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January 19, 2023.  D Day! On that day, according to the Treasury Secretary, the United States will reach the debt ceiling limit. Thirty one point four Trillion dollars! That is as far as they can go! By law, the country cannot go any deeper into debt. Unless, of course, the debt ceiling is raised, as President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has in mind. This is generally a mere formality, as it has been raised numerous times in the past. Yet this year is different.

The problem is that the debt ceiling can only be raised by the House of Representatives, which is commonly referred to as the Congress. The Democrats have just lost control of the House, to the Republican Party, also known as the GOP, the Grand Old Party. 

The GOP may be divided on a great many issues, but they are united in their opposition to an increase in the debt ceiling. 

The Speaker of the House is now Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, who managed to secure that position, but only on the fifteenth ballot! The Congress has not been this deeply divided since the days of the Civil War! Not a coincidence!

In order to secure sufficient votes to become Speaker, McCarthy had to make certain concessions, ‘’behind closed doors’’, to ‘’Right Wing’’ members of his Party, according to the journalists. Even the other Republican Members of Congress are not aware of these ‘’secret agreements’’!

The journalists are reporting that the ‘’rank and file’’ GOP Members are furious! They are convinced that McCarthy has agreed to ‘’multiple backroom concessions’’ in order to secure the Office of Speaker of the House. 

Their bitterness is understandable! The Members who were the most loyal, devoted and reliable, those who have consistently voted along Party lines, have received no reward! The ‘’vocal minority’’, those who were labelled as ‘’trouble makers’’, have won! They are in their glory! They have been promised ‘’Lord knows what’’! McCarthy is not saying! Truly, the ‘’squeaky wheel gets the grease’’! 

The rank and file GOP Members are venting their frustrations to the journalists. They are referring to this as a ‘’conspiracy of silence’’. They are claiming that McCarthy just ‘’destroyed the Republican Party, as well as the House’’. In order to secure his position as Speaker, he ‘’systematically destroyed the norms and institutions of democracy’’. They are referring to this as an ‘’Insurrection by other means’’. 

Without doubt, such wild talk has never been heard before, in the House! At least not in recent memory! McCarthy is even being accused of ‘’institutionalizing the chaos’’, of ‘’attacking the functioning of government’’!

As a result of this, the journalists are speculating that a ‘’government shutdown’’, and even a ‘’default on the national debt’’, is ‘’more likely, if not probable’’. They are blaming this on McCarthy, for ‘’sacrificing the Congress’’. As they put it, the ‘’saboteurs have won’’. 

This is not to say that the government will shut down on January 19. Indeed not! The plan, of the Treasury Secretary, is to ‘’resort to extraordinary measures’’. Apparently this is a reference to ‘’creative bookkeeping’’, otherwise known as ‘’robbing Peter to pay Paul’’.

In a ‘’worst case scenario’’, she expects the government to default on the national debt by early June. Yet she still has a clear set of priorities. In such a case, she maintains that it is essential to first ‘’make the interest payments on the national debt’’. After that, the remaining tax revenue can go towards the ‘’military, Social Security, Medicare and Veterans Benefits’’.

First and foremost, the interest payments! Make sure that those who own the banks, get paid first! The owners of these banks are composed of a class of people, referred to as the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie! 

The Treasury Secretary is a loyal and devoted servant of the capitalists! Let the hungry stay hungry! Let the homeless stay homeless! The gang violence is not her concern! Drug overdoses are not her concern! Let the infrastructure of the country fall apart! The banks must be paid!

The point of all this is to drive home the point that the ‘’class struggle’’’ has assumed a ‘’violent, glaring character’’, so that we are close to the ‘’decisive hour’’. In other words, Socialist Revolution, and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, is ‘’right around the corner’’!

Yet this will not happen by itself! At the time of the Great Russian October Revolution of 1917, there existed in Russia a proper Communist Party, one which called for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. That base was covered! It was the Communist Party which provided the proper leadership. Yet that was not enough.

As Lenin stated, in reference to the Great Russian October Revolution of 1917, that ‘’success depended entirely upon the existence of available organizational forms of a movement embracing millions’’.

Those ‘’organizational forms’’, appeared in the form of Soviets, or Councils, in English. At the time of the October Socialist Revolution, the existing state apparatus, of the capitalists, was promptly destroyed, and replaced by the Soviets.

Incidentally, as I have no way of knowing which word will become common place, I have chosen to use the word Soviet, at least for the purposes of this article.

This is to drive home the point that the Soviets are critically important. After the Revolution, they will be placed in key positions of authority. They will be part of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.The current leaders of the existing Soviets are well advised to bear that in mind. To such people, I have a bit of advice: Be Prepared!

The Revolution will happen, when it happens! No one knows the spark that will set the country ablaze! We just know that the country is a ‘’powder keg’’! We also know that the Revolution is raging around the world! It is urgent that the leaders of these Soviets prepare for the Revolution! Train your people to take part in the Insurrection! Raise their level of awareness! Transform them into class conscious Communists! Encourage them to read the Revolutionary works of Marx and Lenin! Stress the importance of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! Use the events in Washington to drive home, to all working people, the necessity of Revolution! 

At the same time, get in touch with the leaders of other Soviets. Coordinate your actions! Create a true Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat! The need for this is urgent! Working people need leaders!

Also, get in touch with Soviets in other countries. Use the Internet! Remain anonymous, but vocal! Expect the capitalists to make every effort to crush the Revolution! Watch your back! Arresting the leaders is a time honoured tradition! Do not make it easy for the capitalists!

