Hereby we share the statement of the International Communist League found in the temporary website of CI-IC.
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Imperialism and all Reactionaries are a Paper Tiger: Let us Open with Actions a New Aurora United under Maoism
We celebrate another anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao
Tse-tung, the Great Helmsman of the Proletariat, who made one of the
greatest revolutionary contributions to the history of humanity and who
continues to enlighten and guide us in the turbulent times in which we
live. We uphold, defend and apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, which, when
embodied in the peoples of the world is an all-powerful and invincible
weapon against imperialism, the reaction and revisionism.
We also commemorate on this occasion the third anniversary of the
International Communist League, reaffirming our commitment of fighting
for the unity of the International Communist Movement, under
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, fighting for the reconstitution of the Glorious
Communist International, serving the World Proletarian Revolution.
The International Communist League salutes the international
proletariat, the oppressed peoples and nations, the People’s Wars in
Peru, India, Turkey, and the Philippines, and the heroic Communist
Parties that lead them: PCP, CPI (Maoist), TKP/ML, and CPP. We bend the
red flags for the heroes of the Party and the Revolution who offered
their lives in this year 2025:
On this occasion, we pay our heartfelt tribute to Comrade Basavaraj,
General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), and the cadres of the CC who fell
in combat. Their legacy is a source of pride for our class; their
sacrifice in combat was a declaration of war! No peace, no conciliation!
No self-preservation, let us give our lives for the party and carry the
People’s War to complete victory! To defend Comrade Basavaraj is to
defend the line of the CPI (Maoist) of the People’s War against
revisionism.
We also pay tribute to Comrade Maria Malaya, member of the Political
Bureau of the CPP, who fell in combat in February 2025, and to the
hundreds of militants and combatants who have irrigated the way for the
People’s War with their precious blood.
We also extend our warm greetings to the oppressed masses, who are
rising up and fighting on the whole planet, to the national liberation
wars and especially to the heroic Palestinian National Resistance.
The hill of reaction: The general crisis takes a leap in its decomposition
The general crisis of capitalism in its highest imperialist stage
sharpens and it manifests itself in all spheres: economic, political,
military, and ideological. Imperialism, at its , shows the sharpening of
its economic essence: the most monopolistic, most parasitic, and is in a
further advanced process of decomposition and collapse.
Economically, the crisis of imperialism has deepened on the basis of
successive crises of relative overproduction: with recessions and then
slow recovery, followed by new crises (ever shorter cycles), which makes
the economic cycle start from a lower point; which have led to
widespread bankruptcy, massive structural unemployment, a sharp drop in
production and investment levels, greater speculation, greater
concentration and centralization of capital and rentierism and the
so-called “financialization” of the economy, paving the way for new
cycles of deeper and more frequent crises, which makes imperialism
closer to its phase of collapse and of being swept away by the World
Proletarian Revolution. This year, the price of gold reached historic
highs, reflecting global instability and the weakening of the dollar,
while economic forecasts for 2026 predict a global slowdown, with risks
of “debt crisis” and “financial volatility”i.
Yankee imperialism is desperately trying to reorganize its economy by
imposing adjustments on the world market, seeking to regain positions,
breaking alliances and coalitions with its imperialist competitors,
having social-imperialist China as its main target, and seeking to
strengthen its subjugation of oppressed nations and increase the degree
of exploitation of the proletariat at home, as is the case with the
anti-immigrant crackdown in the United States.
The trade war is also, in part, a tool that seeks to reorder supply
chains and centralize capital in the US for a war economy, the cost of
which, contrary to its rhetoric, also falls on United States
families—cars, steel, and electronics became more expensive, which meant
an additional cost of about $1,200 for each United States familyii.
World trade slowed and factories in Mexico and Canada lost work posts.
It is a law that they only come out of a crisis by preparing a stronger
one, further concentrating monopoly power and thereby increasing
exploitation, the extraction of surplus value, the intensification of
oppression of the proletariat at home and of oppressed peoples and
nations, and sharpening the contend for the distribution of the spoils.
