The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations was held in Denmark in October 2002. Following parties and organisations participated in the conference:
Communist Party of Benin (PCB)
Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil (PCR)
Communist Party of Colombia (M-L)
Workers' Communist Party of Denmark (APK)
Communist Party of Labour of the Dominican Republic (PCT)
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE)
Workers' Communist Party of France (PCOF)
Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
Marxist-Leninist Organisation of Greece
Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)
Organisation for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy
Communist Party of Mexico-ML (PCM-ML)
Marxist-Leninist Organisation Revolution of Norway (MLO Revolusjon)
Communist Organisation October of Spain (OC Octubre)
Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (TDKP)
Red Flag Party of Venezuela (Bandera Roja)
Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta (PCRV)
The American president Bush has ordered his huge military machine to be ready for a second Gulf war against Iraq to install a regime obedient to the interests of US imperialism.
Such a war will be a naked and criminal war of aggression. Under the hypocritical pretext of destroying weapons of mass destruction and creating "democracy" the United States intends to grasp hold of the huge oil reserves of Iraq and get complete military, political and economic control of this strategically important zone.
The American plans are conducted with the assistance of its key allies Tony Blair of England and the butcher of the Palestinian people Ariel Sharon. They seem set to unleash this war that is condemned by the peoples all over the world as well as the majority of the states. This war is not only a deadly threat to the long suffering people of Iraq, but also poses acute dangers of new grave crimes against the Palestinian people, who a fighting a just fight for a independent State of Palestine.
More than a million Iraqis, and more than half a million Iraqi children have already died as a consequence of the unjust and genocidal sanctions imposed by the US and the UN. A new war will ad immensely to the suffering.
Only a worldwide mobilisation of the peoples against this war can stop it, before it begins.
THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF MARXIST-LENINIST PARTIES AND ORGANISATIONS support the call for worldwide mobilisations against the war on Iraq and works actively to develop the global mass movement against this war and the endless "war against terrorism" proclaimed by the Bush-administration.
The Bush - doctrine embodied in the "National Security Strategy" openly calls for the global hegemony of US imperialism, the only superpower in the world today. The US grants itself the right to attack any nation, any people and any movement, which acts against its interests. Under the pretext of "pre-emptive strikes" it will start a series of wars without end that does not preclude even the use of nuclear weapons.
The war against Afghanistan was the first in this so-called "war on terrorism", that has been extended to the Philippines, Colombia and other countries and regions of the world.
The Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations call on the working class and the peoples of the world to rise in a massive and revolutionary manner against this criminal imperial endeavour of the US and its allies, that aims to perpetuate an intensify the global system of exploitation and repression.
STOP THE NEW WAR FOR OIL!
NO BLOOD FOR OIL!
FOR AN INDEPENDENT
STATE OF PALESTINE!
During the Danish presidency of the European Union, a presidency that finishes at the end of 2002, the European Union will decide on the incorporation of ten new member countries. This extension of the European Union is an inseparable part of its efforts to create a "United States of Europe" and to establish an imperialist superpower, collaborating and competing with U.S. imperialism.
For the interests of the monopolies and the larger European powers, headed by Germany, the process of unification of Europe is occurring at the expense of the workers, the peoples and the small nations of Europe. The creation of an imperialist superpower with its own state, military, economic and political institutions, and with its own currency, aims at intensifying the imperialist globalization and the exploitation of the peoples of the whole world.
The European Union has declared itself an ally of the United States of America in its so-called "war against terrorism," and its member countries have approved a series of reactionary laws limiting the democratic rights of the workers and peoples, including the right to political protest. The European Union is a reactionary formation in the hands of the monopolies.
The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations calls on the workers and peoples of Europe and the rest of the world to support and participate in the demonstrations and protests against the Europe of capital, globalization and the imperialist war during the summit of the European Union that will be held from December 12 to 14 in Copenhagen.
Our objective with the FTAA is to guarantee American businesses control of a territory that stretches from the Arctic to the Antarctic, with free access, without difficulties of any kind, for our products, services, technology and capital throughout the hemisphere."
This statement of General Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, makes clear the intentions of U.S. imperialism to annex an enormous market of 34 countries, all of Latin America and the Caribbean, with the exception of Cuba. This represents the largest captive market in the world, the largest free trade area, with 800 million inhabitants and a Net Internal Product of 11 trillion dollars. This is an economic area that will favour the large U.S. monopolies, which can count on facilities to extract cheap raw materials and to exploit the ever more impoverished workers of the region.
To confront the rapacious character of these policies of U.S. imperialism, we call on the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, their working class, all the working people, the intellectuals, the progressive men and women, to confront this Yankee endeavour, to form committees against the FTAA that will take various initiatives, street actions, hold seminars, forums with the aim of raising the consciousness of its nature and consequences and to accumulate the necessary popular forces to stop this offensive of imperialism.
We add our voices and contingents to the forces of the workers and peoples that were expressed in Quito, Ecuador, in the continent-wide day of struggle against the FTAA.
