Hong Kong - August 26th, 2019
To the cry of "revolution," the general strike in Hong Kong begins!
The CCP slave bosses are preparing to send their army to crush the revolutionary uprising of workers and students
The counterrevolutionary assassin army of Beijing must be defeated!
Down with the dictatorship of the “red entrepreneurs” of the CCP, gendarmes of the imperialist transnational businesses!
Out Carrie Lam, governor of Hong Kong!
She acts under the political and military orders of Beijing and imperialism
May the Hong Kong spark ignite Shanghai and mainland China!
At the shout of "Hong Kong Revolution Now", the enormous struggle of the workers, students and the whole exploited in Hong Kong has entered its twelfth week. It is a general political strike, with the irruption of all sectors of the working class, as well as students and the large exploited masses, who went out to fight in successive days starring mobilizations of millions (such as on 8/18), occupation of parliament, pickets, airport capture, clashes with police and repressive forces, with hundreds of prisoners and fifty dead.
On August 5, for the first time in more than 50 years, a general strike was held. It was called by the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) and 96 unions affiliated with it joined and were active summoners. These unions include the Hong Kong Federation of Transport Workers Organizations, the Association of Logistics , Transportation and Warehouse Personnel, Bus Drivers' Union, Mass Transportation Railroad Personnel Union, General Union of Textile Industry Workers, Commerce and Resale Trade Unions, Union of Postal Workers, Trade Union of Professional Teachers, General Trade Union of Electronic Industry Workers, General Trade Union of Construction Workers, Trade Union of Jewelry and Gold Ornaments, airlines and aeronautics labor unions, among other unions mainly in the public sector. Thus, that day, there was no transport, nor did the airport, public offices and even the financial sector work. Youth organizations joined this day, making blockades and pickets in different areas and streets of Hong Kong.
Every weekend there are several days of struggle of this phenomenal uprising. On Saturday 8/24, in addition to a huge mobilization, there were road and street blockades in the working class neighborhoods. The exploited facing the police (who went to repress and disperse the protesters) set up barricades and pickets.
This huge uprising began against the attempt to pass the Extradition Act, which would allow the Beijing government (which has no jurisdiction to detain Hong Kong residents) to arrest and extradite people to mainland China and impose its repressive laws on all those who go out to fight. Laws that allow detainees to be isolated, locked up, tortured, without access to a lawyer and without anybody knowing their whereabouts for six months.
Trump's trade war and the response of the Chinese big bourgeoisie are only paid for by the workers and the impoverished masses of the countryside and the city
Trump's trade war has already led China to stagnation and recession in its economy. The expansion cycle that China has had in recent years is coming to an end. Huge masses of transnational capitals, and even the great Chinese bourgeoisie, leave China and take refuge in US treasury bonds, in the face of this recessive process that has begun there, as it has also done in Germany, England, Italy and that threatens a world recession. The devaluation of the currencies continues as a soul to the body to a US dollar that has strengthened. The trade war declared by US imperialism calls into question the entire world division of labor in the world economy.
A huge process of struggle has begun in mainland China at the beginning of this recessive cycle. The workers, to defend themselves against the attacks of the capitalists, here and there star in hard struggles to recover lost wages and defend jobs. Meanwhile, the Shanghai stock market crumbles and a real estate bubble collapses in China, like the one that broke out in Spain or the US in 2008.
Hong Kong is no exception to this crisis or the attack on the masses. The crisis came to Hong Kong a while ago, and imperialism and the great bourgeoisie threw it on the exploited. The high cost of life becomes unbearable. On an overcrowded island, where the square meter is one of the most expensive in the world, housing becomes inaccessible to millions of exploited. For the masses, the situation is unbearable.
Then the crisis already struck in mainland China and also in Hong Kong, but here, in an independent political action, the masses have engaged in a battle, facing Carrie Lam, the governor of the island that acts on behalf of the imperialist bankers and the “Red entrepreneurs” of the CCP.
The Hong Kong masses, headed in their first phase of struggle by the student movement, today have the labor movement as protagonists. The exploited have seen how the Chinese bourgeoisie and its counterrevolutionary regime treat those who fight like them in mainland China. The right to strike is absolutely forbidden in China and every worker or student fighter is imprisoned and even disappeared by the state institutions for as long as the government and its forces of repression deem appropriate. That is what the Hong Kong masses face with their fight against the Extradition Law, as we have already said.
