UNITE UNDER MAOISM!

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

UNITE UNDER MAOISM!

Chairman Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, and
throughout his life he put himself fully at the service of the
people, of the deepest and broadest masses; he was the main
protagonist, the recognised leader of the Chinese revolution
and became the leader of the world proletarian revolution. He
founded the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army of the
workers and peasants of the Chinese people, introduced the
road of encircling the cities from the countryside, developed
the People’s War and thus the military theory of the
proletariat. As the theoretician of New Democracy, he founded
the People’s Republic, was the main initiator of the Great
Leap Forward and promoted the development of socialism.
Chairman Mao was the leader of the struggle against the
contemporary revisionism of Khrushchev and his henchmen. He
led the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, achieving the
highest milestone yet in the struggle for communism. During
this tremendous process, in the midst of the class struggle
and the two-line struggle, he qualitatively developed the
three integral parts of Marxism as a unit – Marxist
philosophy, Marxist political economy and scientific socialism
– and the ideology of the proletariat made the leap to
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

As we celebrate Chairman Mao’s birthday today, we do so as

always with the people’s wars in India, Turkey, the
Philippines and Peru, with the formation or reconstitution of
communist parties determined to prepare and develop the
people’s war; we do this in the war against the revisionist
usurpers who restored the bourgeois dictatorship in China
after his death, knowing that these scoundrels will never find
peace and that the Chinese proletariat and people will regain
power and beat social imperialism with blood and fire. We
welcome the formation of a new generation of Maoists in China
who will strengthen the resistance of those who never
surrendered there, and we are sure that side by side with the
international proletariat they will rebuild the glorious party
founded by Chairman Mao.

Chairman Mao’s mission was communism, and therefore we cannot

celebrate his birthday with dignity without seeing how the
struggle for communism is progressing.

IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL

More than ever, human society needs a social revolution with

an ideological leadership that maintains a just and correct
course to move forward. The imperialist world system is in
absolute contradiction with progress and development. It has
nothing to offer but genocide, war and the vilest exploitation
and oppression for the benefit of a handful of bloodsuckers
who live in an opulence and decadence that makes the Roman
emperors look like ascetics.

The oppressed peoples and nations of the world are

systematically subjected to further oppression and aggression
by the imperialist powers. Inequality in the world today is at
the same level as it was at the beginning of the last century,
i.e. the more than hundred years have not meant more freedom
and progress, but only the maintenance and even deepening and
widening of the oppression and exploitation of the masses. The
top 10% of the social pyramid own more than half of the total
wealth, while the bottom 50%, i.e. the majority, own at most
2% and are increasingly losing the little they own. In
oppressed countries such as Mexico, where 10% of the
population owns 79% of the wealth, while according to official
figures, about half of the population lives in complete
poverty. There is more hunger, more misery, more exploitation
and oppression. 800 million people in the world suffer from
hunger or do not know if they will have enough to eat the next
day, 267 million of them in Latin America and the Caribbean –
about 40% of the total population of this region. These are
the official data of the institutions of imperialism, and we
could give almost endless other examples. In the world
economic crisis, which is basically a crisis of overproduction
that has been going on for years and which the sycophants and
servants of the old order are trying to cover up with the
COVID-19 pan-epidemic, the situation of the poorest is
deteriorating drastically, as shown by the fact that last year
more than 100 million children were among the poor. The pan-
epidemic is being used so cynically by the imperialists and
reactionaries all over the world, supported as always by
revisionism and opportunism, that it is not only being used to
commit world genocide, especially against the oppressed
peoples, but also to attack the rights and gains of the
proletariat and peoples in all countries in the name of
measures to combat the “epidemic crisis”, They attack the most
basic liberal democratic rights wherever they can, impose a
state of emergency and destroy hundreds of millions of small
businesses, petty bourgeois holdings, concentrate and
centralise capital more in favour of the big monopolies, to
whom they give billions from the state coffers under the
pretext of saving and boosting the economy to create “jobs and
income” for the masses. They also use climate change to
expropriate millions of peasants on the one hand and to
“modernise” their states and “transform” their economies for
their inter-imperialist struggle on the other. In the
imperialist countries, too, the proletariat and the people are
suffering the consequences of the imperialist crisis; massive
layoffs and wage cuts, longer working hours and deterioration
of working conditions are affecting not only the lower strata
of the proletariat, but also the middle and upper strata – in
a country like Germany, the wages of the best paid workers
were cut by 1.4%. And all this in the midst of a worldwide
crisis of bourgeois democracy. This is what the overlords of
the old imperialist order are giving us.
It is the task of the international proletariat and the
oppressed peoples to finish them off, to break the chains,
break down the walls and conquer the summits. Either them or
us, enough of this hell: storm heaven! That is the order of
the day.

