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Note: this essay we are publishing is about the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the TKP/ML. This writing has reached us through the mail and was printed in our 27th edition of the newspaper "On a revolutionary way WORKER-PEASANT"
On the 24th of April 2002, we are in a stage where the liberation struggle of the people in Turkey has a very important meaning: we are talking about 30 years of party leadership.
It was 30 years ago that our communist leader Ibrahim Kaypakkaya (who gave his life, but it was not a secret he was brutally murdered by the system in the torture dungeons.) founded with a very small group of comrades the Turkish communist party Marxist-Leninist. From its founding onwards, it always had the same goal, struggle against the feudal landlords, Capitalist bosses and bureaucrat-fascist chauvinist Imperialist lackeys and having the aim of smashing the old oppressor system and founding the people's system.
Our party has never left its line and still is going to do so and continue that struggle. We also never bowed down to our oppressor. Comrade Ibrahim, who struggled against all kind of oppression, was also able to give the people in Turkey an alternative to the existing system.
He also ended 50 years of revisionism in the TKP by founding the new party TKP/ML. Comrade Ibrahim gave a better understanding of the structure in Turkey. By doing so he took that knowledge and was able to follow the changes in the Country and also in the world especially the worker-peasant struggles. Kurdish uprisings against the Turkish regime and struggle against Imperialists were a daily issue.
His face was always focused on class wars and he never turned away from that line. That's the most important thing, what kind of class we represent and the line we are defending will always be connected with practice. He also never missed a chance to give the best for the proletariat. He was also able to advance the legend of Mustafa Suphi (Mustafa Suphi was the founder of the TKP and he was murdered in 1924 with 15 other comrades while returning from Russia to Turkey in the black sea region by Kemalists.) at the same time he criticized 50 years of revisionist line inside the TKP and its leader ªefik Hüsnü (ªefik Hüsnü became the leader in the TKP after Mustafa Suphi was murdered. ªefik Hüsnü was a revisionist and sold out the party). So they founded the TKP/ML: he continued the line which Mustafa Suphi had started and developed it.
The reason to do so was that our leader and comrade had a scientific ideology. One of the most important rules in that scientific ideology is braveness. This braveness was a big affection for the revolutionary movement and the society in Turkey. He pointed out the question on Kemalism and its real face and also layed out the national question. He pointed out the primary points of revolution and he never turned away from it.
The reason why our leader was able to do all these things was that he understood the truth of Marxism- Leninism and of chairman Mao who contributed and advanced Marxism-Leninism. He knew that the strategy of the proletariat was People's War, and so he opened the door for Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in Turkey.
This is one of the most important lines in the TKP/ML. That means that the TKP/ML is communist and fights for the cause of democratic people's revolution and is the leader of the working class in Turkey. It will not stop on its way to socialism and will reach communism.
We defend our party in its 30th year, years of production, efforts, experiences: it never left the party's line of having and getting the support of the masses. It's a long history with many victims. That history is also the history of our leader Ibrahim Kaypakkaya. It is the history of our 4th General party secretary Mehmet Demirdağ who raised the red flag and stayed truthfully united with the party until he died in 1998 by an encounter with the enemy. He never left the line of the party and struggled against all kinds of counter-revolution. That history is our history: it is the reason for our existence today and is the hope of the people today.
We believe that that is one of the most important things about our party.
In these 30 years our party has lived many hard times --separations, a coup d'etat and a very heavy split inside the party. But in the struggle against the despotic ruling class you will have to face them. Actually it is the war of people and a handful of despots and in that war you will have to sacrifice a lot.
The masses are not just a power that can be wiped out that easily: it is their war so it also will be their victory.
History has shown to us many times before, that if you have the party and the masses, then everything will be possible. The only thing is to connect them with each other. [In every class war revolutions have brought the consisting of a higher society system. (Trouble translating).] The first thing that you learn in class war is that organized people can't lose.
All the lackeys and landlords-bosses are organized too. They have a state; that state has an army and behind the state and army you can find all kinds of other lackeys. The only way to win this struggle and gain victory is if we are organized. The most important organizing is the masses and this must happen under the leadership of the communist party.
If there is no real leadership then the people can't get into power: this is only possible with a party. The communist party realizes that truth and works toward it.
In all these years of many heavy losses, hundreds of fallen heroes and warriors and their teachings, many years of pain that our people have suffered from, our struggle and emotions of revenge have brought us to where we are today, and we want to say it out one more time: "the founding and existence of the TKP/ML is a blow against the bourgeoisie and a victory for the proletariat."
The reason for the victory of comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya is the understanding of the science of Marxism-Leninism and Maoism--also being able to analyse the Country's whole situation and laying out as a communist these theses.
Through all these 30 years, it was the party's aim to make sure that the workers and other masses can be able to build their own future. There is no other way to struggle against the system than to put an army against an army and put a gun against a gun.
With tools like exploitation, unconstitutional rights and fascism they try to hold the masses away from getting into power. They call every kind of struggle against oppression " terrorism" and their admissions claim that anyone that says something against the bitterness, hunger or anarchy in the world is a "terrorist." To see reality we just have to look on what we've lived, then we will look to those who are responsible for that so we will see two sides, one that has to live in that poorness and one that makes it, that means two classes; oppressor and oppressed.
Isn't that reality? It is the coming out of classes all out in history and the reason why the human race is being driven away by humanity. Slave society might be done, but exploitation and plundering still continues. The working class will get on its feet and will start to fight and will throw exploitation, poorness and hunger on the garbage heap of history.
