The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations, meeting in plenary session, appeals to the workers and peoples to celebrate this May Day in a combative fashion. It is necessary to mobilise our forces and ceaselessly raise the level of our struggle against capitalist exploitation and oppression.
Contrary to what they want us to believe, imperialism is in a deep crisis. We are faced with the task of inflicting blows on "our" reactionaries and the whole gang of opportunists who are playing their game. Reaction is placing on the shoulders of the peoples, especially the workers, all the burdens of its crisis and its consequences, its policies of plunder, aggression and war.
We have to confront numerous problems, such as unemployment, poverty-level wages, discrimination against women, marginalisation of the youth, reactionary education, etc. The bourgeoisie and capitalism are increasing their brutal hegemony and oppression. We, the communists, are fighting against all this, and it is for this reason that we are the main target of reactionary forces. We have received serious blows and suffered setbacks and losses. However, the communist spirit and ideals continue to be strong and valid.
Confronting the obscurantism of reaction, against pessimism and the spirit of capitulation, we must raise higher the banner of progress, of freedom of peoples, and of the revolution. The future belongs to us, but it is necessary to go forward to win it. Our banners of struggle are also banners of hope. Our enemies are trying to divide the people, and turn one against the other. They stir up racism and xenophobia. We must fight with determination against this as well. Neither the colour of one’s skin, nor one’s language, nor cultural differences can justify confrontations among peoples. On the contrary, class unity against our oppressors, fraternal solidarity among the workers and peoples should always be present in our struggles. Today more than ever our slogan remains in force: "Workers of the world, unite!"
On this May Day, our Conference salutes the popular movements and the struggles that are taking place in Ecuador, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Indonesia, South Korea and many other countries. In the world today, in spite of the reactionary forces and the undermining work of the opportunists and the reformist trade union bureaucrats, popular struggles against the yoke of capital are growing and developing. We are in solidarity with the peoples, countries and nations, who are victims of imperialist barbarism, such as Iraq, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Chechnia and many others.
Our era is not one of the "end of history" or of a "single thought", as reactionary forces claim. On the contrary, we are in the era that Lenin defined as that of decadent imperialism and the proletarian revolutions in motion.
It is for this reason that this May Day, the international day of the workers of the world, we wave the red flag of the proletariat and of the struggle for national liberation in our countries. We call on the peoples to mobilise themselves, to develop their struggles boldly, to dare to confront national and international reaction. The proletarians and peoples have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Long Live May Day!
Long Live International Solidarity!
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Resolution of the International Conference of
Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations on solidarity with Hamma Hammami and
with the struggle of the Tunisian people for freedom and democracy:
The treacherous dictatorship regime of Tunisia has been conducting a savage campaign of terror over this country’s democrats, progressive forces and communists for many years. In spite of signing basic international conventions which secure individual and collective liberties (self expression, media, right to protest, etc.), Bin Ali and his clique, ignoring the protests of international human rights organisations and public opinion, has been continuing to arrest and torture those who show the courage to oppose the system.
Hamma Hammami, who is a leading figure of the political movement in the country and the spokesman of the Workers Communist Party of Tunisia (PCOT), after exposure to torture in prison for years, is now being pursued by the police of Bin Ali. The rulers are implementing repression on the family members of the comrade, and doing everything in their power to liquidate the Party.
In response to this, a solidarity committee has been established in Tunisia, led by the historian Mohamed Talbi, in order to inform international public opinion and for the comrades return to normal life -in other words, for the search warrants and sentences to be dismissed. This committee has been receiving the support of different sections of the Tunisian society as well as of international circles.
The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations meeting in Europe in April 2000 and considering the practices of the Bin Ali regime towards comrade Hamma Hammami and the difficulties experienced by our fraternal party in Tunisia:
- condemns the oppressive
criminal policies of the Bin Ali regime, which is the guardian of the interests
of French Imperialism and the Tunisian bourgeoisie;
- salutes and encourages the Hamma Hammami solidarity committee in its struggle
for the recognition of individual and collective liberties;
- calls on all parties and organisations to support and show solidarity with
comrade Hamma Hammami and his party PCOT in all fronts.
