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Resolution for 2017: make a difference

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Channel: Proletarian TV · 2016 · Education

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Ranjeet speaks for the CPGB-ML, about the challenges that face us in the coming year.

While many mourn the passing of George Michael, or Carrie Fisher, Alan Rickman, Prince, or David Bowie, we would ask you to spare a thought for the quiet loss of the struggle to defend the NHS, whose privatisation has taken a sharp upswing in tempo over the last months.

On 26th November 2016, Fidel Castro, leader and inspiration of the Cuban revolutionary movement, people and nation, breathed his last. He reminded us always, that through our own struggle against imperialism, despite all the capitalists' savagery and destruction, a better world is in birth. Fidel made a difference, of that there can be no doubt.

2017 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution - the great Socialist October Revolution of 1917 that brought into being the first workers state, free of exploitation and wage slavery, and achieved so much in all fields of human endeavour - and yet the dawning of 2017 sees the majority of humanity still languishing under capitalism in the throes of its worst ever economic crisis.

2017 sees Capitalism in its last stage clinging on to the reigns of power like grim death, without regard to the human and environmental catastrophe its senile rule is trailing in its wake. The major capitalist corporations, controlling the major imperialist states, have concentrated humanity's vast collective wealth in an obscenely small number of hands, while spreading the miseries of poverty, homelessness, hunger, unemployment and underemployment, disease, premature death from treatable diseases, hopelessness and crime - not to mention the increasingly ferocious, criminally planned and executed genocidal wars of imperialism - far and wide.

Speaking at a meeting to mark the 99th anniversary of the October Revolution, Ranjeet remarks that in fact, through the depth of the capitalist crisis, there are discernible signs that the working masses are casting around for a new political direction capable of solving their pressing problems.

The crisis is taking its toll. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." 2016 has seen much political upheaval, with Brexit signalling the beginning of the fall of the EU, and Trump's election victory once more showing that imperialism in crisis is loosing the plot.

2016 has seen the beginning  of the end, moreover, of the genocidal war orchestrated by US imperialism, but waged by its barbaric medieval proxies against the Syrian people - a war for domination, pure and simple, of the middle east and its crucial mineral and human resources. The rise of Russia and China, as forces capable of counter-balancing US and NATO's global rampage, must be welcomed by all.

The Labour party - so long the loyal lapdog of British imperialism - is itself in crisis. Labour has lost the support of the British workers, who no longer swallow its Blairite platitudes and lies, and have deserted in droves for parties new - only to find that they too are wanting. UKIP will not save the NHS, it will destroy it; the SNP will not bring social justice, and much less socialism, to Scotland. Neither immigration, nor the English, nor ‘Westminster’ are the problem. The problem is capitalism.

Until the communist movement is able to explain confidently that socialism - the dictatorship of the proletariat; rule of the working people themselves - remains the solution to capitalism, and precisely what went wrong in the USSR and why it collapsed, our movement will not be able to gain the confidence of the working class in Britain or world-wide.

Workers must have a political understanding that exposes the ruthless dictatorship of capitalist imperialism, its crisis and war, and the tools it has used to spread disarray in the ranks of the working class - social democracy, the labour party, trotskyism, anarchism, Khrushchevite revisionist communism, and their many gradations and deviations.

Our party has these answers and consequently, while others decay, we are growing.

We appeal to all thinking workers to join us to build a political movement dedicated to the liberation of mankind from capitalist slavery. You can make the difference - join us!
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See other speeches here:
Cuban ambassador: https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=l2Lt97HdAks
Laos’ ambassador: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mStxK9gnD9A&t=12s
Venezuela ambassador: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIkBMFIJ_ww&t=30s
Harpal Brar of the CPGB-ML: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPmLKuGNUkY&t=5s


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Don't forget, you can buy tickets to the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, scheduled for Saturday 4th November 2017, which will be held at Southall, but in the larger venue (400 capacity) of the Dominion centre [https://goo.gl/maps/dCb6LEH8W8F2], from party activists, or from the online shop.

Guarantee your place for just £10.  http://www.proletarianonline.org/

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