Bear in mind that not all Revolutions give rise to Soviets, in all countries. Certain countries may give birth to a new type of power, ‘’proletarian power’’, according to Lenin. Whatever works! The important thing is that these ‘’organizational forms’’, are to be used in the forthcoming Revolution, and the subsequent Dictatorship of the Proletariat. As the Socialist Revolution is raging around the world, it will soon give rise to that which Lenin foresaw:

A World Socialist Republic!

Day 2 of the struggle, in the House of Representatives, to elect a Speaker of the House. Until the House elects a Speaker, the House, and almost all of the federal government, is completely paralyzed!

On day one, the Members of the House managed to take three votes, in order to elect a new Speaker. All three votes failed, almost identically. So of course on day 2, they took another three votes, also with an identical result. We cannot help but wonder what they expected!

The journalists are doing a fine job of reporting the fact that the House is ‘’completely paralyzed’’, that it is ‘’dysfunctional’’, that this display of incompetence ‘’erodes confidence’’ in the government, that there is ‘’chaos among the House GOP’’. All of this is very true!

As a result of this, those same journalists are agreed that the House is facing a ‘’messy two years ahead’’. 

I mention this as an example of the strengths, and weaknesses, of bourgeois journalism. On the one hand, they do a fine job of stating the facts. On the other hand, their analysis, including their ‘’predictions’’, are frequently in direct contradiction of the facts!

The journalists even go so far as to say that this is ‘’democracy in action’’. That is true, as far as it goes! They neglect to add that it is bourgeois democracy! It is democracy for the capitalists! Democracy for the billionaires! For the working people, it is a dictatorship! 

The point must be driven home, to the working class, that democracy is a method of class rule! It most certainly is not majority rule! As we live under the rule of the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie, it is the rule of the bourgeoisie. 

The  monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, must be overthrown. That can happen only through Revolution! At that point, the existing state apparatus must be smashed, and a new working class state apparatus must be established. That is referred to as the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Without doubt, we live in a time of Revolution. The suffering of the working people has reached horrendous proportions. Hunger is wide spread. Homelessness is common place, and increasing. Gang violence and multiple homicides are now daily events. Drug overdoses and suicides are routine. Now galloping inflation is merely intensifying the suffering. People can no longer continue to live this way!

Yet that is not enough! For a Revolution to ‘’triumph’’, it is also ‘’essential that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way’’, as explained by Lenin.

In our case, the ‘’exploiters’’ are represented by the politicians in the House. That same House is in a state of ‘’gridlock’’. The Republican Party is now at war with itself. The finest of the  bourgeois minds, see ‘’no way forward’’. In short, the capitalists are now unable to ‘’live and rule in the old way’’, which is one of the conditions for a successful Revolution.

Lenin goes on to say that such a governmental crisis ‘’draws even the most backward masses into politics…weakens the government, and makes it possible for the Revolutionaries to rapidly overthrow it’’.

The significance of the paralysis, within the government, lies in the fact that countless working people have been ‘’drawn into action’’. The government is now ‘’weakened’’. Now it is possible to ‘’rapidly overthrow it’’!

The working people are listening closely, as the journalists explain that the important decisions are being made ‘’behind closed doors’’. The cameras show the politicians huddled in groups, plotting and scheming. The working class is receiving an education!

Now it is up to Marxists, true Communists, to raise their level of awareness even higher. The working class must be made aware of itself as a class, with its own class interests. These interests are diametrically opposed to the interests of the capitalists, the billionaires. We must use the events in the House, the ‘’government gridlock’’, to drive home the correctness of the Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.

Incidentally, the fact is that Trump is asking all Republican Members of the House to vote for McCarthy, as Speaker. This means that Trump must consider McCarthy to be ‘’in his pocket’’. Yet no less that twenty Republican Members of the House are defying Trump! So Trump must be losing his control over the Republican Party!

It is also a fact that, as Lenin stated, a ‘’Great Revolution’’, and especially a ‘’Socialist Revolution’’, gives rise to ‘’chaos …among all the elements of disintegration of the old society’’. 

This explains the ‘’chaos’’, which is currently taking place in the House! It is merely one of the ‘’elements of disintegration of the old society’’! As the capitalist society is ‘’disintegrating’’, it is giving rise to ‘’chaos’’!

Strangely enough, even though the bourgeois journalists bear witness to this, they either can not, or perhaps will not, face the fact that the ‘’old society’’ is in a state of ‘’disintegration’’. A world without capitalism, a world of socialism, is ‘’on the horizon’’. 

That in no way changes the fact that we can use the facts which the journalists present, to drive home to the working class the necessity for Revolution. At the same time, we must stress the necessity of smashing the existing state apparatus, and replacing it with the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. That is the ‘’way forward’’! 

January 3, 2023. The day the new 118 Congress is to be sworn in. Or not! The first order of business is to elect a new Speaker of the House, strictly a formality. As there are only two mainstream political parties in the country, Democrats and Republicans, it is customary for the Party with the majority of seats in the House, to elect their leader as Speaker. Further, as the Republicans, or the GOP, Grand Old Party, as they refer to themselves, have a majority, then it should be ”cut and dried”. Not this time!

The GOP is every bit as divided as the Democrats! They need 218 votes to elect a Speaker, but have a ”razor thin” majority of only four Members! So if even four of their Members vote against their favoured candidate, which is Kevin McCarthy, then he will not be elected as Speaker. Yet on the first ballot, nineteen GOP Members voted against McCarthy! That automatically gave rise to a second ballot, which gave rise to a similar outcome.

