Conclusion: Experience in the struggle and success in the tasks

The history of struggle of our party which has brought it to the present day, the formation of its line and stance, and the trend of its development which has progressed in ebbs and flows are rich in experience. Our party has reached its present position through tough struggles, learning from failures and defeats as well as from progress, and constantly renewing its line and stance. If our organisations want to be successful in their tasks and want to unite with the workers, and find the basis of teaching the workers as well learning from them, they have to learn the general line of our party, the different stages of its struggle, its trend of development and its collective historical experience.

We have mentioned earlier that the present position of our party within the movement and the line it follows is full of lessons for the "left" circles too. Whether they learn from these is up to them. However, both our party's mature and young generations must master the concrete and living dialectics and experiences of the workers' movement, of the improvement of workers' consciousness, and of the class organising as a party. This is because our party's 19 year-history (in fact it is almost 30 years old) and its present perspective and practice with regard to the shape of its reconstruction provide all the necessary fundamental implications for the present day generations of our party to strongly tie themselves to the process of development of the workers' movement', to take up a revolutionary position which will take it forward, to understand the class instinct, revolutionary talent and spirit of the workers, and their own roles and tasks.

On the way to becoming a mass organisation, the party has progressed from the THKO of the 1970s to the TDKP of February 1980; from the liquidated and disorganised TDKP of 1985-87 to the present day TDKP. 10 years on, our party has become the sum of the revolutionary vanguard organisations which are at the heart of the movement, and has taken advanced and irreversible steps on the way to organising the awakening sections of workers without dividing them. This has been a period which has witnessed contradictory events of different kinds, intense struggles and conflicts, and various turning points which have taken our organisation both backward and forward. This consequently has led to an accumulation of experience. Unless the present young workers and revolutionary generations who are organising the mass movement of the working class learn thoroughly from this period, they will deprive themselves of an effective weapon which will help them to do their work in the most creative and effective way.

However, the working class forces which are struggling to organise as a mass-political movement cannot be deprived of this experience and this weapon. The reason for this is obvious: Every movement develops accumulating its own experience, and the elements of this movement master and take forward the workers' movement, taking central positions, differentiating themselves from innumerable groups. This is one of the most important and vital necessities facing the young generations of the working class of Turkey, and young Turkish and Kurdish communists.

In addition, there are conditions imperative for understanding the collective experience of our party, just as for succeeding in holding on to the position of uniting with the workers. Our organisation and those individuals and currents who do not have the perspective of uniting with the workers and their movement are on different planets. It is impossible for them to understand our line and experience. Our organisations, however, are naturally in a position to understand our line and historical experience. But they can only succeed in this when they adopt the base and essence of the stance of our party which has adopted throughout its history in relation to the workers' movement.

The line of our organisation is based on trust in the working class, in its talent for struggle, and in its historical role. It is based upon the working class and directs all its work towards uniting the workers on a more advanced level. Moreover, this line has been shaped on the basis of the theoretical inheritance of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, the experience of Marxism-Leninism, and the historical experience of the workers'and communist movement. Our party is revolutionary in reaching the working class' perspective, basing its work on the class, and in its stance against its own mistakes and shortcomings in understanding Marxism-Leninism, and the theory and tactic of the emancipation of the class. The revolutionary principle, which says that the proletarian revolution advances by self-criticism, is one of the most important features of our party's line and stance. While taking great care to defend the gains of the class and of communism, it is never afraid of openly criticising its mistakes, and using self-criticism systematically. In addition, our party has been tied strongly to the idea that it is very important to test its line in practice. It believes that the workers' perspective in our ranks, the Marxist-Leninist line, and the ability to use theory as a guide to action can be developed by linking to the class and particularly by learning from the workers.

We can say that the features of our party's line and stance on these fundamental problems have differentiated it from other currents not only in theory but also in practice, in other words in terms of class character. Therefore, our organisation has gained undeniable and definite superiority over the non-class-based currents. It has approached much more closely to the class, and to the revolutionary utilisation of historical experience. The features of our line and stance have been the fundamental dynamics for our party in overcoming its main shortcomings, and in differentiating itself from others to take its current position in the workers'movement.

We believe that the experienced and young organisers of the workers'movement will embrace these features of the line and the stance of our party. This gives us the opportunity to be part of the actions and lives of the workers, and to master the international historical experience as well as the experience of our party in a revolutionary way (without distortion, schematism and imitation). Briefly, the need for the present day generation is to understand the workers, learn from them, study the facts and become more able to draw conclusions from these facts. This can only be fulfilled by understanding our line and historical experience.

The young generations of our party and of the working class need to understand the following: in order better to help the open-mass political organisation of the working class, it is imperative to gain those characteristics which a conscious worker shows in his/her attitude and action. In addition, only communists who are experienced in the workers'mass movement and in their organisations as organising militants and who have become mature with the experience of the mass movement can join our party. All these features and characteristics will be gained through learning, understanding and comprehending the 30 years of our party's experience.

The opportunity to learn and understand the line and the historical stance of our party can only be found here: to be united with the working class movement and our daily work in an energetic, patient and responsible way, to analyse and draw conclusions from the most typical workers' struggles and to learn from the leading workers who emerge through the struggle.