Volume 1, No. 5, July 2000

We do not have time for mourning. We have no right to be pessimistic and terrified. There is no place for emotions, hesitations and retreats in the course of the revolution. In this march, there is no place for those who do not understand and are not aware, who do not live and act, who do not or cannot march in the battle zone without this consciousness.

There is no revolution, no life, no future, no 1iberation, no beauty and no freedom for those who do not know the force of the storms of the Black Sea. None of these awaits those who cannot discern its dark face of cruelty and who do not show the courage to march against the dark storms of the Black Sea. "A revolution is not a dinner party... A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

Those who do not understand, who do not take positions who are not equipped in this way,cannot be part of the struggle, the revolution and the rebuilding the Party for the people’s democratic revolution, socialism and communism. Those who do not think and act in this way cannot be eternal and immortal candidates in the Party’s life and the march of revolution.

"A revolution is not a dinner party." Revolution is an upheaval, a pitiless process of DESTRUCTION and RECONSTRUCTION. Revolution is a life-and-death struggle, a pitiless act of violence. To wage a revolution is to become skilled at walking on the sharp knife-edge and through the storms. Revolution is a time for an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth, chest-for-a-chest struggle against fascism, paying a heavy price and making the enemy pay a heavy price.

Revolution is a struggle, it is the struggle itself and its consequences. We fight for the revolution, make revolutions within the struggle, and we revolutionise ourselves within the war. We march towards victory by knowing the rules of war by waging war.

There is NO DEATH for people who fight and become martyrs in this struggle for revolution, socialism and communism! There is NO DEATH for people who sacrifice their limited lives for an infinite cause, revolution and freedom! There is NO DEATH for people who show courage in destroying the old and building the new! There is NO DEATH for those who fight and sacrifice their lives for a cause that will move the world!

There is NO DEATH for those who lead the war, who are inflamed by the fire of struggle, whose hearts bleed with each defeat and victory, who are optimistic with our people and comrades, who sing paeans of victory! There is NO DEATH for people who swathe our martyrs in banners and then bury them in the sun, in this war of struggle for existence. There is no death for those who bind their wounds, pick our red flag and hoist it on the peaks!

There is NO DEATH for heroic leaders and fighters who fight in this unrestricted and unrestrained people’s war in the light of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism! There is NO DEATH for those who fight in all aspects of life and become martyrs for the Party, the people and the revolution, and who give flesh to our policies and ideals in life!

There is NO DEATH for communist leaders and fighters who realise Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Party, the revolution, the country, the spirit of the people and all aspects of proletarian communist identity in themselves!

There is NO DEATH for those who do not abandon the struggle against all sorts of anti-Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology, who are against all sorts of liquidation, ideological degeneration, political deviations and organisational mismanagement!

There is no death for those who show courage and fight against organisational mismanagement during the rebuilding of the Party! There is no death for the architects and defenders of Party rebuilding!

There is NO DEATH for those, who direct the strategy of the people’s war as the main strategy of revolution, there is no death for those, who create, carry out and apply the new methods for the continuance and endurance of the guerrilla war!

There is NO DEATH for those, who take stronger steps for waving and hoisting the international flag of the international proletariat both in the country and around the world. There is no death for those, who join the leaders of the international proletariat!

There is NO DEATH for those who comprehend that "there is no recipe for war but the laws of the people’s war" and apply this to the conditions of Turkey. There is NO DEATH for those who give light to knowledge, courage, dedication and beauty.

There is NO DEATH for those who defend and implement the idea that without educating, organising, involving and winning the sympathy of the masses, the people’s democratic revolution, socialism and communism will not be brought to life.

There is NO DEATH for those who stand against internal betrayers and enemy attacks and walk confidently along the path we have to take, with the understanding that, "to be afraid of the enemy is meaningless... The real thing, which wounds and troubles me, is the arrows of those who hit me from behind, and the bitter smiles of those who we knew as friends. "

There is NO DEATH for those who live with proletarian ethics and culture and the proletarian revolutionary style of living. There is NO DEATH for those who condemn a "private life style" and live as party members and warriors 24 hours a day!

We go on with the struggle... Paying a price in battle is unavoidable. We are not the only ones who pay the price. We also make and will make the enemy pay the price at the same time.

The consciousness of paying the price and making the enemy pay the price, of being close to the people, the revolution, the Party and the comrades, a high degree of the spirit of sacrifice and despising death, is to walk towards the people’s democratic power, socialism and communism in the light of communist perception and the scientific ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

Our martyrs, singing the paeans of our martyrs, (such slogans as, "Everything for the Party, the Party for the revolution!" "Long live our party:TKP/ML") are the red river for deepening and carrying out our ideology and politics.

Our martyrs are the epitome of our ideals, of our decisiveness in the struggle like the enduring, towering and elegant peaks of the mountains of Ararat, Munzur, Taurus and Kachkar. These peaks carry us to conquer the sun and the stars.

Therefore, each of our martyrs is a significant "loss" in the short term. But on the other hand, in the medium and long term, they will be strong gains for our 25 years of class struggle and especially today, in the rebuilding of the Party and the continuation of the class struggle.

That is how it is for those who comprehend the laws of war, for those who understand and comprehend the rebuilding of the Party, and it has to be this way.

We have sacrificed great "losses" in our 25 years of history. We have paid a heavy price. However, each time we have replaced the "losses". We have also made the enemy pay the price. The enemy has also had losses. We have lost tens of our leaders and hundreds of our fighters in this relentless bloody war.

In spite of all this, we did not stand back in this class war. We have bound our wounds and marched on with dignity with the lessons we have learnt each time. We march on, we will still march on.