This is considered to be serious, as the House cannot vote on any piece of legislation, until they first elect a Speaker! It is only the Speaker of the House who can swear in the next Congress!

Incidentally, the Senate does not have that problem, as it is the duty of the President of the Senate to swear in the next Senate. As the President of the Senate is the Vice President of the United States, that ”base has been covered”.

The journalists expected some conflict, within the House, as just before the House took a break, on December 23, there was some friction. Yet no one expected anything like this! ”Chaos and confusion”! Some Members of the House are referring to this as a ”Gong Show”, without exactly using the word ”Gong”. The journalists are referring to it as ”going down a black hole”! They suspect that ”their opponents smell blood”! At the same time, the journalists are careful not to mention the names of the ”opponents”, although they suspect that Donald Trump is behind this!

They report that over the Christmas break, and possibly for some considerable time before that, a ”core group” of ”right flank Republicans”, led by conservative members of the ”Freedom Caucus”, met frequently ”behind closed doors”, and promised to change the ”House Rules”.

No wonder they suspect that Trump is behind this! Perhaps now people are taking seriously the statements he made! In particular, Trump said that if he was charged, then people would see ”problems …the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen”. He was not joking!

Yet this is not terribly surprising, at least not to Marxists. It is safe to say that capitalism is in a state of crisis, or more accurately, in a state of numerous crises! I would go so far as to say that capitalism is in its ”death throes”! Marx let everyone know what to expect, in the Communist Manifesto:

”Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of old society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the Revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands”.

That which is taking place now, in the ”Hallowed Halls of the House”, is simply part of the ”process of dissolution”, which is going on ”within the ruling class”. The politicians are merely the loyal and devoted servants of the capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie. And these, their most devoted servants, are squabbling among themselves!

Now we can expect a ”small section of the ruling class” to ”cut itself adrift”, and to ”join the Revolutionary class”, which is to say the working class, the Proletariat. After all, it is the Proletariat that ”holds the future in its hands”.

We can also expect this ”small section” to be supremely class conscious, and to bring this awareness of classes to the working class, the Proletariat. After all, only the most intelligent, among the ruling class, are able to see the ”writing on the wall”, are prepared to ”cut themselves adrift”, to ”abandon the sinking ship”. Make no mistake, capitalism has ”had its day”! The days of capitalism are ”numbered”! The vast majority of capitalists will not accept this! They will no doubt ”go down with the ship”! Fools! Their choice!

To the former capitalists who choose to join the Revolutionary forces, I have something to say: Welcome! Brothers and Sisters! Comrades! Join us in building a better world! The World Revolution is now raging! It will very soon set down in North America! You have a key role to play!

No doubt you have a University education, and are aware of the Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. Feel free to share this knowledge with the working people, the Proletarians. Stress the fact that at the time of the Revolution, the existing state apparatus must be smashed. Otherwise the leaders of the Revolution will merely take over that state apparatus, and set themselves up as the new rulers. A new state apparatus must be set up, in order to crush the capitalists, as they try to restore their ”paradise lost”. This is known as the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Feel free to take part in Councils. Now is not the time for false humility! The fact that you have joined the progressive Revolutionary forces, proves that you are a leader! We need leaders! Get in touch with the leaders of other Councils, and work towards forming a true Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat! Bear in mind that Marx and Lenin were also middle class intellectuals!

As I write this, the Members of the House have voted no less than three times. Each time, a ”hard core group” of possibly twenty Republicans have consistently voted against McCarthy. Now the leaders are ”meeting behind closed doors”, in secret, hidden from the public, the very people they are supposed to be representing!

The journalists are reporting that the last time this happened was in 1923. At that time, no less than nine ballots took place, before a Speaker was elected. Even so, that was far faster than the previous time the House was deadlocked, in the ”eighteen fifties” At that time the country was deeply divided, on the verge of Civil War! For that reason, it took 133 votes, over a two month period, before a Speaker was elected! The country is just as divided now, as it was in the eighteen fifties!

The House has just agreed to shut down until tomorrow. The journalists are reporting the ”GOP In Open Revolt”, that ”All Business Is On Hold”. They are even reporting that ”some GOP moderates are laying the groundwork to team up with Democrats”!

Truly, this is an indication that we are ”near the decisive hour”, as ”the process of dissolution within the ruling class”, has truly assumed a ”violent, glaring character”. May the protesters now sing the Internationale! May the banners and posters now proclaim:

Revolution!

Scientific Socialism!

Workers of the World, Unite!

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

A spokesman, for an organization known as Canada Unity, has just announced plans for a ”Freedom Convoy 2.0”. This is also being referred to as a ”World Unity Convey”. The plan is to gather in Winnipeg, Manitoba, from February 17-20, 2023. This ”reunion” is to start on the anniversary of the last day that the truckers occupied Ottawa, on February 17, 2022.

The original ”Freedom Convoy”, of 2022, was billed as a ”protest against the Covid 19 vaccine mandates, public health protections, and the Liberal Government generally”. The organizers even came up with a ”Memorandum of Understanding”, MOU, that ”called on the Governor General and the Senate to form a committee with Convoy protesters to end all Covid 19 health protections nation wide.” This MOU was later withdrawn, if for no other reason than the fact that carrying out that demand, is simply not possible! The Governor General and the Senate do not have that authority! Such is only possible through the House of Commons!

