Astonishing news

To our astonishment, we discovered that the just democratically elected committee-member Hug Yue left the party without any notice or justification. Hug took chair in both committees after he had put himself to the front during the meeting and got elected. Ex-comrade Hug Yue has, due to his untrustworthy behaviour towards the membership, been banned from the land of CPSL and will not be allowed to become member anymore. More info will follow concerning the committees.

Proposals for Upcoming CPSL Membership Meeting

The following are three proposals submitted by HenryJames Milestone to the upcoming membership meeting of the CPSL on June 24. Any proposals for amendments can be sent to him at comleague@gmail.com.

Resolution on CPSL Central Administration

1. The CPSL establishes two democratically-elected bodies to serve as the central coordination and administration of the party: the Building Committee and the Organizing Committee.

2. The Building Committee is responsible for administration and maintenance of the land and party HQ. Building Committee members must also be members of the CPSL Fund Committee, a separate entity.

3. The Organizing Committee is responsible for the administration and coordination of the party. Organizing Committee members must be members in good standing in the CPSL.

4. There will be three members on each committee. One member will server on both committees, with the total number of comrades serving being five.

5. These five members, when meeting jointly, will function as the Central Council of the party, responsible for scheduling party functions and events, as well as administering the party's blog/newsletter.

6. The Central Council is the leadership and voice of the party in between monthly membership meetings.

7. All meetings of the B.C., O.C. and C.C. will be open to any member of the CPSL, who may participate in meetings with the right to speak and cast a consultative vote.

8. The B.C., O.C. and C.C. will report to the monthly membership meetings on their activities and decisions.

9. The membership has the right to reverse or modify any decision made by the B.C., O.C. or C.C.

10. Members elected shall serve a six-month term, and can serve consecutively for no more than two terms.

11. The membership reserves the right to remove from office at any time any or all members of any committee, and elect members to take their place.

12. The membership retains authority, sovereignty and control over all decisions made by the B.C., O.C. or C.C.

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Resolution on Policy toward Political Opponents and
Those Who Fundamentally Disagree with Communism

1. Generally speaking, the CPSL HQ and the land it sits on is considered to be a public space, where anyone is welcome to come and discuss political issues, even if they disagree with us on the most fundamental of questions.

2. Spontaneously-organized meetings of members that wish to avoid potential interaction with political opponents may take place on the Fourth Floor of the CPSL HQ at any time.

3. If members wish to have a scheduled meeting of the CPSL closed to non-members, the Building Committee is mandated to adjust the land access rights accordingly.

4. Individuals who are sworn enemies of the CPSL, declared fascists and/or griefers who take action to disrupt the party, its functions or presence, may be unilaterally banned by any member of the Central Council without prior approval.

5. Individuals who take no action against the CPSL, but may be considered to be a potential threat to the party or its activities by their presence, cannot be banned without the approval of the membership. The Central Council may tentatively approve banning or restricting an individual, but the decision must be ratified by the membership.

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Resolution on Advertising Political
Organizations and Their Events

1. The CPSL, as a non-sectarian communist political/cultural organization in Second Life, seeks to enhance the knowledge and understanding of both comrades and visitors to our HQ.

2. As such, we should encourage our members to learn more about organizations, both in Real Life and in Second Life, that are in general accordance with the principles and aims of the CPSL.

3. Space on the Third Floor of the CPSL HQ shall be allotted for other political organizations, from RL or SL, that are in general accordance with the principles and aims of the party, to place a small advertisement providing the reader with general information about their organization.

4. Organizational advertisements should be no larger than 1m by 1m square, and no more than 0.1m thick, so as to be equal in size and offer no special preference. Advertisements may contain notecards listing the RL URL of an organization's website and/or SLURL to their land, an introductory statement about the organization, and a recent political statement or text of a publication. The number of notecards contained in any advertisement should not exceed five.

5. Advertisements for events that are in general accord with the principles and aims of the CPSL shall be handled on a case-by-case basis, in terms of placement, size, etc., by the Building Committee and Central Council. If they cannot resolve the question among themselves, then the membership shall have the right to decide.

CPSL General meeting

Dear comrades, you all are invited to participate in the first general meeting of CPSL. The growth of the Party, and the differences amongst comrades, raised issues that have to be addressed.