We have witnessed many a betrayal and treason. The martyrdom of our Party’s founding leader, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, in the torture chambers, left the Party leaderless. In 1976 the Co-ordination Committee deviated from the party line and left the Party leaderless. The factional groups fled abroad as refugees by leaving the class struggle against the fascist military dictatorship on 12 September 1980.

In 1984, the Second Central Committee turned its back on the reality of war, threw itself into the arms of opportunism and gradually into revisionism, and betrayed the Party line.

In 1987, the Third Conference delegates and ablest leaders of the Party were martyred, such as U.Kucukbayrak, Z.Uygun, M.Kemal Yiimaz, A. Riza Boyoglu, H.Tosun and I.Polat. Soon after came the left-sectarian group DABK (East Anatolia Regional Committee) which split from the Party; the cruel attacks of coup makers and liquidators in April 1994, and their attempts to liquidate the Party completely; or the right-left liquidation, which was the product of ideological degeneration and flightism.

However, these are turning points in this tortuous course for those who walk on, in the light of the proletarian scientific ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Decisive and persistent people will always overcome these obstacles and bends. Proof of this is our history and our martyrs.

Let us look at the betrayals that occurred in the recent past. How did we overcome these blows? Let us look at the reasons, how our Party stood on its feet, how the Party was forced into a period of rebuilding in spite of the degeneration and deviation from its objective, and the efforts at liquidation. Let us look at the settlement of accounts between the old and the new style. Let us look at the victory and resistance, the destruction of the old, and the success of the new and its hegemony over the old.

Let us look at and realise the significance of the period of the rebuilding of our Party and its position in the new style of struggle. Let us see and comprehend the importance of the developments and the top-to-bottom set-up of our Party’s new style that is based chiefly on guerrilla warfare, and the new spirit in us, in the Party and among the masses.

People who cannot discern this new development consider it unimportant or dislike it, or do not understand the aspects of this process, are those who know nothing about the liquidation of the Party. They left the Party and leadership in the most difficult times of the Party, because they could not comprehend the laws of war and the Bolshevik-style party. They were terrified and became pessimistic. They became part of the legal liquidation, defenders and apparatchiks of this kind of policy.

They became the defenders and apparatchiks of dissolution but not resolution; dispersion but not organisation; break up but not unity; protection of the status quo and inertia but not progress; self-centredness and liberalism but not the involvement of command and adaptation; Menshevism, environmentalism and legal liquidation but not Bolshevism.

The communist partisans, who emphasised the need for restructuring the party against all the disorders and distortions of the right and left liquidators, and who practised this policy in all aspects of life, came out of this life-costly war, bound their wounds and mainly passed through this bend.

The Second Extraordinary Party Conference became the first step in this, preparation for the new period. Although its results are not yet satisfactory, the path has become clearer. What did this show us? This experience showed us that all sorts of liquidationist attempts can be tackled and all diversions can be overcome when we fight against the enemy tooth for tooth, and pass on our ideology to the masses in the light of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist science with decisiveness, the spirit of sacrifice, proletarian-revolutionary lifestyle and Bolshevik style of work.

In all the liquidationist attempts, the liquidators’ common features are — because of their ideological attacks — ideological erosion, ideological muddle, ideological deviation and political impasse. All these have created organisational destruction and looseness.

The Left and right liquidators as seen in Menshevism, set the Party on this route. In this respect, the liquidationist way mentioned above had a great impact on the Party. This problem was identified and taken into consideration by the Second Extraordinary Party Conference.

The leaders assessed that the main problem must be solved by preventing ideological liquidation. Only then will the reconstruction of the Party be completed. In this respect, those who do not understand and comprehend this period of liquidation will bring danger to the Party. The Party may be alienated from its base and become constricted, superficial and one-sided.

It must be conducted with the methods of work of the Bolshevik party organisation and the Party’s war discipline. This means creating the type of people with the characteristics of a state of war, in order to destroy the "the mass line of survival", the exhausted, parasitic, bankrupt life style.

‘If you are determined, you will succeed" as long as you grasp the struggle and the Party. As long as you grasp the meaning of the militant spirit of the Party. Only those will succeed who are inclined, not to comfort but to hardship, not to splitting but to unity, not to tiredness but to assertiveness, not to extinction but to victory.

Revolutionaries are capable of winning; communists can be the masters of victory. For we are condemned to enter the gates of the New World, where it says, "You will win" as the advanced detachment of our class in the selective course of the historical march and our place in the struggle.

We will win; we will defeat the enemy and win. Even if it costs us rivers of blood and millions of lives.

We will win with our flesh and our fingernails, with our pickaxe, fork and shovel, sickle and hammer, circuit breaker; with our pencil, paper and question impressed on the trigger; with the gun-shot which is in the service of our ideology, our policy and our strategy for power.

We will win with the support of the international proletariat, with the assertiveness and rich experience of the struggle of the working class and our people, with the power and belief of wisdom our Party has given us. We will attack and win.

We will win until we deck the globe with this slogan from top to bottom. We have offered and will offer our service to the revolutionary laws of social liberation and universal freedom.

We have offered and continue to offer our service to the laws of revolution. The consciousness and power of overcoming difficulties and the perseverance on our course come from this awareness. Our character and practice as architects of the process of reconstruction come from this spirit of daring, courage and decisiveness.

It springs from the belief in fighting, resisting and winning. This is the style of thinking that provided us with communist leaders, with the inspiration for overcoming difficulties and persisting in the struggle against all hardships, betrayals, losses and defeats.

"Difficulty is the teacher of communists... The difficulty is in transforming society, the world and ourselves. This can be achieved. Its condition depends on our ideology, our policy and the class struggle."

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