Yankee imperialism cannot resolve its contradiction between parasitism
and economic decomposition of its economic base and its ambition to
maintain its status as the sole hegemonic superpower, showing its
process of collapse – inevitable as with all the empires that preceded
it.
Politically, the general crisis of imperialism is expressed in higher
reactionarization of its States for the development of the internal war
against the people and for the war abroad: which for the proletariat
and popular masses in imperialist countries means higher suppression of
achieved rights and liberties, even more so for the deep and broad mass,
the migrant masses, and for the oppressed nations means higher national
oppression, imperialist wars of aggression for plunder. The
militarization and reactionarization of imperialist States and
bureaucratic capitalism are accelerating. This first year of Trump’s
ultra-reactionary government, strengthening presidential absolutism in
order to apply the strategic plans of Yankee imperialism with greater
aggression, aiming to impulse the tendency toward more similar and
reactionary governments, the so-called “far-right” governments in Europe
as expressed in the last elections in Germany, France, and Portugal,
and as it would also have to be in Latin America with the election as
president of an open defender of the Pinochet dictatorship; are all an
expression in the superstructure of the deep irredeemable crisis ailing
it, a crisis of bourgeois democracy, of ideological decomposition and
the failure of the self-proclaimed “left” and social democracy.
Militarily, the military cadres of the reaction recognize in their
own terms the even furthered process of decomposition of imperialism,
which also clearly reflects in the case of United States in its National
Security Strategy published last month of November.
Yankee imperialism, the sole hegemonic superpower (the hegemonic
power of the world), is trying by all means to advance its strategic
objective of subjugating Russian imperialism (the atomic superpower),
and containing the advance of Chinese imperialism throughout the world;
but now it can only acknowledge the failure of its policy of
“deterrence” over the last two decades and is accelerating preparations
for a “multi-theater conventional war” and a new “era of rivalry between
great Powers,” whose main objective is to prevent the emergence of a
rival superpower and to increase the control over semi-colonial and
colonial countries, the plunder of the imperialist contend, targeting
particularly the peasantry and their lands, reorganizing its global
military structure in its attempt of maintaining its declining hegemony.
It is the end of the Pax Americana and the return of large-scale war; they are preparing for World War III amid increasingly open and bloody wars.
Since the Obama administration, the Yankee ruling classes have
implemented the so-called “Pivot to Asia,” a maneuver that marks the
formalization of a foreign policy focused on containing the rise of
social-imperialist China and points to the Pacific as the main theater
of the inter-imperialist contend. But the Yankee military strategy comes
up against concrete limits imposed by its internal contradictions. The
complete military and political failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, which
after decades of aggression it has been shamefully expelled without
fulfilling its strategic objectives, without achieving the stability
required for plunder in the region and necessary for the transfer of
Yankee military forces to other areas of the globe, nor forging lackeys
with sufficient stability and submission to serve as a bastion for their
domination in the region. The heroic offensive of the Palestinian
National Liberation War brilliantly struck a blow to the plans of
imperialism and reaction in the region; the ‘Abraham plan’ normalization
plan and the growing isolation of the Palestinian cause before October
7, 2023, have reversed into the growing isolation of Israel, into a
vigorous anti-imperialist movement that threatens to bring the war home,
as demonstrated by the courageous assassinations of officials at the
Zionist embassy in the United States and the combative mobilizations in
the great imperialist metropolises.
The Palestinian National Resistance, despite not having proletarian
leadership, an indispensable condition for complete victory – that is,
to convert itself into revolution –, has strengthened its unity in the
need to carry the struggle against the Zionist occupation to the end,
rejecting calls for peace and conciliation and the sinister role played
by the puppet Abbas and his now ghostly Palestinian National Authority.
Although Israel has attempted to impose its will through its superiority
in weaponry, with massive massacres, guerrilla resistance, and
political and moral warfare, the Palestinian National Resistance is
fueled by a cause that missiles cannot eradicate, and it is the great
victor in this battle. The war rages on, and it is the protracted war
that serves the forces of the people and will allow the fulfillment of
the need that the Palestinian revolution is demanding with the blood
generously spilled in abundance: the Communist Party of Palestine.
