Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Midst the 130th year
of the birth of Chairman Mao Tse-tung celebrate the first anniversary of the
International Communist League:
Raise the red banner of Unification under Maoism to
fulfill the tasks of the new situation!
On the first anniversary of the
foundation of the International Communist League (ICL), we extend our firm
proletarian greetings to the international proletariat and the peoples of the
world. Our salutes are sent to the International Communist Movement and the
People’s Wars, which are, in the midst of the new storms of the proletarian
world revolution and the intensified attacks of reaction, struggling to provide
orientation and leadership: By creating and forging the Communist Parties as
instruments of struggle for the conquest of political power. With deep feelings
of proletarian internationalism we transmit in this moment our flaming salutes
to the heroic struggles of National Resistance in Palestine!
In this year, the communists and
revolutionaries celebrate the 130 years of the great helmsman, Chairman Mao
Tse-tung, who has personally led two of the greatest milestones of the
proletariat; The Chinese Revolution, which opened the path of the New
Democratic Revolution in the oppressed countries; and the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution, titanic battle that watered seeds all over the world,
which flourished into the current People’s Wars and the new wave of the firm
struggle for the reconstitution of the Communist Parties under the command of
Maoism in several countries all over the world. With Chairman Mao Tse-tung, the
proletarian movement has developed its most powerful and invincible weapon, its
ideology, into the third, new stage of Marxism; Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the
weapon with which the proletariat and the peoples of the world will sweep away
imperialism and the reaction from the face of the earth.
With class hatred, we condemn all
revisionism and opportunism. The capitalist restoration in China left the
communists without a base area for the World Proletarian Revolution. We reject
the reactionary Xi Jinping that, with his “Xi Jinping thought” and his fascist
“socialism with Chinese characteristics”, is trying to deceive the peoples of
the world about the meaning of socialism and the fight against imperialism. But
for the proletariat there is no definitive defeat; As Chairman Mao pointed out,
the only logic of the people is to fight, fail, fight, fail, and so on until
victory. The capitalist restorations in the USSR in 1956 and in China 1976
cannot stop the revolutionary march of the international proletariat on its way
to definitively settle in power. These defeats are only moments within the
development of the contradiction between revolution and counterrevolution, from
which we draw lessons to prevent restorations in the future.
The International Communist Movement and
the National Liberation Movement are going through decisive moments, we witness
the beginning of a turning point in the struggle between revolution and
counterrevolution, the opening of a new period of revolutions within the World
Proletarian Revolution.
Exactly one year ago, the foundation of
a new international organization of the proletariat – the International
Communist League – was announced with class pride and heroism. 15 Communist
parties and organizations united in the Unified Maoist International Conference
(UMIC) around three basic lines: 1) Maoism 2) The struggle against revisionism,
and 3) The Proletarian World Revolution. The Joint Declaration of Fundamentals
and Principles defined the foundation of the ICL as a “step to reunite
us and to overcome the dispersion in the International Communist Movement(…),
and a new stage of the organized struggle for the reconstitution of the
Communist International under the command and guide of Maoism was opened”.
One year after this event, the objective
world situation is characterized by a further intensification of the basic
contradictions, especially the main contradiction between imperialism and
oppressed peoples and nations. The general crisis of capitalism in its
imperialist stage has developed into a further peak in which upheavals and
eruptions of great significance are taking place. Economically, the deepest
crisis of the imperialist world system since the Second World War is currently
unfolding, forming the basis for serious political crises, which in turn
further deepen the economic crisis. US-imperialism, as the sole hegemonic
superpower, is in decline and is trying by all means to advance its strategic
goal of maintaining and expanding its position, even though it is finding it
increasingly difficult to realize its plans to wrest the status as a nuclear
superpower from Russian imperialism and to contain social-imperialist China.