FIGHT DARKNESS WITH THE SHINING TORCH OF MAOISM

The imperialists and their lackeys are everywhere promoting

idealism and metaphysics, propagating religious obscurantism
and other forms of the most perverse obscurantism to cloud the
minds of the masses and blind them. Whether through the
promotion of the massive spread of evangelistic sects, the
constant propaganda of the Catholic Church or Islamist
fundamentalism, everything serves to divert the struggle of
the peoples, to divide the resistance against imperialism and
to fight the influence of the communists. This is especially
served by the spread of so-called “postmodernism”, which is
supposedly “progressive and radical” with its myriad theories
– “relativism”, “everyone’s truth”, “discourse analysis”,
“postcolonial critique”, “gender theory”, “critical
whiteness”, to name a few, firmly entrenched in the
universities and leading institutes of reactionary
brainwashing and in the press, and the opportunist parties
form an essential part of the general counterrevolutionary
offensive waged by US imperialism in collusion and struggle
with the other imperialist powers. World reaction and
revisionism, directed against Marxism, socialism, the
dictatorship of the proletariat and revolutionary violence,
attempt to deny the irreplaceable necessity of the leadership
of the proletariat in the revolution, whether democratic or
socialist, by the Communist Party. Revisionism and opportunism
of all kinds pretend, as they have since Bernstein, to use
these bourgeois “innovations” to fight Marxism. Thus they
adopt the story of the “noble Indian” – which is nothing but
the flip side of the British colonial theory of the “white
man’s burden” – propagated by the “NGOs” of the imperialist
institutions which glorify gamonalism and deny the existence
of classes in the countryside, with the aim of denying the
existence of the poor peasantry and thus the existence of
semi-feudalism in order to bring about a “socialist
revolution” in the oppressed countries, parroting the old
Trotskyist theses while preaching parliamentary cretinism and
electoral opportunism.

It is up to us communists and revolutionaries to defend and

apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the only true ideology of the
international proletariat, to defeat and smash these
monstrosities and machinations of imperialism and its
reactionary and revisionist lackeys. Darkness is fought with
light, idealism with dialectical materialism. Marxism-
Leninism-Maoism has always prevailed in the struggle against
bourgeois ideology and all reactionary positions, and it is no
different today. To defeat the general counter-revolutionary
offensive, a life and death struggle against revisionism and
opportunism is indispensable, which means that we must
vigorously advance the worldwide campaign for Maoism as the
sole command and guide of the world proletarian revolution. In
all languages, on all continents and in all countries, it is
necessary that we adhere to the proletarian ideology, reject
bourgeois ideology in all its manifestations and illuminate
the path of the proletariat and the people with the torch of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

LET’S END EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION WITH REVOLUTIONARY

VIOLENCE IN EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD

Chairman Mao taught us to be champions of the omnipotence of

revolutionary war, and that is what we Maoists are.
Imperialism is a monster equipped from head to toe with the
most terrible arsenal history has ever seen. It unleashes its
wars of aggression against the peoples all over the world and
sharpens its knives for a new world war to distribute the
spoils: the oppressed nations and peoples. Every new
technology is perverted into a weapon against the peoples; it
aims at absolute control of the world’s population with a
surveillance apparatus that the Gestapo could only dream of.
But the most powerful weapon in the world is the proletarian
ideology embodied by the masses. The mercenaries of
imperialism fight to defend an outdated system, with no other
perspective than to prolong its agony, their morality is the
petty interest of personal gain and nothing more, they
represent an outdated, anachronistic force. The peoples have a
creativity and genius with which, guided by Marxism-Leninism-
Maoism, they find and produce the historically necessary
solutions in the midst of struggle, and they know that
revolutionary violence, the just and necessary violence, is
the light of every new society.

