To the Presidium and the delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party (KP, Germany)
Dear comrades,
The Communist Front extends its militant greetings to the delegates and the Presidium of the 2nd Congress and, through them, to all members of the Communist Party.
Capitalism, having reached its final stage, reveals its inability to resolve its intrinsic contradictions. The capitalist crisis generates economic and political conflicts that increasingly take the form of multiple hotbeds of imperialist war for the control of markets, raw materials and energy sources, trade routes, and cheap labor power. Emerging capitalist powers such as China, India, and the other BRICS countries, under the pretext of “multipolarity,” are demanding a new division of world wealth proportional to their economic weight, challenging the hegemony of the increasingly crisis-ridden US–EU–NATO imperialist bloc, the role of the dollar, and, more broadly, the world order that emerged from the temporary victory of the counterrevolution in 1991. This confrontation and the competition between China and the United States for primacy within the capitalist world lie at the root of all current armed conflicts, often fought “by proxy” of the main imperialist powers and blocs by their respective local allies, and fuel the risk of direct military confrontation between nuclear powers.
The crisis of the U.S. and Euro-Atlantic imperialist bloc’s hegemony it leads increases its arrogance and aggressiveness. Beyond propaganda justifications and pretexts, there are clear economic, political, and geostrategic reasons and interests that have driven the United States to attack Syria, Nigeria, Venezuela, and most recently Iran, in an attempt to bring China’s energy supply sources under its control in order to constrain its growth. This responds to a precise strategy aimed at countering the gradual process of de-dollarization of international payments, the diversification of currency reserves, the search for alternative portfolio investments to U.S. Treasuries, and the development of alternatives to SWIFT for banking transactions in order to avoid the risks of sanctions and political blackmail. All these factors threaten the financing of the enormous U.S. public debt and the maintenance of its domestic consumption levels—sustained by the plundering of other countries’ resources, the import of capital from “allied” countries, and the unlimited issuance of currency—and push the United States toward military action.
In the Middle East, this logic underlies both the aggression against Iran and Lebanon, coordinated between Israel and the United States, as well as the attacks on Syria and Yemen, and the genocide carried out by the criminal Israeli state against the Palestinian people, who are victims not only of the colonial Zionist project but above all of the imperialist plans of the Euro-Atlantic bloc to exploit the Palestinian EEZ off Gaza and to transform that area into a hub for gas and oil pipelines to Europe as an alternative to maritime routes through the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
In the Western Hemisphere, the tightening of the economic blockade and threatening rhetoric against socialist Cuba, the aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro, are part of this same attempt by the United States to restore its dominant role in the Americas, trampling on peoples and their right to determine their own future.
Within the European Union, the capitalist crisis is manifesting with particular intensity, worsened by self-destructive anti-Russian sanctions and by the financial resources squandered in support of the corrupt fascist regime in Ukraine and in prolonging an already lost bloodbath. Inflation—exacerbated by rising oil and gas prices as a result of the disastrous political choices of the EU leadership regarding the war in Ukraine and the aggression against Iran by the United States and Israel—the recession into which, after Germany, other EU countries are also falling, the increase in military spending at the expense of social spending, the compression of wages and pensions, and the intensification of labor exploitation to meet the needs of the war economy are having a devastating impact on the proletariat and the popular strata across the EU. At the same time, we are witnessing an increasingly authoritarian and reactionary turn of the bourgeois state, which uses police and judicial repression against class struggle and political dissent to impose rearmament and the militarization of society and the economy, brutal exploitation of workers, the erosion of their political and trade union rights, and inhumane treatment of immigrants, including the establishment of offshore “camps” where they can be detained without any legal protection.struggle and political dissent to impose rearmament and the militarization of society and the economy, brutal exploitation of workers, the erosion of their political and trade union rights, and inhumane treatment of immigrants, including the establishment of offshore “camps” where they can be detained without any legal protection.struggle and political dissent to impose rearmament and the militarization of society and the economy, brutal exploitation of workers, the erosion of their political and trade union rights, and inhumane treatment of immigrants, including the establishment of offshore “camps” where they can be detained without any legal protection.
In this context, among EU member states, Germany is where the capitalist crisis is most clearly manifest, also as a consequence of the reckless political choices of the EU leadership and the national ruling class. Anti-Russian sanctioning extremism have helped plunge the country into a recession lasting more than three years, which is set to worsen due to the rising costs of energy supplies from alternative sources, far more expensive than Russian ones. Faced with this severe crisis, German capitalism seeks to respond with a rearmament program in the hope of restarting the accumulation cycle, while the real needs of the masses remain largely unmet. The consequences of these policies for the German proletariat are severe: mass layoffs in manufacturing, rising cost of living, longer working hours, and further erosion of welfare. The failure of social democracy in Germany has opened the way to a reactionary and militaristic turn, embodied by Chancellor Merz’ government, and to the rise of far-right parties such as AfD, which exploit popular discontent over involvement in the imperialist war in Ukraine and complicity in Israel’s crimes, of which Germany is the leading EU partner in military supplies.
Dear comrades, as communists we have the duty to study all aspects and developments of the capitalist crisis at both the national and international levels, and the interconnections between them, as the theoretical basis guiding our revolutionary political action. We are convinced that only the working class can confront this multifaceted conflict scenario, since only it can halt the armament production and logistics—as demonstrated by mass mobilizations and workers’ strikes in Europe and the Mediterranean area in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Communists, as the organized vanguard of the working class, have the duty to elevate these mobilizations to a new and more advanced level, preventing them from being reabsorbed by reformist and social-democratic forces, and building a strong movement with a clear anti-capitalist and anti-monopoly orientation capable of fighting against rearmament and imperialist war, for the withdrawal of our countries from the EU, NATO, and any other imperialist alliance, with the awareness that the struggle for peace is inseparable from the struggle against capitalism, which inherently carries the seeds of war. We must also be able to link the struggle for the immediate improvement of workers’ living and working conditions with the struggle for the seizure of power and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat for the construction of socialism-communism, avoiding both economistic minimalism and extremist, inconclusive maximalism.
Dear comrades, we have repeatedly had the opportunity to appreciate your theoretical consistency and your firm, genuinely Marxist-Leninist ideological stance through your publications, and we are confident that you share with us the urgency of dealing with the tasks before us with the necessary seriousness and commitment to building, in our respective countries, a large and strong Communist Party—impenetrable to bourgeois ideological influence, firmly internationalist, rooted in the working class, and capable of confronting present challenges under any conditions and by any necessary means.
With the hope of further strengthening our bilateral relations and developing joint political initiatives, we wish you a productive 2nd Congress, for the growth of your Party, for moving onto the offensive in the interest of the working class and our shared struggle for socialism-communism.
LONG LIVE SOCIALISM-COMMUNISM!
WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Rome, April 17, 2025
COMMUNIST FRONT (ITALY)
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee
