PCR-RCP Calls For May Day Evening Rally

The Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada (PCR-RCP) has asked for its supporting organizations in Toronto to participate in an evening rally on international workers day.  While the PRAC also plans to participate in the main May Day march organized by the May 1st Movement, as it has in the past, it has chosen to primarily endorse and mobilize for the PCR-RCP rally, which will not conflict with the main march, because of its expressly revolutionary line.

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From the Partisan:

The Revolutionary Communist Party calls on all workers, unemployed, retired, youth and students to make May 1st, International Workers Day, a moment when the bourgeoisie will fear our class is in the process of choosing insubordination; that we are rising and reclaiming the essence of our legitimate struggles —including those powerful ones that will radically change the face of Canada.

Let’s protest by the thousands in all major cities across the country. Let’s brandish our red flags everywhere and throughout this whole day of struggle. Prevent the police from seizing and destroying the red flags and class struggle banners. Let’s forge a new fighting spirit made of unity and militancy. Shoulder to shoulder, let’s answer the various calls that will arise by May 1st. Workers, students or pensioners, let’s make May First a powerful day of revolutionary action!

• In Montreal: Rally the red contingent from the PCR-RCP Canada in the May Day demonstration organized by the Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (CLAC-Montréal)! Gathering at exactly 6pm at Place Jacques-Cartier (in front of City Hall).

• In Ottawa: Take part in large numbers in the event organized by the PCR-RCP Canada at the Babylon Night Club, 317 Bank Street. Doors open at 9 pm.

• In Toronto: Join the May First demonstration initiated by the PCR-RCP Canada at 8pm in Moss Park (Queen and Sherbourne).

PRAC-Toronto asks for all of its supporters and friends to participate in what will probably be a small but exciting rally.

Upcoming PCR-RCP sponsored revolutionary youth and student conference!

 

Seize the Time Blaze a Revolutionary Path, a conference hosted by the PCR-RCP, will take place on the first weekend of December.  Since it is intended to be small and somewhat private, and so far has been arranged on an invite-only basis, anyone interested in participating should contact seizethetime2012@yahoo.ca for specific details.

A small brochure of the event’s focus is available here: Seize The Time Blaze a Revolutionary Path (pdf pamphlet)

Communist propaganda! Music, performances, and panel

Update: PRAC/RSM is sorry to announce that the panel portion for this event is no longer happening, due to our limited capacity. We are, however, happy to announce that we will be putting on a Red Theatre event in place of the panel. Check out our young protagonist as she undertakes her own red bildungsroman this coming Wednesday! DJ Hamma and Sickle is sure to get the party started after!

Join Toronto’s Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee and Revolutionary Student Movement for a thrilling panel, raucous performances and of course, revolutionary music – all in the name of communist propaganda!

Red Theatre synopsis: Gandie is a young student activist at a well-known, bourgeois university. Frustrated by endless Facebook flame wars–correcting reactionaries and liberals crying foul in response to Mao’s supposed death toll–and other forms of unfruitful propaganda work, she heads to the streets. She begins a program of delivering her communist propaganda to the masses, with hilarious, and unexpected, results.

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Anti-Imperialism Behind Bars

On July 12th, PRAC joins the Anti-Colonial Working Group in presenting Anti-Imperialism Behind Bars––an event in support of political prisoners and revolutionary prisoners of war––at 460 Spadina [formerly El Mocambo––EDIT: as the commenter pointed out, the El Mocambo still exists and the 460 is just beside it!] at 7pm.  The speakers in attendance will present on political prisoners in Ireland, Palestine, India, and North America.  Following the presentations there will be socializing and entertainment.

And on July 15th, Anti-Imperialism Behind Bars will be in Kitchener-Waterloo.  Stay tuned for details.

BORN THIS RED!: Communist Dance Party

BORN THIS RED!: Communist Dance Party

On June 26, 2012, the Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee (PRAC) and the Revolutionary Student Movement (RSM) will celebrate Pride Week with a night of dancing. There will be a performance by Jadelicious, and revolutionary dance tunes will be provided by DJ Hamma-n-Sickle.