The leaders of Canada Unity say that the Freedom Convoy to Winnipeg would focus on ”solutions for a better world for all Canadians”. He claims that the city of Ottawa was ”hostile to them”. Imagine that! He wants their ”voices to be loud but safe”. The proposed plan is for a three day gathering, to include a ”peaceful, multi day assembly, featuring speeches, ceremonies, events and guest speakers.” That sounds very similar to a religious gathering! Yet the working people need Revolution, not religion!

A lady, who posted a separate video on the Canada Unity page, said ”The goal is to facilitate a grass roots movement of citizens world wide”. Another possible leader of Canada Unity had more to add: ”The simple fact is that we can’t have Unity without Reconciliation which has to come from ‘We the People’, and not from our Government. Let’s be grown up and start addressing the root of division, discrimination and segregation in Canada by changing our focus away from division to that of one word, ‘Unity”’.

All of the aforementioned is consistent with their ”Vision and Mission” statement, posted on July 17, 2022:

”Who We Are:

”Our Vision is to advocate, educate and participate in awareness campaigns, to restore and preserve Canadians Constitutional right to be free from government overreach.

”Our Mission is to successfully hold the Government accountable for the rule of law and end all mandates. We stand together with our countrymen impacted by these illegal policies and fight for justice, reckoning and restitution.”

First, allow me to make it clear that the leaders of Canada Unity are technically referred to as ”bourgeois democrats”. They are focused on ”patching up the system”, and in particular, in defending our democratic rights. Nothing wrong with that! They are determined to unite people. They are careful to make no mention of classes. As ”our countrymen” include capitalists, then their idea is to ”unite” with the capitalists!

These Unity Canada leaders, as bourgeois democrats, are the ”natural and desirable allies” of the working class, according to Lenin. Those of us who are Marxists, currently referred to as Communists, have no problem with bourgeois democrats! We would like nothing so much as to work with them!

Having said that, an essential condition for such an alliance must be complete liberty for us, the Marxists, the Communists, to reveal to the working class that its interests are diametrically opposed to the interests of the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, those who are technically referred to as the bourgeoisie. There can be no question of ”Unity” with the capitalists!

For the purpose of this article, I simply refer to the billionaires as capitalists. They are not to be confused with the small business owners, technically referred to as the petty bourgeois. They too are the natural allies of the working class, the Proletariat.

Now to the heart of the matter, the Truckers Protest. The fact of the matter is that last year, these protests spread all across Canada, and to America, so that the movement is very broad and deep. Yet it is still largely spontaneous. The drivers are well aware that there is strength in numbers, and further, that there is a certain antagonism between workers and employers. Yet that is a far cry from being aware of themselves as members of a class, with their own class interests.

The truckers are not to be blamed for this! No worker is aware of this, as the conditions of life of the working class, do not lead to that awareness! That awareness can be brought to workers only from an outside source! That outside source is middle class intellectuals. In particular, Marx and Lenin!

Ideally, it is up to Members of a true Communist Party, to carry the message to the working people, including the truckers. Yet as we have no true Communist Party, at least not here in North America, it is up to the members of the working class, to educate themselves.

In years gone by, this was almost impossible. Not now! Now most working people can read. Further, a great many of them have computers, or digital devices of some sort. The younger workers especially, know how to use them! The capitalists have thoughtfully provided us with the internet, with which we can down load various Revolutionary works of literature, as well as order Marxist books. As most workers also have credit cards, that is not difficult.

As mentioned in previous articles, the most important Revolutionary book now, is State and Revolution, by Lenin. Then too, there is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, What Is To Be Done?, and Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder, all written by Lenin. As well, the Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels, can easily be downloaded from the internet. A careful reading of those Revolutionary works will provide workers with a fine grounding in Revolutionary Marxism, otherwise known as Communism.

I stress the importance of State and Revolution, as it is so relevant. Whether people know it or not, and most do not know it, we are leading up to a Revolution. It is just a matter of time before the Insurrection takes place. At that time, the working people will seize power. Right then and there, the state apparatus, which has been set up to crush the working class, must be smashed! Otherwise, the leaders of the Revolution will take over the state apparatus, and set themselves up as the new rulers! That is the last thing we need!

After the existing state apparatus is destroyed, a new state apparatus must be set up, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. A Dictatorship is just that, a Dictatorship! The capitalists will have no rights! The ”shoe will be on the other foot”! We will see how they like it! They will make every attempt to regain their wealth and power, to restore their ”paradise lost”! And we, the working class, the Proletariat, will not allow that! The days of hiding behind high priced lawyers will soon be over!

It is very likely that the workers will then establish workers courts, possibly in the form of a team of three workers, to act as judges. These may be referred to as tribunals. The ruling of these tribunals will be final. There will be no court of appeal.

That which applies to the capitalists, also applies to the criminals. They will be crushed. Their days are numbered! The sex offenders and pedophiles will be held accountable! The dope dealers will have to answer for all the overdoses they have caused! The mobsters will learn the meaning of the word Dictatorship! The days of being mollycoddled in a ”correctional institution” will soon be over! They are about to learn the restorative value of manual labour!

The bourgeois democrats call for ”Unity”. Of course, they have every right to do just that. Yet such a call ignores the fact that we live in a class society. There can be no question of ”uniting” with the capitalists! We are class enemies!

In the work by Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, he stresses the fact that we live in a class society. Bourgeois and Proletarian! One or the other! There is no middle ground! Either bourgeois or Proletarian ideology! As we live in a society torn by class antagonisms, there can never be a ”non class” or ”above class” ideology. The point is that ”to belittle socialist ideology in any way, to deviate from it in the slightest degree, means strengthening bourgeois ideology….the spontaneous development of the labour movement leads to its becoming subordinated to bourgeois ideology…pure and simple trade unionism… and trade unionism means the ideological enslavement of the workers to the bourgeoisie”. (italics by Lenin)

It is clear that as long as working people have the ideology of the capitalists, the bourgeois, then they will continue to fight for better wages, working conditions, and even democratic rights. Nothing more! This is referred to as ”trade unionism”. This is fine, as far as it goes! It does not go far enough! We do not need paltry reforms! We need Revolution! The working people must be made aware of this!

It is very likely that the truckers will be in motion in early February. This is not to say that the truckers should go to Winnipeg for three days of ”speeches, ceremonies and guest speakers”, seeking ”solutions for a better world for all Canadians”. There is no need to ”seek these solutions”! We already know the solution! Socialism! Through Revolution! The Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

It is very likely that Councils were active during the Truckers Protest in Ottawa. I say this because Revolution gives rise to Councils, otherwise known as Soviets. Plus the fact that the occupation of downtown Ottawa was supremely well organized. That is only possible through Councils! Now is the time for those Councils to become ever more active.

As mentioned in a previous article, it is very likely that the Canadian capitalists will agree to a ”buy out”. That is far preferable to a violent Revolution. According to Lenin, the four conditions, which are necessary for a non violent Revolution, exist in Canada. These are a cultured Proletariat, a Proletariat in the majority, strong unions, and a ruling class which is accustomed to rule through a process of compromise. Faced with the proper motivation, it is very likely that the Canadian capitalists will soon become ”sweetly reasonable”.

That proper motivation may well come from the truckers, as well as those who support them. Perhaps the most important support, of the Truckers Protest, can come from the railroad workers. Assuming the trucks and the trains go on strike, then the country will soon, almost immediately, come to a stand still! That is sure to get the immediate, undivided attention of the capitalists!

It is no secret that the railroad workers are not at all happy! With good reason, I might add! Their working conditions are deplorable, and the government just forced a contract ”down their throats”! A contract the workers voted down, I might add! Legislated back to work!

Now is the time for the Councils, which have taken shape around the Truckers, to get together with the Councils which have taken shape around the railroad workers. An Insurrection is critical, but timing is all important! The Insurrection can be successful, only if the vast majority of working people support a Revolution! In fact, get together with as many Councils as possible! The level of discontent of the common people must be accurately gauged! Not just in Canada, but also in America.

The bourgeois press is reporting that a great many common people, those who previously supported Trump and his followers, are now ”moving to the Left”, without stating it in those precise words. Yet it is very likely correct, as the journalists get paid to give an accurate report of such events.

Assuming the level of discontent is deep and wide spread, then it is time for the Insurrection. At such a time, it is necessary to act decisively! As Marx stated, ”the defensive is the death of every Insurrection!” The capital must be occupied, as well as all major cities. The trains must be shut down, the major bridges and tunnels blocked. Who better to blockade than the trucks? The airports must be closed, as well as the sea ports. All government officials must be arrested, on a federal and provincial level. All communications networks must be secured.

It would be far better if an Insurrection, here in Canada, was coordinated with an Insurrection in America. The only difference is that there can be no talk of the American capitalists agreeing to a ”buy out”. That is not about to happen. By contrast, it is very likely that the Canadian capitalists will ”resign themselves to their fate”.

If the Insurrection is swift and well organized, as was the case in Russia, in 1917, then the bloodshed will be minimal.

It is to be hoped that the bourgeois democrats have learned a thing or two, since the Truckers Protest of last year. Since then, a mere few months ago, there has been considerable change. Inflation has sky rocketed! Far more people are now hungry! Many others are forced to choose between eating and having a roof over their heads! More food banks are now empty! More people are homeless! Drug overdoses are commonplace! Gun violence is routine! Now people are openly requesting assisted suicide! The suffering of the common people has now reached horrendous proportions!

The lesson to be learned, my bourgeois democratic friends, is that half measures get us nowhere! That includes demanding paltry reforms, such as the recognition of our democratic rights.

The point is that workers must be made aware of the Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. They must become aware of themselves as the members of a class, that of Proletarians. They must be made aware of the fact that the capitalists are responsible for the current state of affairs, this ”crisis in capitalism”. The only solution is through Revolution, the smashing of the existing state apparatus, and establishing the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. There is no other way!

On the website of Canada Unity, the slogan ”Hold the Line” was suggested, as well as ”Freedom”. Indeed, those slogans were repeated in the Truckers Protest, and not just in Ottawa. Yet neither slogan contains any class content! May I suggest a several different slogans, which contain class content:

Revolution!

Scientific Socialism!

Workers of the World, Unite!

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

December 19, 2022. On that day, the Congressional January 6 Committee finally held their last ”public meeting”. After eighteen months of questioning witnesses, concerning the ”January 6 Insurrection”, of 2020, they have finally come to the conclusion that Trump very likely broke the law! Imagine that! They went to all that time and trouble to figure out that which everyone else already knows!

Now they are ”recommending” to the Department of Justice that Trump, as well as his ”associates”, face ”criminal prosecution”.

In particular, they recommend that Trump be charged with four crimes:

1) Obstruction of an Official Proceeding of Congress

2) Assisting or Aiding An Insurrection

3 Conspiracy to Defraud the United States

4) Conspiracy to Make a False Statement

Citizens may well wonder the reason that a Congressional Committee would spend all that time and money, conduct a most thorough investigation, interview hundreds of people, gather mountains of documents, when there is nothing they can do with this! They do not have the authority to charge anyone! The best they can do is pass it off to a government agency, in this case the DOJ, whose job it is to investigate and prosecute possible crimes! Why bother? Why not just let the DOJ do the job they get paid to do?

