Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!
‹STOP THE THIEF!›
REPLY TO A RECENT ACCUSATION OF ‹NATIONALISM› AND ‹RIGHT-WING LIQUIDATIONISM› BY THE NORWEGIAN DOGMATO-REVISIONISTS
Central Committee
Communist Party of SwitzerlandJune 2026
As far as we are concerned, I hold that it is bad if a person, a political party, an army, or a school is not attacked by the enemy, since that would definitely mean that we have sunk to the level of the enemy. It is good if we are attacked by the enemy, since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves. It is even better if the enemy attacks us wildly, paints us completely black, and portray us as being without a single virtue, since that demonstrates that we have not only drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves, but also achieved a great deal in our work.
— Mao Zedong: To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing, But Rather a Good Thing (26th of May, 1939)
The Norwegian dogmato-revisionist sect hiding behind the name of the erstwhile Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization Serve the People has decided to be the first member of its little transnational clique to publicly throw itself against the Communist Party of Switzerland.
This is just another case of the dogmato-revisionist ringleaders — namely, ‹Geronimo›, the leader of the Communist Party of Brazil, and ‹Constantine›, the leader of the Committee Red Flag in Germany — hiding behind their puppet sects in other countries and relying on them to do their dirty work. In applying this tactic, the dogmato-revisionists mirror the Soviet revisionists of old, who launched their attack on the Communist Party of China through their lackeys and puppets in the French, Italian, and other revisionist communist parties, after a long period of talking behind the backs of the Chinese comrades and spreading circulars full of fake rumours and allegations to everyone in the international communist movement but the actual subjects of those circulars, as the dogmato-revisionists have done in relation to us for almost six years at this point.
In the recently released preface to a rag originally written in 2023 in indirect and underhanded response to a Swiss polemic against the German dogmato-revisionists concerning the national question, the Norwegian dogmato-revisionists write:
Nationalism in the Norwegian labour movement has developed in symbiosis with other forms of right-wing opportunism. Nationalism has also affected the Communist League — Serve the People, which we ourselves grew out of. Hence, the struggle against nationalism is both historically important and very relevant. It is only made more relevant by the increasingly aggressive nationalism of the Red Party, Pål Steigan’s nationalism, new social-chauvinist groups in Sweden, and the nationalist deviations of the right-wing liquidators in Germany and Switzerland. [Our emphasis.] [1]
In synthesis, our Party is being accused of ‹nationalist deviations›, on the one hand, and of ‹right-wing liquidationism›, on the other hand.
Let us begin by addressing the accusation of ‹right-wing liquidationism›.
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› making up the Red Star Collective who liquidated their organization, or was it the Committee Red Flag?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› who fought tooth and nail against the Swiss Marxist-Leninist-Maoists identifying, reclaiming, and further developing the red line in the history of the Swiss communist movement, as represented among others by the founders of our Party — namely, Comrades Leonie Kascher and Jakob Herzog — or was it the Committee Red Flag?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› who restored the Red Star Collective and reclaimed the road of the reconstitution of the Communist Party of Switzerland, or was it the Committee Red Flag?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› who refounded the Communist Party of Switzerland in a symbolic show of determination and resolve to carry the process of reconstitution through to the end, or was it the Committee Red Flag?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› who objectively colluded with opportunists in the Swiss revolutionary movement and with the reactionary Swiss police to force the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists underground, where they continued carrying out revolutionary mass work under difficult conditions, or was it the Committee Red Flag?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› who denounced the Red Flag website to the US imperialist ‹authorities›, in order to get it taken down on multiple occasions, or was it the Committee Red Flag?
It should also be asked:
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Germany who liquidated their own Youth Resistance organization, or was it the Committee Red Flag that aided the German police in doing so by publishing crucial information about the internal workings of that organization on the Internet?
Let us not stop there.
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland who liquidated the unity of the Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist and split that Party into two opposing factions, or was it the dogmato-revisionists in the ‹International Communist League› who have usurped that name?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland who liquidated their bonds of unity with the Maoist Communist Party of Turkey and North Kurdistan following the usurpation of its leadership by revisionists in 2013, having absolutely no faith in the determination and strength of the Anatolian communists, and who even tried to isolate a communist party of such prestige from the rest of the international communist movement after its reconstitution in 2022, simply because it maintained relations with those evil Swiss liquidators — or was it the dogmato-revisionists of the ‹International Communist League›?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland who liquidated the unity of the Communist League of Sweden by usurping its leadership and splitting it into two opposing factions, or was it a group of former members of the Red Sun group who had affiliated themselves with the ‹International Communist League›, infiltrated the Communist League of Sweden, and groomed a handful of politically immature teenagers for the explicit purpose of usurping that organization?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland who liquidated the ‹Committee to Reconstitute the Communist Party of the United States of America›, or did it collapse under the mounting pressure of its members in the face of the literal blows of the darling of the ‹International Communist League› ‹Comrade Dallas› pistol-whipping them into submission?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland who interfered in the internal affairs of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada, thus providing the liquidators on both sides of the split in that Party with every possible opportunity to halt the process of reconstitution of the communist party in that country, or was it the dogmato-revisionists of the ‹International Communist League› in the United States, Germany, and elsewhere?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland who usurped and liquidated the Red Wave group in Denmark and turned it into a cocoon for hatching the ‹Committee Red Star› as a carbon copy of the Committee Red Flag, while trying to derail the actual ongoing effort to reconstitute the Communist Party of Denmark by the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists of the Communist Youth League, or was it the dogmato-revisionists of the Committee Red Flag, a leading member organization of the ‹International Communist League›?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland who repeatedly split apart the Maoist Communist Party of France and the people’s organizations created by it, and thus dragged the legacy of Comrade Pierre’s decades-long struggle for the reconstitution of the Party through the mud, or was it the dogmato-revisionists of the ‹International Communist League›?
