A WORLD TO WIN    #17   (1992)

 

To the Communist Party of Afghanistan

Comrades,

It is with great joy that we have received news of the formation of the Communist Party of Afghanistan on May 1st 1991.

At a time when the imperialists, both East and West, are loudly trumpeting the so-called "death of communism" it is of great significance that revolutionary forces of Afghanistan, who have been fighting over a decade against the Soviet sponsored Kabul regime, have boldly proclaimed Communist ideology and their intention to fight together with their sisters and brothers in every continent for the communist goal of a world without exploitation and oppression.

The history of Afghanistan, in particular in the past twelve years since the Soviet invasion of that country, has shown that the masses of people will never stop struggling against injustice, oppression and exploitation. But this same history has also shown that without correct leadership there is no liberation and the sacrifices of the people are inevitably manipulated by class forces who seek only to replace one form of exploitation by another.

The struggle in Afghanistan is vivid proof that only the proletariat, the class with no interest in any form of oppression or exploitation, can unite the people based upon the alliance between the workers and the peasantry, only the proletariat can help the people see clearly the shape and features of the enemy _ both open and disguised, only the proletariat can direct blows squarely against the reactionary target and lead the people in waging a real people's war to victory.

In Afghanistan, as elsewhere, the leadership of the proletariat means the leadership of a vanguard party based upon the ideology of the proletariat _ Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought.

Although the Party is newborn, its very foundation results from long years of armed revolutionary struggle against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism and an equally fierce struggle to master and apply Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought and to defeat the bourgeois and opportunist lines within the revolutionary ranks.

The formation of the Communist Party of Afghanistan opens a new page in the revolutionary struggle in that country. It means that, in the battles to come, the proletariat and the people will be fighting under their own flag and for their own interests, and will be doing so as part of a worldwide army of gravediggers of imperialism and reaction.

For these reasons we are proud to count the Communist Party of Afghanistan among the participating parties and organisations of Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.

Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement