Communist Party of Belgium
Dear Comrades,
Dear Friends,
The Communist Party of Belgium would like to thank you for inviting us to this International Conference and for giving us time to speak and reflect together.
Our Conference is taking place at a difficult and painful time for anti-imperialists and anti-warriors, who need to agree on a common reflection on how to act, how to take action, how to agree on the very nature of imperialism, its definition…
Some people, unfortunately on the left, including within the International Communist Movement itself, are taking advantage of the current conflict in UKRAINE to introduce among us new seeds of division and paralysis by believing that this conflict is an inter-capitalist war (which obviously causes innocent victims on both sides) pitting the Western camp, the self-proclaimed “Free World”, against RUSSIA, a new power, which has also become capitalist, and therefore imperialist. This paralysis led the movement to confine itself to counting blows, until one of the belligerents began peace negotiations, which, in view of current events, the government in KIEV refused, pushing for the internationalisation of the war.
They proclaim that the analysis of PUTIN (obviously) proclaiming that it is necessary to put an end to the latent fascism in UKRAINE would be deception, a lie, of the order of insanity, utopia, delirium, on the part of a degenerate leader…
Of course, we know that, according to our Marxist doctrine, imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, BUT that fascism can also be the last stage of capitalism, in its most dictatorial, brutal and bestial form.
But is this also true of RUSSIA, which over the last 30 years has also developed its own multinationals within the framework of capitalist globalisation, which, like all developed countries, are also extending their tentacles abroad in order to develop their own economy competitively?
We doubt it, because imperialism in this case is simply commercial, economic imperialism.
This imperialism is transformed into war imperialism when a State, regardless of its economic system, becomes a danger to its neighbours, to the point of wanting to extend its power by military force, annexations and occupations, provocations, colonial conquests, aggressions, etc.
We all know, and history proves it sufficiently, that the capitalist West (the USA, Western Europe (self-proclaimed “The Democracies”) has had the privilege of these acts for nearly 140 years, since the Berlin Colonial Conference of 1884-1885, with the participation of the “New World”, on the division of AFRICA, the first inter-capitalist world war, the second inter-capitalist world war again (between German imperialism and that of the democracies at its beginnings in 1939-1940) for the conquest and redistribution of the economic markets and the destruction of Bolshevism.
Since the victory over Nazism and Fascism, American imperialism (the world’s leading imperialist power) has continued to strengthen its economic and military presence in Europe.
If America’s sole aim was to come and liberate us, its troops would have returned home at least 75 years ago.
Instead, Western Europe gradually became an American colony. One new occupier drives out the other, and enormous means have to be used to force it to leave.
The famous Marshall Plan was a great fool’s game and a springboard for the creation of the EUROPE of banks and multinationals. The Fulton speech, the “Fear Speech”, delivered at Westminster on 5 March 1946, was the start of the anti-communist and anti-Soviet campaign, the cold war, the arms race, the remilitarisation of Adenauer’s revanchist GERMANY, the creation of NATO, the launch of the bloc policy, the involvement of the West in the war provoked in KOREA, followed by the creation of the WARSAW PACT in response.
Incidentally, according to the Agreements signed between the Allies, GERMANY was to become a peaceful, demilitarised state, and its great pre-war Konzerns could not, because they had produced the Nazi war machine. None of this was achieved, due to Anglo-American and French shenanigans.
From the Korean War and Indochina to Algeria, the dirty American war in VIETNAM, and finally the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union and the Socialist countries, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, it was to be hoped that a policy of peace would take hold and that other conflicts in the world would come to an end.
Instead, a new politics of blocs has reappeared, NATO, the biggest imperialist alliance in the world, has not been dissolved in its turn, it has even been strengthened and is being used for aggressions and occupations in the world, outside its sphere of influence, in Europe (Balkans), in the Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria), in Africa (Libya), under the pretext of replacing tyrants with “democracy”, Western sauce. Where, then, have these aggressions brought this “democracy” without merciless destruction, massacres and war crimes?
As for the rest, liberal Europe has not ceased to pursue its “march towards the East”, integrating the former socialist countries, strengthening puppet governments and constantly developing its armed wing, multiplying manoeuvres and military provocations right up to the borders of RUSSIA, which has once again become the beast to be slaughtered. Only one step remains to be taken: UKRAINE!
So they pushed it back, provoking the events of MAIDAN, followed by the installation of a corrupt putschist government. Then came the request to join the new European Empire and, of course, NATO.
To demonstrate its commitment to and alignment with the USA and Europe, the Nazified government in KIEV banned its large minority from using Russian in the country, and therefore in the Eastern regions, as well as freedoms, democracy, more than 20 mainly left-wing opposition parties, strikes and trade union demands, imprisonment, control of the media and information, and racist Russophobia, and has been waging a war of genocidal massacres in the east of the country since 2014, using neo-Nazi legionnaires and volunteers recruited in Europe and elsewhere, thus proving that this war did not only begin on 24 February 2022, while the extreme right is gradually gaining strength everywhere, and is succeeding in gaining power in other countries of war-torn Europe.
Who, apart from RUSSIA, after numerous warnings, is finally capable of putting an end to these dangers of a fascist and neo-Nazi revival and seizure of power, sounding the death knell, and coming to the rescue of our compatriots who have been massacred since 2014, under the complicit silence and military and political aid of the American-Ottoman-Western and Europeanists?
We end this speech by pointing out that the current situation is all the more serious and dangerous because the same American-Western camp is playing the same dirty game, which smells of oil, by unreservedly supporting the Zionist state of ISRAEL for 75 years in occupied Palestine, proceeding with annexations, repeated bombardments, destruction and massacres of civilian populations at the slightest incident, locking up 2.3 million Palestinians in the GAZA camp for 17 years, once again under the silence of the Western world, and now proceeding with total destruction and massacre in this territory, no doubt with the aim of a new annexation.
Finally, we would like to emphasise that:
• Western neo-colonialism is also the cause of many other horrifying wars in the world.
• The Americanised and NATO-ised West not only proclaims itself to be at war with RUSSIA, but has set itself the ultimate goal of a war with CHINA, which has become too competitive.
• America, God’s chosen and protected people, makes no secret of its desire to dominate the world and establish its unique and eternal economic system.
• When it is a question of economic imperialism alone, have no fear, the Communists of Belgium will always stand by the workers and the trade unions, whatever their multinational employers, be they Belgian, Japanese, Italian, American, British, Chinese, Korean, French, Canadian or other.
• Our Party welcomes the development of the BRICS for another model of world economic organisation, in solidarity, peace, understanding and equality.
• Our party congratulates the 3 African countries that have just regained their independence from governments that were subject to colonialism and the presence of France in their countries.
Long live the world anti-imperialist movement, long live our unity of action!
Thank you Comrades!
