“In his farewell address, Comrade Lenin called upon us to remain faithful to the principles of the Communist International. We promise you, Comrade Lenin, that we will not spare our lives in order to strengthen and extend the unity of the workers of the whole world – the Communist International” (Stalin).
From the point of view of the working class and the oppressed peoples, the imperialist system has been an order of exploitation and plunder for more than a century, characterised by hunger, poverty, massacres, endless wars of aggression and division, destruction of nature for excessive greed for profit, oppression of the peoples by sovereign states at all levels. This order of exploitation, plunder and brutality is not the destiny of humanity and must be destroyed.
Comrade Lenin, the leader of the world proletariat and the oppressed peoples, the great master of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, who transformed the socialist future from a utopia into a concrete reality, described this rotten system with all its basic features more than a hundred years ago. Not only did they describe it, but they also put forward teachings of enormous importance for its elimination. Those who have embraced these lessons have established new democratic people’s governments and socialist governments in different parts of the world, showing that this system of exploitation and robbery can be destroyed and that it is possible to establish an alternative system. By uniting with the destructive and creative power of the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples, we have overthrown imperialism in more than a third of the world, and we can do it even more. We have the communist will and determination to overcome the “bends” we encounter in our long and difficult march. Above all, we believe in the strength of the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples.
The oppressed peoples of the world give the necessary answer to all the reformist and order-loving masters who propagate imperialism and the imperialists as an “absolute power”, who preach obedience to the system by propagating the indestructibility of this rotten system, by resisting and fighting back. The protests, the actions in defence of the rights, the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist actions in different regions of the world, including the imperialist countries, are concrete indicators of the anger of the working class and the oppressed peoples against the existing system and the search for an alternative. Whatever the imperialists and their henchmen of all kinds do, they cannot make the oppressed of the world their docile slaves.
THE HEROIC RESISTANCE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IS A DAGGER IN THE HEART OF IMPERIALISM AND ITS SERVANTS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST!
The Palestinian national liberation and anti-colonialist forces, who have stripped the imperialist system, which comrade Lenin called a “giant on clay feet” and comrade Mao called a “paper tiger”, of its “giant” and “tiger” characteristics and turned it into “clay” and “paper”, have shown who is the real “giant” and the real “tiger” for those who are oppressed, suppressed and ignored. The Zionist state of Israel, which is supported by a big part of the imperialist powers, especially the US imperialism, which has all kinds of war material, including nuclear bombs, and which has been presenting itself as “invincible” to the peoples of the world for years, has suffered a great defeat against the Palestinians, who are living in an “open-air prison”. The Israeli state, which was inferior to the Palestinian national liberation forces and whose bubble of “invincible state” has burst, has succumbed to the Palestinian national resistance, despite the efforts of the world reaction, especially the US imperialism, to legitimise the massacres and to show that it has achieved a “victory” by slaughtering thousands of babies and children, defenceless women and men, old people. The anti-Israeli demonstrations and protests in many parts of the world, despite the repressions and prohibitions of sovereign states, are one of the indicators of this.
As the MLM, we declare that in the struggle of the Palestinian people against national oppression and colonialism, in order to realise the interests of the people, the communist party must be formed in accordance with the general political line of the MLM and take the leadership of the movement. Furthermore, we call upon all communist, revolutionary and progressive forces to support and strengthen the struggle of the Palestinian people who are making great sacrifices.
LET US UNITE THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST POWER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT AND THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES!
The contradiction between imperialism and the oppressed peoples, one of the main contradictions of the era of imperialism and proletarian revolutions, has become more visible with the national resistance of the Palestinian people. The more the crisis of the imperialist system deepens, the more the conflicts between the imperialists intensify and the more the burden of these conflicts and confrontations falls on the peoples of the colonial and semi-colonial countries, the more the contradiction between imperialism and the oppressed peoples and nations will be revealed.
The deepening and widening of the crisis of the imperialist system makes international anti-imperialist alliances an urgent necessity. The Anti-Imperialist Union, which was called for by the MLMs on the occasion of Mao Zedong’s 130th birthday to create anti-imperialist organisations from different parts of the world, is an important step to meet this urgent need.
LENIN LIVED, LENIN LIVES, LENIN WILL LIVE!
It is essential to understand the thoughts of comrade Lenin, the great leader of the international proletariat, and to help shape the long, difficult and complicated process that will lead to communism.
On the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the assassination of the communist leaders of the German proletariat, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, by the German Social Democratic government, the representatives of German imperialism, we, as the owners of the unique heritage to which they dedicated their lives and which they left to the generations after them, commemorate their ideals and commit ourselves to keep their ideals alive.
Lenin, the great teacher of the international proletariat, continues our struggle!
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht live in our struggle!
Long live our struggle for the people’s democratic revolution, for socialism and communism!
Long live the national liberation struggle and the anti-colonial struggle of the Palestinian nation!
Long live the proletarian internationalism!
Long live the international communist league!
January 2024
TKP/ML
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist
