A WORLD TO WIN    #17   (1992)

 

Excerpts:

Letter from the Communist Party of Afgahanistan

The following are excerpts of a letter to the Committee of the RIM from the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Afghanistan - AWTW

Before the Congress four documents were prepared by the provisional leadership of the ORCA, circulated and debated within the ranks; these included three programmatic position papers (concerning the ideological and political foundations, the programme for New Democratic Revolution, and strategy of People's War) and the constitution of the Party. During four months of discussions around these documents, the final draft of the Programme and the Constitution of the Communist Party of Afghanistan were prepared to be submitted to the Congress for approval.

Although during this period the readiness of the organisation to take the responsibility of forming the Party had increased to a great degree, we decided to hold a final discussion around the degree of this capability in the Congress itself. Active and vigorous participation of the comrades in the Congress and discussions around the documents indicated that the organisation has acquired the capability to take the responsibility of forming and announcing the Party. When the Congress reached the point of discussing this issue, other issues had already been resolved and the congress unanimously called itself the Founding Congress of the CPA.

Then the comrades stood up and put their hands on the Programme and Constitution of the Communist Party of Afghanistan. They recalled the past, the martyred comrades, and felt the heavy weight of the painful memories of the preceding period and of the great task that had fallen on their shoulders, and at the same time imagined beautiful dreams and the fulfillment of longings and aspirations. These feelings pressed their hearts, made their shoulders tremble, twisted their throats and made their eyes overflow with tears. And in this atmosphere vows were made in a sober and deep tone to fight thoroughly and to the end for communism.

Joy and pain, love and hatred, memories and longings were intertwined and for hours kept the comrades in an exuberant mood. Thus the vanguard proletarian party was born in Afghanistan, rich with the science of revolution, the rock-hard conviction of the communist revolutionaries and the beautiful colours of the highest aspirations of the new human beings. We congratulate all.

Comrades, the CPA is a new product of the struggles of the international communist movement and is in the service of its advance. The ideological and organisational beliefs and convictions of the CPA have made it a detachment of the world army of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement. We firmly believe that you will assist this new-born detachment and will try to arm it further.

Long live Proletarian Internationalism!

Long live the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement!

Victory or Death!

The Founding Congress of the CPA May 1st 1991

August 1, 1991