PC(AP) on the Earthquake in Chile

Only with the organized peoples can we overcome the effects of the natural earthquake and its neoliberal accomplice.

Living nature, in permanent motion and transformation, has shown itself harshly on the territory of our country, causing destruction, death and sorrow throughout society, particularly among the popular masses. We of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)  show our solidarity with each and every one of those who inhabit the territory of the Republic of Chile. Fraternally and with the same sorrow as the workers and peoples of Chile and in compliance with our communist and revolutionary duty we state:
1. We must put into motion the social organizations, neighborhood groups, committees of housing and the homeless, trade unions, student and cultural centers, , etc. and from there, create a broad movement of solidarity from people to people. At the same time we demand that the administration of state resources and external aid really focus on those who need it and not become a disgusting new source of corruption and enrichment in the hands of those who always feather their nest in the "private sector" and the public or state sector.
2.-We must not allow sorrow to cloud our view and hide the criminal responsibility of the neoliberal economic system, which with its "moral" components, based solely on "profit", has been laid bare with the collapse of bridges, houses, buildings with new departments, as well as others that were so old that for many years they should not have been standing and in which families of workers live cramped together. The "development" without planning of neighborhoods and villages in coastal shores is another crime of neoliberalism. In all this, we cannot ignore the responsibility of those who have ruled until today, as well as of those who soon will rule and are equally promoters of the same economic and social system.
3.-We are thankful for the offers of aid from abroad, particularly from countries that have respect for the sovereignty and dignity of peoples, and we reject the interference and outrage that the imperialists carry out under the guise of humanitarian support. It is serious and outrageous that Obama, from his post as spokesperson for the U.S., in his offer of aid, has included that of "security." Mr. Obama, we do NOT need your "marines". The Chilean Government should answer and strongly reject this proposal; any way from the social and popular organizations, we must not allow such a deed.
4.-It is time that the State, the government of M. Bachelet and that of Piñera that will take office on March 11, must not only use the 2% set aside by the constitution for disaster, but once and for all take the funds that are locked up in Yankee banks and immediately use them to overcome the material effects of the earthquake and at the same time create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Nature does its own thing and thus we human beings, who are part of nature, must do ours and that is to create the best conditions to ensure life and its development; so socially we must overcome neoliberalism and advance to a planned society where the human being is the center of everything, so that the winter storms, the summer heat and droughts, and earthquakes cease to have the traumatic and sorrowful effects that strike us today, as the "curse of destiny."
Unity, strength and mobilization to overcome the effects of the earthquake of nature and neoliberalism.

United in sorrow and the struggle for happiness.

Political Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)
February 28, 2010

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Statement from the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) on the elections

The Continuity of Neoliberalism is Assured
The election is over, Piñera has won.

Will the political, economic, cultural, social, etc. situation change at all for the peoples of our country?
What was at stake in these elections was the fight between two neoliberal sectors competing to decide who would administer the State and who would provide continuity to the political and economic measures based on the fascist Constitution of Pinochet that is currently in force.
The Governments of the Concertacion, as nobody denies, were extremely successful in administering the neoliberal model.
They were applauded by the employers and the old right and by the agencies representing Imperialism (IMF, UN, BID, OAS, etc.).
The profits of the big capitalists set up in Chile have reached exorbitant levels, widening the chasm between rich and poor, so that the country has attained the sad record of being one of the nations with the greatest differences in income distribution in the world.
The concentration of economic power in a few hands, as a result of mergers, collusions and privatization; the subjugation of the Chilean economy to the international division of labor, the productive structure of the country specializing in the export of raw materials and, in general, products with low value-added, formally expressed in the Free Trade Treaties, have undermined the economic capacity of the country, preventing the development of manufacturing industry and barely allowing the existence of some micro companies.
The loss of national sovereignty that this expresses, among other things, in treaties on mining and the property of the seas, treaties on the military and hemispheric security, the property of water resources, are part of the heritage that the New Right of the Concertacion is leaving the old right.
Labor legislation that allows precarious work, anti-union practices, low wages, the failure to fulfill and making a mockery of social laws, is the road already paved by the outgoing New Right of the Concertacion.
In regard to education, the General Law on Education (LGE) has been implemented, and the private, monopolist and for-profit character of education has deepened. The same thing has happened with the privatization of health, public services, public housing, etc.
The denial of the national rights of the demands of the indigenous peoples, the criminalization and repression of their struggles, the political and moral disintegration of the organizations of the workers and peoples in general, by means of cooptation, corruption and repression of the social and political organizations have been, among others, necessary conditions to make possible the continuous and profound application of the neoliberal model with which the Concertacion has ruled the country for 20 years.
Finally, this is the country that the new right (Concertacion) is handing over to the old right (the Alliance).
Who is the Old Right? They are the ones who promoted, conceived and carried out, along with the armed forces and Imperialism, the Fascist Military Coup of 1973, they are the accomplices of torture, murder, disappearances, the exiling of hundreds and thousands of Chileans, the natural heirs of the dictatorship, under whose shadow they were formed, became part and enriched. They have co-governed together with the new right of the Concertacion, cohabiting in the Congress, the Supreme Court, the Central Bank, the Comptroller General of the Republic, in the Armed Forces and in the Court Constitutional.
By their class nature, past and present, and in the interests they represent, we can only expect more of the same, i.e. privatization (CODELCO [National Copper Corporation], State Bank, ENAP [National Petroleum Corporation], etc.), more treaties of security and economics with the imperialists, a further loss of national sovereignty, greater flexibility of labor, in other words, a deepening of the "successes" of the Concertacion government.
The unease with the old and new right by the peoples was expressed in abstentions, the blank vote and null vote; in the latter case it should be noted that this was a consciously political vote supported by progressive organizations, left-wing personalities and the Communist Party (Proletarian Action), P.C. (A.P.).
The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) P.C. (A.P.) calls for:
No trust in the demagogy and populism of Piñera and the new right clothed in the opposition that  is trying to use the popular demands and struggles for their own interests as a neo-liberal group.
Intensifying the efforts to bring about a large movement for a Constituent Assembly with popular prominence, forming hundreds of committees for a Constituent Assembly and a new Constitution.
Forcefully pushing for our own alternative, not subjected to the capitalist blackmail and options imposed by the fascist and neo-liberal Constitution of 1980, advancing towards a sovereign, honorable, just, popular democratic and socialist Chile.
Santiago, January 17, 2010
Central Committee of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action), P.C. (A.P.).