In Europe, the highest military cadres of the reactionary forces sharply point out: The
“peace dividend,” which encouraged many NATO allies to reduce their
defense spending after the end of the Cold War, is over. We must accept
that allied combat forces must be ready to “fight tonight” to defend
every inch of NATO territory. (…) The alliance must now prepare for
large-scale combat operations (LSCO) against peer adversaries, a radical
change from the counterinsurgency and stability operations of the last
two decades. To this end, the solution is clear: NATO must transform itself into a self-sufficient war machine governed by a clear principle: “Mass must be met with mass.”
The United States seeks to externalize the cost; it will act by
providing command, control, and high-end technology, while the European
allies will provide the combat “mass”, also applying the “divide and
conquer” aiming to pit Germany and France against Russia and on the
other hand to separate Russia from China. Amid collusion and contend,
Yankee imperialism and the European imperialists are pushing forward
with the greatest militarization of society, placing the cost of
militarization on the people and enlisting them as cannon fodder for a
future military confrontation on the old continent.
On the Domestic and “Rearguard” Front of the hegemonic power, the
co-called “Western Hemisphere”, the new National Security Strategy of
the USA exposes the application of the “Trump Corollary” to the infamous
Monroe Doctrine, announcing a “readjustment of military presence” in
the hemisphere to counter migration, drug trafficking, and the influence
of rival powers, authorizing “the use of lethal force.” This is the
political, economic and military occupation of Latin America, with
structuring a system of military bases that seek to secure Latin America
as the strategic base for its global domination and attempt to contain
popular rebellion and ward off revolution on the continent and in its
own backyard. However, the greatest aggression against the oppressed
peoples of Latin America would have political implications throughout
the continent, fanning the flames of the new democratic revolution with
the tailwind of massive anti-imperialist mobilization. The United States
has never been able to resolve the contradiction between its rotten
interests as an imperialist butcher and the interests of its own people,
a contradiction grows in proportion to its increased aggression toward
the peoples of the world and that manifests itself in an ever more
vigorous revolutionary and communist movement within its own belly.
The logic of imperialism obeys the scientific historical law pointed out by Chairman Mao Tsetung: “Stir
up trouble, fail, stir up trouble again, fail again… until ruin: this
is the logic of the imperialists and all the reactionaries of the world.“
Today, it is plotting its final sweep from the face of the earth,
intensifying the inter-imperialist struggle for the division of the
spoils, the oppressed nations and peoples, and making preparations for
the third world war in the midst of increasingly open and bloody wars;
which will either fuel the World Proletarian Revolution or be warded off
by it.
The hill of the people: new revolutionary storms are brewing.
All over the world, the masses are on the move and rising up in
rebellion. This revolutionary torrent runs the entire spectrum of
consciousness and organization: from spontaneous outbursts, through
struggles with higher forms of consciousness and organization, to the
unstoppable advance in the formation of its proletarian vanguard: the
Communist Parties, and the People’s Wars, red beacons illuminating the
path to communism.
This year, in Nepal, popular anger overthrew the reactionary
president KP Sharma Oli, set fire to the parliament and the mansions of
the rulers, including that of the revisionist Prachanda, whose betrayal
of the People’s War has not been forgotten. This act demonstrated the
latent power of the masses and the urgent need to return to the path of
People’s War as the only true way out. This year, the powerful uprisings
in Bangladesh in May, Ecuador in October, the Philippines, and
Indonesia in September and October, and the struggles spreading across
Africa are expressions of this same force and the generalization of
popular uprisings throughout the world.
The anti-imperialist movement is growing and strengthening on a
global scale, showing an increasingly combative character and taking
steps towards its organization. The release of the fighter Georges
Ibrahim Abdallah after 41 years in French dungeons is an important
victory, achieved after decades of sustained struggle and international
mobilization of revolutionary forces. The general strike in Italy on
September 22, which paralyzed the country in solidarity with Palestine,
is another compelling example of the advance of anti-imperialist
consciousness. New anti-imperialist initiatives are emerging and
developing, albeit still in their infancy, impulsing a powerful
international anti-imperialist movement.
