Proletarians, comrades!
The economic crisis that will weigh heavier and heavier on our shoulders, with devastating effects on our already hard living and working conditions, originates – as we know from direct experience and from the historical memory of generations and generations of proletarians – from a mode of production, capitalism, whose existence is grounded on the exploitation of our labour.  In the name of profit a class of parasites (the bourgeoisie in all its variations, from the right to the “left”), with its wake of trade-unionists and politicians (the embodiment of the working-class aristocracy and all the false workers’ parties – the so-called “reformists”), continues to keep us in chains like slaves, never paying for our lives being wrecked but continuing to collect income, interests, dividends, bank drafts. We pay the price of this exploitation day by day with thousands of comrades assassinated in their workplaces, with the so-called “social illnesses”, with the health hazards in factories, the hellish increase in the pace of production, with work suffocating our whole life for the meanest of wages. Now this mode of production devoted entirely to profit, to competition between people, to trade wars and outright warfare, by dint of producing goods has swollen up like a boil and is festering because of… excess riches: riches that for us mean poverty, starvation, and mass unemployment.

Proletarians, comrades!
The bourgeoisie (this minority that possesses 80% of social wealth) knows very well that a lot more is needed than consumer support for “durable goods”, a few social buffers and the distribution of charity for those who, worn out by years of work, are “out of production” or who have been or will be dumped on the pavements to share the same conditions as the temporaries, immigrants or young people (with the added result that they are set against each other to compete for some miserable job or other that’s even more insecure and dangerous).  And they ask us to be patient, to accept this charity and to be well-disciplined, ready and waiting in their factory-prisons, to behave peacefully and obediently, to stop striking and demonstrating in the streets and the squares, to kneel down before the State and its bosses, to make sacrifices to start up the capitalist engine again, choked as it is with over-production, and go back to help swell the profits. Briefly, they encourage us to see everything optimistically and with resignation, because they are afraid of our struggle, which they are already calling “social emergency”.
The truth is that those of us who stay at work will be put in shackles. The working hours will be lengthened and intensified and our class (that of those with no reserves) will have an enormous price to pay in every country in the world: unemployment, sacking, growing job insecurity, a growing state of misery.  In the end, when it turns out that it’s impossible to get out of the crisis unless national economies are consolidated by the kick-start of a war effort, we shall be taken directly from our workplaces to the battlefronts, to be used as cannon fodder. War is their solution for emerging from the crisis – there are no other ways open to them, as has already been proved clearly in the past.

Proletarians, comrades!
To refuse total submission and the solution that the capitalist class, the bosses of high finance and income offer us, we must take up the arms of the class struggle once again: those arms that the institutions organized by our class enemy (the régime’s trade unions and opportunist political parties) have defused over time but which we are all acquainted with from experience, in the battles fought over so many years. Our claims, in this crisis, which is so violent that our enemies want us to lose all hope in the future, must correspond to our needs in our lives and in our work and can only be obtained if we set up territorial organizations for economic and social struggle, closed to the bosses and those who serve them and capable of fighting without quarter, courageously and continuously. It is around these claims and methods of fighting that it will be necessary and possible to organize our class front.

Large pay rises for everyone, with larger ones for the worst paid categories

A drastic reduction in working hours for the same pay

A full salary for those who are laid off, unemployed, immigrants or have insecure jobs

A general rise in pensions

Class unity with no distinction of race, gender, religion, age, nation

Unrelenting strikes with no limits in time or space

Block of production and services

Extension of the struggle beyond the borders of categories and companies, outside the confines of local territories and nations

Only from such determined defence will it be possible to go on and develop the necessary strength for continuing to a victory in attack.  But our immediate objectives, our methods, our economic organization, our numbers and our widespread presence, although necessary for surviving now and for reorganizing our rank and file, will not be sufficient on their own to shake off the dictatorship that the imperialist bourgeoisie imposes on us with its parliamentary democracy and all its democratic (or, according to its needs, authoritarian and fascist) institutions: the regime of capital is a regime of warfare, which destroys human qualities and degrades life on earth to the point of it threatening to disappear. To be victorious, then, the offensive to which we are called must be placed in a perspective (as yet distant but to be prepared right from the start of today’s struggles) of social and political revolution, the gaining of power and the establishment of our class dictatorship, right up to the victory of communism, a society at last free of classes. For this reason a basic arm is needed, made up of theory and practice, science and organization: the class Party, the revolutionary Party.
Our party, your party calls you and awaits you in this struggle, this perspective, the class war.