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Resolution of the
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations on the
Revolutionary Process in Burkina Faso and the Revolutionary Communist Party of
Volta
As throughout the world and particularly in Africa, Burkina Faso is undergoing a many-sided structural adjustment crisis -an economic, political and institutional, social and moral crisis. The horrible assassination of the progressive journalist Norbert Zongo and his three friends on 13 December 1998 in Sapouy (100 km. from the capital city Ouagadougou) by the authorities of the IVth Republic is one of the factors that has revealed this crisis. It has also been the trigger of a vast popular movement ("Enough is Enough") against exemption from punishment and for winning political liberty which, under the leadership of the Collective of Mass Democratic Organisations and Political Parties (CODMPP), has been shaking the country for more than 16 months. The platform of the Collective takes into account the democratic aspirations of the people of Burkina Faso and their desire for a qualitative political change in their favour.
Faced with this unprecedented powerful popular movement, which has undergone a burst of patriotic energy for national liberation, the authorities of the IVth Republic -with the mafia clan of Blaise Campoar and his party-state, the Congress For Democracy (CDP) at its head- supported by imperialism, especially French imperialism, has done everything in their power to stifle the legitimate aspirations of the people of Burkina Faso.
It has unleashed barbarous repression against the leaders and members of the CODMPP and against the people as a whole: arrests, tortures, assassinations, death threats, administrative sanctions, shooting on demonstrators with real bullets, sham trials, organising fascist-type militias, etc.
At the same time, by using delaying tactics and dirty political tricks (creation of numerous phoney commissions whose work continue aimlessly, inadmissible pressure on the judicial apparatus, crude frame-ups against democrats, revolutionaries and communists, etc.), it is trying to gain time to divert the people, to lead the popular movement astray in order to eliminate it.
Despite all this, the people are increasing their mobilisation every day, they are gaining confidence, organising themselves better, reinforcing their determination and their will to win their just demands, supporting the CODMPP, which is proving more and more each day to be the real representative of the country. The political consequence of all this is the deepening of the chasm which separates the rulers from the ruled in Burkina Faso, where the course of events has signs of an approaching revolutionary situation. All this indicates that Burkina Faso is ripe for a revolution.
Thus, the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organisations met in April 2000:
- denounces and condemns the
fascistic, reactionary and treacherous authorities of the IVth Republic who have
transformed the neo-colonial state of Burkina Faso into a mafia and mercenary
state;
- denounces the manoeuvres of imperialism, especially the French imperialism,
which is trying to prevent the emancipation of the people of Burkina Faso in
order to continue to keep them under their yoke;
- firmly supports the just struggle of the people of Burkina Faso for their
emancipation;
- salutes the decisive role which the Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta
(PCRV) is playing in the present struggle of the people of Burkina Faso; firmly
supports them in their efforts to set up a Provisional Revolutionary Government
(GRP), the convocation of a Constituent National Assembly (ANC) and for the
realisation of the National Democratic and Popular Revolution (RNDP);
- calls on all Marxist-Leninist parties and organisations to give their
internationalist support to the people of Burkina Faso and to the PCRV in their
struggle for the advent of a democratic and popular government in Burkina Faso.
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Resolution of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations on the uprising in Ecuador and the work of the PCMLE:
The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations held a discussion about the developments in Ecuador and the experience of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE) in this process. With the analysis of these events, the Conference came to the conclusion that the revolutionary struggle in Ecuador was developing positively. This manifestation of the revolutionary struggle constitutes a great source of joy for the international Marxist-Leninist communist movement, and it means taking greater responsibilities in order to prepare the grounds for the revolution in our countries. The mass mobilisations in Ecuador are concrete indicators of rising movements in all continents.
The workers and people of Ecuador smashed the
bourgeois institutions and toppled the Mahuad government, which was a servant of
imperialism, through a big popular uprising. What happened there was neither an
ordinary action, nor an attempt for a coup d’état, or a show of might between
the bourgeois cliques. On the contrary, it was a popular uprising which has
shaken the Ecuadorian society, which has constituted a leap in the consciousness
and organisation of the working class, and which has given strength to other
peoples, mainly to those who live and struggle in Latin America.
The crisis that is jolting the Ecuadorian society;
the profound discontent of the working people; the conflicts within the
bourgeoisie itself; the lack of trust in the institutions, governments,
parliament, judiciary organs and political parties; the friction within the
armed forces; the actions and organisations of various social layers; the social
and political actions of the indigenous people; the place and struggle of the
left forces, principally of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, in the
actions... All this constitutes the reason for and the essence of the events in
Ecuador.