Was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland who liquidated the relative basis of unity of the international communist movement, which had been achieved through decades of struggle both inside and outside of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement on the initiative of the Communist Party of Peru, and split the international communist movement by forming a separate organization on a sectarian basis of unity, or was it the dogmato-revisionists of the ‹International Communist League›?
Indeed, was it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland scheming in the womb before they had even been born who sabotaged the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement in objective collusion with Avakian and Prachanda by converting anagonistic contradictions into antagonistic ones, among other things by practically expelling Comrade Gonzalo’s faction of the Communist Party of Peru from the Movement, thus falling right into the trap laid for them by the US and Peruvian intelligence services, or was it the dogmato-revisionists of the Peruvian People’s Movement, who have mutated and grown into the ‹International Communist League› of today?
Finally, is it the ‹right-wing liquidators› in Switzerland who are even now scheming to influence, infiltrate, usurp, split, isolate, and destroy the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Communist Party of India (Maoist), especially the latter, by interfering in their internal affairs whenever they face difficulties, just as was done to the Communist Party of Peru in the past, or is it the dogmato-revisionists of the ‹International Communist League› who are doing so?
We could go on, but there is no need to do so.
As for the accusation of ‹nationalist deviations›, we simply want to ask:
Is it ‹nationalism› for a communist party to practice independence, autonomy, and self-reliance, as the ‹Swiss nationalists› do?
Would it be better to dance to the tune of another communist party, to accept its ‹aid›, and to request directives from it before taking any action, as you ‹proletarian internationalists› do?
Is it ‹nationalism› for a communist party to refuse to submit to the national organization of another country, as the ‹Swiss nationalists› refuse to do?
Would it be better to liquidate one’s own organizational structure into the extraterritorial structure of a foreign organization acting like the old Bund or a Trotskijite organization, as we indeed did in the past under the influence of the dogmato-revisionist line, and as you ‹proletarian internationalists› do today?
Is it ‹nationalism› for a communist party to refuse to be a part of a revisionist current, just because that current is ‹international› in scope, as the ‹Swiss nationalists› refuse to do?
Would it be better to try to ingratiate oneself with the ‹international movement› for the sake of achieving an unprincipled unity above all else, as we indeed briefly tried to do in the past under the influence of the dogmato-revisionist line, and as you ‹proletarian internationalists› do today?
Is it ‹nationalism› for a communist party in a minor imperialist country to defend the people of that country against the imperialist superpowers, while simultaneously defending all oppressed countries from the imperialism of that country?
Would it be better to call the opposition to a prospective Russian annexation of Svalbard or a prospective US annexation of Greenland ‹social-chauvinist› without a drop of nuance, as if the world had not long ago differentiated itself into three different parts, as you ‹proletarian internationalists› do?
Is it ‹nationalism› for a communist party to not scream at the top of its lungs about the ‹death› of the nationalities to which its members belong — ‹Germany must die›, ‹Germany, never again›, and so on, to the point of getting sick from the phrase-mongering alone — as if the party adhered to some kind of Anti-German hysteria or the revisionism of Gotfred Appel?
Would it be better to pretend that there is no proletariat outside of the migrant strata in the imperialist countries, as if one were a member of the ‹Maoist Internationalist Movement› or the Communist Working Group, as you ‹proletarian internationalists› objectively do?
In synthesis, these accusations of ‹nationalism› and ‹right-wing liquidationism› have one and only one purpose — namely, to cover up the crimes and deviations of the dogmato-revisionists themselves, like a thief shouting: ‹Stop the thief!›
These are the same old opportunist tricks that the revisionists and opportunists have always used.
Mihail Bakunin accused Marx of wanting to be a ‹dictator›, even though Bakunin was the one who was planning to set up a secret committee exercising dictatorship over the working class after his ‹revolution›.
