On organizational problems and the approach towards them:
Undoubtedly one of the most important agendas of the Congress of our
Party was organizational problems and the assessment of the current
period. The period since the 8
th Conference has been examined and various assessments have been implemented. Various discussions were held on the line of the 8
th Conference, on the status of the 8
th
Party Central Committee, on its orientations, its way of leadership, on
the activities of all fields and committees, the state of the Komsomol
activities, on the guerrilla, and the point that the war has reached.
Our recent Party history can be divided into two sections, one being
the period until 2015 and the latter being the period since 2015 up to
this day. Our Party has been subject to an extraordinary
putschist-factionist attack and eventually a group that has proven
itself to be party and war deserters has left the ranks of the Party.
The necessity to approach the process in two distinct periods originates
from this situation. Within this context an assessment has been done on
the
Right–
liquidationist, Party and War Deserter band that became systemized in January 2017 and finalized its course in October 2017 and the assessment made in the 8
th
Broadened Meeting of the Party Central Committee has been approved by
our Congress. In the following period this band has managed to commit a
series of crimes as wearing away revolutionary values, attacking the
party with the backing of the police and the mafia, being deserters in
the field of war, stealing the weapons and ammunition of the party and
handing them to the enemy. Now, it is clear that this clique takes its
place in history as having committed a series of practices that serve
the counter-revolution, having weakened its revolutionary veins,
existing at a symbolic level in the country, having lost its ties with
the problems of the revolution in the country and essentially becoming a
group only existing outside of the country. In addition to the
approaches and assessments of the 8
th Broadened Meeting of the CC, these designations have been made and approved in our Congress.
Our
Congress considers the orientation and decisions of the 8
th
Conference as being MLM in essence. The orientations and the
assessments over the period include correct and farsighted approaches.
The main problem of the 8
th Conference is the shallowness in the approach towards the reality of the Party and towards the issue of leadership. The 8
th
Conference undoubtedly has not been able to carry out its duty of
developing the responsibility, the approach and the method to resolve
the reasons behind the fact that the 7
th CC had not been able
to lead in that period, the fact that the CC had conflicts with the
Party for a period of time and the reasons behind the fact that the CC
had received the criticism of being “sectarian” in the face of these
conflicts. The CC of the Party was not able to examine the criticism of
being sectarian in regards to not being able to predominate the Party
and predominate the process in a correct and in a scientific way. This
situation has become an obstacle in creating the ground for a healthier
leadership to the party, to saving the leadership from being ordinary
and carrying out the responsibility of the party will.
Eventually the leadership of the 8
th CC of Party continued
to operate with the legacy it received from the previous leadership and
to dominate the party; thus dominating the problems, performing
developed leading skills and being the force for the solution have not
taken place due to the superficial approaches of the 8
th Conference towards the problems.
During the 8
th CC of the Party the inability to dominate
the party, and even elements of the CC of the Party not being able to
dominate one another has after a while given birth to “left
sectarianism” and in some occasions even liberalism. This has crippled
the organizational line of the Party. The inner-party problems grew, the
emerging reality of the Party and the corresponding emergence of right
liquidationist factionalism are due to the party leadership inability to
dominate the Party and its elements adequately. The dominance problem
of the CC of the Party had reflected itself in the reports and
subjective assessments towards the fields of activity. The greatest
problem of the CC of the Party is its weakness and incapability to
dominate and rule the Party which turn the leadership into something
ordinary. This situation was ongoing during the aforementioned period.
On the other hand, the emerging picture was one of a climate of
non-confidence that emerged in the leadership and spread to the Party
and at one point got on top of everything. Eventually this “ground
swell” grew bigger among the Party and surfaced as a virus of
NON-CONFIDENCE. This situation was acerbated by a group of party members
distrusting the Party’s general political line and the following
ideological fracture. This political, organizational and ideological
convergence has resulted in an explosion that broke the leadership from
the party, systematically embraced an opportunist-reformist and anti-MLM
line and tried to use the distrust towards the party as “the main
confidence” as a lever.