The answer is contained in that most excellent article by Lenin, State and Revolution. As he points out, ”the actual work of the ‘state’ is done behind the scenes and is carried on by the departments, the government offices and the General Staffs. Parliament itself is given up to talk for the purpose of fooling the ‘common people”’. (May I suggest that my American Comrades substitute the word Congress for Parliament)

All of that ”talk”, concerning the actions of a former president, was merely for the purpose of ”fooling the common people”. In terms of entertainment, it was quite a bore, along the lines of a second rate ”soap opera”. Yet the press was focused on this, and that served to distract people from the true ”work of state”, which was being done ”behind the scenes’’.

In particular, the massive Omnibus Bill, which contains no less than 4,155 pages, was being prepared. This document, which involves funding the government for a year, at the expense of 1.7 Trillion, is several times bigger than the bible, and ”was a result of haggling among three lawmakers who oversee Congressional appropriations’’, according to a journalist.

It is significant that almost half of the money goes towards the military. Even though countless people are going hungry, with the food banks running out of food, ever increasing numbers of people becoming homeless, those who have homes cannot afford to heat them, the medical system is on the verge of collapse, and the roads and bridges, the infrastructure of the country, are in the process of collapse! Yet the government can afford to spend hundreds of billions on the military!

The  journalists are reporting that the Omnibus Bill is really composed of twelve spending bills! The ”Party Bosses”, those who work ”behind the scenes”, have thoughtfully relieved the politicians of the burden of voting on those separate bills. After all, they could even ”get it wrong” and ”vote the wrong way”! Perish forbid! This way, by combining all the Bills, they are ”covering all the bases”.

Now the Members of Congress, both in the House and in the Senate, are being pressured to pass this Omnibus Bill within three days! At that time, on December 23, the government will ”hit the debt ceiling”, or ”run out of money”, to put it in simple terms. Unless the Congress ”raises the debt ceiling”, so that they can borrow more money, the country will shut down. The politicians are determined to drive the country ever deeper into debt!

Also on that day, the Congress is scheduled to shut down, for the Christmas break. Now the lawmakers are faced with the choice of passing this Omnibus Bill, of which they know nothing, into law, or of voting against it, which would result in a government shut down.

Incidentally, an Omnibus Bill is a reference to the government spending for the next year. On the other hand, a Continuing Resolution, or CR, is a reference to the approval of spending for a rather short time, usually several weeks. This is commonly referred to as ”kicking the can down the road”.

It is doubtful that any Member of Congress will have a chance to read even a small part of that Bill. For that matter, it is even more doubtful that any Member of Congress will make any attempt to read that Bill! All of them understand that it is their job to ”entertain” the common people, to make the appropriate speeches, while allowing the affairs of state to be tended to ”behind the scenes”. They also understand that it is now their ”job” to ”rubber stamp” this Omnibus Bill.

The divisions within the Republican Party, or GOP, Grand Old Party, as they refer to themselves, are now in the open. The Republican Members of the House are accusing the Senate Republicans of betraying them! They are even stooping to the childish behaviour of ‘’name calling’’!

The House Republicans want a short term Continuing Resolution, in order to keep the government going, at least until January 3. At that date, a new Congress will be sworn in, and the Republicans will have a majority in the House. That will give the House Republicans far more power. They are only too anxious to use that power!

Yet the Omnibus Bill passed the Senate, as a number of Senate Republicans voted in favour! As the Democrats control the House, the Bill is almost certain to pass.

On January 3, the day a new Congress officially convenes, it is almost certain that Kevin McCarthy will be elected as the next Speaker of the House. The journalists are reporting that he previously warned the Senate Republicans that if they passed the Omnibus Bill, then any Bills from the Senate, after he becomes Speaker, will arrive in the House, ”DOA, Dead On Arrival”. To think that the leaders of the country would sink to such childish behaviour!

It was only rather recently that the GOP had a ”Golden Rule”, which they referred to as the ”Eleventh Commandment”: ‘’Thou shall not criticize a fellow Republican’’. In fact, they took that ”Commandment” quite seriously. Yet now that ‘’Commandment’’ has gone the way of the dodo bird! 

It is clear that the class of people who are running the country, the capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, are having a difficult time ”holding it together”. Some of their devoted servants, within the confines of Washington, by whom I mean the elected officials, are showing signs of independence! The nerve of those people! Who do they think they are? Are they not aware that the Party Bosses arranged for their election?

It is also clear that the same class of billionaires has decided that Trump has to go. They have had enough of that boy! He was given the ”hint” in the 2020 presidential election, which was carefully ”fixed”, but now he is determined to once again, occupy the Oval Office. Sterner measures are required!

Hence the reason for the charges that will -hopefully!- be levelled against the former president! Not that they are focused on sending that man to jail. They just want to secure a conviction, one which will ensure that he cannot run for any office. Especially not for president! They have in mind the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

No doubt the capitalists were trying to ‘’kill two birds with one stone’’. On the one hand, to keep the common people occupied with the January 6 Investigation, so that they could prepare the Omnibus Bill, ‘’behind the scenes’’. On the other hand, and at the same time, to discredit Trump, and even have him convicted of crimes, so that he can never again run for office. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution provides for this. As it is so important, I have included the key section:

Section 3.

‘’No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.’’

The key part of this section is that which explicitly forbids anyone to ‘’hold any office …who has previously taken an oath…as an officer of the United States…to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof’’.