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Statement on Haiti from the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)

January 17, 2010

Haiti and Its Heroic People
The pain and anguish of the people of Haiti cannot be understood without knowing the background reasons, from the point of view of the interests of the Haitians. In this article we give some elements that will undoubtedly allow communist and revolutionary militants to explain themselves and therefore to better explain the Haitian suffering.
National Communications Commission of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP)
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Haiti, Your Heroic People and the Revolution Will Save You.
Imperialism, which has sunk Haiti into the most absolute misery, is shedding crocodile tears and is speaking of the "Biblical curse" that is "punishing" the Haitian people for the "sin" of having led in the first great social revolution in the Caribbean and having created the first free Republic in the Caribbean. These poor people, full of dignity, from the beginning of the earthquake have taken up the fight for survival and mutual aid. This is the way the Canadian writer of Haitian origin, Dany Laferrière, describes it who visited Port-au-Prince at the time of the earthquake (read his testimony at http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2010/01/16/haiti-le-temoignage-bouleversant-de-l-ecrivain-dany-laferriere_1292475_3222.html)).
Haiti has not been condemned by any "curse" but by brutal French colonialism and U.S. imperialism and its local agents. The French Empire forced Haiti to pay the exorbitant sum of $21 billion in current dollars from 1825 until 1947 to not brutally invade Haiti as Napoleon did. The nascent U.S. empire began its aggression against Haiti in 1806 when the U.S. Congress under French pressure forbade trade with Haiti. The U.S. Marines have invaded Haiti in 1914, 1915, 1994 and 2004. They occupied the country for 19 years from 1914 to 1934 and appropriated $500,000 in gold that were the only monetary reserves of the country. Imperialism has controlled all Presidents coming from the black or mulatto bourgeoisie, murderous dictators or so-called "democrats", who collaborated with the looting of the country: General Vilbrum Guillaume Sam (1914), Phillipe S. Dartiguenane, (1915-1922), Joseph Bornu, Elie Lescot (1941), Sténin Vincent, father and son Duvalier (1956-1986), General Namphy (1986), General Prosper Avril (1988), General Raoul Cédras (1991), Gerard Latortue (2004)... Imperialism has massacred and supported all the massacres suffered by the Haitian people: 3 thousand patriots were massacred in 1919; 18 thousand Haitians were massacred by the Dominican tyrant Trujillo in 1935, 40 thousand revolutionaries and opponents were liquidated by the fierce Duvalier dictatorship. Over all the country has been looted one thousand and one times so that it could never get out of misery. The U.S. financially controlled the country until 1941, the younger Duvalier took refuge in 1986 in France under Mitterrand with $900 million from the public treasury, an amount greater than the country's foreign debt at that time, the liberalization of the country after Duvalier caused it to sink further into poverty.
But Haiti is the homeland of great revolutionaries: Rosalvo Bobo, the leader of the first anti-imperialist insurrection in 1915, Charlemagne Peralte, the leader of the second insurrection (1918-1920), Jacques Roumain, great intellectual founder of the Haitian Communist Party, Antoine G. Petit, Professor Gerard Pierre Charles...
It is a country of revolutionary organizations that are active today: the Initiative Committee for the Formation of the Communist Party of Haiti (COIFOPCHA), the New Communist Party of Haiti, the Popular National Party and mass organizations such as the workers' front Batay Ouvriye, the peasant organization Tet Kole Ti Peyizan Axisyen,...
The future of Haiti depends on ending imperialist political and military interference, the revolution in the neighboring Dominican Republic and in the Caribbean would be strengthened, the Haitian revolutionary organizations inside and in the diaspora would be rebuilt and the country is receiving the sincere solidarity of the countries of the world.
Obama has sent the genocidal Bush and the no less bellicose Clinton at the head of 10,000 marines, aircraft carriers and aircraft that are going to "help" Haiti. This already lets one see the imperialist intentions: to keep the country in misery and submission in order to put pressure on Cuba and to prevent the revolution in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Jamaica.

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