Self-description: This organization claims to uphold three of four of MIM's cardinal principles by upholding the so-called Gang of Four and the Cultural Revolution in China. It conducts a wide-ranging struggle against the "petty-bourgeois mode of thinking." The MLPD upholds the Communist Party of the Philippines, but it opposes the armed struggle in Peru (PCP) and the Indian subcontinent by supporting organizations that do not believe India is ripe for armed struggle yet.
Comments: The MLPD has had its hand in a number of international conferences that contend with the PTB's conferences by being closer to MIM's cardinal principles while still contending for the PTB's underlying social-democratic base. It's youth conference at Whitsun attracted 27,000 people. The name of the MLPD-led international organizing effort is called the "International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations" (ICMLPO).
The MLPD jeered raucously when MIM gave its 5 minute speech against the labor aristocracy at the 100th Birthday celebrations of Mao Zedong in 1993 at Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The 1993 MIM speech at a meeting co-chaired by the MLPD can be deemed a turning point when today's European social-democracy calling itself Maoism came into definitive contact with proletarian thought on what Lenin called the "split in the working class." Although European pseudo-Maoism cannot claim to be unaware of the issues anymore, unfortunately, since 1993, MIM has not been able to force European social-democracy calling itself Marxist-Leninist to address the extent of super-exploitation and the corresponding labor aristocracy of the oppressor nations of imperialism in precise detail--much less take a correct stand.
MIM is not surprised of course that failure to break with the traditions of European social-democracy also leads an organization to oppose Third World People's Wars.
See, MIM's criticism of the ICMLPO imperialist country parties and organizations
See, MIM's criticism of the PTB-led "International Communist Seminar".
See an example of a good booklet on the subject of Hoxha by predecessors to the MLPD