Conghaileach
15th February 2003, 22:20
Message to the Congress
of the Maoist Communist Party
By the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Dear Comrades,
It is with great joy and with great expectations that we great this
Congress of your Party, the first such Congress to be held in the history
of the Party since its founding in 1972 (as the Communist Party of Turkey
Marxist-Leninist) and one that comes at a critical juncture for the
advance of the revolution in Turkey and in the world.
Your Party has a long and glorious tradition of sacrifice and
revolutionary struggle since Ibrahim Kaypakkaya set out to apply
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the conditions of Turkey and kindle the flame
of People’s War. Despite the martyrdom of Ibrahim Kaypakkaya and large
numbers of other Party leaders and cadres, despite the attacks by a strong
enemy armed by US imperialism, the ruling class was never able to
extinguish the armed struggle, and millions of workers, peasants and other
progressive people in Turkey see your Party and the struggle you are
leading as the hope for liberation.
The struggle in your country has gone through a difficult period in the
international communist movement after the overthrow of revolutionary
China by the Hua-Deng clique following the death of Comrade Mao Tsetung. A
section of the previous communist movement openly demand that others
follow Deng down the path of capitulation and betrayal. Others took
advantage of this big defeat to slander Mao Tsetung and refused or
denigrated his development of our scientific ideology to a whole new
level. As we know, these tendencies did considerable damage to the
revolutionary movement in Turkey as elsewhere, and your Party has had to
wage repeated struggles against these tendencies in one form or another.
In this light we salute the struggle you have been waging against all
wrong tendencies including that represented by the TKP/ML. We are
confident that this struggle will further deepen the grasp of the whole
Party of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and lead to the unity of all of the
genuine Maoist revolutionaries on the basis of the correct line.
Your Party played an important role in the formation of our Movement in
1984. But as we know for many years our relations were impeded by
different factors. Over the last several years this has changed
qualitatively and your Party is again playing a role in the forefront of
our Movement. This can only bring joy to the hearts of the genuine
communists around the world just as it frightens and infuriates the class
enemy and the opportunists. We are sure that in the period ahead our bonds
will grow still tighter and your Party will make even greater
contributions to the growth of our Movement internationally.
Comrades, we know you face a formidable enemy in the form of the
reactionary Turkish regime and its US backers. Sustaining and developing a
people’s war against such an enemy is no easy matter. Today your Party
faces the task of summing up the rich experience of revolutionary armed
struggle in Turkey and on the basis of this as well as studying the
experience of our class internationally it will surely draw the
appropriate lessons that will enable the Party to lead a powerful new
stage of people’s war.
The international enemy, the world imperialist system led by US
imperialism, has declared an open-ended war on the peoples of the world.
The Middle East is a key area in which they are carrying out their
criminal activities, which are certain to increase in the period ahead.
But as Mao said, the imperialists pick up a rock and drop it on their own
feet. The communists of the region are faced with the challenge of leading
the people to resist the renewed imperialist aggression. The difficulties
of today can be transformed through struggle into openings for the further
advance of the world proletarian revolution.
The class enemy understands very well the danger that your Party
represents to them. They have never ceased to attack the Party and its
leadership. We are confident that you will be able to foil the plots of
the enemy and strengthen and preserve the Party leadership. Armed with an
ever-deepening grasp of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, with deep links to the
masses in your country and a rich history of revolutionary struggle, with
a closer and closer relationship with the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement and the vanguard MLM parties internationally, the Maoist
Communist Party is sure to win new victories and make even greater
contributions to the world proletarian revolution.
Our revolutionary communist salute.
of the Maoist Communist Party
By the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Dear Comrades,
It is with great joy and with great expectations that we great this
Congress of your Party, the first such Congress to be held in the history
of the Party since its founding in 1972 (as the Communist Party of Turkey
Marxist-Leninist) and one that comes at a critical juncture for the
advance of the revolution in Turkey and in the world.
Your Party has a long and glorious tradition of sacrifice and
revolutionary struggle since Ibrahim Kaypakkaya set out to apply
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the conditions of Turkey and kindle the flame
of People’s War. Despite the martyrdom of Ibrahim Kaypakkaya and large
numbers of other Party leaders and cadres, despite the attacks by a strong
enemy armed by US imperialism, the ruling class was never able to
extinguish the armed struggle, and millions of workers, peasants and other
progressive people in Turkey see your Party and the struggle you are
leading as the hope for liberation.
The struggle in your country has gone through a difficult period in the
international communist movement after the overthrow of revolutionary
China by the Hua-Deng clique following the death of Comrade Mao Tsetung. A
section of the previous communist movement openly demand that others
follow Deng down the path of capitulation and betrayal. Others took
advantage of this big defeat to slander Mao Tsetung and refused or
denigrated his development of our scientific ideology to a whole new
level. As we know, these tendencies did considerable damage to the
revolutionary movement in Turkey as elsewhere, and your Party has had to
wage repeated struggles against these tendencies in one form or another.
In this light we salute the struggle you have been waging against all
wrong tendencies including that represented by the TKP/ML. We are
confident that this struggle will further deepen the grasp of the whole
Party of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and lead to the unity of all of the
genuine Maoist revolutionaries on the basis of the correct line.
Your Party played an important role in the formation of our Movement in
1984. But as we know for many years our relations were impeded by
different factors. Over the last several years this has changed
qualitatively and your Party is again playing a role in the forefront of
our Movement. This can only bring joy to the hearts of the genuine
communists around the world just as it frightens and infuriates the class
enemy and the opportunists. We are sure that in the period ahead our bonds
will grow still tighter and your Party will make even greater
contributions to the growth of our Movement internationally.
Comrades, we know you face a formidable enemy in the form of the
reactionary Turkish regime and its US backers. Sustaining and developing a
people’s war against such an enemy is no easy matter. Today your Party
faces the task of summing up the rich experience of revolutionary armed
struggle in Turkey and on the basis of this as well as studying the
experience of our class internationally it will surely draw the
appropriate lessons that will enable the Party to lead a powerful new
stage of people’s war.
The international enemy, the world imperialist system led by US
imperialism, has declared an open-ended war on the peoples of the world.
The Middle East is a key area in which they are carrying out their
criminal activities, which are certain to increase in the period ahead.
But as Mao said, the imperialists pick up a rock and drop it on their own
feet. The communists of the region are faced with the challenge of leading
the people to resist the renewed imperialist aggression. The difficulties
of today can be transformed through struggle into openings for the further
advance of the world proletarian revolution.
The class enemy understands very well the danger that your Party
represents to them. They have never ceased to attack the Party and its
leadership. We are confident that you will be able to foil the plots of
the enemy and strengthen and preserve the Party leadership. Armed with an
ever-deepening grasp of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, with deep links to the
masses in your country and a rich history of revolutionary struggle, with
a closer and closer relationship with the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement and the vanguard MLM parties internationally, the Maoist
Communist Party is sure to win new victories and make even greater
contributions to the world proletarian revolution.
Our revolutionary communist salute.