01 Kasım 2011 /International Bulletin / Special Issue: 21

On 2-4 November, the G-20 meets for the sixth time, this year in Cannes, France. Besides the 19 major economies (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, UK and USA), the EU is represented by its European Commission, European Council, ECB and of course international institutions of the finance capital like IMF, WTO, OECD, ILO and the UN are also not missing. The picture is completed with some states invited like the United Arab Emirates or Spain. However, this is only the official side of the medal. Meanwhile the heads of each bourgeois state are negotiating how to get out most advantages in exploiting the labouring masses resources and try to assert its own interests in the fierce competition for world markets and spheres of influence, the masses of workers and labourers are protesting in the streets against imperialist exploitation, plunder and war.
Meanwhile the imperialists are debating topics like the Euro zone crisis, especially the continuing debt crisis in Greece, coordination of economic politics etc, .it turned out clearly once again that it will be highly difficult for them to agree on something fundamental, as they have all different positions focused on their own interests. France, the host of this years´ G-20 summit, included many comprehensive topics to the agenda like reforming the International Monetary System speaking of concepts like "Bretton Woods II". Another French project are certain attempts to replace the US dollar as international key currency. However, it does not look like agreements on even much smaller problems may be achieved, as differences are deepening and a common acting of the G-20 is limited to vague statements. For example Germany and the US have different approaches concerning the current crisis. Germany speaks a lot of saving and financial restructuring of the national budgets meanwhile the US are trying to stimulate economy by so-called stimulus packages. Moreover, the US, supported by France, are criticizing Germany and China for their export oriented developing strategies, claiming that this increases the global imbalances, which they consider as a reason for the crisis. Another point of disagreement is the intervention of the IMF into the European debt crisis. China and Brazil are offering "help" for Europe through the IMF; however both the US and the European states are against it. However, many G-20 states including the US are trying to put pressure on the EU to finally get under control the ongoing Euro zone crisis, which affects also world economy. France and Germany on the other hand are planning to push for the adoption of a financial transactions tax, also known as Tobin Tax, however this is opposed by the US, Japan, Brazil and others.
All these quarrels among the imperialist forces around the G-20 summit are showing two things: Firstly, during the world economic crisis it became obvious again that each state tries to rescue its own capital; that temporary alliances and international cooperation among the imperialists are always limited whereas their competition is always present. Secondly, none of them is able to solve the economic crisis. Their "solutions" are only about how to foist the consequences on the workers and labourers, how to get use of the crisis to improve their own position against their rivals, how to increase profits of the monopoly bourgeoisie. The recent crisis has clarified the increasing and decreasing imperialist/capitalist forces; what is being discussed in G-20 summit and numerous other summits is the share among those who have earned the most, those who have earned less and those who have lost during the crisis.
The workers, labourers and the oppressed of the world does not just watch from aside these dirty games and the negotiations on the basis of putting the burden of the crisis on to the shoulders of them. Millions of people take to the streets every passing day from North Africa to European countries, from Latin America to Asia. What - for now - fails in these actions and resistances is resolution and self-dependence on its own power and programme. The huge rebellions in North Africa were able to overthrow the dictatorships. This means that the workers and labourers are able to re-create the world for their own interests which are in common. Hundreds of thousands of workers, women and youth in Greece are burning down the symbols of the capitalist system. The "indignados" in Spain and other European countries are letting their anger rain upon the consequences of the capitalist system. This is the power that can really establish an equal, just and free world. However, this power has to define its goals. Otherwise, as it is clearly seen in the example of the North African countries, one dictator will be replaced by another, as the bourgeois capitalist system itself is a dictatorship for the exploited and the oppressed, no matter it is governed in forms of democracy or dictatorship. The indignados of Europe, the huge mass movement in Latin America, the anti-dictator rebellions in North Africa yet represent a limited danger for the capitalists, because they believe that the capitalist system may be reformed, that hunger and poverty may be reduced through regulative laws and their conditions of life may change by the overthrow of the representatives of oppression and exploitation such as Ben Ali, Bush and Gadhafi. This is the deadlock of the actual trade union struggles, of the social forums, of the counter-summits and all other struggles of the last 20 years. The ideologists of capitalism say that socialism has been defeated; and with a reaction against the defeat of the experiences of socialism until now, broad oppressed and exploited masses search for different alternatives which result in getting dragged into the ranks of bourgeois reformist forces and limiting itself with partial struggles. Likewise the fact that the failure of a strike or resistance does not mean not resisting any more, the temporary defeat of socialism cannot overshadow the fact that socialism is the only realistic future Project for workers, labourers and the humanity as a whole and it is the only program of solution in face of capitalism, of which the most disastrous consequences for workers and labourers have appeared once more during the economic crisis. This future project can become a reality only if the workers and labourers meet the organised revolutionary structures with a programme of revolution and socialism; with the parties which are their own political representatives.
Struggle against the plunderers of G-20 for the revolution and socialism!
The alternative of capitalism is socialism!