To the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ecuador
Dear comrades,
On the occasion of the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Ecuador, we express our warmest revolutionary greetings and deepest fraternal solidarity.
For nearly a century, the Communist Party of Ecuador has stood as a vanguard of the proletariat, a resolute defender of the interests of the working class, the peasants, and the oppressed. We sincerely welcome and support the process of reorganization and renewal the Communist Party of Ecuador undertook to increase its influence inside the labor movement on a consistent Marxist-Leninist basis. In an area, such as Latin America, marked by deep inequality, political instability, and relentless imperialist exploitation, the need for a revolutionary alternative rooted in the principles of Marxism-Leninism is more urgent than ever.
Today, imperialist war, economic crisis, and ecological devastation that are tearing the world and make the need for a revolutionary overthrowing of capitalism more relevant and urgent than ever. The ongoing war in Ukraine between capitalist Russia and the US-led Euro-Atlantic imperialist bloc, not without contradictions within itself; the EU and NATO aggressive expansion toward East; the escalation in the Middle East; the genocide of the Palestinian people by the Zionist and fascist Israeli state; the conflict between Pakistan and India and the increasing tension in Asia are not random events, but symptoms of the intensification of competition between imperialist powers to seek a way out of the general capitalist crisis to the detriment of competitors, through the acquisition of larger market shares, control over energy sources, natural and human resources, and trade routes. “Multipolarity” is the central slogan of capitalist China and Russia’s foreign policy that hides the demand for a new re-division of the world by emerging imperialist power. Let alone that the growing interimperialist rivalry may lead to a direct clash between nuclear powers with devastating consequences for humankind and the planet.
The costs of the gigantic rearmament plans underway are openly dumped onto the shoulders of the proletariat and the popular strata, who will have to endure increasingly lower wages, insufficient to cope with the inflation that always goes with war economy, cuts in social spending and essential services. In order to impose such policies, the bourgeois states resort to authoritarianism -up to invalidation of elections when their result is unwelcome to the dominant class-, police spying control and repression against the labor movement and the communists. Anti-communist falsification of history and censorship have become an increasing practice throughout the capitalist world, from the USA to the EU and Russia. We emphasize that these anti-worker, authoritarian and warmongering policies are often implemented by social democracy and the bourgeois left, whose political bankruptcy favors the electoral success of far-right parties and paves the way to fascism.
In Latin America, the responsibilities of social democracy for the worsening of the living conditions of the working class are particularly evident. The so-called “Socialism of the 21st Century,” the new form of social democracy by which various progressive governments in Latin America were inspired, has ultimately revealed its historical and theoretical limitations. Rooted in reformist illusions and bourgeois formal democracy, rather than revolutionary rupture and proletarian dictatorship, this model has failed to address the structural foundations of capitalist exploitation and imperialist dependency. The classless vision of its identity politics, which fuels the illusion that there can be revolutionary subjects other than the working class, has led the “socialism of the 21st century” to prioritizing alliances with sections of the bourgeoisie. The attempt at humanizing capitalism instead of overthrowing it and destroying the bourgeois state has turned these progressive governments into corrupted regimes, increasingly distant from the working masses and, for this reason, increasingly repressive. The case of Venezuela under the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) is a stark example. The PSUV regime has in practice betrayed the revolutionary aspirations of the working class. It has increasingly adopted an anti-worker, anticommunist, and authoritarian course—criminalizing independent labor organizations, persecuting the Communist Party of Venezuela, and implementing the restoration of an oil-revenue-based capitalism, therefore seriously dependent on overseas market. The deepening economic crisis, exacerbated by imperialist sanctions, has been used as a pretext to dismantle workers’ rights, privatize key industries, and repress dissent. Far from advancing toward socialism, the PSUV has become a tool for managing the crisis of Venezuelan capitalism on behalf of a new bureaucratic bourgeoisie. This reactionary degeneration underscores the necessity of revolutionary leadership, proletarian independence, and the uncompromising struggle for genuine socialism.
We are convinced that the strengthening of Communist and Workers’ Parties, deeply rooted in the working class and coherently based on scientific socialism and Marxism-Leninism, as well as close cooperation among them in the spirit of proletarian internationalism, is essential for confronting the offensive of capital and building the conditions for revolutionary rupture in Latin America and worldwide.
Dear comrades, we reaffirm our solidarity with the Communist Party of Ecuador and our shared commitment to the struggle for socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
LONG LIVE SOCIALISM-COMMUNISM!
PROLETARIANS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Rome, 05/17/2025
COMMUNIST FRONT OF ITALY
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee
