MANIFESTO FOR THE FUTURE

1 OCTOBER 2020

_When confronted by us hungry bellies, the imperialists reach for their guns. When confronted by imperialists, we hungry bellies lock arms and march forward._

Our humanity is threatened by an invisible virus that spreads rapidly; but we have long been challenged by other _viruses_, such as unemployment, hunger, racism, patriarchy, inequality, and war. These _viruses_ manifest themselves differently in different parts of the world, sharply attack the lives of the workers and the peasants, and those who experience the impact of social inequality; meanwhile, there are a minority of people that profit from the devastation.

The capitalist system has no answers to these crises; its policies are hollow. Rather than find a way to house us and feed us, the capitalists build vast machinery of destruction - the police and military that suffocate the life out of the working-class inside the rich nations and of the working-class and the peasantry in the poorer nations. If a poor country tries to stand upright and seeks to exercise its sovereignty, a full arsenal of force is used against it: financial, diplomatic, and military power. They dominate us with weapons, but also with ideas; they try to convince us that their views are the correct views.

The managers of the capitalist system are quick to unholster their guns and point them at distant adversaries, drive their tanks into our lands and occupy our homes, tear up nature and destroy our lifeworld; it is easier for them to provoke war than to fill the bellies of human beings with food. They would rather inflame people with racism and jingoism than to manage the fact that a broken system has come to rely more and more on the unacknowledged care labour of women, more and more on the harsh working-conditions imposed on miners and factory workers.

The planet is on fire, the viruses are on the march, hunger stalks the land, and yet even in this mess, we - the vast majority of the people on the planet - have not given up on the possibility of a future. We hope for something better than this, a world beyond profit and privilege, a world beyond capitalism and imperialism, a world singing the song of humanity. Our hearts are bigger than their guns; our love and our struggle will overcome their greed and indifference.

Many seeds are being planted by our movements. We need to water them, to tend to them, to make sure that they bloom. We will build a future that cherishes life rather than profit, a future of fellowship amongst peoples, rather than racist wars, a future where social hierarchies are abolished, and we enjoy mutual dignity.

Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. It is now dark enough.

SIGNATURES

ORGANIZATIONS

INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS

* ALBA Movimientos * Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres (FDIM) * Partido Izquierda Europea (PIE) * Asamblea Internacional de los Pueblos (AIP) * Instituto Tricontinental * Marcha Mundial de las Mujeres * La Vía Campesina * Foro de São Paulo

ARAB-MAGHREB

* Democratic Way, Morocco * Tunisian Workers´ Party, Tunisia

ASIA

* Nepal Communist Party, Nepal * Workers Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh

EUROPE

* Askapena, Euskal Herria * ATTAC Hungary, Hungary * Confederación Intersindical Galega (CIG), Spanish State * Fundación Europa de los Ciudadanos * Fundación Investigaciones Marxistas * Movimiento Democrático de Mujeres, Spanish State * Norwegian Committee in Solidarity with Latin America, Norway * Partido Comunista España (PCE), Spanish State * Partito della Rifondazione Comunista - Sinistra Europea, Italy * Potere al Popolo!, Italy * Russia Communist Workers' Party, Russian Federation * Sindicato de Comisiones de Base (COBAS), Spanish State

LATÍN AMERICA

* Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), Cuba * Comité de Unidad Campesina (CUC), Guatemala * Frente Francisco de Miranda (FFM), Venezuela * Frente Pátria Grande, Argentina * Levante Popular da Juventude, Brazil * Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), Brazil * Movimiento Popular La Dignidad, Argentina

NORTH AMERICA

* Popular Education Project (PEP), USA

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

* National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, South Africa * Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG), Ghana * Socialist Party of Zambia, Zambia * Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP), South Africa

INDIVIDUALS

* Attila Antal, Consciousness journal, Hungary * Attila Vajnai, Workers Party 2006 - European Left, Hungary * Bert De Belder, Partido del Trabajo. Belgium * Enrique Santiago, PIE - Partido Comunista de España (PCE), Spanish State * Eszmélet Folyóirat, Consciousness journal, Hungary * Fran Perez, Izquierda Unida, Spanish State * György Droppa, Organizers for the Left (SZAB), Hungary * Heinz Bierbaum, PIE - Die Linke, Germany * Iñigo Martínez, Izquierda Unida, Spanish State * Jose L. Centella, PIE - Partido Comunista de España (PCE), Spanish State * Judit Striker Ezredvég (Millennium Literary Journal) * Lydia Samarbakhsh, Partido Comunista de Francia (PCF), France * Maite Mola, PIE - Partido Comunista de España (PCE), Spanish State * Manuel Pineda, Eurodiputado, PIE - Partido Comunista de España (PCE), Spanish State * Marco Consolo, Partido de Refundación Comunista, Italy * Mátyás Benyik, Hungary * Natassa Theodorakopoulou, PIE - Siryza, Greece * Péter Farkas, Karl Marx Society, Hungary * Pierre Laurent, Partido Comunista de Francia (PCF), France * Sira Rego, Izquierda Unida, Spanish State * Tamás Hirschler, Hungarian Anti-fascist League (MAL), Hungary * Tamás Krausz, Consciousness journal, Hungary * Vera Zalka, Organizers for the Left (SZAB), Hungary