Please join the PRAC and the RSM at the Hen House to celebrate the future collapse of capitalism and homophobia in a revolutionary Communist Dance Party. Yes, our revolution includes dancing!

Time: Tuesday June 26, 2012 (9pm-1am)
Place: The Hen House (1532 Dundas Street West)
Suggested donation: $4 (no one, however, will be turned away)

The PRAC is a communist-influenced grouping that, along with its sister group, the RSM, organizes campaigns, publications, and educational workshops that link racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia to capitalism.

Got questions? Leave us a comment. Hope to see you there!

Launch of 100 Schools Campaign: Statement from Toronto’s Revolutionary Student Movement

A school is a prison but real education is liberation…A call-out for high school students to join the revolution!

[the original version can be found on the website of the Revolutionary Student Movement - Toronto]

Being a high school student sucks! Not only do parents have authority over you at home, but also the teachers, the VP and the principal at school! You have to take bullshit classes like Careers and Civics that teach you nothing about the real world. Many of you even have to deal with the surveillance of cops in the hallways.

Our society is a capitalist one – organized so that rich people can get richer by exploiting the rest of us. While it’s easy to blame teachers, capitalism is what turns schools into prisons.Under capitalism, you are treated as a commodity, something that is bought and sold. Early on in high school, you are streamed into categories—academic or applied. These categories are invented to make you fit into the capitalist system, to train you to be an obedient worker; be on time, be in proper uniform, be obedient, don’t challenge the teachers, and, don’t think for yourself.

The Revolutionary Students Movement (RSM), a sister group to the PRAC, has put posters up around Toronto high schools. These posters reflect issues that high school students face, such as cops, bullies, bullshit authority, and political powerlessness. The posters introduce RSM’s 100 Schools Campaign, which will continue over the summer and into the school year.

With this poster campaign we want to invite you to connect issues affecting you to capitalism—a system that reduces people, especially young people, to profit. Furthermore, we wish to invite you to think about how you can achieve liberation. We we believe that the people who control the school system are the same people who control the prison system and the whole social system. We believe overthrowing all of these systems is necessary.

We are interested in meeting you. We invite high-school students to join us at the next Casseroles march in solidarity with the student strike in Montreal and to future events held for the 100 Schools Campaign throughout the summer.

A Storm Under Heaven… The Situation is Excellent

On Wednesday, May 30th a night march in solidarity with the Quebec Student Strike sparked a glimmer of militancy that has been missing in the Toronto activist milieu for quite some time.  For nearly a decade, we in the Toronto left have degenerated into a pattern of reformist agitation, the worst form of movementism, where we have tailed social democrats, hidden ourselves in trade unionism and advocacy work. This produced boring and predictable demonstrations where the same “usual suspect” speakers, cult of personalities, and flavor of the month academics preach to the converted before we all embark on marching around the same four city blocks.  Whatever militancy we used to possess evaporated in these parades with radical trappings––grand affairs that were radical in form but reformist in content and orientation.

But now, due to the student rebellions in Quebec, the Toronto movement is slowly coming alive with new forces reinvigorating the older forces.  And though this revitalization might be more significant than the failed revitalization attempted by #occupy, it is still barely significant. Like #occupy, the Quebec Student Strike is also imported––on Wednesday we were marching in solidarity with a movement that had its organic roots elsewhere rather than in the midst of a rebellion springing from the precise contradictions of Toronto’s class struggle.

Of course, those of us who participated in this initiative were attacked by the organizers for ruining their plans.  They claimed that they had worked hard to organize the march, despite the fact that this organization seemed only to consist of an email call-out (where everyone involved organized their own contingents to attend with their own reasons for attending), and a planned route they had planned––a route that was being rejected by the people at the moment of the so-called “split”.  To be sure, they might have worked hard amongst their own organizational networks to plan a route and figure out what to write in the email, but the march’s attendance was not the product of any agitation amongst the masses––the majority arrived in response to an email that was forwarded everywhere with little idea of who the organizers were or what they were organizing aside from a march.  This, of course, speaks to another failing of the Toronto left: we rely on spontaneity, on public branding and postering, and then hope that the people who show up, because of word of mouth and informational routes that we have nothing do with, will follow our lead.  Yet if we want a movement to survive its initial momentum, we require structure. Those who organized the internet call and the route, along with the non-organizers, need to think about building such a structure.