Trump was formerly the President of the United States. As such, he took an oath to ‘’preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States’’. Now if he is convicted of any or all of the charges that are being recommended by the Congressional Committee, then he will not be allowed to run for president. For that matter, he will not be allowed to run for any office.

As for those who scoff at the idea of a man, such as Trump, a billionaire, going to jail, I can only respond that you are right. That is not about to happen. Yet that is not the reason for the ‘’suggested’’ charges!

The class of capitalists who are running the country, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie, are determined to ‘’bench’’ Trump! If he is convicted of even one of these crimes, then he cannot run for president! One more ‘’loose cannon’’ secured!

No doubt, the lawyers who work for Trump, warned him of this. Those same lawyers are also well aware of the policy, of the law enforcement agencies, of not pressing any charges, against any candidate, who is running for the office of the presidency. Such a charge could ‘’bias the voters’’, having an influence on the election. Imagine that!

Bear in mind that Trump is not entirely stupid. For that reason, immediately before the Congressional Committee released its ‘’recommendations’’, that of charging Trump, he ‘’threw his hat into the ring’’. Trump is once again running for President!

Bear in mind that there is a big difference between ‘’policy’’ and ‘’the law’’! The ‘’policy’’ of not charging any presidential candidates, is a far cry from the law! Trump can still be charged, even though he is now officially running for president! Yet the decision to charge him is considered to be a ‘’hot potato’’! Any Prosecutor who chooses to charge Trump is risking ‘’career suicide’’!

No one within the Justice Department is stupid enough to take such a gamble! In the interests of that which they refer to as ‘’CYA’’, ‘’Cover Your Ass’’,  they have appointed a ‘’Special Prosecutor’’. This is also referred to as ‘’passing the buck’’!

Now the decision, to charge Trump or not to charge Trump, ‘’To be or not to be’’, is in the hands of a supremely brave man, one who has accepted this appointment. Mind you, some would add that he is also supremely stupid!

That is a matter of opinion. That which is not a matter of opinion, is the fact that the Revolution, or perhaps more accurately, the Revolutionary Motion, is growing ever stronger, around the world, and not just in America.

The results of the ‘’midterm elections’’ are a clear indication of this. All of the ‘’political pundits’’ were convinced that the Republicans would gain a huge majority in the House, as well as possibly a majority in the Senate. We now know that they managed to get a ‘’razor thin’’ majority in the House. Nothing more. The Democrats still control the Senate. 

In all fairness to those ‘’political forecasters’’, they were not ‘’reading tea leaves’’. The journalists especially, were spending a great deal of time talking to common people, the members of the public. To their surprise, they found that within a rather short period of time, the ‘’mood’’ of those people has changed dramatically. In fact, those who were formerly rather strong supporters of Trump, as well as other ‘’Right Wing’’ candidates for office, are now not so enthusiastic. 

To put this in scientific terms, we can say that the ‘’masses’’ -a term I hate!, as I prefer the expression ‘’common people’’-, have moved to the ‘’Left’’. As the journalists have documented, those who are considered to be less advanced, have made ‘’great strides’’. 

These journalists are very thorough, as they have carefully made an investigation, in various states. In certain states, they expected a ‘’Right Wing’’ candidate, someone who was a supporter of Trump, to be elected. Yet in many cases, this did not happen.

Those same journalists then conducted interviews, after the ‘’midterms’’, within those certain states, in which they expected a Trump supporter to be elected. They have now concluded that ‘’voters do not want extremists in office’’. They consider the ‘’midterms’’ to be a ‘’repudiation of Trumpism’’. A happy thought!

I take a different view of the midterm elections. I regard it as an indication that the level of awareness of the common people, the working class, the proletariat, has just risen. Considerably, in fact.

As Lenin stated, quite clearly, in his excellent article, Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder, ‘’symptomatic of any genuine Revolution is a rapid, tenfold and even hundredfold increase in the size of the working and oppressed masses -hitherto apathetic- who are capable of waging the political struggle’’.

Without doubt, we are in the midst of a ‘’genuine Revolution’’, as countless ‘’working and oppressed’’ people, those who were ‘’hitherto apathetic’’, are now becoming politically aware, prepared to take part in the ‘’political struggle’’. Welcome, my Brothers and Sisters, my Comrades! 

Now it is up to scientific socialists, by whom I of course mean Marxists, to bring to these people the awareness of the Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. 

The working class must be made aware of itself as a class, that of proletarians, with its own class interests. The proletarians have nothing to sell but their labour power. It is in their interests to sell themselves at the highest possible price. It is in the interests of the capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, to pay their workers as little as possible. That which is in the best interests of one class, is in the worst interests of the other class. In scientific jargon, we say that the interests of the two classes is ‘’diametrically opposed’’.

No one has ever accused the capitalists, the billionaires, of being ‘’sweetly reasonable’’. Any worker who has ever asked for a raise can testify to that! On the contrary, they are strictly ‘’one way’’. Their way! Whatever it takes to ‘’make a buck’’! Further, they are interested only in making ever more money! Those who have billions want more billions, and those who have hundreds of billions, want Trillions!

These billionaires, monopoly capitalists, are technically referred to as imperialists. They are completely devoid of any progressive characteristics. This is to say that they are reactionary. They are fully prepared to stoop to any depth, in order to maintain their wealth and power. They must be overthrown. That can only be done through Revolution. 

Lenin goes into this quite well in another excellent work, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. That book too, I highly recommend.