Yankee Claws Out of Latin America and the Caribbean!
Long Live the Unity of the Workers and Peoples of Latin America and the
Caribbean!
Jose Maria Sison, Founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines and currently Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, has been put on the list of "terrorists" by the US and Dutch governments. Since 1987, Sison has resided in the Netherlands where he is seeking asylum as a political refugee. Invoking the "terrorist" label, the Dutch government has withdrawn all social benefits Sison is entitled to as an asylum seeker.
Jose Maria Sison has a long history as a prominent fighter for the independence and sovereignty of the Philippines and the social progress of his people and country. By labelling him a "terrorist" the US and Dutch governments reveal their efforts to combat progressive, revolutionary and liberation movements of the peoples under the pretext of combating "terrorism". Jose Maria Sison is a freedom fighter, not a terrorist.
Jose Maria Sison has since 1987 asked the Dutch government to grant him political asylum. In 2002 he faces the risk of being extradited to the US and persecuted there, risking a death sentence.
THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF MARXIST-LENINIST PARTIES AND ORGANISATIONS declares its consistent support for the defence of the democratic rights of Jose Maria Sison and joins the world wide campaign for the reinstatement of all his rights. The persecution of progressive and revolutionaries under the pretext of "antiterrorism" must be stopped. The Conference calls on the Dutch government to remove his name from the terrorist list, to reinstate his full rights as an asylum seeker and to refuse any demand for his extradition.
1. The Yankee imperialists have contrived a devastating plan for the peoples of the Andean region and especially for Colombia to maintain an iron military, economic and political control, to continue to plunder the area. They have set up a smokescreen, a supposed fight against drug trafficking, while they are the ones who allow this and encourage this.
2. The Andean Regional Initiative or Plan Colombia, foresees the establishment of U.S. bases in Colombia and the neighbouring countries, the utilization of the civil and military infrastructure and logistics, the formation of a multinational army.
3. In the struggle of the different imperialist powers for control of Latin America, Plan Colombia, while it represents the most urgent interests of all the imperialists, emphasizes the Yankee predominance in the region, to keep Latin America as its back yard.
4. In our Latin America and especially in Colombia the structures of imperialist domination have deteriorated to such a point that, without escalating the reactionary war, they will not be able to defeat the popular insurgency and they will not be able to control the masses.
5. In Latin America one can feel with great force the aspirations of the struggle of the peoples, and their hatred for the growing control, exploitation and oppression by the imperialist of all stripes.
6. Imperialism has developed very close links with the local bourgeoisies in order to maintain its control and conceal its work of causing confusion and plotting intrigues to divert the revolutionary struggle from its strategic objectives.
7. The plans of the Colombian government are nothing more than an adaptation of the Yankee dictates to national conditions. Our Conference denounces these plans, which only serve the interests of the financial oligarchy and imperialism, and which attack the interests of the working class and Colombian people.
8. The workers and peoples of the countries that imperialism has involved in Plan Colombia should reinforce their actions to oppose the utilization of their countries, their material resources and national armies in the total war against Colombia and its people that U.S. imperialism is preparing.
9. Our Conference expresses its solidarity with the Colombian people and calls on them to struggle against imperialism and the bourgeoisie, to develop the class struggle for a free and democratic Colombia.
10. We salute the struggle of the working class and people of Colombia, of the guerrilla movement of the FARC, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the ELN, Army of National Liberation, and the EPL, Peoples Liberation Army; the work of the left-wing and revolutionary political parties and organizations and in particular the work of the comrades of the Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist-Leninist).
The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations has dedicated a great part of its work to an analysis of the political situation in Venezuela.
On the basis of its anti-imperialist, democratic and revolutionary principles, the conference denounces the serious death threats against the leaders of the Red Flag Party and calls on the working class and people of Venezuela to unite in the struggle against imperialism and the oligarchy, the only way to avoid a reactionary civil war of which they will be the principle victims.
Dear comrade:
The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations sends you its revolutionary and fraternal greetings.
At this moment, when imperialism and reaction are intensifying their aggression against the peoples everywhere; when Yankee imperialism is trying to reinforce its hegemony in the world and is preparing new wars of pillage, we communists are seeking to mobilize the peoples, in the first place the working class, to confront imperialism, reaction and the bourgeoisie in each country.
Our tasks and struggles are difficult and complex, but we face them with enthusiasm and optimism as is the habit of communists.
Comrade, we know that even in the difficult conditions that you are in, you are following our struggle closely and, to the degree that you can, you are taking part in them.
We want you to know that your example is always present at our meetings, which encourages us and gives us strength. Although we know that it is not necessary, we encourage you to continue in the struggle, we know that your spirit does not weaken and that you are holding firm to our principles.
All our Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations send you fraternal greetings and assure you of our solidarity.
We are sure that it will not be long before you will be physically present among us in the common struggle for the liberation of the peoples and the revolution.
Greetings, Comrade!
Fraternally,
International Conference of Marxist-Leninists Parties and Organisations