After the failure in Syria and Afghanistan, also the development of the war in
Ukraine is a clear further example of the extent to which the political crisis
of imperialism has reached and we renew our position that “The only way
forward for the People of Ukraine are to relay on its own forces and
to defend the Nation, against the foreign invader and the country selling
traitors”. From the inter-imperialist contradiction, a tendency to
expand the imperialist war is unfolding, which is currently expressed in the
strong push for armament, militarism and the re-intensification of their failed
counter-revolutionary offensive. In order to maintain its position,
US-imperialism is strengthening its hegemonic ambitions over its alliances and
allies, especially the NATO-countries, but in return it is deepening the crisis
and demonstrating its character as a “colossus with feet
of clay“. Although there are clear and certain pre-battles of a new
world war, this is not imminent and the communists have the task of leading all
those forces that are mobilized in the face of this situation and are
spontaneously turning against imperialism. The assessment of the Declaration of
Principles that “… the movement against the imperialist war will grow
together with the rebellion against the exploitation and oppression of the
class and the growing poverty of the masses…” proved to be correct and
forward-looking. In addition to mass movements in the oppressed countries, the
struggles of the workers and people in the imperialist countries also
intensified, highlighting here great uprisings of the masses in France.
On the side of the international
proletariat and the oppressed peoples and nations, we see that a new wave of
revolutions – in an uneven development – is unfolding. The People’s Wars led by
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties in Peru, India, Turkey and the Philippines, as
strategic axes of the world proletarian revolution, not only withstood the attacks
of the counter-revolution, they developed new initiatives and were able to
advance, as the preparation of new People’s Wars is underway. In the oppressed
countries, peasant movements continue to develop on an enormous scale and
wherever they are under proletarian leadership, their role as the main force of
the new democratic revolution against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic
capitalism becomes clear. With the offensive of the Palestinian National War of
Resistance, not only did the struggle for a free, self-determined Palestine
enter a new stage, but also favors the conditions for the anti-imperialist
struggle on a world scale, by being “a sharp spear stuck in the
imperialist beast that with its example inspires and calls the proletariat and
oppressed peoples of the world to combat and resist”, as we declared in our
declaration of October 8. We renew here our call that it must be the communists
who must take the lead in this movement in order to apply the universal
teaching that the liberation of the nation under imperialism can only be
victorious under proletarian leadership.
Comrades, isn’t the development of the
world situation an excellent proof that the foundation of the ICL took place at
exactly the right time? That the struggle for the reunification of communists
at the world level corresponds to the necessity of the objective situation? We
see that essential assessments and definitions of the Declaration of
Fundamentals got expression in this situation and have been fulfilled, that it
is a good starting point for developing the struggle for a deeper understanding
of proletarian ideology in its application to the concrete conditions. The
revolutionary unity achieved at the UMIC through the two-line struggle, under
the banner of the great classics Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Chairman Mao
Tse-tung, must be developed as a living unity, which must be further
consolidated and expanded through deepening discussion and strengthening the
two-line struggle. Let us firmly rely on the teachings of Stalin, who, in the
midst of building the Communist International, insisted on developing the
two-line struggle not “abstractly, but concretely, on the basis of the
political situation” in which communists are developing their
struggle.
In the first year of the ICL’s
existence, a total of ten declarations and resolutions and five campaigns, with
international events and celebrations and hundreds of actions, which were
echoed in more than 25 countries, were made. The international events and
activities organized or supported by the ICL were able to extend the scope also
beyond the member organizations of the ICL and were important steps against
fragmentation and division. We salute all Parties, Organizations and Comrades
who contributed to fulfilling these activities. As well as the achievements, we
must recognize our limitations and weaknesses in order to consolidate and
deepen these steps. The situation in which the International Communist Movement
finds itself is complex and the challenges are great. It will therefore be
crucial to implement the tasks set with the foundation of the ICL, the goals
defined in our resolutions and declarations, with even more regularity and
consciousness, fighting subjectivism. Furthermore, the development of
anti-imperialist activities, the axis of which must be the defense and support
of the People’s Wars, is currently of decisive importance in order to expand
the ranks of the ICL and broaden the base of the member organizations.