In the heart of the imperialist beasts, the class struggle continues
unabated. In social-imperialist China, the contradiction between the
bourgeoisie and the proletariat is sharpening, manifesting itself in a
new wave of workers’ protests. France was once again the scene of
combative days of struggle against austerity measures, while in the
United States, the streets of Los Angeles were filled with trenches in
the fight against reactionary anti-immigrant policies.
This year, Operation Rough Rider against the Houthis,
despite a massive campaign — more than 1,100 air strikes, two aircraft
carriers, B-2 bombers — the Houthis inflicted significant damage: they
shot down seven MQ-9 drones (worth $30 million each), put
state-of-the-art fighter jets at risk, and forced an operational cost of
more than $1 billion in 30 days. Senior US advisers warned that
continuing the operation compromised military readiness in the priority
Pacific theater, and Trump was forced to withdraw, declaring a false
victory, while the Houthis declared their victory and launched a
humiliating missile attack on Israel’s airport.
But it is on the heroic soil of Palestine that the paper tiger nature
of US imperialism and its Zionist lackey is fully exposed. Its most
brutal “hard power” crashes against the iron will of a people. Israel,
the US attack dog, has unleashed unprecedented devastation, with more
than 70,000 martyrs watering the Palestinian soil with their blood.
However, it has failed to defeat or divide the Palestinian National
Resistance Front, nor has it been able to divide the Palestinian Armed
Forces from its heroic people who resist and, as an act of war, refuse
to abandon their land despite famine and vile genocide. The Resistance
has grown its roots in the hearts of the masses, as demonstrated by the
Palestinian Center for Political Research survey, which shows an
increase in support for Palestinian resistance organizations.
In Brazil, the peasant war is sprouting and expanding, pitting poor
peasants, indigenous peoples, and quilombolas against paramilitary
latifundios. This struggle, which is tending to take on greater
proportions, points toward the Agrarian Revolution as a concrete basis
for the future development of the People’s War. Meanwhile, the People’s
Wars led by Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties in India, Peru, Turkey, and
the Philippines are developing in a complex situation, defeating
successive counterrevolutionary encirclement and holding high the banner
of the People’s War.
The oppressed peoples and nations are showing they are the center of
the world proletarian revolution, an expression of the principal
contradiction between imperialism and the oppressed peoples and nations.
The heroic Palestinian National Resistance and the perseverance of the
People’s Wars clearly express the two forces of the world revolution:
the national liberation struggle and the international proletarian
movement. The final victory over imperialism and the advance, through
New Democratic Revolutions, Socialist Revolutions, and Proletarian
Cultural Revolutions, toward golden communism depends on the fusion of
these two torrents.
Opportunism and Revisionism: the necessary struggle against liquidationism and capitulationism is embodied.
Reformists and revisionists are the essential supporters and allies of imperialism and reactionaries.
They attempt to transform the accumulated rage of the international
proletariat and oppressed peoples against the reactionary system into
methods of struggle within the system, and they strive intensely to
ensure that the reactionaries can restore their own existence in a
manner appropriate to the circumstances.
As a recipe, the opportunistic “false left” in Latin America acts as a
safety valve for imperialism, the big bourgeoisie, and the landlords,
they set up reactionary governments that govern in conciliation with the
sworn enemies of the people, promoting capitulation and
disorganization, pushing bureaucratic capitalism and projects
subservient to the imperialists and landlords, and in fact pave the way
for the return of the so-called ‘far right’. In Chile, Gabriel Boric
channeled the revolutionary energy of the Social Uprising into a
constitutional process aiming to perfect the old State, only to then
implement the economic agenda of the big bourgeois, paving the way for a
strengthened return of the so-called “far right” that openly defends
the Pinochet dictatorship.
