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             Between clear communism and mysterious «left»

By Dr. Ammar Bagdache, member of political bureau of Syrian Communist Party

In the context of accompanying public information campaign to prepare for the extraordinary meeting of communist and workers parties in Damascus,  «Annour»  newspaper(No. / 394 / «Annour» new) held an Interview with Dr. Khaled Hdadeh Secretary-General of the Lebanese Communist Party, which put forward some views and ideas which can be discussed. 
Dr. Khaled Hdadeh answer to the question about the importance of such meetings between the communist and workers' parties literally as follows: «We would like first to emphasize the importance of joint meetings and coordination of positions between the communist and worker parties at the international level, especially at this stage of human history, these meetings be established to identify confrontation programs and its methods with neo-liberal globalization and especially its head United States ». 
Well Dear Comrade Secretary General of the Lebanese Communist Party, you see the main task of these meetings is to face the globalization of neo-liberal, and especially the United States. But the majority of communist parties which participate in international  meetings have the view that its task is to confront imperialism, i.e., the highest stage of capitalism, and its striking power U.S. imperialism. In order not to be seen as not documented, let's see, for example but not limited to, the theme of the meeting of the Tenth International Communist and Workers Parties held in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in November / 2008 /. The theme: “New phenomena in the international developments. Deterioration of national, social and environmental problems, intensification of the intra-imperialist (yes imperialist) contradictions and rivalries. The struggle for peace, democracy, sovereignty progress and socialism and the joint action of Communist and Workers’ Parties”

The theme of the regular eleventh meeting (yes, the regular and not the extraordinary, the seminar), which will be held in India and the theme will be: «the international capitalist crisis (yes, capitalism and not the neo-liberal Dear Dr. Esquire), people's and worker's struggle, alternatives and the role of the communist and working class movement (yes, class, and not vague left). This is endorsed by the Working Group at its meeting held in Athens in February / 2009 /, and as I remember that Dr. Khaled Hdadeh was present at this meeting. 
Some might say that it is only a slight difference in names, but these names reflect the vision system of intellectual and political positions derived from. It is something good that the left Progressive intellectuals struggle against what he called «neo-liberal globalization» But the Communist must struggle against imperialism and against capitalism in general. Thus, it appears the difference between these two phenomena. At the margin must be said that neo-liberalism as policy and method has fallen positions seriously, and this is what we see not only in the practical policy of the centers of international capitalism, where the interventionist role of the state increase significantly, but in the declarations of the presidents of imperialist states, and no doubt that Dr.  Khaled Hdadeh, who pays interest to the French issue, has a look at comments by President Nicolas Sarkozy in this regard. Yes... We are the Communists, with the decline of neo-liberalism, we find a fertile ground for the continuation of our general struggle against capitalism and imperialism, but what will remain of the left Progressive intellectual, it remains for him to find another subject does not have a class crude name which does not harm (God forbid)the hearing of civilized world. Words such as imperialism and class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat and the proletarian internationalism and others are sharp words which is organically ostracized by the new left European and whom his leftism brought many of the revolutionary parties to the entire mass, of course, the imitators in the third world seek to advance to follow the lead of innovators such as Western renovationist Robert Hugh, Fausto Bertinotti and Santiago Carrillo and others. 