It has been especially in the last couple of years that the lackeys do not know anything about the bitterness that people have to live in, and that they only live in their own world of capitalist-Imperialism and they try to uphold their power. When it comes down to the question of demands by the people, the ruling class does not have a very positive view on that and becomes nervous. For the handful of landlords and bosses, the masses only consist of something to win money with or to use and become richer.
The difference today is that they do not hide it anymore, with privatisation and controls over the amounts of the agriculture and multiplication of taxes they oppress even more and the masses have to take out loans and become even more dependent on this system.
It's like Aliens which they play in their own movies who come from far away and try to find their own victims. It's just that in the last couple of years that they do not just take certain victims: they take a whole society. The system today has nothing to give to the people beside oppression; hunger, poorness and job lay-offs, darkness and a futureless lives, a life put in chains.
That means that such a system is not going to leave by itself. It has the control to produce more forces in its own capitalist-Imperialist system especially if there are no forces that fight against them. The fascist land- lord- boss system does not just oppress and exploit the masses: it also has its politics ready for that. Have we seen any other kind of change in the last few years? Didn't they even continue with their oppressing politics? With the beginning of 1980 our Country fell into the statistic "Less resources and productive forces" and started to sell itself more to the monopolies of Imperialism. In that way they tried to wipe out anybody that came or comes into their way, so it develops semi- colonialism. Today they want to hide the big crisis that they are in.
With tools like the IMF and the WB they make our country become more and more an "outside model." Anyone who turns against the system will be considered a "terrorist" and they even spread around "terror" politics and advance privatisation to get some more subventions.
WORKER AND OTHER STRUGGLING MASSES!
The fascist landlord- boss system tells you today that you have to live under this kind of world filled up with oppression. In this world the ruling class only thinks about its own happiness and its own welfare. That is how it lives.
It's about time to prepare for war and organize under the line of the TKP/ML. Today the only way to go and struggle against oppression, poverty and disorganisation is to make revolution under the leadership of the TKP/ML and its red people's army TIKKO which is advancing guerrilla war and will guide the masses and make democratic people's revolution.
It will bring socialism, humanity and in the end communism. Through out these revolutions they will make them come alive. Besides that, there is no other way for liberation. We should never forget and be aware of the fact that a people who are not organized are already judged to be oppressed and exploited by the ruling class. Isn't that what has judged us so far? Only with the rightful and scientific program of the TKP/ML the working class will be able to carry out its victory and put an end to its oppression. The fascist Turkish republic system has always tried to separate us from the masses it has done that against the whole Turkish revolutionary movement but especially against the TKP/ML.
The system has always used torture and made massacres to silence our movement. Our leader and comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya was murdered under torture after a month by not revealing any secret and resisting. Mustafa Suphi was drowned to death with fourteen comrades in the Black Sea region.
But the struggle still continues: no one bowed down on his/her knees. Insted of being a slave and bow down to the oppressor, a handful of warriors started to stand up and were reacting against the ruling class. They started to fight Imperialism and its lackeys the Turkish landlord-boss system and they shared their blood. By doing so, that was the only way for the liberation of the people and the Country.
Our party will raise the class struggle with all its militant and organized ways. The party is in the position to get rid of any rocks that the enemy is trying to put in our way. We also will become stronger all the time.
Because we know if you do not have the masses, you can't go forward. We know that you need a party and the masses to make revolution.
The knowledge of the TKP/ML will be the proof that revolution is still alive since its founding in 1972. That day is the fruit of our struggles so with excitement we salute our leader who had sacrificed his life and we greet our teachers Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Nothing will or can stop us to fight against those who oppress our people. The people in the world will be freed from Imperialism and its puppet- regimes. We call all the workers and oppressed masses to join our struggle under the party's line, and call all the people to join protracted people's war. Also all the other different minorities we must unite and fight together our enemy. We must struggle against privatisation, job lay-offs and the oppression against the peasants.
We need health-care and wherever we are we must struggle in factories, villages, schools and other places against the fascist system.
Together with the beginning of the "New World Order," the ruling classes claimed that the struggle for social and national liberation has ended, but that is a lie.
It should be known that those people who believed in that do not have any trust in the struggle for liberation.
It is not impossible to wipe out Imperialist politics against the oppressed masses.
Our party has always defended the line of "Every nation has a right to decide its own destiny."
And we always support the independence struggle of the National movement. The Kurdish nation should defend their struggle until the end and never bow down to its oppressor. They have to realize that the fascist Turkish state will never give them their independence. Real liberation is not about national struggle: it's about class struggle.
Only with the scientific ideology and politics of the working class they will win and carry out their victory and our party will stand behind them.
The red line of our leader and comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya is the way to liberation. The party is the vanguard on that way. The ones that will walk on this way are the masses.
All organisational tasks of Ibrahim to Mehmet will be the teachers and also class knowledge, party knowledge and leader knowledge will and must be understood correctly.
We will work with the eyes of Ibo and with the hands of Mehmet. We will stand with the masses against our fascist oppressor. With our 30 years of history we will struggle for revolution and people's power.
GLORY TO OUR PARTY IN ITS 30th YEAR OF EXISTENCE!
LONG LIVE OUR PARTY TKP/ML!
WITH THE PARTY AND THE MASSES EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
LONG LIVE PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM!
LONG LIVE PEOPLE'S WAR!
5 LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM!
6 LONG LIVE OUR PARTY TKP/ML AND THE PEOPLE'S ARMY TIKKO AND YOUTH ARM TMLGB!
TKP/ML CENTRAL COMMITTEE /POLITİCAL BUREAU
APRIL 2002
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