The meeting is scheduled on June 24, 12 pm PDT - 8 pm GMT at our HQ in Vigdorova. The topics to be debated are as follow:

1. decide upon day and time for regular meetings
2. decide upon the need/structure/permissions/tasks of an central or organising committee
3. decide upon CPSL policy concerning people allowed on CPSL property
4. decide upon CPSL policy concerning advertising third party (RL/SL) org's/parties/events on CPSL-land

Other topics can be discussed if required by comrades.

On The Duty of Communists for Anti-imperialist Internationalism

The following was submitted by comrade Hug Yue as a contribution to the discussion on the communist position on Iraq.


We start by acknowledging that a nation has the right freely to determine its own destiny. It has the right to arrange its life as it sees fit, without, of course, trampling on the rights of other nations. This is beyond dispute. Yet the struggle for the freedom of self-determination is a bourgeois-democratic demand, not a socialist one. What is the position to be taken by communists on the National Question in light of the objective conditions as they exist in the world today?

We can get some idea by looking at the position of the communists of 1904. Tsarist Russia was a backward, semi-feudal and semi-colonial country and an imperialist state. It was economically subordinated to the wealthier imperialisms of Britain, America, France, Germany and Belgium. In 1904 tsarist Russia was at war with Japan—a young and aggressive imperialist power. The immediate cause of the clash was the conflict between Russia and Japan over China (Manchuria), but in fact, Japan was aiming to invade and conquer Siberia.

The war of 1904 between Russia and Japan was a war between two rival gangsters. Russian Tsarism oppressed the workers and peasants, but would Japanese rule have been any better? It is sufficient to recall the horrors of Japanese colonial rule in China to answer the question. What was the position of the Russian Marxists in the war of 1904? All the tendencies, from the Bolsheviks to the Mensheviks, adopted a defeatist position—t hat is they stood for the defeat of Russia. This was even the position of the Russian Liberals (Cadets), and every democratic trend. The defeat of Russia would lead to the overthrow of Tsarism—that was the reason why all revolutionaries and consistent democrats stood for a defeatist policy. Their position was shown to be correct in the first Russian revolution of 1905, which flowed directly from the defeat of Russia in the war. Surely we can also agree that revolutionary defeatism is just as viable a strategy now.

In October of 1896 Rosa Luxemburg wrote an article in Sächsische Arbeiter-Zeitung, the German Social Democratic paper in Dresden. The piece was titled "Social Democracy and the National Struggle in Turkey." Social Democracy in those days was just another name for communism. At the time the Armenians wanted to separate from Turkey. Luxemburg said, “Now what can be the position of Social Democracy towards the events in Turkey? In principle, Social Democracy always stands on the side of aspirations for freedom. The Christian nations, in this case the Armenians, want to liberate themselves from the yoke of Turkish rule, and Social Democracy must declare itself unreservedly in support of their cause.” Like the Iraqi resistance, the Armenians secessionists were not led by the working class. Unlike the Armenian secessionists, however, the Iraqis are suffering from a brutal foreign military occupation.

Today U.S. imperialism is waging an illegal war of aggression against the people of Iraq in what amounts to an international act of armed robbery to steal their oil. As this war unfolds the gangster clique in Washington is actively planning an expanded war against the nation of Iran. With Iranian oil under U.S. control, the U.S. will own the oil spigot that regulates the ability of China’s economy to grow. This is a recipe for another world war. We can see signs of this now, with the joint military exercises, which include strategic bombers that took place between China and Russia last year. And also by the “strategic and cooperative partnership” entered into between China and India on April 12, 2005—a partnership in which “India and China can together reshape the world order,” says India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. The international left cannot sleepwalk through yet another widening of the war. Marching in circles carrying signs is not enough to prevent the looming global catastrophe.

There are many parallels between the national liberation struggle of the people of Iraq today and the struggle of the Vietnamese people to expel that same invader from their lands. The response to each should be the same—solidarity. We must fight for the defeat of our own ruling class and for victory to those opposing the foreign military occupation of their lands.

