Workers!

Since the Balladur reform of 1993, we are in the fourth reform of the pension system. Thus the duration of contribution has increased from 37.5 years to 43 years and the age of departure from 60 to 62 years. The umpteenth reform proposes to raise it to 64, or even, if possible, to 65, knowing that most companies dismiss workers from 55 years old, condemning them to precariousness and alternating unemployment and fixed-term contracts. Tomorrow the future reform will postpone the retirement age to 67, while attacking the level of pensions.

One can hear many lies about the standard of living of pensioners. Some "economists" do not hesitate to say or write that retirees have a higher standard of living than those who work. But what does INSEE tell us in its latest report, that the median income is 1789 € and that the average pension is 1509 €! The propagandists of the bourgeoisie are not far from a lie.

What is the purpose of all these maneuvers? For the bourgeoisie and its government, it is a question of reducing social charges in order to increase the rate of profit, hence the permanent attacks on the pension system, the unemployment benefit, the labor legislation - which is gradually being emptied of all its content - and the attacks on public services, in particular the hospital system. At the same time, the profits of the banks, the emoluments paid to the shareholders are soaring to new heights: in 2022, the CAC 40 paid this layer of parasites 80 BILLION euros!

Are these gigantic profits reinvested in industrial production, in the relocation of companies, in services? Absolutely not, companies invest at a minimum. The great historical role of the capitalist mode of production has been to socialize the productive forces by substituting the small family production of the peasant and the craftsman with the mechanized and centralized production of large-scale industry and agriculture, which relies on the collective work of the proletariat.

This socialization of the productive forces - the basis of communist society - comes into conflict with private appropriation and leads ineluctably to the fall of the rate of profit and to the economic crises of overproduction which break out recurrently. This outdated mode of production, which is based on the exploitation of wage labor, has only been maintained up to the present day by two world wars. It was the massive destruction of the Second World War and its 50 million dead that made possible the famous "thirty glorious years" of the post-war period. But since the great international crisis of 1974-75, this cycle has come to an end. And world capitalism has only been able to maintain itself by squeezing the proletariat more and more and by making ever wider layers of workers more precarious, as well as by a headlong rush into state and corporate debt. The development of capitalism in Southeast Asia, particularly in China, has allowed world capitalism to gain thirty years, but today, in its turn, Chinese capitalism is affected by the crisis of overproduction.

We are now in the same situation as in the 1930s, which led to the Second World War. At the cost of colossal debts, the world bourgeoisie has managed to prevent the serious crisis of 2008-2009 from turning into a devastating recession like the one in 1929, but this is only a temporary setback.

The crisis of capitalism inevitably pushes the different states towards a general confrontation, of which the imperialist war between Russia and Ukraine is a harbinger. Tomorrow the confrontation will concern two blocks headed on one side by Chinese imperialism and on the other by American imperialism.

Capitalism since the beginning of the 20th century has become a totally parasitic and sterile mode of production. The big bourgeoisie, industrial, financial and landed, does everything possible to maintain its mode of production in a state of survival, which assures it immense privileges. The result is an increasing pauperization and precariousness of the proletariat, a headlong rush into debt that is becoming dizzying, and a profiteering and parasitism that have become colossal. One example, among many others, of the organized plundering is the price of electricity and energy: on the sly, the different European governments have aligned the price of electricity with the price of gas, which itself is determined by the least profitable well, hence the gigantic rents that the big gas and oil groups are reaping.

Workers, the alternative exists: the passage to a communist management, that is to say not mercantile, of production and distribution, is possible and necessary, because capitalism has largely fulfilled its historical role by developing on a large scale the economic bases of communist society.

This implies the expropriation of the bourgeoisie, its outlawing and the destruction of its state, which, as the Paris Commune showed, is unusable by the wage workers - the proletariat.

You must therefore prepare yourself morally and materially for the confrontation with this class of parasites and useless people that the big bourgeoisie has become.

But to do this, we must begin by finding the path of fraternity and mutual aid between workers and organizing ourselves in real class unions, which seek to unify struggles and centralize them to make them truly effective. And not, like our current unions, whose leadership is in the hands of reformists, and who pretend to organize you by practicing the policy of accompaniment, in order to avoid any centralization of the struggles, especially by organizing decision-making at the local level, thus scattering the movement.

If the organization in real class unions is a necessary first step, it is not enough in itself. It is necessary to organize politically and to recover the historical program of Communism. For this, the vanguard of the proletariat must join the ranks of the International Communist Party, which has been able, until now, to maintain itself firmly on the line of the Communist Program, as stated in the Manifesto of the Communist Party of 1848 and in the theses of the first two congresses of the International Communists of 1919-1921.

FOR THE ABOLITION OF WAGE-LABOUR AND CAPITAL, LONG LIVE THE CLASS STRUGGLE, LONG LIVE THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT!

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