Translated “Avante!” article by Luís Carapinha, Member of the PCP International Department

Little is known on the Bilderberg annual meeting, which took place in Dresden, this month. Unlikely to the famous football phrase “that prognosis only but at the end of the game”, the news on this issue, scarce and insignificant, at the opening of the opaque conclave. In the attempt to ventilate the secretiveness embedded atmosphere and contour the indignation that is to tear apart the dominant silence, the event’s organizers( headed by Rockefeller, the patriarch-magnate) that gathers top personalities, aspiring (for a promotion, amid the international capitalist class, specially coming from both sides of the Atlantic, divulged a list of participants and the issues to be discussed. Within the imperialist globalization framework and a contemporaneous capitalism, that bestrides financier limits, there exist and other private of the great capital strategic agency structures begin to appear, and that cross and overcome Bilderberg. Such as the Trilateral Commission and the Foreign Affairs Counsel, as well as the obscure trade energy work group and the political transatlantic network – containing some of the USA and EU greatest banks and transnationals. A great mistake would be made to exaggerate on the deterministically role on world reality and destiny, as well as underestimate its existence and influence on the imperialist ideology and praxis.

Across the Bilderberg 2016, a script of dying international scene issues elapses, a mirror of contradictions and dilemmas , that assault the dominant classes , within the context of the most serious crisis, since the Great Depression cycle, and that resulted in the World War II. Laconically, China, Russia are mentioned – which is equivalent to add the BRICS and the global forces rearrangement, that provoke great concern – and the Middle East; the “USA political and economic scenario” in an electoral year(with reference to sensitive issues, such as “growth, debt, reform) and “Europe” ( on the British referendum’s eve), unfolded in aspects like “ migration, growth, reform, vision, unity”. Other mentioned agenda issues: “ energy geopolitics and raw materials prices, “technology innovation” and “precarious conditions and middle class”. The latter, symptomatic of an almost class despair before the narrowing of capitalism social basis, which deeply penetrates in the system’s core. The infamous welfare state is not of our times, in the long World War II aftermath. Inseparable of its crisis, the contemporaneous capitalism neoliberal rearrangement is synonymous of inaudible social inequalities pattern, conquered social rights destruction, precarity spreading and exploitation intensifying within the “capitalist centre”. Of renewed attacks to national sovereignty and the rivalries’intensification. terrorist barbaric projection, neo-colonialism and militarist escalade.
This is the backdrop of the menu which joined Kissinger, Lagarde, Schauble, Durão Barroso who replaced Balsemão in the leadership committee and sent both Maria Luis Albuquerque and the GALP CEO, to Dresden). Amid the list of 130 guests from 20 countries, there are prime-ministers, ministers, centre party leaders, Pentagon falcons ( retired general Petracus and Breedlove), bankers, multinational, international media executive-directors, etc, etc… All know that neo-liberalism is loosing credibility and moves in the limbus, but insist in hegemony. One is going through very dangerous times, of growing irrationality.

The Federal Reserve, by calendar whim, three days upon Dresden’s meeting, on June 15th, choose not to touch rates. So far. Stakes are very high, the USA debt irreparable and the Federal Reserve manoeuvres between a rock and a hard wall. On the following day, Jo Cox, the labour MP, was assassinated. Another anti-democratic coup, on the United Kingdom referendum eve. For sure: the class struggle is in progress, in this battle, as never before, humanity is in stake.