Undoubtedly this picture stems from the attitude of the 8
th
Conference that does not portray the dynamics for development and
dynamics for leading in unison with a focus on the Party and leadership
realities that examines these concepts. This situation that hinders the
shaping of the Party in accordance with its reality, the ability of the
leadership to dominate the Party and the existence of an appropriate
leadership. The Party has experienced the problem of not being able to
dominate the leadership and the leadership has experienced the problem
of not being able to dominate the Party. Since a healthy relationship
between the Party and the leadership was not maintained, a CC of the
Party that has a claim to lead was not shaped. The progressive,
strengthening and dynamic aspect of the contradiction between the CC of
the Party and the Party was not revealed, on the contrary, a situation
became dominant that was destructive and created problems. This picture
dominated the successful and unsuccessful assessments towards the field
of activities and the shaping and intervening abilities of the
leadership.
The scenery laid out by the CC of the Party for the party leadership
and the fields of activities of the party was assessed together with
this wholeness and reality. In this scenery the responsibilities that
the Party should take, the necessity of CC of the Party to dominate the
Party in order to lead it, creation of opportunities and channels for
such a dominance, an obligation for more realistic goals and
orientations with a stricter mechanism that is more critical and more
prone to examine were emphasized.
Within this context, an understanding of creating a leadership that
acts as a whole, has more willpower in the face of the struggle of the
Party and the class struggle, that is more dynamic, more homogenous in
its political and ideological approach was adopted. The fact that the
Party has these opportunities was seen through the general situation and
the discussions that were held.
On this basis, a special focus was directed on the weak position of
our Party in the class struggle, its inadequacies, its shortcomings in
approaching problems with a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist methodology and its
regression. Approaches towards
the Problems of the Party, the
Problems of the Class Struggle, the Problems of the War, the Cadre
Problems, the Problems in the matter Organization, the Deviations in the
Line of the Mass, Inadequacies of the General Political Line to
Transform Into a Political Power, the Matter of Alliances and Unity of
Actions were thoroughly discussed. These problems as a whole
were discussed within the scope of the assessments of the CC of the
Party, assessment of the fields of activities. Conclusions were drawn
from the re-consideration of our existing organizational reality.
Undoubtedly the assessment of the period was done considering the
international situation, the problems experienced in the objectivity of
the class struggle, the ideological attacks of the bourgeoisie and its
reflections on our Party. In a multi-directional way our ideological,
political and organizational picture was the main topic of this agenda.
Since the upcoming orientation is to be based on this subjective and
objective reality, the problem was dealt with in the broadest and
multi-directional way possible.
Orientation for the upcoming period:
Our Party has identified the main problem as the organization,
expansion, enhancement, empowerment of the Party and scaling up of the
war. Accomplishing a Party and an organization that is combative and
militant has been determined as the essential orientation.
Our
Congress, has determined that even though
fascism conducts its attacks of oppression, limitation, disorganization,
liquidation and if possible concession in an increasing rate of
intensity and depth in order to overcome its political crisis, it has
not succeeded to resolve its crisis. Even though this aggression has
created a regression and weakness in the revolutionary situation, the
class, national, social etc. contradictions have gotten deeper and the
policy of keeping the masses inactive and accepting of the current
situation essentially has failed.
The level of conflict and tension between the sovereign classes has
increased and due to the decrease in the total economic exploit rooting
from the economic crisis, parallel to the sharp competition between,
both the inner clique conflict and the conflict between alliances has
deepened. The all-out attack carried out by fascism had its reflections
on the revolutionary, progressive forces and in the most general meaning
of the word for the masses of people. Nonetheless, this destructive and
negative scenery has not been able to produce success in its policy of
full surrender. By digging deeper into its grave, fascism has managed to
gain time for itself. The upcoming developments seems fertile for a
ground on which the revolutionary situation and consequently the
activity of the class struggle will rise. The fascist dictatorship that
is stuck in both internal and external politics will experience a
stronger and a sharper crisis of rule.
This scenery provides a ground for new opportunities for our Party
and the revolutionary movement to make progress. The all-out attack
carried out by the fascist dictatorship not only develops itself by
creating oppression, violence, destruction, denial, occupation and a
wave of chauvinism. At the same time it survives by creating a climate
of hopelessness and desperation that produces intimidation.