In his evaluation of the situation of the international communist movement before / 1990 /  Dr. Khaled Hdadeh refers to the positives , he says it is at the same time full of mistakes and pitfalls that have accumulated, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the failure of the achieved socialist experiment. 
In the negative points that summarized our region Dr. Khaled Hdadeh gives few examples to illustrate what he says, namely, (the words literally as stated in «Annour»): 
«First example: the position taken by the Soviet Union in / 1948 /, of the partition of Palestine, and the result in decline and isolation experienced by the Arab communist movement for more than two decades, and to be known  that our party, for example, was against the partition». 
Yes... The Communist Party in Syria and Lebanon was against the partition in / 1947 /, but at the same time he defended the position of the Soviet Union against the attempts of reactionary forces in the accusation of responsibility for the catastrophe that damaged the Palestinian Arabs to the Soviet Union, not imperialism, Zionism and Arab reactionary client (King Farouk, King Abdullah, Nouri Al-Said, Sharl Malek for example, and not limited to) the very forces that stand behind this calamity (Nakba). As for the position of the Soviet Union led to a retreat and isolation experienced by the communist movement in the Arab countries, the facts indicate otherwise. In / 1954 / the Communist Party in Syria and Lebanon made a major victory at the arrival of the secretary-general Khaled Bagdash to the Syrian parliament, was this evidence of decline and retreat, , where the masses of Damascus play a big role in making the  representative of the communists arrives to the Parliament and with the highest votes? .many of the Lebanese comrades has contributed in the Party's work to meet the tide of public awareness and we mention them, for example, but not limited : the martyr comrade Farajallah Alhlu, comrades Nakhla Mtran, Hasan Quraitim, Oohanis Ogbashiyan and Diab Tannous and others, and others who have been victims of innovative terrorism two decades later, in the period Comrade Khaled Hdadeh considered by the end of the retreat, In other words, when, George Hawi and gentlemen: George Batal, kareem Mrwee and Nadim Abdel-Samad and leading their followers like Mr. Elias Atallah ascend the leadership of the party. 
And a question on the margin, where is the location of these brothers here for the communist movement in Lebanon? 
Or that the question of their position should be directed to Mr. Saad Hariri and Walid Junblatt? 
Is the completion of the retreat and decline means the making of Kamal Junblatt, a leader and a teacher sometimes, and sometimes other brother Yasser Arafat, and at certain stages Mr. Abdel Halim Khaddam. Does openness imply acceptance of logistical support for the revolutionary struggle of course from the Brother Muammar Gazzafi and his green book which was more valuable to the late George Hawi from all the books of Marx, Engels and Lenin? The way in accepting this support to the liberation struggle against the «class community isolationism» from Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti at the height of the prosecution of Communists in Iraq. By the Lord, eighther so political openness, or not, but in the eyes of some is «the politics is savvy! ». 
The second example of Mr. Khaled Hdadeh literally: «lies in the so-called no-capitalist path of development, in the late fifties of the last century, which led to the abolition of important communist parties in the world, in particular in the Arab world (Egypt), which did not succeed in transforming the national movements , which came to power through coups, to left movements, but their leaders turned slowly to the middle bourgeoisie, grew later, and benefited from the logo (one-party rule), which was for the Socialist countries, the Communist Party, to put away all of those outside of the participation in the power ». 


we will not stand at some debatable statements such as the theory of no-capitalist path of development emerged in the late fifties, though it is crystallized in the early sixties, but this thing is marginal, and the meaning of conversion of nationalist movements to«left» movements?. Leftism is a relative concept and is no doubt that the nationalist forces that came to power was to the left of feudalism, and it confiscated land from feudalism  through agrarian reform. The Dangerous in the theory of no-capitalist path of development was of illusion that these progressive nationalist forces will build socialism, and therefore no need for the communist parties in those countries which reached the progressives nationalists to power. Unfortunately, the leadership of the Lebanese Communist Party in that time was one of the main promoters of this theory, in particular, in Lebanon, there were not such a progressive nationalist forces in power, the theoretical speech of Lebanese had been on the other Arab countries, and transit trade are not alien to the Lebanese reality. Comrade Khaled Bagdash was attacked- because he categorically dismissed this disastrous theory, and he faced Khrushchev directly against the idea of resolving communist parties- by some Lebanese comrades to stand up against the general guideline of the international communist movement and its vanguard of the Soviet Union. 
Yes, the Syrian Communist Party and its leader, Khaled Bagdash, the only power in the communist movement in the Arab countries that have stood firmly saying no-capitalist path of development, I must say that this position required the historic battles not just overseas but also within the party. Indeed, the formula adopted for a brief period under the pressure of revisionist forces, and in this regard, "said Mr. Yusuf Faisal of the general National Council of the party / 1971 /:« After discussion with the scholars of the Marxist-Leninist  of fraternal parties and  in the forefront of the Soviet Communist Party, we have to adopt formula through the development of non-capitalist, the fact must be recognized here, that Comrade Daniel (Ne'ma) defended in advance of this formula, and that Comrade Khaled was against it» (National Council of the Syrian Communist Party, p. 48). 
Yes... Comrade Khaled Bagdash was against it, and remained fighting against this non scientific formula of the dangerous political reflexes, that the Fifth Congress of the Party and unanimously removed this formula of all documents, primarily of the program of the Syrian Communist Party. 
This is for history... And what for now, for the present? For the present, Dr. Khaled Hdadeh presents literally as follows: «in the face of such a comprehensive attack (and not being determined as imperialist attack) we need a unified left position ». And he sees «the importance of meetings conducted by the communist parties in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinian People's Party». 
Here the question arises, why in the face of aggressive imperialism, let us call phenomena by their names, and just put «a unified left position»? To face such attack there must be seek for the unity of the side of all the national forces, especially those forces that have proven steadfast in the face of colonialism, indeed, like Hezbollah in Lebanon. Therefore, the Syrian Communist Party raises slogan «For strengthen the international front against imperialism». But the vague propositions about the left alternative hide behind something else, which is that this will be the left alternative to the communist movement which is armed by theory of Marxism-Leninism. Such a phenomenon is active in Europe, and such phenomenon some people want it to succeed in the world of the Arabs. Dr. Khaled Hdadeh have been identified components of the power of such a process which the Lebanese Communist Party after the dazzling success in the last legislative elections, the Jordanian Communist Party (Praise be to God for his safety after the collection / 500 / votes to be officially registered in Jordan) and the other party in Syria may be a viable in this area if there are young people able to operate within its ranks, and the Palestinian People's Party, who was a pioneer among all these parties in the complete abandonment of the Marxist-Leninist in the hard times.