Soon it will be two years since researchers from Johns Hopkins University collected data for a study which concluded 655,000 additional Iraqi deaths were caused by the U.S. war, and things have only gotten worse since then. They are dying from drinking the water; as many as one in eight Iraqi children die before reaching the age of five. The Iraqi people are fighting against the cause and source of these conditions—the U.S. government.

The struggle of the Iraqi people to expel the foreign invaders from their land is an anti-imperialist struggle. It is the duty of anti-imperialists in the occupier nation to support this struggle, if only on a tactical level (such as when they kill the invading military forces). Those who ridicule the notion that the Iraqis are fighting a legitimate battle that deserves our material (if critical) support should be exposed for the opportunists they are. This issue is not complicated. Ask yourselves these two simple questions, is this an anti-imperialist struggle? Yes or no? Does international law support the right of the Iraqi people to take up arms against foreign occupiers? Yes or no? Notwithstanding this very straight forward issue, there are those who objectively side with the occupation by proudly proclaiming, “I will not sell out Iraqi women, gays, and communists to a bunch of Islamic fascists.” In their zeal for political correctness they crawl into bed with their own ruling class.

These are the same “leftists” who call advocating support for the Iraqi and Afghani people “the terribly flawed logic of ‘my enemy's enemy is my friend’.” They, like Gorge W. Bush, will call the resistance fighters “Islamo fascists” or some variation of the term, they will trot out the Islamist’s treatment of women, etc. Such people do not really understand nature of the global struggle against U.S. imperialism. Only privileged Americans would characterize support for this anti-imperialist struggle as undeserving of our support. These “comrades” have not internalized the important lesson that class trumps all other forms of oppression.

There are those who believe that the central oppression is not one of class but is, rather, gender based, and if only women were in power it would all be so different. Well, yes, with a bunch of Margaret Thatcher types running the show it would be slightly different, but capitalism and imperialism would remain. The same is true if Blacks were calling the shots, or gays, etc. Yes, there would be important differences, such as progress in the areas of sexism, racism, and homophobia, but class would out in the end. Without a radical transformation of existing class relations it would be business as usual. Just look at South Africa. Now they have a capitalist government with a Black face selling weapons materials to Israel.

While this segment of the left prattles on and on about rights of women and the other crimes of the “Islamo Fascists,” they do not address the issue of oppressed and oppressor nation, or of occupied or occupier nation, or imperialist and anti-imperialist struggles. No, they do the same thing Bush and the bourgeois media do, hold up examples of the evil religious fundamentalists. The question is, however, do these wrongs negate our duty as anti-imperialists to support their struggle to be free of the foreign invaders—the invaders acting in our names? For the most part the answer on the left is yes, that indeed the islamo fascists (most of these people don’t know what fascism really is) must endure the crimes of our government because they do not meet the political correctness test we here in the occupying nation have set for them.

Sure, it would be nice if the Iraqi and Afghanistan resistance movements were led by communists or other working class formations. But the sad fact of the matter is that our government, with the silent acquiescence of the American people, installed and/or supported reactionary dictators like the Shah (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi) of Iran and Saddam Hussein in Iraq. These two U.S. supported thugs murdered many of the progressives, leaving the religious leaders as the primary force to oppose the current occupations. Are we to now wrench our bloody hands and say “we can’t help you because you are not communists” or because “we disagree with you on the issue of women’s rights or gay equality”? To do so would be to elevate those issues above the right of a people to throw off a foreign invader; it would be a slap in the face of the global struggle against U.S. imperialism. It’s not about fascists versus imperialists; it’s about the people choosing their own fate.

As a comrade from the Communist Party of Peru recently told me, “National liberation will eliminate the contradictions from foreign occupier to capitalist and proletariat In Peru we need to fight for national liberation before we can even think about building socialism.” When Hugo Chavez of Venezuela was asked by a reporter “How would you end the Iraq war?” He said, “If I was an Iraqi, I would fight for my homeland.” How true. This simple and clear issue should not divide us. It should be obvious that foreign occupation is not in the interest of the Iraqi or the U.S. working class.

While people in other parts of the world are fighting and dying in the just struggle against international imperialism, we here in the belly of the beast enjoy a special privilege of limiting our feeble protests to only lawful means (read acceptable to the bourgeoisie). This is nothing short of American Exceptionalism—a racist belief that our lives are more precious than those of our darker-skinned comrades in places like Palestine, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq. History demands more from us.