Again, it has created a siege that will lead to an ideological
erosion in the forms of within-the-systemism, parliamentarism, living
together in peace, legalism, “winning with evolution without a
revolution”. Today, all the negative effects of this ideological
influences and poison finds its reflections among the members of the
popular forces. Our Party is in the process of building a barricade
against this ideological submission that dreams “a power fantasy without
a power”, that is reformist and liquidationist for a period of time.
From this aspect in the ideological struggle and in creating dominance
over its own reality our Party is in an advantageous position to detect
its ideological weaknesses and its strengths.
Although the erosion in the proletarian revolutionary line, the
regression and not having a claim should be viewed as a problem that has
to be detected without any hesitations. Today approaching
contradictions from the perspective of communism and from the
perspective of proletarian revolutionary attitude, holding a strong
grasp on the principles and developing tactical politics in accordance
is being demonized. The essence of these approaches stem from the
contradiction between the proletarian revolutionism and petty-bourgeois
revolutionism. Petty-bourgeois revolutionary style, method, expectation,
hope, formation and orientation has a rather strong political
influence. This situation makes itself felt stronger as it attacks the
proletarian revolutionary line.
Turning bourgeois line of revolutionism upside-down, confronting it,
scattering its siege is only possible by the strengthening and
self-realization of the Communist party in theoretical, organizational,
political and intellectual level. Whatever the conditions are,
proletarian revolutionism must not forget the historical role of the
working class and the believe that the working class will accomplish the
New Democratic Revolution and continue it. Every greying in this field
will end up shaking like a leaf against the wind and even to drying out.
The existence of the Communist Party is the provision of proletarian
revolutionism. The ideological orientation of our Party will be the
development and strengthening of proletarian revolutionism that is close
to the masses, comprehends the historical role of the working class,
and grasps the spirit of time. The revolutionism that is needed is the
one that can show the will to resolve the emerging contradictions, that
is equipped against the bourgeois type revolutionism of all sorts and
one that can ideologically convict them, that has a grasp on the facts,
occasions and developments and that possesses the strength to analyse
them to come up with solutions. In this sense our Party will adopt an
orientation that exposes the contradiction between the proletarian
revolutionism and petty-bourgeois revolutionism and strengthens its line
from this point onwards.
Undoubtedly the creation of solid party organizations is only
possible by having a level of militancy that fits a fighting party. Our
Party will adopt a line that takes the consolidation within the class
struggle and a strict education as essentials in order to solidify its
organization, expand its organization and turn it into a closed-chamber
system for the enemy.
Another important point is the matter of WAR. This
will be one of the most important pillars of our orientation. This
period in which the revolutionary situation shows tendencies of
increase, a fighting Party and a line that is focused on the Guerrilla
Warfare and that intervenes in the contradictions with the critical
power of arms is crucially important. We have a structure of a society
that awaits a solution by force. War is for the revolution, it is
required for the needs of the revolution and it is the only way for the
revolution to take place. This comprehension and approach brings about a
correct positioning against every conflict. This conditioned obligation
of our Party for revolution and communism will bring the war to adopt
the most effective, the most destructive and the most constructive
character.
Our Party has found its shape for the last 47 years with this
consciousness and orientation and has built a ceaseless line of war. The
Guerrilla Struggle which is the main artery of our revolution is conducted by the
People’s Army
led by our Party. In the current conditions the enemy has adopted a
serious war of destruction against the Kurdish National guerrilla
movement and against our Party. Our Party has been resisting against
this war of destruction by paying a tremendous price. Our Party will not
take a step back from its insistence to seize the power piece by piece
through
Red Political Powers and through the
People’s War Strategy of
our revolution. And, it will continue to resist against all
desperation, hopelessness, and attempts of liquidation and ideological
surrender. At the expense of paying a great price in this period, the
process will be met with the approach of tactical attacks in the
strategical defence position. Our Party will meticulously implement the
self-preservation rule which is the fundamental law of the Guerrilla
Warfare but it will adopt the approach of wearing down the enemy through
tactical attacks for the sake of self-preservations and expansion.
The shaping in accordance with the war policy of our party will be
essential for all its activities. All activities and orientations will
be dealt in order to feed and enhance the war. Undoubtedly the expansion
of People’s War means the implementation of the most creative and rich
revolutionary line and politics, organization and mobilization of large
masses on this base in all fields that we are at. At the same time, this
means the active use of means of struggle that are based on force and
their creative application against contradictions.