The process of reconciliation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
in favor of the Turkish state, repeating its open attacks on Marxism and
its misleading self-proclaimed “democratic confederalism” led it to a
negotiation process with elements of capitulation: self-dissolution, a
unilateral ceasefire, and the symbolic destruction of weapons, begging
for an impossible peace from a fascist Turkish regime that only responds
with greater repression and mockery. This case demonstrates in a bloody
way that renouncing the armed struggle and laying down arms is a direct
path to defeat, betrayal, and the liquidation of the national
liberation struggle.
While imperialism attacks from outside, its representative in the
organizations of the proletariat, revisionism, poisons from within,
acting as a fifth column within the revolutionary ranks themselves and
within the vanguard of the class, the Communist Party. The struggle
waged within the Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a crucial and
instructive example. The revisionist clique of Sonu and Satish,
following Balraj’s liquidationist line, acted as a reactionary force
within the movement. They openly propagated capitulationist positions
that denied the path of Protracted People’s War in India, questioned the
line of New Democratic Revolution by denying the semi-feudal character
of India, and attacked the Party leadership as “leftist” and
“militarist” and denied the New Democratic Revolution and the Path of
People’s War. As denounced by the CPI (Maoist), these revisionists
operated with the full support of the reaction. The heroic sacrifice of
Comrade Basavaraj and other members of the Central Committee was also a
decisive blow against this capitulationist and treacherous line.
Therefore, the struggle against imperialism is inseparable and
indissoluble from the struggle against revisionism. As the contradiction
between revolution and counterrevolution sharpens, the ideological
battle becomes more fierce, necessary, and bloody. Opportunists and
revisionists are the most refined weapon of counterrevolution.
Intensifying the ideological struggle and clearly demarcating
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism from revisionism, demarcating the path of
People’s War and revolutionary war from the path of capitulation and
liquidation are urgent tasks. Only by deepening the two-line struggle
can the international Communist movement develop and oppose our
offensive to the counterrevolutionary offensive of imperialism,
reaction, and revisionism.
Arm ourselves and arm the masses with the strategic concept: The imperialists and all reactionaries are paper tigers.
The international proletarian movement and the national liberation
movement still suffer from relative dispersion and a low level of
organization of the popular masses and of the construction of their
vanguard, which also still suffer from the persistent influence of
revisionism. In more and more countries, new organizations are being
formed that are fighting to form the vanguard party and are joining the
ranks of the ICM. Although the subjective forces for the Revolution are
still relatively weak and small, the proletariat has its most powerful
weapon, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, with vanguard organizations in
formation and in struggle for power, in the heroic people’s wars, and
therefore, in the midst of a period of great development of the
revolutionary situation, they can advance by leaps and bounds.
Strategically, considering the whole, revolutionaries must despise
the enemy, dare to fight against him, and dare to win; at the same time,
tactically, considering each part in itself and in each concrete
struggle, they must take the enemy seriously, seek to isolate and
annihilate the enemy step by step. This thesis is a fundamental
strategic concept of the revolutionary people. Moving from a small and
relatively weak force to a strong force is only possible in a protracted
process of struggle, amid the step-by-step annihilation of the enemy,
and it is only possible with a powerful ideological fortitude to launch
into combat and confront an enemy that multiplies and deepens its
weaknesses as it also becomes more monstrous and cruel. It is the task
of communists to ideologically arm the proletariat and our people with
this wisdom, to strengthen their confidence in victory and in the need
to dare to fight and dare to win.
This situation not only reaffirms that the objective conditions for
revolution are maturing day by day, but more importantly, it poses a
great task before us. Lenin laid the foundations for the strategy of
world revolution to undermine imperialism, uniting the national
liberation struggle with the struggle of the international proletarian
movement. Today, all communists united under the banner of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism have the historic responsibility to take up and
develop this strategy in the concrete conditions of today. The central
problem of the subjective forces becomes the urgent need for today’s
communists to build the three instruments of revolution: the Communist
Party, the Revolutionary Army, and the United Front. And among these,
the main and decisive task is the construction and strengthening of the
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Party, in a life-and-death struggle
with revisionism and capable of leading and uniting the national
liberation struggle with the struggle of the international proletarian
movement.