Undoubtedly, the political crisis was overcome in a
way that imperialism and the bourgeoisie desired for. The same policies as those
of the past are in function with a new mask. Noboa represents the continuation
of the imperialist and bourgeois hegemony. His government is a reactionary one
and the working masses and the people of Ecuador have no doubt about this. Both
the social movement, the proletarian revolutionaries and the democratic and
patriotic forces on the one hand, and the bourgeoisie, imperialism and the
opportunists on the other are faced with a new situation. The economic crisis is
deepening and affecting, as usual, mostly the urban and rural working people.
The labourers and peoples are being subject to capitalist exploitation and
oppression; the search of the bourgeoisie and imperialism, on the other hand,
for ways to get out of this crisis is proving to be a failure. One must also add
the division within the bourgeois armed forces. Revolutionaries have suitable
conditions to go forward. What is needed is an immediate action.
The PCMLE has fulfilled its responsibilities in this
process, thus has become the main target for the attacks of the bourgeoisie and
its apparatus. However, the party did not take a step back in the face of the
assassination of Haime Jurtado and his friends, turning suffering into strength
and clinging tighter to its responsibilities towards the workers and the people
of Ecuador. It came out of these events with determination in order to arm
itself with experience, overcome its problems and weaknesses, and to rise to a
level that is required by the conditions.
The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist
Parties and Organisations, shares fully the analysis of the Ecuadorian comrades
that “the north-west region of Latin America, where Venezuela, Colombia and
Ecuador is situated, is one of the weakest links of the chain of imperialism”.
It declares its determination to do whatever in its power to weaken further this
links and to give full support to the CPC(ML) of Colombia, the PCMLE of Ecuador,
and the Red Flag Party (BR) of Venezuela.
We undertake the engagement for spreading information
about the struggles and victories of our comrades, for renewing the campaign for
comrade Francisco Caraballo to regain his freedom, and for showing solidarity
with the PCMLE with the slogan “a revolutionary paper for Ecuador for the
revolution and socialism”.
The process developing in these countries requires
the engagement of the labourers, peoples, patriots and progressive forces. We
consider it our task to raise the revolutionary struggle and to develop the
solidarity and support of the communists of different countries.
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The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist
Parties and Organisations drew up the balance sheet of the aims it had set up.
Despite the activities of the fraternal Colombian Party and of various parties
and organisations, the collaborationist reactionary government of Colombia still
keeps comrade Francisco Caraballo, the General Secretary of the Communist Party
of Colombia (M-L), in prison.
Our Conference will continue to raise the
international campaign for the release of comrade Caraballo.
All revolutionaries and communists, progressive and
patriotic forces should do everything in their power and express their
solidarity with the comrade. We must call upon the Colombian government, the
International Red Cross Organisation and all Human Rights organisations for the
release of this communist who was imprisoned for his activities and beliefs, and
whose trial has been continuing for long years. We must also carry out this
campaign particularly among the workers’ movement, among the peoples and
revolutionary organisations, joining it with the struggle of the Colombian
comrades.
Francisco Caraballo has been in prison for six years. The struggle of his party, of the Popular Liberation Army (EPL), of the workers and the people of Colombia is advancing. Therefore, comrade Caraballo’s release is of greater importance today.
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The message of the
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations
To the Founding Congress of the Workers Communist Party of Denmark
The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations salute the Founding Congress of the Workers Communist Party of Denmark, which is part of the International Communist Movement.
The success of this Congress is our success, and the strengthening of the Workers Communist Party of Denmark means the strengthening of our movement.
Comrades, we wish you success in your Congress. Your participation in the International Conference with the objectives and tasks you have undertaken will make stronger the Conference and the International Communist Movement.
The struggle of the working class of the world and the exploitation they are subject to require the communist vanguards to consolidate their positions nationally and internationally.
We believe that this will only be achieved through the political and organic unification of our parties with the working class and labouring masses. This is how we can fulfil the task of seizing the political power by leading the masses and of building socialism on the basis of Marxism-Leninism.
We express our trust in the Danish comrades that they can accomplish these objectives demanded by the proletariat and by the future of humanity.
Long live the First Congress of the Workers’ Communist Party of Denmark!
Long live the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations!
Long live Marxism-Leninism!