Workers!
The recurring economic crises alternating with increasingly feeble recoveries are hitting us harder and harder. To cope with the pressing demands of suffering capitalism, the bourgeoisie attacks our wages and salaries, our living and working conditions, the already frail and inadequate “guarantees” of social insurance and welfare.  By using the strength of the bourgeois, democratic state - the supreme tool of our oppression – and all its organs (the parliament, unions, priesthood, mass media, political parties and pseudo-proletarian associations, etc.) those in command  keep us subdued and make us pay the whole cost of the crises.  And so we are obliged to fight for survival day by day, against precarious employment, unemployment, the high cost of living, the increase in working hours and exploitation, abysmal safety standards, a decline in general living conditions, mass lay-offs to safeguard profits and individual ones to punish the most combative workers, police and legal repression if anyone should raise his or her head.      

Workers!
The bosses continue to demand (but in reality to impose) sacrifices, promising us, in exchange, an improvement in living conditions that is never to come about.  Judging by the state of the world economy, we communists affirm that, as has happened over the past ten years, even the slightest hint of economic recovery will be absorbed by the bosses in the form of profits, whilst for us proletarians, our miserable salaries will continue to be throttled. In the meantime, bourgeois propaganda does everything possible to blame the consequences of the economic crisis, for example the growing social decay and progressive impoverishment of the proletarian masses – for which the bourgeoisie and its economic system are solely responsible – on factors that are instead the inevitable effects of capitalist development, such as criminality and immigration, thus encouraging racism, the war of the poor against the poor and divisions at the heart of the proletariat.
The present world situation will continue on this downward trajectory at an increasing pace, with a constant growth in international tension and local conflicts, in a series of ever deeper and devastating economic crises that will lead imperialist States to arm themselves to the back teeth.  In this phase of rearmament there will be the imposition of further heavy sacrifices and more policing, according to the old motto “Keep quiet and work,” coined to “educate” workers to obedience.  At the end of this crescendo, the proletariat of all nations will be driven to massacre one another, ranged behind their threadbare national banners and urged on by the fanfare of nationalisms that have been picking up again for some years now. The bourgeoisie in any state involved in the conflict will paint the enemy of the moment as the aggressor, cruel and inhuman, and itself as the victim, good, human and “on the side of god”.  In other words, we shall observe on a gigantic scale the usual choreography of lies that accompanies the outbreak of any conflict and serves to conceal the only real objective of any war: capitalist profit.
The international proletariat alone, driven by events, will be able to avoid the catastrophe of a new world war, ending the wretched bourgeois civilization and the exploitation it has generated. Urged on by capital’s ferocious attack, our class will in fact be obliged to fight in order to defend its living and working conditions, to equip itself with organizations independent of its enemy, the bourgeois State, to overcome all its internal divisions, realising, in the midst of this battle, that only a united proletarian front can effectively contrast an attack by capital. We communists point to, and will continue to point out to workers the path of open class warfare, with the methods and objectives that have belonged to it for a hundred and fifty years: a sustained general strike, with no warning and no limits of time or space; the organized refusal of any discrimination on the basis of age, gender or nationality; a drastic reduction in working hours together with substantial wage increases, larger in the case of the worse paid categories; a full wage for the unemployed, those who have been laid off and immigrants; the organized refusal of any form of precarious or unofficial employment; the fight against any agreement, compatibility or sacrifice in the name of national economy and interests.

Workers!
Only authentic class politics, aiming to overthrow capitalism, can represent a way out and spare humanity the horrors of a new world war. We know that against these politics the eternal pacifist positions will be ranged, the “anti-imperialist” marches, the exhortations to social peace, and thence military and police repression. But there exists the certainty that the international proletariat, trapped between the never-ending threat of war on the one hand and increasingly unbearable living conditions on the other, will finally be capable of choosing the right path, pointed out and embodied by its revolutionary party: the final overthrow of existing society.