The masses are ready to fight, they want to eliminate the old
order, but they themselves do not understand how to overthrow
the old order and build the new one. It is the duty of
communists to see what the masses want, to assume our role as
the proletarian vanguard and to lead and direct their
struggles against the oppressors and exploiters by resolutely
applying revolutionary violence and the relentless and
inseparable struggle against opportunism, revolutionary war,
people’s war, as the main form of struggle in the world.
Without revolutionary war there is no democratic or socialist
revolution, therefore the communist parties must be forged as
fighting machines. The Communist Party exists to make and
defend the revolution and to guarantee its road to communism
with cultural revolutions. There is no place for Communist
Parties to rot in the pigsties that are the parliaments of the
old states. Those who delude themselves that there is a
possibility of a gradual and peaceful “accumulation of forces”
in any country, forgetting all the experiences of the
international proletariat and the peoples of the world, lead
the masses to massacre and betray, whether they like it or
not, the world proletarian revolution. Bourgeois “legality” is
a deadly trap if communists rely on it in any way, we have had
this experience through a senseless toll of blood at the cost
of the lives of millions of communists and revolutionaries.

We must cast aside all illusions. Imperialism is a colossus on

feet of clay, a paper tiger, we must throw ourselves into the
struggle with the banner of invincible people’s war at our
head.

APPLY MAOISM TO SOLVE NEW PROBLEMS

There is no social problem that man cannot solve. The more we

apply the principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the more we
will find solutions to new problems in the service of the
international proletariat and the peoples of the world. Thus,
the political, economic, organisational and military problems
we face in the course of the class struggle can be properly
solved if we start from the world outlook of the proletariat.
We must be absolutely convinced of the strength of Marxism-
Leninism-Maoism, the all-powerful ideology, because it is true
and true because it is scientific.

The problem of the communist parties is not to restore a

historical past but to write new chapters in the epic of
revolutionary transformation of the present in order to
conquer the future. We have a glorious past, with gigantic
triumphs, but also setbacks and defeats. We must learn from
it, but in the knowledge that it will never be repeated in the
same form, because the progress of matter is from the lower to
the upper and not just circular. Therefore, our history is a
weapon from which we derive a general law for the party’s
process, that any deviation from Marxism-Leninism-Maoism leads
to taking the road of revisionism and changing the character
of the party, and that in this case the correct thing to do is
to take up Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and apply it in its purest
form in the midst of the two-line struggle in the Party and
the class struggle of the masses in order to reconstitute it
as a Party of a new Marxist-Leninist-Maoist type.

Every Communist Party – if it does not exist in a country,

those who struggle for its foundation or reconstitution – must
apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete, specific
conditions of its revolution, be it democratic or socialist,
in a creative way in the general context of the world
proletarian revolution. Only in this way can the present
moment of struggle, and thus the appropriate forms of struggle
and organisation, be correctly and precisely assessed and
determined. Conservatism and clichés are of no use, the
meaning of our work is not to persist for the sake of
persistence, but to advance in order to achieve our goals.

THE BLOOD SPILLED CALLS US BACK TO THE STRUGGLE

In the past year, several important and prominent leaders and

cadres of the Communist Parties fighting the people’s wars in
Turkey and India have been killed in action or assassinated by
the forces of reaction. In the Philippines, comrade Ka Oris
was brutally murdered by the hordes of the executioner
Duterte. In Peru, Chairman Gonzalo, who was in prison for 29
years in total isolation, gave his life and his name was
included in the list of titans of our class. In Brazil,
important communist leaders and cadres have died and in
Ecuador, the Maoist leader comrade Joselo. In Europe, the
long-time communist leader from Galicia, Comrade Martin Naya,
has died. All over the world, communists, revolutionary
fighters and revolting masses have shed their precious blood
for the cause of communism. It is up to us to remember them,
learn from their examples and turn their pain into strength by
raising our red flags with hammer and sickle in their honour.