Waging war while getting organized, getting organized while waging war. Fighting while organizing, organizing while fighting. As
organizing large masses will re-produce the war, the line of war based
on the guerrilla struggle will also mean that all organizations will
have to re-produce themselves. This is a reality that is created by our
social structure. The critical power of weapons under the leadership and
command of our Party will not only scatter the chains in the minds of
the oppressed masses of people, but it will also serve to increase their
ambition to organize and struggle, as comrade Mao states, “it will rid
us of all our dirt and dust”.
In this historical juncture, under the conditions that liquidationism
and reformism is swarming the place, we are obliged to raise the
guerrilla warfare, to create a combative organization and to pass the
threshold with this willpower in order to lead and establish a marching
column which is stronger and more effective for the dream of communism.
Our Party comprehends this obligation and it will accelerate its
struggle by convincing masses that are close to us or far away by
organizing to spread this understanding and by its perspective for the
political power.
Comrades, Our People, Our Friends;
Our
Congress undoubtedly created its willpower by
adhering to its confidence in its historical responsibility, to its
belief in the people, to its loyalty to its comrades, to the promises
made to our martyrs, to the rage and venom of the families of our
martyrs, to its responsibility to friendly forces, to the solidarity
spirit of its friend and sister organizations, to the parties in the
international level and to the scientific approach that leads our way,
sheds light to our path which is the sharp blade of the international
proletariat, of the path of Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin-Mao.
Our
Congress has adopted the scientific programmatic
standpoints that guides our Party for the last 47 years and that were
established by the leader Ibrahim KAYPAKKAYA with a better
comprehension.
The determination of the 25 People’s Fighters who have been
immortalized in arms, who chanted out the slogans of the Party and
declared loyalty to its line in the last 4 year long period has given
the spirit to our
Congress at a time that
non-confidence towards our party was organized in a planned fashion, at a
time the blunt knife of the bourgeois line was held against the throat
of our Party, at a time theories of desertion and hopelessness swarmed
the place against the guerrilla struggle. Every single one of our 25
party militants, the fighters of our People’s Army have sacrificed their
lives with the dream of communism and their loyalty to the Party line.
They who wrote the name of the hope with blood, at this point of
history, have turned every bullet that was fired against the enemy as an
ideological force against the desertion and defeatism. Our Party has
given hundreds of martyrs to the glorious cause of communism in the past
47 years. The pain of the
Families of the Martyrs who
toiled for the raising, development and character of our comrades who
have been immortalized in this cause, those who saw their causes as
their own is embodied as rage and determination in our Party. Our
Congress declares that it promises to embrace the legacy of our comrades
and that the essence and the root of our Party is their dream, to all
the families of the martyrs. Let our families have no doubt: their
children will live in the spirit of our Party and our comrades and will
continue to live.
Our
Congress greets our prisoners who honoured the
name, the line, the war and the militancy of our Party in the dungeons
of the enemy with their resistance and have turned them into the
front-most trenches, with communist feelings and revolutionary passion.
They are the ones who give meaning to the price demanding character of
the struggle by resisting and embracing the fight without any hesitation
to pay the greatest of prices. The lines of our prisoner comrades that
produce and resist for communism and for the class struggle in the
hardest of conditions feeds the blood and souls of our comrades and the
Party. Let the Congress of our Party be a gift to all our prisoner
organizations and to all its elements.
Our
Congress declares with our infinite belief in communism and our loyalty to
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, to the representatives of the international proletariat in various countries and to the fellow communist parties that the
TKP/ML, the
representative of the international proletariat in Turkey is now
stronger and more determined in struggle than ever with its
1st Congress.