Still, we were accused of being wreckers when the only thing we helped wreck was a planned route.  Even worse, because the Toronto left, like much of the petty bourgeois North American left, is entrenched in a not-for-profit model of organizing, anchored in crude identity politics and privilege theory. As a result, appeal to one’s marginalization or oppression on identity grounds can often be employed to enforce the authority of tiny privileged cabals of student and post-student activists. The PRAC was accused of being a small group of “manarchists” who were undermining the authority of the women organizers.  Although it is true that one group of PRAC men accused of being responsible for planning the “split” simply endorsed the initiative, it is also true that this “split” was initiated by one male PRAC comrade along with a female anarchist. In addition, most of the march of all genders wanted to keep marching.  But despite the fact that the PRAC is not an organization composed of macho anti-feminist “dudes”, the accusation brings up the question of our relation to identity politics and the way anti-oppression and “safe-space” are deployed in the “movement” to  sometimes obscure another political perspective and action.

To be fair, those comrades involved in initiating and supporting the “split” should have behaved in a more disciplined and humble manner––the behaviour of some of us, admittedly, did not help matters and demands our self-criticism and rectification.  There are some who did act macho and we have criticized them for their behaviour, just as they have self-criticized. There will be continuous rectification and transformation through our practice in the class struggle. In the PRAC, we recognize that the vast majority of oppressed workers in the service and productive industries, who are often recent immigrants, proletarian women, and poor men may not be abreast of the current “intersectional” analysis or how to therefore “check their privileges.” The process of transforming people requires a violent and revolutionary rupture with the prevailing repressive social order, but also a rupture with an identity politics that is not in the service of abolishing the root of exploitation and oppression. Regardless of our own lapses in discipline and behaviour, as an organization we supported the “split”.  We are also mindful, though, of how women can be used as “optical support” in order to mask political content: if the women PRAC members were in the centre of the break-off would that have made our decision to “split” politically righteous, should we have tried to have our women comrades gather around our male comrades so that we looked “properly feminist” and thus used them as little more than a deflection for criticism? And by the same token, could those launching the supposedly feminist criticisms not be accused of playing the same optical identity politics game that in some ways mocks a feminist politics, at least a proletarian feminist politics, by hoping that the appearance of identity somehow equals the precise political approach?

Whatever the case, when the masses were presented with the opportunity to disperse in Dufferin Grove Park, they rejected this opportunity and continued onwards.  People wanted to keep marching because they were angry, excited, and tired of marches with pre-ordained, ritualized beginnings, middles, and endings.  And we followed the masses, marching with them, quite happy that we weren’t shutting down the street disruption before the people were ready to stop.  As a comrade from another organization said to us several blocks past the initial end point: “there are times to hold the people back, but this isn’t one of them.”  Eventually things ended as spontaneously as they had continued, around midnight at the centre of Queen and Spadina, in the midst of the dull stirrings of militancy––an excitement that we were reclaiming something we had lost seven years ago when the established Toronto Left cannibalized itself. [Edit: due to the confusion of this statement, we decided it was best to provide a brief explanation of what we meant.  We were not speaking of any single event, sectarian fight, etc., but simply indicating that somehow, after a period of militancy, the left turned inwards, focused primarily on reformist goals, burnt out, and began to use up its resources and disintegrate.  This was a process, not some controversial moment.]

To be sure, it would be a mistake on our part to imagine that the tiny fraction of militancy reclaimed in Wednesday’s moment of creative spontaneity was tantamount to revolution. Just as the march organizers organized little more than a route, an email call-out, and some posters, ALL of us in attendance failed to organize more than fractions of our own forces.  We also need to reclaim the tradition of doing revolutionary mass work, building ourselves into militant organizations outside of spontaneous demonstrations of the peoples’ justified anger: when the Quebec Student Strike ends Canadian capitalism will still exist, and our solidarity marches in Toronto are just an echo of this general problematic.

