Kodzoquo
2nd October 2002, 10:13
Our main slogan for the elections:
"Where money has its tyranny, the people have their Communist Party"
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY
Communist Party of Turkey had been originally founded in 1920 during the Independence War of Turkey. The founders of the party Mustafa Suphi and his 14 friends had been massacred while they were trying to reach Ankara, the center of the Turkish Independence Forces and later the capital of the new republic, in order to involve the war and support the independence forces. That terrifying event was also the beginning of the illegal struggle of the party.
After 81 years, Communist Party of Turkey has been founded for the second time. However this time open and legally…
Party of Socialist Power, has changed her name to Communist Party of Turkey during the 6th Congress of the party, that was held in November 2001. The communists had decided to use the real name of the party.
Party of Socialist Power was founded in 1993 after the Party for Socialist Turkey, founded by the same group, had been banned by the Constitutional Court just after her establishment, because of the article in its programme related with the self determination right of Kurdish people in Turkey.
The origin of the group that founded both parties can be traced back to the "Socialist Power" which was founded by a group of communists, formerly members of Workers Party of Turkey (TİP).
After the military coup in 1980, following an organizational period, some cadres of formerly "Socialist Power" decided to start publishing the periodical Gelenek (Tradition), which is still the theoretical publication of the CP of Turkey, with a perspective that the timely need of the communist movement was mainly a theoretical, ideological and political reproduction of Leninist principles in the conditions Turkey which then will form the basis for the new cadres of communist movement. Gelenek also acted as a transitional bridge serving as a crossing point between the traditional aggregation of international communist movement and new cadres of communist movement in Turkey in the hard years, when the USSR dissolved and a dreadful ideological assault to socialism was ongoing.
Actually the results of the same ideological assault was the main reason of the decision of cadres of Gelenek to found an open and legal party after a long discussion period in the Turkish left, about so-called unification. That party was the Party of Socialist Turkey (STP), which was founded on November 7th, 1992.
After the Constitutional Court had banned STP, the Party of Socialist Power (SİP) was founded. SİP aimed to organize all people accepting the basic principles of left that can be summarized in four titles, as anti-imperialism, collectivism (or opposing privatization), defending enlightenment principles against Islamic fundamentalism and independency from the order and order institutions, in order to socialize as a communist party.
The Party of Socialist Power (SİP) had participated the general elections in 1996 forming an electoral block with Kurdish movement and other leftist groups, called Labor-Peace-Freedom Block, which got over 5% of all votes in Turkey.
The period from the foundation of STP, then SİP, to 2001, was also a process of the formation and organization of the CP of Turkey, in all three ways, ideologically, politically and theoretically. SİP fought against anti-communist hysteria of the capitalism of Turkey and struggled in order to form the ideological and organizational basis of a communist party throughout the working classes of Turkey, while the party has changed herself not formally but really during this struggle.
In 2001, everything was ready for the Communist Party of Turkey.
Now, Communist Party of Turkey is a legal and open party, struggling against capitalism in Turkey, despite the still existing ban in Turkish laws that forbid establishing a political party with a name including the word "communist".
Despite that law, the party even participated the local elections held in small town near İzmir called Armutlu and showed a considerable performance before the elections while organizing meetings and small rallies in the town. The relatively successful election results for Communist Party of Turkey was a surprise for the bourgeois press but not for the communists.
The ban for communist parties in Turkey will not be able to stop the communists using their real names.
The Communist Party of Turkey will continue the struggle for socialism in any condition.
"Where money has its tyranny, the people have their Communist Party"
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY
Communist Party of Turkey had been originally founded in 1920 during the Independence War of Turkey. The founders of the party Mustafa Suphi and his 14 friends had been massacred while they were trying to reach Ankara, the center of the Turkish Independence Forces and later the capital of the new republic, in order to involve the war and support the independence forces. That terrifying event was also the beginning of the illegal struggle of the party.
After 81 years, Communist Party of Turkey has been founded for the second time. However this time open and legally…
Party of Socialist Power, has changed her name to Communist Party of Turkey during the 6th Congress of the party, that was held in November 2001. The communists had decided to use the real name of the party.
Party of Socialist Power was founded in 1993 after the Party for Socialist Turkey, founded by the same group, had been banned by the Constitutional Court just after her establishment, because of the article in its programme related with the self determination right of Kurdish people in Turkey.
The origin of the group that founded both parties can be traced back to the "Socialist Power" which was founded by a group of communists, formerly members of Workers Party of Turkey (TİP).
After the military coup in 1980, following an organizational period, some cadres of formerly "Socialist Power" decided to start publishing the periodical Gelenek (Tradition), which is still the theoretical publication of the CP of Turkey, with a perspective that the timely need of the communist movement was mainly a theoretical, ideological and political reproduction of Leninist principles in the conditions Turkey which then will form the basis for the new cadres of communist movement. Gelenek also acted as a transitional bridge serving as a crossing point between the traditional aggregation of international communist movement and new cadres of communist movement in Turkey in the hard years, when the USSR dissolved and a dreadful ideological assault to socialism was ongoing.
Actually the results of the same ideological assault was the main reason of the decision of cadres of Gelenek to found an open and legal party after a long discussion period in the Turkish left, about so-called unification. That party was the Party of Socialist Turkey (STP), which was founded on November 7th, 1992.
After the Constitutional Court had banned STP, the Party of Socialist Power (SİP) was founded. SİP aimed to organize all people accepting the basic principles of left that can be summarized in four titles, as anti-imperialism, collectivism (or opposing privatization), defending enlightenment principles against Islamic fundamentalism and independency from the order and order institutions, in order to socialize as a communist party.
The Party of Socialist Power (SİP) had participated the general elections in 1996 forming an electoral block with Kurdish movement and other leftist groups, called Labor-Peace-Freedom Block, which got over 5% of all votes in Turkey.
The period from the foundation of STP, then SİP, to 2001, was also a process of the formation and organization of the CP of Turkey, in all three ways, ideologically, politically and theoretically. SİP fought against anti-communist hysteria of the capitalism of Turkey and struggled in order to form the ideological and organizational basis of a communist party throughout the working classes of Turkey, while the party has changed herself not formally but really during this struggle.
In 2001, everything was ready for the Communist Party of Turkey.
Now, Communist Party of Turkey is a legal and open party, struggling against capitalism in Turkey, despite the still existing ban in Turkish laws that forbid establishing a political party with a name including the word "communist".
Despite that law, the party even participated the local elections held in small town near İzmir called Armutlu and showed a considerable performance before the elections while organizing meetings and small rallies in the town. The relatively successful election results for Communist Party of Turkey was a surprise for the bourgeois press but not for the communists.
The ban for communist parties in Turkey will not be able to stop the communists using their real names.
The Communist Party of Turkey will continue the struggle for socialism in any condition.