Can the capitalist system be overthrown? Is it possible for a society to stand without wars, unemployment and brutal exploitation of the weak? Is it possible to abolish the army and the police, the prisons and the courts? Is it possible to tear down all borders and make passports useless? Can people work however and wherever they want without the stress of hunger and poverty? Is it possible for bosses and property to disappear and for everyone to enjoy the goods of society?

Capitalism has not always existed and will not survive forever. In the earlier years, in the Middle Ages and in Antiquity, people often suffered and died of hunger because there was not enough production, enough food for everyone.

Now people are suffering and dying because there is too much production, because it is more lucrative for producers to bury food on earth than to sell it. What capitalism brought to humanity was more colossal productive forces than ever. Now the work of a small part of the world’s population—for example of the inhabitants of England—is enough to dress all the inhabitants of the earth.

The problem with capitalism is that, while factories, services, transport, are directly related to the whole world, they are the property of very few, who operate them on the basis of profit and not on the needs of society.

Today most of human labor is wasted on competition between products (advertising), on competition between states and interests (armament) and finally on competition between the owners of the means of production, the capitalists, and the working class which works within them (expenses for courts, prisons, the police, the army). The transition to a collective control of the working class of all means of production and services, as well as the dissolution of all parasitic mechanisms of repression (police, courts, army), the breaking of borders and the global coming together of all working people is no longer a utopia. It is the necessary step for all human civilization to move forward.

Yes, but does not the collapse of actually existing socialism prove that revolution is a futility? Moreover, in all countries, even when people cast their vote for the Left, they elect social democrats who have no serious differences in their program with the Right (privatizations, austerity).

In Russia and the Eastern countries there was no different social system than in the West. Despite their communist phraseology, these regimes brutally oppressed the working class and vilified the name of socialism in the East and West in the worst possible way.

Stalinism was state capitalism and its collapse under the massive disapproval of the workers of these countries brings closer the prospect of revolution and workers’ power around the world.

The answer to capitalism cannot come from parliament either.

The repetition of the massacre of the workers and the Left in Allende’s Chile is the only outcome for those who dream of radical changes in society through electoral processes. The capitalists have on their side the police, the army, justice and the entire state apparatus to defend their interests. 

Every time the working class fights for power with the bourgeoisie, it builds its own organs of power, workers’ councils and workers’ militia, where it is direct democracy which operates, the representatives are at all times revocable and all the workers undertake the implementation of their decisions.

There are more collectives and organizations that speak in the name of socialism, even the revolution. What else can “I Kokkini” (The Red) offer?

We propagate the independent action of the whole working class. That is why we demand that the Greek trade unions write in their power ALL immigrant workers REGARDLESS of gender.

We are against all forms of discrimination that break the unity of the working class. A real workers’ revolution becomes the feast of all the oppressed. That is why we support every national social minority that is being oppressed.

Here, in Greece, we especially defend the Turkish and Macedonian minorities, all immigrants, especially those who live and work in the most miserable medieval slavery, the Roma, women and the lgbtqi+ people. We demand open borders and the legalization of all immigrants without preconditions.

We categorically deny that we have the same interests as “our” capitalist class and we do not defend any common homeland with them. Our siblings and comrades are the workers of the whole world and first of all the workers of Turkey.

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In order for the workers’ power to become a reality one day, it is necessary to unite the most pioneer workers in one revolutionary party with clear ideas. We will support any unifying effort of revolutionary Marxism fighters and organizations, which can take this matter even one step farther.

At the same time, we take for granted that a revolutionary workers’ party is forged with patience and incessant work in the working union spaces and tries to spread its ideas by participating in every big or small struggle of our class.

OUR FUTURE IS NOT CAPITALISM

IT IS REVOLUTION AND SOCIALISM

Newspaper «Η Κόκκινη» («I Kokkini/The Red»)

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Person in charge for legal matters: Haris Papadopoulos

Logo: Flora Fousteri

*Τη μετάφραση έκανε η Νάγια Σαρόγλου

Translation: Naya Saroglou

** You can also read this text in Greek, in Turkish and in makedonca.

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