To give just one example, we recently saw the strike of the Jasic Technology workers in Shenzhen, where, in this struggle for independent unions, all the leaders, as well as the students who came out in their support, ended up missing, tortured. Then the government played videos recorded in the same torture rooms, where these prisoners renounce their struggle and apologize for it. They had been subjected to a brutal scourge. Even today they are still missing.
What we say here is just one example of the policy of the counterrevolutionary government of Beijing against the tens of thousands of struggles and combats that run throughout China.
When in 1997 England placed Hong Kong under the command of the counterrevolutionary army of Beijing, with an agent-governor elected by their hand, these British imperialist pirates knew very well what they were doing. They put the defense of their interests, their businesses, their free trade zone and their banks under the whip of the CCP foremen and their counterrevolutionary forces. In turn, English imperialism was given free reins, with its banks and transnationals within the Chinese territory and with a free trade zone, to start from there a huge economic and business offensive on mainland China, as we will see later .
The counterrevolutionary armed forces of the Beijing government prepare to drown the uprising in Hong Kong in a bloodbath
The Chinese army is already on the borders of Hong Kong. They prepare to carry out a massacre and drown the exploited in a bloodbath. These are the counterrevolutionary forces of the government of the Chinese capitalists, the gendarmes who defend the property, business and profits of the imperialist transnationals in China.
Those counterrevolutionary forces that are preparing to attack in Hong Kong have already been tested. They are those who in 1989 massacred in Tiananmen a huge uprising of workers and students who began a process of political revolution to end the Stalinist scourge of the CCP, which had long been agreeing with the US and its large banks the introduction in China of their transnationals. So it was the Nixon-Deng Xiaoping Pact of 1975, which allowed the installation of thousands of transnational companies in Southeast China to exploit the workers of that country as slaves.
In Tiananmen, revolted students had gathered in Beijing. When they began to be supported by millions of workers, the CCP sent their tanks and caused a real massacre of workers and youth. This massacre ended up settling the capitalist restoration in China and thus guaranteed that from the bowels of the CCP a new possessing class associated totally with imperialism emerged. This put to produce hundreds of millions of workers under conditions of slavery in China. No doubt the capitalist restoration in China and the superexploitation of its working class, with the whip of the new Chinese Mandarins, gave imperialism fresh blood to survive its agony.
At the same time, from this process a powerful Chinese bourgeoisie emerged that politically and commercially overlapped with the imperialist powers, which already control the banking system as a whole, having 25% of the shares of each of the 42 banks of all Chinese provincesna. The transnationals, with slave labor, using tax and credit exemption from Chinese banks, dispute the Chinese domestic market, where they place much of their global overproduction.
China's huge export machinery, based on the exploitation of 300 million workers - who are like immigrants in their own land, enslaved in concentration camps of huge factories - is now in a commercial war, declared by Trump. For the US it has not been enough with the “fresh blood” that they have already taken from the workers of that country along with their partners the Chinese mandarins, nor that they provide their transnationals with oil, steel and other intermediate goods and supplies and all the Infrastructure for freight transport. Imperialism now goes through all the way for everything in China, for its large state-owned companies, its revenues ... That is the commercial war that Trump boasts of "winning."
US imperialism has kicked its way to try and return to control the world market, after the 2008 crisis made it lose its influence.
Wall Street already wants to get rid of even its minor partners from the new great Chinese bourgeoisie. The latter is finding the US domestic market increasingly closed and, as we said, it has quickly thrown all the crisis that this has generated on its working class. It has carried out a huge devaluation, which further sank the wages of Chinese workers.
In turn, the mandarin regime is increasingly shielding itself. It needs to take its army to the streets, apt to slaughter its own masses. These forces are what it tries to dump over Hong Kong to crush that rebellion with blood and fire. Its life is on it, because in mainland China there is dry straw for the workers uprising. The Hong Kong spark can set the meadow on fire.
