Translated "Avante!" article by Jorge Cadima, Member of the PCP International Department
The World War II Nazi-Fascism defeat is to be celebrated. It was the greatest carnage ever in humanity’s history. More than 50 million dead. A war fought from Europe unto the Far East, but witnessed the decisive and most intense battles within the Soviet Union territory. The Soviet people and its glorious Red Army - at the cost of more than 20 million dead - handed over their determinate contribution for the Nazi hordes’ defeat. And for that, all peoples throughout the world are eternally grateful.
World War II is inseparable from the capitalism great crisis which emerged in 1929 and brought Nazism to power, in Germany. However, Nazi-Fascism was not a merely irrational act. All over, its historical mission was to crush the workers and popular movement and impose class domination through violence and terror. And therefore had the active and solidary support of a great deal of the European dominant classes. For German Nazism, it also was a question of ensuring the “vital space”, which was to nurture the German great monopolies and which inducted Hitler to power. This objective cornerstone was to conquer and colonize the USSR’s territories, which would guarantee both resources and slave work-force in abundance.
World War II end, with the European capitalism most violent and terrorist sector defeat, brought upon important victories in the political, economic and social plan, for the peoples. Even in countries liberated from Fascism, but remained under the capitalist system, the new world force correlation installed what was to be named “Social State”. Currently, one is told it is unsustainable and “ there is no money ”. But money existed within a destroyed Europe, during six years of war. As the question is not “ to have the money”. The question is who holds it and how it is spent.
The great capital’s strong determination reconstitution - and the European Union, the aggressive class and national domination instrument - the European peoples suffer their achievements’ destruction. And, by the EU and USA’s hand, the reappearance of Fascism. Whichever way the regime propaganda might rejig, the truth is that the Ukrainian Fascists have reached the power corridors through coups and violence, and, of course, by the EU and USA’s hand. They are not recycled Fascists. But instead, Fascists who are proud of their past by fighting together in the SS Nazi ranks. And of the many thousand peoples massacres ( both in the Nazi army, or themselves) both against the Soviet people and communists, but also against Jews, Polish, and others. This is not of the past. The May 2nd massacre, in Odessa was a intentional act: the Fascist shock troops set fire upon the Trade-Union House, where dozens of people were refugees, and who had participated in a anti-coup protest demonstration in the square nearby; when the fire-men arrived they were attacked and whoever tried to escape from the building was hit or killed. Dozens of dead, many burnt alive. Just as in the thirties, this same Fascist violence holds a class objective: impose upon the already martyr Ukrainian people, the EU and USA troikas’ policies, plunder ( even more) Ukraine’s wealth, turn it into a land of slavery ( even more) and a basis to unleash new imperialist wars.
The European Commission, presided by Durão Barroso, the infamous Lages Summit host, the Summit of lies and the Iraq war. The EU is currently the European peoples’ main impoverishment agent. And the promoter of war and Fascism. Within Europe and the world , the great capital which commands the EU, desires new lebensraum. Their defeat is an urgent task. On May 25, one is given the opportunity to carry forward that defeat, by leading the resistance to vote for the CDU ( Unitary Democratic Coalition).