We also need to think about our goals in these marches.  It is one thing to reject the stagnant boundaries of Toronto’s demonstration dogma, but it is quite another to build a revolutionary movement that produces its own demonstrations, can embed itself in moments of mass creative spontaneity, and do something more than simply encourage more militancy amongst a bunch of disparate and angry protestors.  If we are to build something like a student strike in Toronto, then we need to think about doing mass work in proletarian high schools rather than simply universities––which is why the PRAC and its student front, the RSM, is gearing up to launch its 100 Schools Campaign,aimed at building a revolutionary movement among high school students.  And if we want to build something beyond a student movement then we have to think about a revolutionary organization unified in theory and practice, rather than the same old movementist models.

What we have also tried to do ever since  our founding in December 2010 at the Second Canadian Revolutionary Congress (an initiative of the PCR-RCP) is draw lines of demarcation in the militant left.  We began with a boycott of the federal elections, shaking the Toronto left from its torpor and discovering that some organizations and individuals possessed a near religious devotion to a bourgeois convention.  Now we are putting forward the suggestion that the Toronto left cannot continue with business-as-usual.  In these spaces, bourgeois legality is another dividing line, a polarizing issue.

The crisis and its climate of austerity is upon us and we are caught unprepared, organizationally, ideologically, and especially, politically for its storm.  People are rising up, decades of rebellions and repressions are upon us, and we need to figure out how to transform this rebellious anger into something sustainable and committed for a protracted fight against capitalism.  In Mao’s words: “there is a great storm under heaven… the situation is excellent.”

To get involved with the PRAC in the next solidarity rally, please email:

 practoronto@yahoo.com

To get involved with the 100 Schools Campaign, please email:

 revolutionary.studentsTO@gmail.com

Seize the Time! Blaze a Revolutionary Path!

Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee and its student division, the Revolutionary Students Movement, are looking forward to participating in this upcoming conference. Young people from proletarian and popular quarters are rising up everywhere to confront the capitalist crisis. The struggle is a class struggle! If there ever was a moment to Seize the Time! It is now…Those interested in building a revolutionary youth movement, in strategic questions on how to make revolution, in fighting collectively for the abolition of capitalism are encouraged to get in contact with the conference organizers. Details below.

“A single spark can start a prairie fire.” – Mao Zedong

1st National Conference of the Students and Youth: October 2012, Toronto, Canada

Parti communiste révolutionnaire – Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada)
 