In her Junius Pamphlet, Rosa Luxemburg quoted Fredrich Engels as saying “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” She goes on to say, “[T]he triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization. At first, this happens sporadically for the duration of a modern war, but then when the period of unlimited wars begins it progresses toward its inevitable consequences. Today, we face the choice exactly as Fredrich Engels foresaw … either the triumph of imperialism and the collapse of all civilization …. or the victory of socialism, that means the conscious active struggle of the international [working class] against imperialism and its method of war.” Today we are in the period of “unlimited wars” and now stand at that crossroads—the victory of socialism or world-wide death and destruction.

War in Iraq: What Do We Marxists Defend?

The following is a translation of the previous article, submitted by comrade Lupe Matova.


As marxists, what should be our position on the war in Iraq?

It is without a doubt that it is a difficult to understand the complex situation which developed. This deserves a profound examination of which the agents of inventions are. Do not be misled by the distorted information given to us by the media owned by large capitalist monopolies.

This media is utilized for the United States and their allies for presenting the Iraqi insurgency like a group of fanatical of the Islamist fundamentalists. It is the same divisions in the various factions, principly the Sunnies and the Shiites who go about terrorizing and indiscriminately kill the civilian population.

This permits the occupation army to show the war like its a "war against terrorism" and presents themselves like the " saviours of democracy", defenders of the population who are incapable of taking their destiny into their own hands. Using the media, they convince public opinion that it is urgent necessity to maintain themselves in the territory of Iraq and thus control (They[US] Love them...) the energy resources of the region.

In reality, these fundamentalist groups constitute a small part of the resistance movements, represent only 10% of all attacks against the occupational army, lies that they are the authors of all the attacks on the civilian populations, like the car bombs in the markets, the suicide attacks in the mosques, etc. These actions favour imperialism and go against the truth of the resistance. Hence the measure of that pass the time, they will intensify, probably for the position to accomplish the occupational army

(We will not forget that the Islamist extremism that has existed for 4 decades, caused by the United States Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, when the United States created and financed it before the rise to power of Nasser in Egypt and many other Islamist Populists of the Left in the middle east and Islamic countries when they represented a threat for the interests of the Imperialists in the relation of petroleum.)

The real resistance is to the occupation and with the support of 80% of the Iraqi population, is carrying out a guerrilla war, centralizing its objective on the military mostly the occupational army and the collaborationists: The national guard and the Iraqi Police, military services created by the occupier to protect itself from the resistances. Its being used right now in counter insurgent operations. In one interview the CEOSI(national campaign against the occupation and by the sovereignty of Iraq) did on Abu Yusef, member of the resistance and former member of the dissolved former armed forces explained that the " The direction of the resistance is formed principly of former members of the Armed forces as well as members of the Ba'ath Party, now both are dissolved. A political organization has been created to integrate members of the old armed forces into the Resistances, the Official Free Movement(FOM or OFM I don't know how the name is in English) taking the name of the organization for official nasserists, hardened by the revolution of 1958 and that overthrew the monarchy. Also the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance and the Union of the People, a group that split from the collaborationist Communist Party of Iraqi. Together with more groups, they are discussing the creation of a National Liberation Front."

Abu Yusef, also explained that the "Iraqi resistance rejects terrorism, the kidnappings, the extortion, the assaults on residences and the attacks against temples.They protect the academic and Public Institutions because they are collective property of the Iraqi People. The Iraqi resistances have objectives for the expulsion of the occupiers and the preservation of the unity of the territory of Iraq and the Iraqi people."

Its clear that like all national liberation movements its formed by mixed groups of different tendencies that are with contradictions, some progressive, and others reactionary like of the Islamist fundamentalists, all with a point in common thats the fight against the United States. Something similar happened in Europe during the German occupations when the resistance had in its ranks, reactionaries with monarchist elements as well as communists. This fact in no way put the progressive character of the national liberation movement an issue.