The working class must also be made aware that it is not enough to simply overthrow the government. The existing state apparatus, which has been set up to crush and exploit the working class, must be smashed! Otherwise, the leaders of the Revolution will merely take over that state apparatus, and use it for their own purposes! In other words, they will set themselves up as the new rulers! Out of the frying pan, into the fire!

The existing state apparatus must be replaced with a new state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This new state apparatus is absolutely necessary, as the capitalists will not resign themselves to their new lot in life! On the contrary, they will make every effort to restore their ‘’paradise lost’’. They will plot and scheme endlessly! They must be crushed! Thoroughly! They must not be allowed to return to power, as they did in Russia and China!

Lenin went into this, in great detail, in another one his masterpieces, State and Revolution. That is especially relevant today!

We currently do not have any true Communist Party, by which I mean a Party which calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The touchstone of a true Communist! 

But we do have the Internet! We also have a working class that is cultured, in the sense that most working people know how to read. With that in mind, may I suggest that all working people order, perhaps through the Internet, the articles by Lenin, I previously mentioned, as well as What Is To Be Done? An understanding of those articles will give workers a fine grounding in the basics of Marxism.

May I also suggest the Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels. They explain the growth and development of capitalism, as well as the ruin of all other classes, aside from the proletariat. They also mention one other detail, which is supremely relevant. At a time of Revolution, something interesting happens: 

‘’entire sections of the ruling class are, by the advance of industry, precipitated into the proletariat, or are at least threatened in their conditions of existence. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.’’

That is a rather accurate description of our current situation! Those who are current or former members of the ‘’ruling class’’’, the bourgeoisie, are those who can ‘’supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress’’. In other words, bring to the proletariat -your new Comrades!- the awareness of the Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. Feel free to put aside your feelings of bitterness and frustration -which is completely understandable!- and get on with your life. We are prepared to offer you a bright future!

I mean that sincerely! Think of us as your new friends, if only because that is precisely the case! True friends! Proletarian friends! Not bourgeois ‘’friends’’, those who stab each other in the back! We will never betray you, our new friends!

Your services are urgently required. As almost all of the bourgeois go to university, no doubt you are aware of the Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. Not that those theories are ‘’taught’’ in university, as they are distorted. Even so, that makes the bourgeois aware of those theories. 

Now is your chance to ‘’make a difference’’, to ‘’change the world’’. In the process, you can practically guarantee yourself a brighter future! Your past will not be held against you.

You can be involved in raising the level of awareness of the working class. Feel free to share your own experience, that of  formerly working in the service of the capitalists, as an example. No doubt the reward for those years of service was nil!

Help to make working people aware of the Marxist Revolutionary theories, especially that of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Spread the message through social media. No doubt Councils, otherwise known as Soviets, have taken shape, as all Revolutions give rise to such organizations. Become involved with those Councils. Above all else, get together with other -former- middle class intellectuals, and take part in the formation of a true Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Discreetly, as otherwise the government agents will be sure to incarcerate you!

After the Revolution, those who are highly skilled, in various fields, will be paid accordingly. Professional people, such as doctors, nurses, engineers and managers, will be rewarded. The only difference is that under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, there will be no back stabbing. We will make sure of that! People will work together! Teamwork! The atmosphere will be far more relaxed.

Yet first the capitalists have to be overthrown. In addition to that which I just mentioned, an Insurrection must be organized. Hopefully, it will be swift and accurate, as was the Russian October Revolution of 1917. That Insurrection was almost bloodless!

As I have covered that in a different article, there is no need to repeat it here.

There are more indications that the Revolution is gaining strength, here in North America. The press is reporting that the new Chief of Police, for the city of Ottawa, is making preparations for an ‘’anticipated’’ second Freedom Convoy. The politicians are determined that the city of Ottawa will not be occupied again! We will see about that!

It is very likely that the government spy agencies have picked up some ‘’chatter’’ on the Internet. The Truckers Protest has not been ‘’killed’’. It was merely diverted, and then only temporarily.

It is significant that most Revolutions start with a strike in the transportation industry. From there they tend to spread, and spread quickly. At the moment, there are Revolutions that are raging in other countries. Soon, they will all ‘’touch down’’ on the shores of North America. There is no time to waste.

As I write this, the news outlets just announced that the Democratic controlled House just passed the Omnibus Bill. No doubt, in two weeks, when the Republicans take control of the House, the ‘’fur will fly’’. It is likely that nothing will be done in Washington. That could well be an improvement!

For the moment, it is clear that Revolutions, as well as ‘’mass movements’’, which will lead to Revolutions, are raging around the world. Even the press admits that Iran is now experiencing a Revolution. It has spread to the neighbouring countries of Russia and China. Even the country of Afghanistan is now in turmoil, as women are protesting, burning their head scarfs and cutting their hair. 

In the United Kingdom, the nurses are joining the paramedics, by going on strike. The postal workers and the railroad workers may soon join them. Further, it would appear that there is also a Revolution raging in Peru, as well as Chile. And this is just the beginning!

In the interests of raising the level of awareness of the working class, may I suggest singing the International, in locations and at times which most irritate the capitalists. Hopefully, this will attract the attention of the press, so that it will be broadcast on the evening news. If nothing else, be sure to record it and post it on social media. With a little luck, it could even go viral! 

Further, if there is one slogan that can best be used to raise the level of awareness of the working class, then that one slogan is the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Lenin refers to this as the ‘’touchstone’’ of a true Marxist! It is also the very slogan which the capitalists most hate. With good reason, I might add! All the more reason to make that term a household expression.

May I suggest that in all propaganda, all messages to Comrades on social media, all greetings, all posters and banners, that the slogan must be:

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!