It is Right to Rebel
From the Arab Spring, to the UK riots and the #Occupy movements in North America, exploited workers and oppressed masses continue taking the streets. To tackle the economic crisis they created, capitalists and their lackey governments ruthlessly attack and further impoverish the majority of working and poor people. While this minority of the rich and powerful—intent on protecting their obscene profits and lavish lifestyle—gorges itself on the exploitation and immiseration of workers, the vast majority of the world’s population must toil for the most basic necessities to sustain life. “Where there is oppression,” said Mao Zedong, “there is resistance.”
At the forefront of these popular struggles, youth from the proletariat and popular classes are rising up against the authority of the ruling regimes. Radicalized students are leaving their classrooms to struggle with the masses in the streets.It is not difficult to see why. In this latest “age of austerity,” young people from these social strata—who are poor, recent immigrants, undocumented migrants, racialized, and especially those belonging to the First Nations—face further deterioration of their life conditions. In an aggressively imperialist state like Canada, unemployment for those between 15 to 24 years of age is over 17%; that’s more than double the national unemployment rate! Poor, unemployed and underemployed youth—a significant portion of what Karl Marx called the “reserve army of labour”—are criminalized and incarcerated at alarming rates. On or off the job, our quality of life is miserable. Riots and mass rebellions—triggered by racist pig murders and brutal state repression—are the expression of justified rage against this exploitative and crisis-ridden capitalist system. But to give this degenerating system the shove it deserves, we must collectively organize our rage and arm ourselves with revolutionary ideology and politics.
Toward a Unity of Proletarian Youth and Revolutionary Students
In the true words of radical hip-hop crew Dead Prez: “The same people who control the school system control the prison system, and the whole social system.” It’s no wonder they say this school shit is a joke! In Canada, 1 out of 5 teenagers between 15-19 years of age will drop out of school. The “education”—more accurately, the indoctrination—system under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie teaches us servility and obedience to authority, to act and live within very prescribed (class!) limits, to become dutiful and “flexible” workers for the interest of the bosses, to serve, to obey, to vote in their sham elections!
For those of us who reject this bullshit, who wish for an education that will help break the unending cycle of exploitation and misery, who want to bring an end to the capitalist system, the PCR-RCP encourages your contribution to building a revolutionary movement of the proletarian youth and students this October 2012.
What is a revolutionary student? According to Mao, we judge whether a youth is revolutionary or not by whether they integrate themselves with the masses or oppress the common people instead. Our perspective is that there is no such thing as an independent student “class” with its own distinct interests. Class permeates the student population as it does the wider society. As students climb up the ladder of higher education in search of upward class mobility, the more likely they will become the trained administrators, bureaucrats, and sentinels for the capitalist system.
Is our intention to become student politicians or politicize students? To serve capital or to Serve the People? Our perspective is that it is very necessary to break with reformism and social democratic politics dominating the student and labour movements today. We want to align student struggles with those of young workers on and off the campuses, young workers who are shuffled into mind-numbing, back-beaking, low-pay, low-skilled, precarious jobs. Why should proletarian youth and revolutionary students pursue politics that ultimately preserve a degenerating political system that is not a direct expression of our class interests? We should struggle alongside youth who risk imprisonment by the racist capitalist system, with those who refuse to submit to bullshit authority and who are destined to fill the mega prisons in the coming years.
Revolutionary students must align their interests and develop clear politics to advance the struggles of the proletariat and oppressed masses toward the only solution that can bring an end to their misery. As the Quebec students are showing the rest of North America, it is necessary to “seize the time” and to expand the immediate struggles against rising costs of higher education and burdensome debt loads to attacking the economic foundation which gives rise to mass exploitation and oppression—to ideologically and politically attack the capitalist system and to mobilize for socialist revolution.  We plan to raise hell and to raise it well.
We therefore invite anti-capitalist young people across the country who are organizing in high schools, in colleges and universities, who are employed or unemployed, and who are from the First Nations, to accumulate our forces and experiences, to develop and organize collectively in the coming months a plan for revolutionary political education, education that will be transformed into militant political action in the class struggle, which will truly make the ruling classes tremble. For more info contact: seizethetime2012@yahoo.caA PDF bilingual version of this document is available here

May Day 2012 – To overcome the crisis of capitalism, proletarian revolution is the only solution!

“The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented.

The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.

But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians.”

Marx & Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1847

165 years after its writing, this quote remains relevant. It allows us to understand the situation in which the proletariat and the broad popular masses in all countries find themselves, regardless of who leads the government: they live under a concealed dictatorship, be it a bourgeois democratic or a brutal one.

 The imperialist bourgeoisie is looking for the maximum rate of profit; it is using the crisis as a pretext to achieve this objective by restructuring the system of production. Within this, the ruling classes in the oppressed countries try to maintain and possibly increase their share in the surplus. Such restructuring is affecting all countries; for the working class and the masses, it means the delocalization of large industries: plant closings, wage cuts, unemployment, debt, impoverishment, etc. But in the places where the new plants are to be opened, restructuring means land grabs, expropriation of local farmers, frenzied exploitation, poverty wages, destruction of the environment, etc.

The ruling classes use the state apparatus to suppress the proletariat’s struggles and prevent them and the masses from revolting and organizing for the revolution.

Everywhere, the State is more and more becoming a police state that brings the population under surveillance and repression.

Whether it is the “left” or right, no segment of the bourgeoisie has the capacity to solve the crisis. The persistence of the crisis prepares the ground for fascism; fascism is advancing in disguise. It is building step by step through populist demagogy, relying on the economic crisis. In due time, it will show its true colors by aggressively defending the interests of finance capital. Meanwhile, competition between the different monopolist blocks raises the question of redivision of markets and therefore suggests new wars are on the horizon.