The Marxists have to support the Iraqi liberation movement, in the same manner that the Iraqi Marxists participate in it, but not only disintegrating themselves in together of the movements, without surrendering their ideological and organizational independence. Exposing clearly that the fight by the national liberation can only triumph like a fight for a social liberation Denouncing the reactionary character of islamic extremism and the opportunism of the leaders, showing them like the other face of the same coin of Imperialism. Proposing within the movement a basic common program for the socialist transformation of society and the means to carry it out. A political program that attacks the Imperialist occupation, the fundamentals of feudalism and capitalism. Make a call out to iraqi youth and workers so that they make return to their revolutionary and anti-imperialist traditions that they have showed greatly on many on many occasions and to convince that this movements can only be founded on the bases of the working class, that they are the only class able to unite with different religious groups,ethnicities, nationalities and social stratums with the common objective of social transformation. And defend what is the only way out, the only way to defeat imperialism, is a unified revolutionary fight against the occupation , oppression and sectarianism.

GUERRA DE IRAQ: ¿QUE DEFENDEMOS LOS MARXISTAS?

Como marxistas, ¿cual tendría que ser nuestra posición ante la guerra de Irak?

Es indudable que la complejidad del contexto en la que se desarrolla merece un profundo exámen de cuales son los agentes intervinientes para no dejarnos engañar por las informaciones distorsionadas que nos ofrecen los medios de comunicación afines a los grandes monopolios capitalistas.

Estos medios son utilizados por EEUU y sus aliados para presentarnos a la insurgencia iraquí como un compendio de grupos fanáticos de corte integrista islamico, ellos mismos divididos en varias facciones, principalmente sunies y chiitas, quienes se enfrentan a su vez entre ellas en una sangrienta contienda asesinando indiscriminadamente a la población civil.

Eso permite a las fuerzas de ocupación mostrar esta guerra, como la"guerra contra el terrorismo" y presentarse como los "salvadores de la democracia", defensores de la población, incapaz ella de tomar en sus manos su propio destino. De esa forma, convencer a la opinión pública la necesidad imperiosa de mantenerse en territorio iraquí y así controlar (eso quisieran ellos...) los recursos energéticos de esa zona.

En realidad, estos grupos integristas constituyen una pequeña parte del movimiento de resistencia, representando sólo un 10% de todos los ataques contra las fuerzas de ocupación, mientras que son los autores prácticamente en su totalidad de los ataques a la población civil, como los coches bombas en los mercados, los ataques suicidas en mezquitas, etc. Estas acciones en definitiva favorecen al imperialismo y van en contra de la verdadera resistencia. De ahí que a medida que pasa el tiempo, se van intensificando, probablemente por una actitud cómplice de las propias fuerzas de ocupación.

(No nos olvidemos que el extremismo islámico tiene sus orígenes hace tres o cuatro décadas, propiciado por el secretario de estado americano John Foster Dulles, cuando EEUU lo fomentó y financió ante la subida de Nasser en Egipto y de muchos otros líderes populistas de izquierda en Oriente Medio y paises islámicos cuando estos representaban una amenaza para los intereses imperialistas en relación con el petróleo.)

La verdadera resistencia a la ocupación, con un apoyo del 80% de la población iraquí, está llevando a cabo una guerra de guerrillas, centrandose en objetivos militares tanto del ejército de ocupación como de los colaboracionistas : la guardia nacional y la policía iraquí, milicias creadas por los ocupantes para protegerse de la resistencia y que están siendo utilizadas actualmente en operaciones contrainsurgentes. En una entrevista que la CEOSI (campaña nacional contra la ocupación y por la soberanía de Iraq) le hizo a Abu Yusef, miembro de la resistencia y ex-miembro de las fuerzas armadas ya disueltas, éste explicaba que " la dirección de la resistencia esta formada principalmente por antiguos miembros de las fuerzas armadas así como por miembros del partido Baath, ahora ambos disueltos.Se ha creado una organización política que integra a los antiguos miembros del ejército en la resistencia, el Movimiento de Oficiales Libres (FOM), que toma su nombre de la organización creada por oficiales nasseristas durante la revolución de 1958 y que derrocó a la monarquía. También se unen la Alianza Patriótica Iraquí y la Union del Pueblo, un grupo que se escindió del colaboracionista Partido Comunista Iraquí. Junto a más grupos, están discutiendo la creación de un Frente de Liberación Nacional."

