TURKEY: TKP/ML-CC/PB – OUR PARTY TKP/ML IS 52 YEARS OLD!
We publish an statement published by the TKP/ML found here.
OUR STRUGGLE FOR REVOLUTION AND COMMUNISM CONTINUES AND WILL UNINTERRUPTED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION!
Our party TKP/ML celebrates the 52nd anniversary of its foundation on April 24th. We greet the members, fighters, militants, supporters of our party with the enthusiasm of the year of its foundation. We declare that our party, which has the revolutionary program of the liberation struggle of our working people of Turkish, Kurdish and various nationalities, is more determined and determined to fulfill this task with 52 years of experience. Our party TKP/ML has been able to continue its struggle for revolution and communism continuously and uninterruptedly for 52 years by firmly clinging to its communist program, meticulously preserving its claim to revolution, following the footsteps of our founding leader Comrade İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA.
Parallel to its foundation, our Party has the audacity and move to launch the People’s War, the strategy of the country’s revolution. For 52 years, we ensured continuity with hundreds of immortal comrades who sealed the battlefields with communist audacity. By giving thousands of prisoners, we proved that we will never refrain from paying the price in the cause of revolution and communism and created a consciousness. Tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of workers and laborers became conscious and shaped by the line of Ibrahim KAYPAKKAYA and continued the 52-year march by contributing to the progress of our party, giving it heart and support. Our party TKP/ML is the carrier communist subject of continuous struggle as a great accumulation, experience and the sum of this. Despite all recession, defeats and the weakness of the process we are going through, this basic feature has never darkened or erased. With this feature, our Party is in the battle to lead the class struggle with its independent program and action, which is the most fundamental need of the proletariat and the people.
Our party TKP/ML announced its establishment on April 24, 1972, in conditions when the fascist dictatorship suppressed all social sectors and revolutionary-progressive pioneers. Under the leadership of Comrade İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA, our party declared its foundation by drawing a clear line from the communist perspective against all pacifist, reformist wobbles and of course all adventurous currents. In his short revolutionary life, Comrade İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA laid the foundation of our party with a strong theoretical approach and a daring revolutionary move. Comrade Ibrahim, while establishing a line of struggle against revisionist currents, adopted an approach that concentrated on determining the social structure of the country, the political nature of the enemy, the program that would lead the people to liberation, and the general political line. What gives direction to this approach is that it is based on the science of history and society and its class approach to all problems. For this therefore , from the party’s nomenclature to its program, from the strategy of revolution to the mass line, from class alliances to the definition of enemy classes, from the analysis of the multinational structure to the nature of the political regime, it has managed to put forward the fundamental problems of the revolution with a strong theoretical struggle. Today still, the classism and clarity in its approach to Kemalism and the Kurdish National Question is an antidote to social-chauvinism and class collaborationist approaches. Again, in semi-feudal semi-colonial countries like ours, the position taken by the communist party that it can only preserve and strengthen its communist qualities through the People’s War strategy is an indestructible barricade against all kinds of liquidationism.
Our Party was built under the staff of Communist Leader İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA and has been trying to carry out its leadership role in the class struggle on these foundations for 52 years. The process we are going through is under the siege of liquidationist currents against the fundamental problems and principles of the revolution, against the armed struggle and the overthrow of the system, which involves the liberation of the people. In addition to this ideological attack, there is a large-scale and intense attack by imperialism and fascism to destroy and intimidate the revolutionary struggle. Our party is in a very difficult process socially and politically, just as it declared its establishment. It meets this process by persistently and decisively focusing on the problems and needs of the revolution, by clinging tightly to the main course of the people’s liberation struggle. While determining policy and forming tactics, it does not compromise on approaches that take into account the problems and main needs of the revolution and that will nourish and strengthen it. It takes an ideological and political position against all kinds of attitudes that allow the people to be backed up by fascist cliques and hinder their independent action. It does not refrain from drawing thick lines between itself and constitutionalist, systemic, election-indexed approaches and persistently and decisively seeking and turning towards a revolutionary orientation.
Undoubtedly, we have a very backward level in terms of turning the anger and reaction of the Turkish, Kurdish and people of various nationalities against fascism into an organized force and equipping them with the consciousness of revolution. This is a fact. A revolutionary process in accordance with the sharpness of social contradictions has not yet been organized and the masses have not been mobilized on this axis. Our Party is aware that this task is of vital importance and that this will only happen with a positioning and concentration according to the real needs of the revolution. In such periods, the main thing is not to break away from the interests and tendency of the masses. The following advice of Comrade Lenin is an approach that our party firmly embraces and dominates its line: “The idea of building communist society exclusively with the hands of the Communists is childish, absolutely childish. We communists are but a drop in the ocean, a drop in the ocean of the people. They will succeed in having the people follow their road only if they correctly define this road.” Our Party, with its cadres, members, militants and supporters, is aware that it is a drop in the sea of the people. The masses shape history and they are the real power. Our Party has never been content with determining the direction of history correctly. It has been in the struggle and determination to draw the masses towards the direction of history. Today, it sees fulfilling this task as its main and fundamental problem and is taking shape.
The 52nd anniversary of the founding of our Party should be the occasion for our commitment to the revolution, our faith in the communist world, our eternal trust in the masses, our courage to swim against the current to grow even more. Our 52nd anniversary will give us a greater ability to fearlessly acknowledge what the people have achieved very well and what they have failed to achieve. Our Party has emerged with the role of communist vanguard and continues on its way with this historical role. One of the features of our party that makes it strong is that it avoids as much as possible the situation of becoming arrogant and not seeing the source of its power, which almost leads revolutionary parties to extinction. We are aware that being afraid to talk about their and inadequacy will organize the march towards extinction. As Comrades Lenin, Stalin and Mao stated, we will not disappear because we are not afraid to talk about our weaknesses, we are not afraid to face them, we are moving forward and will move forward by learning to overcome weaknesses.
Our party has the will, revolutionary dynamics and class positioning to overcome all its shortcomings and inadequacies. Our 52nd year of struggle should once again equip our party, the product of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, with the determination to overcome difficulties, to overcome shortcomings and to persistently lead the masses to the path it has set. The cause of revolution and communism, which our immortal comrades entrusted to “do better than us”, will continue until we win victory in the spirit of our party and all its components.
- A THOUSAND SALUTES TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND IMMORTALIZED FOR THE PARTY AND THE REVOLUTION!
- LONG LIVE OUR PARTY’S 52ND YEAR OF STRUGGLE!
- LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE FOR REVOLUTION AND COMMUNISM AGAINST DESPAIR, INDIMIDATION AND LIQUIDATIONISM!
- WAR UNTIL COMMUNISM WITH MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM AS OUR GUIDE!
- FURTHER ON THE RED ROUTE OF COMMUNIST LEADER İBRAHİM KAYPAKKAYA!
- LONG LIVE OUR PARTY TKP/ML, THE PEOPLE’S ARMY UNDER ITS LEADERSHIP TİKKO, TMLGB!
TKP/ML MK-SB
(Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist Central Committee-Political Bureau)
April 2024
