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International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties

New Delhi, November 20-22, 2009

Comrades,

Many thanks to Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India for hosting this 11th International meeting, first meeting in the Asian hemisphere, and in the Global Capitalist crises, this is in good accordance with the importance of the development in your hemisphere.

The military coup in Honduras shows that USA is trying every mean in this new situation, to destabilize the left governments in Latin America to control energy resources and economic development. The 7 new US military bases in Columbia shows clearly their intensions.

The capitalist crises are intrinsic system crisis. This last big overproduction crises started already about 40 years ago, when the banks developed big loans to finance the increased production. By the end of the 1980s the financial sector in the OECD countries was bigger in the GDP than goods production. For the big financial capital the profit margins in the financial sector proved to be much better than in industrial investments. In addition to the regulated, a huge totally unregulated international financial market developed with derivatives amounting to 30 times the GDPs of the whole world. When the trust in the financial system disappeared, the whole system broke down. In the imperialist countries the governments gave billions of dollars to the banks to hinder bankruptcy The tax money paid by the workers for welfare purposes was redistributed by the state to big finance capital. This saved finance capital, but did not create new jobs.

The reason for the capitalist crises is the drastic fall in demand, as the population have less money to spend. In the US now according to New York Post the real unemployment has risen to an all high of 17 %. A lot of US workers have till now only paid a low rent on their house loans. From 2010 to 2011 most of them have to start to pay down their mortgage in addition. Many more people are unemployed, and many have drastic lowered income. In this situation the international capitalist crises will for sure deepen.

USAs strength lies in their military capacity. Therefore they will use this tool to get control of energy resources, and try to dictate their capitalist terms to weaker developing countries. But even if these wars are expensive, they are not of a magnitude that will solve the capitalist economic crises of today. Therefore the financial oligarch elite in the US must sort to fascism and racism to suppress and divide their crises- stricken working class, to hinder organized class fight for social change. Under the umbrella of ”fight against terror” laws reducing citizens rights have been implemented, and two fully equipped army brigades are decided withdrawn from Iraq to deal with civil unrest and demonstrations. In the US many signals imply that the ruling financial oligarchy class is prepared to install military dictatorship to secure their interests.

Norway , our small country in the high north is rich because of its oil and gas resources, lots of clean turbine electric energy from a lot of waterfalls, and a long coast which till now have been rich on fish resources. Big finance capital in Norway have been gambling high in the international unregulated finance market, and lost a lot in the crises. The ”red-green” Social democratic government in Norway pursued the same policies as in the other western imperialist countries. Equivalent to 100 billion US dollars from the workers paid tax money was redistributed to the big financial institutions, which helped the owners save their money. Only equivalent to 4 billion US dollars was given to the community service to keep up demands for building services on a small scale. Many carpenters and industry workers are now unemployed. The unemployment figure is about 100000, or about 4 %, in a population of 4,7 million. The politicians say the crises are not so bad, and will be over by next year. The statistical department try to show nice figures, but are arrested by officials from offshore and export industries, many who are out of orders by the end of this year. Norways relative low unemployment rate of 4 % in comparison to the higher than 10% average of the western EU countries and 17 % in the US is due to our large state and community sector, which are not directly stricken by the capitalist crises, and therefore keeps up a relatively high demand for goods in society.

The Communist Parties in the Northern Region have close and regular cooperation. Communist Party of Sweden, Communist Party in Denmark, Communist Party of Denmark and Communist Party of Norway organize common Summer camp between us every summer. We also organize Kalott – meeting in the high north where also the Finnish Communist Parties and the Communist Parties of Russia participate. Last year the meeting was in Alta City of Finnmark in Northern Norway. Next summer of 2010 we hope to be invited by Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Murmansk for the Kalott-meeting.

We have no regular cooperation with former maoist parties in our region.

Such parties call themselves “Communist” in Sweden and Denmark, and “Red” Party in Norway. These parties have been fighting the Communist Parties, they have acted anti-Communist and anti-Sovjetic, and their practice were based not on cooperation, but on political confrontation and coups, getting majority votes in meetings and take control. In Norway they have cooperated with the police on illegal political espionage on the Communist Party of Norway since 1972 on. In 2007 or 2008 a political journalist of Red Party`s Newspaper travelled to India helping the Maoists in India attacking one of the ruling Communist Parties in India in a difficult situation. Another journalist from the same party and newspaper travelled under cover as ”tourist” to Cuba, to support ”Ladies in white”, the US organized wives of jailed Cubans imprisoned for being paid agents from the US Interest Section in Havana.

We know that this time the Swedish former Maoist Party is seeking to become member of our international meeting. If their case is presented on the agenda, we ask you to vote no to take this party to be member of our International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, both because of these parties political and organizational practice and their lack of proletarian comradeship and cooperation.

Thank you for your patience.