It is strange indeed why Dr. Khaled Hdadeh also did not say the Iraqi Communist Party, which no doubt has pride of place among them, and his «Low Popular» positions, let us be diplomatic ., through its cooperation with the U.S. occupation from the time of Premer up till now. 
Here I recall an incident that in preparation for the meeting of the Eighth international communist and worker's parties, which was held in Portugal in the autumn of / 2006 /, which discussed the primary address: «escalating confrontation with imperialism (yes, Dr. Hdadeh, imperialism) and the functions of the communist movement in these circumstances,» our Portuguese comrades announced that they will not invite the Iraqi Communist Party  to this meeting as a party collaborator with the occupation. And then, suddenly had invited the so-called Communist Party of Iraq. We inquired about this change in the situation, and they told us that most of the parties of the European, Asian and Latin American supported the absence of an invitation, but came to them a protest from the Jordanian Communist Party leadership to support the position of the other party of Syria, Palestinian People's Party and the silence from the Lebanese Communist Party, to attend the Iraqis. At that time we lodged a protest and said that not only those representing the communist movement in the Arab countries. In any case, we will not go into the functioning of secret love for other times. 
Yes, what is happening on our own is part of the global struggle between the forces of Marxism-Leninism and the forces of revisionism and opportunism. In this struggle and its effectiveness depends to a large extent the general struggle of the international progressive forces in the face of imperialism. 
In the end, I say: Personally, I like Dr. Khaled Hdadeh as a person, but more than that, it seems better compared with its predecessors. And about dialectics he teaches us that the phenomenon is not comparable to the phenomenon, but to reality.
The question is: can you build revolutionary parties without strong fixed ideological foundations?

Any way, as Karl Marx teaches us: Practice is a measure of truth.

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Meeting of Communist and workers Parties in

 East Mediterranean

 

Syrian Communist Party speech delivered by Dr. Ammar Bagdache, member of political bureau of Syrian Communist Party, in Athens 5th January 2008

 

Dear comrades,

          At the beginning, I'd like to express my deep thanks to the comrades of Communist Party of Greece, for their initiative to invite workers and Communist Parties in East Mediterranean and their kind hosting to the meeting.

         Today, our meeting to exchange opinions with the representatives of fraternal parties and coordinating their stands to challenge common enemy - the world imperialism, has a special importance in terms of plots and imperialistic expanding plans which are applied in our region. And our region is one of the most significant parts, for the intense challenge between world imperialism and world liberating movement takes place in it.

        The situation in the region is distinguished by the continuation of American invasion and direct occupation to Iraq. It should be said that Iraqi patriotic resistance which has directed and directs painful strikes to American forces and to its local agents, did not change only the situation in the region, but also the situation in whole world. By virtue of this heroic resistance, the image of the American Imperialism as an absolute power and not confronted and must be kept pace with it, this image fell down.   