It is a sign of their condition that the communists mix their

blood with the blood of the masses who bravely give their
lives. While the parasites, sell-outs and hucksters,
opportunists and revisionists live well in the old order, the
Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, the best sons of the people, show
that they are always in the front line of struggle, that they
are in the first line of fire.
Our fallen comrades will always live on in us, the spilt blood
of communists, revolutionary fighters and masses does not
drown the revolution but nourishes it. Only those who have no
faith in the masses can be depressed. We follow Chairman Mao’s
commanding voice: we bury our dead and fight on.

UNITY IS FORGED THROUGH STRUGGLE

Ever since Marx taught us that the united proletariat will be

invincible, and ever since he raised the unchanging slogan of
the communists – Proletarians of all countries, unite! – we
have fought for our international unity. A struggle so
inseparable from the struggle for our ultimate goal that
Chairman Mao aptly summed it up in the immortal phrase
“Internationalism is the spirit of communism”. We all know
that achieving and maintaining unity is not easy, not even in
one party and even less in the International Communist
Movement (ICM); it requires a two-line struggle based on
principles, well conducted, amidst the struggle between
revolution and counter-revolution, both of which are armed,
and the formation of a leadership with recognised supremacy
and authority. This does not fall from the sky. But this is
why we communists are forged through struggle to solve
problems and find the way forward. If revolution were an easy
undertaking, no one would need us.

Today, we have good conditions to advance the unity of the

ICM.

After the capitalist restoration in China, the communists were

scattered all over the world without a centre and base of
world revolution. The reaction unleashed a general counter-
revolutionary offensive led by US imperialism. Maoism was not
accepted by different parties. In a hard struggle against
surrender, against Avakian revisionism, Prachandism, the rats
of the right opportunist line (ROL) in Peru and other
revisionists, in the face of serious problems such as the
betrayal in Nepal, the bend in the people’s war in Peru and
the liquidation of the RIM in the hands of Avakianism, the
communists have continued the people’s war in Peru, India,
Turkey and the Philippines and new people’s wars are in
preparation. In the last decade, fragmentation began to be
overcome, all influential parties accepted Marxism-Leninism-
Maoism, and new parties and organisations emerged in countries
where there had been none for many years. The general counter-
revolutionary offensive is coming to an end and the
revolutionary offensive is advancing.

We are now in the early twenties of the twenty-first century,

communist forces are on the rise on all continents, especially
in Latin America, new Maoist forces are blossoming in
countries like Ireland and Spain, coordination between parties
and organisations has reached a higher level than in the best
days of the RIM, new people’s wars are imminent and all over
the world the process of restoring communist parties is
advancing. Concretely, we are much more united today than in
the last decades, revisionism is in a deep crisis (within its
general bankruptcy) and the objective conditions are excellent
for a powerful advance of the world proletarian revolution,
the basis of which lies in the unprecedented crisis of
disintegration of imperialism that is looming and in the
explosiveness of the masses that are exploding all over the
world, predicting that world history is entering a new period
of social storms and thunderstorms, of revolutions.

The conditions are ripe for the United International Maoist

Conference, just as the conditions are ripe for the birth of a
New International Organisation of the Proletariat. On the
basis of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, of the relentless struggle
against revisionism and in the service of the world
proletarian revolution, under the banner of the invincible
people’s war, we can and must unite. We who sign this
declaration solemnly pledge to serve this goal by redoubling
our efforts and overcoming all difficulties on the way.

On the occasion of Chairman Mao’s birthday, we reaffirm our

pledge to struggle tirelessly to establish Marxism-Leninism-
Maoism as the sole command and guide of the world proletarian
revolution. To be Marxist today is to be Marxist-Leninist-
Maoist.

LONG LIVE THE GREAT HELMSMAN – ETERNAL GLORY TO CHAIRMAN MAO!

IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL!

UNITE UNDER MAOISM!

26 december 2021