Statement No: 2022/4
OUR 50 YEAR STRUGGLE IS OUR WILLPOWER TO VICTORY!
LONG LIVE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR PARTY, TKP-ML!
Our party is 50 years old! Our party, which was founded on April 24, 1972, by a limited number of cadres and militants under the leadership of İbrahim Kaypakkaya, celebrates its 50th anniversary today. Our Party has won important successes and victories in this time, which is a long time for a person but a short time in terms of class struggle and the history of societies. She’s had defeats and setbacks. However, she never broke away from the claim of revolution, the insistence of the People’s War, and the awareness of the necessity of armed struggle.
She both paid and received a toll against our class enemies and their fascist oppression apparatus, the Turkish Republic. Along with her hundreds of immortals, she became the creator of a communist tradition that reached hundreds of thousands of supporters and the resistance of tens of thousands of prisoners in the dungeons. We share the rightful honour of those who have been associated with our party, succeeded in becoming comrades, and laboured, especially our immortals, who gave their blood and lives to the creation of this tradition.
Let’s live this justified pride and honour our party in the trenches, mountains, villages, cities, factories, schools, prisons, in short, wherever we have party activities, from our supporters to our militants, from our members to our cadres.
All the autonomous organizations of our party, our People’s army TİKKO guerrillas and militias, our women and LGBTI+ comrades from the Communist Women’s Union (KKB); We salute the communist leader of the people’s youth, the leaders, and militants of our Marxist-Leninist Youth Union of Turkey (TMLGB), and their struggle.
We share the enthusiasm of all our comrades for the 50th anniversary of our party!
Comrades,
It is by no means a coincidence that our party was founded as the representative of the international proletariat on the territory of Turkey and Turkish Kurdistan. Our party is the product of the class struggle and rising mass movements in the international arena and in our geography.
Our party is committed to starting this fire in the lands of Turkey and Turkish Kurdistan, when the flames of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution which began with Chairman Mao’s call to “bomb the revisionist headquarters” and which is a great example of waging class struggle under the conditions of proletarian dictatorship and socialism, and continuing the revolution, swept the world.
Our party complied with Chairman Mao’s call that “I started the fire”. In the 50-year history of struggle, the day has come, the fire has grown, the day has come and retreated. But the grove of fire has always burned and continues to burn.
Our party was born in the rising struggle of the working class, peasants, and youth of the people, especially students, against imperialism, capitalism, feudalism, fascism, patriarchy, and all kinds of reaction in Turkey and Turkish Kurdistan. The workplace-occupations and strikes of the working class, the land occupations of the peasants, the anti-imperialist struggle of the student youth and the increasing momentum of the class struggle in total formed the basis for the establishment of our party.
Our founding leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya firmly adhered to the principle of “being revolutionary in practice” and developed his theory directly in revolutionary practice, which resulted in the establishment of our party on a solid foundation. It is because of this that our party TKP-ML, in its 50-year history of struggle, was able to stand against all the attacks of our class enemies from within and without, and resolutely continued its claim to the New Democratic Revolution.
Comrades,
We kept our word; we insisted on continuing our claim! As our party celebrates its 50th anniversary, the state apparatus of our class enemies, the Turkish fascism, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. However, at the current stage, the AKP-MHP fascist government has imposed a major economic crisis on the working class and our oppressed people. This is by far the biggest economic crisis in the history of the Republic and, in parallel, a large-scale wealth transfer associated with it.
The broad masses are in danger of widespread unemployment, poverty and, moreover, starvatı. Besides, a handful of parasites got richer. With the interventions in the exchange rate, the people were robbed overnight, and wealth transfer was made. The dollar reserves in the Central Bank were plundered, and government tenders were given to the supporters. The robbery continues with the “state assurance” given to investments that are said to have been realized through tenders given to a handful of supporters. Fascism has been transformed into a “Narco Republic”. It engages in drug dealing, directly using the state’s bureaucracy to maintain its military aggression inside and outside the border.
It fuels chauvinism to hide the poverty and hunger it imposes on the masses of the people, attacks Rojava every other day, and launched a comprehensive invasion attack on Iraqi Kurdistan. The attacks against the Kurdish nation continue to increase. Detentions and arrests are made on daily basis. Prisons are filled with prisoners, and the prisoners are tortured to death. Femicide and hate killings against women and LGBTI+s continues. Capitalist looting and rent attacks against nature and the environment have increased. Pressures against oppressed beliefs, especially Alevi belief, continue. Chauvinism and racism against refugees are fuelled and attacks are being organised against refugees.
The precarious and non-unionized workers of the working class are in de facto occupation, strikes and resistance in the face of wages, working conditions and work murders imposed on them. While large sections of the class have yet to take action, deep anger is accumulating. That’s why those in power talk about “Gezi” every time they open their mouths. Even the spokespersons of the opposition bourgeois clique suggest the ballot box, not the street, and continue to lie to the people, saying “it’s almost time before they’re gone”.
Under these conditions, we renew our promise to the working class, oppressed masses of toiling people from Turkish-Kurdish nations, various nationalities, and beliefs: We shall be victorious, the proletariat and the oppressed peoples will succeed!
Our Party Is Our Guidance, Inspiration and Power Source in her 50th Anniversary!
Long live the Communist Party of Turkey – Marxist Leninist!
Long live the Liberation Army of the Workers and Peasants of Turkey!
Long live the Communist Women’s Union!
Long live the Marxist-Leninist Youth Union of Turkey!
Communist Party of Turkey – Marxist Leninist (TKP-ML)
Central Committee
24 April 2022
Turkısh: https://www.tkpml.com/tkp-ml-mk-50-yillik-mucadelemiz-gelecegi-kazanma-irademizdir/?swcfpc=1