The KKP

[The Vegan Marxist]

The KKP (Communist Party of Kurdistan), are they revolutionary, revisionist, reactionary, what? Is there anyone who's really kept an eye on this group & can tell where exactly their alliances lay upon?

[The Douche]

You mean PKK, bro.

[The Vegan Marxist]

You mean PKK, bro.

No I mean these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kurdistan

Though, if you can give me any info on the PKK too, much would be appreciated.

[Leo]

They still maintain a pro-Soviet perspective, their general theoretical framework consists of a hypothetical unity of the working class movement in Kurdistan with the national liberation movement, in other words a national liberation movement and a social revolution taking place simultaneously - under their own leadership, of course. As opposed to most Kurdish political currents, they have enough sense to analyze the mode of production in Kurdistan as capitalist. They see themselves as patriots. Nowadays, their illegal organization is pretty much abandoned, and they operating as a legal party, Socialist Party of Mesopotamia (Mesop), and they tend to support the mainstream Kurdish nationalists in the elections. Their numerical strength / support is absolutely minuscule compared to the PKK and even compared to HAK-PAR or other Kurdish political parties. I have never met any of them, although I do have a book written by one of their theorists which is basically trying to statistically prove the existence and trace the development of the working class in Kurdistan. Odds are, I would say, that they do most of their political work in the trade-unions in Turkish Kurdistan, aiming for the lower or lower-middle levels of the union bureaucracy where they can.

Regardless of their emphasis on class, due to their nationalism, parliamentarianism, trade-unionism and general Stalinist approach, I do not see them as revolutionary in any way.