Abu Yusef, también explicaba que la "resistencia iraquí rechaza el terrorismo, los secuestros, la extorsión, los asaltos a viviendas y ataques contra templos, protege las instituciones académicas y públicas, porque son propiedad colectiva del pueblo iraquí. La resistencia iraquí tiene como objetivo la expulsión de los ocupantes y la preservación de la unidad del territorio de Iraq y el pueblo iraquí."

Queda claro que como en todo movimiento de liberación nacional, este está formado por grupos heterogéneos, de distintas tendencias, que son hasta contradictorias, algunas progresistas, y otras, reaccionarias como la de los integristas islámicos, todos con un punto en común que es la lucha contra los estadunidenses. Algo parecido sucedió en Europa durante la ocupación alemana, cuando la resistencia tenía entre sus filas, a elementos reacionarios monárquicos, asi como comunistas. Este hecho , de ninguna manera ponía en cuestión el carácter progresista del conjunto del movimiento de liberación nacional.

Los marxistas tenemos que apoyar este movimiento de liberación iraquí, de la misma manera que los marxistas iraquíes participan en el, pero no sólo desintegrandose en el conjunto del movimiento, sino manteniendo su independencia ideológica y organizativa. Exponiendo claramente que la lucha por la liberación nacional sólo puede triunfar como lucha por una liberación social. Denunciando el carácter reaccionario del integrismo islámico y el oportunismo de sus líderes, mostrándolos como la otra cara de la misma moneda del imperialismo. Proponiendo dentro del movimiento, un programa común básico para la transformación socialista de la sociedad y los medios para llevarla a cabo. Un programa político que ataque la explotación imperialista, el feudalismo integrista y el capitalismo. Hacer un llamamiento a los jóvenes y trabajadores iraquíes para que retomen sus tradiciones revolucionarias y antiimperialistas de las que ya han hecho gala en muchas ocasiones, y convencer que este movimiento sólo se puede fundamentar en base a una dirección obrera, que es la única clase capaz de unir a los distintos grupos religiosos, étnicos, nacionalidades, estratos sociales con el objetivo común de la trasformación social.
Y defender que la única salida, la única manera de derrotar al imperialismo, es una lucha revolucionaria unificada contra la ocupación, la opresión y el sectarismo.

Opening a Discussion on Iraq

Over the next few days, members of the CPSL will be submitting articles and discussion pieces related to the question of what should be the communist position on the war and occupation of Iraq, as well as on conflicts between imperialist and non-imperialist states. Your comments are welcome on these submissions.

Proposal for CPSL Central Administration

The following was submitted by HenryJames Milestone for the upcoming CPSL membership meeting on June 24.

1. The CPSL establishes two democratically-elected bodies to serve as the central coordination and administration of the party: the Building Committee and the Organizing Committee.

2. The Building Committee is responsible for administration and maintenance of the land and party HQ. Building Committee members must also be members of the CPSL Fund Committee, a separate entity.

3. The Organizing Committee is responsible for the administration and coordination of the party. Organizing Committee members must be members in good standing in the CPSL.

4. There will be three members on each committee. One member will server on both committees, with the total number of comrades serving being five.

5. These five members, when meeting jointly, will function as the Central Council of the party, responsible for scheduling party functions and events, as well as administering the party's blog/newsletter.

6. The Central Council is the leadership and voice of the party in between monthly membership meetings.

7. All meetings of the B.C., O.C. and C.C. will be open to any member of the CPSL, who may participate in meetings with the right to speak and cast a consultative vote.

8. The B.C., O.C. and C.C. will report to the monthly membership meetings on their activities and decisions.

9. The membership has the right to reverse or modify any decision made by the B.C., O.C. or C.C.

10. Members elected shall serve a six-month term, and can serve consecutively for no more than two terms.

11. The membership reserves the right to remove from office at any time any or all members of any committee, and elect members to take their place.

12. The membership retains authority, sovereignty and control over all decisions made by the B.C., O.C. or C.C.

CPSL General meeting

Dear comrades, you all are invited to participate in the first general meeting of CPSL. The growth of the Party, and the differences amongst comrades, raised issues that have to be addressed.

