iran: I have been standing with you since the beginning of my presidential period and my Government will stand with you. We follow your protests very close(ly). Your courage in inspiring” 

Hardly a single word in that statement is true It is clearly an attempt by Donald Trump and the US government to hijack the Iranian protests in order to use them for their own goals.

Down with U.S. Imperialism!

Down with fascist Islamic Iran !

Messages of Solidarity

Greeting message

of the Section USA

to the Comintern (SH)

on occasion of the

19th founding day

on 31st of December 2000

Dear Comrades of the Communist International (Stalinist-Hoxhaists), our fraternal Sections and Organizations, and all workers, peasants, and revolutionary soldiers of the world!

The Section USA sends you all world revolutionary and proletarian greetings as we march together in 2020 and celebrate the 19th Anniversary of the Comintern (SH).

It always amazes us American comrades to see how much the World Party has grown since Comrade Wolfgang Eggers refounded it back in 2000 and we are deeply honored to contribute to the modern Communist International.

The world capitalist crisis is worsening, the threat of a new imperialist world war is closer than ever, living conditions have deteriorated everywhere, and class contradictions are sharpening every day. With widespread protests throughout the world, the bourgeoisie knows that their rotten, parasitic class dictatorship is at its end and the acts of terror they use to repel the oppressed masses only digs their graves deeper.

Let us successfully march into 2020 and bring the Party and Stalinism-Hoxhaism to the proletariat!

Let us topple world fascism and all their open and hidden lackeys!

Let us eliminate the threat of imperialist war forever!

May the Comintern (SH) and all its Sections have a successful and revolutionary 2020!

Long live the Communist International (Stalinist-Hoxhaists)!

Long live Stalinism-Hoxhaism!

The Section USA looks forward to another year of revolutionary work and we again pledge our unconditional and undying loyalty to the Comintern (SH) and the World Proletarian Revolution!

Red World Front!

New Year's greetings are greetings of class struggle

LONG LIVE

STALINISM-HOXHAISM !

19 years

Comintern (SH)

19 years - 5 heads

Long live the founding day

31st of December, 2000

Messages of Solidarity

Greeting message

of the Comintern (SH) on occasion of the 19th founding day

on 31st of December 2000

The Comintern (SH) greets all true communists in the world, all revolutionary workers, all the revolutionary masses on all streets of the world.