        So the Iraqi patriotic resistance strongly proved that the people who aspire for its freedom, and willing to present all what it has for the liberty of its country, can struggle against the most forceful imperialist power, and cause it tremendous losses.

        We, Syrian communists, supported and expressed our solidarity with Iraqi national resistance since its appearance, regardless of ideological contrasts with some of its factions. However, according to our viewpoint, what basically combines us is the opposition and resistance against the main enemy; that is the American Imperialism.

        We wish if the socialist stream is stronger in this resistance, and this did not really happen because of the opportunist and revisionist cancer, which affected the supposed deliverer of this stream. Right now, we are with all real patriotic powers in the region, backing up the struggle of Iraqi patriotic resistance to defeat the American occupation, and establishing the independent democratic unified free Iraq, where the whole citizens have equal rights.

         Besides, there is a further victory to liberation powers in our region, particularly the defeat of Zionist Israeli aggression on Lebanon in summer time 2006. As usual, this aggression had a thoroughly American support; above all, it was mainly incited by American administration, to kill civilians in the inhabited places in such a brutal way and with inconsideration to thousands of victims. In site of that, the Lebanese national resistance and its striking group’ Hezbollah’ courageously confronted to the barbarian attack, and they defeated the troops of Zionist aggression.

        We, Syrian communists, raise a high tribute to heroisms of Lebanese national resistance. We also champion the struggle of Lebanese patriotic powers irrespective of their ideology or origin; seeking to defeat the huge plot which world imperialistic centers fabricate it depending on their local allies and agents, for the sake of transforming Lebanon into imperialistic protectorate and as a centre of conspiracy on the national liberation movement in the region. Lebanese national powers strife to preserve on the real independence for their country and national sovereignty, they contribute a lot in the struggle of world and Arab patriotic liberation movement.

          As Zionist and imperialistic plots persist to destroy the Palestinian issue. It should be said that reactionaries Arab regimes and Palestinian non- patriotic sections work hard to make this huge conspiracy successful; and Annapolis Conference was one of the recent scenes, which the American administration called for the meeting in coordination with Zionist Israel rulers, assistance and support of world reactionary powers including the flattering Arab regimes.  Undoubtedly, one of temporary objects of Annapolis Conference was to brighten up the image of Bush administration in front of American public opinion, as a temporary compensation of repeated defeats or, rather, the immense failure of American Imperialism policy in Iraq. More over, it is also to increase the popularity of Olmert government inside Israel, especially after Israeli troops in Lebanon were defeated.

          However, the objects of Annapolis Conference were further of temporary objects. Its objects were intending to draw the features and key lines of destroying the Palestinian issue. So, Annapolis Conference is a step to legalize’ the Jewish features’ to Israel state and the absolute negation to the Palestinian refugees right of return which was stipulated by the UN resolutions. And even furthermore, to endorse the principle of ’ Israel's Judaism ’ is a clear racial principle establishes a legally base displacing the Arab citizens from Israel, that is to say; applying the of ’ Transfer ’ scheme which the most extremist parts openly proclaim it in the Zionist camp, and practically prepared by what is called ’ Zionist moderate powers ’ .      

         As working for keeping the aggressive expanding characteristic of Zionist Israel and developing it, there is no in the Zionist camping. But disagreement is concentrated on the best manner for applying this colonial racial scheme.

         In addition to that, Annapolis Conference aimed to confirm the category that Palestinian state takes the shape of jelly like and flabby weak entity; it is similar to ' Bantustan system ' which the racial governance in South Africa attempted to apply in late of 20th century. Furthermore, Annapolis leaders were wholly concerned by orchestrating to fuel the Palestinian civil war, for carrying out Zionist and imperialistic objects by Palestinian hands.

        And one of the long-termed objects of Annapolis is to quicken the normalization process between Zionist Israel and Arab rulers, as achieving the Zionist imperialistic plan for setting up the ' New Big Middle East plan ' , this means to set up an imperialistic centre in the region, led by Israel and under the American imperialistic custody.