The foundation of the ICL was an
important peak of a complex struggle over 40 years to overcome the
fragmentation of the communists and establish unity on the basis of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. It is of great importance to understand this process,
building on the great achievements of the First, Second and Third
International, as well as taking into account the contributions of the
Communist Information Bureau, in order to grasp the strategic importance of the
task of reconstituting the Communist International. This process teaches us
that proletarian unity has only ever been consolidated step by step in the
struggle against revisionism, opportunism and splitting. Therefore, it must
also be clear that the dispersion of forces has not been overcome, but the
tendency of dispersion has been reversed towards the tendency of unification.
The ideological, political and organizational unity achieved by the UMIC has
opened the door to develop the two-line struggle, the law of development of
proletarian unity, in a higher, more organized way. Therefore, we want to welcome
all the contributions that have been made by the respective parties and
organizations since the foundation, to increase debate and discussion and want
to emphasize, that the basis for a higher international unity is the
development of the independent construction of national parties and
organizations, the legs on which the ICL will march forward. We would also like
to welcome the statements addressed to us by Maoist parties and organizations
outside the International Communist League. We salute them as an important
position on a debate raised by the ICL, that will serve to strengthen the
international organization through the two-line struggle, through
“unity-struggle-unity”, criticism and self-criticism, and to make it even more
firmly an instrument of the world proletarian revolution. We thus confirm our
will to deepen these contacts and hope to be able to realize this endeavor soon
in the form of ideological debate and further bilateral meetings.
The International Communist League is an
instrument of the struggle of the international proletariat and the oppressed
peoples and nations. The objective developments cry out to strengthen and
consolidate this tool to meet the call for organization, for leadership in the
worldwide struggle against imperialism. The great political storms that are
currently developing will only be transformed into a subjective strength of the
communists if we fulfill the main task, of making the only scientific, since
true, ideology the center of international and party unity and apply it to the
concrete conditions. We therefore express the necessity to redouble the efforts
in the second year of the existence of the ICL. On the one hand, to consolidate
and promote international unification by holding bilateral meetings, events, forums,
debates and also to unite with those who have expressed criticism and doubts.
Division and fragmentation serve revisionism and leave room for opportunism to
flourish. Differentiation and unification, on the other hand, will serve the
main task of the New International Organization “to fight for Maoism as
the sole guide and command of the world proletarian revolution, to serve the
constitution or reconstitution of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Parties
(the outstanding strategic task) and to serve the initiation, development and
coordination of the people’s wars in the world for the reconstitution of the
Communist International.” And on the other hand, to consolidate and
expand the base among the masses and to intensify the struggle within the national
framework for the reconstitution/constitution or further construction of the
respective parties in service of the ICM. As Chairman Mao said, the foundation
of Communist Party of China changed forever the face of the entire Chinese
revolution. Today the reconstitution of the communist parties under
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism will also change the face of revolution in each country
and the World Proletarian Revolution. This requires above all to forge the
leadership, the leading nuclei of comrades firmly united under
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
There are two forces that operate in the
revolutionary movement in the whole world: the International Proletarian
Movement and the National Liberation Movement. Lenin, developing Marx, lays the
basis of the strategy of world revolution to undermine imperialism, unite the
struggle of national liberation with the struggles of the international
proletarian movement and develop revolution. “Proletarians of all countries and
oppressed peoples of the world, unite!”. Chairman Mao – developing the strategy
and tactics of the world revolution specified at the moment: “Marxist-Leninists
of all countries, unite! Revolutionary peoples of the whole world, unite;
overthrow imperialism, contemporary revisionism and all reactionaries of the
different countries!”
Long live the New International
Organization of the Proletariat, the ICL!
Long live the 130th anniversary of the
birth of Chairman Mao!
Long live the heroic national resistance
of the people of Palestine!
Unite under Maoism!
Down with Revisionism!
Long live the World Proletarian
Revolution!
26th
of December 2023,
International
Communist League