Proletarian Review 16

Information in English of "Proletarische Rundschau"
Published by KOMAK-ML, Communist Action – Marxist-Leninist (Austria)

Front cover: Socialism, Theses on Women Liberation, Peoples War in Nepal, Workers Struggle and Love Back cover: Red Flag 283 (MLPA), Info Distributor 67, Marx Reading Room, Cartoon, Imprint

No. 16, September 2004 (133 apc)

Dear readers,

Holiday is over – daily routine is back and together with it the unbearable unjust conditions subjugating us.

We produce all the riches in Austria, therefore we also have to determine what must be done in this country, in the state and economy. We, the female and male workers at the assembly line, construction workers, programmers, medical-technical assistants, lorry drivers, shop-assistants, workers at the blast furnace, typists,... We all together form the class of manual and mental workers und must have the political power. And not the masters of the factories, banks, lands whose properties will be taken away by us so-that these will belong to all of us, and so-that planning and production really serve the big majority of the people. Another world is possible – in a socialist social order.

But what shall this new world look like? What historical experiences are there? What was it like in the Soviet Union at that time, in the European people’s democracies, in China – before the workers and masses of the people were suppressed and exploited by a new bureaucratic capitalist class?

The main subject of this issue of Proletarian Review No. 16 is Socialism. It is clear for us as Communists that we cannot get there on a peaceful road, but that a proletarian revolution is necessary during which the working class will forcibly seize the political power and expropriate all former exploiters and suppressors, subjugate them und compel them to make a humble contribution to production. In this issue, we do not deal with the road to socialism but how socialism shall look like referring to the past experiences of the workers in power. We bring articles about the political, economic, and cultural situation in socialism, especially referring to the experiences from Soviet Union, China and Albania.

There are many reasons for being a communist, but one has nearly always been neglected up to now: Love. Why are relations between people so complicated and how could that all become better – after the revolution? These burning issues are examined in our article “Only Love is fine”.

Apart from the main subject of Socialism we have news about People’s War in Nepal where the encircle­ment of the capital of Kathmandu from the country seems to have been forwarded rather far, as we can also find out from bourgeois media.
Moreover we bring the first part of a historic article about the Liberation Struggle of the Kurds. And we document a leaflet for the NATO summet in Istanbul by “trotz alledem” .
In Germany resistance has gathered during summer and we report a bit about the Monday demonstrations. That’s not all by far – as you will certainly find out yourselves when reading...

In the middle of this issue you will find – no, not a poster! – but the outcome of a long process of discussion: our “Theses on Women’s Liberation”.
We hope to receive your critique, comments and of course also praise on these and other articles!

Have fun when reading, wishes

Contents of Issue No. 16, September 2004 - 64 pages

• Letter to the Readers
• “Defending the site”: Wealth is time you have at your disposal, nothing else 
  (Siemens leaflet, p.3)
• No silly season in summer – for workers in Germany!
  (Hartz IV, p.6)
• We’ve had enough!
  (from “Was tun?” / What to be done? – workers paper, DaimlerChrysler Sindelfingen, p.6)
• No to Hartz and other crying shame!
  (p.7)
• Get out of EU – but hurry up!
  (article from “Left Turn” by Communist Youth Bad Ischl, Austria p.8)
• Solidarity with the strike at Post.Bus
  (solidarity message of KOMAK-ML, June 2004, p.9)
• The struggle against privatisation ... what has happened up to now...
  (p.9)
• All but utopia? Utopian Socialism
  (p.9)
• Dictatorship of the proletariat
  (Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, p.12)
• Good coucil/counsel is difficult – Soviet democracy fighting against bureaucracy in Soviet Union
  (p.13)
• Class struggle in socialism
  (p.17)
• Revolution – and now? Problems of socialist reconstruction in PR China 1949-1956
  (p.20)
• People’s democracies in Europe and transition to socialism in Albania
  (p.24)
• Socialism in Austria
  (p.27)
• Theses on women’s liberation
  (centre pages 1-7)
• Only love is fine... true obstacles overcoming all love...
  (p.34)
• Nepal: In the liberated areas
  (p.36)
• Recent developments in people’s war in Nepal
  (p.39)
• Maoist uprising shifting proportion of power in rural Nepal
  (excerpts translated from NYT, 5Feb 2004, p.45)
• Com. Parvati: The question of women’s leadership in people’s war in Nepal
  (excerpts translated from: http:// www.monthlyreview.org/0203parvati.htm, p.46)
• Liberation struggle of the Kurds, part 1
  (p.49)
• ResIstanbul – becoming part of resistance against NATO in Istanbul
  (leaflet of TA, p.53)
• ResIstanbul
  (text in turkish. p.55)
• Iskence davasi adli tip kurumendan gelecek raporu bekliyor!
  (torture in Turkey, turkish text, p.57)
• Izmir DGM’nin mahkuiyet karari Yargitay 9. ceza dairesi tarafindan esestan bozuldu
  (salvaging in Turkey, turkish text, p.58)
• Leninism – reprint of 7 brochures of 1935
  (by ML-LiteratureDistribution, p.61)

List of Publications

(July to September 2004, in German if not otherwise mentioned)