Article by Albano Nunes, member of the Secretariat of the CC
Within the European Union, Germany’s role and its imperialist ambitions have not been discussed during the European Parliament elections. But they should have. Monopolies’ and the German State responsibilities in the EU neo-liberal, federalist and military framework is enormous and there even exist German major capital circles that do not hide the ambition of a " European Germany ". What is occurring with the 60th anniversary celebrations of the "Federal Republic of Germany’s Fundamental Law, from May 1949.
Therefore, it is timely to recall that the Federal Republic of Germany creation was an act of force, contrary regarding the treaties that ended the II World War, namely the Potsdam agreements. It was during the height of the "cold war" caused by imperialism. In the Far East, Korea had been split and in the South of the Peninsula, under the USA occupation, the Syngman Rhee puppet regime had been imposed. In April, NATO had just been created. Under the pretext of the "Soviet treat" the USA, France and Great –Britain tore apart fascism eradication solemn compromises, at the same time the communist parties were driven away from France’s, Italy’s and other countries governments. The World Union Federation and other international unitary organizations built towards the antifascist struggle were systematically disintegrated, based on the anti-communism. And the boarder between West Germany and East Germany, starting in Berlin, turned into the most dangerous international tension focus.
Sixty years later, Germany became, once again, a great power, whose ambitions, have particularly revealed noticeable, in the expansionist impulse towards the East, demonstrated by the Yugoslavia war. This took place under the North-American imperialism support, in defending monopolies and the large estates, which were Hitler’s support basis, and rehabilitate people, deeply compromised with Nazism. All this was possible, due to the instalment within the FRG of one of the most powerful USA military bases abroad, and the transformation of West Germany into an advanced platform against the URSS and the socialist sphere. This involved the German Communist Party’s persecution and illegalization and the celebrated Berufsverbot (professional interdictions) aiming the destruction of the German workers’ class revolutionary traditions and its surrender to class collaboration. This was achieved with the destruction of the Democratic Republic of Germany / DDR, the first socialist State within German land, which, besides the undeniable successes achieved in the construction of a new society, did not resist before the annexionist offensive in the late eighties.
Sixty years after, the Federal Republic of Germany having fought the anti-fascist and anti-monopolist development of Germany’s western side, it is important to remember, on one hand, the colossal support received from the USA to turn Germany into the " capitalism window" in the historic dispute with socialism, and on the other, the shameful role, undergone by social-democracy, in the great German capital recuperation and expansion, beginning with the betrayal during the 1918 German revolution, symbolized by Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht’s dramatic assassination. This applies to the fundamental pillars on which, the "great Germany" of nowadays, stands, and to the powerful obstacles to Europe’s social progress, peace and cooperation building, for which we struggle for.
Germany’s contemporary history contains current lessons before the capitalism deep crisis, a crisis which heavily hits upon the German economy and society and tends to sharpen the inter-imperialist contradictions. One must not have any illusions: the German State’s growing militarization and its ambitions as a great power, confines dangers that only the communists’, progressists’, workers’ and peoples’ from all over the world vigilance and struggle, can conjugate.