Mainland China and Hong Kong: one country, one system
Hong Kong was until 1997 an English direct colony. In that year, as we said, English imperialism integrated Hong Kong into China, but its financial capital maintains control of business there, especially of its huge financial place (the third in the world). The motto of this integration was "China and Hong Kong: one country, two systems". This was a brutal hoax. For there was only one system, capitalism. In mainland China, capitalism had already been restored with a brutal superexploitation of the working class, as we have seen. Prison factories, workers having to leave their documents at the entrance of every industrial complex, turned into true concentration camps ... a fascist regime that all the transnationals in the world would like to enjoy. 300 million workers are as immigrants in their own country. They can only move from province to province with a passport approved by their employers and the state. Nothing different from hungry Latin American immigrants in the maquilas of northern Mexico or within the US. A regime traced to that of Apartheid and the Bantustans in South Africa under the Boer boot.
This is what China has to offer the world market: the largest concentrated workforce on the planet, capable of producing under conditions of slavery. This workforce is openly disputed by transnationals and the various imperialist powers that want to keep business directly and semi-colonizing China completely.
English imperialism introduced a Hong Kong in China under its control to use it as a beachhead to enter the dispute for keeping the business of that country, as we said. The slogan "one country, two systems" covered up that it was British imperialism that got into China associated with the "red businessmen" who, with their terror regime, keep the masses at bay.
With the concretion of so-called “New Silk Road” - a complex of ports, roads and railways that seeks to unite China with Italy and Germany - the imperialist EU of Maastricht does not want to stay out of those fabulous businesses. But first, China, its regime and its government must ensure that the technology belongs to the imperialist powers and that the production of machine tools is managed and controlled by the transnationals of those great powers. There is the case of Huawei and 5G ... China forged it by spying the US industrial apparatus, but then it had to kneel, return it, and give 75% of that business to Wall Street.
As we see, the competition of the imperialist powers for China has been exacerbated. Trump goes for her all the way in an open trade war. England itself, which used Hong Kong as its beachhead for its financial capital in China, is being pressed on the one hand by the fabulous businesses it is already doing and await her there, alongside US imperialism. On the other hand, it has a sector of its financial capital alongside Germany in the European living space.
Ultimately, the discussion of Brexit inside England is a huge dispute between the bourgeois gangs of the City of London on "Whither England?" ... And this is what has it in crisis, pulled, on the one hand along the Franco-German axis, and on the other to go to the Pacific with the US thanks to the so-called Brexit.
There are no imperialist powers that do well if the others are not doing badly. The world market has shrunk ... Not only is there no place for new imperialist powers (and Trump reminds China of that politically, economically and militarily), but there are too much of those that still exist.
China and Hong Kong are the same system and the same country, under the command of the "red businessmen"’s CCP and their gang of armed men, which are their counterrevolutionary forces to maintain slavery over the most important exploited labor force on the planet .
China, with Hong Kong included, today is a capitalist country dependent on the world economy, with a native bourgeoisie financially and commercially associated with imperialism, but still maintaining relative independence. But this is coming to an end. Every imperialist power to survive needs China as a whole, andemakr it a colony right now. Hong Kong is the point from where British imperialism, associated with the great Chinese bourgeoisie, seeks to take and keep business on the continent.
Therefore, the Hong Kong working class faces imperialism and its partners in the new Chinese bourgeoisie, at the point where financial capital is advancing over China. It is a huge anti-imperialist struggle, which objectively clashes with the counterrevolutionary forces of Beijing's new slave-owner mandarins and with their major partners in the imperialist bank in Hong Kong. This demonstrates the brutal deception that the Stalinist Communist Parties of the world have said about the struggle of Hong Kong, which would be an "imperialist conspiracy" ... We are facing a huge uprising of workers and those exploited against hunger and against imperialism and its minor partners of the new Chinese bourgeoisie and its counterrevolutionary armed forces!
The struggle of the exploited in Hong Kong is a link in the same struggle of the Chinese working class. This is developed on the island, which is the point where control of the Chinese state is still weak, since Hong Kong will be integrated into mainland China in a progressive plan, so there is a transition regime. Still the Chinese army has not installed a counterrevolutionary military base from which to execute its mass control policy.
But imperialism increasingly needs that “social peace” be maintained in Hong Kong at the hands of the counterrevolutionary fascist forces of the Chinese state. The English army and the US Marines cannot invade there, but the armed forces of Beijing are preparing to do so. That is not only "the same system" but also "the same country" and the same state with the same band of counterrevolutionary armed men.
Enough of high cost of life! Decent wages and housing for all!
Carrie Lam out! Down with the counterrevolutionary government of the “red entrepreneurs” of the CCP!
It is urgent to crush their army that is preparing to slaughter Hong Kong!