The day of human liberation from world imperialism is near. Let us fight together for the overthrow of the rotten, corrupt and parasitic exploitation and oppression system of world capitalism. Let us fight together for a better world, for the world of socialism, for the world of communism.
In 2019, the deepening of the crisis of capitalism and the growing danger of a new world war only shook belief in a better future for the world.
The radicalization of the world proletariat in 2019 triggered a never-ending chain of revolutionary mass struggles on all continents, which continued to increase, especially in the second half of 2019.
The dramatically deteriorating situation of the majority of the world's population will continue in the new year and lead to more, bigger, more militant and longer lasting mass protests and strikes. The counter-revolution will shed even more blood, but it will ultimately be powerless under the pressure of the revolutionary world masses. The bourgeoisie is powerless. It can only counteract the mass storm with police and military violence, thus this will shorten its existence as a ruling class all the faster.
Behind the mask of "democracy" is hidden the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie with its ugly head of fascism and social fascism. This mask will fall also in 2020. The main enemy is world imperialism, and the masses will look through this always clearer. The world proletariat will organize the global class struggle under leadership of the Comintern (SH).
It is no longer just a question of revolutionizing the masses in these or those individual countries, but of a new level of globalized mass struggles, such as the struggle to end crimes at nature committed by the ruling world system of capitalism.
The revolutionary situation in more and more individual countries develops to the one and only global revolutionary situation. The globalization of mass struggles will develop to such momentum in 2020 that it will accelerate the world socialist revolution if it is led by the world proletariat and its world party, the Comintern (SH). And the Comintern (SH) can be sure that the call of the masses for a revolutionary world party will become ever louder in order to finally stop, overcome and eliminate this rotten and corrupt capitalist world system. There will be more and more people who are interested in what the Comintern (SH) answers to the question, what will be after world capitalism, what the Comintern (SH) has for ideas about world communism and how this can be achieved in practice , It is the counter-revolution that will drive the masses into our arms by themselves. The more the policy of social fascism paves the way to fascism, all the further the masses distance themselves from the social fascists. The radicalization of the world proletariat begins both against social fascism and fascism. This corresponds to the dialectical law of revolution and counterrevolution. Detachment from social fascism is detachment from the whole system of bourgeois democracy. It is the neo-revisionists who try in vain to save bourgeois democracy by means of reviving the "Popular Front Policy" of Dimitroff. Bourgeois democracy cannot be saved. Bourgeois democracy is eliminated either by fascism or by the socialist revolution.
And the Communist International is the organizer of the socialist revolution.
We are the ones who point the way to the victory of the world socialist revolution and can actually guarantee this victory as soon as the masses have followed us.
So far we will have to be content with agitation and propaganda, but the day is not far away when we will lead the great mass struggles on a world scale. We will form the invincible red world army
The Comintern (SH) has been the world party of the world socialist revolution for 19 years and will always be the world party of the world socialist revolution.
We world communists are the only hope for humanity to overcome need, misery, war and fascism, to leave it behind forever and to build a new, communist world society.
We will save this planet from being destroyed.
We will create a new world, a world in which all prerequisites for its blooming will be restored.
We will free humanity from capitalist exploitation and oppression.
Let us smash the dictatorship of the world bourgeoisie and estrablish the dictatorship of the world proletariat!

Long live the 19th anniversary of the founding of the Comintern (SH)!
Long live the world socialist revolution!
Long live the dictatorship of the world proletariat!
Long live the world socialist republic!
Long live world socialism and world communism!
Long live Stalinism-Hoxhaism!
Long live Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Enver Hoxha!
Long live the Comintern (SH) and her sections !

Wolfgang Eggers

December 31, 2019

Long live Stalinism-Hoxhaism ! (English)

RROFTË Stalinizëm-Enverizmi ! Albanian)

Es lebe der Stalinismus-Hoxhaismus ! (German)

Да здравствует сталинизм - Ходжаизм ! (Russian)

გაუმარჯოს სტალინიზმ-ხოჯაიზმის! (Georgian)

Viva o Estalinismo-Hoxhaismo! (Portuguese)

Viva Stalinismo-Hoxhaismo! (Italian)

斯大林霍查主义万岁! (Chinese)

Viva el Stalinismo-Hoxhaismo! (Spanish)

Vive le Stalinisme-Hoxhaisme! (French)

At zije Stalinismus-Hodzismus! (Czech-Slovak)

Ζήτω το σταλινισμός - Χότζα-ισμό ! (Greek)

Živeo Staljinizam - Hodžaizam! (Bosnian)

Niech zyje Stalinizm-Hodzyzm! - (Polski)

! زنده باد استالینیسم-خوجهئیسم (Farsi) 

Niech zyje Stalinizm-Hodzyzm! - (Polski)

Længe leve Stalinismen-Hoxhaismen (Danish)

Hidup Stalinisma dan Hoxhaisma! (Malay)

Staliniyamum-Hoxhaiyamum niduzhi vazga (Thamil) 

Viva o Stalinismo e o Hoxhaísmo (Português Brasil)

स्टालिनबाद-होक्जाबाद जिन्दाबाद! (Nepali) 

Trăiască Stalinism-Hodjaismul! (Romanian)

Viva l'Estalinisme-Hoxaisme! (Occitan)

سٹالنزم ، ہوکسزازم زندہ باد پائندہ باد
(اردو) (Urdu)

!عاشت الستالينية-الخوجية (Arab language)

"Africa"