Karl Kautsky repeated the same accusation against Lenin, even though Kautsky’s former party comrades were the ones who drowned the German revolution in blood, while he himself stood by inactively and let them exercise their bourgeois dictatorship unopposed.
Leon Trotskij accused both Lenin and Stalin of ‹bureaucratism›, even though Trotskij was the one who wanted to turn the trade-union bureaucrats into military dictators over the proletariat.
Nikita Hrusev repeated the same accusation against both Stalin and Mao, while also accusing the latter of being a ‹nationalist› and a ‹militarist›, even though it was Hrusev who rigged up the infamous Soviet Nomenklatura system, imposed greater Russian nationalism on the Union of Socialist Council Republics, and converted the Council Union into a military superpower that was socialist in name, but imperialist in deeds.
Enver Hoxha repeated the same accusations against Mao, even though it was Hoxha who preached that ‹the religion of the Albanian nation is Albanianism› and other nationalist nonsense, while his successor also accused Gonzalo of being a ‹terrorist›, even though the Hoxha-Alia regime exercised a reign of terror over the Albanian people.
Indeed, the specific accusation of ‹nationalism› has been levelled against Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Gonzalo alike by revisionists, opportunists, and renegades of all stripes for centuries. The dogmato-revisionists are no different.
Here, we are by no means trying to imply that we are on the same level as the classics of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism; rather, what we mean is that our dogmato-revisionist friends have sunk to the level — but certainly not the stature — of people like Bakunin, Kautsky, Trotskij, Hrusev, and Hoxha.
For such revisionists, opportunists, and renegades, it is truly the case that ‹every accusation is a confession›.
We communists have gone through far too many positive and negative experiences with such opportunist tactics to ever fall for them again.
The Communist Party of Switzerland stands firm and defiant in the face of such baseless accusations.
We have fundamentally completed our campaign to rectify dogmato-revisionism and study Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and come out of it stronger than ever ideologically.
We are advancing in creatively integrating Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, mainly Maoism and the contributions of such prominent leaders of the international communist movement as Comrade Gonzalo and others to the inevitable fourth stage of development of the ideology of the international proletariat with the concrete conditions of the eco-socialist revolution in Switzerland in the era of globalized monopoly capitalism by identifying, reclaiming, and further developing the elements of the guiding thought of the Swiss revolution specified by Marx, Engels, and Lenin internationally and by Johann Philipp Becker, Leonie Kascher, Jakob Herzog, Lorenz Teuscher, Hans Bruggmann, and others nationally.
Our practical work has been striking roots in the underground and is about to slowly yet surely blossom through the cracks of the asphalt into the sunlight.
Thus, we are pushing forward the protracted process of reconstitution of our Party in all spheres in preparation for ultimately making the revolution in our country under the guidance of the military doctrine of the proletariat as a component part and in the service of the proletarian world revolution.
Neither the Committee Red Flag nor the Swiss police was able to prevent us from continuing marching forward along this road, and the words of an increasingly politically irrelevant Norwegian sect will certainly not be able to make a single dint in our morale and resolve. Moreover, our friends in the ‹International Communist League› should be fully aware that they had better limit their attacks on us to words alone; any attempt to once again take this dispute beyond words and make good on their threats about ‹military consequences› will be met with a resolute response.
In a few decades, we will either be in power or in prison, either way having contributed decisive positive and negative experience to the memory of the international proletariat, while you will still be scribbling on the Internet in pure isolation from the events of the world around you, like all other dogmato-revisionists today, from the adherents of Enver Hoxha to those of Amadeo Bordiga, Karl Kautsky, and other historical footnotes.
Meanwhile, the international communist movement is slowly yet surely advancing in its process of reunification in the International Communist Forum proposed by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) as a step in the right direction of the reconstitution of the Communist International — a process of reunification that is taking place on the already existing relative basis of unity of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the revolutionary principles established by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement. This will only be the prelude to even higher levels of unity, which you tried to reach in your impetuous leap, only to fall short — into the abyss of isolation from the real communists of the world, from Anatolia and Afghanistan through India and Burma to the Philippines and Peru and beyond. We are infinitely proud of standing shoulder to shoulder with these real communist comrades all over the world and of having so firmly burned all bridges with your so-called ‹internationalism›.
In the words of the great Chinese poet Lu Xun:
With fate shrouded by the stars, what more can I seek?
Before I dare to turn over, I have already bumped my head.A tattered hat shading my face, I pass through bustling streets;
A leaking boat carrying wine, I float midstream.Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers;
Head-bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.Hiding in my small attic, I establish my own rule;
Regardless of winter, summer, spring, or autumn. [2]We have spoken. Let the traitors say what they want — their words cannot drown out the coming storm.
[1] Source: Editorial Board of Serve the People Media: Preface to Marxism and Social-Chauvinism (7th of June, 2026) [2] Lu Xun: In Mockery of Myself (1932)
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