In mainland China and Hong Kong: The same capitalist "system", the same working class to face it.
The uprising of the masses of Hong Kong is against hunger and the impossible cost of life, and for this it directly confronts Carrie Lam's government to the cry of "Revolution!" With the working class method, the general strike. The first demands to get bread, work, decent housing are, “Out Carrie Lam! Dissolution of the murderous police and their repressive forces! The Beijing counterrevolutionary army that is about to invade Hong Kong must be defeated! It is necessary create workers militias starting from the pickets that face the police!”
Hong Kong workers must stand in solidarity with the working class of mainland China fighting for independent unions and raising the same demands against hunger, unemployment, for housing, wages, freedom for prisoners and against repression. There are their forces to succeed, unifying with each other through a program of common struggle.
The uprising youth of Hong Kong must endorse the Chinese rebel youth program that stands in solidarity with the workers by shouting, “Let socialism return! Down with the regime! ”
In the Pacific, at the end of World War II, the working class and the exploited gave the greatest beatings to imperialism and the US imperialists in particular. They were defeated in Korea and before in China, forcing the Stalinist parties - who intended to be allies of "democratic" US imperialism, as they had been during World War II - to have to go beyond what they wanted and expropriate the capitalists. This happened in Mao's China and in North Korea. The onslaught of the working and peasant masses of Vietnam and their heroic sacrifice defeated US imperialism in the Indochina peninsula. But then, due to the betrayal of the Stalinist scourge, these great conquests of the world working class have fallen on their shoulders, from the capitalist restoration that granted imperialism millions of slave workers to reproduce a cycle of survival of this putrid world system.
The working class of the Pacific have great fighting ahead in the 21st century. Yesterday was Tiananmen and today the Hong Kong’s spark again threatens to burn China.
The task is to prepare new huge combats of the Pacific working class and of China in particular and prevent a new massacre as that in Tiananmen.
In these combats, the exploited of the region face the greatest sellouts of their revolutions of the twentieth century, Stalinism today has become a new bourgeoisie associated with world imperialism, such as the CCP.
The immediate task is none other than to expropriate without compensation and under workers' control the transnationals and the imperialist banks and the bourgeoisie of the Chinese mandarins of the CCP! There are the funds to have housing, salary, work and a decent life! The working class must recover the conquests of China and Indochina that Stalinism surrendered. This will be done victoriously under the banner of the international socialist revolution.
May the flame of Hong Kong spread throughout China!
For the Hong Kong uprising to triumph, the irruption of the working class in mainland China is essential, hitting the fascist government of Xi Jinping, the chief of Carrie Lam, who commands the army ready to slaughter the exploited Hong Kong people. They are the same class and have the same enemy!
Down with the counterrevolutionary government of the "red businessmen" of the CCP, custodians and minor business partners of the imperialist transnationals in China! For a provisional worker and peasant revolutionary government, based on committees of workers, peasants and private soldiers!
The struggle is to conquer "the same system"... i.e., socialism, that is, the restoration of the dictatorship of the proletariat under revolutionary forms, based on committees of workers and private soldiers, without traitorous Stalinist bureaucrats becoming exploiters on account of imperialism. The means of production and exchange must be re-nationalized, the state monopoly of foreign trade, nationalized banking and the planned economy reinstated, and soviets set up, establishing a genuine Soviet democracy.
In Hong Kong is the heart of the struggle of the world working class, first of all China, of the Pacific and of the imperialist powers, starting with England. The English, North American, European, Japanese and the entire Pacific working class must win the streets in solidarity with the struggle of the exploited Hong Kong people! Otherwise, the slavery conditions of the Chinese proletariat will fall on them sooner rather than later.
The greatest agents of imperialism and the City of London are not the rebel masses in Hong Kong today, but the scoundrels of the English Labor Party, with its chief Corbyn, and other "socialist" traitors of the world proletariat, lackeys of the queen of England. They live as true bourgeois and worker aristocrats with the coins that are lost to the transnationals of their super-profits extracted on the basis of the super-exploitation and the blood of hundreds of millions of Chinese, Asian, African, Latin American workers ... They are the greatest enemies of the world proletariat, just like Judas! They are lackeys of the imperialist metropolis!
China will be socialist or it end up whole like Hong Kong: colony of either Wall Street, the “City” of London or the imperialist Europe of Maastricht!
Carlos Munzer