The meeting is scheduled on June 24, 12 pm PDT - 8 pm GMT at our HQ in Vigdorova. The topics to be debated are as follow:

1. decide upon day and time for regular meetings
2. decide upon the need/structure/permissions/tasks of an central or organising committee
3. decide upon CPSL policy concerning people allowed on CPSL property
4. decide upon CPSL policy concerning advertising third party (RL/SL) org's/parties/events on CPSL-land

Other topics can be discussed if required by comrades.

Call to all “Communist Group”-member

This is a call to all comrades who are member of the open “Communist Group”(CG). This group had as purpose to act as frontportal to the Communist Party of SL, CPSL, which is membership on invitation. Due to the absence of the current formal owners of CG, there has been a lack of information how and why to get member of the CPSL.

If you want to become member of the CPSL come over to the Hq at Vigdorova.

For those comrades that are member of both, please leave the “Communist Group”.

Thanks for now.

Lupe Matova: Marxist methods for future organization of masses in SL

Why not? We would only have to ask ourselves how the revolutionary Marxists like Marx, Lenin, Engels, Trotsky, Luxemburg Rose had used this opportunity that the new technologies offer us to facilitate the political debate and the diffusion of its ideas... I believe sincerely that we do not have to underestimate any fource allowing us to get to the workers and the young people. And in this we can accede to millions people, many of which will be very critical with the capitalist system and look for some alternative.

A community of the Communist Party of Second Life can be one another route where to canalize this unsatisfaction, and to develop activities of debate and diffusion of the alternative that we, as communist, understand like the only one against wild and predator Capitalism , first cause of the social inequalities, injustias, misery, and political depravation of which we are witnesses and victims.

Tonight, in our seat of SL, we were debating the different proposals to carry out the most effective form for an active virtual militancy. And I'm to relate you about these the proposals:

1. Due to the difficulty of some comrades in using one or another language, we propose that different linguistic groups form their sections inside the CPSL; those groups would debate and vote the proposals and they would take them to a general meeting that could be that monthly meeting that Rock proposed, by some spokesman who masters the English language.
2. Also it was spoken to extend our influence within SL, and that the comrades who belong to several groups within SL commit themselves to send notices to all the members of those groups for/to some manifestations or specific activities.
   
3. Like an activity proposal, it has been suggested like one of the next subjects of protest: "For a worthy house", hot subject in all Europe and most of the planet, and that affects particularly the youth.
4. To use this blog as place of forum-debates where to discuss all of these questions and all the ones that are arising from the other comrades.

We wait for proposals......

Lupe Matova

Métodos marxistas para futura organización de masas en Second Life.

¿Porque no? Sólo tendríamos que preguntarnos cómo los marxistas revolucionarios como Marx, Lenin, Engels, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg hubieran utilizado esta oportunidad que nos brindan las nuevas tecnologías para facilitar el debate político y la difusión de sus ideas...Creo que sinceramente no tenemos que menospreciar ningún frente donde podamos llegar a los trabajadores y a los jóvenes. Y en este podemos acceder a millones de personas, de las cuales, muchas serán muy críticas con el sistema capitalista y busquen alguna alternativa.

Una comunidad del Partido Comunista de Second Life no puede ser menos que una vía más donde canalizar esas inquietudes y desarrollar una actividad de debate y de actividades de difusión de la alternativa que nosotros, como comunistas entendemos como la única al capitalismo salvaje y depredador, causa primera de las desigualdades sociales, injustias, miseria, y depravación política de las que somos testigos y víctimas.

Esta noche, en nuestra sede de SL, estuvimos debatiendo las diferentes propuestas que se nos ocurrían para acometer de la forma más efectiva una militancia virtual activa. Y os paso a relatar las propuestas que salieron de dicha charla:

1. Debido a la dificultad de algunos compañeros a la hora de usar uno u otro idioma, se propuso que se formaran grupos linguísticos dentro del PCSL, esos grupos debatirían y votarían las propuestas y las llevarían a una asamblea general que podría ser esa reunión mensual que proponía Rock, por algún portavoz que domine el inglés.