The Communist Movement of the World has significant and serious
problems. Revisionist, opportunist, liquidationist and reformist attacks
towards MLM are now more furious and reckless than ever. Against those
who drop the red flag in the face of regressions from socialism, and
those who give in to the anti-MLM currents instead of leaning on to
Maoism,
we once again wave the red flag stronger with the struggle for New Democratic Revolution, Socialism and Communism. We
have the determination to build a common marching column that is
equipped with proletarian internationalism and MLM against the attacks
developing on a international scale. The worldwide crisis of the
imperialist-capitalist system will make the ground for People’s War
stronger in semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries and will offer these
centres of storm of revolution the opportunity to rush forward. Today in
India, in Peru, in Philippines and in various other semi-feudal and
semi-colonial countries in a larger or a smaller scale exists the fire
of People’s War. We might be at a state of a spark, but we are students
of a master who said,
“a single spark can start a prairie fire”. We
carry our claim to start a prairie fire with our historical
consciousness and obligation. In order for our single spark to spread we
will put all our effort, energy and focus.
Glory to the international proletarian movements, organizations and fellow parties who walk on the enlightened path of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
To the Toiling People of Turkey of the Turkish, Kurdish and Various Other Nations;
Our Congress declares its main slogan as
“On the Path of the 1st Congress; Hold on to Proletarian Revolutionism, Challenge Liquidationism, Raise the Guerrilla Warfare”. This
slogan is the synthesis of the orientation of our Congress. We will
unite around this slogan and prepare for “the glorious years of struggle
to come”. Our Congress has determined a main orientation that focuses
on enhancing and developing the party and raising the war. This
orientation is a goal to meet the developing revolutionary situation. It
is aimed for all our party members, militants, sympathizers and the
public whose attention is on us to be shaped in the direction of this
orientation. It is aimed for our party organizations to shape their
organization in this direction, for our militants to take a step
forward, for our sympathizers to improve their level of organization,
for the ones who are not organized but their hearts beat with our Party
to rapidly get organized and join the boundless sea of the class
struggle in the ranks of our Party. In order to reach our goals we
invite everyone to listen to this call of ours, to partake in our voice,
to be comrades walking with us.
NOW IT IS THE TIME TO TAKE A STEP FORWARD!
It is the time for the one who sits to stand up, for the one who is standing to walk, for the one who walks to run.
It is the time for all those who pin their hopes on the goals of New Democratic Revolution, Socialism and Communism to step forward.
It is the time to raise the Guerrilla Struggle, enhance and embrace the People’s War.
It is the time to unite around the Party that is the command centre of these goals.
It is the time to raise the class struggle,
challenge fascism, not to leave any space for within-the-systemism and
to make our Party a political force of life.
Our Party is predestined to organize and achieve these goals. It is
the time for all party members, militants and sympathizers to use their
energies full time. The communists hold the claim to meet this period
with their belief in revolution and organize the revolution. The
greatest achievement of our Congress is the certain and determined
realization of this will.
This will that is portrayed by our Congress promises a determination
in the struggle for obtaining freedom in the largest sense, with the
goal of New Democratic Revolution to the proletariat of Turkey, to the
oppressed strata of peasantry, to the urban petty-bourgeoisie, to the
Kurdish and other oppressed nations, to oppressed belief, to the
oppressed genders of women and LGBTI, to the popular youth and to all
democratic forces. Let our promise to imperialism, fascism, feudalism
and all sorts of reactionaries be that they will definitely come to an
end and that our Party will never stop and give in, and continue the
struggle for this cause with arms at hands.
– Glory to our 1st Congress!
– We Will Drown Fascism in the Blood That It Shed!
– We Will Scatter the Fascist Blockade With the Organized Struggle of the People!
– Glory to the Liberation Struggle of the Kurdish Nation!
– Organize and Struggle against the Imperialism and All Its Footmen!
– Revolution is an Obligation, People’s War is Freedom!
– Revolutionary Struggle is Legitimate, Revolt is a Right!
– Learn through War, Move Forward through Organization, Join Together in the Line of the 1st Congress!
– On the 70th Birthday of Comrade Kaypakkaya, to the Power in the Red Route of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
– Scatter the Fascist Blockade, Move Forward with the People’s War!
– We Will Destroy the Comprador Boss-Lord State, We Will Establish the Democratic People’s Power!
– Long Live the Proletarian Internationalism!
– Glory to the Victorious Path of the People’s War!
– Glory to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
– Glory to our Party TKP/ML, Glory to our Popular Army TIKKO and Glory to our Youth Organization TMLGB!
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