The International Communist Movement and the International Communist League.
In these current circumstances, the role and importance of the ICL
are evident. The need of the international proletariat and the oppressed
peoples of the world for the leadership of the MLM Parties is
imperative both nationally and internationally. New generations of
revolutionaries in all corners of the globe are swelling the ranks of
the international proletarian army, propelling a revived International
Communist Movement, within which a section has stepped forward to form
the International Communist League.
The ICL took a historic step toward creating a unified international
force to serve the World Proletarian Revolution. Its establishment as a
leading center, based on the defense of the ideological, political, and
organizational principles of MLM, on democratic centralism, was not only
the overcoming of the disappearance of the RIM, but the greatest
achievement of the struggle of communists for their reunification in the
last five decades. This great leap forward was the result of the
elevation of the two-line struggle in the years and decades prior to its
founding, which established a clear line of demarcation between Marxism
and revisionism, in which the proletariat achieved unity based on the
defense of three basic axes: the defense of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the
struggle against revisionism, and the World Proletarian Revolution.
The ICL won victories in these three years, consolidating a Maoist
leadership in the ICM that creates favorable conditions for the
development of the organized two-line struggle. It brought the seed of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to new corners of the planet, supported the
formation of communist parties, helping young parties to mature and
deepen their ties with the masses, contributed to the development of the
anti-imperialist struggle, and advocated for the elevation of
anti-imperialist organization; that is, it served the development of the
subjective forces of the revolution and to uphold, defend, and apply
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
This historic step is still incomplete. The red banner of Unite under
Maoism! is the powerful slogan that must guide the struggle for the
reunification of the entire ICM, to sweep away revisionism and impose
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Chairman Mao taught us that the law of the
unity of opposites is the internal motor for the development of all
things and phenomena, which is why we are supporters of active
ideological struggle, in the spirit of unity-struggle-unity. In this
context, the current divergences in the International Communist Movement
are of great importance. They encapsulate the fundamental problems of
the revolution today, which is why the ICL needs to launch a new
offensive in the two-line struggle within the ICM.
The ICL takes on the task of serving to develop more broadly and
deeply the struggle between Marxism and revisionism, between left and
right, in order to sweep away, piece by piece, the giant heap of trash
accumulated by the weight of counterrevolution, by the action of
revisionism and all opportunism on the international proletarian
movement. Without this, it is impossible for the proletariat to launch a
powerful international anti-imperialist movement. This struggle is at
the same time the necessary condition for arming the proletariat for the
new historical challenges.
The unity of communists at the international level is a complex,
difficult, but great task! The unification of communists worldwide is
essential to prevent imperialist world war or, if it is imposed, to
fight it with revolutionary war. The international unity of communists
is necessary to separate Marxism from revisionism, to unite us under the
ideological and practical line of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism so that
Maoism becomes the command and guide of the WPR. The international unity
of communists is essential to merge the national liberation movement
and the international proletarian movement under the hegemony of the
proletariat and to make a leap in the correspondence between the degree
of development and forging of the subjective forces of the revolution
and the objective conditions. As the great Lenin showed us by bringing
together the small and relatively weak international communist movement
in Zimmerwald to prepare the subjective forces for the battles that lay
ahead and to break away from the opportunism and chauvinism of the
Second International, or as the great Stalin did in the 1930s by
summoning forces that were also relatively weak and small to accelerate
their preparation for the heroic wars that followed in the 1940s. In
these objective and subjective conditions of the world situation, it is
more than ever on the agenda and an urgent and fundamental necessity,
serving the development of subjective forces and a precondition for them
to develop by leaps and bounds as the objective conditions in the world
allow. The only path for the proletariat, the masses, and oppressed
peoples is struggle, and the most powerful tool is organization. The
organization in each country of Communist Parties that prepare or
develop revolutionary wars, people’s wars. The international
organization of the proletariat, to unite part by part the entire
International Communist Movement under Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
December 26, 2025
International Communist League
iInternational Monetary Fund. Global economic outlook 2026.
ii According to the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, with figures from the Department of the Treasury.