And we realize that the first priority of Arab patriotic liberation movement with all its factions is to foil the imperialistic Zionist plan, which aims to spoil completely the national sovereignty of Arab countries, and fully enslaving to its peoples and national wealth.

 

Dear comrades,

        Syria constitutes a major difficulty in challenging the total application of imperialistic and Zionist hegemony plan in the region. It rejects the submission to Imperialistic dictations. It also states about its solidarity with struggle of Arab national powers, which are fighting Zionism and imperialism.

        Syria is subjected to different blackmails and plots because of its national stand, and threatened by the military direct invasion. Not to mention, Zionist Israel frequently makes limited aggressive operations, represented by air striking to a certain Syrian locations with various pretexts. Imperialistic powers want from Syria to give up its backing to patriotic powers, factions and the resistance in the neighboring Arab countries; it is like an introduction to wage a comprehensively attack on Syria, in order to topple the current regime and replacing it with traitorous and reactionaries regime. And we, Syrian Communists, find that the support of Syrian national steadfastness is an international, patriotic, class and sacred duty.

        Syrian communists daily work hard to strengthen all the factors of Syrian national steadfastness, through out motivating the will of resistance of Syrian people masses, deep-rooted by national traditions, and promoting the ties of allying between Syrian patriotic powers, especially between Syrian Communist Party and Arab Socialist Baath Party.

        Pressures on Syria are not only restricted by external threats and plots, but also reactionary powers and representatives of Comprador Bourgeoisie which works to exhaust Syria economically in order to strike it politically. Our party steadily challenges the directions of economic liberalism; it realizes the seriousness on the Syrian national steadfastness and on the living standard of people. And it must be said that this battle is difficult because its national feature is not clear to the people, and reactionary powers are trying to restrict it within the economic field.

       However, we Syrian communists conceive that when we struggle for defending the national production and its progress, we defend the backbone of this production that is public sector, which constitutes the largest national funds in the country, and defending all other forms of national production starting from funds up to small goods projects. We also protect the interests of working laborers, farmers and persons with little earnings up to national Bourgeoisie. We do not only find it as social – economic struggle, but it is also considered a highest level of national struggle.

The struggle of Syrian communists depends on the following three pillars of the policy party:

1 – To cooperate with all patriotic and progressive powers in the country.

2 – To defend the independent view point of the party in the principled and serious political cases.

3 – Constant fixed struggle for the interests of the popular mass.

        We see in our struggle that we take part in the world struggle of liberation powers against Imperialism. And it exactly harmonize with the great slogan ' For Anti - Imperialism World Front'

Dear comrades,

         All indications demonstrate that there is a strong periodical crisis striking all the Imperialism centers. Such crisis usually leads to several outcomes:

In one hand, they pointedly show Capitalism's contradictions and destabilization of the current balance of powers, on the other hand the ruling monopolist Capitalism in imperialistic countries, so it stirs up its external aggressive expanding feature to over come its crisis, and it resorts to black reactionaries governments to attack the movement of the toiling masses, or to democratic socialist governments for appeasing social tension. At any rates, we, communists, should be in the front of class and patriotic struggle within these critical circumstances.

And there is an essential point in our international struggle; we have to draw our attention to importance of facing the danger of world Zionism.  

       Thus, Zionism is a racial reactionary movement having a fascistic feature which represents the interests of financial Jewish capital that is in the absolute characters. But its extraordinary danger lies in how much it is able to adapt with objective circumstances, changing its shape and practices as well. So it has a remarkable influence on the main Bourgeoisie movement in the world, beginning with Neo-cons and ending with Social- Democrats. And it finds that one of its top missions is to devastate the Communist Parties through out creating and encouraging   opportunist and revisionists orientations in them. For this reason, the relentless struggle against Zionism is one of the priorities of general struggle for communists all over the world.

 

Dear comrades,

Communism Movement has enormous fighting tasks. And dangerous fierce enemy attacks us, and humanity never ever recognizes like this enemy even the days of Fascism. Consequently, humanity depends a lot on the communists' struggle, for saving it from the imperialistic enemy which holds all barbarianism and destruction to life on our planet.

Any way, we will inevitably win together.

 

Thanks for your listening

 

Unity, unity and more unity..!

 
 
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