The class nature of the state is the central issue. The form it takes is only circumstantial. The primary purpose of the state is to serve the interests of the ruling class, that is to say, those of the imperialist bourgeoisie and/or of the comprador-bureaucrat bourgeoisie and landlords in the oppressed nations —which is a tiny minority compared to the vast majority of men, women and children who are facing exploitation worldwide. Given the crisis, this is becoming clearer to the masses. The central task of any revolution is to radically destroy the state apparatus and, thereafter, to build on its ruins a new and radically different state, with the objective of building socialism as a means of transition to communism. In other words, revolution is the only answer to the crisis!

Today, the proletariat and the masses are struggling and rebelling in many countries. These rebellions are expressed in different and varying ways: through general strikes, by fighting against high prices, against layoffs, for the right to work, against the crushing of militant trade unions, for the right to land, to protect the environment, through occupation of housing and empty land, youth rebellions against police violence and a life without work and without furure, struggles of women, etc.

In the Arab countries, after the uprisings that lacked a revolutionary leadership, the ruling classes and imperialism are regaining control of the situation in the name of “democracy;” they are enforcing the same rule of exploitation against the people by opposing the continuation of the revolutionary process. The protest movement’s focus is being diverted by imperialist interventions, by reactionary forces, by secular or religious reformists crushed bloodily.

In the Arab oppressed countries, as well as in all the colonial and semi-colonial countries, it has become more and more important to develop the New Democratic Revolution, as part of the socialist revolution.

In the imperialist countries, the “Occupy” movement is reflecting the massive discontent of the people, but it does not sufficiently challenge the system in its entirety.

These proletarian struggles and rebellions are not revolutionary in and of themselves but they are a first step in the realization by the masses of the necessity of revolution. However it is important to unmask the path and illusions of a peaceful change, alternation, deceitful elections.

Today’s communists (the Maoists) must participate in and gradually take the lead of those struggles. They must build the revolutionary force of the proletariat at the ideological, political and organizational levels, and especially the three essential tools of revolution: a Maoist Communist Party, a revolutionary United Front, and an Armed Force, according to the particular situation.

We must struggle against reformists, revisionists and opportunists who lead the protest struggles with a conciliatory spirit in the existing trade unions and mass organizations; they only offer “solutions” within the current capitalist and imperialist system, spreading the illusion among the masses that the electoral and peaceful path may be a solution for the proletariat and the masses to overcome the crisis. They are an obstacle to the expansion of class struggle and the organization of the working class and the masses for revolution.

Meanwhile, the reactionaries are using differences of origin, religion and racism to divide the proletariat, the working class and the popular masses, as a trick to preserve their power.

Everywhere we must popularize and support the people’s wars currently being waged as spearhead of the fight against the crisis of imperialism.

Led by the CPI (Maoist), the People’s War in India is successfully resisting attacks from the enemy and is managing to expand and grow. The People’s War is also unfolding in the Philippines under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which upholds Maoism. In Peru, it is continuing despite the action from a liquidationist current. In Turkey, the revolutionary struggle led by the Maoists is advancing in accordance with the people’s war strategy. In other countries, new initiatives and advances are in preparation.

We must fight in a situation of uneven development to end the capitalist system over the whole world and build a new world free from exploitation, from peoples’ oppression and deadly wars, for a socialist and communist world.

 We must work to rebuild the international organization of communists, based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism; we must apply MLM to the concrete reality of today, to jointly develop the struggle for revolution and establishing a Communist International of a new type.

Long Live Internationalist May Day!
Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!

Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan; Communist Party of India (M-L) [Naxalbari]; Maoist Communist Party–France; Maoist Communist Party–Italy; Maoist Communist Party of Manipur; Maoist Communist Party–Turkey/North-Kurdistan; Revolutionary Communist Party,  Canada; Founding Committee for the (maoist) Communist Party, Austria; Maoist Communist Movement, Tunisia; Maoist Communist Organization, Tunisia; Marxist-Leninist-Maoists of Morocco; Organization of Workers of Afghanistan (M-L-M); People Struggle Committee Manolo Bello, Galicia, Spanish State; Revolutionary Praxis, United Kingdom; Servir le Peuple, Occitany, French State.

Note: The PCR-RCP has signed this internationalist statement while disagreeing with the characterization of the “Occupy” movement as being “proletarian;” we still adhere to the general policy expressed therein.