Berlin: 9 November 2009
They were all there, the bandits of yesterday and today: from the Gorbaciov-Walesa duo to the Clinton-Merkel one, blessed from afar by Pope Ratzinger and Nobel Obama (the only one missing, by force majeure, was Pope Woytila, but no doubt his spirit was fluttering over Berlin...). The big party at which the powers-that-be convened was supposed to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, erected by the anti-worker slaughterers of the German Democratic Republic (with the indirect assistance of the German Federal Republic) to consolidate the division of the German proletariat established by the Yalta agreements in 1945. A Hollywood set, lights to be switched on and then off again, a “polystyrene wall” made to fall like a set of dominoes… all eloquent symbols of the current bourgeois ideological trash.
But it was not simply the celebration of a twentieth anniversary: it was the confirmation of the anti-proletarian “Holy Alliance” in the midst of an economic crisis evoking the spectre of great catastrophes. More or less at the same time, France and Germany commemorated the end of the first world war; and, so as not to be left out, Italy remembered the “victorious ardour of Italian troops” in the Al Alamein nazi-fascist battle against the allied troops of democracy (with a few fine distinctions, true, but which did not affect the joint decision to dedicate the 12th November to the Nassiriya deaths, in the recent “Holy Imperialist War” in the Middle East).  What’s then going on?  Where does this impellent desire to celebrate, to find universal consensus in the name of the democratic fetish, come from? What is the crisis of global capitalism cooking up now? Has the spectre of communism once again started to stir in order to terrify and defeat its enemies?
There is no doubt that the bourgeoisie is shit scared of communism. That the “people from the abyss”, driven by social and economic contradictions, will finally come out into the open with their struggles, at first partial but getting increasingly antagonistic, is inevitable (just as its defeat will be inevitable if it does not equip itself with a Staff Command: the international communist party). Not by chance the anti-proletarian “Holy Alliance” has chosen Berlin for its celebrations, all smiles and embraces (watch out, proletarians:  the more talk there is of peace, the more preparations are being made for war!).  Firstly it has tried to rejuvenate the base anti-communism that has for decades marked dominant thought, thanks to the direct or indirect collaboration, immediate and long-term, of Stalinism: i.e. a form of anti-communism based on the assumption that in Russia, as in Eastern European countries, communism ruled – whilst we know and have demonstrated that an exquisitely capitalist form of state industrialism was dominant, characterized by all the economic categories of capitalism (goods, salary, market, business enterprises, etc.). Secondly, immersed in a devastating crisis (in which, the more the end is proclaimed, the greater the fear of a catastrophic collapse reveals itself), the bandits of the anti-proletarian “Holy Alliance” have tried to exorcise it by celebrating the triumph of democracy, a collective “let’s kiss and be friends”, faith in the solid nature of the present system, the proclaimed impossibility of other ways or perspectives: this is the minestrone and you’ve got to eat it. Thirdly, the “Holy Alliance” did not choose Berlin by chance and not only for the squalid celebration of the wall being taken down twenty years previously: they chose Berlin as an eloquent symbol of revolution (the Spartacist movements of 1918-19, led by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Leo Jogisches and many other wonderful comrades; the workers’ revolt of 1953 singing the “International”) and of its strangulation by social democracy (which massacred the communists in 1919 and in successive years), by Nazism (which, finding its path smoothed by social democracy, completed the dirty work) and by Stalinism (which, according to a script repeated over the decades, labelled the workers fighting in the name of communism “Fascists” and “in the pay of the Americans”). As much as to say: hands off Berlin, our régime (dictatorial, between smiles) is solid, we’ve proved it with the facts.
But the Emperor is more and more naked.