2. También se habló de ampliar el radio de influencia dentro de SL, y que los compañeros que esten en varias comunidades dentro de SL, se comprometan a mandar avisos a todos los miembros de esas comunidades cuando se desarrolle algunas manifestaciones o actividades específicas.

3. Como una propuesta de actividad, se ha sugerido como uno de los temas próximos de protesta: "Por una vivienda digna", tema caliente en toda Europa y en la mayor parte del planeta y que afecta particularmente al colectivo juvenil.

4. Utilizar este blog como lugar de foro-debate donde podriamos discutir todas estas cuestiones y todas las que vayan surgiendo de los demás compañeros.

Esperamos sus propuestas varias......

¡Hasta la victoria, siempre!

Ilia Miliev: Anti-G8 debriefing

Once the demos have been done, should be an evaluation. By simple calculation our number should be higher than we were there, even the success that we have felt on that days. The three location should be filled of people but not was the case.

In aim to be critics (as usual in lefty groups,as K. Marx did) we must to analyze the source of failures, and of course what was positive. But let's take point by point our problems:

• Banning: we soffered a heavy banning on 5th and 7th of June, on 5th it was not possible to tp easily FOR SPECIFIC LOCATIONS. One may think that could be associated to maintenance on 6th, but Why this specificity for the problems in one area? I experienced myself taht tp for any other regions was not so hard. On 7th we experienced the same for going to Linden mansion . Sorry,.., two days of bugs??!! This is more than suspicous that there is a hidden hand over our activities, the hand of Linden of course we still are uncomfortable for him. What should be the way to avoid this? May be to make the things more spontaneous. I bet that if we all decided to go there right now it would be easy, easier than the demo day.

• Call to different groups : more people than declared lefty people could be interested on progresist issues, and of course to be on a antiG8 demo. Our goals are more humanistic than politics. So many other people would come on the demo if they were called. I tried with some groups and some indenpendent people and some of them came. It would be nice to think in the rest. As Marx said the interest of a marxist has to be the same interest as the working class, so we have the majority of working class on the rest of avatars that are in other fun groups. As it happens on RL they don't join us for hating politics, ignorance or fear. These barrier must be broken, as we know.

• Commitment: this is a point not so critical, cause more or less we all were there, but there were some absecences. Refering to groups I must notice that the most terrible abscence was Izquierda Unida (left party in our country, Spain) : no one of coordination was present, there was no possiblity to contact to them and there has been no presence of them from one month ago!! Well, this is a point ot discuss seriously with them. From our people (SLDM, CPSL, anarchists and so) there were some absecences and some of them not justified, we must to suggest to this people a higher commitment. We should do this friendly, but firmly.

Well, more could be discussed, of course, but I think that these are the points I wanted to show.

Thank you to all, for your attention and support

Ilia Milev

Good success for the in-world Anti G8 demos

As we all hoped, the Anti G8 demo we kept yesterday, june 7, was a full success. This demo, that was organized in collaboration with several leftist groups of SL, started in Linden Mansion and the sim was filled in a few minutes by people carrying flags, pickets and other means for protest.
The demonstrants moved then to Pooley, again filling the sim in a few, and subsequently to Waterhead and Capitol Hill (photo).

The demo was paeceful but nevertheless we encountered armed opposition from WSE security and many of the fellows were hit and orbited without any reason.
At the moment we are considering the possible response to this coward aggression act. We anly can say that WSE acted in a childish and griefer-like way, and no way this offense can be leaved unwashed.

The Indymedia web site covered the demo, but here i must put in some criticism about the way SLLU handled the notice. According to Indymedia the demo seems to have been a SLLU action while it was organized by several groups, like CPSL itself, SLDM, SLAnarchy, Anti-FNSL and others. The SLLU tags, although really welcome, were not neither the most in number, and SLLU followed the plan, that actually was outlined by other groups responsibles, and particularly of SLDM and CPSL.

So Plot, we can deal with it, but you were really unfair. As long as i can see you maybe intend Left Unity as if yours is the only left group in SL. That is just your problem, but should SLLU behave this way in the next times it will have consequences regarding relationships with CPSL.
But hopefully SLLU will show to be less self centric in the future. All of i want to say is "well done".

Rock Bogdanovich