The bougeoisie’s “Holy Alliances”
The first “Holy Alliance” between bourgeois and feudal forces (which decided the status quo in 1814 after the Napoleonic wars) ended in 1848, with the reawakening of the peoples and nations of Europe (of Europe’s “revolutionary” bourgeoisie) and with the first open, programmatic and active declaration of war by the proletariat: the Communist Manifesto. The second “Holy Alliance” was formed in Paris in 1870-71 during the Franco-Prussian war: the proletarian Commune found itself face to face with the two armies that had been at war up to then and were now united in its merciless repression, which ended up with the massacre of tens of thousands of proletarians and the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of them in overseas territories. The third “Holy Alliance” followed the first world war, after the slaughter of fifteen million proletarians and peasants, and was dreamed up at Versailles by the American butler, U.S. President Wilson; at the same time, out and out war was declared on the proletarian Revolution in Russia, surrounded on all sides by the armies that rushed to bury it, and a hunt was launched for militant proletarians and communist revolutionaries by the German, Austrian and Hungarian social democrats, under orders from the victorious high bourgeoisie in exchange for an honourable peace. A different but parallel story took place in Italy, where the turncoats from the socialist party and revolutionary syndicalism, called to order by the high bourgeoisie, formed the Fascist Party, spreading terror amongst the proletariat, arm in arm with pacifist socialists, opportunist unionists and “legal” armed forces.
The economic crisis of 1929 destabilized that fragile alliance: the eggs in the nest hatched to a scenario that had changed radically. In the name of an imaginary “national socialism” and of a “nationalsocialism” which was the expression of capitalist dominion in its imperialist phase, the Russian and German bourgeoisies proceed systematically to clear the ground of any remaining revolutionary opposition, killing and imprisoning their political opponents: the former trying to wipe out all historical traces (theoretical, programmatic, organizational) of the Bolshevik party and of the Communist International, as an obligatory step on the way to new preparations for war, the new world conflict; the latter dealing the final blow to a proletariat that had struggled heroically for over a decade, but without the guidance of a true revolutionary party and all too often distracted and deluded by the tricks of social democracy. The result? A war alliance, first with Germany and then with the democratic governments, the disbanding of the Comintern, the revival of the “defence of socialist Russia”: the balance of seventy-five million dead and the repression of millions of civilian proletarians in every nation, ethnic group, social group – a bloodbath of enormous proportions submerging the body of the Russian proletariat, the first to dare attack the world bourgeoisie. The second world war will go on to inaugurate bourgeois State terrorism against populations and territories: the strategy of massacre to defend  its own mode of production.
The fourth “Holy Alliance”, emerging from the “Yalta peace” in 1945, divides the European continent: with strokes of the pen, the world’s brigands (Churchill, Eisenhower, Stalin) share out peoples and territories amongst themselves, but what they are most concerned about is to stop the second post-war period becoming a repetition of the first, lit by the flare of  revolt throughout Europe. Germany and its proletariat must be divided, Berlin must be divided: the “wall” will be the consequence of this infernal game that is supposed to guarantee stability by division. However, it will be the 1974-75 economic crisis that dictates law, with the final collapse of the whole Russian and East-European economy. Since then, the growing instability has brought Germany together, reuniting it; it has undone the USSR; it has balkanized the Balkans; it has set in motion civil, social and ethnic wars; it has devastated the whole of the middle-eastern area.
Today, twenty years on, the world bourgeoisie needs to give the illusion that the peace of the cemeteries is still safe. We, instead, know that sooner or later new alliances will be made for the next conflict.

Despite everything!
In those days of proletarian insurrection in Berlin, in January 1919, Karl Liebknecht, one of the co-founders with Rosa Luxemburg, of the Spartakus Bund (Spartacus League) wrote, shortly before being kidnapped, tortured and assassinated by the Freikorps death squads:

 “ ‘Spartakus overcome!’
“Yes, the revolutionary workers of Berlin have been beaten!  Yes, hundreds of their best men massacred! Yes, hundreds of the most trusty of them thrown into prison! […]
“Their strength has been paralyzed by the indecision and weakness of their leaders. And the monstrous sea of counter-revolutionary mud from the most backward factions of the population and the well-to-do classes has submerged them.
“Yes, they’ve been beaten. And it was a historical necessity for them to be beaten. Because the time was not yet ripe. And yet, the fight was inevitable. […]
“Yes, the revolutionary workers of Berlin have been beaten! And Ebert-Scheidemann- Noske [the trio of social democratic butchers – Editor’s note] have won. They have won because with them were the generals, the bureaucrats, the Junkers of industry and of the countryside, the priests and the fat wallets and everything that is small, limited, backwards. This scum won thanks to their machine-guns, gas bombs and mine-launchers. But there are some defeats that are victories; and victories that are more ominous than defeats. The defeated of this bloody week in January lived gloriously; they fought for something great, for the most noble aim of suffering humanity, for the spiritual and material redemption of the needy masses; they shed their blood for something sacred, which has thus been sanctified by it. And from every drop of blood shed, the dragon seeds of today’s victors, will spring those who will revenge the fallen, and from every torn fibre new fighters will rise for the great cause, which is eternal and imperishable as the firmament.
“The defeated of today will be the victors of tomorrow. Because the defeat is their lesson. The German proletariat still lacks a revolutionary tradition and experience. And only through uncertain attempts, youthful errors, painful defeats and failures will they be able to acquire the practical training to guarantee future success […]
“‘Spartakus defeated!’
“Not so fast! We have not fled, we are not beaten. And even if they put us in chains, here we are and here we will remain! And victory will be ours.
Because Spartakus stands for fire and spirit, it stands for heart and soul, it stands for the will and the action of the proletarian revolution. And Spartakus stands for every need and desire for happiness, every desire to fight in the class-conscious proletariat. Because Spartakus stands for socialism and world revolution. […]
“And if we are no longer alive when it is achieved, our programme will live on; the world of redeemed humanity will rule. Despite everything! […]” 1

Still today, this is the task handed down to us when faced with the gathering of past and present butchers in Berlin.